{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-18", "file": "debates1935-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a80c503417c5a1e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-18a.47.8", "colnum": "47", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "preceding_text": "proceeds of which would be available for the assistance of home industry. The first solution, quantitative regulation, corresponds more closely with the views advocated by the right hon. Member for Darwen (Sir H. Samuel). The second one, the levy used to balance up the home price, corresponds more closely with the solution advocated by the right hon. Member for Swindon (Dr. Addison) and his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-18a.47.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-18", "file": "debates1935-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a80c503417c5a1e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-18a.70.5", "colnum": "70", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " country and the very skilled men who produce the animals. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Swindon (Dr. Addison) has not talked about the doles to farmers. I was rather expecting to hear a lecture from some of the miners' representatives so I prepared some remarks on that. I was going to tell the Committee what doles the miners are getting, but will not, as the subject has not been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-18a.70.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-18", "file": "debates1935-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "a80c503417c5a1e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-18a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir E.RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E.RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": " and unsheltered. If they concede that point, which I feel quite sure they will, they must agree that something has to be done. Do they desire that the Government should leave the livestock industry completely unsheltered, that they should withdraw this Vote, that they should say to the producer of beef, \"We are going to let things slide. We have no further interest in you. Look after yourselves.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-18a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HORNE", "preceding_text": "assed by consulting with the ex-Viceroys available and obtaining their judgment; and, on the other hand, I can quite well imagine a situation in which a Prime Minister would be glad to be able to answer to his party that he was bound to take other people's views into account in making the appointment. It is for these reasons—and again I apologise for expressing them at so great length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Chelmsford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "he Secretary of State, who also will be a Labour man; but will there be any other Labour representative on this Committee of the Privy Council? Every other member of the committee will be politically opposed to the Government, if we may take our experience hitherto as a reasonable guide, because I cannot recall any Viceroy of India who on his return has associated himself with the Labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.237.5", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "y can accept their Prime Ministers from the Labour party, why worry about Viceroys? If my hon. Friends propose to go into the Lobby on this Amendment, I shall be glad to support them. I take it that this Measure, as drafted by the Government, puts the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief beyond criticism in the House of Commons, that it puts them in a position similar to that of His Majesty himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.237.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.237.5", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To diminish it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "easure, as drafted by the Government, puts the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief beyond criticism in the House of Commons, that it puts them in a position similar to that of His Majesty himself. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, it does not matter with reference to the point which I am making. The attempt of the Amendment is to extend the power of criticism of the Viceroy in the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.237.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "he Front Opposition Bench really gave effect to the views which he expressed. I am sure that when he reads his statement tomorrow he will find not only that he said that Labour would have its own way—and we could be under no apprehension as to what he meant—but that for the first time in the House of Commons we had a declaration that in these matters party politics were to predominate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "Because I believe that in this country politicians to-day do not do the things which they used to do in the not very distant past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Recently?''", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I specifically stated that in my view there was no longer, among politicians, a desire to make appointments of that sort. I pointed out that it was something which admittedly took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ly took place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Recently?''] If hon. Gentlemen will be a little less warm I will explain exactly what I meant. Many hon. Members opposite jeered when I stated that it was no longer the practice, and I naturally retaliated and, I think, rightly retaliated, by saying that they know better than I do what the practice is to-day. I am not connected with the party that is in power to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.243.3", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "h they belong being shortly defeated in the country, and they are therefore hoping to get the appointment of the next Viceroy, when this Bill comes into operation, and to be able to keep him there while the Labour Government is in power, and they hope to find him there if they ever get back to power again afterwards, which, of course, is extremely problematical. If one believes in democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "endent of the ebb and flow of party politics. If the dismissal of a single judge is a matter of vital importance to this country, surely the dismissal of a Viceroy, holding all the judicial power that the right hon. Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Horne) indicated earlier in the Debate, is of importance in a far greater degree. This Amendment is no reflection on the Labour party or on any other party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "alist principles and ideas. We were told on the Joint Select Committee that this was to be the end of constitutional reform in India except for the long time during which they would look forward to Dominion Status, but we hear to-day that every Labour Government that comes in will appoint a Viceroy and any other person whom it can control in order to enunciate and put forward Socialist principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.245.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "On a, point of Order. May I ask you, Captain Bourne, whether this discussion is in order? I am not aware that there is any Motion before the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " opposite, who believe in democracy a great deal more than I do, especially democracy in the East, how they think that any such legislative assembly could be set up as being democratic, which claims to be democratic, and which has the title \"Democratic\" conferred upon it. If hon. Members when they talk about responsible government do not mean democratic government, I do not know what they do mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "and fairly. In my short political experience I have never known politicians get out of their difficulties permanently by telling lies. I have known a great many politicians tell a great many lies thinking that they could thereby get out of difficulties. Very often they get out of their difficulty for a moment, but inevitably the lie comes home to roost, and that is exactly what is going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DONNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DONNER", "preceding_text": "he Centre; that there were \"certain buns\" to be eaten. I agree that there are a certain number of buns to be eaten, but they are only to be eaten by the rich boys, by the Brahmins, by the foreign educated Babu. The masses do not get a bite, let alone a bun; the peasants do not come in, the inarticulate folk, the untouchables, do not come into the picture. It is the rich boys only who get the buns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. GRIGG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. GRIGG", "preceding_text": "If I were to pursue that argument, I am afraid I should take the Committee a very long way from the subject which is now before it. I will only say that I am absolutely convinced that there was such a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-19", "file": "debates1935-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "e987a82f6422dc0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NICHOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NICHOLSON", "preceding_text": "I am not going to argue with the Noble Lady, or we shall have a serial addition to her speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-19a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF NATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. GENTLEMEN: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "That is not the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.329.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.345.8", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. BENNETT", "preceding_text": "It would, I think, be contrary to the public interest to give the information for which the hon. Gentleman asks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.345.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "it, which could gain the co-operation of India. The hon. Lady took an attitude which I fully approve. She said that if politically-minded India would rather have no Bill than this Bill, it should be rejected. I will accept that myself. If politically-minded India, if those upon whom we have to depend for the working of this measure, will not have the Bill, all that they have to do is to reject it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "d if that self-government does not express itself in the forms we have in the provinces it will express itself in a desire by the people of the States for a fuller share in the management of their States, and when that desire is expressed the princes are wise enough men to see that that desire will somehow have to be met. It is for that reason that I would like the hon. Lady to know that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "I take it that the Committee will decide between my right hon. Friend and myself. Anyhow, so far as this Committee is concerned, as my right hon. Friend seems to wish me to give my answer now, I am perfectly ready to give it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "nyhow, be that as it may, let me get back to the Amendment. The purpose of the Amendment is to substitute for the federal proposals in the Bill, a proposal for an advisory council of Greater India. I have observed that the Noble Lord who moved the Amendment and my hon. Friends who have supported him have for the most part based their contention upon the recommendations of the Statutory Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "d to assume, one is entitled to be allowed to point to the fact that other expert bodies, who have given great consideration to this matter, have taken an entirely different view of the philosophical and fundamental basis on which this issue turns. My hon. and gallant Friend, in asking his question was really leading up to a quotation I am about to make from the report of the Statutory Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "the meantime a constitution is being created, infinitely laborious, infinitely complicated, people voting in and out according to instructions, people voting as representatives of the ancient monarchies, and as newly-elected representatives in the new-Assembly, an Assembly which cannot be rectified by any dissolution, just the Princes, representatives and others elected by indirect election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "I understand that Dr. Ambedkar and I think Mr. Srinivasa Sastri are not entitled to speak for the depressed classes of India, but that the right hon. and gallant Member is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you mean by working it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member asks, first, whether I think we ought to ascertain whether India wants this reform. The answer is, \"Certainly,\" and we shall ascertain it not by an express question, but from those who will show themselves willing to work it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "osition in this country, where income tax contributes so very greatly to the revenue, income tax contributes only a minority of the revenues of the Government of India. The great mass of the revenue, some £37,000,000 out of £58,000,000, is contributed by the Customs, by import duties on various commodities, duties which I think we all agree are bound to be paid by the mass of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " Government's scheme. The right hon. Gentleman says that if you put the percentage too high you put it in the power of a small minority of States to hold up the Government to ransom. That would only be a small number of big States, and if the information which has reached us through the public Press as well as from private sources is correct the Secretary of State has already squared these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.482.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not you join it \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " 50 per cent. and that 50 per cent. just about what can be managed and manipulated. The right hon. Gentleman will tell me, no doubt, that the Joint Select Committee have considered all this, and settled it all, and examined it all so nicely. My right hon. Friend made a great mistake in not having a better committee of inquiry, people who would really make a searching examination of these problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-20", "file": "debates1935-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "ba15202d24915c0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.488.4", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether that is so or not, but even so, that was how many years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-20a.488.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-25", "file": "debates1935-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "667e84ba35d4a772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-25a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"That was on poultry alone!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS ACLAND", "preceding_text": "Infinitely much the most serious point made by the right hon. Member for Swindon (Dr. Addison) was his comparison between the sum alleged to be lost every year through diseases of livestock, namely, £3,000,000, and the small amount of research that is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-25a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-25", "file": "debates1935-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "667e84ba35d4a772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-25a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": " for which any Member on this side of the House apologises for one moment. I may be blamed for not having secured a larger return to the producer during this time. That is certainly a matter which has been of deep regret to me, and it is the only matter for which I feel any regret in bringing forward this supplementary estimate. The price is -still unremunerative and the problem is still unsolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-25a.846.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-25", "file": "debates1935-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "667e84ba35d4a772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-25a.898.5", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERRING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I can only say that I regret that there are precedents for that sort of thing even supposing they were set by a Labour Government. I think the House of Commons ought to be very careful of retaining its control over expenditure by Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-25a.898.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-26", "file": "debates1935-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4ed910d77f3f5bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-26a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "h with complete candour. The suggestion that is now being made, that the House is being misled, and apparently deliberately misled, by the right hon. Gentleman, is one that should never have appeared in the columns of our English Press. It affords an opportunity for the mischief-maker, and those who have been communicating with the Princes all along are now perhaps seeing the result of their work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-26a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-26", "file": "debates1935-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "4ed910d77f3f5bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-26a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " indeterminate time, and to say to them, \"Before we go on with this Measure, with which we have been charged by the responsibility of past years, please let us know what your wishes are, and when your wishes are known we will proceed with this Measure?\" I say nothing would be more calculated to raise the price that may be charged against us by those who may not have a sense of high responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-26a.1006.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-27", "file": "debates1935-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9ff4ab4ea2204c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BANFIELD", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I have transgressed, but I was carried away by the subject. However bad the conditions may be in British India it seems to be generally agreed that they are considerably worse in those States governed by the Princes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-27", "file": "debates1935-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9ff4ab4ea2204c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "preceding_text": "good discussion, in which there have been many expressions of view both for and against the Amendments. The Noble Lord the Member for Perth (Lord Scone), in his very interest- ing speech, said he would, be prepared to support the first Amendment, but could not go as far as supporting the second. He said that the Tory party had always been the party for giving the workers a better standard of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-27", "file": "debates1935-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9ff4ab4ea2204c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"What about Lord Shaftesbury?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. SMITH", "preceding_text": "had always been the party for giving the workers a better standard of life. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am pleased to hear that cheer; it shows that at least hon. Members are alive to what is taking place; but I must remind them that in the nineteenth century the Tory party, or a big section of it, was opposed to Measures similar to those proposed in the Amendments which we are now discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-27", "file": "debates1935-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9ff4ab4ea2204c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "who vote against this Amendment, obviously, will indicate that they are countenancing in India, particularly among the reactionary Princes, conditions of this kind. I hope that we shall have the support of all persons in the Committee, particularly the Conservatives who in this House state that the Conservative party as such have been responsible for progressive Labour legislation in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-02-27", "file": "debates1935-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "9ff4ab4ea2204c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It has all been published.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " of events. There is the point. The Maharaja of Bhopal said: The present scheme as put forward before us in the shape of the Government of India Bill and the draft Instrument of Accession, falls far short of many of our vital demands, and in regard to certain matters ignores agreements reached with His Majesty's government in London. And then Sir Akbar Hydari, the able Minister, said two days ago:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-27a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1342.4", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "be responsible, not only for their successes, but for their failures as well, and there is nothing that will develop that sense of responsibility better than making them answerable not merely for their successes but for their failures. I take the view that they must be free to make mistakes. They will learn by mistakes. That is how we all learn. That is how this Government is learning, bit by bit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1342.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EMMOTT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EMMOTT", "preceding_text": "I do not bring that accusation against the hon. Member, but he was apparently approving of the establishment of this system of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend the Member for Springburn (Mr. Emmott) refused to accept my invitation I would like to draw attention, in a very few words, to what is stated in paragraph 35 of the Report of the Joint Select Committee: These are undoubtedly formidable objections, but they do not, we think, exhaust the question. It is impossible adequately to discuss \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "Then I regret that he did not deal with it, because it is not fair to present one side of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1357.6", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " of his catherine-wheel contortion on that. subject. He was one associated with the weighty words of the Statutory Commission. As soon as he got into the Joint Select Committee he fell under the evil, ministerial influences with which that body was packed—hopelessly packed—and, of course, lacking the moral strength to stand against the tide and the prevailing currents of opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1357.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "ry of State thinks that this arrangement is agreeable, but I very much doubt it. I know that he will probably be able to say to me, and I do not controvert him, that I cannot quote any Hindu opinion or Moslem opinion that has been recorded against the provision of this spiritual comfort for our troops and the placing of the financial burden on the backs of the Indian people. That is probably true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " over 140,000 men in the Indian Army, which is almost exclusively an Indian Army, and in the main it is officered by people from this country. Let hon. Members see how anomalous the position is. The Indians in their own country are officered by British officers, but no Indian, so far as I know, has ever been allowed to secure a captaincy or even a sergeant-majorship in the British forces in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "nd in the main it is officered by people from this country. Let hon. Members see how anomalous the position is. The Indians in their own country are officered by British officers, but no Indian, so far as I know, has ever been allowed to secure a captaincy or even a sergeant-majorship in the British forces in India. [ Laughter. ] An hon. Member laughs. If he were an Indian I know what he would do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If possible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " had been started. But let any one, let the Minister, stand up and tell me how many officers have been trained since that report, and let us know what steps have been taken to bring about an Indianisation of the Army. The right hon. Gentleman throws over an essential portion of the Rawlinson Committee's Report, and that is the recommendation that Indianisation should be 'concluded in thirty years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ANEURIN BEVAN", "preceding_text": "olve more peril than safety to South Africa. These self-governing Dominions have the right to take their own view of their own safety, but that is being denied to India. It seems as though the Government are saying to India, \"We are going to charge the Indian budget with the maintenance of an army necessary not only for order in India but also because it might be part of general Imperial defence.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-02-28", "file": "debates1935-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "81a6fc6070445716", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1462.2", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "In view of that undertaking I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-02-28a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The best wage!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "his colleagues and without having been authorised to speak on their behalf. If the right hon. Gentleman ends the Debate this evening, I trust that he will give us an explanation of that matter. I trust also that he will tell us whether he thinks the working classes of this country would approve of a system under which a man who is not working should get the same wage as he got when he was in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " as he got when he was in work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The best wage!\"] I hope he will tell us whether he considers that such a policy would be conducive to the public interest or would be desired by the working class as a whole. Perhaps he will also tell us something of the finances of the proposal which he now makes. If the best wage through out the country is taken at a figure of £3 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "000. Therefore, taking the right hon. Gentleman's two proposals together, they would mean an increased charge on the Exchequer of £320,000,000 a year, which would involve an increase of our national taxation by something approaching 50 per cent. Taxation would be added to by nearly one-half for these two proposals alone. It is quite certain that the means test as it has stood cannot continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ot any money. I would, like the Lord President of the Council, go and draw out my overdraft. The President of the Board of Trade started that hare, and he started it deliberately in order to make people think that if we had a national banking system people's money would be unsafe. We, on the contrary, think it would be safer, and that instead of people losing their confidence they would have more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "of paper money in the world, but if the earth and what the earth contains and man's labour and brain power remained, the real wealth of the world would still be here. I do not count wealth by the amount of money which, as the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) once said, is buried in the bank cellars. The right hon. Gentleman once said a very true thing in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "noon to many speeches from the Opposition benches. I have heard once again the old, old story about the capitalist class grinding the poor workers beneath an iron heel. I have listened to denunciations of those terrible Tories who support the National Government and who have no mercy on the poor, horny-handed son of toil and I have listened to the whining complaints of those canting humbugs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1701.5", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "ke a very strong accusation. When the Government issued that memorandum it was picked up by my friends opposite who deliberately used it in the distressed areas in the north of England to make political capital. I know, and I have evidence that they not only embarrassed but intimidated the officers and prevented them from using that discretion and thus brought about the climax of which they boast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1701.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hyde Park!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": " brass tacks. I am not going to pretend to anticipate the answer of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Dominions, who knows quite well how to handle you. You have to live among people to find them out, and he has lived among you long enough to know exactly where you get off. Whenever I hear my hon. Friends opposite talking about the unemployed, it is to me so much bilge water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We will now take the collection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": " National Government to look upon this matter from a humanitarian and not a from a party point of view, and to remember that the working man is, after all, the greatest asset we possess and that, unless we look after him and his particular offspring, there is no future for this country. I am as well aware of the miseries, woes and troubles of the people of this country as any man in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": " present situation without an increase of trade and industry. But my experience has been that an increase of trade does not, of necessity, increase the number of persons in employment. I was once a coal miner. If I hewed and turned out four tons of coal per day I was regarded as an exceptionally good collier, but there are people hewing coal to-day and turning out 10 tons of coal, or even 15 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is your job!