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About this time a smell of frying bacon from the Parliamentary kitchen permeated the House, and so many members rushed out to breakfast that only desperate efforts by the whips maintained a quorum (40). With all but inhuman perseverance Mr. Snowden sat on, ignoring breakfast time, snarling through the long, hot morning, still relentless as noon approached and passed. Suddenly Mr. Churchill challenged on a minor issue, demanded a division (vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced...
Assembling at 2:45 p. m. the House began to debate Clause 17 of Mr. Snowden's budget (TIME, April 21). At 12:30 a. m. that night Mr. Churchill, weary from his hours of onslaught, snarled: "How much longer does the Chancellor of the Exchequer intend to keep this House in session...
With a sly grin, Mr. Snowden accepted the challenge: "We have been in session now nine hours and have finished one clause," said he. "The sitting will continue until we have dealt with nine more clauses, until we reach Clause...
...white and stern as Conservatives booed, Laborites cheered and Lady Cynthia Mosley, M. P. went out for a large cushion, brought it back into the House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members of all parties sprawled and snored on their benches, awakened once by a sudden clap of thunder, roused occasionally by party whips to speak a needed word. The whips at last became so frantic as to stir up members slumbering...
...When Mr. Snowden only pursed his bloodless lips the tighter, Mr. Churchill complained to the Speaker that "the Chancellor is treating this House with insolence and offensiveness ? I may say with supremely insolent indifference and contempt...