BRITISH POLITICS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12634, 23 October 1905, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

SPEECH BY EDWARD GREY

United Press . Association. —Copyright,

Received October 22, 9.17 a.m

LONDON, October 21

Edward Grey, in a speech in the city, said that the growing friendship of Britain and America, the alliance with Japan, and the French agreement were three cardinal features of the foreign policy which the Liberals did not wish to see ohanged. We must remember that we could not make a new friendship by backing but of an old. Ho anticipated improved relations with Russia, and advocated a better understanding with Germany without impairing our relations with France. The Rosso-Japanese war might not have ended now unless the Anglo-Japanese alliance had been renewed. Failure to renew the allianoe would have been an example of fickleness and folly, exposing ub to universal distrust. The alliance was: essentially defensive and pacific. The next House of. Commons would not be one which would support any Government which weakened in regnrd to the alliance. He added that the Colonial Conference ought to be free and unfettered, also on all sides representative and candid. The present Government was not in a position to be representative; he doubted they had the courage to be candid.