{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/llangadock-camp", "section": "llangadock-camp", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not answer…\"", "preceding_text": "is human to err, and that he is just as human as I am? § Mr. BRACE Perhaps my hon. Friend will permit me to say that on this occasion it is he and not me who has erred. I have gone into the matter personally, and after most careful inquiry what I have given is my answer. § Mr. KING Are we to take the answer as meaning that the right hon. Gentleman has himself recently visited this camp? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-1-extension-of-obligation-to", "section": "clause-1-extension-of-obligation-to", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It will…\"", "preceding_text": "of the hon. Member for Mid-Lanark (Mr. Whitehouse) and myself in regard to age? Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER That was Mr. Speaker's intention, and I am following the selection he indicated. § Mr. T. M. HEALY This will not apply to what the old English law used to call\" a religious man.\" It will apply to religious men who are Nonconformists, though I do not know whether that will include Presbyterians. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want to help the passage of the Bill…\"", "preceding_text": "respect it is almost unique—is that it has been one-sided from beginning to end. I do not recollect a single speech from anybody outside the Government ranks in support of the action of the Government in including Ireland in 306 the Conscription parts of the Bill. Every speech that has been made, except the speeches made from the Government Benches, has been made against the inclusion of Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No…\"", "preceding_text": " passage of the Bill…\"] I dare say, and I am thankful for that intimation, because some of us have begun to think that we were wrong and that there was some growing sympathy with Ireland in the matter of these pro visions. Apparently, the old failing of anti-Irish hate exists in some quarters to-day as strong as it ever did in the history of the relations between Ireland and Great Britain. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "Cheers.", "preceding_text": "regard to Ireland in this matter. We are continually hearing from the opponents of the Irish Nationalist demand statements to the effect that it is a dishonour to Ireland not to be brought under this Conscription law. \"Ireland is dishonouring herself by not accepting this law. Why should men between forty and fifty be conscripted in England and young men he left free in Ireland to enlist or not?\" "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is there already'.\"", "preceding_text": "st two or three weeks. I stood in this matter three weeks ago, as my colleagues well know, at exactly the point occupied by the Irish Leader last week. That is to say, I thought Conscription for Ireland was outside the arena of practical politics until Home Rule had been made an accomplished fact. I believe now that Home Rule might be put upon the 309 Statute Book before this Clause is operative. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you asked Carson?\"", "preceding_text": "ointed out that this particular Clause was the empowering Clause, and he wanted to know what we were going to do. He put the plain, clear, straightforward question, \"What are you going to do in the interval before this Clause can operate?\" I have to give the plain, clear, straightforward answer. We are going to bring in a Home Rule Bill, and pass it through this House, if it is possible to do it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let the Prime Minister answer… \"", "preceding_text": "n? § Mr. BARNES I have tried to state the position. § Mr. T. M. HEALY Will the right hon. Gentleman, or the Prime Minister, go the length of saying that if the House 312 of Lords fails to pass a Bill approved by the House of Commons, the Ministry will resign? § Mr. BARNES There is no difficulty in answering a question of that sort. I would say certainly the Government would resign. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A week end…\"", "preceding_text": " the way, so far as contingent Conscription in Ireland is a feature of this Bill. We are told that a Home Rule Bill should be passed, and then Ireland should be left to furnish the men of her own accord. I am free to say I have been much moved by these appeals. I wish I could be guided by them. But let us look the facts in the face. I do not know how long it will take to pass the Home Rule Bill .—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No…\"", "preceding_text": "DILLON No… § Mr. BARNES I know they have. I have made close inquiry. In those days our young men were brought in contact with men in khaki who had no knowledge of or interest in anything but the tented field. But I believe that now, as a result of the common danger and of facing death daily, a new religion has grown up, and there has come a closer comradeship between officers and men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No…\"", "preceding_text": "the way, I should grant even that; and I will tell you why. Because at the moment it is really an academic question. If we win this War, as we shall, then there will be no Conscription either in Ireland or anywhere else. Therefore, for my part, I would not even have that obstacle, in the way of settling the Irish question. I hope I have answered the questions put by the hon. Member for East Mayo. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They want drafts…\"", "preceding_text": "cion if you had delayed this Bill for a fortnight or three weeks, and presented at once a Home Rule Bill for Ireland. It is not only hell that you are going to create in Ireland, but what is to be the effect of this Bill upon Irish troops fighting for us at the front? Do you think it will encourage them to fight for us in France, when they see what is the condition of things in their own country? