AN ALL-ROUND BETRAYAL.
"What moro power could a dictator desiro than this?" asked Mr. D. G. Sullivan (Labour, Avon) da the House of Eepresentatives yesterday afternoon when attacking the' proposal to apply the closure.
"I am not sure that the proposal does not override the Constitution," he continued. "It will 'prevent free discussion in this House and will cnitble the Prime Ministor, for practical purposes, to destroy this Chamber, as a deliberative assembly." He appealed to membors'on all sides of the House to deal with the motion in a non-party spirit. "I do sincorely think," he said, "that if wo carry this motion we will betray ourselves, we will betray our Parliament, we will betray our country, we will betray our constituents and the people of the country generally. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 31 March 1931, Page 8
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129AN ALL-ROUND BETRAYAL. Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 31 March 1931, Page 8
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