FRIGHTENING THE PEOPLE
LORD PONSONBY DENOUNCES WAR SECRETARY. “DANGEROUS & DISGRACEFUL SCAREMONGER.” SUGGESTION TO PREMIER. LONDON, June 16. “If I were Prime Minister I would have Mr. Duff-Cooper arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger,” declared Lord Ponsonby, amid applause and shouts of “That’s the stuff to give him,” in addressing a peace meeting referring to the speech of the Secretary for War at the trade luncheon on Monday. Lord Ponsonby added that Mr. DuffCooper was not the only person who was talking in this way, but owing to his responsible position he ought to be ashamed to talk like a half-wit, whose only place is in a. criminal asylum.” (“Nobody with the slightest knowledge would deny that the situation in Europe is far worse than it was in 1914,” said the Secretary for War, Mr. A. Duff-Cooper, at a trade luncheon. “Yet we are joking and laughing, and refusing to face the facts. We are allowing people to preach that it is wicked to defend women and children from gas attacks. We are told we are frightening the people. I think it is the duty of those in authority to frighten the people.”)
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Wairarapa Age, 18 June 1936, Page 5
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