BRITISH LIBERALS

Wairarapa Age, 2 March 1927, Page 5

BRITISH LIBERALS

HOPES OF PARTY REVIVAL.

LABOUR’S DISABILITY.

SIR H. -SAMUEL ON THE OUTLOOK

LONDON, February 28.

The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel, in his first political speech after his seven years’ retirement, at an Eighty Club dinner, said that the condition of the people was still the most important question. Tho Labour Government had not inspired a large measure of trust. A Labour Ministry could not in dependently follow its own conscience. In the event of another general strike, it would -be bound to take instructions from one side, and would be -nerveless and paralysed as a guardian of law. In connection with the grave and difficult Chinese question, Labour pursued a vacillating and irresponsible course. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is uncomfortable and realises the force of the Chinese proverb, “He who rides a tiger can never dismount.” There -was every reason to believe that the next few months would see a great revival of Liberalism. The organisation committee was determined to run 500 candidates at the next. General Election.—(A...and N.Z.) (Sir Herbert Samuel served in successive Liberal Ministries from 1905 until after xthe war, and -from 1920 to 1925 was High Commissioner of Pales tine. He was chairman of the Royal Commission on tho Coal Industry in 1925, and was one of those who were actively concerned in the negotiations and discussions which went on behind the scones during the great coal strike last year.)