SCATHING COMMENT
OF MR THOMAS DOMINION SECRETARY’S DEFECTS (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.50 a.in.) LONDON, July 14. The “Guardian'’ says: “Mr iho mas is becoming a desperate case. Not an Englishman can read his speech on the Free State without shame. It is sheer incompetence on Mr Thomas’ part and to the Prime Minister’s discredit, “He was allowed to stammer and bluster bis way through a subject he does not comprehend. He repeated par-rot-like set phrases which he has been using for three years. Sir Thomas Inskip was obliged to explain to a bewildered House what Mr Thomas was trying to say.
“England has small hope of reaching a friendly understanding with the Free State while represented by a Dominions Secretary, who, if not actually inarticulate, cannot say what he means.
The defects, unforunately, am not merely veibal. He does not appreciate the Irish case, and the change of opinion in the English debate on July 10 showed men of all parties were ready to consider solutions recently unthinkable.
“Nobody } as Sir Thomas Inskip declared, is going to swear eternal enmity for constitutional shadows.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 July 1935, Page 5
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