19 FEBRUARY 1937, page 3

Mr. Pethick-lawrence For Labour Spoke Too Long, But On The

whole did well in concealing the dilemma in which the Opposition fmd themselves. Their disinclination to trust this particular Government with so much as an air pistol cannot be......

The Doctrine That" The House Of Commons Is A Council

of State " is rather profitable to the National Government, for it has little to fear when no vital issues divide the parties. It will always win elections so long as Government......

The Opposition Regards Mr. Lloyd As Probably The Most Able

and certainly the most popular of the Under- Secretaries, and there is a fairly general hope that his compara- tive youth will not prevent him in the forthcoming ministerial......

The Factories Bill The Government's Factories Bill...

reading unopposed in the House of Commons on Monday night. Labour could not desire the rejection of a Bill which confers such benefits on the worker. The Opposition indeed fully......

A General Staff For Coal In A Speech Delivered On

Monday to the Coal Industry Society, Mr. Ebby Edwards, General Secretary of the Mine- workers' Federation, made a suggestion that if adopted might well lead to more conciliatory......

The B .b .0 .'s Critics A Group Of Conservative

M.P.'s appears to have organised a concerted barrage of questions to the Postmaster-General on the subject of the alleged Leftward tendencies of the B.B.C. They have brought......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

House whistled audibly when the Chancellor of the Exchequer came to the words "four hundred millions" in his announcement of Thursday of last week. But within a day or two......