Parliament - Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : The reassem- bly
of the House of Commons on Tuesday found the resources of Parliamentary procedure for once inadequate to meet the wishes of members. The whole House wanted nothing but a statement on War Debts which had been promised ; and, when that statement was un- avoidably •postponed, wanted to adjourn. This was. im- possible without making one supply day into two, and so members had to go on debating topics upon which their interest was not for the moment concentrated. These topics were intrinsically interesting enough, and included the British reservation to the proposed abolition of bomb- ing from the air, which was raised by Mr. Attlee, the most improved- Parliamentarian of all the: Labour members. The tendency of the House to support the . Government in making the reservation was not. improved. by Captain Guest making it the test for disparaging all efforts to secure international disarmament ; but Captain Eden, who received a special cheer for his good work at Geneva, obtained at least a suspension of judgement by insisting that the reservation did not imperil the general prospects of the success of the Conference at all. The Four-Power Pact was treated by the Opposition with a contempt which it hardly deserves, for its substance depends upon the determination of its originator—Signor Mussolini—to make it worth something. Mr. Horobin contributed a sparkling anathema of the inflationists, and is a young man to be watched. * , *
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