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...disordered is the brain of shaggy James Maxton, humorous near-communist (with a small "c") and most picturesque figure in the small Independent Labor Party. Smilingly he twitted His Majesty's Government for providing that Princess Elizabeth, 10, heir apparent to the Throne, shall come of age at 18. "If the duties to be performed are responsible duties, then the appropriate age is the age recognized in all other walks of life-the age of full manhood, of 21 or over," said Laborite Maxton...
...House of Commons lobbies, politicians think the public reaction is hostile to the King and scamper for the Baldwin bandwagon. "I was for the King when it was purely a question whether he should be permitted to marry whomsoever he should choose," says beetling-browed Labor Radical James Maxton, "but when it is a dispute between him and the Government, I cast my lot with the Government...
...husting, "How would you like a Cabinet of old busybodies to pick your girl?" In Whitehall, Mr. Winston Churchill and his followers are now openly called "The King's Men," in Britain a most ominous title dating back to bloody affrays between Crown and Commons. Wolfishly James Maxton says that the British ruling class are being dealt a perhaps mortal blow...
...Were a Dictator is a book by Citizen Maxton published last year...
Speaking quietly in the Commons last week for a group of Scottish proletarian M.P. s, Mr. Maxton said: "A very large proportion of the world manages to conduct its affairs reasonably well without maintaining an hereditary monarchy. My group does not propose to cast any votes which tend to perpetuate a monarchist institution...