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "st 40 minutes of my speech I dealt with unemployment, I can only assume that he treated my speech at Barry in the same way as he has treated the Government speeches to-day—not even knowing what they were about. There is another feature of to-day's Debate, and that is that, whatever criticism may have been directed against the Government, no one up to now has made even a solitary contribution", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": " people you were addressing to mean that our figures do not reflect people being genuinely reduced from the unemployment register but merely a transfer from the unemployment register to poor relief. You all know perfectly well that that was stated up and down the country. You know from to-day's Debate that, if that is repeated, the people who repeat it must be told in plain language what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about coal mining?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "o are in employment to-day are engaged in the trade of which they are masters. It is no consolation to the cotton operative to be found a job on the roads, and it is no consolation to the miner or railwayman to be set to work navvying or building bridges. The real contribution to the permanent and genuine unemployed people is the contribution that enables them to find jobs in their own industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-04", "file": "debates1935-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "670dd8e330ff54df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "day is not for a reduction in the salary because of the employed; it is a reduction because of the unemployed. It is, therefore, rather bad grace to get up and say this when I am showing that on these figures, even in coal mining, there is that increase. I put it to you that there is hardly any justification for going into the Lobby in support of the Amendment. Figures, I know, may be unpalatable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-04a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1741.0", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not read it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "In the reply that is being circulated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1741.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1747.5", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. and learned Friend consider introducing legislation by which a proportion of the magistrates on every bench should be women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1747.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1749.3", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN HASLAM", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend not think that the authorities are doing a public service in returning the 10s.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1749.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1752.5", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Get hold of the Yellow Book.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DUNCAN", "preceding_text": "Is it not possible to make an estimate of the cost which one instalment of the Socialist policy may involve?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "If I had misled the Committee, wittingly or unwittingly, I should certainly make my disclaimer and apologise, but I have done nothing of the sort. I quoted certain extracts which were placed in my hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "en to me by the \"Morning Post,\" and were to appear in the paper next morning. They appeared to be authentic and to be highly relevant to the particular Clause, and I thought at the time that I was not only justified in bringing them to the attention of the Committee, but was bound to do so. I do say, and, in fact, after a week has passed, it is found that these extracts are accurate and authentic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "cts are accurate and authentic. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If the hon. Gentleman would read the repeated—the alleged—speeches, he would see that they bear the mark of genuineness and authenticity in every line. All that I have to ask is that the Government should say whether these speeches are authentic or not. The hon. Gentleman argued just now as though he did not care what was the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Governor-General.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "the Solicitor-General on the definition of the word. We on this side desire to see a good deal more protection given to the minorities than the purely legal protection to which they are entitled by law. We submit that they are entitled to protection in a great many other respects. Who is going to say whether it is the legitimate interests of a minority which are being attacked in a paticular case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1879.1", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "934, the figure was only 426,000,000 yards. Lancashire is already gravely dissatisfied with the position, but we have to be realists, and in my humble way I shall endeavour to be a realist. I ask myself whether the Government have power to do anything more in this Bill for the trade of Lancashire. I am afraid that under the terms of the Fiscal Autonomy Convention the Government have not the power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-05", "file": "debates1935-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "06fc6db93c3219b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1892.1", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "secure platform? Is it not clear that it would be most unfair to ask the House of Lords to take the responsibility of standing up against a widespread Indian demand supported by a majority in the House of Commons? In that case, where is security at all? Whichever way you look at, it, whether you take the point of view of reverting to the earlier form of veto which was abolished 20 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-05a.1892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-06", "file": "debates1935-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ba3780b332fffeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.1985.4", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a novelty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": " the people of India as by the people in the constituencies in this country. There are, generally speaking, more people going, to the poll in India than go when there is an election for the management of the County of London. There is a higher polling record, although vast distances have to be covered, and in spite of the intricate difficulties of machinery, than in the greatest city of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.1985.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-06", "file": "debates1935-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ba3780b332fffeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.2093.0", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS, 1930 AND 1934.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "preceding_text": "pense, and I think wisely provided, with a body of technical experts, some of whom have been engaged in studying signs for many years past. They have at their disposal a fund of comparative information; besides engineering skill. My hon. and gallant Friend's observation upon this sign is that it is liable to be confused with the restrictive signs, yet his suggested alternative sign contains a bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.2091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-06", "file": "debates1935-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ba3780b332fffeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS, 1930 AND 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "Despite the disparity in size. If hon. Members look at the signs from a distance I think they will agree that the black bar is more easily discernible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-06", "file": "debates1935-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "ba3780b332fffeb7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS, 1930 AND 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "orders are in proper and constitutional form, and it is open to my hon. and gallant Friend—and indeed he has availed himself of the opportunity—to do what my predecessor suggested he could do during the passage of the Bill itself, namely, to move this Prayer and, if necessary, reject the traffic signs, in which case, of course, there would be the most utter confusion on the 18th March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-06a.2094.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-07", "file": "debates1935-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2c7c929566c9e782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2160.1", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FLEMING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FLEMING", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Gower (Mr. D. Grenfell) in his interesting remarks has refened to certain companies, and it is well known that those companies are already being publicly investigated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-07", "file": "debates1935-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2c7c929566c9e782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2180.2", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "Of course, as everybody knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-07", "file": "debates1935-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2c7c929566c9e782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2183.1", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEKS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "For the purpose of my argument it is entirely irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-07", "file": "debates1935-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2c7c929566c9e782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2183.3", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the source?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NATHAN", "preceding_text": "he Committee has known for a long time of the existence of a private pool and it should have made it its task to determine the extent of the speculation. On the contrary, however, the Committee took no steps to oppose the pool and even regarded it as an ally. In this connection the International Tin Committee failed to act correctly. That is a very authoritative opinion, coming from such a source.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-07", "file": "debates1935-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2c7c929566c9e782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "I was at great pains to explain that this was not capable of proof, and I ask the House to attend to this matter, that this is one of the purposes for which this House exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-07", "file": "debates1935-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2c7c929566c9e782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2225.1", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "the market. That it has been aimed at a species of market control goes without saying, but the charge that it looked towards cornering the market is refuted by the very actions of the market itself. Those who sold London Standards as hedges against Straits tin have had no difficulty in effecting exchanges and it was only those who sold short or who had nothing to exchange that have been penalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-07", "file": "debates1935-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "2c7c929566c9e782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2258.3", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. The position at the time to which the right hon. Gen tleman refers was not that I was a member of the Government; it was when the right hon. Gentleman's own party was in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-07a.2258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-08", "file": "debates1935-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0e9fb0c590ddb15f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-08a.2292.0", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "Yes, as a theory now. Our position is perfectly consistent. When you have protection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-08a.2292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-08", "file": "debates1935-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0e9fb0c590ddb15f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-08a.2309.5", "colnum": "2309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The producer butcher who is getting the retail profit is not getting the subsidy. No producer butcher is getting this subsidy. We do not make any exception. The argument of the hon. Member is that in addition to the profits being made just now by the retail trade, that trade should also have the advantage of the subsidy given by the State. That is entirely illogical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-08a.2309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEXICAN EAGLE OIL COMPANY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the possibility of asking other Governments to co-operate with His Majesty's Government in making a protest to the Mexican Government to stop this kind of blackmail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " first section is not so much what is said as what is omitted. No one can call this a careful presentation of the history of what has been done to try and get security and disarmament in these last years. It is the making of a case by a lawyer, and I trace there the hand of the Foreign Secretary. It starts off by alleging the unswerving support of the League of Nations by His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "educed to a mere piece of machinery, a convenient sort of clearing house for foreign policies. It is not surprising that when the authors come to consider the various pacts and agreements that have been made there is no word whatever of the Covenant of the League of Nations. That is left out entirely. In fact, the first part of this document amounts to a repudiation of the League of Nation's idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": " rather \"the\" State, which is preaching war and the war mentality, especially to her young people. Let there be no mistake. We on this side are utterly and entirely opposed to Hitlerism and the present rulers of Germany. We detest German militarism, we loathe militarism in every form. But it would be a fairer statement to say that there are other countries which instruct their young in militarism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "m to be able to make their strength felt. We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves. We do not think you can do it by national defence. We think you can only do it by moving forward to a new world—a world of law, the abolition of national armaments with a world force and a world economic system. I shall be told that that is quite impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "he French and the British, the reference to the direct and effective co-operation of Germany was especially important, and we followed that up by making arrangements for a visit on the part of the Foreign Secretary to Berlin. That visit will take place in about a fortnight's time, and I should like to express the hope that by that time Herr Hitler will be in full possession of his normal strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "words and I should be glad to be corrected if I am wrong—I thought he said that at the present time no one could entertain the hope of securing an effective general reduction of armaments, and that we must proceed upon that basis. Does that mean that in the right hon. Gentleman's opinion and in the opinion of the Government the Disarmament Conference is now to be regarded as a failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "present time no one could entertain the hope of securing an effective general reduction of armaments, and that we must proceed upon that basis. Does that mean that in the right hon. Gentleman's opinion and in the opinion of the Government the Disarmament Conference is now to be regarded as a failure—[HON. MEMBEES: \"No.\"]—and that the curtain is to be rung down on that Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "t all that sentiment which forms part of this powerful peace movement shall acquiesce in and indeed approve of increases of armaments for the sake of fulfilling, as they say, international obligations. I can understand the Prime Minister, who in earlier days was an extreme pacifist, finding himself now the head of a Government which is proposing great increases of expenditure upon armaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "f great ships being sunk, with all their crews, and of bombs bursting in the streets and children being gassed, and we ask why this has been done, we shall be told that it has been done in the sacred cause of peace. Never will you get security along those lines. If any one country is enabled to feel itself secure by its own armaments, by that very fact its neighbours must feel themselves insecure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.60.3", "colnum": "60", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "0,000,000 this year, and we can see further reductions in prospect so that poverty can be relieved and social measures pursued, the Government would have been entitled to claim great credit, and would have been given great credit. They would have earned the thanks of Parliament and the applause of the whole nation. There would have been an overwhelming and popular movement of relief and gratitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.60.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "rest our safety on a system of collective security. The right hon. Member for Darwen is never as precise as that, but he seemed to imply, if I understood him correctly, that any weakness or deficiency in our own forces at the present time was amply made up by the system of collective security, which was imperilled by any attempt to make our own forces more efficient or to increase any one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does the Covenant mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "have to take any steps of that kind. Do they mean warlike intervention? You would not get this country, you would not get our people—it is not our governors, but our people—to consent to sending their sons out to die, for all those glorious phrases which the right hon. Gentleman opposite so used and so abused, in order to destroy Manchuquo or in order to enforce peace in South America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sixth!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "day? We could not send a similar force abroad. We could not send, I venture to say, six divisions, we could not send five, we could not send four, we could not send three, without prolonged delay. What is our position with regard to the air? I said that we are one of the Great Powers, but our Air Force is hardly more than that of a small Power. Are we still fifth among the air forces of the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, I do not think that it would ever have come to war in that case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, I do not think that it would ever have come to war in that case. [ Laughter. ] It is of no use for hon. Members to laugh at that. That is the view of most people. After all, are we such a small, paltry nation that the Japanese nation would want to go to war because we told her to keep the law?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": " come to war in that case. [ Laughter. ] It is of no use for hon. Members to laugh at that. That is the view of most people. After all, are we such a small, paltry nation that the Japanese nation would want to go to war because we told her to keep the law? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I doubt it very much indeed. The prestige of this country is still high, thank God, and so is the power of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.89.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.94.3", "colnum": "94", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you hit him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ike a little frankness about. I am not in the least enthusiastic about the Foreign Secretary's visit to Germany. But if we are going to have complete democracy and, if the Foreign Secretary is going to Germany to speak in our name and in my name, I would like to have some idea in advance of what he is going to say. I do not envy him his job. I would not like to have to go to interview Herr Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.94.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Saar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "rent thing to think that the forces for which the present Government are asking are to be used in connection with collective security. If I thought or believed that, it would make a good deal of difference to me, but in all the evidence that we have had during the last four years, until quite recently, I have never noticed any anxiety or willingness or indication on their part that they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-11", "file": "debates1935-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "e41354ff37a371d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "r, they have always had a reservation in their minds which has defeated the possibility of agreement on that particular point, such as our reservation as regards the bombing of out lying inhabitants. When other nations were prepared to get rid of military aviation, if we had been prepared to make that sacrifice, it might well have been to-day that military aviation would have been abolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-11a.144.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-12", "file": "debates1935-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cf7753cff880b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.210.0", "colnum": "210", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Adjournment time from 11 till 11.30. That was taken away from us last night by three Divisions which the Government forced upon the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-12", "file": "debates1935-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cf7753cff880b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They should have left them there!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "lic meeting or in some other way against the law. That has been the position of people in this country, certainly of Michael Davitt and Colonel Lynch. I take their cases because they are so thoroughly well known. No one would say that they had committed anything but political crime—if there is such a thing as political crime. In the case of the 33 Poplar councillors who went to prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-12", "file": "debates1935-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cf7753cff880b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "rts by going to prison and other people are sent there who ought not to be sent there. The point I am making is that political offences are widespread in India just now, and have been for some years past. To have a paragraph like this saying that a large number of men and women shall be ineligible for election is dealing out to the Indians what I am quite sure would not be the law in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-12", "file": "debates1935-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cf7753cff880b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.263.3", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was a dynamitard!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "sh the land laws of Ireland, but it was left to a Tory Government under the late Mr. Wyndham practically to wipe them out. We bought them out, and the great row now is as to who should pay for them. That is only by the way. What Michael Davitt agitated for became the law, and everybody recognised that it was right, but it did not happen to be recognised as right when he joined the Fenian movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-12", "file": "debates1935-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cf7753cff880b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "nstituency and influencing poor and more or less ignorant electors. These dangerous terrorists—the importance of the admission must not be lost sight of in the country—guilty of the worst of crimes, will be likely to be elected in Bengal by the Provincial Legislature of Bengal and sent to the Federal Assembly from that Legislature. That is the admission that has now been put before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-12", "file": "debates1935-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1cf7753cff880b38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Nawab!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "it is not desirable. It may be very necessary indeed. But when passing so many clauses with great rapidity we ought to notice all the important points with which we are dealing. The question of paramountcy falls under this sub-section. Questions arising out of paramountcy will be sustained by the funds under this paragraph. Has the Secretary of State seen the declaration of the Maharaja of Bhopal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-12a.331.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. KEYES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. KEYES", "preceding_text": "ly, we have been the only people who have been prepared to make, and, indeed have made, sacrifices in order to get agreement on naval armaments. We tried to do away with submarines. No one wanted to do away with submarines because they caused us great annoyance in the last War, and will do so in the next war, although not so much as people who have not the technical knowledge I have would suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.637.2", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "hievement and efficiency which are engendered by service to the State in any department becomes perverted and men begin to feel that these warlike preparations and exercises are an end in themselves—instead of always remembering that all this human ingenuity and efficiency and invention is being turned to a dreadful anti-social purpose, that its sole purpose is the slaughter of human beings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "surely as night follows day, by increases in the armaments of that catalogue of countries whose present armaments are mentioned as the reason for the increase in ours. It is for that reason that we believe that this is a suicidal policy. It is for that reason that we believe that the Government are heading us straight for war. And we believe it because every lesson of history proves that it is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.639.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.639.5", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "ord had come to this House and laid before us the considered opinion of all those countries who are prepared to support a common system; if he had shown us that their joint defences should be of a certain size in order to maintain their common protection, that would be another thing. But he does not come here in that manner. He comes here determined to secure for our country overwhelming strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.639.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Member should have interjected that query.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman has asked me the question, I would say that the band of nations consists of the member States of the League of Nations, France, Italy, the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLEARY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLEARY", "preceding_text": " real economy might be effected by a greater co-ordination between the Defence Services, such a co-ordination as would give us a comprehensive defence force and lead to real economy. In conclusion, I would say that the Labour party, as represented on this side of the House, are not endeavouring to oppose the Government or declaring a policy of peace merely in order to capture electoral advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "e Washington Conference, with Germany out of the League, and with general unrest throughout the world, just because England wants to keep her Navy fit, there is this great yell about our Government going in for rearmament. I am sure that hon. Members do not really mean what they say. Hon. Members above the Gangway say such different things in the country from what they say in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-14", "file": "debates1935-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "851d8bfd19d1453f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "yet here hon. Members say that they know that none of us wants war. I believe in talking in the same strain in the House as out of the House. The right hon. Member for Bow and Bromley. (Mr. Lansbury) talks exactly the same in the House as he does out of the House, and a good many hon. Members do, but some of them do not. This is distressing to many of us who have seen the sufferings caused by war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-14a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-15", "file": "debates1935-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ce0fd90c25ee9897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-15a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PERKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PERKINS", "preceding_text": "stry in the country. I should be neglecting my duty to my constituents if I did not praise and back up the Minister in introducing this Bill. I have the honour to represent a very important constituency in which a large number of people earn a living by producing beef. I think I can claim, and I am sure the House will agree, that the best beef is produced in the fertile valleys of Gloucestershire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-15a.758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-15", "file": "debates1935-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "ce0fd90c25ee9897", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-15a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": " One of the things that surprises me is the Postmaster-General's savageness in this Clause. Ten pounds is a most savage fine to impose on anyone who is foolish enough persistently to make telephone calls without reasonable cause. Forty shillings would have been bad enough, but £10 is far too much. Suppose to-morrow, when I am having my breakfast, which is generally about half-past-nine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-15a.771.