LIBERAL COUNCIL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18925, 14 February 1927, Page 8

LIBERAL COUNCIL.

v ' FORMAL INAUGURATION. !BY CABLE—I'IiESS ASSOCIATION—COrTMGIIT.) (AUSTRALIAN ANU U.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.! (Received February 131 hj, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February IJ. 'the mow Libera! Council was formally constituted. Lord Gladstone, rising to propose Earl Grey as president, received u tremendous oration, 'the rice-presi-dents included Lord Gladstone, Lord lluckmaster, Sir Henry Lunn, Mr Gilbert Murray, and the Hon. Walter ltunciman. The committee includes Sir Donald Mac Lean, Mr Vivian Phillips, Air Pringle, Lord Stanley of Alderley.

Karl Grey, in his presidential speech, expressed "the opinion that while British trooi'.s in China were used only to protect life and not to enforce obsolete treaties, there was no complaint against the Government. [The formation of a new Liberal Council, with ficparalo headquarters, not associate.! with the ollirial Liberal Party, and acting independently of Mr Lloyd George's policy, was announced recently. The Council issuer] a statemont that 31 r Lloyd George's endowment proposals involved the Liberal I'artv in a moral obligation towards the donor, apparently incompatible with freedom of policy, The ("Vumnl. nlthough not antagonistic to the existing organisation, remains independent of the fund and the obligations attaching to its acceptance.]