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...Trade is to be free within the Empire, but around the Empire is to rise a tariff wall. Deliberately contradictory, this '"straight-for ward" scheme has been denounced in Parliament by all three parties (TIME, Feb. 10), a fact of which the manifesto proceeded to take scathing note: "Snowden has poured out his scorn: Lloyd George has been moved to put on his full warpaint and to cut his most com ical capers, and Baldwin looks the other way while some of his lieutenants threaten all who dare to believe in the economic union of the empire...
...silk? How about foreign automobiles? Grinning Laborites refused to answer. Last week, onetime (1924-29) Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston ("Winnie") Churchill joined the battle. Rising moon-faced from his bench, he glared over his wide wing collar at his successor, wizened Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
Without moving or answering, wizened Philip Snowden gazed fixedly at flustered Mr. Churchill with the expression of one smelling something unpleasant...
...World War was twice mentioned in despatches), the Earl of Clarendon is "in trade." As Chairman of the government-owned British Broadcasting Co.* he has a salary of $14,580 a year, four times that of sharp-tongued Mrs. Philip Snowden, one of the B. B. C.'s three governors. Among his Lordship's not inconsiderable possessions are 500 acres of good Hertfordshire and Warwickshire land, an extensive collection of Old Masters (Van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely) and the romantic ruins of Kenilworth Castle, which any U. S. tourist is at liberty to visit on payment...
Speaking for the Government, pallid Philip Snowden said with a decisive double-thump of his rubber-tipped canes...