BRITISH LIBERALS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 April 1945, Page 4

BRITISH LIBERALS

SUPPORT FOR MR. CHURCHILL.

RUGBY, April 26. Lord Rosebery told Liberal Nationals in his presidential address at the opening of their conference in London to-day that he not only saw no conceivable reason for not supporting Air. Churchill’s programme, but saw every reason why they should do so, and be 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 gladly have accepted as an election platform. They remained Liberals and would always do so, but they had to put the State before the Party and the Empire before politics. Sir Frederic Hamilton, presenting the report of the Executive Committee, which referred to an abortive attempt to achieve Liberal unity said: “Compromise has clearly become impossible because it is clear that Sir Archibald Sinclair’s friends were committed to some hundreds of candidates to fight the next election on strictly party lines. Air. Ernest Brown said: “We shall resist the peace-time attempt of the Socialist Party in the national field to compel, control, restrict and direct. We intend to fan the flame of passion for personal liberty.”