News of the Week The Coal Bill in the House
of Lords PARLIAMENT re_Pqsembled on Tuesday and the debate in the House of Lords was remarkable for . a moving speech by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Sankey. Conditions have changed since the time when no debate in the House of Lords was considered to be rounded off. until the Lord Chancellor had spoken. Till Tuesday Lord Sankey had not made a single speech. The Manner of his maiden speech was that of a man concerned- more with an ethical. view of politics than with economics_ and very little .concerned with• the professional conventions of politicians. He did not hesitate to speak emotionally—a risky thing to do in Parliament, where hursts of emotion are sometimes assumed, not altogether unjustly, to disguise a lack of information or to signify that the opinions expressed are not calm, ahd consequently not practical. Lord Sankey, however, very successfully saved his speech from any disparage- ment on these grounds. His sincerity was so patent that it deeply impressed the House. * *• *
