BRITISH POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 29 December 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

MR. LLOYD-GEORGE'S INTERVIEW. By Cable —Press Association—Oopyrighl Paris, December 27. The newspaper Rappel declared that Mr. Lloyd-George's interview with Le Matin was equal to a diplomatic act. The silence of England and France for some months regarding the entente might be attributed to a change in the intentions of the British democracy, bat Mr. Lloyd-George's statement ended the uncertainty on tile matter. LHumanite publishes a telegram from Mr. Uoyd-George stating that, while not disputing the general sense of the interview Witt him, he thought that if it had been submitted to faim he would have modified its form and substance.

A representative of the Paris Matin has interviewed Mr. Lloyd-George in tfie Riviera. Mr. George then repeated Vs statements made in L'Humanite regarding his surprise that the democrats of France were not sympathetic with the British Liberals. Had Frenchmen, he asked, forgotten the liberal attitude in the Dreyfus and Fashoda cases? Did they remember the speeches of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain? The interviewer suggested that France feared domestic conflicts would divert England's attention from national defence. Mr. Lloyd-George replied tihat Britain was going to arrange her domestic affairs calmly and veiy logically, and this would in no way affect her naval expenditure.