The Archive · 1941

Commons Meeting

Age-Old Ceremonial Still Observed; Work Begun on New Emergency Building

London, May 14. work on a third building in case anything happens to this one. The work of our party institutions will not be interfered with in any way by outside enemy action."

When Mr, Maxton, the Clydeside Communist, suggested that the Commons might take over the House of Lords, Mr. Churchill answered, "Mr, Maxton had better go and look at it, Tt is still capable of being used but it is surely not for us to take it away from the equally historic body to which it belongs—that would be When the Commons met yesterday in new quarters it shed not a whit of its age-old ceremonial. Preceded by a mace, rescued from the holocaust of St. Stephens, the Speaker led the procession to prayers, then mounted his chair, a replica of that burned in Saturday's fire.

The new chamber, cast in less sombre shades than its predeces: has its rows of benches and "b [aS ay FOCH TEL.14456

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