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all… He never suggested anything of the kind…\"", "preceding_text": " you proceed with this measure and impose coercion on Ireland, it will be one of the most disastrous things that ever occurred in the history of this country. § Major TRYON I am very glad to have the opportunity of replying at once to the last speaker. I understand he sits for a Scottish constituency. We have heard from the Leader of the Irish Nationalist party that there is no need for men. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear…\"", "preceding_text": "t gallantly. When a Scottish division has to take its place twice over at the front, how can anybody say that there is no need for the Irish to take their share of the burden and to avoid throwing such an undue strain on the other portions of the country? Some of the Nationalist Members have accepted the principle that the Parliament in America is quite entitled to conscript the Irish in America. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": " which would be satisfactory to England, Scotland, and Wales, which did not include the questions of the Army, Navy, and Conscription. When the Nationalist Members take up an attitude incompatible with the federal solution of their grave national difficulties, they are taking up a position which makes it very difficult to have a general peaceable solution of the Irish difficulty on federal lines. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah, if…\"", "preceding_text": "an example. In South Africa there are two races which greatly differ, the British and the Dutch. They have Conscription there, and they have compulsory training, but they did not settle those questions in a local parliament. It was settled in one unified Parliament. 330 § Mr. SCANLAN Do you think we have a local parliament? § Major TRYON My point is that if there were a local parliament—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When is that scheme to come?\"", "preceding_text": "n the Central Parliament of Canada. § Mr. T. M. HEALY No… § Major TRYON My point is that if you are going to achieve a workable constitutional scheme for Ireland, it must be on federal lines and be acceptable to England, Scotland, and Wales, and any such scheme must necessarily place the Army, the Navy, and the question of Conscription under the central Parliament at Westminster. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three months.\"", "preceding_text": "ctically thrown to the winds. It is a hideous situation. What the Government expect to do by introducing Conscription at this time I cannot imagine. It cannot be for the purpose of an immediate increase to the Armies at the front. Everybody knows that if Conscription is imposed in Ireland to-morrow the men that would be raised would not be fit for military service for twelve months or six months. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh…\"", "preceding_text": "he grounds that Ireland is a nation, and that therefore the consent of that nation ought to be sought before we take any forcible measures there for recruiting the Armies of the Empire for a common enterprise. The same argument would apply to Wales and to Scotland. I certainly claim that Wales is a nation, and it has at least one characteristic which Ireland has not. It has a language of its own. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_text": "e any forcible measures there for recruiting the Armies of the Empire for a common enterprise. The same argument would apply to Wales and to Scotland. I certainly claim that Wales is a nation, and it has at least one characteristic which Ireland has not. It has a language of its own. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh…\"] The proportion of those who speak the native language in Ireland is singularly small. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_text": " there is one very, very important factor which he has overlooked. Within the last eighteen months one of our greatest Allies has gone out of the War—an Ally which had an Army of 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 men; and, although he said, I think, that the late Government was responsible for Sinn Feinism in Ireland, he can hardly contend that the present Government is responsible for Bolshevism in Russia. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tender?\"", "preceding_text": " expect from the Government of this country that we shall smooth those difficulties and that, at any rate, we shall not increase them. I am certain of this, that nothing would help more in the present juncture to secure,. I will not say the ready and enthusiastic aid, but to secure the full measure of American assistance, than the determina- 347 tion of the British Parliament to tender to Ireland—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman himself (Mr. Asquith) never suggested in any speech on Home Eule that this Central Parliament at Westminster should cease to have power over defence and man-power. But Ireland and Australia are not on all fours, Australia has now five divisions in the field. She had a sixth, but it was broken up because of her losses at the Dardanelles, and then wiped out at Pozieres and Bullecourt. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/apr/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/apr/16/clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "section": "clause-2-power-by-order-in-council-to", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By the politicians…\"", "preceding_text": "ggested in any speech on Home Eule that this Central Parliament at Westminster should cease to have power over defence and man-power. But Ireland and Australia are not on all fours, Australia has now five divisions in the field. She had a sixth, but it was broken up because of her losses at the Dardanelles, and then wiped out at Pozieres and Bullecourt. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who by?\"] By the Germans. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/prosecution-or-colonel-repington", "section": "prosecution-or-colonel-repington", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, he is not in the Army!\"", "preceding_text": "ermission to publish it. It was afterwards published in a different form without being submitted to the Censor. Mr. CHANCELLOR Will the proprietors of the \"Morning Post\" also be prosecuted? § Mr. BONAR LAW An information has been lodged against the writer of the article and the editor of the newspaper, which, I think, is the usual course. 97 § Mr. HOGGE Is this soldier still in the Army—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/government-bills-precedence", "section": "government-bills-precedence", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "r existing arrangements it is quite true that that Bill has no chance whatever of being brought before this House unless the Government undertake it. I would remind my hon. Friend that I have been a Member of the House for a long time and I cannot recall during my time a single case where a private Member's Bill has got through all its stages unless it was adopted by the Government to start with. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/debate-on-the-address-second-day", "section": "debate-on-the-address-second-day", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER.: \"Olympians!\"", "preceding_text": " at the head of any Department who during the last year has not been in the Cabinet Room, meeting the colleagues with whom he was dealing, five times for every time they met during the previous Government. It must be so. How does this Cabinet work I quite admit that to put five men—I think my right hon. Friend described them as if they imagined themselves to be supermen, or something of that kind—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/debate-on-the-address-second-day", "section": "debate-on-the-address-second-day", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And a very good combination!\"", "preceding_text": "uitable Prime Minister under present conditions than the present holder of that office. Outside this House we have also had this matter freely discussed, and one interesting combination which has been suggested is a Government consisting of Lord Lansdowne, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for East Fife (Mr. Asquith) and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Barnard Castle (Mr. A. Henderson). "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/debate-on-the-address-second-day", "section": "debate-on-the-address-second-day", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You could not get a worse!\"", "preceding_text": "ed, if the House and the country desire that change, I will not stand in the way. The only thing I want to say in that connection is that this is not the first Government we have had since the War began. We have had three Governments in office, and this is the third one, and before we make another change I want to be convinced that we are going to put a better Government in the place of this one. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Germans?\"", "preceding_text": "onceived, with the idea of separating Austria from Germany. Sir HENRY DALZIEL Why not? § Mr. WHYTE My right hon. Friend must be aware, as most of us are aware, why not. Sir H. DALZIEL And why should we not make terms with one of our enemies to help us to get the victory? § 7.0 P.M § Mr. WHYTE I have never been a believer in the idea of a separate peace with one of the enemy Allies. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_text": "his speech would be of the slightest value to the enemy. He has attempted to give, on what information I know not, an account of certain events about which without doubt the enemy know the true version, and which version is utterly at variance with everything that fell from my hon. Friend. He has entirely mistaken the whole character and scope of them, and though I do not mean for obvious reasons—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did!\"", "preceding_text": "t know exactly of what character, to get his speech into the hands of President Wilson. Therefore he was thinking of President Wilson and makes an appeal to President Wilson. He had before him President Wilson's precise statement of terms, he had every opportunity of saying what he thought about those terms, but though he referred to President Wilson he never referred to President Wilson's terms. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order, order!\"", "preceding_text": "rms. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He did!\"] I think the interruption is well founded and that I stated it inaccurately, and I apologise to the House. Let me put it this way: What is quite evident in Count Czernin's speech is that he was not prepared to accept any of President Wilson's important war aims. An HON. MEMBER He accepted most of them. § Mr. BALFOUR Which of them? § Mr. MASON rose— "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Far more!\"", "preceding_text": "action might be taken. As recent discussions in the country show, there are two definite policies in connection with the War. First, the policy of victory through military pressure, and, secondly, the policy of victory through diplomacy. Let me deal with those two questions. To achieve victory through military pressure alone will, according to competent judges, take at least two years to achieve. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Conscientious objectors!\"", "preceding_text": " other day. Ten thousand working men came together, summoned simply by word of mouth. They came together, and they listened to some twelve speeches. What 223 were they interested in? It is true that they were indignant about the man-power proposals of the Government. But what was it that they really cared about? Their demand was for \"peace,\" \"peace,\" \"peace,\" and there was not a dissentient note. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are laughing at you!\"", "preceding_text": "It is we who have deserted Russia. It is we who, when Russia was making the very efforts which we ought to have been making and proclaiming the very ideals which we ought to have been proclaiming, left Russia in the lurch. Russia was unable to defend herself any longer. She could only defend herself by principles, and she did her best. You may laugh at the Russians, you may jeer at the Bolsheviks—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did Lord Curzon say?\"", "preceding_text": "No attack was made on the sovereignty of Persia. It was an agreement which I am not bound politically to defend here. It was entered into by Lord Grey, and I am quite certain I have heard him defend that treaty on exactly that ground, and I am quite certain there is no man in this country who is less likely to do anything which would be unjust or unfair to one of the smaller nations of the world. