THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
Speaking at the annual dinner of the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, Mr Arthur Henderson, the Foreign Secretary, said he had sat under four Speakers and had seen Governments of various descriptions, and after 27 years’ experience he was prepared to say that the House of Commons was one of the most human institutions there was to be found, anywhere in the world. Without wishing to utter a single word reflecting upon any other country, he had no hesitation in saying that he honestly believed that our system of Parliamentary government was the finest we could have, and suited best to a democracy such as we had in this country. “I believe that our Parliament has a firmer hold upon tho overwhelming majority of the British people than it ever had before,” he said. “With all the talk about dictatorship, I believe that the percentage of the people in this country who would risk a dictatorship, with all its limitations, would be exceedingly small.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 22 January 1931, Page 2
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