Foreign News: Very Uncomfortable

With the Labor government's majority in the House of Commons down to a precarious four seats, Britons were watching the pulses and respirations of obscure members of Parliament as though each one were a rich relation. Last week five M.P.s were ill, and the British Press Association issued a bulletin on their relative progress. The report at week's end:

"Mr. Glanville (Labor): satisfactory.

"Mr. Burden (Conservative): comfortable.

"Colonel Stoddart-Scott (Conservative) : comfortable.

"Mr. Albu (Labor) : unchanged.

"Mr. Willey (Labor): very comfortable."

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