BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1922, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

SPEECH BY MR. CHURCHILL. rfy Telegraph.- Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 12. Mr. Churchill made his first public appearance since his illness, giving an address to his constituents at Dundee. He had to be carried into the hall on an invalid chair. Mr. Churchill said he felt • sure that after the bitterness and prejudice of the present time had passed away, history would render justice to the manner in which the country had been guided through a harassing and dangerous period. Early post-war plans for reorganisation pitched our hopes too high, and people had not recognised sufficiently the exhaustion entailed by the war. “I am a strong supporter of Lord Balfour’s Note. I disagree entirely with Mr. Asquith’s suggestion that we should remit all debts and reparations owing to us. There is not even a sentimental reason why the United States should show us similar forbearance. There is no reason why Germany should not pay £2,500,000, 000. The Coalition recently effectively prevented a war against the Turks, but the trouble is not over yet. I approve of the new Cabinet’s declarations, and hope they will adhere firmly to whatever the Allies do, and thus earn the support of all patriots. “Every party attributes the fall of the late Government to the Diehards’ fury and resentment against the makers of the Irish Treaty. Now every party, even the Diehards, agrees that the treaty must be carried out in its entirety. The Irish have fully and finally gained the right to manage their own affairs, and they now have to conquer the Republicans or perish.” He had no doubt the Irish would eventually become masters in their own house. Ulster had been really made secure.