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SURPRISE LABOUR MOVE TO REFORM THE LORDS Bitter Battle Expected In Parliament

MR. CHURCHILL TERMS IT SOCIAL AGGRESSION

London, Oct. 21. -

The battle over the reform of the House of Lords was opened tonight and is expected to rage throughout this new session of Parliament. The first shots were fired within a few hours of the Attlee Government having announced in the King's speech that the power of the Upper House to delay legislation will be cut. The proposed legislation to | Bevin) and other Labour Mem- anend the present Parliament bern for "vilifying the plane of Art is designed to reduce from the British Government" two years to one year the period Waranw press conference. of delay which the 840 Peera In the House of Lords can impose on Government-introduced fegla- tation.

Then the Lords would be un able to hold up the bill for the untionalisation of the iron and steel industry probably to be introduced during the next session that it could not be

Is the deadline for the general election.

next

"Counsel Of Madness"

at a

Amid cheers, ho said that there wns a tradition among Members that when abroad they avoided criticising their own Government.

Indian Crisis - Referring to the India and China, Mr. Eden said 'position in that in India whole populations

FLYING SAUCER REVIVAL

Copenhagen, Oct. 21. Many people of various parts of Denmark reported today that they has seen a flying object "llko a flying BAUCET,"

The object was described as a ball of fire with a long tail, moving westward at high speed.

There has been a full in the reports of “flying sau- cers" since July, when they were said to have been seen in the United States and відпу other parts of the world-Reuter.

Dr. Evatt Hits Back At Vyshinsky

Flushing Meadows,

N.Y., Oct. 21. The presence of Rus- Poland sian troops in and Yugoslavia was brought up in the United Nations General Assem- bly today by Dr. Herbert Evatt, in answer to Vyshinsky's denunciation of the presence of British and American military personnel in Greece.

"It shows the arch-hypoering of

witnesses heard by the

our

were on the move. They were had every hope that agreement criticism of Britain and the United passed before June, 1950, whic# to be numbered in hundreds of would be reached betroen most,/ States for doing the very type of

thousands, perhaps in millions, if not all. the 17 countries_re-Dr. Evatt said.

thing. on a troch smaller scale," Scenes were being enacted of presented. He hoped the Pre- The Prime Minlater, Mr.

He added that Russia had agree- Clement Attlee, ropsidered it wine which no one had seen the like ident of the Board

of Trade ments to supply Poland and Yugu to deal with this now to less the for 200 yeats, or perhaps ever, would be able to make a state- slavis with arms and ammunitis.

Mr. Eden regarded the pre- ment in a few days. donyrer should future jeadership:

"01 no dorthe Czechoslovakia • * sent rate at which Britain was Bof the Lords "pass into tvg

Mr. Attice said that there was well. Is it a different thing when ponsible hands".

expending the gold, reserves of no question of Britain abolishing British and Americno military per-

as "a very the whole system of Almost as soon as the Upper the sterling arra

Imperial ones are found in Greece, but at preferences.

same time Suviet military pers House today began its first ait grave matter". ling of this session, Lord Sallant very much the same rate that with our friends of the

"We appear to be losing sole!] "Ve have to maintain douchel are to be found in Folaud and

Yugoslavia? bury, lender of the Conservative

other

"I am not condensing what is a We were losing dollars In Commonwealth countries. majority there, condemned the Angust," he declared. He ask ther, we have

Fur-matter for arrangement between the Government's slep as a "shabby ed if the Government had any in mind a principal nim, mainly

throughout kept Cavernments copertned." pollten enl".

Evidence on the Greek question plans for extending the use of the need for the restoration of had proved that trouble had been sterling in the non-dollar area the equilibrium in our economie fomented outside Greece and the A To intruduge such a bli at this) an * medium for financing relations time was surely a counsel

with the Western sembly should send a commision to of trade.

Hemisphere, particularly the Greece to help the Greek people to madness, he added.

Recalling that the Prime United States, and we hope that fix a place in the Protesting in the House of Minister, Mr. Clement Attles. we have secured greater access

Answering Mr. Vyshinsky's (vitus Commons, Mr. Anthony Eden, had stated last year that there to markets, not only for the Prative attack on the veracity of the Conservative deputy leader was no question of unilateral products from this country, but Balkan Commission, Dr. Evalt wald: previous UNO and wartime Foreign Secretary, sufreniler. of imperial pre. from the colonial Empire, which with all this material hefors it, declared that there was neither ferences without adequate rum-is very important,

ho raurt of justice would dare ra mandate for the Governments pensation, Mr. Eden asked for "They should result in ay that we should mubaritate justification nor በከ electoral an assurance that this was still valuable increase in the dollar opinion for the opinion of people plan to eurb the power of the the case.

caraings in the sterling area as who kaw the witnesses,”---Rester. House of Lords.

This was an issue, he said, a whole. Where was the obstruction, of which deeply stirred public

Fleet Cuts the House of Lords which wouldjppinion in Britain and elsewhere, Justify the Government taking in the Commonwealth.

