The House has filled up this week only at Question
Time. Already it is beginning to wear its end-of-the-session air, and the odds and ends of legislation with which lately it has been faced are in present circumstances doubly un- appetising. For Questions, however, the House has lost none of its buoyancy, and it was in a particularly obstreperous mood on Wednesday. Tory Members have shown before now that they do not like too much badgering of their Ministers, but Sir William Davison was surely too harsh with Mr. Noel Baker. After all, the Opposition have greater opportunities at Question Time if Government supporters let them have it all their own way. Mr. Mander, whose shots at times go astray, scored a bull's eye when he asked whether, for the vacant Archbishopric of Cyprus, a suitable candi- date could not be found in the Whips' Office. The House is feeling rather susceptible to criticism about the appoint- ment of Whips to overseas Governorships. No one has objected very much to their elevation to the Cabinet, which has been a feature of the Margesson regime, but most Members are not prepared to see the patronage of the Chief Whip extended to the British Empire.
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