Parliament's Week

The Lords & Commons:

P: Were prorogued by His Majesty with a Speech from the Throne, prior to his Speech from the Throne opening Parliament again this week for the winter session. Said Proroguer George V, after recording "profound shock" at the assassinations of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss and Yugoslav King Alexander: "The continued improvement of trade and employment among my people gives me great satisfaction."

The Lords:

P: Passed on final reading the "Pacifist Muzzier" or Sedition Bill (TIME, Nov. 19).

P: Passed on final reading the Betting and Lotteries Bill, legalizing petty charity raffles but increasing the penalties for selling sweepstake tickets and barring the Press of Great Britain from printing any lottery news whatsoever "in the hope that public interest in this form of gambling will gradually die out."

The Commons:

P: Were informed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that the National Government will set up a "Destitute Areas Fund" of -L-2,000,000 ($10,000,000) to be used in rehabilitating the Depression-blasted regions of South Wales, Northern England and the Scottish Clydebank. "While most parts of the country now have a feeling of hope and confidence," said Chancellor Chamberlain, ''there remains in the depressed areas an atmosphere of stagnation and listlessness which arises from a chronic condition of poverty and privation."

Protesting this Tory sop to the proletariat, Labor Party Leader "Old George" Lansbury snapped: "Sooner or later a return must be made to the policy of large scale public works laid down by our [Labor] Government in 1931."

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