Two of the new Bills promised in the King's Speech
will create a Ministry of Health and a Ministry of Ways and Commund cations. Other measures will deal with housing, the fulfilment of the pledges given to the Trade Unions at the outset of the war for the restoration of their old customs, the prevention of the " dumping" of imported goods at lower prices than they fetch in the country where they are made, the " increasing of industrial and agricultural output "—a large and vague proposal —the training and settleMent of ex-soldiers on the land, reels- illation of land, and afforestation. The King ended by com- mending to the consideration of Parliament the industrial problems of the time, in the hope that the gifts of leisure and prosperity might be more generally shared. Parliament is accustomed to large programmes at the opening of each Session, but it has never before been set so ambitious a task as is implied in the Speech. The public would be well advised not to expect the literal fulfilment at once of all these promises.
