13 OCTOBER 1928, Page 2

Mr. MacDonald may be held to have estopped himself by

this strange declaration from complaining of scarcity so long as it be brought about in a good cause. But we cannot help thinking that most Unionists would not be so anxious to hurry on with safeguarding if they had a true conception of the depth of Mr. Lloyd George's desire to see Mr. Baldwin entangled in a policy which would justify the Liberals in shouting " Your living will cost you more." No doubt Mr. Lloyd George reads .the papers every day longing to find some statement by a Cabinet Minister that will provide him with his campaign motto. If he could find it he would feel that the Union- ists had delivered themselves into the hands of their enemies.

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