These questions are merely taken at random from one day's Parliamentary proceedings and they are fewer than usual. I make no suggestions whatever with regard to these individual men, but a great deal of foreign money is being spent by exotic individuals and associations in this country under curious conditions. Everyone knows the amount of Brahmin money in the "Daily Herald" which is the organ of the Labour Party. Everyone knows how the Moslem deputation, now in this country, is looked after and entertained by the chief hour men.
Everyone knows that the Egyptians who are spending hundreds of pounds in advertising on behalf of the independence of their country are scattering money broadcast in every direction. It is also known that the Maltese agitators were ready to do the same, Whenever there is trouble in the West Indies, you wil always find Labour men ready to take up these questions about which they know nothing whatever and with which—lacking any knowl can have no real sympathy.
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Years ago there used to be a Labour member in the House of Commons named Sumimerbell who was called the Member for Trinidad. Ho took up every conceivable question from that island which was sent him by negro agitators. It will also be recollected that when there was trouble in Ceylon, the Cingalese entrusted their cause to Mr. Ginnell, They could not possibly hava done worse, As a matter of fact, they had a very good case, but they chose just the most unsuitable man they could find with the result that his advocacy antagonized everyone in the House and he never secured any sort of hearing for his grievance; this was only remedied when a member of Parliament like Sir William Collins came on the scene and interested himself in the matter.
This point of view is also baginning to be noticed with China and it may therefore be the time to warn agitators over-seas, firstly, that their methods are becoming known and discounted and secondly that they do themselves no good by entrusting their complaints to men who have no interest whatever in them, who have no knowledge of them, and who morely take them up because they think they can, for Party reasons, damage the Administration of the There are advocates such as Commander Kenworthy, who would damage any cause they championed.
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