The Week in Parliament
Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes: The debate on the Budget continues; the uneasiness about our liberties continues ; the disquiet about the Ministry of Information continues. Mean- while the war also is at one of its most critical periods. It is, therefore, important that the House of Commons should not only ventilate grievances, but hear considered statements of policy from Ministers, such as we heard and welcomed from Dr. Dalton, the vigorous Minister of Economic Warfare. It might have been better to have heard the statement about War Office re-organisation from Mr. Eden in the House ; we must be grateful that at last an attempt is being made to tackle this problem with the assistance of business men. It would have been still better if the Commons could have heard a public debate on Foreign Policy. The present position of Parliament is becoming more and more unsatisfactory. The absence of any organised Opposition, with all the attendant business arrangements which that involves, was responsible for the spirited protest which was made by Lord Winterton, Colonel Wedgwood and Mr. Bevan on the occasion of the Secret Session.
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