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "d and done. I must not spend too much time on the second great subject alluded to to-night, the question of the secret treaties. It is evident that I am in a great difficulty. We are bound by the treaties which we make not to divulge them. The Government represents the nation. § Mr. HOGGE It does not. § Lord R. CECIL The undertakings of the Government are the undertakings of the nation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/13", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/13/allies-war-aims", "section": "allies-war-aims", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All of them!\"", "preceding_text": "t advantage in publication, as enabling us to show fully to our fellow countrymen exactly what we conceived the meaning of these treaties to be and the reasons why we entered into them. That line of defence is necessarily taken from me, and I can only say in very general language that I believe those treaties were thoroughly justifiable, though this Government was not responsible for any of them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/28/civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "section": "civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBRES : \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "rovided me with most of the information which I will use; distinctly, if I may say so, in the public interest, with a desire to 1609 strengthen the hands of the Home Office in dealing with any representatives from Russia who come to this country to endeavour to stir up strife amongst our munition workers or the civil population. Perhaps I have some bias in this case. If I have one weakness at all—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/28/civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "section": "civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "sors. I would like the House to understand that so far as the attitude of Germany in this matter is concerned, surely it is common knowledge that where Germany discovered it was impossible to win in the field, she has endeavoured to undermine the countries opposed to her by creating strike and revolution amongst them. It is freely admitted by most Bolshevists that they have received German money. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/feb/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/feb/28/civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "section": "civil-services-and-revenue-departments", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ne the countries opposed to her by creating strike and revolution amongst them. It is freely admitted by most Bolshevists that they have received German money. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"] It is admitted that they have been assisted by Germany. I think I am right in stating that Lenin was provided with a special train to pass through Germany into Russia with which to support, this propaganda. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How is that?\"", "preceding_text": "o possess no certificate under the Acts at all; they are simply not called up. There are today no less than 1,200,000 such exemptions. Then there are the agricultural 724 protections, which exist in very large numbers, which are given by the War Agricultural Executive Committee, which have no legal existence at all, and can be cancelled at any moment by the Director - General of National Service. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ithout the Order being referred to that Department and agreed to, and, in the event of disagreement, it is carried to the War Cabinet for overruling The appearance of the name of the Director-General of National Service is merely to get some one Department for the purpose of signing Orders. It is an administrative power, and not a great 726 despotic power. This House controls the whole Government—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "the security we have that he will exercise his enormous powers with discretion? If this Bill passes as it is the Ministry may not only bring hardship and trouble on individuals, but they may bring absolute disaster to the country. The right hon. Gentleman told us to consider how careful he had been of agriculture. That was the effect of his speech. Has agriculture to-day got all the men it wants? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "ent those exempted on occupational grounds could he taken for the Army, and therefore this Bill makes no change. I may be wrong, but my impression is that a man at the present moment who is protected on occupational grounds and whose certificate is taken away by the Ministry fur National Service can appeal to the tribunal on other grounds and get exemption. Under this Bill all that is swept away. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "e of the consultation which takes place between heads of Departments, but I am afraid, under the existing system, such consultation is not anything like what prevails under normal Cabinet conditions. We want to know also what may be in the mind of the Minister from time to time. We know that since he has taken office lie has changed his mind about schemes which he was going to put into operation. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_text": "him- 748 self in conflict with the fairly general feeling of the Committee. It is not confined to one side only. I urge him to say, at all events, that he will be prepared to consider the representations which have been made to him. If it is impossible for him to make any modifications, he can say so as frankly as he has made other statements. I hope he will treat the Committee with more respect. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One hundred and thirty!\"", "preceding_text": "Friend opposite, having no sectional 759 interest whatever to serve—I simply say to him, \"Will you reassure agriculturists of the country with regard to their labour? The Government Departments are acting, I think, very rashly and without sufficient thought in regard to agriculture. I saw in one of the newspapers this morning that something like 230 Orders respecting agriculture have been issued. