The Week in Parliament . . Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes
The Bill arising out of ,the German default made the House of Commons extremely nervous. Everyone agreed that the -German case was untenable, but everyone was frightened by the vision of another blow to severely damaged inter- national trade. Major Nathan also put very exhaustively and clearly objections to the wide powers asked for by the Government, and his speech was mainly responsible both for the promise to exclude certain items from the operations of the new Clearing Office and for the Government's concession in putting a time limit of two years on the Bill. Sir Herbert Samuel also made a welcome return to the House, though he did not appear fully to grasp the threat to all international trade upon unplanned lines constituted by the German action. On the whole, however, it was a good day for the Liberals. • * * *
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