BRITISH POLITICS.
GENERAL ELECTION A CALAMITY. ASQUITH SPEAKS OUT. LONDON, Nov. 19. Mr Asquith addressing the London Liberals said: During the next six months the future of world development would bo in the crucible, therefore it. would be a blunder and a calamity to plunge Britain in the tumult of a general election. The strongest argument against an election was that the soldiers would not have returned in time to participate. The Parliament that would be brought into existence would be so truncated and mutilated that it would lack moral authority. He entered the election frankly as a Liberal, but was prepared to support any Government which grappled with the reconstruction problems on progressive lines.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1388, 21 November 1918, Page 5
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