“BACK TO THE TREE TOPS.”
CONSERVATIVE MEMBER ABUSES LABOUR. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney ” Sun ” Cable. (Received October 22, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, October 21. Mr W. (’. Bndgeman. speaking at Newcastle, said that the Communists were not a large body.' but were very active and were flooding Britain with propaganda. Their policy for undermining Britain and all civilised coun tries was carefully dictated from Moscow and also partly from Berlin. Mr Bridgemnn described the Labour Party as the embodiment of reaction and stagnation, whose thinking was done by Russian Bolsheviks. The Duke of Northumberland, who presided, made reference to Mr Philip Snowden’s picture of Britain before capitalism took its present shape, and said “ Why not go back to the anthropoid apes : back to the tree tops, which are still suitable for some of the would-be leaders.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17177, 22 October 1923, Page 1
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