ELECTORAL REFORM
INQUIRY IN BRITAIN
LORD HEWART'S POSITION
British Official Wlrelesi.
RUGBY, 15th August. Lord Howart, Lord Chief Justice, has accepted nomination by Mr. Lloyd George as one of the • Liberal representatives on the body which is to inquire into electoral reform.
The selection of the Lord Chief Justice for an inquiry of this nature appears to create an interesting precedent. Lord Reading, when Lord Chief Justice, undertook a special mission to the "United States during the war, but a three-party inquiry into electoral reform differs from the ambassadorial function which Lord Eeadiug exercised in America. The present Lord Chief Justice, however, who sat in the House of Commons as a Liberal from 1913 to 1922, and was during that time Attorney-General and a Cabinet Minister, has made no secret of his opposition to the prevalent view that the holder of the position of Lord Chief Justice should bo aloof from State affairs.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 42, 17 August 1929, Page 9
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153ELECTORAL REFORM Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 42, 17 August 1929, Page 9
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