Mr, Lloyd George said that he thought the Government ought to have sketched a bolder scheme deal with unemployment.
He hoped that the conversations between Mr, Ramsay MacDonald and the American Ambassador would not merely yield an agreement on the limit of cruisers. They also wanted the abolition of submarines, The Leader of the Liberal Party deprecated the opening of sessions concerning disarmament with a single other Power, which might mean facing the remaining Powers with an accomplished fact. Moreover, he remarked, the fringe of the disarmament question would not be touched until a drastic reduction of land armaments had been secured on the continent of Europe.
He paid a tribute tothe policy of the Government in favouring the evacuation of the Rhineland, and in its attitude towards the safeguarding of industries, the clearance of slum areas, the revision of the Pension Act and examination of the question of the Electorate. Mr. Lloyd George emphasized that the Liberal Party would do its utmost to ensure that the 5,000,000 citizens it represented secured redress of the present unsatisfactory position of the electorate,
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