MR BALDWIN SEES DANGER
* HUNGER MARCHERS IN THE HOUSE REASONS FOR EXCLUSION EXPLAINED (Received November 12, 10 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. ■The Prime Minister (Mr Stanley Baldwin) in the House of Commons, explained why he would not allow hunger marchers to come to the bar of the House. He said if this request were granted, every organised body would be able in the future to demand to see the Government in the House, and elements seeking to make trouble would be alert to use the opening thus made. “Though I think our own responsibilities will be ended by then, I see an anxious time for Mr Attlee when, as Prime Minister or Minister in a Labour Government, he will have to face, not a few hundreds but the vast mobs which, by an implicit threat of force, may try to exercise the control of the government which they failed to get in the ballot box,” said Mr Baldwin. “That is the real danger when the door is opened. If the pitch is to be queered, let it be queered by the men who will succeed me. Let them take the responsibility which I cannot and do not take.” Mr Attlee’s motion to adjourn the House was defeated by 237 votes to 119. ____________
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21939, 13 November 1936, Page 9
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