BRITISH POLITICS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 30 March 1929, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS

LONDON PRESS GROUPS

MAY ABANDON CONSERVATIVES SUPPORT FOR LIBERALS INDICATED (©'nitad Prow Anmouiiitioii—My Rlcotrio Tulegraph—Oopyrish t) (Australian Press Association) LONDON, 27th March. There is every indication from their editorials and tiio general featuring of the Lloyd George speeches that (he big group of London newspapers controlled by Lord Rothermore, and also possibly the group controlled by Lord Beaverbrook, may abandon the Conservatives and champion the Liberals at the coming election, unless, as is unlikely, the alternative proposal of a coalition, advanced by the Rothermere group, is adopted. The "Morning Post," the chief Ministerial organ, noting (he'tendency, says editorially to-day: "From the general tone of these papers, it seems more than likely that the two magnates controlling Lliem find in Mr Lloyd George the man for their money. This is a great pity, for no doubt this enormous Press must influence the thoughtless to a considerable extent, and may persuade them to a course which seems to us suicide. Men. with such power as is given these two newspaper magnates by an inscrutable Providence, should think twice or t'u'icc. As for the proposal advanced by them that Mr Baldwin may enter into a coalition with ..Mr Lloyd George, well, Mr Lloyd George may be able to bully the Liberal Party, but the Conservative I'artv is not for sale."