HOUSE OF COMMONS

Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 13

HOUSE OF COMMONS

ADJOURNMENT FOR EASTER BUDGET SION I AFTER RESUMPTION (British Official Wireless.) ! j RUGBY, March 15. (Received March 16, at 10 a.m.) Mr Chamberlain announced that tha House of Commons would adjourn on Thursday for Easter, and would resum* on April 2. Lobby circles expect th* introduction of the Budget within * fortnight after the resumption. Also, it is likely that the practice of only three sittings a'week will be resumed in order to give Ministers the maximum time possible tq: attend to heavy war* time departmental work. TRADE IN WARTIME i i RESTRICTIONS ON 0.8. PRODUCTS CRITICAL GDMHENT . I , WASHINGTON, March 15. (Received March 16, at 10.30 a.m.) Congress members are critical of th* British suspension of imports of United States canned fruits. An Isolationist* Senator Nye, characterised the action as an attempt to punish the United States for “ not giving the Allies more active support.” Others asserted that the action wa* in repudiation oil the reciprocal trad* pact theory. j' . The criticisms followed Lord Lothian’s statement that the restrictions were solely war measures, and were not intended to cause a permanent trade diversion. He said th* measures were necessary to prevent th* accumulation ( of I over-large stocks and to restrict the consumption of non-es-sentials. ‘ i

Mr Cordell ; Hull, at a Press confer* ehce, said that discussions were con* tinning with the British and French Governments to safeguard the United States’s commercial interests. He explained that United States exports to Britain had greatly increased, and those to Franceihad more than doubled despite the restrictions. Mr Hull added that munitiono -were only a minor per* tion of the exports. k BESTSELLER ' ' \ COVERNBENT ILOE INK ,i ’ - r (British Official Wireless.) | RUGBY, March 15. (Received March 16, at 11.55 a.m.)l More than 1(10,000 copies in the sixpenny Penguin i series of the Government Blue Boolk' outlining events leading to the war i have already been sold in overseas countries. The largest Empire sales in proportion to population were in New Zealand.