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-18", "file": "debates1935-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cc0b14f213fb3a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.821.0", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Gilmour)", "preceding_text": "lice. I wish to make it clear that the police are entitled to patrol in plain clothes whether on foot or in vehicles. It is true that Parliament has enacted that it is not an offence for a driver of a vehicle to fail to stop on the signal of a constable if he is not in uniform, but I have no doubt that most drivers, when signalled in the manner described in the police notice, will obey the signal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.820.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-18", "file": "debates1935-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cc0b14f213fb3a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "e beguiled by the mechanised army, its tanks, its guns. You see them all there. There is no peace in the atmosphere. All that wonderful equipment that you see there means war.\" Is that really the fact? What we are doing in these Estimates and have tried to do is to increase our mechanised war arm. Does my hon. Friend want more men killed? By mechanisation you endanger fewer lives than in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-18", "file": "debates1935-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cc0b14f213fb3a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "as much on armoured cars and tanks, and twice as much on other mechanical vehicles. The obvious conclusion to be drawn is that the Government are not so much patching up barracks, as—to use a naval phrase—clearing for action. They are laying in a stock of munitions of war, both large and small, tanks, armoured cars, anti-gas equipment; in fact, they are in process almost of mobilising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-18", "file": "debates1935-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "0cc0b14f213fb3a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HACKING", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether there was a general invitation. Probably the hon. and gallant Member is right. Nevertheless, there was a discussion and anybody would have been welcomed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-18a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-19", "file": "debates1935-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "4450d4c773200ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "preceding_text": "e in connection with shipping companies that we shall be able to continue as the carrying nation of the world and to save British shipping from its death blow. Our ports and harbours lie all over the world. Our Empire has the longest coastline, and we have the finest sea routes, coastal light services and radio services in the world, and radio communications can always be obtained by ships at sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-19", "file": "debates1935-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "4450d4c773200ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "preceding_text": "t the one patriotic thing is to say, \"Buy British under all circumstances whether British is best or whether it is not.\" I give place to no man or no women in my love for my country, but I think it is a far greater form of patriotism to say, \"Give this country adequate tariffs, and after that nothing but the best is good enough for Britain.\" The best seaplanes to-day are not found in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-19", "file": "debates1935-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "4450d4c773200ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": " my gun to one side when I am assured that your gun is well out of the way, but I would become a Member of the Opposition if I were foolish enough to destroy my gun and leave the other fellow to keep possession of his. I have tried to follow hon. Members' wonderful reasoning to-night and I have noticed that they have referred to other countries. It is always the old, old story, rightly or wrongly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-19", "file": "debates1935-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "4450d4c773200ed3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "NUMBER OF ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DORAN", "preceding_text": "e referred to other countries. It is always the old, old story, rightly or wrongly. [ Interruption .] They are always wonderfully fond of referring to other countries, but it has never yet dawned upon their simple imaginations that the responsibility of Great Britain is five times more than any other country in creation. It has never come to their knowledge that we have got control of livelihoods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-19a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1179.7", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1179.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1179.9", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "GLASGOW CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. I should like to know what is the matter with Glasgow, when we have all these Tory Members of Parliament objecting to something with which they have nothing to do. This is a Bill in favour of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1179.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of HARTINGTON", "preceding_text": " a vote or a decision upon any part of it. He told them again: No one in any part of this House can categorically say that an All-India Federation Bill can be produced until we know in detail and for certain that the Indian States are going to be an effective part of the Federation.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 27th June, 1932; col. 1495, Vol. 267.] To-day we know almost for certain that they are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "Certainly, and I claim that that is the case to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "commission had reached as a result of their study. This is the Princes' offer which my right hon. Friend the Lord President of the Council dwelt on as the ground on which he solemnly advised his party to adopt this policy. I read in the \"News-Chronicle,\" the organ of the Liberal party—I beg pardon, I am not so sure about that, but an organ at any rate of the Liberal and Labour parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "what was it? The Princes reaffirm their faith in Federation. Can any reasonable person who has read the White Paper and also read the actual text of the Princes' speeches imagine that we are going to make progress in our affairs by taking such nonsensical views as that? What is the moral of this White Paper? It is the final refusal of the Princes to have anything to do with this Federation scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "y should, as my Noble Friend has suggested, be brought to the Third Beading and then be left out with any other ancillary parts as may be required. Then we could go forward. If that were done, very useful legislation would still rest in the hands of the Government, but, if they persist in the course which they have adopted, if they simply go forward using the dull brute force that they can demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1271.4", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": " giving way to me. I think he is anxious that there should be no misunderstanding on the matter. If my Noble Friend is under the impression that those of us who are opposing this Bill would also oppose the Simon Commission's Report he is entirely mistaken. We have repeatedly said that we would be willing to co-operate on the basis of the Simon Commission's Report—subject to points of detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Usually.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "ith them in the Lobby. I do not understand my right hon. Friend's theory about Parliamentary majorities. In his time he has been as dependent upon them as any other Minister. Nor do I understand his reproaches to those who may not have listened to the Debate but will record their vote in the Lobby. I think I have observed him sometimes in the Lobby when he has not sat patiently through the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-20", "file": "debates1935-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "38ec3d3a0d259666", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "Laughter .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "h administration in India—not Radical Viceroys who found the organisation there when they arrived—ask those men, whether the ordinary people of India would prefer the police to be under native politicians or under English administration. Ask the inarticulate masses of the Indian people, where you can come into contact with them, a question of that kind and you will get only one answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-20a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-21", "file": "debates1935-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0e790ced777a285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "g of shock, and almost despair, as is only to be compared with what happened in August, 1914. We are of opinion that, unless something is speedily done by the statesmen of Europe and the world, not only will the common people not be satisfied but that very large numbers of them will not be alive to be either dissatisfied or satisfied. The mentality in this country and abroad is a mentality of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-21", "file": "debates1935-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0e790ced777a285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "d in welcoming them home. Our hopes have risen very high, and we have said to ourselves, \"Thank God, we are now on the road to something like disarmament and peace.\" I am not standing here to attempt to apportion blame or to rebuke anyone, or to do anything to censure any individual or any group of individuals, but I am here to say that we who represent the people of Britain have a responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-21", "file": "debates1935-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0e790ced777a285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "e in opening up the great waterways of the world, and in any question of disarmament we have, I admit, the most to give. I want us to give that—full measure, pressed down, running over. I want our country to take the lead in saying to the world: \"We will lay on the altar of disarmament this business of aerial warfare. We are willing to give up for good and for all, with other nations\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-21", "file": "debates1935-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0e790ced777a285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "sia had outraged certain principles held by Governments. The German régime has outraged the general standards of civilisation in a way unparalleled. There have been dictators in other countries and in other times, but I never knew yet the dictator who turned round and shot the people who helped to put him in power, within a month or two of his getting into power. It is horrible and revolting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-21", "file": "debates1935-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0e790ced777a285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " has presented itself to the other nations with whom it was co-operating—Italy, France, and Russia—as having deserted them in a crucial situation. That is the impression that is created in Europe just now, that at this moment, by going to Berlin for friendly conversations, Great Britain has left its three associates, who are all supposed to be working towards common ends, in the lurch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-21", "file": "debates1935-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0e790ced777a285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-21", "file": "debates1935-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b0e790ced777a285", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "preceding_text": " course, while we may encourage proposals of that kind these are not matters in which we can dictate. I have been told that while it would probably prove a very great convenience to people who have to fly in bad weather that these names should be displayed on railway stations, gasometers and the like, it would also be a certain amount of encouragement to people to fly lower than they ought to fly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-21a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-22", "file": "debates1935-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "8968492db4bd4cb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-22a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " An hon. Member smiles at that. It is not a question of party when you come to personality. I could trust my life on humanitarian grounds to some members of other parties, because they would be generously minded when in a position of trust. I am not speaking of their policy, but of their administration. Some hon. Members opposite, however, irritate me beyond measure as soon as they begin to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-22a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-25", "file": "debates1935-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "38aac33e3de45b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-25a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN", "preceding_text": "come back as a National Government with a very large majority and were full of enthusiasm with regard to the prospects of the future. There was to be a better- ment in the conditions of the country. They thought the National Government would mean a kind of Open Sesame to the trade of the world, but to-day that optimism does not exist. There is a spirit of pessimism even in the National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-25a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1738.4", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL DEFENCE (WHITE PAPER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman in a position to tell the House what were the observations of the Dominion Governments on the White Paper, and did they reach the right hon. Gentleman before the White Paper was published? Are we not entitled to an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1824.3", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "d diminish the scale of activities of the other body builders. Quite clearly, therefore, it would diminish the magnitude of the home market behind the other body builders and hamper them all in seeking for world trade. Therefore, from that point of view alone, it is a most unwise and reactionary step to propose. As I do not like municipal trading and want it restricted within the narrowest limits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1824.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1830.4", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "What about the rates in Hackney?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN WILMOT", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether the hon. Gentleman has studied the record of the municipal bank in Birmingham?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the rates!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "the money were borrowed from the municipal bank, that would mean an annual loss of £50,000 a year to the ratepayers of Glasgow. I want to say a word, also, as regards the depositors, because the principal people to suffer if a bank goes wrong are the depositors. What are the assets of a municipality? They are tramways, waterworks, public buildings, sewers, electricity, gasworks, and the like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SMITHERS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SMITHERS", "preceding_text": " per cent. War Loan has been made. I do not presume to know what the Treasury would do, but I cannot believe that, in the altered conditions, they would still lay down those regulations. It is interesting to note that the regulations laid down by the Treasury then are of such a nature that it was not thought desirable to proceed, and the powers were reversed. In 1932 the Glasgow Corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Duff Cooper)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Duff Cooper)", "preceding_text": "an opposition concern to compete with it. Hon. Members opposite have often threatened us with the taking over of the Bank of England when they have the opportunity. I believe that is part of their policy. I differ from that policy, I think it would be an error, and I think it might produce many evils; but certainly it would be a very much more sensible proposition than starting an opposition bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1871.0", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "The manufacturers of the tramcars now in use by the Glasgow Corporation have satisfied, and wonderfully satisfied, the people of Glasgow. They have provided all that the people need without attempting to compete with business firms outside. If they had attempted to do so they would have been unable to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-26", "file": "debates1935-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "0e21bec9385a0b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "municipal bank. That there were 50,000 people demonstrating in Glasgow yesterday is what you have to consider when fighting Socialism, and not a private Bill brought in in a perfectly legitimate way through perfectly legitimate channels. They come here asking for powers to do certain things that any municipality has a perfect right to ask for and that this House has no right to withhold from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-26a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-03-27", "file": "debates1935-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4d786d4d65a072ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-27a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "ink if I may say so that the hon. Member, with whose motives in regard to the Amendment I sympathise, is in some confusion as to the sort of Federation which we are setting up here. It will not make India into a close union. It will be a Federation something on the lines of the United States but unique in itself. A Federation such as this Bill sets up has never been seen in the world before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-27a.1944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-27", "file": "debates1935-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4d786d4d65a072ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-27a.1950.1", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": " points that have been raised by the hon. Member for East Woolwich (Mr. Hicks) and others who have taken part in this Debate. In the first place, I think we should all agree in praising the part that India has played at Geneva, particularly in connection with labour questions. The hon. Member for East Woolwich referred to the fact that out of 33 Conventions the Government of India had ratified 13.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-27a.1950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-27", "file": "debates1935-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "4d786d4d65a072ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-27a.1986.1", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "h Court judge, and it would be very undesirable for his name to be quoted. It might also be the opinion of a barrister engaged in advising some of the parties in this matter, the Indian Princes or otherwise. There are various reasons, and, if we are told that our opinion is of no value unless we can quote the opinion of some legal authority, then I say it is prostituting the Debates in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-27a.1986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-28", "file": "debates1935-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8cf8eeb5c643a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-28a.2095.5", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tions to the Committee, surely it is asking too much of the Committee to go so far as the end of Part VII to-night. That would take us up to Clause 174. It means an enormous hurrying through the necessary business, and in view of the way in which the Government are forcing this matter from day to day and departing from the spirit and principle on which this matter should have been conducted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-28a.2095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-28", "file": "debates1935-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8cf8eeb5c643a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-28a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a profession.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "is Amendment mean that those who follow them are entitled to call them businesses, although in fact they are undesirable? Do I understand that the effect of this Amendment would be that the Indian Assembly would not be entitled to legislate in order to remove an undesirable business without first having the prior consent of the Governor-General? There is, for example, the trade in poisonous drugs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-28a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-03-29", "file": "debates1935-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "9078b5cf8ddc1de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-29a.2264.1", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "ADDITIONAL IMPORT DUTIES (NO. 5) ORDER 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. YOUNG", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "t least, whatever else it did not do, bring in revenue, that if goods went out of the country revenue would come, and that if goods were kept out and no revenue was forthcoming from abroad we should have more work at home. There are signs that the Government has as little belief in protection as hon. Friends have on this side of the House. The predictions which we have always made are working out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-03-29a.2264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-01", "file": "debates1935-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d53fa019e081bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-01a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "House of Commons does not want the Bill justified by experts, but by the Minister in charge of it, and that is just what we are not getting. There is this further point. The Governor-General is going to have the right now to nominate three out of seven members of this board. It is absolutely certain that those three nominated members are going to be in conflict sooner or later with the other four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-01a.71.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-01", "file": "debates1935-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d53fa019e081bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-01a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "obey the decisions of the authority, and therefore I think that the whole question should have deserved reconsideration. The Secretary of State took us to task for suggesting that there might always be the difficulty between the Governor-General and the elected representatives. I do not think that any of us suggested that there would always be difficulties. We are legislating perhaps for all time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-01a.77.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-01", "file": "debates1935-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d53fa019e081bf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-01a.163.4", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "Or an authority, civil or judicial. At any rate I do not think we ought to take up any more time upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-01a.163.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-04-02", "file": "debates1935-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7f1e197efac53a4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Canada.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "The contract which has been made between Timber Distributors, Limited, and the Soviet Union is not for manufactured articles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-02", "file": "debates1935-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7f1e197efac53a4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A comma.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "t that be. Let us examine it purely from the point of view of a drafting Amendment overlooked until this moment. It is not correctly drafted. If the learned Solicitor-General will direct his gaze upon the earth, he will see that the Amendment which he is taking the responsibility of commending to the Committee will not even read. You must insert the word \"and\" after this Amendment to make it read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.216.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-02", "file": "debates1935-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7f1e197efac53a4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) said that I did not anticipate in my answer a question which does not and could not possibly arise, either on the Amendment or on the Clause which we are discussing. The whole of this Debate has proceeded upon the question whether or not the subject of champerty should be introduced into the Indian Code.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-02", "file": "debates1935-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "7f1e197efac53a4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.230.2", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "May I venture to ask whether my Noble Friend the Member for Hastings (Lord E. Percy) is satisfied with the answer he has received? After all, my Noble Friend sat on the Joint Select Committee, whose report on this subject, I gather, differs from the action of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-02a.230.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-04", "file": "debates1935-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c99cfaf2ebb5dfbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-04a.653.6", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get up and bow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "he Minister will be able to see his way to make what is, after all, a very moderate concession. Why should this concession in any way worry the Indian Ministers? Why should it hurt their pride that the Englishman who is suspended should have his case tried? I imagine this Amendment will appeal to the sense of justice of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and some of his friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-04a.653.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-08", "file": "debates1935-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "ad24b6e5261a98eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-08a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKIE", "preceding_text": "So far as I know there is no ecclesiastical district designated Lossiemouth. I should he very sorry if any individual presbytery were specified in the Clause, because it is contrary to the spirit of the Presbyterian Church to single out any one authority as being the sole channel through which the spiritual grace in orders can flow. The Presbyterian system is one of pure republicanism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-08a.869.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-09", "file": "debates1935-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "38e2c77d96a00868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-09a.999.5", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": ". H. Williams), the Committee might like to be reminded exactly where we stand in regard to the provisional time-table agreed upon by the committee of representatives of the various groups in the House. To-day is the nineteenth day and, according to the time-table, without taking into account the extra four days, we ought to finish the Clauses of the Bill to-night. Obviously, we shall not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-09a.999.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-10", "file": "debates1935-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "43410cbecaf2a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-10a.1168.2", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN", "preceding_text": " there is little or none. These arrangements have nothing to do with the Chair but they are usually communicated to the Chair and I was given to understand that the understanding arrived at after the Committee failed to finish Part XIII last night was that we should finish these remaining Clauses about four o'clock this afternoon. If we had started the Debate at once without this discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-10a.1168.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-10", "file": "debates1935-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "43410cbecaf2a813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-10a.