A GREAT CAMPAIGN

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 9

A GREAT CAMPAIGN

NEW DEAL PLAN I LLOYD GEORGE'.S REPLY WILL OEGANISE WIDELY United Tress Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. Mr. Lloyd George, replying to the Government statement rejecting his New Deal proposals for "organising prosperity," denounces the boastful complacency with which the Government seems to regard economic conditions despite the depressed areas and two million 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 cavil at my proposals, and in the next suggest doing something similar oii a minor scale," says Mr. Lloyd George. "It, is remarkable how they have 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 I 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 down 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. ,