4 APRIL 1941, Page 3

The Week In Parliament

Our Parliamentary correspondent writes : —News from the Mediterranean has provided this week the same sort of more confident background that President Roosevelt's speech gave to debates a week ago. On the other hand, the raids on Plymouth and Clydeside should compel some drastic improve- ments in our Civil Defence services. Between these major events of the war Parliament has been considering further steps towards the mobilisation of industry and man-power, and the question of Sunday opening of theatres and music-halls. Both debates had their importance, and were relevant to material and moral issues of the war.

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