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jan/21", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jan/21/clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "section": "clause-2-power-of-director-general-of", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": "e men, to know that, and I would advise my hon. Friend, unless he gets an assurance that the Government do not propose to do so, to go to a Division. It seems to me to do so would be merely creating trouble, disturbing industry, and would not add any military valour to the forces. No one will suggest that that is of any real use to the winning of the War to call up men of forty-one and forty-two. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/01/loch-doon-aerodrome", "section": "loch-doon-aerodrome", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": "ese circumstances, does he not think that some action most necessary and advantageous in the public interest? § Mr. BONAR LAW I entirely disagree with the hon. Member. I think that there has been nothing more remarkable than the success which has characterised the development of the Air Service. § Mr. BILLING Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this success was only rendered possible—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/01/suspension-of-mr-billing", "section": "suspension-of-mr-billing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down!\"", "preceding_text": "lution.] § Mr. BILLING Are we to understand that all that it is necessary to do, to prevent free speech in this House on so urgent and important a question as the intern- 1411 ment of enemy aliens, is for one of the friends of the Government to put down a blocking Motion? § Mr. SPEAKER I cannot undertake to instruct the hon. Member in the elements of Parliamentary procedure. Mr. BILLING "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/01/clause-17-power-to-promote-social-and", "section": "clause-17-power-to-promote-social-and", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They could not get the rifles!\"", "preceding_text": " be easy in the early stages to draw the distinction, there does arrive a stage where there is a very sharp distinction, which can be put into the terms of an Act of Parliament or that is, the stage when rifle and bayonet exercise and musketry drill are given. The right hon. Gentleman will agree that there can be no possible use from the physical point of view of teaching rifle and bayonet drill. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/01/clause-18-medical-inspection-of-schools", "section": "clause-18-medical-inspection-of-schools", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"School Camps!\"", "preceding_text": "oners in the matter of treatment and that in the majority of cases part-time officers only are employed. Then my hon. Friend put to me another question. He asked me what was meant by other institutions. It is very difficult to find a phrase which will cover all the possible cases in which it may be desirable to provide inspection and treatment Let us take evening schools. Let us take art schools. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/01", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/01/agricultural-labourers", "section": "agricultural-labourers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": " a very serious one. The Food Production Department wisely congratulates itself on its efforts in having broken up so much land in the country. There is something like 40 per cent. more 1512 acreage of wheat than there was in 1916, yet if the amount of male labour remains the same, how do you think you can harvest it? Machinery was in vogue in 1916. You cannot improvise machinery for the harvest. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/03", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/03/new-clause-amendment-of-7-edw-7-c-43", "section": "new-clause-amendment-of-7-edw-7-c-43", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know that?\"", "preceding_text": "efore they are placed on the list of employed. If some hon. Members have seen that inspection going on, they must again and again have felt how cruel it seems for a boy or a girl to be told, \"You are not strong; you have got a physical defect, and you cannot be admitted to the factory.\" This is all the more cruel when you know that by wise treatment those physical defects could have been removed. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/16/clause-25-abolition-of-fees-in-public", "section": "clause-25-abolition-of-fees-in-public", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jolly well !\"", "preceding_text": " in the history of education in this country. During the progress of the greatest war history has over known, when the whole interests of the country are absorbed in the prosecution of the War, he has been entrusted with the passing of a Bill dealing with one of the thorniest, most contentious and difficult problems that have tormented British politics for the last fifty years, and he has done it—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/16", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/16/clause-2-development-of-education-in", "section": "clause-2-development-of-education-in", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_text": "ce at school. It is really only a brutum fulmen. It is not meant to punish these children but to hold over them as a warning against failure to obey the law. Instead of doing that you might get the voluntary system going in certain selected areas. I do not say that the rest of the Bill, having been passed, you should interfere with the restrictions on young persons' labour and other restrictions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What paper?\"", "preceding_text": "he Persian Gulf were always in the forefront of the battle. They would now be fighting by your side in ever-increasing numbers if you had acted loyally by John Redmond, instead of betraying and ruining, him. I ask again, what has been the policy pursued by the Government? I have here a cutting sent me from a Canadian newspaper which summarises it so admirably that I cannot put it in better words. