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Such language as has rarely sullied British Parliamentary debate was heard in an angry, tired and sleepy House of Commons last week when crippled but indomitable Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden forced Parliament to sit continuously for 21 hr. 48 min.?at an estimated cost of £250 ($1,215) for unwonted lighting and overtime pay to attendants. From start to finish the grueling debate was a snarling match between Mr. Snowden and his bellicose predecessor as Chancellor, famed Winston ("Winnie") Churchill...
...since the Labor Cabinet took office) Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald faced a turbulent House of Commons last week, barely squeaked by again, with a majority of but 29. Liberal Leader Lloyd George, who, by abstaining with 50 Liberals, spared the Government defeat, complained ominously: "Mr. Snowden treats me nowadays as if I were Mr. Churchill!"* (bitterest Snowden foe). An impression grew that Scot MacDonald may be riding for a fall, partly due to Chancellor Snowden's tsaristic way with the Cabinet's friends, partly because Minister-in-Charge-of-Unemployment James Henry Thomas is "up against...
...Lloyd George might just as well have said, ". . . as if I were Mrs. Elizabeth Tarratt." Mrs. Tarratt is Chancellor Snowden's 85-year-old next door neighbor in Surrey. When aged Mrs. Tarratt built a fence on property adjoining Mr. Snowden's Eden Lodge, the wizened Chancellor promptly had it chopped down, declared it was on public land. Mrs. Tarratt went to the rural council, received a writ declaring that the land was not public but her very own. Last week she ordered a new, indestructible wire fence erected, dared Mr. Snowden to lay a finger...
Shrewd, the Mosley outburst struck responsive chords in the Labor Party rank and file. At least 50 thoroughly Socialist M. P.'s began to talk as though they would support Sir Oswald. He prepared a motion (practically a vote of censure against Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden) for submission to a "private Party meeting" of all Labor M. P.'s. There was talk? and not loose talk either?that the Government's slim majority in the House of Commons had been whittled down to the snapping point...
House Master Henderson. At the meeting of 239 Labor M. P.'s to debate Sir Oswald's motion against leaders MacDonald and Snowden, they were defended by jovial "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, Foreign Minister and a tolerably good Socialist...