THE COMMONS' ADDRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 7

THE COMMONS' ADDRESS

LABOUR LEADER'S TRIBUTE

"THE ENVY OF THE WORLD"

LONDON, May 8. In the House of Commons, Mr. George Lansbury, Leader of the Labour Party, in seconding the address

of loyalty to the King, described the King's broadcast on Monday as unsurpassed in tne history of monarchs. That his Majesty should have remembered the unemployed on such an occasion stamped him as very human. Mr. Lansbury added that though he was a Socialist through and through, he had always believed in the destiny of the British people. He hoped that the young men and women of the Empire would lead the world in upholding individual and international freedom and liberty and away from war, and would trust in it.' Mr. Lloyd Gtcrge, in supporting the motion, said that there had been no more remarkable scenes in living memory than during the past few days' demonstrations of gratitude and deep affection for his Majesty. It was a celebration of the triumph of democratic government under the King's leadership. Despite the economic depression, the condition of the people had improved. The nation's wealth was the envy of the world. There were few other countries and no empires of which this could be said. No wonder people of every class and condition universally prayed that his Majesty's beneficent reign would long continue.