The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary correspondent writes :—Though it
was only half past three on 1Vednesday afternoon when Mr. Churchill rose to move his Rearmament amendment to the address it was already dark outside and the gloom of the November afternoon pervaded the whole House as he unfolded in his best rhetorical manner the ease for a heavy and immediate expansion of our aerial defences. He made most effective play with the fact that if members wanted to find out any facts about the aerial defences of European countries other than Germany they had only to put down " an unstarred question On the order paper " and it would be answered. Germany alone was shrouded in a cloud of secrecy. On the whole the case was put very moderately. Mr. Churchill got cheers from all parts of the ]louse when he concluded a really fine Parliamentary effort with a plea that this House of Commons should not be unworthy of the patriotism that inspired the creation of the National Government.
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