NOME POLITICS.
PLEA FOR COALITION, MENACE OF LABOR. A TIME FOR UNIT" By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyr jM. Received March 10, 12.10 a.m London, March 8. Important correspondence has been published between Sir Alexander Leith (chairman of the National Unionist Council) and Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the former seeking an explanation of the latter’s Oxford declaration: “When we go to the country we go as the Government,” with Mr. Chamberlain’s earlier speech. Mr. Chamberlain contends that his Oxford speech merely elaborates and explains his reference to following the example of Sir Arthur Balfour and his father in 1900. He adds: *7 regard the Unionists and National Liberals under the present circumstances as the two wings of one great constitutional and progressive party. No difference of principle separates us in regard to questions of the immediate future; on the contrary, everything for which we stand, including the fundamentals of our constitutional and economic position, which have hitherto been the common faith of both the great parties now being challenged by the so-called Labor Party, which alone threatens seriously to menace the Coalition. I cannot understand the attitude of those desiring needlessly to quarrel with our Liberal allies.”
Mr. Chamberlain complains of the movement for the separation of Unionists from National Liberals, resulting in recent election defeats, and urges Sir A. Leith to accept his advice in order to prevent the split now threatening, not only between branches of the Coalition, but within the Unionist party under the influence of men without responsibility or equal knowledge of what i« required in the interests of both the nation and the party. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable tonIRISH TREATY ISSUE. FEELING OF THE PEOPLE. QUESTION OF ELECTIONS. Received March 10, 12.10 a.m. London, March 9. Lord Birkenhead, in the House of Lords, replying to Lord Carson and Lord Dufferin. who bitterly denounced the treaty, alleging that the Government was giving preferential treatment to disloyalists as against loyalists, said: “It is the view of the Government that the overwhelming majority of the English people" supported the treaty and we believe that if we had appealed early in the year for a mandate from the constituencies there would have been an overwhelming majority in favor of the treaty. We may yet bp driven to ascertain whether we are right or wrong in not making an appeal. Certainly we shall not shrink from doing so should the contingency arise.’’— Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1922, Page 5
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