BRITISH LABOUR PARTY.
OPINIONS OP MB H. G. WELLS. LONDON, August 1. Mr H. G.' Wells, addressing the Liberal summer school at Oxford, accused the Labour Party of being an utter failure, culminating in the complete inaudibility of Lord Passfield in the House of Lords. The Party was, he said, too ambitious, self-seeking, and miscellaneous in origin to exploit consistent ideas. When they we're in power they were hardly better than a sentimental gang of nondescript, loose-minded men, feeble in thought anJ will, without a conception of new education for the new times. Labour's foreign policy consisted of mawkish sentimentality. The advent of a bold standard knocked the Party to pieces. Unless a new revolutionary force were constituted, civilisation would stagger into chaotic violence and decadence. There never was such need for Liberalism.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20621, 10 August 1932, Page 11
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