GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 7, 1933

The Commons—

¶Dropped all regular business to cry "Shame! Shame! The liberty of a British subject has been violated!" when Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour tried clumsily to defend three Scotland Yard detectives who had mistakenly seized a small and wholly innocent subject of George V just outside Victoria Station.

"He thought the detectives were bandits and clung to an iron railing!" roared Brigadier General Edward Spears M. P., defending British Subject G. D. Fitzpatrick, a youthful officer in the Royal Air Force. ''The detectives twisted his arm, pulled his tie into a tight...

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