LIBERAL RIFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 18 October 1926, Page 7

LIBERAL RIFT.

I GESTURE ?€ PFAC£ 1 «**Va!r £h? V£ZL!\X&sri* •WORK. 1 EMOTIONAL UTTERANCES. t3y Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LOXDOX, October 17. Lord Oxford in his speech at Greenock referred to his work in the Liberal party, and at the conclusion of an impassioned address his great emotion culminated in tears. "I have worked for the unity of our party long before •many of my latterday critics were born.'' declared the Farl of Oxford. "But." lie continued, "unity must lie more than a hollow and deceptive phrase.'' Referring to the general strike Lord Oxford said it was the first duty of Liberalism not to parley, not to falter, not to wait upon events, but to condemn it root and branch with the utmost promptitude. There was. be said, a tendency to look back upon the general strike as a trivial and a transient incident. There could not be a worse example of distorted political perspective. LLOYD GEORGE AND AMITY. " JEALOUSIES TO DUNGHILL.'' (Keceived 12 noon.) LONDON, October 17. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Barnstaple, mad,, a gesture of Liberal peace. He said: "1 am prepared, in a spirit of amity, to discuss the best methods of advancing a constructive Liberal policy. 1 would be glad to forget the unhappy differences. "1 recall my partnership with Lord Oxford which brought a gleam of hope to millions of households. It is a crime to indulge in personal feuds when national evils demand redress. "The past greatness of Liberalism could be eclipsed in the future if we could fling jealousies and rivalries to the dunghill aud work in a spirit of amity." He paid a tribute to Lord Oxford as one of the most illustrious of the party's many great leaders. He regretted his own connection witrt tile controversy associated with his retirement, but emphasised that he never approved of a general strike. < in the contrary he unequivocally condemned it. I He declared that the Government, like a muddle-headed chauffeur, never took the right road. Cabinet bad treated Mr. Churchill, when attempting to settle the coal strike, like a ticket-of-leave man who was re-arrested when he appeared likely to succeed, by a breakaway from Cabinet's conditions.