29 JUNE 1934, Page 3

There was no Member of Parliament among the plat- form

supporters of Mr. Winston Churchill when he went to the Free= Trade Hall in Manchester, on Tuesday, to rouse Lancashire against the White Paper. That is re- markable when it is remembered that there are no fewer than ten Members for Manchester, all of them Conserva- tives. It made Mr. Churchill's claim that " Lancashire had surrendered her right to speak the truth as she knew it upon the White Paper proposals" even thinner than it appeared when he made the original charge in the House of Commons. If Lancashire thinks that she has so surrendered her right, it is clear that she has not made it known to her accredited spokesmen in Parliament.