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OUR DICTATOR
When William Gallacher called practice. He has abandoned Cabinet out to the Prime Minister in the government,
House of Commons, “You ought to be împeached," he was speaking better, perhaps, than he knew.
He, and he alone, has decided the What aroused his anger was Cham- fate of vast numbers of loyal berlain's - dishonest shuffling, his Spaniards, who are now at the mercy petulant refusal to be “cross, of Franco,
examined." A display of childish He and he alone, has given over ill-temper such as no Prime Minister the Republicans to be tortured and of our time, not even "Pretty Fau- murdered in the usual Fascist way. ny" Balfour, has ever indulged in,
He induced, or ordered the But, if impeachment were feasible, there would be a grave reason for Cabinet, to leave the decision as to impeaching this man who resents Franco's recognition in the hands being asked not to discard the me- of himself and Lord Halifax, his thods of our democratic Constitu- rubber-stamp Foreign Secretary,
Lord Halifax, since he was pushed into that office, has had about as
tion.
He has laid himself open to the much influence on our foreign policy. charge of attempting to overturn as a fly crawling over a locomotive that Constitution and to subsitute would have on the pace of the train. for it a system of the kind known For a time he did exactly what as "totalitarian," which means that Chamberlain told him. Lately he has. those who are, in temporary pos- begun to listen to what he is told in session of the machinery of State the Foreign Office. But the lamb- can do what they please, without re- like nature reflected in his counten- ference to the People, or the repre- ance will prevent him ever taking a sentatives of the People, or even line of his own. their fellow Cabinet Ministers.
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It was to Chamberlain alone, then, All the authorities on the British that the Cabinet handed over the First Class Fare to Sydney: Single: £47.10.0d. Return: £76 Constitution say that our system is responsibility for a decision which | Cabinet Government. The nation they had no business to shirk. It Passenger & Freight Agents:-
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From the two Houses there are chosen members of an Executive Committee, which We call the was.... a. very important decision. there reason t Cabinet, with the Prime Minister as Franco, now, recognised as ruler in better of them? chairman. The Cabinet is then re- Spain, can more easily stop food-
To begin with sponsible to the nation for all acts ships and intensify the pangs of of government.
hunger already gripping a large part the former Liber of the population. It outlaws the was a tree from No Prime Minister since the ex-
Spanish Republic; the financial in- be shaken: once ecrated Earl of Bute 183 years ago terests which direct Chamberlain's the advocate of
course have succeeded in their plot, form or another: He was glad to do their bidding tary who, instea and make obeisance
to Franco as League helped t ruler, as he was glad to prevent the when he might in defend itself with.
has asserted the right to rule inde- pendently of the Cabinet. Bute as- serted it for the King. Chamber lain claims it for himself.
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He did this in so many words at Spanish Republic buying arms to the piratical inv:
the time of the carefully-engineered September "crisis." He said then that, if the question, Shall we go to war? came up.
"It would be I, and I alone, who, would have to say Yes or No, which would decide the fate of millions of my countrymen, of their famílies."
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himself. Fascist Powers, it is no exaggera- tion to say that Chamberlain was the chief architect of Fascist victory.
Then we have who helped to do has added a wo
When Serbians murdered their King and Queen, Britain would not: To "do a Runcim of saying "to do recognise them for a year. Before This was an entirely and re- Franco has finished murdering the Sir Samuel Ho volutionary doctrine. Little notice Spanish Republic. he is recognised Secretary detecte was taken of it, because, it was sup- by Britain with enthusiasm!
ting with "Lous posed, the Prime Minister, over- Several members of the Govern- Abyssinia. wrought and slightly hysterical, ment are known to have been very 'Sir John And could not have meant what he said. doubtful about Chamberlain's treat- who said that no But we now see that he did mean ment of Spain. Two or three have by machinery on He has put the ucctrine into privately spoken against it. Yet in Franco beat Cat
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