18 APRIL 1941, Page 3

There will be second thoughts on the Budget and continued

anxiety over 'Hitler's unfolding plan to subjugate the British Empire. There will be murmuring criticism on smaller points and demands for speedier administration in half-a-dozen Depart- ments, but Parliament is too divorced from the administrative machine to offer the kind of pointed, telling criticism that in peace-time keeps a Government on its toes. It must be, there- fore, assumed that every Minister is working his Department at a war level, ceaselessly, night and day, planning ahead for every emergency. * * * *