LORD BLEDISLOE SEES EXIT OF COUNTRY SQUIRE
-«* — (Snecial Correspondent.)
LONDOX, June zo. When the Agricultural Bill, which provides maehinery for making British farming more prosperous, with efficiencx as its kevnote, was read a seeond time in the House of Lords, Lord Bledisloe, who owns 6000 acres in Gloucestershiie and Wiltshire, remarked: — "The Bill marks the virtual extinetion, except as a faetor in actual food production, of the class of country squires to whom I and generations ot my forebears have l)een_ proud to belong. ' ' Eord Bledisloe said he was nearly 80 and ' ' this may be my swangsong. ' ' He went on to say, ' ' But I _ reluctant.lv recognise that vital national needs must take preced'ence over any section of the body politie, however deserving. ' ' He said he gave a wholehearted welcome to "this epoch-making measuie which rescnes British agriculture from the eockpit of party politics."
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 June 1947, Page 5
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