21 FEBRUARY 1941, Page 3

Parlia,itentary Notes

Our Parliamentary correspondent writes : —There can be little doubt that the Prime Minister intends to raise the prestige of the post of High Commissioners. No other explanation of the removal of Mr. MacDonald makes very much sense. This in itself shows once again the dramatic powers of leadership in Mr. Churchill and also his appreciation of the new world into which we are moving. I may recall a little-noticed passage in the eariy part of his last broadcast (after a reference to the re- sponse of the Dominions): " We have been deeply conscious of the love which has flowed from the Dominions of the Crown across the broad ocean spaces. There is the first of our war aims—to be worthy of that love and to preserve it."

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