Word: cluse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only three times in 20 years has mild-mannered Sampson Cluse, Labor M.P. for South Islington, emerged from Parliament's back-bench obscurity and made a speech. His first was the maiden speech which tradition demands of all M.P.s. His second was when he protested against the means test for those on the dole. Last week Cluse spoke again...
...M.P.s sat silent and ill at ease because there was nothing more to be said, Sampson Cluse rose and cleared his throat. Then, in a quiet voice, he asked the Speaker whether all members should not rise and pay silent testimony to their horror and their determination to defeat Hitler. The Speaker ruled that the suggestion was unprecedented but that the members could rise voluntarily...
...They all got up," said Sampson Cluse later. "In a moment or two everyone was standing. It was a great thing. They all came and shook me by the hand afterward...
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