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...Irish paper, got himself reprimanded by both the British and the Irish patriots in the same week. He took it as a compliment to his fairness. Last week, still an impartial reporter, white-haired Tom O'Donoghue, now 61, became boss of Britain's most impartial daily, Hansard's official record of Parliamentary Debates...
...centuries it published no journal; coffee-house gossip spread the news of its debates. When a newsletter writer "presumed ... to take notice of the proceedings of the House" in 1694, he was summoned to the bar, forced to kneel and admit his offense. Not until 1803, in Luke Hansard's day, were reporters given seats of their own in the gallery, instead of having to rub elbows with other "strangers...
...facts replace each other. The hardest fact was that the British Empire had indeed changed since the bright and brassy days when young Ernie started to read his Hansard. Old Ernie took over Britain's foreign affairs at a time when the country was facing a slow and perhaps agonizing battle for survival. The second Battle of Britain would not be as dramatic as the first. The skies over the Empire would not be as black as in Churchill's finest, darkest hour; but they would be a lasting grey. The uniquely delicate bonds and balances...
...What Mr. Parker really said is given in Hansard-as follows...
Reconvened after the holiday recess to hear Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald denounced by a Scottish Independent Laborite in language so strong that it was censored out of Hansard, the official minutes of debate. With a score of poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing...