EXTRA EDITION

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 October 1922, Page 11

EXTRA EDITION

BRITISH POLITICS.

REVOLUTIONARY DANGER.

A BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT ■ Received Oct. 14, 12.T6 p.m. V LONDON.. Oct. 13. Mr. Chamberlain, speaking at 'Birmingham, said he could not say when "the elections would take place as it was Mr. Lloyd George's prerogative to dissolve Parliament, but. he was convinced that in any new Parliament there mu§t be a Coalition. Government. If Labour obtained a majority at the . elections he foreshadowed government by caucus with a capital levy destroying industry. Therefore, they must not permit national, reconstruction experiments to fall into the hands of a , subversive, if not revolutionary, party. _ H'6 spoke under a great sense of his obligations to the party which he had represented for thirty years. He thought that in the days of struggle or stress he should subordinate his own party. aims and personal considerations to the welfare of the Empire. He had worked with Mr. Lloyd George in perfect harmony. The latter had strengthened the unionist element in the Cabinet and no question of principle had ever separated them. Mr. Chambfjflain said he could not pretend to Bay in what circumstances and conditions ,ec-operation between ourselves and the present allies could best be ob-

tamed in the new .Parliament. He could say with conviction that union should be our first consideration, but it would be criminal to allow narrow party prejudices to sacrifice the country's. interests and betray the great cause- which we,' as a party, should cherish and maintain^ and if abandoned or betrayed by us cannot be sustained by any other force within the realm /