Foreign News: Parliament's Week The Commons

¶Greeted Postmaster General Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, when he appeared in the House last week, with Laborite shouts of "Shoot him! Put him against a wall!"

This was the exuberant reply of British Labor to a Tory speech made the day before by Sir William at Croydon, in which he shouted: "Certain Socialist (Laborite) leaders are going to end up with their backs against a wall and a firing squad before them if they try to hamper British troops in any Chinese war!"

Since Great Britain is technically not at war with China, Sir William's speech...

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