PLATFORM OF LIBERALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20264, 25 May 1929, Page 11

PLATFORM OF LIBERALS.

CHIEF PLANKS ANNOUNCED. FOREIGN AFFAIRS POLICY. WOMEN IN THE CAMPAIGN. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, May 23. Nino points in the foreign policy of the Liberal Party are contained in a statement signed by Mr. Lloyd George, Earl Beanchamp, Sir Herbert Samuel, Sir Charles Hobhouso and Lady Acland. They include the following:— The Liberals' primary object, is to abolish war as a method of Settling international disputes, also to work for an early, largo and all-round reduction of armaments.

A Liberal Government would sign the optional clause under which justifiable disputes aro referred to the Court of International Justice, with the necessary reservations in regard to differences between members of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Also the Liberals would ro-establish at the earliest possible moment normal political and economic relations with Russia on a basis of rson-interference in each other's, domestic affairs.

The Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, speaking at Bristol, said: In the potteries district I have seen some land " fit for heroes to live on." If I wanted to visit the heroes of Scotland in the houses Mr. Lloyd George promised to provido I would have to visit the gaols. Viscountess Astor, the first woman to become a member of the House of Commons, is having a ding-dong fight for the S'utton, Plymouth, seat. Her husband arrived at one of her meetings to find her surrounded by a crowd of workers. She was angry and there wcro tears in her eyes.

Lady Astor's tongue is sharp. When a woman asked her why she had not voted to retain the milk supplies for children she turned to another section of her audience and said: How would you like to be governed by these things ? At another meeting Lady Astor rushed at a union organiser and tried to knock off his hat.

Miss Belly Balfour, film actress, had grea;; receptions when she presided at meetings at; Cirencester and Tewkesbury in support of Mr. Fredman (Labour). She said 100,000 workers in tho film industry would support Mr. Fredman, who had been responsiblo for tho recovery in the British film industry.