RED LEADER CONVERTED
PRINCE CHANGES VIEWS OF I MR. COOK NO LONGER REVOLUTIONARY (United Service J LONDON, Saturday. The Prince of Wales has converted Mr. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners’ Federation. “I am still in theory a Republican, but the Prince of Wales has been the chief factor in destroying my republicanism,” is Mr. Cook’s striking declaration in an interview published in the “Daily Sketch.” “I have departed from my own revolutionary opinions because the Prince has departed from the orthodox conduct of Royalty. “If he were not the Prince of Wales he would still be a great social worker and reformer, and probably a member of the same party as myself. A year ago this statement would have been received with hooting and indignation at any Labour meeting. To-day it is received with cheers.” Mr. Cook says that through the wonderful work of the Prince on behalf of the miners the question of the Monarchy had ceased to be an issue in the working-class movement. “It has made the British Throne the safest in the world and the Prince the safest man in Britain,” says Mr. Cook. Thus the miners’ secretary handsomely recants his oft-expressc o opinion that a revolution in England is inevitable.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 644, 22 April 1929, Page 9
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207RED LEADER CONVERTED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 644, 22 April 1929, Page 9
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