CENSURE MOTION
DEFEAT IN COMMONS
LABOUR CHALLENGE
THE HOARE-LAVAL TERMS
GOVERNMENT'S DEFENCE
(British Official Wireless and United Press Association.)
(Received December 20, 2 p.m.) LONDON, December 19. The Labour Party's motion of censure of the Government concerning the Paris peace proposals was rejected by 397 votes to 165. The Leader of the Opposition (Major A.ttlee) moved as follows:— ...'.. The terms put forward by his Majesty's Government as a basis for an Italo-Abyssinian settlement reward the declared aggressor at the expense of'the victim, destroy collective security, and conflict with the expressed will of the country and with the Covenant of the League of Nations, to the support of which the honour of Great Britain is pledged. This House therefore demands that these terms be immediately repudiated. ' The mover contended that the Foreign Secretary should not be made the scapegoat for action for which the Government had taken collective responsibility, and asked where the Government as a whole stood. If it was right for Sir Samuel Hoare to resign it %vas right that the Government also should resign.
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Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 8
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176CENSURE MOTION Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 8
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