The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Legislature Hears Statesman § ; y y *~~ y e \' -» * € ~ t : | s : The Legislature yesterday for three--quarters of an | _ hour listened to an address by Lord Marley, Deputy Speaker \ and Chief Opposition Whip in the House of Lords, He is shown chatting with Premier Hepburn in his office.--Staff Photo. Destruction Inevitable. In addition to the Ministry of In-- "But if the Nazi Government at-- formation, which Lord Marley de-- tacks our women and children," scribed as '"'one of the most out-- Lord Marley warned, we will not | standing failures" in dealing wit hesitate to attack--not their women the establishment of true under-- and children--but the great indus-- standing among neutral countries, trial centres, which in some in-- the Ministry of Shipping and the 1 stances are but four or five minutes' Ministry of Economic \\jarfarc had flight from our advance air stations. also come under opposition fire. The location and general situation "Criticism is part of the buildup | of these centres is such as to make of democracy," he declared, "It is a | their destruction inevitable if and part of the whole democratic idea. when we find it necessary to under-- Perhaps you see the cloven hooi of hnd take it." Opposition here, but I must add | * k The British Labor peer told mem-- that there are many aspects of Gov»-- | |ndusfr|a| Areas Wl" bers of the Legislature that criti-- ernment polic.\'"to which we give | _ Be Wrecked if Germans cism of the Government was being fullest support. Sf } H D | pursued with vigor despite the fact Appreciation of Canada. art, e eC lares that a war was in progress, and Great Britain, he said, was watch-- wecl__2222lcekcce maintained that such criticism was ing closely what was being done s & "a part of the whole democratic in Canada in connection with the | W O N T H E S | T A T E idea." task that lay ahead. He voiced ap-- | w mm mmmmmme In an interview last evening, Lord preciation of the Canadian spirit, [ . * Sss ; Marle ointed out that his refer-- based on "the sympathetic under-- The first Gern it ack Y P a Pss | th "'l'\ 1an. * '. a"'"}f Of ences on the political issue had standing of the rather greater dif-- | e C."' xan' populal_lons of Great been confined entirely to British ficulties the British Isles are fac-- | Britain or France will be the signal affairs and were not to be con-- \ing, as a result of being nearer to for immediate bombing raids on the strued as applicable in any way to fth(- seat of fighting." a | great industri "rars conditions in Canada. Canadians, he said, could con-- :f{h' laud 5_ at Uf\""es of the "My speech dealt entirely with the Etemplate the international situation | ineland, \\xll} their complete de-- British domestic situation," he said. \ and the prosecution of the war in | struction "inevitable," Lord Marley, "I am totally uninformed as to the [a more detached spirit than the | Deputy Speaker and Chief Opposi-- trend of events in Canada, and can-- British, and this in turn would be tion Whip in the House of Lords not be held responsible for any in-- valuable later on. Splendid help had * e ras, terpretation of my remarks with re-- already been forthcoming from Can-- told the Ontario Legislature yes-- : spect to the situation here. ada and other British Dominions, terday. In his address before the Legis-- he added, and the Empire Alr The Allies, he said, had confined lature, the distinguished British Training Scheme might turn out their attacks to purely milit b iatatesman declared that, while full-- to be the most important contribu-- fln pure'y military OD+ . | est co--operation was being accorded | tion of all. jectives, and had refrained from 'the British Government in many of | "I look for an immense but care bombing strategic industrial centres its policies, the Opposition would fully guarded de.velop_mené Ofdlan; only because women an j not shrink from "criticism of any dustrial production in anada, h 'Y not vet b p € id es one at any time" when the circum-- Lord Marley said. "You have al« aye not yet been evacuated from stances warranted it. ready shown by your marvellous them. An attack would lead to loss "We haven't joined with the Gov-- response to the recent war loalj. of civilian life in Germany, which ernment," he said, "because we be-- that you have a measure or,.'prps- would be used as an excuse to lieve in adequate criticism. We are perity here. That, I thmk.fi\\hl 1n= justify similar attacks by the enemy. mainly concerned with criticism of | crease as .the war goes on. the direction of the Ministry of In-- formation, but any department which is not carrying out its duties with efficiency can expect criticism as well." t