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Lord Moynihan, chairman of the Liberal Party Executive, said at Leeds on Saturday that no Liberal would tolerate any attempt to unite completely with any other party. To those Liberal peers who had recently left the party he would say they were not going to get their desire of ousting the Socialist Party from power by the action they were taking. To walk into the Conservative Party would simply cause large numbers of Liberal voters to vote Labour in constituencies where there was no Liberal candidate. Lord Moynihan was speaking at the annual meeting of the National Union of Liberal Clubs. "I am convinced now that no speeches, however great and however appealing from the leaders of our party, will revive the Liberal Party – it must come from within – and what better start could be made than by the help of Liberal clubs all over the country. We want no waverers in the party. It can only be the true, solid Liberal who can support us from now on."

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