THE WAIPUKURAU PRESS MONDAY, JULY 15, 1935. THE KING AND THE LABOUR PARTY.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 159, 15 July 1935, Page 4

THE WAIPUKURAU PRESS MONDAY, JULY 15, 1935. THE KING AND THE LABOUR PARTY.

The loyalty and deep affection which the British Labour Party feels for the Royal House was expressed by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. George Lansbury, speaking in the House of Commons. “One thing is certain the experience of the years has taught me that, whatever people may say or think about the British Constitution, it is a fact that, contradictory as it sounds, it does work, and the masses of the people are continually winning more and more recognition and the right to take part in the government of this country,” said Mr. Lansbury. “The King and the Queen are not known to me as they are to other members, but on the very few occasions on which I have had the privilege of meeting them nobody could have received more kindness and consideration than myself. In the days of one’s joy and in the days of one’s sorrow both the King and the Queen were kindness itself to me. We who sit here and certainly myself believe ultimately that human society will be based on classlessness. I think that the mixture of classes in this House and in the country, and the maimer in which the Royal Family during these troublous years have mixed and taken part in everything concerning our lives, have done something to break down the feeling which prevailed when I was young that the monarchy would preserve for ever the domination of class. I think that we are getting away from that, and I believe that the King and Queen and their family have done a very great deal to bring that about.”