“VERBAL INCONTINENCE”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26703, 24 February 1948, Page 5

“VERBAL INCONTINENCE”

ATTACK ON MR CHURCHILL DEPRECATED GREATEST OF ENGLISHMEN N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent LONDON. Feb. 22. Proceedings in the House of Commons were enlivened this week when Mr Churchill and Mr Herbert Morrison had one of their typical exchanges, this time over the Representation of People Bill, which will mean the end of University and City of London representatives in the House. Feeling ran so high that the Labour benches booed Mr Churchill, and drew this vehnko tWM-n Mr W. I. Brown. Independent M.P.:— . „ . “ Manv new M.P.s. he said. suifer from a kind of verbal incontinence, which makes it impossible for them to b-nr without interruption arguments directed against their point of view. They remind me of nothing so much ;i dog. which, seeing a motor car wheel revolving on the road, is impelled to dash at it, barking at the top of its voice. They can give it, but they can’t take it.” Referring to their sustained booing of Mr Churchill. Mr Brown said: “It is by no means impossible to disagree with Mr Churchill or his arguments. . But he, of all men in that place, is entitled to be heard with quietness and respect. He ranks among the greatest of Englishmen, not only of this, but of all time. This country and the whole world owes him a tremendous debt. But for him it is probable that many of those who booed him would’not be in Parliament. Indeed, it is probable that but for him there might well be no Parliament at all, but an assembly of gauleiters.”