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"By a levy on the purchase price at which the mining royalties are taken over by the State, fund will be provided for rebuilding and bettering the mining villages."
Conservative. The lone star upon the Conservative Party's horizon is ex-Cabinet Minister Winston Spencer Churchill, who is now a full-fledged Conservative. It was said that never before has the Party been so short of able leaders. Ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin is, however, the de jure leader of the Party, although the signs and portent were that "Winnie" was fast becoming the de facto leader.
Mr. Churchill's policy, now also that of the Conservative Party, was summed up by him in a recent and characteristic speech:
"The foundation of our Constitution was the good sense of the majority of the nation. The three-party system implied that we should never have majority rule. The idea that three parties should be firing at each other in a triangular duel, and that Government could thus effectively be carried on, was founded on a hopeless fallacy. . . . We must escape from that system and reestablish in its place some broad, solid and substantial foundation by which the King's Government can be carried on, not for a session, but for a full Parliament. . . ."
Previously he had said that those who were not with Socialism were against it. His was an invitation to the Liberal Party to coalesce with Conservatism against Socialism, which he thought would ruin the country and destroy the greatness of the Commonwealth.
The main planks of the Conservative Party as contained in its election manifesto:
Anglo-Russian Treaty: Round condemnation: "Under that treaty, the rightful claims of British subjects are whittled down to an undefined extent, and Parliament is to be asked to commit itself in the eyes of Russia and of the world to the principle of guaranteeing that the British taxpayer shall repay the Bolshevist loan if the Bolsheviki, in accordance with their practice, should fail to repay that loan."
Foreign Policy: "Coöperation in all matters admitting of common action with the United States for the support and strengthening of the League of Nations on practical lines."
Defense: Careful scrutiny "in conjunction with the Dominions, the far-reaching commitments and implications of the scheme recently put forward at Geneva."
Imperial Preference: "We shall steadily keep [it] to the front."
High Prices: A royal commission to inquire into the high price of foodstuffs.
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