SYMPATHETIC TOUCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 13 June 1936, Page 9

SYMPATHETIC TOUCH.

REFERENCES TO MR THOMAS. LONDON, June 12. The Press throughout the country deals sympathetically with Mr J. H. Thomas. It believes that the inquiry will have a good result and pays tribute to the dignity and humanness of the House of Commons in a painful duty. The Times says: The House of Commons is the least vindictive assembly in the world. It requires expiation when standards of public conduct are violated, but when expiation is made it tolerates no attempt to exacerbate the wound. Mr Thomas repeated his denial that he consciously betrayed Budget secrets. The House was free to accept and did accept the disclaimer since the tribunal refrained from any such imputation, and the country' will be satisfied with the word of so well-known and trusted a. public servant. On the other hand Mr Thomas, in loyalty to the House and its tribunal, accepted its findings, which the House also accepted. Mr Thomas remains, therefore, under the imputation of betraying a secret, even inadvertently, and the Parliamentary code requires immolation even for so venial a transgression. Mr Thomas, by resigning his seat, givesadhesion to the code. The Daily Herald commends the Labour Party for its effort to turn the situation to public advantage. It says that where cleaning is wanted is in the city. - .The Manchester Guardian sajs: Tho public will feel the greatest sympathy for Mr Thomas, but to most people the really disturbing thing, is the revelation of the length to which the gambling spirit will go and the city’s facilities for it. SIR A. BUTT’S RESIGNATION. Received June 13, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, June 12. Sir Alfred Butt has sent a letter to the local Conservative Association) intimating that he is resigning from tho House of Commons.