LORD DERBY’S INTENTIONS
SPEECH AT MANCHESTER. Australian an 8 N.Z. c-'l? WwinHm (Received January 30, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 29. Speaking at the Manchester Constitutional Club Lord Derby said he did not intend to make a sensational speech. “Mr Lloyd George recently asked me to join the Government. I declined far purely personal reasons. T have been credited with two ambitions —to -secure the Premiership and win the Derby. I now have only one ambition —I leave you tp guess which. If I criticise the Government my purpose is to help and not wound.” Lord Derby went on to advocate strict economy in expenditure, an alliance between England and France, and the revision of the Turkish Treaty in favour of Turkey.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10812, 31 January 1921, Page 6
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