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BULWARK OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. LABOU R R ECOG NITION. LONDON, May 5. Several Left-Wing >.ij>porters in the House of Commons did nut hesitate to attack the monarchial system when Sir A. Chamberlain brought up the report of t'he King’s civil list. The official spokesman of the Labour Parly, Mr. Petliick Lawrence, holever, stuo the Party recognised the Cr t n as the bulwark of democratic government. Labour did not favour extravagant ct'iemony. The present King had mure direct and more intimate association and friendship with the common people than perhaps any monarch since Charles LI. Mr. Sinclair said the House should not approach the question in a niggling spirit because there had been nothing niggling in the spirit in which the Royal Family had performed its duties. Mr. McGovern said if he were a Conservative he would be entirely satisfied with the present royal family, but the system of a parasitical monarchy was an outrage of the present age.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 7
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