28 JUNE 1945, Page 12

THE TEN YEAR - PARLIAMENT Sta,—Summing up the record of the

Parliament which has just been dissolved, Mr. Harold Nicolson in your issue of June 15th Writes: "It has been a great Parliament" I do not propose to ask for enough- valuable space to frame a comprehensive indictment -of the- stewards and trustees of Britain's welfare during the pair ten cataclysmically eventful years, but it does seem to me that Mr. Nicolson, who has himself played a notable part in Parliament's proceedings during this time, has been over-generous by and large toward the "solid majority" composing it from which he has so frequently differed. Looking round the world today, and otimparing its state in nearly every respect_ with that prevailing in 1935,.I can only say that if the late Parliameat can truly be called "great" then may God Send us for its, sticcessor,.onc that is microscopically small and infinitesimallir puny.—Yours, &c.,