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "diately to go to this extent in regard to the constitution of Burma? Surely it would be wiser to see how the great experiment in India is going to work. We have heard that there is a possibility that the great reforms at the Centre are not to come into operation for some considerable time. In 1932 we were told that no Bill would be presented to Parliament until the Princes had given their consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-10a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-11", "file": "debates1935-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0446b8eb77e057e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "But can we take the Preamble out of an Act which is to be abrogated and then put it in here in this form? I am not a legal gentleman, but I understand that this is a Preamble which is going to be stuck somewhere into the middle of the Bill. Anyhow, we are told that it is not, a Preamble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1361.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-11", "file": "debates1935-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0446b8eb77e057e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1372.4", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Strategy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "I am not, if I may say so very respectfully, doing that. I am moving to report Progress because of the Government's tactics. [ Interruption. ] Use whatever word you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1372.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-11", "file": "debates1935-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0446b8eb77e057e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1374.4", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "That Ruling is understandable and it rules us out from amending the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1374.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-11", "file": "debates1935-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0446b8eb77e057e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1374.4", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " hon. Members argue for an hour or an hour and a half on a question between themselves and the Chair less vital than this question, but we have made our protest. I understand you will not take my Motion to report Progress. I cannot understand that. You have the right to refuse it, and we must accept that Ruling. Again I most emphatically enter my protest against the action of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1374.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-11", "file": "debates1935-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0446b8eb77e057e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1400.8", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Provisions as to the custody of public moneys.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\" In view of the fact that one hon. Member felt that there had not been sufficient explanation of a previous Clause, perhaps I had better begin by reading the terms of the new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-11", "file": "debates1935-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0446b8eb77e057e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "New Clause.—(Saving for East India Annuity Funds Act,1874,and Bombay Civil Fund Act, 1882.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sloppy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "The last thing I desire to do is to criticise my hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-11a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-12", "file": "debates1935-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "7a8105df37861f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-12a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ouse, these figures are very striking. There is one further matter, and this is the main point that I wish to bring before the Committee. The hon. Member for Gower (Mr. D. Grenfell) made a very interesting suggestion in regard to the loss of our coal exports to Belgium, and I hope that what I am about to say will be conveyed to him. He said that we had lost 300,000 tons of coal exports to Belgium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-12a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-15", "file": "debates1935-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "90525f579ed02b4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-15a.1617.5", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "turns of Customs and Excise, I calculate that last year the people of this country sweetened their lives with 80,000 tons of sugar more than in the previous year. They smoked 6,500,000 lbs. more tobacco, equivalent, I am told, to the consumption of 2,600,000,000 cigarettes. They spent £2,750,000 more on entertainments; they washed away their troubles with 270,000,000 more pints of beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-15a.1617.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-16", "file": "debates1935-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "1cbaa8175b565d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"In gold?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir HERBERT SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "as been the sudden, and to many people unexpected, fall in the value of the pound sterling. In the last year it has depreciated by no less than 12 per cent. I make that statement on the authority of Mr. Lionel Robbins in an article in \"Lloyd's Bank Review,\" who has carefully collated the figures, and states that there has been a fall of over 12 per cent. in the value of the pound in a single year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-16", "file": "debates1935-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "1cbaa8175b565d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1718.3", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last Budget!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his last Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-16", "file": "debates1935-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "1cbaa8175b565d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "rid to give people greater spending power than to reduce the income tax. I have never been able to follow the high canons of what is called taxation and finance and to understand that a reduced income tax means an increased volume of trade while an increased income tax means the opposite. Has the reduction of 6d. in the in income tax last year brought about a great increase in the volume of trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-16", "file": "debates1935-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "1cbaa8175b565d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1755.1", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'CONNOR", "preceding_text": "saying cannot be pleasant to my right hon. Friend, because I think his outlook and mine differ fundamentally on these matters; but I feel that the time has come when we have to recognise that we cannot keep the structure under which we live going without expansion, and we have to do something to mortgage the future. If the future cannot look after itself, then the edifice is going to crash anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-16", "file": "debates1935-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "1cbaa8175b565d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WALDRON SMITHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WALDRON SMITHERS", "preceding_text": "ernment that will do this and that, get the unemployed back into work and remove other blots on our national picture. I would remind the House and the country that this Government and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had to start their work by first salvaging the ship and then gradually, by the application of sound principles, getting the ship on to an even keel and leading it into smoother waters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-16a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-17", "file": "debates1935-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "24e7eacf119492f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1851.1", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "Have the local authorities on Tyneside expressed their willingness for this inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-17", "file": "debates1935-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "24e7eacf119492f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "mith used it more than a hundred years ago. The Mint price is 85s. for an ounce of fine gold, and you compare that figure with the market price which to-day is about 145s. It means that to-day you require in our currency £7 5s. to purchase what we were formerly able to purchase for £4 5s., and the difference between £7 5s. and £4 5s. is the measure of the inflation that exists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-17", "file": "debates1935-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "24e7eacf119492f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WEST", "preceding_text": "times more houses than they do at present, They have a limited consumption. They are more likely to expend their money in production of capital goods of which we have a surplus, and, what is much worse, they might invest their money abroad. It is done every year. Increased financial power in the hands of the wealthy may result, and does result, in increased investment in the Argentine or in Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-17", "file": "debates1935-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "24e7eacf119492f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1958.2", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "We shall be sober when we get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-17a.1958.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-29", "file": "debates1935-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0352b8459d5b309f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (SUBMARINE ORDERS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. VYVYAN ADAMS", "preceding_text": "Before it may be too late, will the right hon. Gentleman try to concert with the Stresa Powers and if possible with Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-29", "file": "debates1935-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0352b8459d5b309f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.93.7", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "t of Parts II and III of the Act, and Clause 288 for temporary financial provisions which were omitted from the Bill. Those Clauses were an honest and, as far as they went, an ingenious attempt to provide for difficulties which could be foreseen, but it was realised, when we came to the Clauses, that it was beyond human power to foresee exactly the events for which provision would have to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.93.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-29", "file": "debates1935-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0352b8459d5b309f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "Convention. From the way he spoke, it appeared as if, in common with some other people, he seemed to think that we on these benches desired to abolish it. If that is his view, it shows how little he understands the position. Does he realise that if and when the Bill passes into law the Convention goes by the board? And does he not realise that it contains safeguards which do not exist in the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-29", "file": "debates1935-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0352b8459d5b309f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who does?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of ATHOLL", "preceding_text": "mpire policy, I understand to mean that, since the Empire agreed on a policy of mutual imperial preference at Ottawa, the Secretary of State could insist upon a preference being given to British goods in regard to every tariff passed by the Indian Assembly. It is all very well for the hon. Member for Doncaster to shake his head, but it is not for him to settle the interpretation of the Convention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-29", "file": "debates1935-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "0352b8459d5b309f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUTLER", "preceding_text": "vernment of India, and for reasons that I have given in my opening remarks it would cause grave suspicion and defeat the objects of the hon. Member if we were to alter its constitution in the direction which he has in mind. If we were to appoint the Tariff Board so that the Secretary of State had the last word in its appointment, it might be acceptable to Lancashire but most unacceptable to India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-29a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-30", "file": "debates1935-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b4fefa0056fb85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.199.7", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAILEY", "preceding_text": "agree that as it has been drafted it is not entirely satisfactory. I do not mind admitting that we are not actually responsible for its literal drafting although it expresses our views. We are dealing with matters far too important for Lancashire for us to be tossed aside by legal quibbles as to whether the Clause is right or wrong in its phraseology. We deal in it with a very important principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.199.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-30", "file": "debates1935-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b4fefa0056fb85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Committee will have been very much interested to hear the speech of the hon. Member. Members of the Committee know where these suggestions come from. When we hear the phrase that we must depend upon good will, we know who was the nurse of the baby which, unfortunately, was landed on the Government bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-30", "file": "debates1935-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b4fefa0056fb85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "ehind. After all, it has been stated by the present Finance Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council that the time has come when the whole of the Indian tariff ought to be revised from top to bottom. Would you rather have a, work of revision of that kind carried out by Ministers and departments or by a board which must hear all the evidence of all the affected parties, \"until the cows come home.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-30", "file": "debates1935-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b4fefa0056fb85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "nted by the Governor-General or by the Government of India. Let me say at once that, if anybody felt able to propose to this Committee a tribunal which would be strictly impartial between the two interests concerned, the Government would be—I will not say more ready to accept the proposal, for, indeed, the Government are ready to accept any proposal that would help Lancashire industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-30", "file": "debates1935-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b4fefa0056fb85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e equally between the two interests, that would be an improvement upon the board suggested in this Clause, which, as I have already pointed out, is proposed by my hon. Friends who are sponsoring the Clause for the very reason that it would have to be approved by the Secretary of State, and therefore would contain people who were to regard Lancashire interests primarily in relation to their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-04-30", "file": "debates1935-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "8b4fefa0056fb85d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "oric partnership which has existed between Great Britain and India. I venture to think that these are safeguards. I will not say that there are ample safeguards, because I am not going to suggest that the most that we can do would solve what is perhaps an insoluble problem, namely, to settle which of these great interests has the preference in our own minds. Of course we think first of Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-04-30a.255.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-01", "file": "debates1935-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22c5bbabb02be53e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is mistaken in saying these are taxes paid into the Road Fund. They are paid into the Exchequer, and they are issued by the Exchequer into the Road Fund after certain deductions are made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-01", "file": "debates1935-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22c5bbabb02be53e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.418.6", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [LOCAL LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "will have this capital sum at disposal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated in his speech that the Local Loans stock was redeemable at par. It means that the stockholders will get their pound of flesh all right because many of them paid, 55, 60 and 65 for the stock, and it will be redeemed at par. That is a very excellent thing for those who bought the stock at a time when money was very cheap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-01", "file": "debates1935-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22c5bbabb02be53e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.418.6", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE [LOCAL LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "get their pound of flesh all right because many of them paid, 55, 60 and 65 for the stock, and it will be redeemed at par. That is a very excellent thing for those who bought the stock at a time when money was very cheap. [An HON. MEMBER \"Dear.\"] No, when money was cheap. When a great deal of this stock was bought, during the War and immediately after the War, money was plentiful, money was cheap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.418.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-01", "file": "debates1935-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22c5bbabb02be53e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVID MASON", "preceding_text": "re and has to commence his speech by stating that he knows nothing about the subject. We are asked to pass a Resolution dealing with the imposition of a tax, and when a perfectly proper request is made by the Opposition for an explanation of the tax, the representative of the Government has the effrontery to say to my hon. Friend that he is unable to give an answer. Let us examine this Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-01", "file": "debates1935-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22c5bbabb02be53e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General NATION", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General NATION", "preceding_text": " prices we can afford to pay. Until it can be said with truth that the colonies can do that, it will be premature to impose a duty which will put many of our people out of work. If we could have the assurance that the colonies can do that, I would not be standing on my feet making this protest. We have suffered in the city which I represent a good deal through the general policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-01", "file": "debates1935-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "22c5bbabb02be53e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If not, why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major PROCTER", "preceding_text": "s in respect of foreign goods entering our Colonies. Lancashire has gained 68,000,000 yards of cotton goods, and therefore it is only right that we should do all that is possible for the British Colonies. I am certain that the duty of 10 per cent. on soya beans will at least help the great market for Lancashire goods. Manchukuo, from which the soya bean comes, buys no goods at all from Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-01a.497.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-02", "file": "debates1935-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "619a859bd12e4198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-02a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "f other States. My point is that all these statements that were made by the Lord President of the Council, and later, on behalf of the Government and under instructions from the Government, by the Under-Secretary for Air, are admitted to be untrue. I do not say that they were made in bad faith, but they were utterly wrong. They were the reverse of the truth, and more than the reverse of the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-02a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-02", "file": "debates1935-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "619a859bd12e4198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-02a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "of air forces always in relation to national defence, comparing us with the German forces and talking rather of what was needed for our defence as if he were considering the matter in isolation, and not as though our air forces would be a contribution to a collective system. I noticed that he talked of the Government's responsibility to the people of this country; it is quite right that he should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-02a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-03", "file": "debates1935-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6f5d7558780cfe9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-03a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, £300!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "miners because of the appalling climatic conditions under which they would say if we proposed a superannuation scheme for our coalminers because of the appalling climatic conditions under which they work in the mines. My mouth literally watered when I heard that it is possible for a young man to serve in India for 13 years and then come back to this country and enjoy a pension of £618 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-03a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-03", "file": "debates1935-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6f5d7558780cfe9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-03a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "That means to say that the hon. Gentleman, on behalf of the Government, is not after all accepting the proposal. It is an extraordinary state of affairs. I am certain that if a proposal to grant a gratuity, a double, special gratuity, were proposed in respect of our own Civil Service, hon. Gentlemen who are supporting the present proposal would vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-03a.723.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-05-03", "file": "debates1935-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "6f5d7558780cfe9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-03a.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "tile workers, coalminers or iron founders, the same hon. Members would troop into the lobby against it, because they would ask the fundamental question \"Where is the money to come from?\" Of course, the money in this case comes from India and does not affect taxation in this country, but hon. Members are quite willing to increase the cost on the Indian revenues by proposing what they are now doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-03a.723.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-07", "file": "debates1935-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0a2c11759c6005d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-07a.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "I think that I have said enough already. The hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft) twitted me for being in the House, and said \"Why was I here when I was not here often to listen to the Indian Debate?\" I am one of those people who do not like talking about what I do not understand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-07a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-07", "file": "debates1935-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "0a2c11759c6005d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-07a.880.4", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "y; ( g ) land holders. The hon. Member who represents the Government may tell us straight away that the interests of commerce and landholding are very important in the Federal Assembly, and I support he will say that the other interests, be they Sikh, Mohammedan, Anglo-Indian or European, are sectional, and that consequently industry, commerce and land-holding ought to have special representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-07a.880.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-08", "file": "debates1935-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc3a977628ef6c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-08a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": ". There may be many ways of enabling people to exercise that authority, but it is not necessarily a denial of democracy that one democracy should seek to express its views in one way and another democracy in another way. I dare say we all hope and believe that the day will come when India will be able to conduct its Parliamentary affairs in the way which we are accustomed to think is the best way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-08a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-08", "file": "debates1935-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc3a977628ef6c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-08a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. CRADDOCK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. CRADDOCK", "preceding_text": " Lord Derby. This Amendment moved by Lord Zetland was lost by 14 to 9—that is to say, the Conservative Members on the Committee were equally divided, nine to nine, and Lord Zetland's Amendment was lost by the vote of the Liberal and Labour Members of the Committee. It does just show that whatever they may say about us—and they are pleased to speak with contempt of us as diehards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-08a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-08", "file": "debates1935-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc3a977628ef6c4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-08a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. CRADDOCK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a compliment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. CRADDOCK", "preceding_text": "nt moved by Lord Zetland was lost by 14 to 9—that is to say, the Conservative Members on the Committee were equally divided, nine to nine, and Lord Zetland's Amendment was lost by the vote of the Liberal and Labour Members of the Committee. It does just show that whatever they may say about us—and they are pleased to speak with contempt of us as diehards—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-08a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-05-09", "file": "debates1935-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f8524fd90beb6894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of HEALTH (Sir Hilton Young)", "preceding_text": "ch it is proposed to ask the House not to give a Second Reading to this Bill, with its fair and generous treatment of local authorities. The Amendment states that hon. Members opposite cannot assent to any further legislation which fails to give effect to the principle that the entire cost of maintaining unemployed persons who are not in receipt of unemployment benefit should be a national charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1147.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-05-09", "file": "debates1935-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f8524fd90beb6894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Ninety-five per cent.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": "pect of liability for expenditure upon other able-bodied unemployed and the effect of local authorities' contribution being fixed in regard to expenditure during the standard year—the effect of all these provisons is to relieve the local authorities of how much percentage does the House think of the entire cost of maintaining unemployed persons who are not in receipt of unemployment benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-09", "file": "debates1935-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f8524fd90beb6894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I think hon. Members will agree that this is a miserable little concession to local authorities, allowing them to borrow to pay out relief week by week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-09", "file": "debates1935-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f8524fd90beb6894", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "That is the very point that I am coming to, and I hope to show that Scotland has received a fair deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-09a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-10", "file": "debates1935-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5200191c614ac3fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-10a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": " Committee, we are deprived of what we thought the Poona Pact would give us, adequate representation in the Provincial Second Chambers and certainly in the Second Chamber in the Centre.\" Therefore all this talk of surrender—that was the term used just now; we have heard earlier of the abdication of this country and of the surrender on the part of this country of its Imperial interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-10a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-10", "file": "debates1935-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5200191c614ac3fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-10a.1328.3", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "my hon. and right hon. Friends that they represent the opinion of the House of Commons and that because Members of the Opposition have been silent it means, in some way or another, that they do not represent any part of the views held in the House of Commons. I recognise that even if the Secretary of State were here; even if the Prime Minister and the Lord President of the Council were here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-10a.1328.