“A DESPERATE CASE”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 7

“A DESPERATE CASE”

MR. THOMAS ATTACKED ATTITUDE TO IRELAND “SHEER INCOMPETENCE” (Received July 15, noon) LONDON, July 14. The Manchester Guardian says that Mr. J. H. Thomas is becoming a desperate case. Not an Englishman can react his speech oil the Free State without shame. It is sheer incompetence on Mr. Thomas’ part, and to the Prime Minister’s discredit he allowed him to stammer and bluster his way through a subject he does not comprehend. He repeated, parrotlike, the set phrases he has been using for three, years. Sir Thomas Inskip was obliged to explain to a bewildered House what Mr. Thomas was trying to say. England has small hope of reaching a friendly understanding with the Free State while she is represented bv the Dominions Secretary, who, if not actually inarticulate, cannot say what he means. His defects, unfortunately, are not merely verbal. He does not appreciate the Irish case and the change of opinion in England. The debate on Wednesday showed that men of all parties are rcacty to consider solntions until recently, were unthinkable. Nobody, as Sir Thomas Inskip declared, is going to swear eternal enmity for constitutional shadows.