Mr, Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, will open the proceedings, According to present plans, there will be only two other Government speakers, Major G. R. Attlee, Lord Privy Seal, in the middle, and Mr, Winston Churchill at the end, The intention is to give the back benches full scope for a debate, Mr, Leslie Here-Belisha and Mr, Oliver Stanley, both former Ministers of War, hope io speak, and Mr. David "Lloyd George, veteran Liberal leader and former Coalition premier, is a possible participant.
In the House of Lords, discussion is expected to last only three hours, A debate was first demanded in the Commons, It was at first thought that it offered a prospect of major political consequences, but the Government appointments announced last week have removed the likelihood of any such development, at least pending knowledge of how the new ministers are going to fit into the whole war machine. Unless, therefore, some unusual turn is given to the discussion, it seems unlikely that it will be much more than a useful ventilation of steam generated by recent events in Libya, Greece, Iraq and Turkey, coupled with current criticism of production, the organization of man-power, and re-
Reuter, lated problems in Great Britain.—
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