“BRITAIN’S PETAIN”
George Brown On Macmillan • <N.Z.PA.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, May 29. The deputy leader of the Labour Party Mr George Brown, last night said the Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan) had become “our unhappy equivalent of the wretched Marshal Petain.” [Marshal Philippe Petain, the French Head of State after the German invasion in .1940, was gaoled after World War II for treason and died in imprisonment.]
Mr Brown was reported by Exchange Telegraph as having said in a speech: “Mr Macmillan has become our unhappy equivalent of the wretched Marshal Petain. No wonder he hesitates to face his countrymen for his trial, no wonder he is uncertain about when he should call the General Election.” He added that Mr Macmillan was “no longer fit to fill the office of Prime Minister of Britain.”
Last night political observers said Conservative members of Parliament were showing considerable resentment at Mr Brown’s attack and seemed likely to press for a retraction of some of his remarks.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30144, 30 May 1963, Page 13
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