“UTTERLY INFAMOUS LIE”
UPROAR IN COMMONS MR, LANSBURYVS OUTBURST CABINET MINUTES WANTED (Elec. Tel. Copyrißht—United Press Assn.) (Received Feb. 10, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Fob. 15.
“I warn the Prime Minister tlint if the utterly infamous lie is repeated that I voted for, or advocated, the means test, either now, or in the late Cabinet, I will print the Cabinet minutes on the question, and risk imprisonment,” declared Mr. George Lansbury, Leader of the Opposition, in the House of Commons, when moving the Labor Party’s censure motion.
The outburst startled the House,
Mr. Lansbury added: “I challenge Mr. MacDonald to deny that the Cabinet unitedly refused the May committee’s proposal to put those on transitional payment under the poor law. Mr. MacDonald can produce the Cabinet minutes, or I will lend him mine. Mr. MacDonald can ask His .Majesty to allow me to produce my minutes. ’ ’
An uproar followed, and Labor members continued to interrupt and •shout throughout Mr. MacDonald’s speech.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18632, 16 February 1935, Page 5
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