WILD DISORDER
IN CANADIAN HOUSE GRAFT ALLEGATION (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright! (Received Feb. li, 3.15 p.m.) OTTAWA, Feb. 10 There was wild disorder in the House of Commons when the Defence Minister, Mr lan Mackenzie, defending the Government contract for Bren guns, heard an unidentified Conservative from the Opposition, refer to Colonel J. L. Ralston, Mr Mackenzie’s adviser, as “ another grafter.” The Minister shouted: “Whoever said that is a dirty liar. If he will come outside I will knock his head off. The Speaker intervened. There was an uproar again when the Minister referred to a GermanCanadian Conservative member as “ a Prussian, *’ and was forced to withdraw the remark. The Opposition alleges that 7000 Bren guns ordered from a private firm which also has a War Office order was political patronage. The guns should have been manufactured by the Government itself.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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142WILD DISORDER Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 8
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