The Archive · 1934

Brick Thrown at Mr

BALDWIN'S HOUSE

London, June 27.

While Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, this morning fatiended a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street, a brick wrapped in paper was hurled at a window of hig residence by a young man. The latter was arrested on the " spot—

The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, is expected to leave London to-morrow for Lossiemouth where he will spend a week or £0, after which it is expected that he will go to the Canadian Rockies for real holiday out of the reach of State papers.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, will act as Prime Minister during his absence.

Mr. MacDonald's daughter, Ishbel, who will accompany her father on his holiday, has written a letter to Dr. William Grant of Esington, the Prime Minister's chief supporter in the Seaham Division, "saying that nothing is really wrong with her father except that he is tired and must have a real rest.

We have learnt by experience," she says, "that he cannot have this in this country, as he is always. running to the telephone. I feel confident that it will not be long before father is in full health, and that he will then be able to spend the rest Jof the holiday storing up reserve strength. In general health, he well as ever. He is only' suffering from fatigue through not having had _real holiday for five years.

Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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