MR CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS'S RESIGNATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 142, 18 June 1913, Page 8

MR CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS'S RESIGNATION.

A REMARKABLE LETTER.

(Retimtt iTtMei.l8 L , 0.20 p.m.) j . LONDON, June 17. Mr Crawshay-Williams, who resigned his seat in the House of Commons, owing to divorce proceedings, publishes a remarkable letter in the Leicester Mail, in: reply to criticisms accusing him of hypocrisy and der nouncing him as a politician who inveighed agaihfeii' ■ monopolists and white-slavers while he interfered1 with another man's wife. '

Mr Crawshay-Williams .declares that a politician is only concerned with national rectitude, and he resents the idea that private morality in certain cases should affect a> man's public capacity.