PLAIN SPEAKING

Evening Star, Issue 21966, 28 February 1935, Page 14

PLAIN SPEAKING

MR MACDONALD ON RECKLESS FINANCE SHARP REPLY TO CRITICS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 27. (Received February 28, at 1.55 p.m.) Mr Ramsay MacDonald, speaking at Doncaster, referred to reprehensible financial transactions .by people .commanding good credit. He added that it was unfortunate that such transactions. besmirching Britain’s probity and damaging her world credit, had occurred when the Government was .restoring confidence and the country was recovering. It was selfish recklessness. People said that the Government was shielding the delinquents. The Government was doing nothing of the. kind, but it was not being panicky, though it was aware that this kind of thing was not characteristic of a Christian state of society. The Cabinet’s crime was that it was determined to do everything it could to keep the national combination together consonant with the national wellbeing. Mr MacDonald concluded: “ When I am no longer satisfied that I can pull my full weight I shall require nobody to tell me what my duty is.”