BRITISH POLITICS.
REVIVAL OF LIBERALISM. SIR HERBERT SAMUEL’S PREDICTION. CANDIDATES NEXT ELECTION. LONDON, Feb. 28. Sir Herbert Samuel, in his first political speech after his seven years’ retirement, at an Eighty Club dinner, said that the condition of the people was still the most important question. The Labour Government bad not inspired a large measure of trust. A Labour Ministry could not independently follow its own conscience. In the event of another general strike it would be bound to take instructions from one side, and would be nerveless and paralysed as a guardian of law. ✓ln connection with . the grave and difficult Chinese question, Labour pursued a vacillating and irresponsible course. Mr Ramsay MacDonald was uncomfortable and realised the force of the Chinese proverb,. “He who rides a tiger can never dismount.” There was every reason to believe that the next few months would see a great revival of Liberalism. The .Organisation Committee was determined to run 500 candidates at the next general election. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 79, 2 March 1927, Page 9
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