Vitriolic Attack

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 157, 5 July 1934, Page 5

Vitriolic Attack

VISCOUNT SNOWDEN AGAIN 1 DERISION FOR MACDONALD By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright} Received July 4, 7.10 p.m. LONDON, July 3. In the House of Lords Viscount Snowden, speaking in the debate on the secund reading of the Finance bill, delivered a sharp attack on the National Government, particularly in connection with the repeal of land taxes, which he described as the latest act showing the hyprocisy of the Government’s claim to be a national Government. The only explanation of the repeal was that Cabinet found Mr. MacDonald such an amenable instrument of Tory policy that it came to the con elusion that there was no humiliation to which he would not submit if the Tories still allowed him to be called Prime Minister. Millions of electors had lost confidence in the honesty of the party leaders. The Government would find the electors more suspicious at the next election. Lord Middleton protested at the vitriolic attack which Viscount Snowden had made on his former colleague, and Lord Hailsham similarly defended Mr. MacDonald, urging that it was possible to differ politically without the aspersions in which Viscount Snowden had indulged.