You would be surprised at the number of foreign experts in the Labour Party. Tours are arranged at regular intervals to an 'International'? at Somewhere on Something, and from Friday until Tuesday they assimilate the entire economic, political, financial, commercial and social life of the particular country which—do not mention it—is probably paving, their expenses. Consequently we had a discussion this time on Foreign Polities and Umemployment." Labour roamed about the whole world and Mr. Newbolt treated the House to a dissertation on world politics, in which he held up the glorious vistal of the "Gay Old Revolution" and incidentally nearly had a fight which Mr. McLean of the Labour' Party, whom he Mr. McLean has always posed as a very advanced Socialist, and this straw was about the last he could bear, and se, with his bushy white hair bristling he jumped feet and would have lambasted Mr. Newbolt in the House itself had he not been restrained by his own colleagues. These Scotsmen are quiet usually, but when they do go off the deep-end, they are "it. Of course, the Glasgow Members exhibited their usual oratorical! vigour, and it is no novelty nowadays for the unfortunate Members on the Government Bench to be addressed as impudent and ignorant parasites," with more than a suggestion that they spend all their time in guzzling champagn> while the electorate is outside asking for bread and water. This sort. of oratory, however, is dying down and about May the Debates will be distinctly decorous. Even now nobody has been suspended.
The Labour Amendment was very badly beaten, and then we bad the Liberal Amendment (wing No. 2, of the Opposition), suggesting that the whole question of Reparations and the Ruhr intervention' should be submitted To the League of Nations, with American aid, for settlement. Now, much as Labour loathes the Conservative, they loathe the Liberal a deal more. They protested that the Liberal Amen was just the same as the Labour Amendment, and in large numbers they declined to vote for it, 0 that their own minority against the Government could not be less than the Liberal.
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