1 JULY 1938, page 7

Apart From The Question Of Privilege, Very Wide Issues In

connexion with freedom of speech are raised. Let us admit at once that the recent Debates on the Air Estimates and the reconstruction of the Government which followed would not......

The Big Sensation, However, Was Provided By Mr. Duncan...

Some Members feel that this is an issue of first- class constitutional importance. Members of Parliament are rightly jealous of their privileges, and one may anticipate that the......

On Tuesday Captain Ramsay Introduced A Private Member's...

the ten-minutes rule, to prevent aliens participating in assemblies " for the purpose of propagating blasphemous or atheistic doctrines or any other activities calculated to......

The Purpose Of Empire Nothing Could Be Better Than The

statement on the aims of British Colonial policy made by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, at Oxford, on Tuesday. If we are to be fit to administer a colonial......

Coal-owning Peers The House Of Lords Completed Its Work On

the Govern- ment's Coal Bill on Tuesday and the measure returns to the House of Commons, considerably amended in favour of the royalty-owners, with minatory observations from......

The Week In Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent...

on Monday provided a whole series of surprises and sensa- tions. A question from Sir Henry Page Croft, based upon what appeared to the Opposition as an outrageously scurrilous......

A National Maternity Service While Considerable Progress...

in recent years in reducing the rate of infant mortality, the rate of maternal mortality has remained obstinately high. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the scheme for a......