AUSTRALIAN PREMIER

Grey River Argus, 11 June 1935, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN PREMIER

EDINBURGH HONOUR Opposed By Bigots ‘•STORM IN TEACUP.” (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Recd. June 10th at 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 10. Two crowded meetings were held ii Edinburgh by opponents of the pro posal Io confer the freedom of the city oi the Prime Minister of Australia, Rr Hon. J. A. Lyons, who is a Catholic Councillor John Cormack, accompanies by Councillor Janies Marr, announcec that it was intended to muster fif teen thousand demonstrators outside 01 the Usher Hall during the ceremony of conferring of the freedom of tin city. lie said that the demonstratioi would be a peaceful, but a noisy one Meanwhile (T. Marr, supported by twenty-four sympathisers, would pro test verbally inside of the hall. Cr. Cormack told an interviewer that this action was to be directed, no! against Australia, but against the principle of conferring the freedom of the city on a Catholic. Mr. Lyons, however, had contemplated withdrawing from the offer of the freedom of Edinburgh, but he was dissuaded from so doing by the Town Clerk of Edinburgh. Mr. Lyons states that he is satisfied that this opposition is from only a section of Edinburgh protestants. He states it is ‘‘a storm in a teacup.”