IMPERIAL POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18513, 25 March 1922, Page 9

IMPERIAL POLITICS

THE SITUATION REVIEWED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 24. (Received, March 24, at 9.15 p.m.) The Daily Chronicle’s special correspondent, writing from Criccieth, gaves an. interesting resume of the political situation, evidently as the result of a consultation with Mr Lloyd George. The correspondent denies that there has been a crisis between the Liberals and the Conservatives in the Cabinet. _ The crisis has been amongst the Conservatives. The article admits that Mr Lloyd George resigned and then withdrew his resignation, but his reason was the adoption of the Genoa. Conference ns the policy of the Coalition, which amounts to the reaffirmation of Conservative loyalty to Coalition. Mr Lloyd George regards the Genoa Conference as the key to the future, and ho understands that the Conservatives make their attachment to this principle their main reason for asking Mr Lloyd George to continue the Premiership. Is a letter to Mr Chamberlain withdrawing his resignation, Mr Lloyd George made three conditions: — 1. The Irish settlement must be carried through. 2, No reactionary policy must be pursued.

5. The foreign policy must aim at a peace and the disarmament of Europe. This last is what Mr Lloyd George means by the Genoa policy.—A. and N.Z. Cable.