J. H. THOMAS BITTER
BROKEN-HEARTED MAN
MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY
PERSECUTED
LONDON, May 28,
"I am. a broken-hearted man," said Mr. J. H. Thomas, former Colonial Secretary, who has just resigned, and who is staying with friends in Devon, to a representative of the "Daily Mirror."
"What was the Budget inquiry about? To find out what they could about Jim Thomas. I have been in public life 45 years. Now they do-this to me. Can you blame me if I feel bitter?" He declared that he did not intend to make any full statement until the tribunal's findings were published. "Then I may speak my mind," he said.
He complained that members of his family were being persecuted. "What has my son Leslie done? He is an innocent victim who has. been put in the pillory. Besides resigning from his firm he has had to resign "from a town council, where he was doing useful work. He is being hounded from public life."
The "Daily Mail's" political correspondent says that the Budget tribunal's report will suggest methods ensuring closer Budget secrecy.in the future, including that the Chancellor's proposals shall Ibe communicated only to the Prime Minister instead of the full Cabinet.
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Evening Post, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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201J. H. THOMAS BITTER Evening Post, Issue 126, 29 May 1936, Page 9
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