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...your class goes to war," roared Scot McGovern at the Government Bench, "I hope the workers will use their rifles on the ruling classes! . . . We pay King George ?10,750 per week*. . . We pay ?25,000 yearly to the Duke and Duchess of Kent- or a shilling per minute!- and when a child comes they will get ?10,000 more. . . . I tell you that instead of spending still more money on the King's Silver Jubilee, black flags should be hung out as mourning for the common people who are being destroyed...
...grows less and less popular, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald is abused and heckled by audiences more and more, but last week at Luton the ruled classes received Orator MacDonald with jeers, catcalls, laughter- far more dangerous than heckling or abuse. Sensing that he had become ridiculous, Scot MacDonald lost his temper and with it his usual audience control. For the first time he failed to win silence and a hearing, left Luton amid cruel mirth...
Recognizing the Glasgow Scot's sincerity, Government M. P.'s made no effort at the time to have him called to order. Instead they tried to convince him that the National Government's new dole legislation will not reduce payments to the needy...
...What-with a Prime Minister like that?" cried Scot Buchanan bounding from his bench. "What-with a Prime Minister who would double-cross his own aunt...
...each, by far the mildest in the Kirov case. Russians shrugged. The Gay-pay-oo, they observed, is an invincible state within the State. Even after confessing what amounted to collusion in the killing of Stalin's friend Kirov, Comrade Medved of the Gay-pay-oo will go scot free in exactly three years...