12 JULY 1935, Page 3

The remainder of the debate took the course now familiar

to Parliament and the country since the first post-War slump fifteen years ago. Sir Archibald Sinclair for the Liberals made a spirited defence of Free Trade to an empty House. Capt. Harold Macmillan demanded a drastic policy of Public Works and the dead •hours when all but a handful had fled to dinner were filled with the dreary drip. of desultory denunciation, enlivened by one capable speech from Mr. Martin, who is of the Harold Macmillan school of thought and compared Mr. Baldwin with " a prehistoric animal* that became extinct because it delayed too long to adapt itself to a changing world."