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": "eady to rise at the word of Carson. The Government toadies to this party and turns its back on the constitutional Nationalists and arrests the Sinn Feiners for doing what it permitted and almost encouraged the Orangemen to do. Is it any wonder that matter-of-fact Irishmen, who have never and never would have anything to do with a seditious movement, have a deep distrust of the British Government! "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "Cries of \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "man plot. § Mr. DILLON Did I not say that the German plot had been in full blast ever since the War broke out, and that the insurrection in 1916 was the result of the German plot? § Mr. SHORTT I may take it that, in spite of all this, and of all that has been 109 written and said about the absurdity of this German plot, we have it now admitted by the hon. Member? § Mr. DEVLIN rose. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " back for all the injury she has inflicted upon Ireland. That is a logical position, although to my mind a stupid, narrowminded, and unchristian philosophy, bound to end in ruin and disaster to this country. That is the very policy, that \"stupid, narrowminded, un-Christian policy, and one which is bound to bring disaster\" upon Ireland, which the hon. Member and his colleagues are adopting to-day. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "Cheers", "preceding_text": " Wilson, upon other occasions, has used the expression \"self-determination,\" and I accept that statement. But may I suggest to the hon. Members opposite that they have robbed those phrases of the meaning attached to them by President Wilson in such a way that it might make any system of civilised government absolutely impossible? If one section in a community is entitled to refuse to obey the law—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the point.\"", "preceding_text": "at they were entitled to destroy and terminate their union. The words used by President Wilson have no such meaning. Self-determination does not imply that every part of the community can rebel against the other part if any particular law is offensive to them. No system of government could possibly work in a nation like the United States or the United Kingdom if it were to be ruled by minorities. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is!\"", "preceding_text": "nt.\"] I can see that the radical defect of the position which the hon. Members opposite take up is that they regard Ireland as if it were outside the United Kingdom, whereas it is just as large a part of the United Kingdom as England, Scotland, or Wales. § Mr. SWIFT MacNEILL Who told you that? § Sir G. REID My hon. Friend opposite spoke of Ireland as if it were an oppressed nationality. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "allant race is not more fully represented in the fighting ranks than it is. Ireland not being an oppressed nationality, and there being no real oppression of any sort in Ireland, the whole of the case of hon. Members about an oppressed nationality falls absolutely, in my opinion, to the ground. The people of Great Britain have always shown their desire to meet the wishes of the people of Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "its and of the Nationalists' misfortunes during this War. The climax was reached on the 12th July last, when there was a great meeting. I understand that 25,000, 30,000, or more, men went to a certain field near Belfast to hold a great demonstration. I have no doubt that the political results of that were excellent. I have no doubt that the local recruiting results were excellent, and successful. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A small minority?\"", "preceding_text": "uppose it had happened that Ireland was the larger island, and Great Britain the smaller one, that after promising the people of this country again and again self-government, it had again and again been denied, and that ultimately the Parliament in Dublin, in which we were allowed to sit as a small minority of representatives, had decided to enact compulsory military service on the British people—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "tions, from a military point of view, which were held out to us when the Military Service Act was passed have not been verified. Those have proved to be right who said that the enactment of compulsory military service in Ireland would not add to the military strength of this country, but was more likely to deduct from it, because very large forces, we all know, have had to be withheld from France—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": "appointed to draft it. We were told that the draft was ready. We were told later that it needed a few trifling alterations. We were promised that it would be introduced the next week; the week after next, before the Whitsuntide Recess, immediately after the Whitsuntide Recess. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was asked questions about it, and he gave answers of a kind until the questioners wearied—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"A mare's nest!\"", "preceding_text": " wearied—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"]—and the right hon. Gentleman himself was fatigued with the incessant repetition. However that may be, the Bill has never seen the light. § Mr. DEVLIN They were organising the German plot all the time. § Mr. SAMUEL Why was it? The reason was at last given, not in this House, but in the House of Lords. It was to the effect that a plot had been discovered—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What has been begun!\"", "preceding_text": " this matter has not been treated in a serious spirit, that the policy has not been carefully thought out, and that the many difficulties surrounding the granting of land have not been properly envisaged. § M. SHORTT It has been thought out for over eighteen months. What it is possible to begin without legislation has been begun, but legislation will be required to complete the whole scheme. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh!