13 JULY 1929, Page 2

On Tuesday' by far the most interesting speech came from

Mr. Amery, who made a point of flatly disagreeing with Mr. Churchill's recent statement that there was an unbridgeable gulf between Unionists and Socialists. He took the line that those who held that there were such things as absolute doctrines which solVed all koblems Were lost in mid-Victorianism. It was all " a matter of degree." And for his part he thought that the methods of " Socialists " in their present mood were more akin to those of Unionists than to those of Liberals—thus again coming into direct conflict with Mr. Churchill, who had hinted at Unionist-Liberal co-operation. What Mr. Amery wants is a self-supporting Empire with Free Trade internally, but protecting itself against the outer world.