The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . We cannot but encourage and wishsuccess to our American friends in thiscarefully worked-out undertaking, theFrench account concludes. Its resultswill increase still further that debt ofthe heart which France feels toward theUnited States. PROPORTIONAL REPRESEN-TATION IN ECLIPSEWELL may political wiseacres shaketheir heads. Here is the Houseof Lords introducing a decidedly lib-eral amendment to the reform bill pro- DEF£rsS£ •PAa. viding for a moderate, safe and saneplan of proportional representation; andthe House of Commons, having rejectedit once before, a
The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . We cannot but encourage and wishsuccess to our American friends in thiscarefully worked-out undertaking, theFrench account concludes. Its resultswill increase still further that debt ofthe heart which France feels toward theUnited States. PROPORTIONAL REPRESEN-TATION IN ECLIPSEWELL may political wiseacres shaketheir heads. Here is the Houseof Lords introducing a decidedly lib-eral amendment to the reform bill pro- DEF£rsS£ •PAa. viding for a moderate, safe and saneplan of proportional representation; andthe House of Commons, having rejectedit once before, again defeats it by 223against 113 votes. The sponsors of theamendment in the House included suchdeep-dyed conservatives as Mr. Balfourand Lord Robert Cecil; among the op-ponents we find Mr. Asquith. Austen Chamberlain, until recently amember of the war cabinet, on January30 led the opposition. He said P. create unwieldy constituenciesof 100,000 electors and make it quiteimpossible financially for small partygroups to contest them. The intimacywhich now often exists between the con-stituency and its member could not bemaintained. The majorities would besmall and the government consequentlyunstable. Mr. Asquiths objections
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