Show BALDWIN AWN MAY MAYNew TARE TAKE HAt HAND D I N RUt RUT R MUDDLE New Government Said To ToI ToBe TiBe I IBe Be Opposed To Bleed Bleed- Bleeding Bleeding Bleeding ing Policy BY fly A 1 G G LR Lit Great Liberal ht Copyright 1923 1923 LONDON l June Junr The 2 2 The The Dald- Dald Baldiv In government I Is firmly h In the saddle addle It fl Is generally agreed that It Is stronger than was that of oC Donar Bonar Law Lam The latter a a sick lck man manfor manfor for Cor ti n long lone time had only slight In- In Influence influence fluence on his own ministers III 1113 c now no noI no I li h tho the eau cave o a o of oC o grave gravo anxiety an lety to his friends Dald Baldwins Baldwin's Ins In's capture of McKenna s was a a n great stroke ot of o business Iness The Tho naturally resent re ent his desertion because e e he ho was as one ono of oC their most mo t prominent leaders I understand Mr McKenna McKenn repudiates repudiates repudiates ates the Idea that he has become n a Tory lie regards himself as ni a financial t ho has bas been bren sum summoned to Een servo 0 his country count In a particular capacity In a serious financial emergency My 0 own n Im- Im Impression Is 18 that his hia hi breach the Liberal party Is permanent LIBERAL Tr TF Undoubtedly the accession of oC McKenna and ana Cecil greatly greally a I I strengthens the standing of oC the th Bonar Donar La Law It should also shift the center of oC the new government to the left leU for tor no matter what bat labels they wear ear both these men havo have strong liberal ten ten- tendencies ten tendencies and po powerfully reinforce those who want a peaceful settle settlement ment of oC the tho affairs ot of Meanwhile the position of oC d dI dGeorge I George becomes more mor and more that of a homeless Wanderer Driven out ot of office by his con con- conI con conservative I associates his dream or of orI ora ofa ofa a center party vanished Into thin I air lie He H has no career e except a return to the liberals liberal but his hi re- re return rc 1 I turn Is barred by warm w feeling In that party Tho The annual meeting of oC the liberal caucus held In Buxton this week declared by an over over- overwhelming over over-it whelming helming against resetting him back bick as a leader They will admit him to the ranks only as aI aI a I penitent Tho view is ts generally expressed cp sed that ho he betra betrayed ed the Liberals to the th conservative es and that only when the tho latter rejected him did he find his heart t yearning for tor 1 II with the Lib Lib- Liberals Liberals Lib Liberals 1 TOW nn RD RU Sl s sin r The chief subject of ot speculation Jt in regard to the new government turns on its attitude toward France and the Ruhr The rumor that l a settlement between Prance France and Germany was as being arranged bythe by bytho bythe the tho industrialists ot of both countries Is dl discredited Reparations is not note e a French matter Ens- Ens land Ens-land land Is also interested and com com- commercial commercial commercial mercial opinion hero Is gro growing Ing Impatient at the sacrifice ot of o Brit British ish Interests to the tho Poincare policy which Is destroying Germany s capacity ca- ca capacity ca capacity to pay The Tho press demands to know what ro Is doing with the tb money he la Is receiving which howe however er small email belongs to the reparations account Is Is s he h ap- ap appi ap pi Ing It to this account or is he heuIng heusing husing using It to finance this adventure which Britain repudiates T These questions arc are being dis- dis discussed d cussed while hilI the country awaits alts new German proposals It Is sig- sig significant alg that the Times now a official semi official government organ strongly backs submission of ot the tho problem or of o what Germany German can pay to an expert commission MAY HAY AY POI This Is taken to Indicate te that Baldwin is determined to take tk a amore at amore amor more emphatic position than t Donar Bonar Law in his opposition to the j Poincare policy polley of ot bleeding Germany Ger- Ger Germany many white His Inclusion of oC Mc- Mc McKenna McKenna Mc Kenna and Cecil emphasizes this belief Then again It Is agreed that Poincare Is driving Germany either elthor into the hands of oC the Bol- Bol Bol Bolshevists she on ono one side ilde of ot the th mill mill- militarists larl t on the other 1 en the tho Liberals do not relish the tho prospect pro of n a revolutionary Germany being drIven Into tho the hands ot of re revolutionary revolutionary Russian which seems In- In Ine In Inevitable e evitable beca because uso ot of the I rench re- re refusal refusal re refusal to allow any future futuro to Ger Ger- Germany Germany many on the tho present present presents economic a basis public In these thc c circumstances the pub pub- pub lic awaits with profound interest an Indication of ot Bald Baldin in s pOlicies He Is largely untried but a man of oC will allt and sound jud who will not hesitate to take tak a resolute lino when hen he ho Is convinced that the tho present impo Impo- impotence tence tonce of ot this country Is 13 no long longer r tolerable Wo We may possibly be on the tho verge verga of ot dramatic develop develop- developments moats ments on the tb European stage |