LLOYD GEORGE HITS OUT AT BALDWIN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19109, 30 June 1930, Page 1

LLOYD GEORGE HITS OUT AT BALDWIN.

“HAS ALWAYS PREFERRED THE SOCIETY OF PIGS.” (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received June 30. 9 a.m.) LONDON, June 29. ftlr Lloyd George, addressing the Liberal Party at a garden party at Kensington, severely attacked Mr Stanley Baldwin, whose recent speech and references to the Liberals Mr Lloyd George described as mean and disgraceful. “Mr Baldwin’s language was not merely offensive, but was coarse and vulgar,” he said. “Mr Baldwin has always expressed a preference for the society of pigs. The trouble with him is that he is afflicted with an extraordinary, morbid self-complacency, inducing the belief that his critics are malignant and malodorous creatures unable to appreciate his sterling worth. The only two things that Mr Baldwin ever personally accomplished were the settlement of the American debt which saddled Britain with a bill for £40,000,000 a year for fifty 3 r ears, without an effort to make our own debtors pay, and the payment of a subsidy of £23,000,000 to the coal owners to put off a strike which was not put off, and developed. into the worst in history. Mr Baldwin is fickle, inert and resourceless, except when his own position is challenged.” Lord Rothermere replies to Mr Baldwin’s statement: “ All Mr Baldwin’s friends know that at the merest glimmer of revolution he makes off at top speed to seek refuge at Aix-les-Bains,” he says. “ The whole principle of his last Government was surrender. lie surrendered in India, Egypt and at home. . His surrender to the Miners’ Union in 1925, which was the forerunner of the General Strike, was described by a distinguished American newspaper as the great act of cowardice in political history.”