PICTURES IN PRESS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 13

PICTURES IN PRESS

FLAGRANT DISHONESTY

HAILSHAM1 S PROTEST

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, 22nd November.

1 Lord Hailsham, Secretary for War, speaking at the Anglo-American Pilgrims' Club in London to-day, called attention to news pictures which appeared in certain American newspapers purporting to show the unemployed creating riots outside Buckingham Palace. He said that those pictures were not taken in 1932, but in 1928, and instead of representing a riotous starving mob attempting to enter Buckingham Palace in. their effort to make protests to their Sovereign, they represented, in fact, the anxiety of many thousands of British citizens who gathered at Buckingham Palace when the health of the King was in danger. Lord Hailsham protested against this flagrant attempt to misrepresent the conditions in Britain, and paid a warm tribute to the American Consul General in London for giving a fatihful account of British events and sentiment.

He said that there never had'been a time when it was more important that Britain and America should understand one another. As two nations which during the war had protected civilisation from a violent death, they had now to protect the economic world from an equally certain disaster.