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Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 68, 18 September 1906, Page 5

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* ' ♦ IMPERIAL LIBERAL PARTY. DURATION OF A GOVERNMENT. IMPROVED FOREIGN RELATIONS. STATEMENT BY MR. HALDANE. fPRBSS ASSOCIATION. I (Received September 18, 8.44 a.m.) LONDON, 17th. September. Mr. B. R. Haldane, Secretary of Stato for War, expressed the opinion that the Unionists would pull themselves together early enough to prevent the Liberals remaining in office a decade. Any Government had been long enough in office aftor five years. Under Sir Edward Grey, Secretory of State for Foreign Affairs, Britain's relations abroad had improved. Thoso With 'France wore closer, and he had brought England into friendly relations with Russia, notwithstanding the latter's difficulties. Moreover, the relations with Germany were better than they were a short time ago, and beginning from next month, Germany would commenco to withdraw nearly half of her troops from South-w£6t Africa. The Liberals, he added, had sought td meet ihe legitimate Labour grievances. NEW MEN AND FRESH PRINCIPLES. "NOTHING TO FEAR FROM LIBERALISM.' 1 - AIR. CHURCHILL'S VIEWS. LONDON, 17th September. It wob Cabled ten days ago that Mr. Winston Churchill, Undersecretary for the Colonies, had written to Mr. Greenwood, a member of tho House of Commons, who is travelling in Canada, asking him to try to convince Canadians that tho Conservatives do not monopolteo intarest in Imperialism. Mr. Churchill said the advent of the Liberals did not mean the weakening of British affection for tho colonies or lesson the belief in tho ultimate aim of a solid, defensive league — viz., freo democratic communities animated by lov<*, peace, and justico, unfler tho leadership of the Crown. Particulars now available show that Mr. Churchill admitted that tho cbnfidence shown by Canadian and Australian statesmen in the only set of British politicians with whom they had long been accustomed to deaJ had, in a great men* sure, been worthily repaid, and that the predominance of the Conservative party had synchronised with and generously aided the growth of the Imperial idea. Tho Under-Secretary then stated that there wero now in office new men v/ith other principles and different methods, but tnero was no change in their central impulse and aspirations or their ultimate aim. Mr. Churchill said tho progress and prosperity of Canada ana Australia wero largely ascribed to their Liberal and social principles, which had been carried in some ways to lar moro logical extremes than in the Motherland. The Empire had nothing to fear from Liberalism, by whose Impanal principles of colonial autonomy, lofty humanity, and peaceful foreign policy the structural cohesion of the Empire has alone been achieved and maintained.