News of the Week
UNEMPLOYMENT has been the preoccupying polit- ical subject of the week. The Report of the Transference Board was followed by the debate in the House of Commons on Tuesday, a debate which naturally derived much of its substance from the Report. We. have discussed the Report in our first leading article and . must say something here about the debate. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald moved a vote of censure on the Government and suggested remedies scarcely one of which would have a tenth part of the value of Mr. Churchill's scheme for reducing rates. On the whole, the debate was singularly wanting in form and coherence. The formlessness extended to the principal speeches. Mr. MacDonald spoke too long and ramblingly. And the speech of the Prime Minister lacked his usual artistry of arrangement. All the important part of the speech was in the tail, and consequently really important proposals were left half-explained.
