GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 11, 1933

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"Do you think," he flung at Sir Samuel, "that the policies which have been adopted on the other side of the Atlantic would help this country? I am not sure but that at one time the Opposition were not rather attracted by 'Rooseveltism.' Will Britain choose the rash experiments . . . and. . . gigantic financial speculation . . . of trans-Atlantic minds?"

¶ Were again assured by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that he is "carefully watching'' President Roosevelt's debasement of the dollar lest it get too far below the pound and make all U. S. prices in the world market dumping prices.

¶ Congratulated Lady Astor on the election as an M. P. of her nephew by marriage Mr. Ronald Tree, a grandson of Chicago's late great Marshall Field. During the week the Noble Lady, still a Prohibitionist in England despite Repeal in her native U. S., was twitted by fellow members of the Commons who showed her a magazine put out by British liquor interests. It revealed that, under a forgotten but unrepealed law passed in the reign of King Edward VI (died 1553) it is still an offense punishable by imprisonment "for any person to induce any of the King's subjects to abstain from alcoholic drink."