PROPOSALS DEFENDED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 254, 24 July 1935, Page 9

PROPOSALS DEFENDED

Mr. Lloyd George Replies

to Government

WILL ORGANISE CAMPAIGN

By Telegraph.—Frees Assn.—Copyright-

London, July 22.

Mr. Lloyd George, replying, to the Government statement rejecting, his New r Deal proposals for "organising prosperity,” denounces the boastful complacency with which the Government seems to regard economic conditions despite the depressed areas and 2,000,000 unemployed. The bulk of Cabinet’s memorandum, he states, is taken up by a torchlight procession of its own achievements, and its criticisms are curious and contradictory. “The Government in one breath cavils at my proposals, and in the next suggests doing something simi lar on a minor scale,” says Mr. Lloyd George. “It is remarkable how it has given up the old argument that development projects will cause financial embarrassments. “The Government’s reply to my agricultural proposals to adopt Free Trade is argument in a most fantastic and most distorted form. Food prices would not rise if marketing was thoroughly organised The producer would gain a certain market, increased demand and a reduction of distribution costs. Britain’s purchases from the Dominions could be maintained at the present level, and increased production of milk poultry, and pigs would allow Britain to take considerably more cereals from the Empire. My policy would not mean cutting dowr the total imports; on the contrary, they would probably increase owing to greater industrial activity.” Asked whether he intended to place his proposals before the Dominions. Mr. Lloyd George declared that it would be regarded as an impertinence if he did so. He added that the Government obliged him to undertake a great campaign, and he was organising extensively so as to be ready, for an election at any time.