BRITISH ELECTIONS
SAFE SEATS
DENIAL OF LABOUR SPLIT
(Received November 5, 2.45 p.m.)
LONDON, ; November 4.
Those returned to the House of Commons unopposed include fourteen occupants of safe Conservative seats-and thirteen Labour members, representative mainly of Welsh constituencies, who held large majorities, some of whom were unopposed in 1931. Sir Ronald Ross, Conservative member for Londonderry, was unexpectedly returned unopposed owing to the breakdown of a motor-car which, caused his intended Republican opponent to arrive breathless when nominations had just closed. • • -.^ Labour candidates total 552 and Liberals 154.
Major Attlee and Mr. David • Lloyd George have Conservative opponents. Sir Herbert Samuel is opposed, by:a Conservative and a Labour candidate, a woman, and Mr. Winston. Churchill by a Liberal and a Labourite. ;
Women candidates total 65: Two women will have a straight-out fight in Wallsend—Miss Irene Ward (Con.) and Miss Margaret Bondfield, ■ formerly a Labour Minister of Labour.
Mr. Arthur Greenwood, secretary of the Labour Party information department, in a broadcast address; denied that the party was split: On the other hand, the supporters of the Government were disrupted. Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Eden were talking peace, ! Mr. Churchill, "National Swashbuckler No. 1," aimed at an Empire armed to the teeth, and Mr. Amery was eager to retire-to a coward's castle. :-v "jh-;
Mr. Malcolm MacDohald wa? howled down at Worksop and denied a hearing, although. he faced for an hour a crowd which shouted "Traitor," and sang "The Red Flag."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 110, 5 November 1935, Page 10
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