* * Those who wilfully forget that the original object
of the Bill was to reduce unemployment have arrived at strange conclusions. The Morning Post asks where Lord Rothermere really stands in politics and wonders whether there is any clue in an article which appeared in another of his papers, the Sunday Dispatch. This article said :
" Startling changes may be expected from next year's General Elections. . . . The Labour Party . . . has greatly increased its hold on public confidence. Speech after speech by Labour leaders shows that the Party is now under the firm control of its moderate elements. . . . In certain respects distinct benefit might accrue to the country from the arrival in power of a Labour Government, particularly if it secured the adhesion of Mr. Lloyd George, and other eminent Liberal statesmen, so as to become in effect a Labour- Liberal Government."
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