The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Mr.
Chamber- lain's statement on Danzig gave satisfaction throughout the House. There were a few comments that it might have been stronger—foreign ears miss all but the loudest notes these days—and that it might have been delivered with greater vigour. But it is now plain beyond all doubt that we shall go to war for Danzig. Of course, the Prime Minister's critics assert that so long as he remains Prime Minister his words will always be offset by the belief that he will make any concession in preference to war, and that there will never be any real change for the better in the international situation. The most forceful argument in favour of Mr. Churchill's inclusion in the Cabinet is that it would mark, as nothing else would, Mr. Chamberlain's determination to resist aggression. Lobby opinion this week, however, is that the Prime Minister will invite Mr. Churchill to join his Cabinet only as another of those measures which operate in the event of an emergency. A few people are confident that the Government will give way on this as they have given way on a good many other things in the past ; but a very large body of Tories still distrust Mr. Churchill and dislike his friends. The Government Whips have been busy persuading their cohorts that the mere appointment of Mr. Churchill to the Cabinet would bring a declaration of war, and that those who want Churchill in more truthfully desire Chamberlain out.
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