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...House did not dignify Communist Gallacher by shouting him down, as it dignified Edward VIII's champion Winston Churchill during the Crisis (TIME, Dec. 14), but there were cries of "No! No!" last week and that fiery Irish peer, Earl Winterton, livid with fury, growled at Communist Gallacher: "Such suggestions as yours can only be the product of a disordered brain...
...heckling the Conservative Government with demands for stiffer Sanctions. Last week Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite Leader in Commons, popped off to Paris in an effort to persuade Socialist Leon Blum to come out strongly for a continuation of Sanctions (see below). He was promptly followed by Conservative Earl Winterton who rushed to Premier Sarraut, urged him to keep on demanding the end of Sanctions...
...Earl Winterton: "Partly as a result of the denuding of the Far Eastern seas of our ships to mobilize them in the Mediterranean at great cost, Japan is making her great forward move in North China...
...Fascists he in his time had or Sir Oswald Mosley at present has is impossible to say. Only accurate gauge is that both succeeded in filling Albert Hall, which seats some 10,000 people, at party mass meetings. Cooler than Commander Locker-Lampson last week. Edward Tumour, Earl of Winterton, hoisted himself to his feet to oppose the motion. First he explained that, as foreign governments have discovered to their dismay, it is practically impossible to define a political uniform. Continued the worthy Earl of Winterton...
...English historians can recollect that cheeky remarks have been made in the House of Commons immemorially by the Irish Wintertons, the First Lord Winterton having been ennobled by Charles II after being forced to resign from the House of Commons for his "confounded, quarrel some impudence...