CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED.
MR SNADDEN’S COMMENT:, (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, Dec. 22. - Sixty-seven per cent, of the electorate voted in the Kinross by-election. Many were unable to vote owing to the snowbound roads. Mr Snadden said that the result represented a vote of confidence in Mr Chamberlain. The Duchess of Atlioll said: “I still think that the Government’s foreign policy is leading us into grave danger. I think , that there will be a general election before long, at which I expect to stand again.” The total votes cast for the Government in eight b.v-elections since Munich are 196,686, compared with 176.796 for the Opposition. .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 7
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103CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 7
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