House of Commons:
¶ On a motion of Premier Baldwin, the suspension of David Kirkwood, Laborite (TIME, Mar. 16), was unanimously rescinded.
¶ Ex-Minister of Education C. P. Trevelyan, Laborite, offered a motion (defeated by 255 to 133 votes majority of 122) to transfer to Parliament the royal prerogative of concluding treaties with foreign powers upon the advice of the Cabinet. If the motion were defeated; the next Labor Government would see that it was carried, he said. The motion was designed to preclude secret treaties; but Ronald McNeill, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, stated that all treaties with foreign powers...
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