BRITISH POLITICS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 30 November 1927, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS

SLASHING ATTACK 6N GOVERNMENT BY MR H. O. WELLS LIBERAL-LABOUR COALITION • URGED ~——. , (By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, 28th Nov. Mr 11. G. Wells makes a slashing attack on the Baldwin Government in a. special article in the "Daily Express." One salvation of the country, he says, is a.coalition of the Liberal and Labour Parties under the leadership of Mr Philip Snowden, the one man who can best lead the. British Empire, back to sanity, security, service, and peace. What exists is to be considered merely as a narcotic Government drowsing inattentively, and the situation really the most dangerous Britain has ever known. It is stupidity—not merely passive stupidity as we once believed, but active stupidity. Mr Wells challenged the Government with setting things moving in the direction of war on three cardinal points-firstly, by supporting aggressively the reactionary Mussolini, the author of tawdry and unclean tyranny to a pitch amounting to the virtual betrayal of republican Franc* and Germany; secondly, failure to reach 'an'understanding with America ;■ thirdly thoß-tisslffVl'inutldle resulting'in broken off traile, creating an impression in-the world generally and in Russia particularly, that Britain is the foremost enemy of the Soviet. Even the grave social war waged at home is dwarfed by the monstrous international dangers. Mr Wells condemns as implacable stupidity the policy of pure Liberalism of Sir Herbert Samuel and the fantastic vanity and loneliness of 'Mr MacDonald, which rules out a LiberalLabour coalition. The. majority in Britain wants such a coalition. As the anti-Government majority is plainly Labour and there must be a. Labour leader, Mr Snowden has a peculiar quality of greatness. Mr Lloyd George might work with him because ho does not possess the narrow-mindedness of Sir Herbert Samuel or the lonely vanity of Mr MacDonald. Mr Wells advocates that everybody af the next election should disregard the differences Liberal and Labour, and vote for the legitimate claimant to the seat, whether Liberal or Labour, thereby defeating the. Tory. ! unemployment' insurance BILL LONDON, 29th. Nov. The long fight in Committee on the Unemployment Insurance Bill continued being varied bv occasional Labour complaints against the necessity for the closure. '■'■'■',. , ..„ , . The House finally adjourned till Ist December. • REPLIES TOQUESTIONS ■ LONDON, 29th Nov. In the House of Commons Mr Baldwin, questioned, said that the Government did not propose to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the possibility of practical co-operation between the competing State-owned wireless system and the cables. Captain D. Lacking informed a questioner that he was aware that some authorities feared a prospective world shortage in tin. He was following closely discussions on the. possibility of stabilising prices, but did not think a scientific inquiry by the Government into the possibility of conserving the Empire's tin resources at the present would bo advantageous. , Mr W: G. A, Ormsby-Gorc, in answer to a question, said that the convention between the Turkish Petroleum Company and the Government of Iraq provided that the company must continue to be registered in Britain and have its chief place of business within the Empire, with a chairman of British nntionality.