NO ENTHUSIASM IN COMMONS

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24749, 14 December 1945, Page 7

NO ENTHUSIASM IN COMMONS

“VERY HARD BARGAIN” p ' m>) LONDON, Dec. 13. Britain regards the American loan as a very hard bargain which she is bound to accept because she is so hard un after her vast war effort in the common cause.” says the -political correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” summing up the mood of the House of Commons, which he describes as “like a December frost.” “Any American Congressman who minks John Bull has outsmarted Uncle Sam on the deal, ought to read Hansard before he writes his speech,” says the correspondent. “Never has a rescue been received so reluctantly and with so many '(doubts about the consequences.” He describes Sir John Anderson’s announcement that he would vote neither for, nor against the motion, as the sensation of the night.

The ‘Daily Mail” draws attention to Sir John Anderson’s remark that the use of the word “welcomes” in the motion, relating to American initiative m the poposals for international trade organisation, 'imports a note of enthusiasm going far beyond anything we feel.” The House is asked only to ‘ approve” of the other proposals.

PROTEST BY SOCIAL PARTY

PARLIAMENT SQUARE DEMONSTRATION

(Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. The Social Credit Party demonstrated in Parliament square, Westminster. to express disapproval of the Bretton Woods proposals. A woman dressed as Britannia was dragged along by a gold chain marked “gold standard,” by a man wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar, and with a large dollar sign on his back.