Parliament's Week: The Commons:

Parliament's Week

¶ Opened with a Labor question on, whether His Majesty's Government intend to explain to the Government of the United States that the United Kingdom is about to re-arm with an expenditure of millions due but unpaid to the U. S. Treasury.*

This question Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain left to one of his young men to answer in the negative. ¶ Observed with distaste efforts by Lady Astor, Conservative, to avoid having to give up her convenient aisle seat to Laborite "Old George" Lansbury who was propelled into it by...

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