GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Feb. 11, 1935

The Lords:

Prepared with quiet glee for the maiden speech of 66-year-old Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England," who has been a peer for 20 years without ever venturing to take his seat. Friends of the porcine, thick-lipped Viscount claim that he is thin-skinned and shy. Two months ago peppery Major General Baron Mottistone of Mottistone proposed that Hearstian Rothermere should be "expelled" from the House of Lords unless he "apologized" for his newsorgans' "distortion of facts."

"I denounce him for his absence from this House!" cried Mottistone of Mottistone. "And I say it...

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