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Newfoundlands. Meanwhile coaxing efforts were made by London's New Statesman & Nation to have notice taken of a previous British leak which has never been probed. Coaxed the New Statesman & Nation: "Questions might well be asked in Commons regarding allegations in the American paper TIME, which often contains information overlooked in this country. A leakage occurred in the British Government's guarantee of Newfoundland bonds three years ago. The allegation was neatly cut with scissors from copies of TIME available on the bookstalls of this country, but had it been made and names mentioned it should have been...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin last week mulled the problem of filling the hole in his "National" Government made by Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry ("Jim") Thomas' resignation after last April's scandalous Budget leak (TIME, June 1 et ante). Jim Thomas, after a week's brooding, returned the seals of the Colonial Office to King Edward VIII. A few hours later his son Leslie Thomas, whose clients had made a killing by insuring themselves against tax rises in the Budget, resigned from the Stock Exchange firm of Belisha & Co. This week, however, a court...
Evidence, all of it circumstantial, continued to point last week to His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies James Henry Thomas as the source of the Budget leak which enabled sure-thing gamblers to bilk British insurance firms of over half a million dollars (TIME, May 25). On the evening that lean, bespectacled Mr. Justice Porter & associates wound up their investigation of this breach of Cabinet confidence, Cockney Jim Thomas, onetime locomotive wiper who became the friend of kings, sat down and wrote as follows...
Serious Laborites have called Jim Thomas a traitor to his party for joining the National Government. Jealous socialites call him a vulgar little bounder. Last week both groups were after his hide when Colonial Secretary James Henry Thomas appeared before Mr. Justice Porter to testify on the Budget leak...
Despite the testimony of Doorman Robinson, at least one witness was able to get the name of Jim Thomas on record as the source of the Budget leak. The evidence came from a dapper stockbroker named Reginald Marriott. Broker Marriott has in his office a customer's man named Edward Alfred Waterton, who has as a customer one Harold Eves, solicitor and secretary to Alfred Bates...