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-13", "file": "debates1935-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b21ee06684b841b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-13a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY - GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "he position of being deaf to all appeals far information. It is very easy to represent us as unable to give way to anything because my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is not here. We are very vulnerable. We are doing our best in the absence of my right hon. Friend. I suggest to the Committee that with a view to giving further information we shall withdraw the Schedule as it exists to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-13a.1423.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-15", "file": "debates1935-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d944c5a7e667c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-15a.1740.5", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Voting is compulsory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "So far as I can understand every intelligent person went to the poll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-15a.1740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-15", "file": "debates1935-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d944c5a7e667c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-15a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "So that there was a majority of Indian members against the general proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-15a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1922.3", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who started it?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. YOUNG", "preceding_text": " no misapprehension in the mind of my hon. Friend the Member for Central Leeds (Mr. Denman) or any other hon. Member. I have pronounced no opinion on the merits of the Amendment, and I am certainly very far from undertaking to accept it. I do not grudge the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood)the opportunity of making a little trouble at the beginning of these proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1924.3", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I do not want, and I do not think it would be proper, to discuss the merits of the Amendment which the acceptance of the Motion before the House would enable to be moved. But what brings me to my feet is the astounding assertion of the two right hon. Gentlemen that the resolution would interfere with the rules of procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1924.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's objection is confined to the fact that he had no notice of the Amendment of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ed on the Report stage and can only be raised in Committee. If there is any Amendment sought to be moved which involves a charge to the taxpayer or ratepayer, the Government may have to recommit the whole Bill in order that certain promises which they gave in Committee may be fulfilled. Therefore, the two hon. Members ask that the matters which they raise should stand in exactly the same category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1942.3", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FLEMING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FLEMING", "preceding_text": "ing whether if this Amendment were accepted by the Government it would not still be in order for the Chairman when this particular Amendment along with the others which have been accepted, comes forward, to disallow such Amendments and not to call them. As I understand it, all that we are doing now is to say whether this Amendment shall be called by the Chairman when these matters are recommitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1969.3", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": " instance that I know of, and I have had a long experience, the overcrowding has arisen from the natural expansion of the family, which has brought the house or tenement within the scope of the regulations against overcrowding. Already there is provision to meet cases of that kind by exemption, by licences, and before we make this reflection on local authorities, because it amounts to a reflection", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1969.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not misrepresent me, and I do not wish to misrepresent anybody. I only said that the property to which the Amendment of the hon. Member for Central Leeds (Mr. Denman) refers is property which has been called in question because it has been found to be unfit for human habitation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.1998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "he facade determination not to have anything to do with any proposal which might land him in for a little more money in compensation. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Swindon (Dr. Addison) is so anxious arguing whether the local authority or the State should pay what is just that he is going to vote against this Amendment, against fair compensation, until he is quite sure he has not to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Opposition Front Bench?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "wn on the rates for the purpose of the Amendment, they feel nervous About who is to pay. I have heard from the Front Opposition Bench arguments in connection with a problem of humanity, and of ordinary justice quite apart from humanity—we are not talking about sentiment; we are talking about mere, reasonable justice—I have heard arguments from the Front Bench that frankly made me sick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": " to the Minister that he ought not to be generous at somebody else's expense, and that the cost of providing for these people must be met through the Exchequer and not through the rates. If the additional burden is to be put on the local ratepayers, the scheme ought to be opposed. I want to make that representation to the Minister, because it is very easy to be generous with somebody else's money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "hat representation to the Minister, because it is very easy to be generous with somebody else's money. [ interruption. ] Perhaps the hon. Member is satisfied with the demonstration which he has evoked at my expense, and is no doubt very pleased with himself at his somewhat inane ejaculation. He was evidently referring to the housing scheme for which I was responsible. I am not going into that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-16", "file": "debates1935-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "54cbffe216a73781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2013.5", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ling of the Bill upstairs is entitled to every praise. On three occasion she was, unfortunately, absent through illness. His handling of the business was able, sympathetic and considerate, but he, as a wise man, having regard to the strong views expressed, is properly anxious to meet a case of substance. We are in difficulties as to the procedure of this House. We have learned a great deal to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-16a.2013.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-20", "file": "debates1935-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ad1f91a3f9bb6ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-20a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SELLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scandalous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SELLEY", "preceding_text": "es in London. In one particular area I know of an eight-roomed house which was originally built to accommodate one family. The weight of population there, if we take the Minister's standard to-day, will be 16 persons, no matter how they may be distributed. In that house to-day there are 32 persons. It is not a rent problem. The sum of 73s. a week is being charged as the rent for those eight rooms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-20a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"4s. 6d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "upplementary Estimates he has had to meet, after all the subsidies he has been paying away, and the way he has made his surplus appear by putting his hand into the Road Fund, he is surprised to find that there is another surplus. The notice goes on: He spoke of reduced Income Tax and cheaper beer. It is a poor heart that never rejoices, with beer at 4d. a glass and Income Tax at 4s. in the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HAMILTON", "preceding_text": "hat the building trade is receiving enormous subsidies at the present time; it is being pushed with great financial assistance. Electricity and building are both what we might call sheltered industries, as they are not in competition with the rest of the world. Pig iron and rayon have also undoubtedly improved, we are all delighted to know, but improved very largely behind sheltering tariff walls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What action\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. HAMILTON", "preceding_text": " some reason behind them. It would be impertinent for me to suggest that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is art keeping the world situation under review. I am sure he is. He said in the speech to which I have been referring that he was watching things, but that the time had not yet come for action. There are a great many people in this House and outside who think that the time for action has come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "hostility to Imperial trade in the country districts. I hope we shall get it and that there will not be any hostility, but I would point out to the Government and to the House that no farmer will hoist the Union Jack or sing \"Rule Britannia\" if the bailiffs are in his backyard. In the agricultural industry we have been fobbed off with marketing boards. I am not a great believer in marketing boards", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "hen the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland told us that trade was bad he was saying something which would not obtain acceptance in any part of the country. Trade is not bad. In many cases it is booming, and in many districts the great difficulty of the employer is not to find work for the unemployed, but to find unemployed who have the qualifications necessary to do the work which he has to offer", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "n acceptance in any part of the country. Trade is not bad. In many cases it is booming, and in many districts the great difficulty of the employer is not to find work for the unemployed, but to find unemployed who have the qualifications necessary to do the work which he has to offer [ Interruption. ] I do not say that there is a shortage of unemployed, but that there is a shortage of skilled men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MASON", "preceding_text": "and the aggregate figures of world trade, and of this country's foreign trade, in the last few years have fallen by something like £199,000,000. It is childish for the right hon. Gentleman to come here and complacently to tell us, who after all have some element of common sense and are able to put two and two together, that all is well and to assail our speaker as a mere speaker of platitudes", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-21", "file": "debates1935-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "394c88a51900aef5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is 39 !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e for the period of the War it would be well over 100 per cent. When the money was borrowed the commodity value of that money would not be more than about half of what they are now paying, and since post-war years the rentiers have received practically 200 per cent. in commodity values more than the actual investment during the War time. The cost of living stands to-day at about 42 to 44 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-21a.261.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (FISHERY CRUISERS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "tuation. You cannot have peace in the world while nations are levying economic warfare one against another. Men in all parties in this country indicated that the success of the World Economic Conference was essential to world peace. It was because the Government adopted policies which, in my opinion and that of my political friends, made the success of that Conference impossible, that we resigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coronel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "tly capable of doing their duty, perfectly capable of discharging their task, until newer vessels are built, and then the difference between them and the product of modern science and naval knowledge, and the newness of the structure itself, is such that to confront the two types, old and new, would simply be sending your sailors to a horrible struggle under most injurious and damaging conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "applies to a great part of the Fleet. That was the same with the German Fleet before the War. When I was at the Admiralty we were instructed by the Committee of Imperial Defence that we were to have the Fleet prepared at any time, night or day or at any season of the year, for attack without warning or without declaration of war. We did our best to live up to that extraordinarily strict injunction", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "d upon the world on that account. I am not disputing his accuracy but merely stating his argument. The other reason which he evolved in his characteristic fashion was that a State might launch and precipitate an attack upon another nation. That is what concerns the House of Commons nearly 17 years after the completion of the War, and I suggest that if you want a condemnation of policy there it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS Nonsense !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "urity; they do not mean effective defence; they do not delay the outbreak of war by one week and they do not save the threat to the life of one man, woman or child. The menace is there now, just as it was yesterday, and last Monday. The country ought to note that this Government, faced with the greatest menace and the most serious situation that has arisen since the War, has done nothing but talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.459.2", "colnum": "459", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And to talk nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "lay the outbreak of war by one week and they do not save the threat to the life of one man, woman or child. The menace is there now, just as it was yesterday, and last Monday. The country ought to note that this Government, faced with the greatest menace and the most serious situation that has arisen since the War, has done nothing but talk. [HON. MEMBERS Nonsense !\"] It is easy to say \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "rity against the aggression of Germany the whole basis which the right lion. Gentleman put forward goes, because he was merely putting forward a basis in which we alone had to defend this country against German aggression. The argument on the basis of parity is one which only applies if you are comparing the forces of this country with the forces of the country which is likely to be the aggressor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ctive security. Here is the opportunity. Why does not the right hon. Gentleman withdraw all this and go out to-morrow and call the German Chancellor's bluff, if it is bluff, and, if it is not, take the advantage of his willingness to do at least the things he says he will do? I am quite sure that the French Government would accept as well, and if this country, France and Germany accept them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-22", "file": "debates1935-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a83cd77ced68c35f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "preceding_text": "of these particular problems, and especially of an expanding aircraft industry is unrivalled. It was suggested in the course of the Debate that if a large number of aircraft and engines are to be ordered, there will be a great risk of profiteering. Members will have heard in the Lord President's speech that this possibility has not been overlooked. We shall take every measure we can to prevent it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-22a.475.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-05-24", "file": "debates1935-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d8aa270728bd5ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-24a.714.2", "colnum": "714", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARCLAY-HARVEY", "preceding_text": "rass) in congratulating the Minister on having for the first time included a?Stop? notice to traffic coming from minor into major roads. I feel certain that will result in a, considerable reduction in the number of accidents. There is no greater source of danger than sudden emergence from side roads particularly in the case of cyclists. They come tearing into main roads very often without looking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-24a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-24", "file": "debates1935-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1d8aa270728bd5ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-24a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:— More.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. SUGDEN", "preceding_text": "ard this morn ing about the righteousness, the benevolence, the kindliness and the generosity of motor users, and about the inquity, unthoughtfulness and carelessness of cyclists in their use of the roads. I shall not enter into that interesting controversy, but I claim that the 9, 500,000 cyclists ought to receive as much consideration in these democratic days as the 2, 250,000 motorists. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-24a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-27", "file": "debates1935-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "699b49725d1265df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-27a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "CLAUSE 148.—(Remission of States' contributions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ont door, but because I share the guarantee with everybody else. I assume that the police of London will give me an effective guarantees for the preservation of law and order in the suburb of London where I live. The Noble Lord tells us that the withdrawal of specific guarantees and their replacement by the special obligations of the Governor-General is going to mean something less to these States", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-27a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-27", "file": "debates1935-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "699b49725d1265df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-27a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "CLAUSE 148.—(Remission of States' contributions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " Lord laughs because he cannot think of any other answer. He likes to lecture this House at times and it is good to give him a dose of his own medicine for once. What is the position if the guarantee is to be diminished If it is to be diminished, then the assumptions on which this Bill is based are no longer valid. If, on the other hand, the security is equal, why should we pay people for nothing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-27a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-29", "file": "debates1935-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "236902f42d5fe890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 61.—(Payments in respect of well maintained houses.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "We came to an honourable understanding some time ago with regard to the completion of the Report stage of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-29", "file": "debates1935-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "236902f42d5fe890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1217.5", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 61.—(Payments in respect of well maintained houses.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "This places me in a very difficult position. The hon. Member below the Gangway raised the question of the action of this newspaper which made a direct reference to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-29", "file": "debates1935-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "236902f42d5fe890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 61.—(Payments in respect of well maintained houses.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": "sing this Bill through 99.9 per cent. of their speeches, and then ending up with vague praise at the end of them, will find their way into the aye or the no Lobby. The hon. Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) criticised the Bill almost all the way through his speech but ended up with faint praise. I shall be interested to see to which Lobby lie finds his way if there is a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-29", "file": "debates1935-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "236902f42d5fe890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 61.—(Payments in respect of well maintained houses.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "Member for Wakefield ignored the important point that the removal of the subsidy in the 1933 Act enabled the money that the State is prepared to spend on housing to be concentrated on the points where it was most needed. There has followed such a drive towards slum clearance that it may well be that within a measurable distance of time the slum house will be as much an anachronism as a hansom cab.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-29", "file": "debates1935-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "236902f42d5fe890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 61.—(Payments in respect of well maintained houses.)", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "I am sure the Minister of Health will be happy to know that he has the unsolicited support of the hon. Gentleman who represents one of the Bristol Divisions as a Liberal. I hope the result may perhaps be that he may succeed in avoiding a contest there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-29a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-30", "file": "debates1935-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac1eb1121bf180a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-30a.1325.4", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Resile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": ", as the number approaches the 50 per cent. limit the excitement will be really quite intense. No one knows how long will intervene before this period is reached, but one can imagine the feelings of emotion which will arise in the Government up to this level. I gather that no State which has agreed to Federate will be allowed to—may I say—rat—to go back on its decision to secede.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-30a.1325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-05-30", "file": "debates1935-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac1eb1121bf180a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-30a.1348.7", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "rds \"and interest and bonuses on\" in respect of these pensions. Whenever you establish a superannuation or pension fund interest must accrue to the fund, and there are occasions when the interest is so great in amount that the fund is capable of paying a bonus in addition to the pensions. It seems in this case that the fund might be deprived of something if these words are taken out of the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-05-30a.1348.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-03", "file": "debates1935-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "3cc1e535bbef330f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1615.3", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'No!'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": " of view the House takes, the decision of those responsible for London administration has been made. For 10 years we— that is, the Municipal Reform party— have been reproached for our vacillating policy and all the rest of it, and have been urged by the leaders of the present London County Council to have the courage to put the cost on the London rates and to defy the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1615.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-03", "file": "debates1935-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "3cc1e535bbef330f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "on that the House ought to be devoting its attention. The hon. Member for South Kensington has chosen to introduce into this subject, as he chose to introduce into the Debate last year, considerations of a party political character and to regard this matter, not as a proper function for the use of the funds available, limit as a matter by which one political party could score marks over the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-03", "file": "debates1935-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "3cc1e535bbef330f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "o elect a Labour London County Council. London people have elected a Labour County Council. They have got what they wanted. The Labour County Council has flouted the opinion of Parliament and decided to carry on the destruction of Waterloo Bridge and the erection of the new bridge. Parliament had the question before it twice and decided not to give a grant of money for pulling down the old bridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-03", "file": "debates1935-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "3cc1e535bbef330f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUTCHISON", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUTCHISON", "preceding_text": "destruction of Waterloo Bridge and the erection of the new bridge. Parliament had the question before it twice and decided not to give a grant of money for pulling down the old bridge. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The County Council came first to Parliament for permission to pull down the bridge. [Hox. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] At any rate the question was brought up of Parliament granting money towards this work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-03", "file": "debates1935-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "3cc1e535bbef330f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PIKE", "preceding_text": " himself had not complained that the attitude of the Minister prior to this Debate was that no matter what the decision of the House might be to-night no money would be forthcoming from Parliament for the purpose required by the London County Council. I want to say that the London County Council knew a year ago to-day that no money would be forthcoming. Yet they have inserted it in the Money Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-03", "file": "debates1935-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "3cc1e535bbef330f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN RUTHERFORD", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN RUTHERFORD", "preceding_text": "rritating Parliament, and that is exactly what the Socialist Leader of the London County Council has succeeded in doing, and will succeed still more in doing should this Instruction not be passed. I should like to say how grateful I am, representing a constituency outside the London County Council area, to the Minister for refusing to allow some of our money to be used for a purely London purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-03", "file": "debates1935-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "3cc1e535bbef330f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JOHN RUTHERFORD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JOHN RUTHERFORD", "preceding_text": " the London County Council coming to Parliament and glibly talking about a loan. I seem to recall that not very long ago the London County Council went to the City to try to get another loan, and, if my memory serves me, some 54 per cent. of that loan, so shaken is the confidence of the country in the Socialist administration of the London County Council, was left on the hands of the underwriters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-03a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE, for INDIA (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE, for INDIA (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "preceding_text": "d Version of the Bible, bear witness to the toil and trouble that are behind to-day's Debate. I am inclined to suggest to my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General that these astronomic figures would make a very good poster for the National Government. Let me take this opportunity of thanking the official Opposition and my right hon. and hon. Friends on my right who have disagreed with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "n accordance with Parliamentary practice here. But in the Indian Legislative Assembly there are 375 representatives, and, of the 375, 125 are nominees of individual Rulers, acting as one solid block, who are going to take good care that nothing in the nature of progress shall be registered whatsoever. Is not that the entrenchment of privilege? But that is not all. Take the Council of Action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It is the same thing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "bly there are 375 representatives, and, of the 375, 125 are nominees of individual Rulers, acting as one solid block, who are going to take good care that nothing in the nature of progress shall be registered whatsoever. Is not that the entrenchment of privilege? But that is not all. Take the Council of Action—[ Laughter. ] It is a mere misnomer I should have said, \"The Council of Inaction.