From The Times, April 1, 1920The Government are evidently not aware of the resentment aroused by the way in which they cling to special powers granted during the war. There are several features in the War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act which ought to have been entirely abolished many months ago. The House of Lords, for example, dealt far too tenderly with the unwarrantable provision which enables the Ministries of Pensions Labour to commandeer land and buildings wherever they like. Both these Ministries are, under popular indictment for wasteful administration, and they should not be again endowed with authority which would never have been granted before the war. The classic example is, however, furnished by the Government’s tenuous retention of the regulation forbidding the sale

Source: The Times March 31, 2020 23:03 UTC