EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 October 1930, Page 7

EMPIRE CONFERENCE

DISAPPOINTED DELEGATES. [BY CABLE —PBECS ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] (Reed. Oct. 25, 11 a.m.) • LONDON, October-24. Clearer than ever becomes patent the fact that Mr Snowden remains unshaken in his fiscal fastness. Even the r’ost unsensitive ear is able to detect mumbling from the Dominions in their disappointment/Mr. Hertzog ahs definitely booked a passage, for home on November 7, and has turned a deaf ear to Mr Thomas’s pleading to remain a little longer. FOOTBALL METAPHOR. LONDON, October 24. Mr Forbes, in a speech at the Middle Temple dinner to the Conference delegates, at which Mr MacDonald was present, declared that he thought of the Imperial Conference in terms of Rugby football combination. There had(been a little weakness in the “passing.” it was up to Britain to impiove it. The Dominions asked her: “Will you now pass the ball?” BEAVERBROOK CRUSADE. LONDON, October 23. Speaking at South Paddington in connection with the by-election in reply to Mr Baldwin, Lord Beaverbrook said that there had been talk of a quarrel between Mr Baldwin and himself, but there was nothing that he regretted more than their faint difference regarding the path by which they should approach the future of the Empire. Lord Beaver- , brook remarked: "Mr Baldwin asks for our support. We reject his proposals, for a free hand to tax or not to tax foreign foodstuffs' as circumstances may dictate. We want an immediate, positive policy of Empire Free Trade, based on the imposition of duties on foreign foodstuffs. Replying to an interjection Lord Beaverbrook denied that he was seeking for the leadership of the Conservative Party.