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1729.7", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "the exponent of ideals concerning Indian Government when he was among us. But on this Bill he has been as silent as a trappist monk, though at the head of this Government. We have not had one word from the Prime Minister. He would never have dreamed of allowing a Labour Government to proceed with an Indian Bill without a word from him, but on this matter he has been absolutely suppressed, muzzled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1729.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1741.3", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "im. And so the Bill has survived all his attacks. The frequent Amendments, the repeated Motions to report Progress, the claims of breach of Privilege, the attempts to sow dissension India and among the Conservative associations in Great Britain—all this at the end has come to nothing, and now my right hon. Friend has less support in Parliament And in the country than he had at the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1741.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "e proved that these very people themselves condemn the reforms in no uncertain manner. While the Secretary of State is in the House let me refer to what he asked us a little earlier in the Debate. He said, \"What alternative have you to propose?\" I think he forgets that the whole basis of his case has all along been that the proposals which he was producing were going to satisfy Indian aspirations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1776.5", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Java\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I think that that is exactly what I said. The Commission was to be set up to go into the whole thing, and, as a result of such a Commission, a Bill of some sort or other, whether to amend the existing Act or otherwise, would have had to be brought in. Many of us have lived for a great number of years in the East. I myself lived for 21 years in the East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-04", "file": "debates1935-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2545813f231d42c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1776.5", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " may be, I am bound to say that in his somewhat tortuous speech it was a little difficult to discover what his intention was. Whatever be the intention, the interpretation of those in the British Parliament will be one and one alone, that he is opposed to the scheme, that he is with Mr. Churchill and his campaign of scurrilous misrepresentation against British India and against the Indian Princes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-04a.1776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-05", "file": "debates1935-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "20616b9e6a5ff21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'No ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RAIKES", "preceding_text": " jibing at British rule by saying that the agricultural workers in India were so poor that their condition was an indictment against the rule of the British in the past. The real position to-day is that the condition of the masses of India who work upon the land—90 per cent. work there—has deteriorated during even the 15 years of the partial reforms under the Montagu-Chelmsford scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-05", "file": "debates1935-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "20616b9e6a5ff21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY NICHOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY NICHOLSON", "preceding_text": "ervices in India. I consider that the point of view which they have put forward has been a travesty of the truth—an unconscious travesty no doubt, but a travesty of the actual facts of the situation in India. I also deeply regret the attitude taken up by the Conservative opponents of this Bill, which seems to me to carry with it the implication that every Indian is disloyal and anti-British.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-05", "file": "debates1935-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "20616b9e6a5ff21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY NICHOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GODFREY NICHOLSON", "preceding_text": " as a whole, realise that far from having finished with India we are only just beginning, far from having sloughed off our responsibilities and put them on to the shoulders of others we are redoubling our responsibilities? We are redoubling the toil and travail and thought which we and our successors in this House will have to give to the Indian problem. It is hopeless to vote for this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-05", "file": "debates1935-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "20616b9e6a5ff21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "mocratic constitution. We are dealing, as we have been reminded again and again, with a population of over 300,000,000 people. I am not arguing whether or not we as a Government are responsible for the poverty-stricken condition of the people of India: I am merely stating the fact and saying that this Bill will do nothing to improve the economic conditions of those people—nothing whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-05", "file": "debates1935-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "20616b9e6a5ff21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.2006.5", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " that when the remarkable additions to the electorate are realised—I think hey are between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 people—the facts that the electorate will be multiplied over four times and that there will be 6,000,000 women included in the 34,000,000 of electors, it will be conceded that the Bill is a step forward in applying Democracy to the new conditions in the Indian continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.2006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-05", "file": "debates1935-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "20616b9e6a5ff21d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.2006.5", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": " to manage its own industrial and fiscal affairs. What would have been the Nemesis if we had acceded to the requests that were made on behalf of Lancashire? The boycott, of unhappy memory, was not prevented or brought to an end by force of arms orby domination; it was brought to an end because the people of India began to be satisfied that they were going to receive fair and honourable treatement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-05a.2006.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-06", "file": "debates1935-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3d52bec7d03b0471", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-06a.2094.0", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. THOMPSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. THOMPSON", "preceding_text": "inst unemployment, and for that reason I think it is a very great help to the man who is likely to be in prolonged unemployment. What ever may be said about cash benefits, there is another side to look at, and that is that his Bill, while possibly not giving all that we would like, makes provision for the future security and happiness of the worker, which cannot be estimated simply in cash benefit", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-06a.2094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-06", "file": "debates1935-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "3d52bec7d03b0471", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-06a.2150.1", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ng it. What is happening I the right hon. Gentleman and his Department know full well that the main purpose of the whole scheme is to put a levy on the contributions pay able by the civil population. That will automatically reduce the capacity of the approved societies to pay additional benefits. It stands to reason that that will happen once you adopt this scheme, about which I am not complaining", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-06a.2150.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-06-17", "file": "debates1935-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "fea3bee3a22593dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-17a.14.7", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS ACT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "You.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "How would the hon. and gallant Member describe a representative of the film-going public? Whom would he pick out as representative?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-17a.14.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-17", "file": "debates1935-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "fea3bee3a22593dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-17a.26.4", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Deputy Leader.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "May I also ask a question in reference to the offices of Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council? Before the Government was reconstructed, the right hon. Gentleman was Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House. Now, as we understand, the Home Secretary is Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-17a.26.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-17", "file": "debates1935-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "fea3bee3a22593dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-17a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. ACLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid that in this matter the hon. Member is not quite up-to-date. If you were to assemble the ordinary teachers in my county they would say that without the services and without the training of the physical training organisers they would not have been able to bring their methods to anything like the present pitch of precision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-17a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-18", "file": "debates1935-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd84c64e3ebdb61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": "I want to pay tribute to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-18", "file": "debates1935-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd84c64e3ebdb61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's own club made a loss last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-18", "file": "debates1935-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd84c64e3ebdb61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "preceding_text": " Dennis. The Amendment, as I read it, will have the effect of making a further reduction in the Entertainments Duty to those places of entertainment where the entertainers have an orchestra. It is not the first time that such an Amendment has been before the Committee, but I hope that this is the last time. The value of the Amendment is that if the Entertainments Duty is taken off up to 1s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-18", "file": "debates1935-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "bd84c64e3ebdb61b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "ch a proposal as he has suggested were adopted, this might be the result. There are many stage performances now, revues and musical comedies, which of necessity employ orchestras. I do not think he would want to make an alteration which would really increase the advantages of a performance which of necessity employs an orchestra and put at a disadvantage a play possibly of a much better character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-18a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-19", "file": "debates1935-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "46663b4833513585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the methods?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "pply for new issues, and as soon as they get their allotment letters they sell them as they hope at a premium. Those who are most successful in these operations are most in a position to know at the time of their application whether the issue will go to a premium or not, inasmuch as they have in their offices the orders of other people which, if sufficient, will allow the issue to go to a premium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-19", "file": "debates1935-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "46663b4833513585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "I agree, but one naturally follows the other because the Income Tax payer is the man who generally accumulates a fortune.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-19", "file": "debates1935-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "46663b4833513585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the average.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "ee here, and from what the hon. Member and his colleague have said, that there are cases of that kind, but the general tone of the hon. Gentleman's speech seemed to indicate that anybody with an income of over £2,000 paid a little over 2s. in the £. That was the impression that was created. I am quite willing to admit that there are cases, and that the hon. Member has given a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-19", "file": "debates1935-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "46663b4833513585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ive some indication that it is proposed at the earliest opportunity to make good what I and many others thought was the promise made last year. He tells us with great delight and much self-satisfaction, both in the House of Commons and on the screen that the Government have restored 80 per cent. of our prosperity, that the Budget has been balanced and that our finances have been put in good order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-19", "file": "debates1935-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "46663b4833513585", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAITLAND", "preceding_text": "nything to the Treasury at all. If this Clause is put into effect, you will, as a result of the action which the Government now propose, have industries which may at some time have been unprofitable so reorganised as once more to become part of the community contributing taxes to the Treasury. Hon. Gentlemen surely do not object to that. If they do, the whole basis of our present system must fall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-19a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-20", "file": "debates1935-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c5ab62fa6e75aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-20a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "of the Statute of Westminster. That Amendment, of course, was voted down by the Government without the slightest compunction or hesitation. On that occasion we were advised by independent lawyers and constitutional authorities of great eminence that unquestionably the Statute of Westminster enabled the Irish Parliament to do what they pleased with the Irish Treaty and override it in every respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-20a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-20", "file": "debates1935-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c5ab62fa6e75aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-20a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " is astonishing how soon the consequences come home to roost. I see my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery) sitting in his place. I am sorry that it is not a higher place, considering all things, but I will not press that point. The other day he chaffed me with wit and point. He said that I had made a speech which was the end of the last chapter of the Book of Revelations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-20a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-24", "file": "debates1935-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "f6a397d423bb80ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-24a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COOPER", "preceding_text": "ber for Westhoughton that it would really pay a husband and wife to live apart rather than together, and in this instance it would be to their advantage to be divorced. A couple might have had an unhappy marriage and decided to live apart, wishing to avoid the unpleasantness of going through the Divorce Court, but if this Clause were passed they would be compelled to go through the ceremony—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-24a.878.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-06-25", "file": "debates1935-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d65d1da3d9c063c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-25a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that this country is exporting and has all along been exporting the most valuable metals to Germany, in order to empower Germany to make armaments, and that the metals include nickel, wolfram, tin and copper, and that Germany has not got any of these things?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-25a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-25", "file": "debates1935-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d65d1da3d9c063c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-25a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sir Stafford Cripps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "o the purchase of land on each side, with a view to the preservation of the amenities, in the absence of assistance from the Road Fund towards the purchase, this Clause seems more than likely to be a dead letter. In effect the Bill leaves the local authorities practically in the same position as they now are under the Town and Country Planning Act. Well, what is all this bally-hoo about this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-25a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "uction of beef? That is only one of many inter-related problems which affect the question under review to-day. We are entitled to ask what is to be the ultimate result of all these subsidies, whether they be for three months, five months or 12 months, on the rents that farmers have to pay. We have been told that there are many landowners who for many years have scarcely been able to draw any rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "aw any rent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members applaud that statement. It may be true. It may also be true that without the subsidies that this Parliament has granted there would have been many more landowners who would not have been able to obtain their rents. I am glad that hon. Members opposite applaud the sentiment. It means that really what we are doing is to subsidise the landowner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1151.2", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "elation to wages and salaries and will take to heart the substance of the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams). The Government's policy has to a large extent been one of subsiding landlordism in this country. I do not think there can be any doubt about that at all. The amount of money which has been handed out in this way has led to the inflation of rent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": " 17 deals with brooms and brushes—everything from a toothbrush to a charwoman's implement. The new duties are not high. For the toothbrush the duty is a halfpenny each, and for other brushes about one-eighth of a penny each. For most classes of brushes the Order will not affect the rate of duty payable. Order No. 18 is a specific duty dealing with foreign competition, that is, hair clippers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": " will apply to every clipper that costs less than 3s. 4d. There has recently been an increase in foreign clippers from Japan. Personally—I do not know whether it is prejudice or not—I should prefer to have my hair clipped by a homemade article. Order No. 19 is one to which I call the special attention of the House. It relates to a really important subject—the key on a tin-opener.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1216.4", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is proposing to move, \"That the Bill be read a Second time upon this day three months,\" it seems to me convenient that all these various questions raised in the Motions for Instructions to the Committee should be dealt with on that particular Motion, if that meets with the approval of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cock-fighting is illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir ARNOLD WILSON", "preceding_text": " Committee on Unopposed Bills to give the fullest consideration to the facts that have been put forward. I have some difficulty in understanding the objection of the hon. Member for Elland to any sort of supervision by local authorities of the noble English sports. Billiards and cock-fighting, to mention only two sports, have been for the best part of a century under the closest supervision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-26", "file": "debates1935-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "5a12a93aaf581b32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "at his disposal, and therefore his interests can only be protected if individual Members of this House seize the opportunity, which is theirs, of challenging the provisions in the Bill by the method of moving Instructions. I say that because I know that the action of my hon. and learned Friend and myself and others in regard to a number of Bills this Session has excited, perhaps, some alarm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-26a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-27", "file": "debates1935-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef85c3e1966f0151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-27a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "BRITISH SUGAR [SUBSIDY].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "rs has been much more than the increase which was contributed by the home product. At the same time I notice that we in this country enjoy a cheaper sugar than almost any other State in the world. In Britain the price is 2d. to 2¼d. per lb.; in Germany it is 4½d., and in France 3d. We have to remember that a penny a lb. increase means that the consumers pay about £20,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-27a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-27", "file": "debates1935-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef85c3e1966f0151", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-27a.1379.1", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "BRITISH SUGAR [SUBSIDY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "e absence of any other organisation or any Government control—to exploit the situation at its will. That is not a quasi-national institution of the sort to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, but an example of glorious individualism. What would the right hon. Gentleman do to suppress that particular organisation, which would exploit the consumers as they have exploited them in the past?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-27a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-06-28", "file": "debates1935-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4dc2200a07ad339a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-28a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "scheme so that the people can get a pure supply of water. It is not enough to say that the county council has power under the Act of 1929 to give larger grants. The rates are piling up in these Highland counties. I am glad to see that the Lord President of the Council has come into the Committee. The other day he was paying his rates in Lossiemouth, and he wrote a letter to the town council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-06-28a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-01", "file": "debates1935-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "5c5117a1e3a5ccdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-01a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "t present in the fund. It began with £150,000,000, and now it is £350,000,000. The House was induced to grant double the amount of money which it was ready to put in the fund at the beginning after a year's experience of the working of the fund. One could hardly have a greater tribute to their satisfaction at the way in which the fund had been worked than that they were ready to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-01a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-02", "file": "debates1935-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "855824a512088c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-02a.1724.2", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BURNETT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What regulations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BURNETT", "preceding_text": "-roomed house where there would be accommodation of the nature I have mentioned. In that case, the five girls in the family, aged 14, 12, 8, 7 years and six months, would have to be put in a room where there were 180 square feet of floor space, instead of a room 10 feet by 8; but, owing to the regulations, they cannot be put into a three-roomed house, and there are no four-roomed houses available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-02a.1724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-02", "file": "debates1935-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "855824a512088c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-02a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "It would only be a rough dimension—12 feet in diameter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-02a.1755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-02", "file": "debates1935-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "855824a512088c6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-02a.1824.3", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Captain Austin Hudson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of TRANSPORT (Captain Austin Hudson)", "preceding_text": "s, sitting for a London constituency, that that will be a great improvement for the people who use the streets of London. We believe these schemes will be profitable, whatever he may say. We believe that in five years time the schemes will begin to pay for themselves. This is not a charitable undertaking but a proper business proposition and can only be carried out by a proper business Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-02a.1824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-03", "file": "debates1935-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4286f622df09719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1847.7", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I never was aware that the right hon. Gentleman's extravagance was in any way connected with the powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1847.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-07-03", "file": "debates1935-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4286f622df09719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Do not be so mealy-mouthed.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER", "preceding_text": "I have nothing whatever to do with aircraft shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-03", "file": "debates1935-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4286f622df09719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1868.2", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUBMARINES (BRITISH POLICY).", "cue_speaker": "Major OWEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major OWEN", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the German Chancellor, in his speech on the 21st May, made the following statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1868.