Before this debate on the Ruhr, Parliament had been engaged
on most useful but' comparatively minor work. On Thursday, March 1st, it is true, the question of with- drawal from Mesopotamia was again discussed, but only- in Committee of Supply. The debate was marked by a witty .speech from Lord Apsley, but was, like its prede- cessors, rendered indecisive by the fact that the Turks were still discussing the Lausanne Treaty. On Friday, the 2nd, the House passed the second readings of two most necessary measures of social reform. The first was Major Entwistle's Bill to allow wives to divorce husbands on the same grounds as husbands now divorce wives: The second was the Bill to legitimatize children born out of wedlock whose parents had subsequently married. The first measure was read by a majority of 204 and the second was agreed to with the dissent of Sir S. Russell- Wells. It is most sincerely to be hoped that the Govern- ment will give facilities for the passage of both Bills. That the present House feels so real a desire to reform some of our legal ineptitudes is most encouraging.
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