BRITISH LIBERALS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 6, 6 December 1930, Page 9

BRITISH LIBERALS

LABOUR GOVERNMENT CRITICISED.

TALK OF PACT DENIED. STATEMENT BY MR LLOYD GEORGE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) Received December 6, 10 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 5. In view of recent rumours that the Liberal Party had agreed conditionally to support the Government, a speech by Mr Lloyd George to Liberal candidates to-day was awaited with interest. He said that there was no pact to announce. He criticised the Labour Government, but said that an election might mean a Conservative victory, involving protection for a generation. Therefore, the Government should be defeated only on an issue vital to the nation. The Government would need the Liberal Party’s goodwill and help, and urgent problems must be tackled and the electoral reform carried through. Questioned later, Mr Lloyd George repeated: “There is no pact, no deal.” LEADER ATTACKS GOVERNMENT. BUT WILL KEEP _ 1T IN POWER. Received December 6, 11.50 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 5. Picturing Liberalism as saving the country from the “degradation of the most selfish and sordid aspect of nationalism represented by the haggling, grasping claws of tariffs, with a chariot of Patriotism "i'.nessed to Greed,” Mr Lloyd George in a speech to Liberal candidates announced his intention of keeping Mr Ramsay MacDonald in power after a slashing attack on the Government.