COMMONS APPROVAL
VALUE OF ROYAL TOUR LONE RED DISSENTER LONDON, Jan. 27. The Prime Minister, Mr. C. R. Attlee, in moving in the House of Commons the customary address to the King on the occasion of the South African tour, said Britain would feel the absence but all realised the value of the Royal presence among the people of other parts of the British Commonwealth. Party leaders supported the motion, which was approved with the sole dissentient, Mr. W, Gallacher, Communist member for West Fife, who said that South Africa was the last place tor an official mission of any kind at present. He declared that the condition of South African negroes was even worse than the situation of coloured people in America. Support for the motion would indicate encouragement, if not endorsement of South Africa’s defiance of the United Nations on the SouthWest African issue.
The Speaker said that Mr. Gallacher’s observations bad nothing to do with the motion. The South African Government was responsible for its own actions.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22241, 29 January 1947, Page 3
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