SCATHING WORDS IN DAIL
——■ COSGRAVE CENSURE MOTION
COUNCIL NEGLECT CONDEMNED ACUTE DISTRESS FEARED. (United Press Assoeiatloi*—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 3.5 p.m to-day. LONDON, Nov. 15. “I introduce the motion dn the- solemn, hour of the Nation’s misfortune, ’ said Mr. W. T. Cocgrave in the Dan in moving vote of censure against the Government. “If the Free State is to he: saved from appalling suffering and perhaps irreparable loss, the Government must go. Its neglect of international decency and obstinate insistence on unilateral interference with the: treaty and its blundering incompetence has involved the country an an economic war of attrition which has precluded an honourable settlement. “The tale is sorrowful and sordid. It is the duty of every member to insist that the tragedy lie ended and the country he spared irreparable damage and disaster. Otherwise poverty and acute distress is the only prospect for the people their cliildren and perhaps their children s childNorton announced that the Labour. Party would support the Government-.
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Hawera Star, Volume LII, 16 November 1932, Page 9
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165SCATHING WORDS IN DAIL Hawera Star, Volume LII, 16 November 1932, Page 9
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