At present,. all the debating strength) is on the side of the Opposition. Apart from Mr. Bonar Law, whose health Mr. Garvin assures us ab intervals is being severely taxed, there are no good debaters on the Government side at all. The Party will undoubtedly have to get back Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Sir Robert Home and Sir Laming Worthington Evans. Mr. Churchill is out, but Mr. Lloyd George dropped in this week and made a good speech, very critical of French action in the Ruhr. The Government, however, held its own on Mesopotamia, and got a huge majority on the Labour Pensions Amendment, since Members, though critical, were {compelled to vote against a proposal which made pensions a party matter. There. have been no discoveries im respect to orators, except one—Mr. James Welsh, a Labour miner from Scotland, who has written a small book of poems and delivered what was really a very eloquent speech, so much so that it gripped the whole House.
We now start the Estimates, acoused of wobbling to the Right. which are our usual business during been refused by the Boviet.
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