BRITISH POLITICS.
SPEECH BY LORD DERBY,
NOT SEEKING FOR POWER.
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 29. (Received Jan. 30, at 5.5 p.m.) Speaking at the Manchester Constitutional Club, Lord Derby said he did not intend to make a sensational speech. “Mr Lloyd George,” he continued, “recently asked me to join the Government, but I declined, for purely personal reasons. I have been credited with two ambitions —to secure the Premiership and to win the Derby. I now have only one ambition —I leave you to guess which. If I criticise the Government my purpose is to help and not to 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.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18157, 31 January 1921, Page 5
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