ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19807, 30 November 1927, Page 11

ATTACK ON GOVERNMENT.

MR 11. G. WELLS' BROADSIDE THREE CARDINAL ERRORS. CASTIGATION OF LEADERS. DEMAND FOR MR. SNOWDEN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received November 29, 8.35 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON'. Nov. 28. The well-known writer, Mr. H. G. Wells, makes a slashing attack on the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, anrl his Government in an article in the Daily Expross. Tlio only salvation of the country, he says, is a coalition of the Liberal and the Labour Parties, under the leadership of Mr. Philip Snowden, the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is the one man who can best lead tho Empire back to sanity, security, service and peace. What exists is to bo considered merely as a narcotic Government, drowsing inattentively in a situation which is really the most dangerous Britain has ever known It is stupidity, and not merely passive stupidity, as was once believed, but. active stupidity. Mr. Wells challenges the Government with setting things moving m the direction of war on three cardinal points. The first is supporting aggressively the reactionary Prime Minister of Italy, Signor Mussolini, tho author of a tawdry, unclean tyranny, to a pitch amounting to tho virtual betrayal of republican France and Germany; secondly, the failure to reach an understanding with America; thirdly, the Russian muddle, resulting from breaking off trade relations, and thus 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 that is being waged at home is dwarfed, says Mr. Wells, by the monstrous international dangers. He condemns as implacable stupidity the policy of pure Liberalism of Sir H. L. Samuel, the former High Commissioner of Palestine, and the fantastic vanity and loneliness of the Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald. This rules out 'a Liberal-Labour coalition majority. Britain, ho says, wants such a coalition and there must be a Labour loader. Mr. Snowden, as a man, has the 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. Mac Donald. Mr. Wells advocates that everybody at the next general election should disregard the differences between the Liberal and Labour Parties, and vote for the legitimate claimant to the seat, whether Liberal or Labour, thereby defeating the Conservative candidate.