Bitter Politics

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1011, 30 June 1930, Page 9

Bitter Politics

ATTACK ON PARTY LEADER

Mr. Baldwin’s Methods

POLICY OF SURRENDER CONDEMNED

|TX EQUIVOCAL attacks upon Mr. Stanley Baldwin. Leade U of the Conservative Party, have been made by the Lil i>ral Leader, Mr. Lloyd George, and by a prominent Cot servative, Lord Rothermere.

United Z-'.-L— By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 10.5 a.m. LONDON, Sunday. j Lord Rothermere retorts to a state-1 mem by Mr. Stanley Baldwin at Dorset in the following terms: “All Mr. Baldwin’s friends know is 1 that at the merest glimmer of re- j volution he makes off at top speed to j seek refuge at Aix Les Bains. The whole principle of his last Government was surrender. He surrendered in India, Egypt and at Home. His surrender to the Miners’ Union in 1925, which was the forerunner of a general strike, was described by a distinguished American newspaper as “a great act of cowardice in political h istory.” Mr. Lloyd George, in the course of an address at a Liberal garden party at Kensington, severely criticised the Conservative leader, Mr. Baldwin, whose recent speech with its reference to Liberals Mr. Lloyd George described as “mean and disgraceful.”

“Mr. Baldwin's language,” he said, “was not merely offensive, but was coarse and vulgar. Mr. Baldwin has always expressed a preference for the society of pigs. The trouble with him is that he is afflicted with an extraordinary morbid self-complacency. Which has induced the belief that his critics are malignant and malodorous creatures, unable to appreciate his sterling worth. “The only two things that Mr. Baldwin ever personally accomplished were the settlement of the American debt, which has quartered on Britain the payment of £40,000,000 a year for 50 years without an effort to make our own debtors pay. and the payment of a subsidy of £23,000.000 to the coal owners, to put off a strike which was not put off, and which developed into the worst strike in history. “Mr. Baldwin is fickle, iuevt and resourceless, except when his own position is challenged.”