The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Mr.
Lloyd George's conversations with the Cabinet Committee on his New Deal proposals, which began last week, appear to have been most cordial. I understand that he was agreeably surprised that the main obstacle to the way of their acceptance was not financial. Mr. Neville Chamberlain was primarily concerned with the amount of employment that the proposals would provide. The weakness of Mr. Lloyd George's proposals is that a great part of them, notably in the realm of housing and telephone development, is already being carried out. So far as land settlement is concerned, if it is to be launched on the scale that Mr. Lloyd George demands, it would require a thumping tariff of a kind that would be certain. to have a further adverse effect on the export trade. There is also the danger of a substantial rise in food prices, which might have a calamitous result on the Government's chances at the polls.
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