Foreign News: Now There Are Three

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The death this week of Frederick A. Cobb, Labor M.P. for Brighouse, brought the Attlee government's precarious election majority in the House of Commons down to three votes. Since the election on Feb. 23, one other M.P. had died, another had resigned. If Labor loses two of the three districts in which by-elections must be held, its overall majority will be two.