Show washington WAS HINGTON W FROM OUR congressman W K Y GRANGER c r britaina Brit ains general election britain has just held its firsteen first general election since the war began and america has become interested in how their election works ordinarily these elections are held every five years but may be postponed postpone dAn in wartime one member is elected to the house of commons tor for every fifty thousand registered voters every registered voter being permitted to mark X beside the name of the candidate I 1 of his choise and drop his bisbal bal lot in a box much as we do I 1 the party with the greatest number 0 of f elected members in the house of commons has its leader that leader is then appointed prime minister by the king thus the prime minister is not directly elected by the people the people generally vote for the candidate of the party whose leader they favor the prime minister then selects his own cabinet ministers who must be members of the house of commons or of the house of lords the house of lords is not e elected and can not vote in general elections these members either inherit their membership or have the membership conferred upon them be cause of some act of heroism or of unusual public service our future foreign policy the world is waiting expectantly for final ratification by the senate of our membership in the international monetary Mane tary fund and an international bank for reconstruction and development as well as the linked united nations charter the house of representatives has already approved the sum ardithe and I 1 the system of the world bank lowthe now the senate alone must act since the charter will not be suba submitted i eted to holthe the house it thus becomes important import ai to understand der stand that the fund is a device to supply world businessmen with enough of the kinds of currency they need to settle their trad accounts while the world bank is really an international reconstruction finance corp which will guar antee loans for reconstruction purposes the president wants the united states to be the first nation to ratify the united nations charter this charter establishes a world court to settle disputes between nations and to use force if necessary |