MR DUFF-COOPER CRITICISED

Evening Star, Issue 22367, 17 June 1936, Page 11

MR DUFF-COOPER CRITICISED

“ DANGEROUS AND DISGRACEFUL SCAREMONGER" USD FONSOKDY'S PEACE TALK Presw Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 16. (Received June 17, at 12.30 p.m.) “ If I were Prime Minister I would have Mr Duff-Cooper (Secretary for War) arrested as a deliberate, dangerous, and disgraceful scaremonger,” declared Lord Ponsonby amid applause and shouts of “ That’s the stuff to give him I” during an address to a peace meeting. Lord Ponsonby was referring to Mr Duff-Cooper’s speech as published yesterday. He added that Mr Duff-Cooper was not the only person talking this way, but owing to his responsible position he ought to be ashamed to talk like a half-wit whose only place was a criminal asylum. [Mr Duff-Cooper had said: “ Nobody with the slightest knowledge will deny that tho situation in Europe is far worse than in 1914. Yet we are joking and laughing, refusing to face facts, and allowing people to preach that it is wicked to defend women and children from gas attacks. We are told that we are frightening people. I think it is the duty of those in authority to frighten people.”]