Parliamentary Notes
From our Parliamentary Correspondent: There is no precedent for the present situation, and therefore it is little use quoting the ordinary rules. Parliament ought to meet this week in order to hear from the Cabinet a report on foreign policy and on Dakar, to interrogate a number of Ministers on social questions, and to debate the whole question of Civil Defence. If there was an organised Opposition I have no doubt that Parliament would be recalled, but at the moment there is not even an unorganised Opposition. Ministers are apt to regard Parliament as a nuisance, but it is as well to remind them that they exist by the will of the House of Commons and that there are many moods and currents of thought in an open-eyed democracy. The peculiar value of the National Assembly is that it is able to reflect most of the currents and to interpret the moods of the people.
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