IMPERIAL POLITICS.
•• NOT POLITICS, BUT PANTOMIME." By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May (!. Lord Curzon, speaking at Reading, said the country was shocked at tiie manner in which the Crown had been brought into the political controversy. The suggestion that .">OO Peers should b> created, instructed to buy robes and coronets, and then sent to the House of Lord's Jike well drilled supers to vote for the reduction of the Chamber to a nullity, was not politics, but pantomime! He quoted Mr. Asquith's statement on April 14 to prove that Sir Ed-v.-jird Grey was wrong in saying that nothing had been said concerning advice to be given to the Iving. Mr. Asquith's statement was interpreted a? a demand to create peers, not only bv the House of Commons, but throughout the country.
Dealing with the reconstruction of the Second Chamber" Lord Curzon sujgge.sted that six Liberals and five Conservatives, with an impartial chairman, should sit in private for six months to draft a new constitution.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 384, 9 May 1910, Page 4
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163IMPERIAL POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 384, 9 May 1910, Page 4
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