14 DECEMBER 1934, Page 3

The speech of the First Commissioner of Works on Tues-

day was admirable, particularly his ragging of the Whigs, who form such a substantial proportion of the dis- sentients. The fact that an educated India demanded Home Rule today was due to " the principles taught through the medium of Whig books, under the domination of the Whig doctrinaire Lord Macaulay." But the best debating speech has been that of Lord Eustace Percy. Without a note in his hand he took point after point in Sir Henry Page-Croft's speech and in half an hour one of the best speeches made by the Oppositon had been completely punctured.