The Wee k in Parliament Cur Parliamentary Correspondent writes: Circumstances outside
my control prevented my listening to the speeches and concessw.is made on the second day's debate of the MacDonald Bill. Reliance on the Press or the B.B.C. is generally a poor substitute. As this is the first debate I have missed for many months I should like to express a view on the role of members both in war and peace. Parliament fulfils itself in many ways, lest one narrow interpretation should corrupt its vitality. There are over 600 ways of carrying out Parliamentary duties. But each rn.:mber has a unique relationship, indeed a contract, with his constituency, with several thousand men and women, whose special and general interests he is elected to safeguard. This is either a job worth doing or a pretence. Two members who have more recently fought seats, Major Lloyd and Colonel Headlam, can testify that their electors wished them to sit in Parliament, and accordingly Major Lloyd resigned his com- mission.
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