Word: asquith
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...Asquith's failure to secure re-election is just a minor incident of the campaign, one which is likely to occur at any election. Mr. Stanley Baldwin will probably be the next Prime Minister...
...Premier Asquith called one of Premier MacDonald's speeches a "rodo- montade...
...reject all such illusory remedies, from whatever quarter they may be advocated. What it looks for and, from a Liberal Government, will secure, are sound administration, practicable reforms and freedom from constant appeals for its opinion upon fantastic proposals of the extremists on either side." (Message from H. H. Asquith to Scotland...
Broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Co. put their equipment at the disposal of Premier MacDonald and ex-Premiers Baldwin and Asquith. Both Mr. McDonald and Mr. Asquith spoke into the instruments from an election platform; and the heckling and cheering was such that it made their speeches inaudible to millions of the radio-audiant. Mr. Baldwin was more successful. He hied him to the office of the Radio Co., sat him in a comfortable chair and talked quietly to millions. The keynote of his speech was an inversion of the late President Wilson's famous dictum about making the world...
...decided to move a vote of censure condemning the Government for abandoning prosecution for sedition against J. R. Campbell, acting Editor of the Communist daily, The Workers' Weekly- Liberals. The Opposition brought a number of questions concerning Rus-sian affairs to the attention of the Government. Ex-Premier Asquith's motion for the rejection of the Anglo-Russian Treaty was also laid upon the table. The motion read : That this House will be ready to support any practical and businesslike steps for promoting Anglo-Russian trade and for protecting British interests in Russia and to approve...