BRITISH LIBERALS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21773, 12 October 1932, Page 7

BRITISH LIBERALS

PROSPECTS OF REUNION . ME LLOYD GEORGE’S VIEWS. LONDON, October 10. Refusing an invitation to attend a "Liberal revival” meeting at the Queen’s Hall on Wednesday, to be addressed by Sir Herbert Samuel and the other Liberal Cabinet members who resigned, Mr Lloyd George disposes of the idea of a Liberal reunion as an early consequence of the resignations. He says it is impossible for him to join in a demonstration of approval of the cx-Ministers’ actions. “I am expected to demonstrate in favour of the calamitous procedure by which Freetrade was given away at the last election. Can I approve of the National Government’s muddling policy regarding disarmament, which has brought Europe to the verge of the gravest international crisis since 1914? Both Sir John Simon and Sir Herbert Samuel were personally responsible for this, for the latter adhered, to Sir John Simon’s fatal Note to Germany. We must know whether the Liberal revival is to begin by approving all their criminal stupidities. If they would make a real fresh start they must disentangle the party from the responsibility of the policies sanctioned by the ex-Ministers during the past year.” .