ATTACK ON KING

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1932, Page 7

ATTACK ON KING

OUTBURST BY WELLS

"HIS PROPER NEUTRALITY"

LABOUR CRITICISED

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Mr. H. G. Wells, in tho course of a scathing attack on the Labour. Party, delivered at the Liberal Summer School, said: "The King was so ill-advised as to depart from his proper political and social neutrality and lead a movement for cheese-paring and grinding the faces of the needy in the interests of the debt collector, and not a soul in the Labour Party said what ought to have been said about the King or that miserable campaign of unintelligent economy which cast a dismal shadow on the closing month of 1931." Sir Michael Sadler, the chairman of the meeting, likened the reference to the King to a very dark line in a largo picture of national life. He amplified the strong admiration and gratitude for tho noble things the Prince of Wales and the Royal Family were doing for tho welfare of tho country, the relief of suffering, and tho encouragement of the people. "FACTS ALX, WRONG." Commander Konworthy, commenting, on Mr. Wells, declares that the King acted within the Constitution. Tho real villains of tho piece were Mr. Earnsay MaeDonald and Viscount Snowden, who had prepared tho coup d'etat months previously. Far from no Labour Party voice being raised, the Labour Party was prepared to go into the wilderness, as it.did, rather thau be parties to rescuing the bankers at tho expense of the poor. Mr..AVells's facts were all wrong. Commander Kenworthy disagrees with his criticism. LABOUR'S REPRESENTATIVES. "The King took tho new Cabinet's advice that economy was ' absolutely necessary, but the Labour Party declined to accept the policy," said Mr. George Lansbury in an interview. "Nobody knowa better than Mr. Wells that it is nonsense to say that Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Thomas, and a few others represented Labour." . .