SHOULD LABOUR RULE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 April 1929, Page 5

SHOULD LABOUR RULE

BRITISH ELECTION PROSPECTS CHOICE OF LEADERS. PARTY WELL CHAPERONED. .LiuGMt .\ .elation— iii i-.iecmc Irtogiuin. (3ox*yngDt../ (.Australian i rexa LONDON, April u. Lord Birkenhead,, writing m tne Sunday Chronicle, asks wnat will happen ii Labour is returnea to power at tlie coming election m arent nntam. “lr we read Mr. Ramsay Alacnouaia aright no would ratlier sacrince ins own career than see the interests or u.ngland and the Empire, as he unuerstands them. betrayed, but he must be surrounded despite recent pledges, by many men some of whom must be members of tne Cauinet and over whom Jiis control is partial and incomplete. "it has been rumoured that Air. J. H. Thomas could be persuaded, it tlie necessity arose, that tiie sceptre might useruliy be placed in iiis own very willing hands. He would be tlie most interesting .crime Minister I can think oi and there are many who might lie worse. 'Of the others of the party -Mr. Henderson and Mr. Dynes are tlie 'Aunt it liens’ of old-fashioned comedy who turn up whenever they are wanted i and make old-iasnioned remarks. They can aiways be relieved of the exercise ox the duties or Victorian cliaperonage, and alter ail, in the Eabour Party there is too much of the chaperone. ’ BROADCASTING PROGRAMME (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 5. It is now announced that before the dissolution of Parliament early’ next month eight political addresses will be given before the microphone and broadcast to- listeners by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Four of the speeches will bo given by’ Government spokesmen, oi whom the Minister of War, Sir Laming Worthing-ton-Evans, will be the first, and four by representatives of the opposition parties, namely, two by Labour and two by Liberal leaders. It is understood that Mr Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will speak for the Government on the day following liis Budget speech in the House of Commons. Mr Lloyd George and Sir Herbert Samuel have been selected to speak for the Liberal Party, but the Labour spokesmen have not yet been chosen.