20 NOVEMBER 1936, Page 3

Had the division been taken after this speech the Government

might have fared really . badly in the lobby, but it was f011owed by one of the most inadequate speeches that Mr. Brown has ever made. This brought the Labour Party, Who, up to then, had had the good sense to let the rebels take charge of the debate, to their feet again. The result was an all-night sitting, in which the Labour Party, by their wild and woolly orations, played direetly into the hands of the Government, who were thereby enabled to round a very difficult corner.