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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

July 17, 1941.

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Long live the of Commons!

THE

THE Nazis themselves set fire to their own Rdichstag in February 1933. The Nazi planes bomb and set fire to our own House of Commons in Máy 1941.

EMRYS' JONES

tells of how it was, how it is, how it might be

Communist

for

the House of

House

aristocratic Government of Lord Durham and Lord John Russell under his direction, and sup- ported even by working clues lenders like William Cobbett, who know then that it was hope- less to "ask for more."

The Lords did not like Lloyd

It was left to Disraeli to "dish the Whigs," by the second Re- form Act of 1867, to enfrau- chise the working class-with some qualifications which were This Act of later removed. the jealously by the people of our 1867, was described by Lord race in the years that preceded Derby, then a young Stanley, as The Nazis destroyed the "crime."

ours, and gave us the heritage "a leap in the dark" which he Reichstag because it waste They have not in reality of freedom.

was prepared to take. of democratic symbol

The next constitutional re- The essence of our Parlin volution affecting the power of government and because destroyed they wanted an excuse to Commons, for that does not ment is freedom of speech, the people began in 1910, which destroy, the freely elected exist only in bricks and which has been asserted con- decided the supremacy of the democratic parties..

mortar but in the long story tinually and violated frequently Commons over the Lords.

ever since the Bill of Rights So they blamed the burn that has created the spirit proclaimed that the freedom of George's Budget, and since it ing on a few people and

speech, and debates and proceed- had always been accepted that fran- half-witted of the British people. executed

Ings in Parliament, ought not to the Lords could reject Your Guardian be impenched or questioned in cini mensure sent up to them Dutchmen, supposed to be a

any court or place out of Par- from the Commons, they wished

to turn it down. liament.”

election A general Ν

ever managed to get The House of Lords began, fought, and under the threat to England they would try you may say, with the Witena- that the Prime Minister would to destroy that, too; but it emot of 996, consisting of no- ask the King to create enough Bles, clergy, and the King's peers to get the measure the Lords, the Parliamen- did to destroy the spirit of known as the Great Council at Lords gave way, the Weimar Republic, which the time of the Norman Con- fary privilege was broken, as we know now, to the benefit of both

This revolution in which the-

а

Taking It No doubt, if the Nazis lament

Thongkong Gelegraph. Along With would take longer than it servants, which came to be through The Bombs began with the end of the quest.

Thursday, July 17, 1941.

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ACTIVE PEACE STRANGE it is that men and nations still think of peace as a passive or negative condition. One reason the world is seeing so much war to-day is this tend- ency of the human mind to take its ease, this reluctance to face unpleasant issues. Many an in- dividual has proved that he could not evade the constant conflict between good and evil and that only by meeting and overcoming evil-fear, hate, greed-could he find peace. Moses at first fled from the serpent but when he relied on his own knowledge of good and grasped it fearlessly he achieved calm and confidence.

Surely the experience of

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By William Downs United Press Staff Correspondent Residents of a small Surrey village were minding their own

Was

last war and was executed Then Magna Charta defined Houses and the nation. almost without a murmur the Council, which declared that of protest when Hitler came when the King wanted "extra- King was called to play a part

ordinary aid" he must summon emphasised the right of the'. to power.

the Council and ask them for it. King to appoint as many peers But we are not Germans, The Commons joined the assem- as he liked on the advice of his the King called, the Model Par- tion might be pushed through business the other day when and our history is not Ger- bly of nobles and clergy when Ministers, so that any legisla-

from out of the blue camę a ter-man either. rific flash, followed by a loud explosion, that almost scared them out of their socks.

The sky was clear. Not plane was to be seen or heard. The village had not had an air raid alarm for days. Even anti-aircraft guns in the area seemed to have absorbed some of the quiet characteristics of| the town. But there could be no denying the explosion, for· there was a good-sized erater besides a number of deroofed, outhouses and

some damaged homes.

There was talk of Hitler's until "new

secret weapon" authorities examined the crater. At the bottom of the hole they found_a_small meteor.

Sat On Them

As if bombs and meteors were not enough to endure in a single war, the 'London transport com- pany announced that more than 800 knitting needles had been left in the seats of its trams and, buses during the past few months. Company officials re- fused to draw any conclusions from this fact except that pas sengers had provided some ex- citement in the aisles after sit- ting on some of the needles.

linment of 1295.

were

The "talking shop," some

The two houses called the

separated in Edward III.'s time, people have House of Commons, though and then Parliament assumed in the most intelligent of our outward form its present ap- people have not fallen for pearance.

Not the least troubled of the mill that tons of Britons "Inconvenienced" by Mosley the war is the Yorkshire private who got his teeth tongled in the Army's these last,

funcy red tape.

transferred. The remaining

the

comes

Parliament.

