“Disgraceful Talk”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 156, 17 June 1936, Page 7

“Disgraceful Talk”

NOT FACING FACTS Lord Ponsonby’s Attack on War Secretary “SHOULD BE ARRESTED” (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 17, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 10. “If I were Prime Minister t would have Mr A. Dutt-Cooper arrested as a deliberate, dangeiou* and disgraceful scaremonger,” declared Lord Ponsonby, amid applause and shouts of “That's the stuff to give him!” during an address to a peace meeting. Lord Ponsonby was referring to Mr Duff-Cooper’s speech yesterday, anci added, “Mr Duff-Cooper is not the only person talking this way, but owing to tiis responsible position he ought to be ashamed to talk like a halfwit, whose only place is a criminal asylum.’* “Nobody with the slightest knowledge would deny that the situation in Europe is far worse than it was In 1914,” said tho Secretary for War, Mr A. Duff-Cooper, at a trade luncheon. “Yet we are joking and laughing and refusing to face the facts. We are allowing people to preach that it is wicked to defend women and children from gas attacks, We are told we are frightening the people. I think it is the duty of those in authority to frighten the people.”