BRITISH CONSERVATIVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23206, 2 June 1937, Page 10

BRITISH CONSERVATIVES

NEW LEADER ELECTED MR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, May 31. (Received June 1, at 5.5 p.m.) In a speech at a meeting of the Conservative Party, acknowledging his election as Leader, Mr + Chamberlain said: “These next two years may well be critical in the history of Europe, Whether they end in chaos or in gradual appeasement of the old enmity and the restoration of confidence and stability will depend very largely upon the part played by this country, which is bound to be important, and may well be decisive. If we are to exert our full influence in the right direction we shall require something more than devotion and loyalty to purely party allegiance.” RECEPTION IN THE HOUSE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY. May 31. Mr Neville Chamberlain was received with loud cheers on his first appearance in the House of Commons as Prime Minister. Immediately after questions the Leader of the Opposition paid a tribute to Mr Baldwin, in which Sir John Sinclair joined. Mr Chamberlain replied. Mr Attlee said the future historians would doubtless disagree, as the Opposition agreed, about the merits and demerits of Mr Baldwin’s policy and actions, but he was certain they would be one in acclaiming him as a great parliamentarian who possessed in a singular degree the faculty of judging the temper of the House and responding to its moods.