Mr Arthur Henderson Passes

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 249, 22 October 1935, Page 7

Mr Arthur Henderson Passes

NOTER LABOUR LEADER AND PEACE ADVOCATE

United Press Association.— By Electric

Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 9 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 20,

The death has occurred of Mr. Arthur Henderson, President of the Disarmament Conference, after a long illness.

Despite tho gravity of his condition Mr. Henderson’s mind was still fixed on world peace. Ho had not seen a newspaper for six weeks, thereforo he was unaware of the Abyssinian war, tho nows of which was withheld lest it prove too great a shock after liis recent operation.

A Scot by birth Mr. Arthur Henderson entered Parliament in 1903 as one of Labour’s lirst M.P’s. He was his party’s chairman from 1908 to .1910 and from 1914 to 1917. In 1915 he became a member of the Coalition War Cabinet, and when the Coalition fell in 1916 he remained a member of the War Cabinet of five, resigning in 1917. He lost his seat on three occasions but always came back in by-elections. He was Home Secretary in the Labour Government of 1924. He served several years as Chief Whip, and took that post after the fall of the Labour Government and the Zinovieff letter election. Ho later held the important post of Minister of Foreign Affairs. The organising genius' of tho Labour Party, he had played an important part in the solution of the great problems of war debts and disarmament. His most monumental work in the latter regard had been his Presidency of the Disarmament Conference since its formation in 1932.