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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17945, 24 November 1932, Page 7

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“RIOTS" OUTSIDE PALACE

rODK-THEAB-OLD PICTUEES CROWDS' ANXIETY FOR. KING (British Official Wireless.) Rcc. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 22. Lord HaiLs'ham, speaking at' the AnglorAmerican Pilgrims’ Club, London, called attention to news pictures which appeared in certain American newspapers purporting to show unemployed creating riots outside Buckingham Palace. lie said the pictures were not. taken in 1932, but in 1928. Instead of representing a riotous, starving mob attempting to outer Buckingham Palace in an effort to make protests to the Sovereign, they represent, in fact, the anxiety of many thousands of .British citizens who gathered at Buckingham Palace when the health of the King was in danger. Lord Hailsham protested against the flagrant attempt to misrepresent conditions in Britain. He paid a warm tribute to American Consuls-General in London for giving a faithful account of British events and sentiment. Ho said there never 'had been a time when it was more important that Britain and America should understand one another. As the two nations during the war had protected civilisation from a violent death, they had now to protect the economic world from. equally certain disaster.