Home Secretary's Support of Primates' Appear Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (La-hour), the lender of the Opposition, Mr. Lloyd George (Liberal), Mr. T. P." O'Connor (Nationalist) and Mr. Shapurji Saklatvala (Indeper dent) joined in the tribute, "The resolution wax unanimously adopted.
Mr, Whitley expressed his thanks an eloquent speech.
The House then adopted a resolution praying His Majesty to confer a signal mark of honour upon the late Speaker at the expense of the House, The Right Hon. John Whitley was born in 1866 educated at Clifton Col London University. "He w (Liberal) for Halifax in 1900 and became a Junior Lord of the Treasury (unpaid) and a Liberal Whip in 1907, unfit 1910, when he was made Deputy-Chairman Ways and Means. "In 1911 he became Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means. He held this office until 1921, when he was elected Speaker. He was created Privy Councillor in 1941.
London, June 15.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks has. issued @ statement in which he strongly supports the appeal made by the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York cabled earlier, and declares that, if the Bishops will make the uncontroversial changes in the Prayer Book which were urged in the Archbishop's last letter, the necessary measure will doubtless be passed by the Church Assembly and whament without opposition.
The official lists of the division in th House of Commons on the: New Prayer Book measure show! that the party votes For Against Lobo Independents t 3.
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