A HARSH RETORT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 100, 2 May 1929, Page 23

A HARSH RETORT

MTSEES AND LADY ■ ASTOR

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, Uth March. Lady Astor very often lays herself open to sharp rejoinders when she ventures to lecture her opponents in the House of Commons. In the debate od a Government grant of £600,000 as part of a pound lor pound contribution to the Lord Mayor s Fund for the miners she told the bqcialists not to talk only about the misery of the unemployed, and said that it was caused by the bad leadership of the miners. "Drop your preaching," she preached. This, with much more advice, was too much for Mr. Ritson, a blunt miners' agent from Durham. "We have just heard." he began, "a speech from a beautiful Lady Godiva." ! Lady Astor blushed furiously. There was loud laughter. Every one i thought that the miner had instanced the wrong patroness, but not at all. | "She lias been riding alone, nude of political ideas,'' added Mr. Ritpon, when the laughter subsided. Then, with a pointed look at Lady Astor, he said: "We have been advised to emigrate. But we have sometimes suffered from migration into this country."' |