BRITISH POLITICS.
LORD DERBY’S AMBITIONS. PREMIERSHIP AND TO IVIN DERBY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 30, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 29. Speaking at the Manchester Constitutional Club, Lord Derby (formerly British Ambassador at Paris) said he did not intend to make a sensational speech. “Mr. Lloyd George recently asked me to join the Government and I declined for purely personal reasons,” he said. “I have been credited with two ambitions, to secure the Premiership and win the Derby? I now have only one ambition—l leave you to guess which. If I criticise the Government my purpose is to help and not wound. ’ Lord Derby went on to advocate strict economv in expenditure, an alliance between England and France, and the revision of the Turkish treaty in favor of Turkey.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1921, Page 5
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131BRITISH POLITICS. Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1921, Page 5
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