POLICY IN BRITAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1938, Page 5

POLICY IN BRITAIN

NEW SESSION OPENING TOMORROW SOME SUBJECTS FOR DEBATE. REARMAMENT & PALESTINE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. November 5. The session of the thirty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be opened in state on Tuesday by the King. The first two days of the new session will be taken up with the general debate on the Address-in-Reply to the King’s Speech and the Opposition amendment will be taken on Thursday and discussed well into the middle of the following week. The rearmament programme is expected to furnish the main subject of discussion in debates on the address, and, next to that, the chief interest in anticipation centres on the announcement to be made on Palestine by the Colonial Secretary, Mr Malcolm MacDonald. MR ATTLEE’S STRICTURES. “NEGLECT & INCOMPETENCE." (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 5. The Opposition Leader, Mr C. R. Attlee, speaking at Dartford today, said that appeals for national unity, irrespective of party differences, rang hollow while the “most incompetent Government in modern times” was kept in power by the party loyalty of its supporters. He averred that in former times the House of Commons would have revolted before the repeated revelations of Ministerial neglect and incompetence.