AMERICAN SURVEY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 127, 3 June 1929, Page 9

AMERICAN SURVEY

NO NEED FOR TREPIDATION

Australian Press Association,

NEW YORK, Ist June.

The "New York Times" in a leader says: "Not even the Labour Party can call the results of the British Genera] Election fortunate. It is a comforting reflection, amid the depressing thought! caused by its inconclusiveness, that if a Labour Government is formed it will cause no trepidation in England and no fear elsewhere. Mr. Mac Donald, whatever he may be in theory, is in practice not at all a flaming radical." The "New York World" says: "The heavy Labour vote cannot be interpreted except aB evidence that in the oldest of the modern democracies more radical ideas of social progress have steadily been gaining ground." Both newspapers consider that the results presage the return of the twoparty system to Britain. Washington officials are unwilling to make a statement., publicly concerning the British elections to-night. Senator Borah asserted that he believed the selection of Mr. Mac Donald would do much to further the progress of naval reduction, and many others intimate that their opinions are similar.