HOUSE OF COMMONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 9

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

SESSION IN RETROSPECT.

SUPREMACY OF PARLIAMENT.

LESSON OF GENERAL STRIKE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Times. LONDON. Dec. 28. The Times, in a retrospect of the Parliamentary session since the complete' defeat. of tlio general strike, says a staggering blow was then dealth at the sovereignty of Parliament. All members are adjusting themselves to the fact that Britain expects them to be national representatives and not the delegates of particular interests.

It is also "the fact that the employers and the employed have been induced to realise that Parliament could do little to promote peace and prosperity without their co-operation. This has meant that remarkably little time was wasted in asking Parliament to do what industry alone could do for itself.

The Times says it is no exaggeration to say that the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, at some personal cost has established a far healthier political atmosphere in the House of Commons.

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Austen Chamberlain, and the Home Secretary, Sir William JoynsonHicks, are the two Ministers who have mostly increased their influence. The House as a whole impresses one for its competence rather than for brilliance. The process of recovering its balance has at least advanced, sufficiently for the suspension of all talk of the decline of Parliament.