The Opposition, it is to be hoped, has now exhausted
its zest for votes of censure. Neither of those moved in the past week has done anyone a scrap of good. In the first, a portmanteau motion charging the Government with a multitude of sins, Mr. Attlee made a good speech, but Mr. Churchill made a better, and the Government secured the very comfortable majority of 24. The second, an attempt to censure the Chairman of Committees for his conduct in the chair, was very much to be deprecated. Such a motion is most unusual; Sir Charles MacAndrew has long experience in the chair, and is widely respected; and as Mr. Clement Davies observed in a most pertinent'peech. one has not much liking for a side that attacks the referee. Here there was no division, for the motion was withdrawn. The upshot of the whole business is that Parliamentary time which was badly needed was wasted, the animosities that have been far too prevalent this session were intensified and that nothing whatever was achieved.
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