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In Parliament This Week : -

Electoral Reform Scheme

Number Of MPs To Be Reduced If Bill Is

Passed By Parliament Stiff Opposition Expected

London, Jan. 31. Parliamentary constituencies, including the Prime Minister's Limehouse division of London and 12 University seats will vanish under the elec- toral reform legislation proposed by the La- bour Government..

The bulky 189-page bill, entiled "Representation of People Bill," also contains provisions to abolish plural voting in national elections and drastically alter the system by which the na- tion's banking centre-the City of London- sends its representative to the House of Com-

mons.

if endorsed by Parliament-and Under the new scheme each Britou the Labour majority can make it will have one vote-in the division defeat impossible=the measure wili in which he lives, repeat or amenal legislation dating The Chy of London's square mile from the time of Richard #1,

of business offices and banking houses The bill is expected to meet stiff in the heart of Greater London send opposition. Mou of its important pro- two members to Parliament, elected

recom-by To the

12,0m stock-Brokers, bankers, all-party conmeicharts and residents.

posals are contrary mendations

stem.

of thr

orly will

ference in 1944 which, unang other Under the proposed refurin things, voter by a big majority 4,000 residents will be the against, the abolition of the plural eligible electorate and they

oding

eleer

only one member. The overall effees of the redrawing One Vote Only

of boundaries and elimination ot constituencies will he to reduce from Bater this university graduates 640 to 608 the number of members. have

vore-in the stivision of the Horses of Coinions, nce in their bunic town and ofre The changes will take offert at the next general election if the bill,

in the university ballot. Business men also have votes in their home which will be pilued through Partin- stiurney and in that in which their ment by the Home Secretary, business is vitnased,

James Chuter Ktle, is passed-Reuter.

If The Lords Say "NO" This Week

Mr.

C.I.O. Agin Them

All?

Patsburgh, Jan. 31. Mr. Philip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Or ganisation, has declared that his 6000 trong Labour group is definitely upposed 149 # third party and is committed to no one in the 1948 Prudential cam Faign-Renter,

Want Their

McNutt To Run With Truman?

New York. Jan. 11.

Paul V. McNutt sald today he would be "proud" to be a run- ning male to President Harry Truman should he seek elec- tion.

McNutt, fermer Governor of Indiana and Ambasador to the

Wages To Be Philippines, ales and at a newn Stretched

Akron, Ohio, Jan. 31 America's 200,000 crganised rubber workers are ready to ask for higher wages.

The

Congress of Industrial Organisations United Rubber Workers, nearly half of whose membership t concentrated in this manfacturing centre, em- phasise the cost of living as the basis of their new demands.

How much the rubber union will ask will be determined next week. The belief here is that the figure will be

to that deelded upon by the CTO United

cents Auto Workers - 30 hour Incease.-Associated Press,

close

TRANSJORDAN TREATY TALKS

an

conference that he is available as endate for Democratic National convention delegate from New York.

Asked about his running for! the Vice Presidency this year.j MeNutt suid:-

"Nobody knows better than I do that the head man always decides, Mr. Truman friend and a buddy of mine and if the boss ask me to run with him. I wit accept."

McNutt has just been elected Life Insurance a director of the United States Company of New York.

Last autumn McNutt became chairman of the Board of the Philippine Insurance Firm of the same name which is asso- cinted with the New York com- pany.

McNutt recently formed a law London, Jan. 31

partnership with two New York Tewfik Pasha Abul Huda, and two Washington attorneys TransJordan Prime Minister, and with offices Fawz Pasha Al Molk, Transjer, Offices operate under MeNutt'a in both cities. dan Foreign Mincater, were at name.-Associated Press,

the Foreign Office today,discuss-

ing the revision of the 1048 Angle-Transjordan treaty with senior British officials.

Budapest, Jun. 31.

The talks arc expected to The Hungarian political police continue on Monday. Informed today reported the arrest of six quarters have suggested that a persona who had tried to form decision on whether the treaty an organisation to help Right- W the Lords throw out the

should be revised as a whole, newing politicians to escape abroad. Barring again the unpredict Transjordan wishes, Farlinment Bill, which cuts the ables, Mr. Attleo's Government the revised should be limited to an aeroplane from the Russian- or whether The group had planned to steal peers veto powers?

will still be in power then. And the military annex will be defor-Hungarian airlines and fly to the

If the answer "Yes," the result short of not-very-probable general slection next month-could mean

the peers fight the Steel Bill, red unill Mr. Ernest Bevin, the British though they cannot stop it, Д

or American zones in Foreign Secretary. returns to Austria or Germany, it was work next week. Reuter.

stated. Reuter,

wave of Socialist fury may sweep

a complete recasting of Mr. Her the land.

bert Morrison's 1018 legislative "Wicked Tory peers have dar- programine in unique parlia-ed to obstruct the people's will! mentary acting

Oy. Ergen'ralelectshun, quick!" For all the initiative has pass Years of Power.

