Iesue Narrowed Down to Red Plag or Union Jack, Patriotism or Snternationsltism Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, lection address, claims that he took a bold step towards disarmament id peace at Geneva. Parliament! ould be asked after the election to agree to an arrangement to enlist the world in the prevention of war and the limitation of armaments.
London, Oct. 18.
The first election week of oratory shows that the Conservatives, whose hopes of victory are very high, are vigorously attacking the Labour Government on patriotic grounds, My. Winston Churchill yesterday giving the slogan: "The Red Flog versus the Union Jack! which is repeated, with variations, Conservative platforms and in anti-Labour demonstrations in all parts of the country. Pictures of Russian Bolshevists carrying bags of British money are the most con spicuous feature of the innumerable Conservative electioneering as, Lord Birkenhead, who is very ai tively supporting Mr. Churchill as a Constitutionalist, improved on Mr. Churchill's phrase' with "No money for murderers!" while the Liberal are also eloquent as to the grave consequences of the Russian Treaty, in which, Sir John Simon declare "the Labour Government has met its, Waterloo."
Mr, Lloyd George told his hearers that they were being asked to ive £30,000,000 to Russia, "where Knives. spring from the ground. to tear the flesh of humanity."
This joint Conservative-Liberal onslaught on Labour has been productive of @ rapprochement between the two traditionally opposed unprecedented in Bri In some eases Conserva: tive and hends publicly, and Lord Birkenhead, in the course of a denunci tion of the of Socialist
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