OLIVER CROMWELL'S PRESS AGENT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 23, 19 August 1932, Page 5

OLIVER CROMWELL'S PRESS AGENT

\ MR. FOOT MINISTER OF MiNES | M.P. SON'S QUIP LONDON. —No monument or me- ) moiiai could perpetuate any mans I name in tne way that Oliver Crom- | w t.i s memory is preserved in. the j House of Commons. ; ist-ariy buo years after his deatn : he has in trie Commons a Fresg agent ' who never misses an icpportunuy of j reminding Parliament 01 Cromwell's i aeuieveiuents anu aims. This press agent' is Mr. Isaac Foot, Minister or Aluies, who nas nummed ins poatical character on tne runuu. ism of his great hero. Mr. Foot did iwt disguise his pieaj sure w nen lie learned mat tue buiidI mg in which tne Department ui Mmes jis housed is caiied "Cioniweii i House." j He was so proud of it that he ori tiered tnat "Cromwell House" snoiud i be printed on tne department's nkte- | paper. , "His Honourable Friend" This latest act of worship of his neio ied to a humorous scene in the House of Commons between the Minister and h.»s'st-n, Mr. Dingle Foot, j nit,- young Liberal barrister who rep. j resents Dunuee. I The son asked "his honourable friend" what the cost of stationery I ami printing is in his department, | and whether he was satisfied that all ] economies were being enected. The "his,: hpiiourj able friend" that* thfeyMvere.

! But, pointed out jthq persistent sen, I it must have cost something to print; | ••Cromwell House" on the top of. the i notepaper. • '-I\'o," said the father, "it costs no, m. re." Mr. O'Connor (Central Nottingham) neatly rounded off the comic incident by asking it' the agreement to differ | in the Cabinet had been extended tq i Mr. Foot's family.