The Archive · 1940

Mr. Chamberlain Interrupted

Cries for Fascist Leader Woman Asked to Leave, Booed by Audience

London, Feb. 25.

During Mr. Neville Chamberlain's speech at Birmingham yesterday, there was a cry from one man of: "We want Mosley (Sir Oswald Mosley, the British Fascist leader) for peace Mr. Chamberlain continued the speech without hesitation.

"Towards the end of the speech, a woman interjected the same slogan. She was asked to leave the hall and left amidst the boos of the audience.

Members of Parliament, asked to sive their views on the interruptions during the series of speeches by members of the War Cabinet, declare these are individualistic, and are not in the least comparable with the vocal opposition normally accorded Ministers of any party when on a public platform.

Replying to a vote of thanks: at the conclusion of the speech, Mr. Chamberlain said paradoxical as it lit seem, he did not feel the strain and anxiety was so much now as the strain before the war, and when it seemed that the war might be averted. Mr. Chamberlain added: "I am still young. Time is before me, and I hope that even I may have some chance of putting my energies into the work of peace."—Reuter.

Senate Republicans and western Democrats yesterday opened attacks on the New Deal Administration's reciprocal trade treaty programme with the charge by Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that the present method of negotiating the agreements was "unconstitutional."

The bill to extend the programme for three years was passed by the House of Representatives on Friday and will be examined by the Senate Finance Committee early next week.

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