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...wizened, gnomish little Yorkshireman who goes tapping about the House of Commons on two canes popped up again last week, made Mother England jump at his shrill words like a drowsy old lady at the squeak of a mouse...
Philip Snowden is a country mouse. In the Chancellor of the Exchequer's honest squeak there is power, much reverence for God and small regard of men. Indeed what he said last week chiefly embarrassed the Labor Government of which he himself is the most brilliant member. Some 21 radical Labor M. P.'s threatened to leave the party...
Nevertheless British politicians-seldom sensitive to even the most appalling facts of business-were more interested in two pip-squeak developments...
Specific cause of last week's narrow squeak: Religion. The amendment carried provides in effect that the bill shall not come into operation until the Treasury grants certain subsidies to Roman Catholic schools...
...startling figure. Heretofore 15 has been the maximum number of Labor rebel votes cast against Mr. MacDonald. Mouse Mosley's squeak nearly doubled, last week, the intraparty opposition to Scot MacDonald. If the Prime Minister and Mr. Lloyd George had continued their quarrel, the 29 votes would have been enough to more than wreck the Cabinet, but rumors flew that the Liberal leader?changeable as a weathercock? had veered around again to Mr. MacDonald's aid, possibly seduced by some secret political trade unrevealed last week...