BRITISH RECOVERY DRIVE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18582, 17 December 1934, Page 5

BRITISH RECOVERY DRIVE

LLOYD GEORGE'S PLAN

"GET SOMETHING DONE"

A NON-PARTY EFFORT

(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) LONDON, Dec. 15.

The Daily Herald says that Mr. Lloyd George, as a free and independent citizen tied to no party, will launch a public campaign early in the new year to convert the public to the imperative need of national reconstruction, with the slogan '"Get Something Done." The scheme will include sweeping proposals for re-planning by Britain, and is the result of a mouth's preparation at his country house, where he held consultations with a group of economists, businessmen and financiers.

Mr. Lloyd George says that he will appeal to the mass of silent non-party voters ready to swing over to a policy of active and resolute reconstruction, with "national control of the Bank of England as the key to economic recovery, and reconstruction the foremost point in the programme. The bank must be a veal State bank instead of a close corporation." Mr. Lioyd George adds: "There is, something desperately wrong with a system that cannot adequately feed, clothe and employ a large proportion of its workers. lam going to spend the last, years of my life trying to alter that."

Mr. Lloyd George, interviewed, insists that he does not desire tp support Liberalism, Socialism, capitalism, pacifism, Nazism, .or any other ism, but simply to appeal to all parties to consider on broad, non-party lines, a series of proposals before the general election.

lie emphasises that there is nothing revolutionary in his advocacy of national control of the Bank of England, which he always favored. Britain is the only country where a bank which is essentially a State bank is not controlled by the Government.

The Observer's political correspondent says that the fact that tMr. ,Lloyd George first disclosed his plans only to the Daily Herald and News-Chronicle shows that he hopes to dominate a Socialist-Radical combination in which he would hold the balance of power. Mr. Lloyd George expects Labor to win 200 seats at the general election, and believes that his plan will appeal to unattached electors, who like neither Socialism nor Conservatism, to give him a compact group which will hold a balance between Government supporters and Labor.