Article: Britain's Parliament - "Here is One of the Greatest Democratic Assemblies of all Time - a Domain of Sharp Wit, Hot Debates......"

by Maurice Edelman

Print Magazine

Published January 1, 1955

About the author

The son of Eastern European emigrants who came to Britain to escape the pogroms, Maurice Edelman was educated at Cardiff High School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a career in the plywood industry and time as a journalist during the Second World War, Edelman won election to Parliament in 1945 as a Labour candidate for Coventry West. During his time in Parliament he was a vice-chairman of the British Council and chairman of the Franco-British Parliamentary Relations Committee.