UPROAR IN COMMONS
COMMENT STIC member. RESENTMENT OF REMARK. LONDON, June 28. In the House of Commons, Mr S. Saklatvala, the Indian Communist member for Battersea, attacked Mr Austen Chamberlain for denying the accuracy of a, statement by a member of the women s delegation to Russia, that “there are no sanatoria for the workers in Britain, and such provision is impossible except under a proletarian government. Mr Chamberlain retorted: “When the hon. member knows this country more intimately ho won’t need my guidance.’’ This remark provoked an distant upr°Mr G. Laris bury (Labour) protested that no Minister, howev\r distinguished, had the right to insult a fellow-member. The Speaker ruled, that there was nothing disorderly in the remark and that it contained no personal reflection. Dir Chamberlain said he did not intend any reflection on Mr Saklatvala.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19529, 11 July 1925, Page 13
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