Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : There were no surprises during
the first day's work after the recess in the House of Commons, but the Government an- nounced a good many decisions. Tote clubs are to go, a Bill on the licensing of heavy lorries is to be introduced before Easter, and the World Economic Conference is to meet sometime. There was an uncon- scious irony in the Prime Minister's statement that many of the delegatiqns to that Conference have it long way to travel. The Opposition attempted a catechism on the Irish situation, which seemed to show that they think our difficulties in paying debts to the U.S.A. excuse the attitude of Mr. de Valera. There was little new in Mr. Thomas' answers, except that he made it still more clear that if Mr. de Valera had started by acknowledging the validity of the debt, the Irish Free State could have obtained a large reduction of it. * * * *
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