GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Aug. 7, 1933

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Eager to adjourn, the House virtually ignored two soldierly British textile champions. "The yellow peril is now upon us in a far more insidious form than war!" cried Lieut.-Commander Frederick W. Astbury. "Unless the Government can take immediate action every calico print ing plant in Lancashire will be closed within five years!"

A few cheers greeted Major Cyril F. Entwistle when he shouted, "It is necessary for us and other countries to tell Japan quite clearly that she must conform to western standards of living or her goods must be prohibited from entering other countries!"

Since it would take at least the British Navy to enforce such a policy, the House of Commons dodged the issue by adjourning with a relatively clear conscience.