Marxch 3 e | 53--Minute World Tour | | | Provides MacLeod Stall l' | J Travelling via Britain, Russia with his own ears. Mr. Jolliffe said | ) | : » » | and other European countries, and he didn't. Speaker Stewart bangedh o . & hy uo-'hls gavel a few times and the upshot /' taking time out for lengthy q was that Mr. MacLkeod said that if! tations, A. A. MacLeod, Labor'Ethe rules of the House compelled| § Progressive Leader, reached On--|him to withdraw he \Y_ould do so.! tario aiter 53 minutes of diS('ussioniTh(' clock now showed o47 p.m. on world affairs, in his contribution _ Then Mr. MacLeod tossed a few | 'quotations around, one from Karl to the Throne Speech debate Y°"|Marx, and another from Shake--|| | terday. |speare's Julius Caesar: "There is At exactly 5 p.m. Mr. MacLeod?a tide in the affairs of men which, l rose to speak in the debate, and when taken at the flood . . ." at 5:53 the speaker got down to On--| At 5:53 Mr. MacLeod, not the tario affairs, _ Four minutes later least out of breath h.\j his world! he moved adjournment of the de-;tra\'cls. reached Ontario. I_n the | bate. _ The House then adjourned. space of four minutes he. said the It was generally agreed that Mr.| Drew Government !\Eld misused its MacLkeod had done an excellent mandate, usurped its power, "and piece of stalling. He admitted as now, Mr. Speaker, because of the much later while clearing his desk. lateness of the hour, I move adjourn. Next week the Labor--Progressive ment of the debste." The clock Leader will get down to cases at showed three minutes before 6 an earlier hour and it is not ex-- o'clock. pected that the second half of his, address will touch upon the eco-- nomic and political ills of lhel' world. | Riles Other Members Mr. MacLeod demonstrated that, not only could he kill time, but| that he could aid and abet his ob--| jective by getting other members mad at him. Every time he said something that some one else didn't like, there was an interruption, and these interruptions ate up a few: more minutes without the neces--. sity of Mr. MacLeod having to talk.| The Crimean conference of the| Big Three was touched upon by|i the eloquent Mr. MacLeod, who felt that _ too many people, including the C.C.F., were throwing barbs at the world leaders. _ From the Cri--] mea he travelled in a few thousand | words to the Bretton Woods and| h Dumbarton Oaks conferences, back, again overseas to the world labor conference in England, and then took a long ocean hop to New! Zealand. To support his contention that his sister Dominion was not a socialistic State, Mr. MacLeod read from an address by Deputy Prime Minister Walter Nash. Then | he had a run--in with the CCF.] Leader E. B. Jolliffe, and the hands of the clock moved _ toward 5:30. | Recalls Jolliffe Speech | From the international scene Mr.:! MacLeod proceeded by easy stages to Canada. _ He recalled that last : year out in Regina he had heard Mr. Jolliffe tell a political rally that| the choice the people had in the Prairie Province was whether lhey! wished to live under capitalism or | under a Co--operative Common-- | wealth Federation. | Mr. Jolliffe didn't like this. He | told Mr, MacLeod it wasn't true,| Mr. MacLeod said he had heard it