POLITICS IN BRITAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20603, 30 June 1930, Page 9

POLITICS IN BRITAIN.

A BITTER ATTACK. MR. BALDWIN DENOUNCED. SPEECH BY LIBERAL LEADER. By Telegraph—Preaa Association —Copyright. (Received June 2D, 7.55 p.m.) . LONDON. June 28.: Mr. Lloyd George, in the course of an address at a Liberal garden party at Kensington, severely attacked the Con-' servative leader, Mr. Baldwin, whose recent speech with its reference to Liberals Air. Lloyd George described as "mean and disgraceful." . , . "Mr. Baldwin's language," he, said, "was not merely offensive}, but was coarse and vulgar. Mr. Baldwin has always expressed a preference for the society of pigs. The trouble with him is that he is afflicted with an extraordinary morbid self-complacency, which has induced the belief that his critics are malignant and malodorous creatures, unable to appreciate his sterling worth. "The only two things that Mr. Baldwin ever personally accomplished were the settlement of the American debt, which has quartered on Britain the payment of £40,000,000 a year for 50 years without an effort to make our own debtors pay, and tho payment of a subsidy of £23,000,000 to the coal owners, to put off a strike which was not put off, and which developed into the worst strike in history. 'Mr. Baldwin is fickle, inert and resourceless, except when his own position is challenged." .