Mr. C. R. Attlee Question:
Civil List: Unfair to the and Unheal thy for the People London, May 24.
"I don't think it right that the King should be expected to live always on rade, that he and his family should Biways be in the public eye." said Mr. C. R. Attlee, leader of the Opposition, "in moving an amendment inthe House of Commons to-day 19 Timi the Civil List appropriation of £41000 to one year instead accepting it as a standard annual "in late years," he continued, there thas been far. too much boosting of Foyalty, in the press and on the wireless. I don't think it is fair to the monarch, and it is unhealthy for the people.
"We have had fulsome adoration and a display of vulgar snobbery in large section of the press, which Continually holding up the King and the Royal Family to the utmost kind vulgar publieity—giving them the ulgar, kind of boosting they would get it they were selling some of their Own goods....1 think it is undesirble that the public should be indocfrinated with an entirely false idea of the Importance of the Throne, Democratic Trends Mr, Attlee emphasized that he did riot advocate "running the mon-Srehy. on the cheap," bul said "We don't make a god of an ordinary man in this country nor," he added, "would he strip the monarchy of all pageantry." "But," he declared, "there very great' difference between occasional displays of pageantry, and continual observat.ce of ritual." to. the classies state," he proceeded.
'Mr. James Maxton, "Ind. Labour Member for the Bridgeton' division of Glasgow, supported Mr, Attlee' proposal, The Coronation proceedings, he said, consisted of "bunkum, bunting: and hysteria Mr. Winston Churchill expressed surprise that the Labour Parly had hot. changed the status of the monarchy in ilg two-time control of the Government during tha last ten years.
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