AUSTRALIA: Piddington's Protest

Scholarly, tract-penning Hon. Mr. Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington, president of New South Wales's Industrial Commission, startled the Empire last week by penning a new tract to prove that His Majesty's Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, acted unconstitutionally fortnight ago when he dismissed Laborite State Premier John Thomas Lang, famed for repudiating New South Wales's debts (TIME, May 23).

To back up his opinion Justice Albert Bathurst Piddington resigned last week in protest against the action of the crown, resumed his scholarly researches as president of the Australian Modern Languages...

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