FOR IRISH LOYALISTS
COMPENSATION SUB JECT OF BITTER ATTACK GOVERNMENT’S CLOSE CALL (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 12.48 p.m. LONDON, Tuesday.
In the course of a debate in the House of Commons on the Govern*2™ estimate of £70,000, additional to the £1,000,000 allotted last year for compensation to Irish loyalists, Colonel the Right Hon. John Gretton led an unexpected attack from the Conservative backbenches, declaring that the compensation was most inadequate, and that the Government had failed to realise its moral obligations.
OOther Conservatives vehementlv denqunced the Government’s niggardliness.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Winston Churchill, replied that the compensation fund had already been increased twice in response to pressure. He warned the House of the danger of brushing aside the guardians of the public purse and overturning the considered judgment of the Cabinet.
The chorus of attacks nevertheless coninued, and it seemed likely that an amendment would be carried against the Government.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, then walked in, and saved the situation by securing an adjournment in order that the subject might be re-examined.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 593, 20 February 1929, Page 9
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