Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere The uncertainty within the Unionist
Party is as great as that between the Parties.. On Tuesday and Thursday, the Daily Mail published letters from Lord Beaverbrook asking for subscriptions to the United Empire Party— the Party whose death was announced when Lord Beaver- brook accepted a Referendum as the basis of a new co-operation with the Unionist Party. Lord. Beaver- brook, without formally declaring war on Mr. Baldwin and the Unionist Central Office, is conducting what the late Lord Halsbury called " a sort of a war." He explains that the United Empire Party will interfere only with those Conservatives who fail to satisfy his ideas of " Free Trade within the Empire." The Daily Mail itself denounces the Referendum and backs up Lord Beaver- brook's invitation to Conservatives to send their money to the " Empire Crusade Fund." It is obvious that the Referendum Truce has failed.
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