RED REPUBLICAN NOW PILLAR OF MONARCHY
Mr Cook's Conversion STRIKING DECLARATION OF MINERS’ SECRETARY PRINCE’S ADMIRER. Sun Cable. Received Sunday, 7 pun. LONDON, April 20. The Prince of Wales has converted Mr. J. A. Cook, the miners’ secretary. “I am still in theory a Republican but the Prince of Wales has been the chief factor in destroying my republicanism," was Mr. Cook's striking declaration in a Daily Sketch intorview. Mr. Cook added: “I have departed from my own revolutionary opinions because the Prince has departed from the orthodox conduct of Royalty. If he were not Prince of Wales, he would still be a great social worker and reformer and probably of the same party as myself. “A year ago this statement would have been received with hooting and indignation at any Labour meeting. To-day it is received with cheers.” Mr. Cook declared that through the Prince’s wonderful work on behalf of tho miners, tho question, of the Monarchy had ceased to be,an issue in the working class movement.” “It has made the British throne tho safest in the world and himself the safest man in Britain." Mr. Cook has thus handsomely recanted his oft-expressed opinion that “Revolution in England is inevitable.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6890, 22 April 1929, Page 7
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