SEATS IN THE LORDS
Empire Prime Ministers LORD STRICKLAND’S PLAN By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, March 24. Raising the question iu view of the coronation visits of the Empire Prime Ministers and Premiers, Lord Strickland asked in the House of Lords whether steps could be taken to enable them to sit and speak in the Lords. He referred to the statesmanship shown by the Dominion Prime Ministers during the December crisis, and suggested that there would be objections in many of the Dominions to hereditary honours. The remedy would be to confer life peerages.
The Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, replied that he did not believe the law at present would permit the adoption of Lord Strickland's suggestion. Moreover, be doubted whether the Prime Ministers would be grateful for an invitation to spend half a year at Westminster when they ought to be attending to affairs in their own countries.
In the meantime the House had the benefit of the presence of Lord Bledisloe. Lord Stonehaven and others peculiarly qualified to expound the views of tlie Dominions.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 154, 27 March 1937, Page 10
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