STAND OF THE DIEHARDS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15956, 18 October 1922, Page 8

STAND OF THE DIEHARDS.

CRITICISM OF THE COALITION GOVERNMENT. Elcc- Tel Copvnpht-UivUd Press Assn.l (Ausiralian ami N.Z. Canle Association.! (Received CM-. 18, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. Lord Salisbury, leader of the Diehards, addressed' the Conservative members of both Houses. Lord Curzon was present. Lord Salisbury said he could not agree with -Mr. Chamberlain's Birmingham views. The Government's extravagance, abandonment of authority in India and Egypt, and the deplorable conditions in Ireland were notorious, and Conservatives could no longer be responsible for such political events. A crisis such as we had just passed through was a discredit to our foreign policy. The Conservatives as a party were entitled to reconsider their position. They wanted a united Conservative Unionist party.

"LAGS SUPERFLUOUS." ADVICE TO LLOYD GEORGE. ONDON, Oct. 9.-Declaring that Lloyd George has now lost tbe great war as far as the Near East is concerned, and that his public usefulness is exhausted for the. present, the Observer, which has long Leen among tho Prime Minister's warmest admirers, says: "The sooner he stands aside the more easily will the nation extricate itself from" its immediate difliculties, and the better chance for his own future."

Other organs, for example, the Spectator, have been urging Mr. Lloyd George to take this coarse, but the Observer's advice as a candid friend seems sure to create an impression in political circles, and is likely to lend a cumulative effect to Mr. Bonar Law's dramatic intervention iu a letter to the Times, which was reprinted in every newspaper, and, according to some judges, marks his definite re-entry into heme politics. The Observer says that Mr. Lloyd George has lingered too long on the stage, and is now jaded, lethargic, and incapable of steady application. The anti-Lloyd George press has asserted recently that tbe Prime Minister is mentally fatigued, but the strongly pro-Lloyd-George Sunday Times says he never felt better.