The debate on Tuesday was opened by Mr. Wheatley, the
ex-Minister of Health, who moved an amendment regretting that the Government were leaving the solution of the housing problem mainly to private enterprise and to occupying. ownership. Mr. Wheatley is an ingenious • and vivid phrase7maker, but on this occasion he was not in his best form. He had more to say about the beauties of Socialism than about the hard facts of housing. "Housing is the Red Cross work of the class struggle" was his most prominent epigram. But why a class struggle ? Why insist upon a war that need not be in order to bring in the Red Cross ? Besides, all Red Cross organizations aid one another ; they are complementary and co-operative, not hostile ; but Mr. Wheatley would like to finish off Mr. Neville Chamberlain's Red Cross Workers altogether.