Announcing that there would this step, he asked. What had Mr. Clement Attlee announced be substantial reductions in the happened during the recess that the Government intended to size of the armed forces in the cause the Government to throw reduce from two years to one next 18 months, Mr. Attlee over the views of their own year the period of delay which emphasised that the reduction in spokesmen and coBrogues in the the House of Lords could now the Home fleet was only tem- Referring 10 the Marshall Lords?

impose, although he said that it porary.

plan, Mr. Attlee Bald that it "The pursuit of purely would be improper to say now He said that he did not know would be fatal to have wishful partisan by the Government will exactly what the proposala where the figures which had thinking and to imagine that not restore the nation's prog-would be.

been quoted "came from". Mr. Britain could depend on same perity nor bring happiness to - Social Aggression

Churchill intervened to say that other help than her own. our people", he declared.

After admitting that the pre- the Home fleet would not be as "We have got to all out on Race Against Time Aent leadership of the House of the fleet Britain Kave Russia our own efforts. We have gotį On the cuts in the Home Fleet, Lords

been "wise and during the war. If the figures to set our own house In order", Mr. Eden anid: "We shall statesmanlike", Mr. Attlee de- of one cruiser and four des- he declared, "We are have a fleet In Home waters clared: "I think it is wine to troyers for the Home fleet were

determined", con- smaller than the Peruvian deal with this before any serious not true, they should be con- cluded the Prime Minister, "to Navy."

matter has arisen, in order to tradicted.

carry our country through this "The whole position", he said, lessen the danger which might

There was Opposition laughter extremely difficult time. What "is one which must cause us the arise should the leadership in when the Prime Minister, said ever our differences, I am aure gravest concern. The nation the House of Lords pass into that he could not give the exact the country will go all out to cannot again afford the race less responsible hands”.

figures without notice, but it was restore prosperity to Britaler and against time that we had during The Prime Minister sald that wrong, he said, to suggest that Europe." the first years of the Inst war"; there were a number of lorda there had been any sudden co-

Commenting on the fact that The international situation", who did not attend but they duction in the Empire fleet. there was no mention of the iron The Immobility during the re- and steel Industry in the King's sorting of ships and personnot speech. Mr. Attlee anid: "I be was n, purely temporary matter.lieve there is an overwhelming The armed forces, Mr. Attlee ease in the national interest, and declared, were expected to num- I would say, in order to avoid ber 937,000 by March next year, l'any doubt there might be, that

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he declared, was a sombre one might. It was better to avoid a — darkened almost everywhere) quarrel. since ́Parliament adjourned In Why walt and have a bill August. In these conditions it thrown out; why wait to get a was little wonder, that the United fire extinguisher until a fire had Nations could contributo very actually broken out, he asked. little except provide a platform When Mr. Attlee declared that for exchanges of the utmost "this is n wise precautionary origitial forecast. violence in which M. Vyshinsky mensure". Mr. Winston Chur. Recalling that the economic to nationallse the relevant) I been distinguished by the chill, the Opposition leader, in-situation

worse portions of the Iron and atcel "unbridled violence of his lan. terjouted: "It is a deliberate since Parliament adjourned in industry".

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nounced that statements (Mr. Hector MeNell), by the ernment laughter).

would ment's programme was then courage and candour of his.” Continuing, Mr. Attlee said: be made in the next day or two adjourned until tomorrow.

After referring to the setting"If, as I hope, the House of by the,, Minister for Economic Reuter, up of the Cominform, the inton-Lords are not Inclined ever again sincation of Communist activites to exercise those menacing against the Socialist parties in powers In order to France and Italy and "the nugatory the decisions of the Judicial murder" of the Bul- elected Chamber, then our pro- karlan Opposition leader, M. posals will do them no harm. Nikola Petkov, Mr. Eden said

We shall be taking away that the only course was for from them a weapon of which | Britain to hold fast to her own they have no intention of using. faith In true democracy and On the other hand, if they still free way of life and fulfil har have the intention to reassert obligations under the Inter-those powers which have of late With a contrast of medieval pageantry and grave national agreement which she fallen into desuetude, then this

words on Britain's current problems, King had signed.

bill will be both effective and

George today formally opened the new session

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Pageantry--And Grave Language

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ve shall only go all the faster thwarted by the House of Lords, the Labout Government hopes to in a clear voice-Associated Press, Floor, Exchange Building. Mr. Eden declared that it and I think that is ample justinccomplish its objectives. To his really was impossible to accept cautions and not waling until both.

fication for taking the pre-aft ant the Queen on his right a stop. lower-Princess Elita the "protestations of friendship the trouble has actually arisen, which Marshal Stalin, I under-

To many both inside and out stand,

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the '21-year-old; some Members of this House trouble, might have passed out Parliament. when the Moscow Radio con of hand through the effluxion of Princess, soon to be a bride, ul- tinues to blare without ceasingl time!!

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ing tension in foreign affairs As the chimen echoed over the Criticising the Soviet Govern and at the attitude of the USSR Thames, thers boomed out the salute, ment's attitude, particularly re- representatives which is gravely first round of a 41-gun Karding the Marshall plan, Mr. Imperilling the work that is Over the others for the King Eden declared: With to the Communist Wetly, togard being done in trying to build up an elasco, the assemblago rope

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