More serious was the attack on the Chancellor's appro- priation
of the Road Fund. Here the Labour Party received valuable aid from Mr. Gwilym Lloyd George, who is developing into a really formidable debater. He made one point to which the Chancellor had virtually no answer. It was that when the Road Fund had been established in 1909 'the most specific promises had been given that the proceeds of motor taxation would be used solely for the improvements of the roads, and that it was only on that understanding that the Conservative Party had given its support. The debate subsequently degener- ated with the intervention of Mr. Aneurin Bevan into wild and extravagant invective against the Chancellor. lie even went so far as to call Mr. Chamberlain a " cynical assassin of little children." An effort was made to raise, as point of order, the propriety of such a reMark, but the Deputy Speaker refused to declare it unparliamentary.
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