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Responding for the MacDonald Government, Labor Lord Parmoor dryly observed : "I do not think any legislation in connection with the Treaty is necessary except ratification, and. ratification will not come before this House [but before the House of Commons...
...credit Scot MacDonald resisted temptation, conferred as to means of com promise during half the night with snowy-headed Charles Alfred Cripps, onetime vicar, ist Baron Parmoor, and leader of the 14 Labor Peers who, absurdly enough, represent the largest British political party in the House of Lords...
Next day, twinkling-eyed, conciliatory Lord Parmoor made hasty rounds among at least a hundred members of his House, found the Earl of Beauchamp (Liberal Leader in the Lords) anxious to smooth things over, and the Marquess of Salisbury (Conservative Leader) in a huff, still repeating that "The duties of the Lords are revisory and cannot be abdicated in the face of threats...
...result of the canvassing of peers old and young last week by Lord Parmoor was a most creditable compromise. The Labor Government agreed to put through the "dole" bill with a three-year limit, instead of the one year desired by the House of Lords, thus saving faces all round and en abling the measure to be wisely labeled "experimental." Said the Laborite Daily Herald, official organ of prudent Scot MacDonald...
...Against 495 Conservative and 89 Liberal Peers ten Socialists plus Sidney Webb now sit in the Lords: Earls Russell De La Warr and Kimberley; Lords Parmoor Thomson, Olivier, Arnold, Sankey, Gorell, Muir-Mackenzie. Four are hereditary peers; the other seven rose from commoners. Five have heirs to succeed to their titles...