The Archive · 1937

By SAPAJOU

unduly with private enterprise which, Incidentally, has always managed to make hay when Coronation suns shine. Even atthe time of the Restoration complaints on that score were made by the Lord Marleys of the day. Lord Marley might remember the definition of "casual Tabour" once given by an expert in that occupation who claimed some state benefit on the ground that his occupation of selling street programmes on Coronation Days and At Royal Weddings made it imi sible for him to set himself regu ly to work. AS for the threadbare and maliciously conceived attack on Mr. Stanley Baldwin over the con stitutional crisis of last winter, Lord really should be ' more original. That lie has been so widely disseminated and so categorically refuted in the Press both in England and America that it is surprising to find it still worthy of any demagogue's attention, Lord Marley actually does a disservice to the Duke of Windsor in resuscitating so hoary a mendacity, for the process of ¢or-reeling it must confirm certain opin fons which were best forgotten. The Working-classes. behind the Trade Unions are under no illusions there and they could give Lord Marley a tle salutary information if he were disposed to ask for it,

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