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. Mr. Neville Chamberlain sympathised with Mr. Snow- den because

the glance of his "glad eye" towards Mr. Lloyd George had been tactlessly diverted by Mr. Dalton. He did not, on behalf of the Government, rule out public ownership in .certain cases—for example, where some- thing had to be done regardless of cost. The point was that for every proposal of public ownership an unanswerable case must be made out. He thoroughly approved of a suggestion which had been made that a delegation should be sent to America to study the methods not only of employers but of employed. Throughout the debate there was no detailed criticism of the Government policy. In the division the Socialist amendment was defeated by 299 votes to 112.