A DIVIDED PARTY
LIBERALS’ DISSENTIONSLONDON, June ID. There was a boisterous scene at ths Liberal Federation meeting in London* when Mr J. A. Spender, the newly-elected president, announced that the Wolverhampton Liberal Association had withdrawn its resolution recommending ths adoption of 500 parliamentary candidates at the earliest possible moment. A candidate protested that the with* drawal was tantamount to the Liberal Party throwing up the sponge. Mr Geoffrey Mander, delegate from Wolverhampton, who declined to move ths resolution, declared that they could not at present ask even fifty candidates to throw their whole energy into Liberalism, because the atmosphere of the federation was one of elaborate pretence. Interrupters shouted : Quite right! Rub it in! Hypocrisy! Mr Man<ler: Certain leaders have declined to work with others lfere on the platform. There is no hope of unity. A delegate shouted: Sack the lot! Sir Charles Hobhouse, endeavouring to calm the storm, was met with cries of “Face the truth!” The meeting carried a motion identical with the one withdrawn amid a storm of cheering.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 31
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172A DIVIDED PARTY Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 31
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