CONSERVATIVE TACTICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18584, 17 December 1923, Page 9

CONSERVATIVE TACTICS.

POLICY TOWARD LABOUR.

FAIR PLAY AND ENOUGH ROPE

BIRKENHEAD SEES PERIL. By Telesraph—Frees Association Copy rig (Received 5.38 p.m ) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 16. Mr. J. L. Garvin, -writing in the Observer, says that if the Conservative Party is capable of sagacious foresight it will give the Labour Party fair play and a reasonable length of rope. The Earl of Birkenhead, in an article in the Sunday Times, says it is no exaggeration to say that Conservatism and all it stands for at this moment is in deadly peril. There is no reason why Socialists should bo allowed to take office. On the contrary, there is every reason for repelling it. Socialism must be fought from first to last and all the time.

LABOUR FOREIGN POLICY.

DISTURBING UNCERTAINTY.

THE MARXIAN DOGMA. Times. LONDON. Dec. 14. The Times, in a leader appealing for a continuity of British foreign policy, says we can be assured from the election manifestoes that neither the liberals nor the Conservatives will change the essential characteristics, but Labour's policy at present is obscure. The Times infers that it will be based on the Marxian dogma of internationalising class hatred. If this is die case, the Labour Party win have to take seriously into account the strong instinctive patriotism of the British workman, who will not readily conform to the rigid demands of the general theory.

UNIVERSITY OF WALES.

LIBERAL SEAT LOST..

A, and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 14 The last of the pollings on December 6 resulted in an Independent gaining what was previously a Liberal seat, Mr. G. M. D. Davis being returned for the University of Wales with 570 votes against Professor Joseph Jones' 560, and Mr. Edwards (Independent Liberal), 467. The only resist yet to come is that in West Derbyshire, wh*re the polling will take place on Thursday.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

FIXED FOR JANUARY 15. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Dec. 14. The King will open Parliament on January 15, a week after it reassembles.