AUSTRALIA: Game Sir Philip

While George V bowed in humiliation to the will of Australia's Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (see p. 17) one of His Majesty's representatives in the Australian state of New South Wales stoutly defied the local Premier of that State, Laborite J. T. Lang.

Mr. Lang faced last week the same problem which confronted Mr. (later Lord) Asquith in 1910-11 when he was Great Britain's Prime Minister. The House of Lords had refused Mr. Asquith's Parliament bill, designed to remove the Lords' veto power over "money bills." Mr. Asquith announced that unless...

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