MR LLOYD GEORGE

Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 7

MR LLOYD GEORGE

NEW DEAL SPEECHES

EMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

STRONGER ACTION URGED

,(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.22 p.m.) London, January 27. Mr Lloyd George in continuing his New Deal speeches at the Birmingham jewellers’ dinner, emphasized the necessity for security before international trade could recover. He expressed the opinion that things were improving in Europe. People were not in a hurry to repeat the experiment of war as indicated by the peaceful settlement after the Marseilles assassinations which horrified the nations by its analogy to Serajevo. He added: “I am more apprehensive regarding the Far East which is no better from the fact that we have not tackled it in time. Events there are gradually approaching a point where the United States and Britain can no longer procrastinate. I do not like to read of China being eaten in gulps, thousands of square miles at a meal. Surely that must stop.” Turning to employment, he advocated that the Government take a stronger line, insisting on the removal of abnormally prohibitive barriers to international trade; also to stabilize the exchange, develop resources at Home and the colonies; end demoralizing doles by utilizing the savings lying fallow in the banks in national re-equipment and reconstruction. Mr Lloyd George added that he would support a National Government as long as it grappled effectively with a national emergency. . The Observer, in an editorial stressing that the Socialists already call Mr Lloyd George’s new deal “a damp squib while party Liberalism is a dwindling quantity,” asked Mr Lloyd George to wipe out old scores against Mr Ramsay MacDonald as he had already done against Mr Stanley Baldwin, who is ideally placed to be the intermediary in the negotiations which ought to make Mr Lloyd George one of the three principal members of the reorganized National Government. Paper plans are useless unless the means of execution are assured by another five years sound strong government. “WILL HE JOIN CABINET” SIGNIFICANT SPEECH. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, January 26. “Will Lloyd George be invited to join Cabinet?” is the question being widely discussed in political circles following Sir John Simon’s significant reference to Lloyd George in his speech at Bexhill on Sea. , “Alike on personal and national grounds I welcome this doughty warrior’s return to active political life, he said. Lloyd George’s new deal might not be wholly new, but it would be carefully considered, he continued. The Government itself had accomplished a great deal, but even those admitting that much, probably felt that the Government’s teamwork might be improved by the introduction of more resources, a scrum half or speedier outside threequarter, and that might well be so.