LORD HARLECH

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20500, 17 May 1938, Page 7

LORD HARLECH

ELEVATION TO THE PEERAGE EARL WIXTERTON TO REMAIN DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S OFFICE (Official Wireless) (Received May 17, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, May 16 Lord Harlech has resigned on succeeding lo the Peerage. The new Air Minister being in the House of Commons, the post of Deputy-Secrety of Air created about two months ago, with a seat in the Cabinet, lapses. Earl Winter!on. however, will remain in the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. The Duke of Devonshire' formerly Lord Ilartinglon remains Parlinmen-

tary Under-Secretary of State for the Dominions. MR CHAMBERLAIN INDISPOSED CONFINED TO HIS ROOM VISIT TO DUNDEE POSTPONED Unitea Press Assn.—Klee. Tel. Copyright ' Received May 17. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON. May J 6 Mr Neville Chamberlain, who is suffering from gout, is not leaving his room tu-day. His visit to Dundee to receive the Freedom of the City to-morrow lias been postponed(Continued in next column)

FREEDOM AND PEACE WINSTON CHURCHILL’S CAMPAIGN United Prc-: Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, May 17 Mr Winston Churchill has begun a campaign ” In defence of freedom and peace.” For a meeting at Manchester the Free Trade Hall was booked out. Liberals. Labour leaders. Conservatives, representatives of the Anglican and Free Churches. Roman Catholics, Jews, and industrialists were on the platform. Referring to a statement by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare. that if the needs of rearmaments had been faced two years earlier, the Abyssinian crisis would not have occurred. Mr Churchill said: ‘What a confession for a Minister to make! What humiliations might we not have been spared if we had undertaken rearmament at the time when the need was apparent. If it was not undertaken it was certainly not for want of warning.”

LABOUR SUCCEBBEB RESULT OF BY-ELECTION MR CHAMBERLAIN DISTURBED United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, May 16 The loss of the Lichfield seat to Labour in the recent by-election is disturbing the Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, and his supporters, for the Liberal vote went largely to Labour. Lichfield is regarded as an interesting cross-section of the electorate, containing as it does, mining, agricultural, and residential sections. Even the Daily Telegraph notes “its significance is a reverse for the Government.” As in the cases of West Fulham and Tpswich, the Lichfield campaign was fought out principally on the acceptability of Mr Chamberlain's “new method” of foreign policy, which, it may be said, divides the public intothree sections —those who regard it with astonishment, or disgust, since they believe that, in spite of Mr Chamberlain's protests to the contrary. it involves not only a new method, but the abandonment of a principle: those who consider it unpleasant but necessary; and those who believe it may lead to general European appeasement for some time, and therefore cannot be either astonishing, unnecessary, unpleasant, or disgusting, but realistic.