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Show PAPERS SAY LLOYD GEORGE WILL REQUIRE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE TO DETERMINE COURSE Report Says If Unionist Party And House of Commons Refuse Approval, Ap-proval, Chief Will Resign Re-sign Office L o n d o n. Prime Minister Lloyd George will resume hlg place in the house of commons April 3 and will Immediately ask for a vote on the government's gov-ernment's policy regarding the Genoa economic conference, Austen Chamberlain, Cham-berlain, the government leader, announced an-nounced In the house Tuesday afternoon. after-noon. London. Prime Minister Lloyd George Is determined to ask for a vote of confidence. There are two stories, however, as to how the demand will be made. The first version, presented by the London Times, Is that Mr. Lloyd George Is sending a message to Austen Chambelaln, through Sir Robert Horne, asking ratification of the unionist leader's recent assurances of support either by a unionist party meeting or In the house of commons. The pro-oiler, pro-oiler, it Is eald, will be satisfied with either alternative, but of both are rejected re-jected hi threat to resign will be expected ex-pected to be fulfilled. The Dally Mail, concurring in this version, says Lloyd George's threat of resignation was only a bluff, intended to drive the independent unionists out of the official ranks of the party, leaving leav-ing him to consolidate what was left of the coalition. This, it says, failed, and his latest move is interpreted as a further attempt to split the conservative conserva-tive party. The other story ignores the report of the premier's Insistence on the support sup-port of the unionists, and says that when he returns to London next week he will submit to the house of commons com-mons a motion in favor of the Genoa conference, and, in his speech supporting support-ing the motion, set forth the government's govern-ment's conference policy. The vote on the motion, according to this version, will not necessarily be deemed a vote, of confidence, but a strengthening of the premier's position as the British representative at Genoa. Those who represent Mr. Lloyd George as Intending to ask for a TOte either from the house of commons or the unionist party, say that such a vote certainly cannot be obtained from the party, and that unkmist leaders have been placed In an awkward position posi-tion by the premier's alleged demand. |