THE VICTORS FETED.
SINGAPORE QUESTION. E3T CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received Nov. 5, 2.10 p.m LONDON, Nov. 4. Mr. Churchill and other Constitutionalist Commoners were given a dinner at the Constitutional Club by prominent Conservatives. Mr. Ronald McNeill, proposing a toast during the evening, referred to Mr. Churchill? He said he had never been deficient in backbone and was plentifully endowed with Spirit, for which there was never more need. Mr. Churchill,- replying, declared that Socialism was the .very antithesis of Liberalism. He looked forward to seeing Parliament. take up the broken pledges given to the Dominions at the Imperial ConferCftoe; . also to seeing the spade set to work figairi on the naval base at Singapore. Lord Birkenhead solemnly declared that, the first task of statesmenship was to solve the unemployment problem, He also commented on the increased Socialist vote at the elections.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1924, Page 9
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