HOMELAND POLITICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1924, Page 5

HOMELAND POLITICS

MR L. GEORGE’S COMMENTS

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, September 10.

In a speech at Penmaenmaur, Mr Lloyd George denounced the Russian Treaty as a fake and a folly. The Premier, he said, had been held up by “Sociallist gunmen.” It was an act of criminal carelessness to guarantee huge sums to be spent by the organisation of anarchy. The Liberal Party would forfeit the respect of the nation if it shirked this challenge. The Government, he said, woulld suffer an unparalleled defeat if it appealed to the country on the Russian Treaty. Mr Lloyd George said he supported the Government’s Irish policy, and. he also approved, of the recently published letter of Lord Birkenhead, which had interpreted the boundary clause of the Anglo-Irish Treaty as meaning only minor frontier rectifications. He said he could not imagine that an eminent South African Judge when called upon to interpret the Irish Treaty, would come to an unreasonable • decision which would tear up Ulster’s territory.

PREMIER ON SOCIALISM.

LONDON, September 10. In the introduction to a book on “Socialism,” Mr Ramsay MacDonald writes 1 :—“It is good that workmen should not tolerate unjust industrial conditions, but, in struggling to obtain their end, they should not forget that they arc independent members of society, and, by injuring society, they arc injuring themselves. Doles, Poplarism, strikes, and limitation of output are not socialism. Socialists look with misgiving upon recent developments in industrial conflicts which contrary to the spirit of socialism, are immoral and uneconomic, and will lead to disaS,ter.”