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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1943, Page 4

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TO & FROM AMERICA BRITISH PRIME MINISTER RETURN IN BATTLE CRUISER RENOWN (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, September 20. Mr Churchill returned from the United States in the battle-cruiser Renown. It is also stated that Mr Churchill went to Canada by sea. SOME RESTIVENESS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. HOME FRONT AND OTHER PROBLEMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 20. There is a likelihood of the speech with which Mr Churchill is to open a two-day war debate in the House of Commons being one of the longest he has made for some time. There is general pleasure at Mr Churchill’s safe return from America, and the country welcomed him warmly, but he will probably find a good deal of restiveness in the House of Commons, where, for the next series of sittings, members have put down 471 questions. It is hoped in some quarters that Mr Churchill will throw a little more light on the Quebec conference, while it seems that certain voices will be raised regarding “the breathing space” allowed the Germans in the interval between Mussolini’s fall and the signing of the armistice. There are also several home front problems awaiting Mr Churchill’s decision. This is commented on by the “Manchester Guardian’s” political correspondent, who says: “Mr Churchill will have been told by his friends, if they are candid, that there is marked disappointment over the Government’s handling of the home front and postwar problems. This disappointment was developing when Mr Churchill went away, and it has become sharper in the six weeks of his absence.”

There is a large body of opinion restless because no action has been taken regarding the Beveridge, Uthwatt and Scott reports, while other- questions include the serious coal position, the method of demobilisation, post-war trade and agriculture.