\"", "preceding_text": "ish people not to regard with suspicion an offer couched in such terms which has been treated by the Government in such a fashion. With respect to the Resolution which is now before the House, those who vote for it, of whom I shall be one, must not be taken in any way to condemn or dissent from the very vigorous action which the Government have very properly taken to suppress sedition in Ireland. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/jul/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/jul/29/mr-dillons-motion", "section": "mr-dillons-motion", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You let them out!\"", "preceding_text": "f Secretary for Ireland, I had the very invidious task of conducting the civil government of Ireland, such as there was of it—it was mostly military government—and I am well aware of the great difficulties of meeting this dangerous movement in time of war. I was also responsible for retaining in internment the whole of the Sinn Fein leaders and their chief followers during the whole of that year. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/mar/11/brewery-products-ireland", "section": "brewery-products-ireland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_text": "on 13 in respect of cereal foodstuffs, it is impossible to satisfy this demand except by an enforced reduction of gravity. § Mr. BYRNE Are we to understand from that reply that there is an intention to reduce the gravity of Guinness's products? § Mr. CLYNES Yes, but even then both beer and stout in the case of Ireland will still remain higher in gravity than in this part of the country. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/mar/11/prime-ministers-statement", "section": "prime-ministers-statement", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about Northcliffe?\"", "preceding_text": "ls and generals, I have already stated in this House that that charge is untrue. As to the suggestions which have been made that an official on my staff had inspired paragraphs attacking admirals and generals, I have thoroughly investigated that matter, and have no hesitation in saying that the imputation is absolutely without foundation, and constitutes a gross injustice to an able Civil servant."}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/mar/11/government-and-press-relations-1", "section": "government-and-press-relations-1", "cue_text": "Laughter and cheers.", "preceding_text": "ch one of them on its merits and on its merits alone. That is 77 the assertion, of the principle that any other motive of action would have been wrong, and that it would not be right or tolerable that any Prime Minister or Government should seek to buy the support of a section of the Press by introducing people connected with that Press into Ministerial positions. The principles are satisfactory. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/mar/11/government-and-press-relations-1", "section": "government-and-press-relations-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A little of both!\"", "preceding_text": "ng the War. But we have a subject here which is a very interesting one to me, and which obviously divides itself under two headings — firstly, the presence of newspaper proprietors in the Government, or in positions under the direction of the Government; and, secondly, the supposed influence of the Press over the Government, or of the Government over the Press — I do not know exactly which it is. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/mar/11/government-and-press-relations-1", "section": "government-and-press-relations-1", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_text": "s, and needs must when the proprietor drives, as every well-trained and well-broken-in editor knows. I have sometimes thought, when I have seen in certain papers these personal campaigns of attack on men like Robertson and Jellicoe, that they have their grotesque side, for had it not been for the exertions of such men as Robertson and Jellicoe, the Germans would have been in Fleet Street by now — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/mar/11/government-and-press-relations-1", "section": "government-and-press-relations-1", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_text": " breaking down of that rigid and narrow rule has had a good deal to do with keeping up the morale and the enthusiasm of the troops? Lord Beaverbrook was the first man who succeeded in getting behind that rule. What is the other thing that he did? He was the first man to realise and to utilise the cinema and the film for propaganda purposes. He was the first man to do that, and ho did it so well — "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/mar/11", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/mar/11/government-and-press-relations-1", "section": "government-and-press-relations-1", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did he give it up?\"", "preceding_text": "ithout any expense to the Canadian Government, though there was a Grant. Our propaganda, costing I dare not tell the House how much, achieved nothing like the results which the well-organised and well-directed propaganda achieved in advertising the valour and achievements of the Canadian troops. We suffered in America from the success of the Canadian propaganda, and are suffering to this day. 123 "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/nov/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/nov/12/statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "section": "statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Much worse!\"", "preceding_text": "mber this, that trouble always came when things were going well. It never came when things were going badly. I remember well the time of 21st March. When we are recalling all these things, is it not a miracle that hardly more than six months ago the German people—I think their military heads knew better—were really looking forward to impose on us the terms which we are imposing on Germany to-day? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/nov/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/nov/12/statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "section": "statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_text": "a great deal of talk about certain dangers, and these have been hinted at by the right hon. Gentleman opposite. I would suggest to the House that apart from any danger which 2586 may arise out of unemployment it is my business as Minister of Reconstruction to bear in mind another matter—I mean the danger which may arise in times of peace from bureaucratic methods in the Departments of Government. