The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Very
few of those who heard it can have shared Mr. Quintin Hogg's view that Monday's debate on foreign affairs was a waste of time. The whole electorate is concerned with the inter- national situation. Domestic issues play a very small part at the by-elections. Parliament is rising for nearly six weeks, during which time Mr. Chamberlain is to pay his visit to Rome. The Opposition would have been a poor- spirited lot if in these circumstances they had failed to call for a discussion on foreign policy, though whether it was the right tactics to table a vote of censure is open to question. Dr. Dalton, who opened the attack, has an air of apparently conscious superiority which irritates a section of his audience, but he can always be relied upon to state a case effectively, and he certainly did so on this occasion. His theme was the continuous decline in British power and influence in the world during the past seven years. * * * *
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