DISARMAMENT DEBATE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1933, Page 7

DISARMAMENT DEBATE

IN HOUSE OF COMMONS

PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received November 7, noon.)

RUGBY, November 6. Members of both Houses of Parliament reassemble tomorrow. The present session will terminate next week and a new session will be opened by the King on the following Tuesday, November 21. Save for the question time the whole of tomorrow's proceedings in the House of Commons will be occupied by the discussion on disarmament. At the opening of the debate the Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) will make a full statement, upon the situation and upon the course which the British Government had followed during recent developments. Among other speakers will be the j Leader of the Opposition (Mr. George Lansbury), Sir Herbert Samuel, .Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Mi-. Lloyd I George. . • ■:■■■ ■.- ; . .•• ■.:«•}•.• . ,THo president of the Disarmament Conference (Mr. Arthur Henderson) will j take his seat for the first, time since I he-was returned to Parliament, at the recent Claycross by-election, but it is not yet known whether he will con-, tributo to the debate. , . j The Labour Party'will hear the Foreign Secretary's statement before deciding whether to put forward a vote of" censure in order to ensure a further^ discussion of the disarmament question. If they t&ke this cqurse the Government will provide opportunity for a second day's deba'to before the present session] ends. . ■