NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE most important event of the week happened in Parliament on Tuesday, and it would not be surprising if its importance seems to grow continually for good or ill with the lapse of time. On that day the Prime Minister enjoyed in the House of Commons what his supporters have described RS "a great Parliamentary success." He had to relieve the Government of responsibility and blame for the long-drawn-out controversy about the relations of the Govern- ment and the Higher Command. In the outcome the House without a division or seriously contesting the main points made by the Prime Minister accepted the Government explanation. But throughout the debate there was an undercurrent of intense dissatisfaction, not to say indignation, at the manner in which the Government have allowed their policy, either by direct inspiration or by clumsiness, to become inextricably entangled with Press manoeuvres.
