"RIDICULOUS MOUSE"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 12

"RIDICULOUS MOUSE"

MR. HISLOP'S REPLY

"After over a week of intense labour the Ministerial Mountain produces its ridiculous mouse," said Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, the leader of the Democrat Party, today. "I had really, thought and hoped that the Right Hon. Mr. Coates, with the aid of his special professional Socialist staff and numerous officials, would have been enabled to produce something better than this morning's criticism of the Democrat Party programme. "Apart from the deathbed repentances of his own party, his statement is accurate only in one particular, and that is a quotation from G. K. Chesterton. The G. K. Chesterton story is | amusing, and if Mr. Coates continues i his studies of this gentleman he will

find many more amusing fantasies, which he may find helpful during the course of the election.

"In the story told by Mr. Coates I can see a close resemblance between the occupants of the boat, and their foggy surroundings, to Mr. Coates, Mr. F-orbes, and their numerous staffs on their many travels abroad during their term of office. The barrenness of the results of their journeys is also not without resemblance to the result of the journeys of Mr. Chesterton's travellers.

"I propose at my next public meeting in the coming week to reply to the criticism of Mr. Coates, such Press criticisms as.have already been made, and any other critics who like to come into the field in time."