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...with all the seriousness I can command," cried Philip Snowden, "that the national position is so grave that drastic and disagreeable measures will have to be taken. . . . The greatest sacrifices will have to be borne by those best able to bear them...
...Dole? Such pot shots at the enemy pass more or less unnoticed in Parliament, but Mr. Snowden made his own party sit up and gasp when he appeared to foreshadow a cut in the unemployment dole...
...Posterity Will Curse!" When the till is short the cashier is supposed to feel guilty. With an almost religious fervor Mr. Snowden cast the onus of this guilt upon his predecessors at the Exchequer. He directly faced and was seen to point an avenging finger at Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer negotiated the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement) as he said...
Turning upon Conservative Winston Churchill, his immediate predecessor as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Snowden declared that to untangle the "mess" made by Mr. Churchill of the nation's finances he, Snowden, has had to impose an extra $200,000,000 of taxation...
...Snowden's Dole Policy. Since most Labor M. P.'s have promised their constituents more Treasury aid, not less, Mr. Snowden's speech thunderstruck his party with the conviction that it will badly handicap Labor candidates at the next elections. It was Laborite William John Brown who most completely lost his head. "This Socialist Government." he roared, "has neither the guts to govern nor the grace...