At Westminster Parliament, with an adjournment of which its members
stand in more than ordinary need impending, has been concerned mainly with questions of domestic interest. The House of Commons, on Thursday, July 25th, showed sonic anxiety for assurances as to the future lot of the minorities in Iraq, but transport, agriculture, coal and health have been the main subjects of discussion, most of them arising on the votes that arc being hurried through by the summary process habitual at this stage of the session. Under such conditions the debates are not as a rule acutely contentious and Ministers can speak more objectively than when they have to defend their policy against sharp attack. It was in that spirit that Mr. Morrison discussed transport and Mr. Shinwell tha coal situation. In the former field it was reported that, according to first indications, the operation of the Road Traffic Bill has made for safer roads as well as for faster travel, and the Minister declared himself ready to app -oach the question of rail electrification on the lines of the Weir report undisturbed by the vastness of the sums involved. On Wednesday Mr. Morrison ended the Charing Cross Bridge vacillations (discussed on a later page) by killing the scheme.
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