MR CHURCHILL'S PROGRAMME

Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 6

MR CHURCHILL'S PROGRAMME

ACCEPTABLE TO LIBERAL NATIONALISTS (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 2G. Lord Rosebery told Liberal Nationalists in hi.s presidential address at the opening of their conference in London to-day that he not only saw no conceivable reason for not supporting Mr Churchill's programme, but saw every reason whv they should do so. and he most vigilant that the extreme Right of the Conservative Party did not water it down. He declared that Mr Churchill's programme was one which every Liberal Prime Minister in his lifetime would have gladly accepted as an election platform. They remained Liberals and would always do so. but thev had to put the State before party and the Empire before politics. Sir Frederic Hamilton, presenting the report of the executive committee which referred to the abortive attempt to achieve Liberal unity, said: "A compromise clearly became impossible from the moment'it became clear that Sir Archibald Sinclair's friends were committed to some hundreds of candidates to fight the next election on strictlv party lines." Mr Ernest Brown said: "We shall resist a peace-time attempt by the Socialist Parts- in the national field to compel, control, restrict, and direct. We intend to fan the flame of passion for personal liberty."