London, May 4.
The statement which it is hoped the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, will be in a position to make in the House of Commons on Tuesday is awaited with great inferest as well as the debate which will follow and last for two days. In this debate it is expected that the ministers representing the three Detence Ministries will take part as well as the Prime Minister.
Members of Parliament on both sides of the House are anxious for fuller information on the Norwegian campaign. There is a genera] willingness to suspend judgment though both in Parliamentary lobbies and among the general public there is a general regret that the withdrawal of Allied forces landed south of Trondheim had become necessary. It 15 recognized that local supremacy in the air, established by the Ger-mang by means of carefully planned and suddenly and treacherously executed attack on April 9, rendered the landing of a modern army's equipment hazardous and difficult—British Official Wireless.
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