SPEECHES BY LEADERS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 8

SPEECHES BY LEADERS

CONFLICTING INTERPRETATIONS. Received Oct. 16, T0.20 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 15. Mr. Chamberlain's and Mr. Lloyd George's Speeches have done little to simplify the complexity of the political situation. The newspapers, according to partisanship, place conflicting interpretations upon these speeches. Some strongly approve of Mr. Chamberlain's loyalty to Mr, Lloyd George > and others declare he is a traitor to the Conservative Party and should resign the leadership, it is suggested in some quarters that both Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Lloyd George are again manoeuvring for the creation of a centre party by the elimination of the dissentient elements in the Coalition. Their speeches seem to indicate that they intend to await developments in the Conservative ranks. The moderation of Mr. Lloyd George's speech came as a surprise after the sensational prophesy. The Sunday Express states that the question for the __ Conservatives is whether the party is to be shattered like the Liberal Party in order to keep Mr. Lloyd George in order. The Conservative rank and file desire te deliver the party from the coils and toils of . coalition, and they are determined. to recover their**ndependence and go before the electors with their own policy. Mr. Chamberlain ought to resign, and if he refuses a conference of the Conservative members of> the Commons and Lords ought to be summoned to the party's policy and choose a leader". ' . The _ Observer states that the njass" of. moderate Conservatives desire an end of the present Coalition. They want to march to the polls under their J3WTI banner- with their own leader and programme. This is the only means ot keeping the party together. If by an immediate election the Unionist party is committed without its representative body being consulted, a total split will be threatened, and the Unionist leaders in the Cabinet may be- repudiated by the rank and file. The--Observer declares that experts, reading between the lines of the Manchester speech, predict that Mr. Lloyd George intends to resign the Premiership within a few days. This will result in a dissolution of Parliament and an election early in "November.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.