Word: bonar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Stanley Baldwin, Conservative candidate for Bewdley, made important speeches at Glasgow and Bradford. He said that he was taking the course advocated and approved by the late Mr. Bonar Law in calling a general election. Throughout, Mr. Baldwin based his protectionist policy on empiricisms calculated to prove that his policy was the only one which was capable of ameliorating the hectic economic troubles of the day. "We know how many industries depend on partly manufactured goods and raw materials ; we shall take no step without consultation with those industries. If any monopolies result they will be monopolies at home...
Conservative Party. Premier Baldwin in outlining his Party program in an election address to his Bewly constituents made the most definite statement of his protectionist policy that he has so far uttered. He said he had come to the people to ask for relief from the late Premier Bonar Law's pledge*, because "no Government with any sense of responsibility could continue to sit with its head in its hands watching the unequal struggle of our industry or content itself with palliatives." He then explained the effect of his protectionist policy, which is a discriminatory tariff upon imports...
...necessity for early general elections definitely entered the realm of practical politics in Britain. The principal reason is that Mr. Bonar Law promised the electorate when he was elected Premier last year, that his Administration, now under the leadership of Premier Stanley Baldwin, would make no changes in the fiscal system without referring the question to it. The preferential tariffs agreed upon, by the Imperial Conference render necessary a fiscal change if they are to be passed by Parliament. Therefore elections must be held. Another reason is that much dissatisfaction has been evinced in some political quarters over the inert...
Conservatives. The Conservative Party is virtually split. One section supports free trade; the other a vague protectionist policy. The latter is headed by Premier Baldwin and is committed by the Bonar Law pledge to a general election. The former contains such men as Lords Derby, Robert Cecil, Salisbury, who are anxious to maintain the Administration until after the passage of the House of Lords Re-form Bill, which has been the morceau choisi of the Conservative Party for years. This Bill is designed by the Conservatives to increase the power of the Lords...
...leadership of ex-Premier Lloyd George and ex-Premier H. H. Asquith, the former leading the National Liberal Party, the latter the old Liberal Party. It is believed that Mr. Churchill, who was reported about to contest his old seat in Glasgow, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Bonar Law, will be used by Mr. Lloyd George to unite the Liberal Party. It was also stated that Mr. George will, if necessary, consent to serve under his old chief, Mr. Asquith. Surface indications, however, disprove this contention. Mr. George, immediately after landing in England from his U. S. visit...