17 NOVEMBER 1944, page 10

It. Is Necessary That The Accommodation And Amenities...

the Press and strangers should be considerably extended ; but it is also right that upon the floor of the House itself the former dimensions should be maintained. To provide for......

The Select Committee Appointed This Time Under The...

Lord Winterton have in some ways been presented with a simpler task. Their predecessors were obliged to begin their discussions by considering whether the Westminster site was,......

Mr. Lloyd George, It Is True, Came To Perplex Their

counsels by urging them " not to be rushed into a mere repetition of the old Chamber," and by advancing the interesting suggestion that the traditional shape of the House of......

* * * * The Problem Of Acoustics Has Been

dealt with in a most scientific fashion, although the sad example of the theatre at Stratford-on- Avon should warn us that the science of acoustics is still in baby shape. The......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON F OR the second time in one hundred and ten years the House of Commons Chamber in the Palace of Westminster has been destroyed by fire, and for the second......