SCENE IN PARLIAMENT
MISS WILKINSON ON WARPATH. “Warrior Ellen Wilkinson, fiery copper-haired Socialist M.P. for Jarrow," crossed swords in the House of Commons with War Minister HoreBelisha, according to a “Daily Mail” writer. Miss Wilkinson was on the warpath. First she went for Hore-Bel-isha because there were twenty-one titled women among the fifty-nine county commandants of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. She asked him “whether he thought that it was wise that 40 per cent of the officers should be restricted to a very narrow social set when the force was expected to be a national force." Also if he thought that “to be a good Mayfair hostess was a qualification necessary for such appointments." In what, outside Parliament, would be called a rather catty scrap,, Lady Astor asked Miss Wilkinson “if she was doing anything to ge' Socialist women to join this service.” Miss Wilkinson retorted promptly, with relish and acerbity: “Not while it is in the hands of a social set like yours.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 7
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164SCENE IN PARLIAMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1939, Page 7
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