BRITISH POLITICS

Taihape Daily Times, 21 November 1918, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

LONDON, Nov 19

Mr. Asquith, addressng London Liberals, said that during the next six months the future of world developments would be in the crucible. Therefore it would be a blunder and a calamity to plunge Britain into the tumult of a general election. The strongest argument against an election was that the soldiers would not have returned in time to participate. A Parliament brought into existence in so truncated and mutilated a world would lack moral authority. He entered the election frankly as a Liberal- 1 but he was prepared to support any r Government which grappled with reconstruction problems on progressive lines

Mr. Asquith said that principalities and powers, apparently Inviolable and invincible, and which seemed to dominate a large part of mankind, lay in the dust. All things had become new. There had been a crash of thrones —some on unrighteousness, some propped by a brittle thread of convention. The British Throne stood unshaken, based on the people’s will, reinforced by the living example of the King and his consort, who always had shown that they were not to he ministered unto, but to minister. The resolution was adopted unanimously and nnthusTastically. A similar resolution was adopted ‘by the House of Lords.