NO RESIGNATION OF MINISTER
(N.Z Press Association—CopuHghti LONDON, August 1.
The House of Commons today rejected an Opposition motion calling for the resignation of a junior Government Minister on the grounds that action by him had k led to a Scottish newspaper editor’s dismissal. The voting was 293 to 233—a Government majority of 60. The Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan) said that interference with the liberty of the press by members of the Government was “very difficult or virtually impossible.”
He .did not think that the junior Minister, Mr Niall MacPherson, Joint Under-Secretary for Scotland, hdd done anything contrary to what he should have done, or that the accusations had been supported by any argument.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28346, 3 August 1957, Page 11
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114NO RESIGNATION OF MINISTER Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28346, 3 August 1957, Page 11
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