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Something "substantial"
Mr. Will Thorne.
This week was to have been devoted, de die in diem, to getting on with the Government of Ireland Bill. But the malignant sprite that has hitherto foiled every effort to pacify Ireland again intervened, and the House found itself called upon to discuss the Emergency Powers Bill. The measure is a peace-time successor to D.O.R.A. (who in the opinion of the Government is getting a little passée) and, perhaps naturally, met with little approval. Mr. Asquith, while admitting that something of the kind might be required, took exception to the vagueness of its drafting. "What is 'substantial'?" he inquired. "Ask them another!" Mr. Will Thorne joyfully interjected. "What is 'substantial'?" repeated the ex-Premier; whereupon the Coalition with one voice replied, "Will Thorne." - Punch, Vol. 159, November 3, 1920
Will Thorne - Punch cartoon - Project Gutenberg eText 17994.png
Caricature of Will Thorne, in Punch magazine, 3 November 1920, celebrating an interjection made by Thorne during a debate on the Emergency Powers Bill.
From The Project Gutenberg EBook of Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, November 3, 1920, by Various
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