The Week in Parliament
Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: It would be diffi- cult to improve on the tribute passed by the Prime Minister to Mr. Neville Chamberlain. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Baldwin were the figure-heads of the late National Government, but the administrative brain behind financial and social policy was that of the ex-Lord Mayor of Birmingham and former Minister of Health. Improvements in pensions, the Unemployment Assistance Board, a progressive Housing policy, these and many other social reforms bear the hall-mark of Neville Chamberlain's great administrative experience. He was a very good Parliamentarian; he enjoyed a tough battle where intricate knowledge and accurate statistics formed the essentials of the debate, because he was always a master of detail and precise statement. I can think of no other member of the present Government, even with its wider complexion, whose record is comparable, unless it be Herbert Morrison.
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