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Morgan came in for the East Denbighshire constituency (hav- ing sat originally for Denbigh); Wynn, whose family had repre- in 1885 by defeating Sir Watkin sented the county uninterrupted- ly for 177 years.

lustre

After the first Reform Act it became more difficult to hold the ing to the greater severity of same seat over long periods ow-

elections, and this adds to the record set up by Charles Pelham Villiers. Mr. Villiers was the leading force for reform of the Corn Laws exactly a hundred years ago, when the failure of his attempt to get the whole mat- ter reconsidered set the Anti- Corn Law League in motion. He had then represented Wolver- hampton for four years. He re-

Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 24, 1939-tired in 1898 with sixty-three

PARLIAMENTARY

LIBERTIES

years of unbroken service, and was able to say at the ned of that` period that the House had become a more efficient machine though he found it sometimes a little tedious through the decay of

Once the rather tangled facts had been cleared up, the famous oratory.` Sandys affair was rightly seen and judged to have been of no

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great moment. It did, however, The Larger Lunacy

Commons in

States

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raise a point of the greatest im-] portance to the liberties of Par-which roars aloud its attacks on Once again the German press, liament and therefore to the freedom of the country-the ap with the greatest freedom; is be-

England or the United plicability of the Official Secrets Acts to members of the House of ing struck by the magnificent the discharge of merits of silence for other peo- their Parliamentary duties. The ple. The M.P. who has put down Select Committee which was ap-ship and the Archbishop of West- a question about a press censor- pointed to inquire into this as-minster, who has been incautious- pect of the case has treated it with becoming seriousness and, mental muzzling of the news- ly sighing for a month's experi- on the whole, with satisfactory papers, are, it appears, "univer- good sense in its report now pub-sally and approvingly quoted by lished. The Committee wisely ad-the German newspapers." That vises against any attempt to legislate or even to define the of Dr. Goebbels's own article in: comes rather wonderfully on top. privileges of members to make which Lord Halifax's speech use of what information they the House of Lords was saluted may acquire. So delicate a mat- ter must be left to

as "a hotchpotch of nonsense and. the good platitudes." If that is how sense and responsibility of

the: individual. No doubt there

grand Panjandrum of Propa- are ganda himself interprets the art dangers in such a course, but, of courteous comment on a Brit- says the report, "they are danish Foreign Secretary's speech,. gers which must be run if mem-how can one expect his diligent bers are to continue to exercise and obedient underlings to do their traditional right and duty anything but foam at the mouth? of criticising the Executive." And yet those And if the inquiry has brought simultaneously applaud the notion

same underlings - home to members the need for of muzzled newspapers for other discretion regarding matters countries. which affect the safety of the mans left who, even in these Are there no Ger- realm, it has also "impressed troubled times, can raise a grim upon Ministers of the Crown that at such a green and graceless ab- the powers conferred upon the surdity? Is it Executive by the Official Secrets who can see Acts must not be used in such a folly as one of the major wonders. way as to impede members in of the modern world? discharging their parliamentary duties." The report contains some

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sound remarks on the limits of Starting Early Parliamentary privilege, and re-

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minds us that just because a The disappearance of an elec-- man is elected to the House of tric razor and other articles in- Commons those who know official tended for the King's use from secrets are by no means bound to the railway yard at Montreal in- reveal them to him. All in all, dicates some smart work by if the advice of the Committee souvenir-hunters, who could not is taken and remembered by all wait until the razor had shaved concerned, the country may yet the royal chin before making off benefit from the indiscretions with It. King Edward VII, dur- of this episode.

Lives in Parliament

ing his visit to Canada and the United States in 1860 as Prince of Wales, found the craze for souvenirs already well developed. His cabin on board H.M.S. Hero Mr. Lloyd George has been re- was invaded by visitors at vari. ceiving congratulations on enter-ous points on the tour and ing his fiftieth year as a mem- thoroughly ransacked for any ber of Parliament. This particular objects which might be display-- feat did not assume special inter-ed to future generations. Be- est until after the passage of the sides taking away items of fur- first Reform Bill. It was always niture and portable fittings, the rare, no doubt, hut in the unre-collectors helped themselves to formed House of Commons a handfuls of feathers from his

long life, a long purse, and a long bed-using scissors with reck- rent roll might secure long mem-less freedom-and tore pieces out- barship with little or no trouble in of the curtains. By the time the way of contested elections. successive bands of the species Yet there were some remarkable had done their worst the royal cases even so. Sir George Osborne cabin had to be refurnished.