28 DECEMBER 1929, Page 1

The severest critics were members of the Labour Party. Mr.

Wheatley, who is as proficient in cold satire as any member of the House, was merciless. The Lord Privy Seal, he said, had sincerity but not Socialism he frequently lunched with Capitalists but would not publish the conversation afterwards ; he boasted of orders for steel sleepers in this country, but the Great Western Company ordered them from Canada.. The idea of selling British coal to Canada was also a " sleeper."

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