“BROKEN-HEARTED MAN”

Wairarapa Age, 29 May 1936, Page 5

“BROKEN-HEARTED MAN”

MR. J. H. THOMAS COMPLAINS OF ILL-TREATMENT. MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY PERSECUTED. MAY SPEAK WHEN FINDINGS ARE PUBLISHED. (Received Thursday, 8.35 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. “I am a broken hearted man,” said Mr. J. H. Thomas, who is staying with friends in Devon, to a representative of the ‘“Mirror.” “What was the inquiry about?—to find out what they could about Jim Thomas. I have been in public life for forty-five years and now they do this to me. Can you blame me if I feel bitter?” He declared that he did not intend to make any full statement until the tribunal’s findings were published. “Then,” he said, “I may speak my mind.” He complained that members of his family were being persecuted. “What has my son Leslie done?” Mr. Thomas asked. “He is an innocent victim who has been put in the pillory. Besides resigning from his firm he had to resign from a town council where he was doing useful work. He is being hounded from public life.”

TRIBUNAL’S REPORT. The “Daily Mail’s” political correspondent says the Budget Tribunal’s report will suggest methods of ensuring closer Budget seereev in future, including that the Chancellor’s proposals shall be communicated onlv to the Prime Minister instead of to the full Cabinet.