BRITISH ELECTIONS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 56, 8 April 1929, Page 8

BRITISH ELECTIONS

Australian Press Association

SHOULD LABOUR WIN. Lord Birkenhead's Yiew.

LONDON, April 6. Lord Birkenhead, writing in the Sunday Chronicle, asks: "What will happen if Labour is returned? If we read Mr MacDonalcl ariglit, he wouJd rather sacrifice his own career than see the interests of England and the Empire, as he understood them, betrayed, but he must be surrounded, despite recent pledges, by many raen, some of whom must be members of liis Cabinet, over wliom his control is partial and incomplete. "It has even been rumoured .that Mr Thomas could he persuaded, if the necessity arose, tliat the sceptre might iLsefully be placed in his own very willing hands. He would be a most iriteresting Prime Minister. I can thinlc of many worse. Of the oth'ers of the partv, Mr Henderson and Mr pynes are the Aunt Kliens of the oldfashioned comedy, who tuni up wlienever tbev are wantend and make oldfashioned rcmarks. They can ahvays be relieved of the exercise of the duties of Victorian chaperonage. After all, in the Labour Party there is too much chaperonage." The Dailv Herald claims to reveal that. Mr Baldwin, in ordcr to placate the fariners, has decided to reduce the beer duty, introduce a pure heer hill, and tax imported grain uscd for breweries.