BITTER FEELING
OVER HOUSE OF COMMONS ADJOURNMENT THIRTY CONSERVATIVE NON-VOTERS. POLITICAL REPERCUSSIONS POSSIBLE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, August 2. More than 30 Conservative members abstained from voting on the resolution at the close of the foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons. They included Mr Winston Churchill, Mr L. S. Amery and Mr Anthony Eden. The last named is reported to be ill. The result was the outcome of heated interchanges and Mr Chamberlain’s refusal to adopt a suggestion that the House meet during the recess, the result of which the Chief Whip will report to Mr Chamberlain.
The attitude of the absentees, it is felt, was bitterly personal in character. The debate may have important political repercussions. The "Daily Telegraph" (Independent Conservative) says that the general impression in the lobbies is that the division figures showed greasifeeling than was expected for the principle of the amendment, which sought reassembly of the House on August 2L
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 5
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158BITTER FEELING Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 5
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