BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1922, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN’S ADVICE. LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE CO-OPERATION. DANGER OF SMALL GROUPS. Received March 26, 11.15 p.m. London, March 25. Mr. Churchill, speaking at Northampton, said it had been suggested that those who advocated the creation of a national party from the Coalition had a deep design against the unity of the Conservative Party. He emphasised that it would be a great disaster if the Conservative Party was broken up as the Liberal Party had broken up, for that would be the prelude to the creation of a number of jealous and discordant groups, such as are seen in foreign Parliaments, united only by intrigues to gain power. He saw no reason why Liberals and Conservatives could not work together during the anxious period ahead, as they have done during the past seven years. The old questions which divided the old historic groups were no longer dominant dividing issues in politics. Even Ireland was not a party issue. The Liberals owed a debt of gratitude to the Conservatives for the great aid given in the settlement of the Irish question. Conservative faith and Liberal principles were both exposed to a new attack from the Socialist parties, behind which were crouched the shadows of Communist folly and Bolshevik violence.