BRITISH TORY SPLIT
PERSONAL ATTACKS BALDWIN AND ROTHERMERE LONDON, Feb. «. The Daily Mail discloses that, altei his recent speech to the Conservative Party, Mr. Baldwin took the opportunity, at a semi-private Conservative dinner, to make a slashing retort to the anti-Baldwin campaign which Lord Rothermere is conducting in the Daily Mail. The ex-Prime Minister declared that ho did not desire tho Daily Mail's support, nor would he give up the Conservative leadership. Newspaper attacks were personal and unfair. As for Lord Rothermerc's reputation for efficiency, it was Lord Xorthcliffe who made the Daily Mail. Lord Rothermere muddled his job as Air Minister in 1917-18 and he resigned because an attack on his administration was pending. Probably he would not have got the post except for Lord Northclifte's influence.
interviewed by the Daily News, Lord Rothermere said that he had just returned from America and had no knowledge as to what Mr. Baldwin had said and was not concerned with what he said "Mr. Baldwin is," he added, "n completely incompetent perspn.who, by an accident of post-war politics, fluked his way into high office."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17180, 10 February 1930, Page 5
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