THE BRITISH ELECTIONS
The most dramatic election in Britain’s long parliamentary history closed this week in scenes of great excitement. Who could have conceived,
even one short year ago, that Liberals and Conservatives, Mr. Baldwin and Sir John Simon, would be fighting under the leadership of a Socialist Prime Minister against militant Labour, or that Mr. Lloyd George, deserted by all his followers save his son and daughter and three faithful Welshmen, should be supporting Labour Socialism, and even, it is hinted, in his old age making a bid for the leadership of the Labour party? Or that Philip Snowden, but a short time ago anathema to all good Conservatives as the embodiment of confiscation, would be hailed by them as the saviour of society, while not recanting a fraction of his political principles. It is 'significant of the state of revolution in which we are living, of which most seem to be quite unaware, fatuously hoping for a return to conditions as dead as the moa.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 4, 30 October 1931, Page 7
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