HALDANE-LLOYD GEORGE CONTROVERSY
AN APPEAL TO PARLIAMENTARIANS. iJy Telegraph—Frets Association—Copv-islu LONDON, July 12Viscount Middleton, in a letter to “The Times,*’ appeals to. Parliamentarians to refrain from " further proo.ug the Haldane-Lloyd George controversy. “It cannot he to the interest of Britain to present an appearance of disunion,” ho says. “Our business just now is with the present and the future, not the past.” The “Daily Mail” favours the formation of a People’s Committee, consisting of business men with big reputations to collect evidence and report on the question; “What State servants, by whose' negligence and incoropetency the fate of the Empire has been endangered, are still holding office under th« Government?’'
The “Daily Chronicle’’ puis a sinister complexion on the matter, and says ; “In some quarters it is rumoured that if Colonel Von Donop does not resign, Mr Lloyd George will, and if Colonel Von Donop resigns, Lord Kitchener will go, too.” MR ASQUITH WILL NOT MAKE A STATEMENT. LONDON, July 12. Mi Asquith, in the House of Commons, refused to mate a statement regarding the Haldane-Lloyd George trouble. , ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9095, 14 July 1915, Page 7
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