BRITISH BUDGET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 May 1925, Page 5

BRITISH BUDGET.

LLOYD GEORGE’S METAPHORS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, May 8. ' The Leader of the Liberal ’i*a. t„v (Mr. Lloyd George), speaking at the National Liberal Club, opened the antiBudget attack in a speech bristling with all his old-time sparkle. Mr. Lloyd George admited that he admired the brilliant mind of the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Winston Churchill), a mind so brilliant as to dazzle the owner’s judgment. In fact it was one' of the Chancellor’s troubles that his headlights were blinding. This made it difficult for him, to avoid smashing into traffic. During the war the golden calf was locked away in a cupboard. Mr. Churchill opened it with an American key and polished the image with burnishing rhetoric. Now the Valhalla o. Wall Street was twanging golden harp, with joy. Mr. Churchill’s five financial proposals were in grave danger of being strangled by a silken cord. He s houk. have paid the pensions scheme by notreducing the super-tax.