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...almost certain to pass into law. For though most Tories are reluctant to adopt a measure that might make the Lords even more ineffectual than at present, they fear that unless it is reformed, a future socialist government may abolish the Lords altogether on the ground that an upper chamber based on inheritance is a feudal relic that has no place in a modern democracy...
...Lords resembles a sumptuously somnolent club that is made all the more exclusive by the fact that it can accommodate only a fraction of the 931 dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, barons, bishops ("lords spiritual") and judges who are technically entitled to sit in its hallowed gilt and crimson chamber...
...Lethal Chamber. Both major parties would welcome the return to Commons of respected and experienced politicians who have been exiled to The Other Place. Among them: former Tory Party Chairman Viscount Hailsham, now Leader of the House of Lords, who as Quintin Hogg, M.P., was a longtime star of Commons debates, and Foreign Secretary Lord Home, who was a lackluster Tory M.P. but has made a deep impact on the party in the past two years. In Tory inner circles, both are regarded as among the half-dozen potential candidates to succeed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...case, the changes proposed last week impressed most Britons as a necessary, if overdue, step toward more thoroughgoing reform of "the lethal chamber," as Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith called it in 1911. Displaced M.P. Wedgwood Benn, who has eked out a living as a free-lance writer for the past year, called the committee report "a victory for common sense." When the law is changed, he vowed, "I shall be queuing up with my thermos the moment the doors open...
Across the U.S., there are businessmen prepared to argue that the much-prophesied "1963 recession'' is already over even before 1963 arrives. Speaking in Washington, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President H. Ladd Plumley said: "One could almost say that we did, indeed, have a recession and are on the way to recovery." In New York, G.E. Chairman Ralph Cordiner sounded much the same note: "There has been quite a significant change in the economy . . . There's more resiliency...