BITTER ATTACK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22286, 12 June 1934, Page 9

BITTER ATTACK

THE GOVERNMENT ASSAILED VISCOUNT SNOWDEN’S OUTBURST MR MACDONALD’S “ WEAKNESS ” (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, June 11. (Received June 11, at 7 p.m.) Viscount Snowden, in an article in the Daily Mail, has announced that he is returning to politics, serving independently the causes in which he believes. Viscount Snowden asserts: “Mr MacDonald has become a mere Tory instrument. The national situation was never more critical or more menacing, and the call for action was never more imperative. Vast numbers are losing faith in Parliament.

“ The National Government’s sole concern,” he states, “ is to remain in office. It is obsessed with conceit, and a belief in its own indispensability, while tens of thousands of unemployed for years have sunk into a state of helplessness, despair and appalling physical deterioration. These derelict areas arc breeding grounds for Communism and revolutionary activities. Restlessness to-day is widespread and also includes the middle salary-earning classes. “Mr MacDonald’s vanity, weakness and incoherence will be Britain’s undoing if he remains in office.”