On Wednesday history rather repeated itself, and the House could
not take much interest in Sit Henry Better- ton's Bill to prolong the present stop-gap system of unem- ployment insurance and relief, The GOVeinment appears to have reached the stage, familiar in all its predecessors, of having formulated probInns but not solutions. The Opposition takes the equally familial' line that the Govern- ment will do nothing except increase the Misery of the unemployed. Upon this ineffectual debate Mr. Chamber- lain's statement upon War Debts came as a blessed relief. Rumont for Once had not lied, and the satisfactory nature of President Roosevelt's reply delighted .everybody, not so much because it presaged 'reli0 to the BritiSh Budget as because it was felt-to give the Economic Conference a chance to achieve something praCtikal.i'
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