TALK OF TANK ORDERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 52, 2 March 1934, Page 7

TALK OF TANK ORDERS

DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS

HOME OFFICE ALERT

OniteO Tress Association—By Electric Tel»erapb—Copyright. LONDON, March 1. In.the House of Lords, Lord Kiunoull drew attention to the growth of Fascism. He understood, that the British Fascists had ordered 25 armoured motor-lorries, each carrying 20 persons ' and lined with armour threeeighths of an inch thick. They were being financed by industrialists, bankers, some members of the House of Lords, and a certain foreign Power. Lord Esher declared that the hungermarchers and "red-flaggers" were on tho same piano as Fascists, while Sir Stafford Cripps, despite cautions by the Trades Union Council, was continuing to teach that Labour must, bo revolutionary. "It never seems to occur to them that ideas of class warfare and die-' tatorship can be copied by the morei powerful classes," he said. "If therej is an appeal to force in Britain by Socialists, the people will defend themselves as they did in the great strike." v Lord Snell said that he had belonged to Labour since the birth of the movement, and had never heard force advocated. If Labourites indulged in onetenth of the things the Fascists, with j their armoured ears, had clono, theyj would have been put down by tho Government. . ■ \ ■ Lord Fcversham, in replying, said that there was no such.: thing ~ as a single united Fascist movement, but five separate organisations. The "Daily Mail" had recently given Sir Oswald Mosley's movement'considerable publicity. They were certainly receiving strong financial backing. The Home Office was giving attention to the matter, which need cause no undue apprehension. Tho debate ended.