But never mind Labour's Five ed to that brilliant Cecil, tho

How will al Marquess of Salisbury. Torys Op-this affect the present "rump" position Lender in the Lords--the casion-all the unpassed Bills only man who can say "Yes" or marshalling yard? Among these shunting around in the Morrison "No" to the big question.

Peers gave the Bill their first are: critical analysis in a debate this

The knotty Criminal Justice

week. The debate was adjourned Bill, with all the controversy at the request of Lord Salisbury. about bonning the death penalty: but Lord Addison held out no pro

The Lucal Government

Biù, mise of

a change in the views of which will bring squadrons of the Government.

rating experts to Westminster Rejection will bring procedure this next few weeks. under the 1911 Parliament Act into force.

Poverty "Abolished”

MR. ATTLEE EXPRESSES

PROFOUND HORROR

"Everyone will have learnt with profound horror

London, Jan. 30. of the brutal murder of Mr. Gandhl. "I know that I am expressing the views of the British people in offering to his fellow countrymen our deep sympathy in the loss of their greatest By Its terms, the present Bill:

citizen," said Mr. Attlee in a broadcast tonight. must be passed through all its The National Assistance Bill, stages in three sessions in two which in the extravagant phrase

"Mahatma Gandhi, as he was pleaded for peace and brotherhood years. Then it can achieve Actology of some Socialists "abolishes known in India, was one of the had been silenced, but I am certain hood even if the peers to say poverty." "No" next week.

outstanding Rgures in the world that his spirit will (When the pre

nationalisation, electoral today, but he seemed to belong to animate his fellow countrymen and continue to sent itself becomes law, all reform, Sir Stafford Cripps's a different period of history. future Bills turned down by the bookies and bogyman Budget, the

will plead for peace and concord."

peers

LIVIRK п life of extreme-Reuter.

will automatically go Finance Bill, and the Marshall ascetism, he was revered as a through in two sessions in one Plan, which may need cars ro-divinely inspired salot by millions year.)

ciprocal legislation at this end.

His of his fellow countrymen. Possibly after Easter the Com-Influence extended beyond tha mons will take over

from the range of his co-religionists and, Lords the long-awaited Children in a country deeply riven by com- Reports and of the tragic Denis for all Indians. Bill, fruit of the Curtis and Clyde munal dissension, he had on onneal O'Neil case.

In Practice

How would the cramming oft three sessions into two years in- stead of three work out in prac tice if the Lords kill the Bill7 Well, let's start by calling the present session, which Today Session No. 1.

resumes

It began last October. Nor- molly it would Just until next August. But next week Mr. Mor- rison might say, on getting "No" from Lord Salisbury: "Wo'll stop short in Jung

Parliament would then

rogue.

pro-

General Dempsey

To Be Wed

London, Jan. 31.

There

are

many

"For a quarter of a century, this man has been the major factor in every consideration of the Indian problem. He had become the ex- pression of the aspirations of the Indian people for independence, but

he was not just a Nationalist. "He represented, it is true, the opposition of

of the Indians to bolng ruled by another race, but also expressed a revulsion of the East agains the West. He himself was General Sir Miles Dempsey, in revolt against Western mater- The King would open | former GOC in Chief of the Bri- falism and sought for a return to Sersion No. 2 early in (sav) July.tah Second Army from the in-a simple state of society. About October, after the summer vanion of Europe to the defeat

"His most distinctive doctrine imitations... Parliament would pro- rogue again. Session No. of Germany, has become engag-was that of non-violence, he be-

ed to Miss Viola

Hloved in a mothed of passivo re- daughter of the late Captain considered wrong.

O'Reilly satance to those forces which he and Mrs. Colamber, Westmeath,

Percy O'Reilly, of "He opposed those who sought to achieve their ends by violonce Sir Miles, who was a Brigade and when, na too often happened, Major in 1934, had been in his campaigns for Indian freedom command of two armies when resulted in loss of life owing to he left the service last July.

the undisciplined action of those Now he is the chairman of who professed to follow him, he

was deeply griored.

TOCUKI,

would start next November.

Then, when Session No. 3 and

ed in July 1940, the Parliament BI passed thrice by the Com- mons and turned down

by the Lords-would automatically get the Royal Assent.

The Net

All this rigmarole could be the Racecourse Retting Control avoided in one other way, Mr. card and Director of the Read- Attico could ask the King to Ing brewery company of II and create 700 or 800 Labour lards, G. Simonds Ltd..

who would outroto tho Tory

for

that.

Sincerity, Devotion "The sincerity and devotion with are beyond all doubt.

in the latter months of his life,

ring the freedom which India had

communal strife was mar

peers. But there is no time left Sir Miles is a Bussex man which he pursued his objectives from Ilfeld, He well All unpredictables aside, the known as a point-to-point rider Parliament i may determine before the war and hunting is the date of the next general elec his hobby-Router. tion. For this measure in a fish- erman's not in which that most desirable of all Socialist catches, Steel Nationalstation Bai, la to

obtained, his threat to fast-to-the- death resulted in the cossation of violence in Bengal, and again.re cently brought about a change in

"He had buides a the atmosphere.

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