A New House?

IN this brief record the struggle towards full par- ticipation in the government of

seen

UFS

In a night of horror and fire, the Houses of Parliament, seen above on a peaceful spring day, were blitzed in May.. The Commons Chamber was destroyed. Victoria Tower, at left, was damaged, and the world-famous Big Ben, at right, was also struck.

description. Outwardly only, for the great the country is only implied. stupid

change did not come until the Blood and tears were shed in the was not among

Reform Acts of 1832. The pre- making of it, and "blood and vious centuries were a period of tears and toil and sweat" are To them I say: "Go into struggle in which the democra- now being shed in the defence When he was posted in the north country, the company medient offeer the House of Commons at the weapon was merely in the of it. said that the private must have his

Now, as the smoke has been zer divisions, of the real demo.

drifting up from West- teeth out. The medical officer pulled question time. Listen there raw material stage. The pan- half of the offending molars and to the great ones of the na- cracy had not arrived.

minster, it is possible to foresee In the affairs of nations as In

incisors when the company was

teeth tion, the high Ministers of

Blow To Peers that perhaps when this grim those of individuals,

were removed before the unit moved State, being questioned and

business is over we shall build cross-questioned on almost The frontier community again. in being transferred,

papers dealing with the case were

SCHEMES to obtain a fairer for ourselves a House of Com- which tried to appense outlaws ¦ fost.

any subject that

representation in Parlia- mons worthy of the noble strug- Can't Get His Teeth within the range of human ment were not seriously con- gle. only increased the reign of

sidered until the death of

The old Chamber was a poky Now the Yorkshiremen wants new life. injustice and crime until drastic

George IV.; until the French teeth. The War Once has no record

"See how the little things us Revolution in 1830; and until place where there was not room member to enough for every measures had to be taken. A

the well as the great that affect the statement by the powerful find a seat, and from the small of his lost teeth and refuses to in- dent for new dentures. Thus Tow years ago racketeering and

A man who can't)

daily private can't ent.

are Duke of Wellington that the re- and inadequate galleries it was alarming

brought out into the open, how presentation was "perfect" was next to impossible to hear what kidnapping reached

ly, the Yorkshire private is on in-

justice is done to the innocent, clearly challenged.

they were saying down below. proportions in the United States. definite leave.

and how faults come in for There was no peace in letting

criticism."

In 1832 the big towns were

Well, why not contemplate a enabled to send two M.P.s to the them spread. Something of the

Not enough criticism in my House of Commons, the smaller new House of Commons? On same condition has now deve. tion, clted the following as a suitable opinion, however, for there are towns, one each, and the number the south side of London's river there is an excellent site on weaknesses in the parliamen- of county members was in- which there could arise a build- tary system that we have creased from 94 to 150. neither eradicated nor seriously attempted to eradicate in these days of crises...

loped in international affairs,

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Sir Walter Monckton, in a speech describing his work as Director General of the Ministry of Informa- epitaph for a censor:

Here at length in sweet repose- A Censor lies but who, God knows. When raving pressmen ahot him

dead,

your

existence

ing worthy of the great tradi The Reform Acts took control tion of the old-and more in of the constituencies, disen- keeping with the necessities of

the "rotten modern government. franchisoa Yet, there you see the boroughs," and freed them from tolerance, the decency, the good the hands of the peers who had

Such building would fur-

Filled, like fila penell, full of lend, Even in his gravo, though he was

game,

his will, and the criticism, that en previously been able to buy and ther dignify the House of Com-. Ile rose, and blackened

nobles Britain and dignifies the sell the right of nominating the Thames, which is now hard- mons and beautify the south of namo, While censore have been described British race. How wino are

candidates.

out

ly worthy of the capital city of

by journalists in varioun terms of those politicians and political The struggle was not over, a mighty Empire.

violence cannot be tolerated in the world community and some violence, a judge of the King's Bench writers who seem to guard too ruled that a new wartime name re- police power must be established.cently adopted into Beltain's battle jealously the rich privileges of however. Five-sixths of the. Besides, after this struggle, language was worth $400 to Lieut this bastion of rights of man. population was still without the what worthy memorial this That attitude is a closer william C. Howitt. Howlit sued Almost alone in Europe it vote, and since there was a sort would provide to those who died approach to positive peacemak. Thomas Thorne for slander after stands now as a citadel of hu- of "Means Test," the working and for those who como after; Thorne accused him of disloyally to man dignity, and it is being at class were left almost voteless. A worthy Temple of Freedom the club. Hewitt was awarded the ticked as vigorously by the. Even so, it was a stop for- built on the nation's sacrifice for

enemy now as it was fought for want, carried through by the freedom.

ing than the belief that peace can bo mado with evil.

$400 because Thorne called him a "Quisling."