27 DECEMBER 1940, Page 3

The Vi" eek in Parliament

Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: The Prime Minister and Mr. Lloyd George closed the short session before the Christmas recess with further tributes to Lord Lothian. As Mr. Churchill said, " To die at the height of a man's career is not the most unenviable of fates." Mr. Lloyd George spoke of his old Secretary with deep affection: he was dead right when he said " Philip Kerr—forgive me for using his name—could talk to them in a language which no other man of British birth could dare. They took it from him. He made bold, blunt, outspoken speeches. I do not know of any other man from whom they would have taken it." After these two warriors of the last. war had spoken there was little further concern with the debate.