NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
LORD SNOWDEN'S ATTACK PRIME MINISTER ASSAILED OTHER PEERS ENTER PROTEST (Received July -4. 5.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 3 In the House of Lords to-day Viscount Snowden, speaking during the debate on the motion for the second reading of the Finance Bill, delivered a sharp attack on the National Government, particularly in connection with the repeal of the land taxes. This he described as the latest act which showed the hypocrisy of the Government's claim to be a national one.
The only explanation of the repeal of the land taxes, said Lord. Snowden, was that the Cabinet found the Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald, such an amenable instrument of Conservative policy that it came to the conclusion there was no humiliation to which he would not submit if the Conservatives still allowed him to be called Prime Minister.
Millions of electors had lost confidence in the honesty of the party leaders. The Government would find the electors more suspicious at the next election.
Lord Middleton protested against the \jtriolic attack Lord Snowden had made upon a former colleague.
Viscount Hailsham also defended Mr. Mac Donald, urging that it was possible to differ politically without casting- the aspersions in which Lord Snowden indulged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21844, 5 July 1934, Page 11
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