SUBSTITUTE FOR DUEL
GRACEFULLY DECLINED
(United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received 18th July, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, 17th July.
Captain Fanelli declining Dickinson as a substitute for- Major Attlee wrote, “Your letter confirms my conviction regarding English subjects whom Labour principles have not made rotten.”
Captain Fanelli challenged Major Attlee, Labour M.P., to a duel in any neutral country with any weapons. He objected to Major Attlee’s remarks in the House of Commons on the ItaloAbyssinian dispute, Major Attlee declined Fanelli’s challenge, declaring that duelling is a barbarous and obsolete method of liquidating a quarrel, and put a premium on a bully. Later Captain Fanelli received from Edward Dickinson, of London, a challenge to a duel with Dickinson, who wished to take Major Attlee’s place. In a letter to Fanelli Dickinson says: “As the duel is evidently your idea of satisfaction, I trust you will allow an Englishman, jealous of his country s history and traditions, to take' up the challenge. I trust you will speedily reply, enabling suitable arrangements to be made.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 18 July 1935, Page 7
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172SUBSTITUTE FOR DUEL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 18 July 1935, Page 7
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