LIBERALS SUPPORT LABOUR.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19770, 7 November 1929, Page 11

LIBERALS SUPPORT LABOUR.

THREE OF MR PARTY VOTE AGAINST HIM. (Received November 6th, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. All the Liberals present in the House and three Conservatives, Lady Astor, and Messrs Bobert Boothby and John Buchan, voted with the Government against Mr Baldwin's amendment. The "Morning Post" maintains that nothing is to be gained and much endangered by the Government's Russian policy. It is satisfactory to know that Mr Baldwin cleared the Conservative Party of all responsibility for the consequences. THE SOVIET GOSPEL. " THE TIMES " CRITICAL. (Received November 6th, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, Novemer 6. "The plea that the exchange of Ambassadors with Russia will increase trade cannot be justified," says "The Times" in an editorial. "The United States does an immense trade with Russia, and the Washington Government always flatly refused to resume relations. Only business risks are involved in the restricted trade at present, and these will not be lessened by the presence of the Soviet Ambassador at London. The Soviet promise to abstain from propaganda is worthless, for Bolshevism is not a political system but a revolutionary .reed, and as such it must spread or die. "Bolshevists are irrevocably committed to work for 'world revolution,' the path to which is still 'across the corpse of the British Empire.' They have never hidden their scorn for the MacDonald Government and Mr Henderson's weak agreement to exchange Ambassadors first and negotiate afterwards has given them an advantage which they will certainly exploit to the full." SITUATION IN AUSTRIA. MR HENDERSON'S HOPE. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, November 5. Replying to a Parliamentary question about the political situation in Austria. Mr Arthur Henderson. Foreign' Secretary, said that both Parties in that rountry were discussing the Constitution problem in the manner provided for by the Parliamentary institutions of their country and in a spirit congenial to those institutions. The British Government sincerely hoped that the endeavours of the Republic would enable it to return rapidly ro normal conditions and disarm and disband those semi-rnilitary organisations which hampered the progress and development of that country. Any attempt to deal with the problems by other means, which would mean a breakdown of the present Parliamentary negotiations, would naturally cause the British Government grave concern, as such would constitute a serious menace to internauonal stability.