The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The
Labour Party appeared at their worst in the debate on the Civil List. While being at pains to proclaim their devotion to the institu- tion of Monarchy, they made a series of vague charges against the "social flummery" and anti-Labour influences sur- rounding the Court. Mr. Attlee made in this connexion the curious assertion that "it was beyond all questipn that during the period of the last Labour Government there was a steady propaganda to influence the mind of King George V on the question of the unemployed." This was received with loud Labour cheers, but Mr. Attlee made no attempt to explain what precisely he had in mind. As Sir Archibald Sinclair pointed out in a most effective debating speech, the financial and unemployment policy of the Labour Govern- ment had caused wide dissatisfaction, and 'if representations were made to the King on the subject there was every reason to suppose that they came from the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer in that Government, "who were after all, His Majesty's advisers and had every right to make representations."
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