LADY HOUSTON CAUSTIC
Offer to Exchequer “Flung on Dungheap” AIR DEFENCE OF LONDON GIFT OF £200,000 •United Preaa Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright). Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 13. Addressing him as “Poor Mister Chamberlain,” Lady Houston has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as follows: — “The safety of London, how it bores you. ' “With a gesture of utter contempt and without even deigning to ascertain Londoners’ wishes, you flung the safety I offered them on the dungheap in the House of Commons. “The only excuse you can possibly make is that London’s safety by air has been adequately arranged. “If you can assure me it is so, 1 apologise and withdraw all I have said to you. R.S.V.P. to Lucy Houston.” A London message dated May 30, stated that Mr Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, had declined Lady Houston’s offer of £200,000 for the air defence of London, but was willing to accept it as a contribution to “ the general revenue.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 June 1935, Page 6
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