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/nov/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/nov/12/statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "section": "statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All Englishmen?\"", "preceding_text": "ourse of this review, how complex and numerous are the problems with which we had to deal. I have issued a White Paper, which will be in the Vote Office this evening, and the House will see there who the people are who have been helping me during the past twelve months. They will see that we have called to our aid some of the best brains in business and labour from every section of the community. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/nov/12", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/nov/12/statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "section": "statement-by-mr-bonar-law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "eir occupations with the cessation of war manufacture, of which rather more than one-half will be men. Here may I refer to what appears to be a very commonly entertained misunderstanding? I am not sure the right hon. Gentleman (Mr. McKenna), from what he said, is altogether free from it. He seemed to think you could give the people a fortnight's holiday and then switch them back to the factories. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/oct/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/oct/29/peace-terms", "section": "peace-terms", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_text": "r. § Sir R. COOPER Is it the fact that the country will be committed to a secret peace agreement? § Mr. BONAR LAW I do not know whether my hon. Friend suggests that the terms of peace should be put as a referendum, and I do not know any other way in which the country could be represented except by its Government. § Mr. LEES-SMITH Will the House have control over the terms of peace? "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/oct/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/oct/29/statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "section": "statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_text": "l fund out of which we can pay for your tickets from Boston to London.\" That means that while military officers get a free pass to London, a member of the Mercantile Marine, who has, while in Germany and Holland, been treated like any other officer, has to pay his own fare to London. § The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir G. Cave) I heard of that, and I got it altered at once.—"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/oct/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/oct/29/statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "section": "statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_text": " question is, what is to be done? The War has taken a turn now. That may improve matters very much; but we have had many false alarms in the past. We thought two or three years ago that the War could not possibly last another year. If I was sure that the War was going to end now and an armistice was going to be accepted by the Germans, I might say that to some extent this Debate would be useless. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/oct/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/oct/29/statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "section": "statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She will be made!\"", "preceding_text": "hind the lines, and repatriated to this country last Thursday, you would realise how terribly hard the lot of our prisoners is made by the fact that they do not receive their parcels in the occupied districts? I hesitate to give further details, but I think it is useful and necessary that these facts should be publicly stated, because Germany has a debt to pay and Germany ought to be made to pay. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/oct/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/oct/29/statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "section": "statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no proof of the benefits!\"", "preceding_text": " past as head of the Prisoners of War Department, and that Department, under his control and direction, has done a great work in collecting information, in discovering and protesting against the ill-treatment of prisoners, many times with effect, and in other ways; and although this agreement has not been ratified, still our prisoners of war owe him a great debt of gratitude for what he has done. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/oct/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/oct/29/statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "section": "statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Deliberately!\"", "preceding_text": "to perform. It has been very heavy indeed. Lord Newton and General Belfield have given their time month after month and year after year to this purpose, and I do not think it is fair because this particular agreement has not been ratified to use the language which has been used in this House about them. Some of my hon. Friends have said that Lord Newton in some of his speeches has been sarcastic. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1918/oct/29", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1918/oct/29/statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "section": "statement-by-captain-charles-craig", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_text": "mentioning again this afternoon a name which has, I believe, been already mentioned, but I shall not name others, in view of what the right hon. Gentleman has said. But one of the worst offenders was Hoffmann Alexander, who comes from Nottingham, and, I believe, is a German Jew, a lace manufacturer in 1367 peace-time. I have no doubt he will make every effort to return to Nottingham after the War—"}