The Lords—
¶ Hamstrung since 1911 by the Parliament Act emasculating their authority (for which Liberal David Lloyd George takes chief credit) the Lords dared not hope that more power would ever again be theirs until the overwhelming Conservative landslide of last year (TIME. Nov. 9). As a result their Lordships were able to study last week a scheme for restoring the power of their house which has been whipped together by an all-Conservative "unofficial committee" chairmanned by James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, Hon....
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