NEED FOR SURE PEACE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21377, 21 January 1935, Page 16

NEED FOR SURE PEACE

— +- MR LLOYD GEORGE'S •INSISTENCE UNDERSTANDING WITH AMERICA URGED * - (BBITISH omCIAIi WIBELISS.) (Received January 20, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, January 18. Outlining his "new deal" at a public meeting at Bangor, Wales, yesterday, Mr Lloyd George, referring to the international situation, said, "Whatever social or economic system you build up, however perfect may be its design and materials, unless it is based on peace, it will be founded, on quicksand and come crashing to the ground. I rejoice in the settlement of the Saar problem and also the Jugoslav-Hungarian dispute. They were both highly dangerous. "I believe that with a strong policy, which means a cold, decisive firm lead by Great Britain, we can improve the precarious and perilous international situation. The United States, I feel confident, would cooperate with us in any action on brotherly lines, and the world cannot afford to disregard these two powerful communities. "Fruitful action, especially in the East, involves as a first condition of success complete understanding with America. I would immediately take steps to reach a common agreement with'that great country and then act together in a combined endeavour to secure the pacification of the world." Turning to home problem", Mr Lloyd George touched on reconstruction, and, after emphasising that American remedies not necessarily applicable to Great Britain, advocated the establishment of a permanent, non-political and independent body to prepare schemes providing useful and necessary work which the Government could put into, action, for example, housing, roads, railways, canals, electricity works, and particularly land settlement. He ad\wcated a small Cabinet of Ministers exempt from departmental preoccupations, similar to the former War Cabinet. He suggested that there should be two Budgets every year, one for current expenditure, and the other for capital expenditure. The ' Bank of England, he said, should be in a position where it could give independent advice, but be opposed suggestions that the joint stock banks should be nationalised as unnecessary and undesirable. Mr Lloyd George intends to develop bis "new deal" programme in later speeches. • SATISFACTION WITH RESPONSE SECOND SPEECH OF THE CAMPAIGN CRITICS RIDICULED (Received January 21, 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 20. Mr Lloyd George, continuing his campaign, addressed 2000 farmers and residents at Pwllheli. Speaking in Welsh, he expressed satisfaction with the response to his appeal, and deftly ridiculed his critics. He declared that the leaders of the country should especially examine the miseries and despondencies darkening 2,500,000 homes because of unemployment, and then turn to the hundreds of millions of pounds lying idle, in the banks, and redress the country's deficiencies. Answering a question about Douglas credit, he said he favoured investigation, but thought that no system could alone solve the problems of the country, and he always doubted the advisability of juggling with the currency. | CRITICISM BY THE CHANCELLOR LACK OF NOVELTY AND PRECISION GOVERNMENT'S INTEREST, (BEITISB OFFICIAL WI&ELESS.) RUGBY, January 18. Referring to the proposals advanced by Mr Lloyd George in outlining his plans to stimulate recovery, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr Neville Chamberlain), at Belfast, said he found them rather disappointingly lacking in novelty and precision. Nevertheless, when Mr Lloyd George had completed his exposition of them in his platform campaign, the Government, which was not above taking ideas that promised to help in solving present-day problems, would examine them with an open mind. Before embodying them in its programme, however, the Government must be satisfied that they would achieve the purpose for which they were, designed. In the meantime he urged people not to be depressed by the difficulties still ahead of them. There was no short-cut to prosperity, and Great Britain had gone forward quicker than any other nation.

In a brief reference to the international situation, Mr Chamberlain said that as Chancellor he was interested in economy, but it would be false economy to shirk expenditure which had now become overdue owing to the fact that Great Britain, in proof of her desire to maintain peace, had reduced her defences to danger-point in the hope that other countries would follow her example.

CONGRATULATIONS FROM CONSERVATIVES LORD SNOWDEN ALSO APPRECIATIVE LONDON, January 18. Lord Snowden telegraphed congratulations to Mr Lloyd George on the "brilliant and successful opening of his campaign." * Mr Winston Churchill, M.P. (Conservative) extols the "virility and sobriety" of Mr Lloyd George's proposals, and declares, "Any Government calling itself national should have thought of them itself. It is all the more refreshing to read Mr Lloyd George's speech in contrast to the recent utterance of the deplorable politician who now maunders at the head of the Government."

Sir Henry Page-Croft, M-.P. (Conservative) for the Empire Industries Association, welcomes Mr Lloyd George's "realism" regarding tariffs and trade treaties, especially his appreciation of "the danger of a growing adverse trade balance." SAMUEL LIBERALS PLEASED MANY WILLING TO FOLLOW OLD LEADER LONDON, January 18. The political correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says: "The group of Liberals led by Sir Herbert Samuel are especially pleased by Mr Lloyd George's speech, even though he urged the ruthless use of tariffs. Many, with an eye to an election, are willing to follow Mr Lloyd George, as he still retains the famous war chest, while the Liberal funds are low."