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-03", "file": "debates1935-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4286f622df09719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1889.1", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "No. I was referring to the die-hards opposite, not to the legitimate Opposition, but to what I might call the illegitimate opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-03", "file": "debates1935-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4286f622df09719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1944.1", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HALIFAX EXTENSION BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "he honour to represent. That applies to all of us, and we all do it to the best of our ability. The three areas to which I am referring are in my constituency. I have received a tremendous amount of correspondence, and every letter without exception has expressed a desire not to merge with Halifax. I have not received a communication from any individual in those areas who desires to go to Halifax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-03", "file": "debates1935-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4286f622df09719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1960.1", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HALIFAX EXTENSION BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCORQUODALE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is your way of putting it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCORQUODALE", "preceding_text": "nt administration is now subject to review by the county council under the terms of the Local Government Act, 1929, and they go on to say—and I will paraphrase it—that before such review is completed it is imperative that we should grab hold of every bit we can, because after it is settled we shall have no more chance. If those words are read, that is the legitimate conclusion to draw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-03a.1960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-04", "file": "debates1935-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "9e50d1ac73473f15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-04a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SKELTON", "preceding_text": "I do not think my hon. Friend will wish me to read through the list of names, I am sure with his knowledge of what has happened in Scotland, he appreciates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-04a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-04", "file": "debates1935-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "9e50d1ac73473f15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-04a.2092.3", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ot think that, in decency, hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite should act in any other way than I act myself. Many hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, imagined that, when these Commissioners got to work, factories and new industries would spring up all over the place—that we were to see the Clyde chimneys smoking and the men hurrying down to work again. There was going to be a scarcity of men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-04a.2092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-04", "file": "debates1935-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "9e50d1ac73473f15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-04a.2092.3", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "r is spending public money in getting unskilled men on, when the men who know, who have struggled for a lifetime, sometimes for generation after generation, and who love the land and the life of the land have to give up a losing battle and get off. They think it is possible to make a successful, profitable agriculture on the basis of men who have fallen out of other works of life into agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-04a.2092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-05", "file": "debates1935-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "472e48e2dc73e0bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ar that the Budget was to be balanced by such means there was an addendum that the packet to be taxed must not contain more than one key per can. This is the balance sheet that emerges from all such tricks of the Government. Let me pass to one point of criticism which is genuinely and seriously made, and that is the duty on heavy oils. Some of us feel, and I do not now speak as a party politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-05", "file": "debates1935-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "472e48e2dc73e0bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "ch is rather ill-founded. Which public's confidence? Is the measure of public confidence to be the gilt-edged rate? Is it to be the money market pointers? I heard the Chancellor make a statement to the effect that the cheap money that is so plentiful is the result of the sound financial administration of this Government. Surely, the present low prices of money is an index to industrial stagnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-05", "file": "debates1935-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "472e48e2dc73e0bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2198.3", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"And by increasing taxation\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes. Does the hon. and learned Member deny that the Budget was balanced by the method of reducing the payments to the unemployed? That was the whole issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-05", "file": "debates1935-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "472e48e2dc73e0bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2198.3", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": " to make one or two very obvious amendments in the Companies' Acts, which are long overdue, to prevent the continual process of robbery of people's savings by unscrupulous persons. But can anyone imagine that those who sit on these benches, who are closely concerned with and responsible to poor people, would pay heed to any policy which would endanger the savings so hardly accumulated and come by?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-05a.2198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-08", "file": "debates1935-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea9d106c3027c8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-08a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "bility and security of the insurance scheme mean a great deal to them. I have marked—I hope I am correct in interpreting the statements made on this question—a very sharp division in the requests for maternity benefit in these cases and for other benefits. One hon. Member rather frightened me by saying that if we gave way on maternity benefits, there would be claims for other benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-08a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-08", "file": "debates1935-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea9d106c3027c8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-08a.97.4", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not even the Socialists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "urham, South Wales, or Glasgow which is exceedingly poor, although they are all within the same society. The friendly societies have complained about this system for a long time past, but some of the rich branches do not like to hand over any of their surplus to the poorer branches, and no doubt that is a very human failing. Nobody likes to hand over any of his goods to anyone poorer than himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-08a.97.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET MINISTERS (CONTINENTAL VISITS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend give am assurance that now that there are five Ministers interested in foreign affairs this number of foreign visits will not be increased; and may I further ask whether, in view of the very slender results which have been achieved by these many visits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "cently, the Prime Minister in a speech in the north of England, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons, and the Lord President of the Council over the wireless last Thursday congratulated themselves on the extent of industrial recovery in this country. The Lord President went so far as to say over the ether that no other industrial country in the world could show such improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] Well, we had better look at the facts. During the period of the severe depression which began in this country towards the end of 1928 or the beginning of 1929 industrial depression reached its lowest point in 1932. Between the beginning of 1932 and the first quarter of this year industrial production in this country increased by 25 per cent. I fail to notice the cheers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Abyssinia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "reached its lowest point in 1932. Between the beginning of 1932 and the first quarter of this year industrial production in this country increased by 25 per cent. I fail to notice the cheers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"] In the United States the increase was 39 per cent., in Canada 32 per cent., in Sweden 35 per cent., Norway 31 per cent., Denmark 30 per cent., Finland 41 per cent., Japan 38 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "current issue of the \"New Statesman and Nation\" is worth recording in the records of this House. It is: In comparison with other countries, we have lived well in the desert because we have the largest hump. This country has been largely living on its hump, but even humps do not last for ever. We are not across the desert yet to the fair oasis beyond. Let me look at the problem rather more broadly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "largest hump. This country has been largely living on its hump, but even humps do not last for ever. We are not across the desert yet to the fair oasis beyond. Let me look at the problem rather more broadly. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I know that hon. Members do not like the figures which I have quoted. Perhaps they will not like my next point. The tide of trade ebbs and flows, rises and falls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.173.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " all kinds of ways. The Prime Minister said in his last public speech outside the House that agriculture had been neglected for generations. His party have been in office during those generations. Money has been poured out literally by millions to farmers, a good deal of it creamed off by the landlords. But what is the position in the countryside? Are the agricultural workers one penny better off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " generations. Money has been poured out literally by millions to farmers, a good deal of it creamed off by the landlords. But what is the position in the countryside? Are the agricultural workers one penny better off? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] I hope some of my friends will quote agricultural wage rates during the last four years. Are the agricultural workers any better housed than they were in 1931?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the other way round!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "s of this country, which shows how gradually the stability of the better finances of this country is percolating through all classes of this country, you can see that at any rate that policy is justifying itself in its own process. It is quite true that there is nothing new about the basis of the policy which we have been pursuing. We have been bathing in Jordan rather than the rivers of Damascus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"America!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "try than most of his colleagues, and I shall have to refer to one or two of his colleagues presently but he now proposes a new test of the efficiency of the Government's policy. He says: \"What other country is there to which a British workman would wish to go?\" I ask to what other country in any year in which I have been alive would a British workman have preferred to go rather than Great Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.219.1", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hanging!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAGGAR", "preceding_text": "he delivered that speech in Yorkshire. The article stated The relief of poverty is not, however, the greatest need of the unemployed and the distressed areas. They look for a return of the opportunity to work. The distressed areas remain distressed. All that has been done for national recovery has left them unimproved. What is necessary to deal with the situation? What do we on these benches want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACMILLAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACMILLAN", "preceding_text": "usly, in operating the Parliamentary system, we have always had parties of the Right and groups of the Left, Governments formed with Whigs, Liberals and Radicals. That was so in the last century, and they worked together. To-day, because of the attitude of the official Labour party, no party of the Left can be formed. They do not themselves think that they are going to win the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "ith the organisation and said: \"Each one has a Rolls Royce motor car. They have one each to take them about to inquire what jobs there are to be done.\" That is what is happening in the County of Durham at the present time. There is nothing being done for the unemployed. But there are some officials having a really good time and simply doing nothing and leaving the unemployed with very little help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"He did not say so!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "our said it was not that, but a white sheet of paper with a small black spot upon it, and he added that that was typical of this country—that the small black spot represented the distressed areas and that the big white sheet of paper represented the rest of the country. I hope the Minister of Labour is going to get the impression out of his mind—that the distressed areas do not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "aid as being a matter of pride and a matter of achievement, so this provision of cheap money, for which they are not responsible, and which they have done everything they can to avoid, is also brought forward as being one of their star turns. Indeed, both these things are marks of the failure of that which they set out to do. Then we come to the old cry, \"We have restored confidence and security.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"And the lawyers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": " to do. Then we come to the old cry, \"We have restored confidence and security.\" [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members are prepared to cheer me when I say that, but they were singularly silent when the Prime Minister made the remark. To whom has this confidence and security come? Not to the people in the distressed areas, nor indeed to the workers of the country, but to the profit owners and the bankers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "y, £144,000,000 in 1933, and £168,000,000 in 1934, and, taking the first quarter of 1935 and comparing it with the similar period in 1933, there is an increase of 28.9 per cent. in the profits returned to the persons fortunate enough to have investments in those companies. That shows clearly what the effect of the Government has been as far as what I may call their friends are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "e allowed to go where they like over the countryside. That is typical of the lack of planning by this Government. It is typical of their failure to take industry into the distressed areas. If this country believes that as a matter of policy, as the Prime Minister said, it is sound and right that these industries should go into the depressed areas, why cannot we order them into the depressed areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "ke one. In his catalogue of Government crimes he ultimately came to the new community at Corby in Northamptonshire. He made it one of the heads of his indictment; we are all responsible for this piece of folly. The reason why the new community is established at Corby is because the ore is there. No doubt in a future Socialist Government it will not be the men but the materials which will be moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.286.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "alogue of Government crimes he ultimately came to the new community at Corby in Northamptonshire. He made it one of the heads of his indictment; we are all responsible for this piece of folly. The reason why the new community is established at Corby is because the ore is there. No doubt in a future Socialist Government it will not be the men but the materials which will be moved. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-09", "file": "debates1935-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d16dd38e813f1cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " are doing our best to serve. But, after all, what is the view of the Movers of this Motion of Censure about a plan, a considered plan? In place of confidence we have the assurance of the hon. and learned Gentleman, which all his companions on that side are delighted to hear repeated as often as possible, that if he and his friends get the opportunity they promise us a first-rate financial crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-09a.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-10", "file": "debates1935-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "921e0003b64a5601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "tawa, he has made his mark both by lucidity of thought and by his great capacity of getting on with those with whom he has to negotiate. His promotion I have always believed was retarded by his relationship with his father. Had he been purely on his own legs, with the initial start which his association with his father gave him, he would have been in his present position earlier rather than later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-10", "file": "debates1935-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "921e0003b64a5601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.391.7", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "r after year, or are the Government going to take some steps to put an end to the present situation? The record of the Government in this matter is one of the worst blots on what is in my opinion a pretty black escutcheon. I submit that the Government have missed opportunity after opportunity of discussing the matter and coming to a friendly and amicable arrangement with the Free State Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.391.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-10", "file": "debates1935-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "921e0003b64a5601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "tatement. The Government of the Irish Free State would sincerely welcome such a statement. They believe that it would be the first step towards that free and friendly co-operation in matters of agreed common concern between Great Britain and Ireland which ought to exist between them. If that was not an approach of Mr. de Valera to the right hon. Gentleman and the Government, what else could it be,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-10", "file": "debates1935-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "921e0003b64a5601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Foreign persons!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": "e speaks if I am wrong. One of the difficulties between the two countries is on the matter of land annuities. There was a proposal for arbitration. As I understand it, the British Government desired that the tribunal should be partially or wholly of British or Empire constitution, whereas the Irish Free State Government desired it to be partially or wholly a tribunal formed of independent persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-10", "file": "debates1935-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "921e0003b64a5601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good heavens.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "e whether I could find any light or leading there, and \"Free State\" is not mentioned in the dictionary; but presumably it is a state free to decide its own political destiny and it derives that power from its own people. There is a dictionary meaning attached to \"republic,\" which is \"A state in which the sovereign power is vested in the community.\" I ask, Where is the difference between these two?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-10", "file": "debates1935-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "921e0003b64a5601", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRISH FREE STATE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "hout the British Empire. That brings us to our great difficulty. The Ulster Government must be maintained; that is obvious, and there can be no difference of opinion on that point; but according to the Statute of Westminster the Free State apparently has the right, as the Statute is now defined by the Privy Council, to maintain its own individual entity either inside or outside the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-10a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-11", "file": "debates1935-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1b6e84425c56a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "n the future, unilaterally breaks a treaty. It is contemplated by that Resolution, passed three months ago, that those economic sanctions shall be applied. I can only put it to the Foreign Secretary that I think he rendered an unconscious disservice to his cause when he assured Signor Mussolini beforehand that he was taking no steps even to approach our friends with a view to seeing whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-11", "file": "debates1935-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1b6e84425c56a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "As long as they are not misinterpreted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-11", "file": "debates1935-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1b6e84425c56a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " was a repetition of the Versailles process, where Germany had been let down once before. Germany treated it as an intolerable discrimination, left the Disarmament Conference, and resigned from the League of Nations. If we had stood by our own proposals, the proposals which Germany was prepared to accept, instead of going back upon them, the trouble of the last few years would never have occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-11", "file": "debates1935-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1b6e84425c56a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption, due to light failure.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": " more fully and more completely than is now obtainable by them. It is true that Japan's population is pressing for more room to live, and whether his remedy is acceptable or otherwise is immaterial for the moment. It is right that he should point to the fact that we will not be able to restore peace to the world until we have examined afresh the economic problem with which the world is confronted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-11", "file": "debates1935-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b1b6e84425c56a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORGAN JONES", "preceding_text": "t to be in regard to the League of Nations. The Government supporters a year or two ago used to throw scorn upon us for calling attention to what was happening in the Far East. The present Prime Minister, on the public platform, complained that we were accusing himself and his friends of wanting war. His friends did not hesitate to accuse us of wanting war when we called attention to the Far East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-11a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-12", "file": "debates1935-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "501d85e82f88dd93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-12a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ay quite deliberately that the Noble Lady, of all Members of the House, ought not to make a charge of that kind, when she herself was a Member of the party that implemented in their own way the proposal that was suggested by Lord Snowden, when he made his statement in June, 1924. No argument can get over facts, and anyone who has read the Greene Report knows that it is set out there quite clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-12a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-12", "file": "debates1935-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "501d85e82f88dd93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-12a.686.5", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SUGAR (SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "al party would be. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) brought forward no end of proposals for increasing expenditure on public works, and then the Liberal party joined with the Tory party in helping to turn us out because we had spent too much on public works. That shows that the hon. Member is really out of this altogether. I apologise to you, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-12a.686.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-15", "file": "debates1935-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f8ff5cec29044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-15a.814.7", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " of the funds of the approved societies, but it will be found from the contributions of the insured population and the payments made by the employer, with just a modicum from the State when the benefit is paid. So there is nothing after all to put on the hoardings. The Bill it will be remembered, is the outcome of a great agitation conducted by the Parliamentary Labour party for a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-15a.814.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-15", "file": "debates1935-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7a2f8ff5cec29044", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-15a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (DECLARATION OF LAW) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One exception.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I think with two exceptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-15a.858.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-16", "file": "debates1935-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "d245b6c514ec80d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-16a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ised the case of the distribution of pacifist literature at Hendon. I, too, have followed this correspondence with very great interest, and I think the right hon. Gentleman who is a lawyer of very great renown will appreciate that the point is one of fundamental importance for the citizens of the country. After all, it is not illegal to hand on to whoever may choose to take it a pacifist pamphlet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-16a.939.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-17", "file": "debates1935-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b24d6f9b06e46875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-17a.1076.5", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I have often heard Conservatives talk of the deplorable state of things in which people are taken out of bad houses and put into good houses which later become worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-17a.1076.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-17", "file": "debates1935-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b24d6f9b06e46875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-17a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "y feel so bitterly towards our present Minister of Health and our late Minister, too. I am not going into the Labour position and what hon. Members have said about the health and welfare of the people. Everybody knows that the country was never better than it is to-day. It is said that there is malnutrition in some areas, but that comes from not knowing the right kind of food to give the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-17a.1131.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-17", "file": "debates1935-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b24d6f9b06e46875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-17a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady a few moments ago said she wanted to talk on a subject of which she had knowledge. I also want to talk on a subject of which I have knowledge. The Noble Lady would advocate that the family life of the nation must not be judged by poverty or wealth. I have yet to learn that in the wealthy homes of the country they are anxious to have children in any great quantity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-17a.1139.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-18", "file": "debates1935-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "c09670e6687e8049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-18a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "urse which is right to be taken, speaking in this House the other day, the hon. Gentleman the Member for Cardigan (Mr. D. Evans) used these words: Of course, we have been told that you cannot have Free Trade, because other countries do not have it, but Free Trade, at any rate, when it is universal, is the best thing for the whole world.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th July, 1935; col. 2162, Vol. 303]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-18a.1276.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They had already laid them down!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": ". For example, as I pointed out to-day at Question Time, we cannot begin to replace obsolete battleships until January, 1937, and, therefore, we should have tried, if we were going to have this agreement at all, to get the German Government, in consideration of our agreeing to a settlement with them, to delay the construction of their battleships, so that we should all be able to start fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1547.2", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I refer to reports in the papers, but the question which matters is this: Did the Germans, either at preliminary talks or at the formal conference, actually intimate to the Admiralty that they were prepared to co-operate with us in any efforts we initiated to abolish the submarine?