HOUSE OF COMMONS RISES FOR TWO MONTHS RECESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 August 1947, Page 7

HOUSE OF COMMONS RISES FOR TWO MONTHS RECESS

(Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 13.

The motion for the adjournment of the House of Commons until October 10 for the summer recess was carried by 193 to 842 votes and the House rose for the recess.

Mr Clement Davies (Liberal) supporting Mr Eden’s amendment that the House resume on September 16, said: “We want to know the Government’s plan. We are entitled to discuss it. The Government should give a fixed date when its plan policy will be ready.”

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir T. R. Moore (Conservative) said: “If we comply with the motion, we will abrogate our duties as members of Parliament and we will desert our country, our constituents in this hour of our greatest crisis. We have given the Government a powerful instrument in the past few days. Therefore the whole future of this country is endangered, because it has been left in their hands without the criticism or safeguard of Parliament within the next few weeks.”

Mr Herbert Morrison, resisting the Opposition amendment to recall the House of September 16, said the Opposition had used every conceivable opportunity not to help the country in its economic condition, but had stirred up trouble politically in an effort to impede the success of the nation’s economic interest. He added that if the Government came to the conclusion that the House, in the

public interest, should resume earlier, they should make representations to the Speaker and in the Lords to the Lord Chancellor.

Mr Morrison said he gave that undertaking freely, but could not see at this juncture that they should meet earlier that the date proposed. Must Stay At Home Because they may be needed for emergency meetings on developments in the economic crisis, Mr Attlee has instructed all members of the Cabinet not to go abroad during the summer recess, says the Daily Express political correspondent.

The only exceptions to this are Lord Addison and Sir Hector McNeil, who are attending the Canberra conference on the Japanese peace treaty, and the Lord Chancellor (Lord Jowitt), who is going to the United States as a guest of the American Bar.