“NAUGHTY LITTLE BOY”

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 1 May 1934, Page 8

“NAUGHTY LITTLE BOY”

CHURCHILL’S NEPHEW “RED.” LONDON, April 21. Mr Winston Churchill’s 15-year-old nephew, Esmond Romilly, who ran away from Wellington College last month to join Communists in the East End of London, was among the number of public .school boys who joined in the Communist demonstration, on Budget eve in Hyde Park. Clad in grey flannels and cricket shirts, they marched behind a crimson banner • which bore the inscription: “Down with the National Government of Hunger, Fascism and War!” Demonstrators marched in five processions from' different suburbs, and speeches were delivered from five platforms. Resolutions were passed which demanded restoration of the 1931 economy “cuts” in wages and unemployment benefits, and the institution of national work schemes for the unemployed at trade union wages. Esmond Romilly, according to his father. Colonel B. H. Romilly. is “just a naughtv little boy” whohad “broken his promise and is behaving stupidly.” Esmond was editor of “Out of Rounds,” a magazine intended for circulation among public schools. Its o”tsnokenness caused some trouble at Wellington, hut he was not expelled. He crept out of his dormitory and went by train to London.