VITAL BRITISH ISSUES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20255, 15 May 1929, Page 13

VITAL BRITISH ISSUES.

* HASK FOR ELECTORS. PARTY LEADERS' APPEALS. 3IK. BALDWIN CONFIDENT. NEED FOR STABLE RULE. OPPOSITION ATTACKS. Ey Telegraph—Press Association—CopyricM Austmlinn and N.Z. Press Association. (Received May 14. 7.15 p.m.) LONDON. May 11 Xo lender ever line] better ground for confidence." said the Primo Minister Mr. Baldwin' in a message issuer! to the public before he. left London to tour the vest conn try. " I start the campaign confident of victory," continued the Primo Minister. " Neither the Liberals nor the Labour J'urty can offer the country the stable iind steadily progressive Government it needs at present. That is the issue in a nutshell." Mr. Baldwin addressed -10,000 people nt Plymouth last evening. There was not n single voice of dissent, although the meeting was an open one. Referring to Mr. Lloyd George's scheme for the remedy of unemployment the 3'rime Minister said:—"Prosperity must l>o founded on work, not on stimulants 3'ut taxation first and production afterwards and you might as well put the shutters up." He described his Ministry's work as " no fireworks and no headlines." "What had been accomplished had been done just by day to day work, ns a man >vould carry oi his own business. Liberals' Remedy for Unemployment. Mr. Baldwin said ho hoped tho new Government- would bo able to make an srgeement with the United States which ■would lift the whole problem of disarmament from talk into a scheme of action. Mr. George and Mr Ramsay MacDonsUd have both attacked the Government for its action in publishing a White Paper giving the Ministers' views on the Liberals' unemployment relief scheme.. A reply from Conservative headquarters says' the complaint smacks ol hypocrisy. It points out that Mr. George, Sir John Simon and others had asserted that civil servants had been instructed to examine the. plan and had not been able Vo find a flaw in it. Ministers were entitled to reply without publishing confidential information Election Important to Empire. Speaking at the National Liberal Club Mr. George referred to the need for the modernisation and reconditioning cf the railways. Writing in the Daily Telegraph Mr. Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, says:—" Of all the States in the modern world Britain can least afford to make a mistake. The Empire is passing thicugh a, phase of transition. Nothing is settled, nothing is fixed. " The next 10 years will frobably decide whether the various parts of the Empire will draw together or drift apart. It is not the Government, but the whole of the British nation, that is on trial. The fortunes of Britain are now being decided." MISS LLOYD GEORGE. BROADCAST SPEECH MADE. FATHER'S GIFT OF ORATORY. '• Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON. May 13. Miss Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the Leader of the Liberal Party, showed the same gift of oratory as her father in a wireless broadcast from London. She announced herself as " one of the new voters speaking." "Wo number one-fifth of. the total electorate," said Miss George. " Our votes may easily determine the issue and affect the destiny of the race."

One phrase used by the speaker was characteristic of her father. She said. " Instead of sending round the hat to collect funds for the relief of distress let us use the brains under the hat and find a real solution."

"Miss Megan Lloyd George, younger daughter of Mr. D. Lloyd George the Liberal leader, is the Liberal candidate for the Anglesey seat. Sir Robert Thomas, who represented the constituency for the Liberals in the Parliament just closed, is not seeking re-election. Sir Robert had a majority ot 58// against the Labour candidate (Mr. U U. Jones) at the last election. Miss Megan George, who is 25 years old, has for some time been known to possess political ambitions, and on more than one occasion she has spoken at meetings. She was educated at Gaiiatl s Hall, Banstead, and in Paris. The other candidates for the Anglesey seat are: Mr. Albert Hughes (Conservative) arid Mr. William Edwards (Labour). Mr..Lloyd George, no doubt to his embarrassment, is being well advertised by his opponents, who have dubbed uini " The Happy Warrior." Two amusing cartoons were recently issued by the Conservatives. One of them represented Mr. George singing an old refrain, and another depicted him trying to pawn a new picture. In one Mr. George was surrounded by mangel-wurzels and a dead pheasant. In 1910 Mr. Gcorgo was accused of feeding pheasants on mangelwurzels.

In commenting, a Liberal paper said: It is a party fault in these cartoons, but not, I hope, a political fault, that they concentrate attention upon Mr. George. The more the Conservatives talk about Mr. George, in whatever spirit, the more Mr. George will count in the general election. One may recall, because it is a good political " parallel, the prologue to " Fanny's First Play." in which all the dramatic critics are assembled before the curtain and can talk about nothing but Shaw—George Bernard Shaw, of course, the ill-concealed author of the play. The dialogue ends in Shaw, Shaw. Shaw. Both the Conservative and Labour dialogues seem to end in George, George, George.