Several members recalled incidents in the long struggle of Parliament ie establish its privilege against the frown and the executive and insisted that an issue of comparable gravity had arisen but Sir Arnold Wilson, Conservative. Member for Hitchin, Suggested that the country, as opposed to the House, was mainly con. cerned to see-that if any servant of the Crown had acted in dereliction of his duty he should be brought before a competent court.
The Committee of Privileges, which consists of the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. C. R, Attlee, the Attorney General, Sir Donald Somer-vell, Mr. Winston Churchill Mr. R. D, Denman, National Labour Member for Central Leeds, Sir John Gilmour, Conservative former Home Secretary and Secretary for Scot-Jand, Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Labour Member for Wakefield, Mr." George Lambert, Liberal 'National, Sir Hugh O'Neill, Conservative. Member for Antrim' and Sir Archibald Sinclair, Leader of the Liberal Opposition, met at the House of Commons this evening for over an hour with the Prime Minister in the chair.. A fur-thet meeting will be held fofnótrow.—Wireless through Reuter,
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