LABOUR’S TRAGIC FAILURE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18817, 4 March 1931, Page 9

LABOUR’S TRAGIC FAILURE.

Sensation In Imperial Parliament. RESIGNATION OF MINISTER. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrlpmt (Received March 3, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 2. The resignation is announced of Lord Trevelyan (President of the Board of Education). (Received March 3, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON. March 2. Lord Trevelyan’s resignation is the direct outcome of the rejection of the Education Bill in the House of Lords, but he indicates his dissatisfaction in other directions in his letter to Mr Ramsay Macdonald, in which he states that he has realised for some time that he was greatly out of sympathy with the Government’s general policy. He declares that the present disastrous condition of trade requires big Socialist measures, rather than painful ineffective economies. “As time proceeds,” Lord Trevelyan adds, “the situaton gets worse, and we show less intention to rely on Socialism as the salvation of the country.” Both sides of the House regard the resignation as evidence of dissatisfaction with the Government, which is not confined to back-benchers. Lord Trevelyan caused a minor sensation last year by attacking Harrow, his old school, declaring that it was a school merely “for the rich, where boys believed in brawn not brains.” GOVERNMENT’S EARLIER DEFEAT. POINTED QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE. Unlt*d Pres* Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 3, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 2. In the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamberlain inquired whether the Government proposed to take any action in view of its defeat in the Standing Committee in the Trades Disputes Bill. Mi* Ramsay Macdonald said that the Committee was continuing its work, and was still considering the point on which the Liberal amendment was carried. ACTIVITIES OF EMPIRE CRUSADERS. LORD STONEHAVEN’S VIEWS. United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 3, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 2. Referring to the Empire crusaders as “a particular form of microbes,” Lord Stonehaven told the Oxford University Conservative Association that Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere would be ridiculed in Australia. “However ridiculous their policy, it is dangerous not to recognise this dissension, ninety-nine per cent, of which is composed of personal spite and enmity. In the North of England and Scotland, there is none of this animosity to Mr Baldwin, which Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are fostering.”