A NARCOTIC GOVERNMENT

Grey River Argus, 30 November 1927, Page 5

A NARCOTIC GOVERNMENT

H. G. WELLS DENOUNCES

Baldwin Administration.

LIBERAL-LABOUR COALITION ADVOCATED.

Australian and N Z. Cable Assn.) (Received November 29 at 7.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 28.

Mr H. G. Wells makes a smashing attack on Mr Baldwin’s Government in a special article in the “Daily Express.” The one salvation, he says, is a coalition of the Liberal and Labour Parties under, the leadership of Mr Snowden, the one man who can best lead the British Empire back to sanity, (security, service and peace. What exists is to be considered merely as a narcotic Government, drowsing inattentively, and the situation is really the most dangerous Britain has ever known. It is stupidity, not merely passive stupidity as we once believed, but active stupidity. Mr Wells challenges the Government in setting things moving in the direction of war, on three cardinal points. Firstly, supporting aggressively reactionary Mussolini, another of tawdry unclean tyranny, to a pitch amounting to a virtual betrayal of Republican France and Germany; secondly, its failure to reach an understanding with America; and thirdly, the Russian muddle, resulting in broken off trade, creating the impression in the world generally, and Russia particularly, that Britain is the foremost enemy of the Soviet. Even the grave social war waged at home dwarfed the monstrous international dangers. Mr Wells condemns as implacable stupidity the policy of pure Liberalism of Sir Herbert Samuel and the fantastic vanity and loneliness of Mr MacDonald which rules out a Liberal Labour., coalition. The majority in Britain wants such a coalition an anti-Government majority, plainly Labour; and there must be a Labour Leader. Mr Snowden, as a man, has a peculiar quality of greatness. Mr Lloyd George might work with him because he does not possess the narrow mindedness of Sir H. Samuel, or the lonely vanity of Mr MacDonald. Mr Wells advocates that everybody at the next election should disregard the differences of Liberal and Labour, and vote for the legitimate claimant to the seat, whether Liberal or Labour, thereby defeating the Tory.