Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glasse wrote on official Foreign Office stationery a letter to the Motor License Department of the London County Council-a British Labor stronghold headed by famed Herbert Morrison, who may well be the next Labor Prime Minister. He asked that Don Jose Fernandez Villaverde, secretary to the Duke of Alba, who is the representative in London of Rightist Spain, be granted a renewal of his driving license "without requiring him to undergo a driving test or pay the fee of five shillings normally chargeable...
This effort to save five shillings ($1.25) blew up around His Majesty's Government last week a whirlwind of Labor charges that they have secretly recognized the Spanish Rightist Government. Alba, one of the very bluest-blooded grandees of Spain and one of the wealthiest under King Alfonso XIII, announced in regard to the affair: "It was a plot of the Reds, that...
...House of Commons this week the Labor Party made the Glasse indiscretion the spearhead of their drive for a motion of censure against the Prime Minister, demanding a British General Election...
...Liberty in Europe is being murdered, and the Prime Minister is the undertaker -waiting to bury the corpse!" cried Orator Arthur Greenwood, presenting Labor's motion. "Mussolini has been tricked over Austria, yet in Mussolini's hour of weakness the British Government has gone to his rescue! . . . The British Government is permitting the Spanish Loyalists to be butchered to make a Roman holiday...
...Prime Minister replied that if His Majesty's Government followed the course desired by Labor "you would have sinking of ships, you would have perhaps naval battles, and a European war would have begun!" Neville Chamberlain insisted that his policy has "met with approval, not only in this country but abroad, with the possible exception of Russia." He refused to call a General Election for "no Government with an ample majority ever went to the country at the demand of such feeble opposition." The House finally supported Chamberlain...