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STORY* OF BRITISH LABOUR. LORD SNOWDEN’S PART. LONDON, Sept. 7. Sharp controversy has arisen over Lt.-Commander Kenworthy’s first disclosure of his impending autobiography, In which he will reveal the Labour Party’s plan In 1931 to displace Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who was to take the Viceroy-ship of India, to make way for Mr. Arthur Henderson as leader. To this, Lord Snowden at first agreed, hut later claimed that he would succeed Mr. MacDonald. ■’ Lord Snowden describes the whole thing as an unmitigated lie. “Kenworthy came to ask if I would join in the intrigue against Mr. MacDonald,’’ said Lord Snowden. “ I flatly refused and never aspired to leadership." Lt.-Commander Kenworthy has retorted: “It is no intrigue, but just a statement of fact. Lord Snowden actually warned the Independent Labour Party group against electing Mr. MacDonald to leadership. lie promised that he would betray them."
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19051, 15 September 1933, Page 7
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