THE LABOUR CHANCELLOR
HIS QUALITIES "Mr Snowdon is a Yorkshireman of the upper working class and every thing that lie is seems largely explicable in terms of those origins," Professor J. Laski says of tjio British Chancellor of the Exchequer in a long article in "Harper's Monthly." _ "He has Yorkshire sincerity, Yorkshire obstinacy, Yorkshire dourness, and that queer* half-melancholy humour of the North which at times partakes til the more metaphysical temperament of the Scot .... I believe that 10 years of Mr Snowden at the Exchequer would give him a reputation as one of the pre-eminent Chancellors in British financial history. His great qualities, integrity, sincerity, obstinacy are exactly what is needed for the post. . . . His reputation will in the end be 'greater by filling the place he now occupies as it has not been filled since the days of Mr Gladstone. So long as he is there' the middle class of England will feel that the Labour Tarty is not' a danger to its existence. So long as lie is there, also, business men will have confidence in the stability of the realm. Mr Snowden is the natural anchor of the Labour ship. It is a different post from that of the captain; but the anchor makes it possible for the captain to bring his boat safely into port."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 29 May 1930, Page 5
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