BRIBERY INQUIRY
ADDRESSES BY COUNSEL NZPA—Copyright LONDON, Dec. 17. Mr Moelwyn Hughes, K.C., addressing the Board of Trade tribunal on behalf of George Gibson, director of the Bank of England, described Sidney Stanley, the central figure in the bribery allegation, as “a siren of a man,” who fascinated hard-headed businessmen and politicians. Stanley’s counsel, Mr H. V. LloydJones, said there had been a full orchestra of calumny and dispraise against Stanley, “ starting with the vindictive brass of Francis Cecil Price (managing director of Price’s Departmental Stores, London), and ending with the egregious double bass of Mr Hugh Dalton. The Attorney-General must have had his inspiration in his old memories of melodrama at the Lyceum."
Mr Lloyd-Jones denied that Stanley had ever paid a penny piece to John Belcher (parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade), or had ever, told Harry Sherman (proprietor of Sherman’s Football Pools) that he had paid
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26959, 20 December 1948, Page 5
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