Word: shoreditch
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...help of the Laborites, forced a debate. The Premier took the opportunity of lecturing his renegades on increasing the difficulties of the Government. He was promised that, if Labor members could not vote for the motion, they would not vote against it. In the evening, E. Thurtle, Laborite for Shoreditch, asked: "Will the honorable member inform the House whether or not this decision is to be taken as a great moral gesture to the world?" In a general answer the Premier stated that disarmament could only come about by international agreement, not by ending the British Navy by allowing...