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1548.4", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " It is already far on the way; even the battleships are laid down. I am bound to say that I do not know how the Admiralty were without information that even battleships were being laid down, contrary to the Treaty, before the end of 1934. I am astonished at that, astounded at such a thing. We always believed before the War that never could battleships be laid down without knowledge being obtained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "sary that we should do our best for our country and for the world in the present situation. We do not feel confident; we have very considerable doubt not unmixed with hope, that the Government are going to work courageously the collective system. For that reason, we could not vote against them; but there are elements which make us feel very doubtful, and for that reason we could not vote for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "preceding_text": " we would not have wished that the results of the Disarmament Conference had been such that any increase in our awn Air Force and every other could have been completely avoided, but that, unfortunately, was not to be. The Government have faced the resulting issue squarely, and I believe they have behind them the almost unanimous opinion of people throughout the country who are not tied to a party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "preceding_text": " for Air. Lord Londonderry had a very difficult task during the period he was at the Air Ministry. There is not the slightest doubt that he was endeavouring to bring public opinion and the Government to a realisation of the need for air defence, and I would like, while he is no more there, to thank him and the Under-Secretary of State for Air for all they have done to make this expansion possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. ADDISON", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I am going rather beyond the licence afforded me by the irregularities of the Minister himself. I should like to say to the right hon. Gentleman one final word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1622.3", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "preceding_text": "It was in 1934 I think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-22", "file": "debates1935-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "42bf819338d006b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact I am not sure about the date but this is the latest report, It was quoted only a few days ago by the Minister for League of Nations Affairs and in those circumstances I should not have thought the statement would have been made again to-day and I am glad of the opportunity I now have of contradicting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-22a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (BRITISH CREDITS).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILMOT", "preceding_text": "to prevent such action; and may I ask him, further, whether he is aware that there is considerable apprehension as to whether credits which are being extended to Germany to prevent final default, are, in fact, being used for the purchase of war materials; and whether he appreciates how necessary it is that the public should be safeguarded against business operations being used to arm people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "es that the provision of social services must play an important part among such measures. With the aim of avoiding overlapping he decided to adopt the policy of centralising grants for such purposes through the National Council of Social Service. He has accordingly already allocated to the Council grants amounting to some £152,000. I need not detain the House longer to describe these details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are you going to house them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "preceding_text": "ure from practice, but I am convinced that the problem of the isolated village around a dead pit must be tackled in that way if you are ever to solve it, and if people are ever to be taken away from the misery in which they exist to-day. You have to overcome the prejudice of the people whom you want to move out, and you have to overcome the prejudice of the areas into which these people are to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1760.4", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, we did not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "iners' welfare and a lot of it was used to do the job which the coal-owners themselves ought to have done, namely, industrial research. But a great deal of it was used to provide amenities in the distressed areas and then the right hon. Gentleman came to this House and gave £500,000 back to the coal-owners from the distressed areas and all of you walked into the Division Lobby to support him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1784.3", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": " The third may be to some extent a reorganisation of the services of local government. Here I come to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield. One concrete suggestion which he made was that we should appoint regional local authorities who should not in any way, of course, supersede the existing local authorities and should therefore duplicate the existing local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same old story!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "to the areas because they do not appear to be so depressed as they have been supposed to be. There have been some criticisms throughout this Debate as to the absence of public works within the special areas. I can only give one figure, and it will only refer to one particular area. In the last two years, on roads and bridges alone, there has been an expenditure of just about £1,000,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir EDWARD RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not support mining?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir EDWARD RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": "ent have taken the view, rightly, that whatever else happens, they do not want to add to the number of our distressed areas, and they have seen to it that the agricultural industry, which covers, after all, the major portion of the area of this country, shall not become depressed. The right way to keep any part of our country from becoming a distressed area is to support the industry of that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of AGRICULTURE (Mr. Elliot)", "preceding_text": "stion of lack of prosperity among farmers, but a question of 600,000 or 700,000 or 800,000 people admittedly receiving wages at the lowest level and losing those wages or being thrown out of employment. As I said before, the hon. Member for Gorbals has voiced the feelings of the Opposition—voiced feelings which right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are either afraid or unwilling to express.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I said \"unwilling.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1800.4", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The evasion is patent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1800.8", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member suggest that nothing was given except in cases where direct building was being carried out by local authorities? It is common knowledge that this money was given through the local authorities to private individuals—builders who were building under the conditions of private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1800.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-07-23", "file": "debates1935-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "b37846601eda7af6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the private builders who were getting it from the local authorities were like the farmers to whom you are giving this money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-23a.1801.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1822.5", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LONDON METAL EXCHANGE (TIN).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HARRIS", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the fluctuations this week have been greater almost than ever before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1822.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1825.3", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Flying.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell the House what the aeroplanes are being built for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1923.3", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NICHOLSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What wild words have been uttered?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NICHOLSON", "preceding_text": "he industry has been comparatively peaceful. It has had a realistic approach made to it on all sides. It is the industry above all others that needs realism, and the calm, full consideration of the facts without passion and without emotion, though admittedly with a proper atmosphere of sentiment as distinct from sentimentalism. The old atmosphere of wild words and loose talk seems to be returning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1932.1", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MILNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Overtime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MILNE", "preceding_text": "ituency. The present Minister has not that qualification, but that is his misfortune and not his fault. It is a defect, however, which he can remedy by sending north a deputy to represent him, and I undertake that that deputy will have a most warm welcome in Edinburgh and Scotland. It might be said, \"But there would not be sufficient work for this special official.\" I hardly think that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tried!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " it would be much easier to get the co-operation which is really vital to the prosperity of the industry. I was interested in his praise of the 1930 Act. There is a point which was taken yesterday, but which was not taken to-day. I can quite see why the Opposition would not take it, because yesterday they were trying to beat the Government with the report of the Commissioner for the special areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1956.1", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "If he did, I apologise. I missed three minutes of his speech, and that is all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1956.1", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "r. I understand that Mr. Shinwell invited the owners and the men in Scotland to make this experiment. The owners agreed, but for some reason nothing happened on the part of the men. It is a pity because, if something could have been done then, we might have been spared all this now. However, it is a suggestion that might be worth reviving. I do not know the reason why the men did not come into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-24", "file": "debates1935-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cf697505993394f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1956.1", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A question of economy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "ave left him until the last—I will deal with the speech of the hon. Member for Abertillery. He asks why there are not more workmen's inspections. I also wish there were more. I think they are extremely valuable. He asked me what about the stowing of waste, and said that it should be made compulsory. He probably knows that this is a matter upon which technical opinion differs very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-24a.1956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-25", "file": "debates1935-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "72a1462fa1e3de40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2038.0", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "rces. These figures show to what a very large extent purchases from the Colonial Empire have now been substituted for purchases from other overseas countries. I will give the figures for the first six months of 1935. During these six months 84 per cent. of our banana supplies came from the Colonial Empire, 100 per cent. of palm kernels, 97½ per cent. of raw cocoa and 97 per cent. of palm oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-25", "file": "debates1935-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "72a1462fa1e3de40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2038.0", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not only this week!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "loped during the economic depression with which the Colonies were faced. In the case of certain commodities the fall in price was so disastrous that something had to be done in order to restore prices to an economic level, and regulation schemes were instituted. There is a scheme for tin. We have had a rather unfortunate experience of it this week, but one which, I am advised, is purely temporary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2038.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-25", "file": "debates1935-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "72a1462fa1e3de40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2044.1", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have they been published?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "d two extremely valuable reports, one on rural education in Africa and the other on higher education of natives in Africa. These two very important reports have been circulated to all the Governments concerned for consideration, and they are, of course, receiving very careful examination from the authorities in the Colonies as well as from the authorities at home with a view to action being taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-25", "file": "debates1935-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "72a1462fa1e3de40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2102.0", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "They pay their way, and we welcome them. We have the advantage of doing work for them. They do not take work away from anyone. The immigrant does not just take work away from somebody but, like the tourist, he finds work for other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-25a.2102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-29", "file": "debates1935-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0abefe551979ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2342.1", "colnum": "2342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. WILSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WILSON", "preceding_text": " make is that that is not in fact the case, and that the Minister would gain very great authority and influence throughout England if he would take the magistrates into his confidence, enlist their support by hortatory circulars rather than by public rebukes, encouraging them to take every step in their power to forward and use them as agents for giving effect to policy as laid down in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-29", "file": "debates1935-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0abefe551979ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2347.1", "colnum": "2347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PARKINSON", "preceding_text": "from there to quarter sessions. The hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Hitchin (Sir A. Wilson) said there would be inevitable delay in the ordinary inquiry, but there would be greater delay in the legal inquiries, and surely the people concerned in the legal inquiry would not know the local position anything like as well as the people who would be there on behalf of the highway authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-29", "file": "debates1935-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0abefe551979ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2356.0", "colnum": "2356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WATERHOUSE", "preceding_text": "I think I said—I do not actually remember my words—that one paid considerable regard to the opinion of Sir Leslie Scott as a legal luminary, but he had no right to seek now to interpret the findings of his Committee. I think I did use the word \"puppet,\" but I did not mean that in any derogatory sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-29", "file": "debates1935-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0abefe551979ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2366.2", "colnum": "2366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the hon. Member has put his stick into the muddy pool, and is stirring it round gloriously. He now likes justice but he does not like to see justice administered by the courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-29", "file": "debates1935-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0abefe551979ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2418.1", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "I want to support this Amendment. The Minister of Transport asked what was in a name. I am afraid that when the Minister and I have passed from this realm to the realms above—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-29", "file": "debates1935-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "0abefe551979ddb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2418.1", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GEORGE GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": " Development Bill. While the last speaker was telling of the experience of some Canadian guests of his I was speaking to one of the officers of the Urban District Councils Federation, and he suggested that to make this a decent Bill we should take the \"Ribbon\" out of it altogether. I think that if the Minister would try to look at this Bill as it will appear in the future he would agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-29a.2418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-30", "file": "debates1935-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "25d0771167f9a00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-30a.2474.4", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "hat the inspector in question has made it quite clear that his remark was not intended—although, as I have said, I deprecate his making any such remark—as a reproof to the children, and I am satisfied that there is no likelihood of any recurrence of incidents of this kind. I deprecate, therefore, the continuance against an individual who, I think, acted without any ill intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-30a.2474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-30", "file": "debates1935-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "25d0771167f9a00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-30a.2526.2", "colnum": "2526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Without Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount WOLMER", "preceding_text": "I think it is very appropriate that my Noble Friend the Minister without Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-30a.2526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-30", "file": "debates1935-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "25d0771167f9a00f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-30a.2590.1", "colnum": "2590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "with the atrocious way the Government had treated the House, because we proposed to institute the system of direct election without putting the electoral qualifications into the Bill. Are they aware that the electoral qualifications for the Provincial Upper Houses, which were the electoral qualifications of the previous Council of State, were not in the Bill? My right hon. Friend is aware of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-30a.2590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-31", "file": "debates1935-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ac652cbc211998c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2642.1", "colnum": "2642", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": "I am anxious to spare the taxpayer the expense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-31", "file": "debates1935-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ac652cbc211998c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2689.5", "colnum": "2689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lower orders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "7,590,000 cwts., for which we paid £30,052,000. In other words, we paid almost the same sum for 7,500,000 cwts. as we had previously paid for 11,390,000 cwts. Briefly, what the right hon. Gentleman has done has been to lop off one out of every three rashers available for consumption in this country and the effect upon the lower orders has been very distinctly felt in all parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-31", "file": "debates1935-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ac652cbc211998c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2720.1", "colnum": "2720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": " so the Danes cut the throats of a million of their breeding sows in order to reduce the appalling glut of bacon on the world market. Having done that, the situation began to right itself until supplies eventually came more or less into relation with demand. I do not think the hon. Member will attempt to challenge anything that I have said in relation to the history of the matter as regards bacon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-31", "file": "debates1935-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ac652cbc211998c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2720.1", "colnum": "2720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. RUGGLES-BRISE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. RUGGLES-BRISE", "preceding_text": " Marketing Board should be kept in being, and it is equally essential that the details of the scheme should be drastically amended. I hope, therefore, that the milk producers will vote next month to maintain the existence of the scheme and of the board. It has certainly one great feather in its cap. It is a great achievement to have found a market for all the milk that has been thrown at its head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-07-31", "file": "debates1935-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "ac652cbc211998c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2772.1", "colnum": "2772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "r Argyllshire (Mr. Macquisten) whether there should be or should not be a milk scheme at all, I think he will not deny that production is increasing to an embarrassing extent. Organisation is having the effect that, whereas in Scotland in 1928 skimmed milk amounting to 1,350,000 gallons was run to waste, it was last year brought down to 340,000 gallons and next year it will be brought down to nil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-07-31a.2772.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-08-01", "file": "debates1935-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d5da286fcc880f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-01a.2862.8", "colnum": "2862", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the hon. Member who puts these questions has consistently voted against all expenditure calculated to increase the strength and efficiency of the Britsih Navy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-01a.2862.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-08-01", "file": "debates1935-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d5da286fcc880f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-01a.2908.1", "colnum": "2908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General SPEARS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General SPEARS", "preceding_text": " influencce to limit the extent of the disaster. I can hardly imagine a more defeatist attitude than this. Nor does the speech appear to be compatible with the conception of collective security which we have been so glad to hear the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs defend in this House. I do not wish to press for an answer as to whether the Noble Lord represented the views of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-01a.2908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-08-01", "file": "debates1935-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "3d5da286fcc880f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-01a.2956.1", "colnum": "2956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": " had said: \"We are going on to build these ships in defiance of the Treaty,\" I should have said the same things loudly and publicly all over Europe. That is what the Government should have done. If their cautions had had no result, the Government should have written their case in German and broadcast it from the British, French and Russian broadcasting stations every day for a month or two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-01a.2956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-08-02", "file": "debates1935-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "66f390227165fa00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-02a.3073.1", "colnum": "3073", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": " and force, and has put the case as strongly as anyone could put it, but I am afraid I cannot give him much comfort. I can only repeat what was said before. Rosyth has not been abandoned and put on the scrapheap. It is on a care and maintenance basis. If and when, in the opinion of the Board, it is advisable or economical to do more work at Rosyth, I can assure him that it will get its fair share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-08-02a.3073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-22", "file": "debates1935-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a78effd0bdb4a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-22a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "League decide whether it would prefer to see the whole of this great effort to maintain the peace of the world collapse ignominiously or prefer to put the situation clearly before the Italians, who have far more to lose than anyone else. They have 200,000 men in East Africa, and the situation from a strategic point of view is not an agreeable one. I had not intended to go into these details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-22a.52.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-10-22", "file": "debates1935-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a78effd0bdb4a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-22a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "And against Russia.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "to apply reason to this situation. The League of Nations, now that the leading nations are out of it, has been proved a fraud and a failure, as it was bound to be. Cut the cackle and say to the leading classes of this country, \"The League of Nations is an ineffective instrument. We wash our hands of it, and refuse to commit our party to warfare. We stand out against war and the capitalist system.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-22a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-22", "file": "debates1935-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "5a78effd0bdb4a5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-22a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ADAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ADAMS", "preceding_text": "g of Article XVI, then Article XX of the Covenant, unless its language is mere fustian, must be held to abrogate the obstructive treaty. But the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery), whom I do not see in his place although I informed him that I was going to criticise him, said the other day that he would not send a single Birmingham lad to his death for the sake of Abyssinia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-22a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "and to give up one of their essential functions in order to allow the Election to take place. Therefore I have long come to the conclusion that you must rule out the spring and summer months because of financial business. You must rule out August and September because of the holidays. You are left with the autumn, but in no circumstances must you run into any interference with the Christmas trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "mstances must you run into any interference with the Christmas trade. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members opposite never thought of that, but they would have it brought to their minds very quickly, I think, if they had to make a decision. You are limited, therefore, to a small period in the autumn and the early part of the year, and the early part of the year must depend on the date of Easter in that year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HICKS", "preceding_text": "me has not been fully decided upon, nor have the vigour and the speed with which they should be applied. On this side of the House we believe that sanctions should be applied. We believe—I hope that I shall be corrected if this be wrong—that the Government had not given five minutes' serious consideration to the type and the character of the sanctions until the issue was right upon us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait till they reduce the tariff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ISAAC FOOT", "preceding_text": " that the President of the Board of Trade had no right to speak for Canada, and that Canadian opinion would be declared against these proposals as soon as the opportunity came. He scoffed at my opinion. Last week, as soon as the Canadian people had the chance to express their mind, they went to the poll and washed out all that Mr. Bennett said there on this matter, and stood by Mr. Mackenzie King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "ith regard to the framing of the questions by the authors of the peace ballot: No graver mis-statement of the issues at stake has ever been perpetrated even by a reckless partisan in the heat and fury of a contested election. The result will be proclaimed by its promoters as a national verdict. To me it appears to be little better than an attempt to obtain subscriptions by a fraudulent prospectus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "It is well that the point of view expressed by the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery) should be stated in this House because it undoubtedly represents a very considerable body of opinion on the Conservative side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I will tell the right hon. Gentleman. I inquired, and I did not say anything about it till I got the reply. They are official figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.204.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-10-23", "file": "debates1935-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "006469867a49aa23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.210.4", "colnum": "210", "heading": "PROROGATION AND DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": " ) adopt immediately measures to assure that no action taken as a result of Article XVI will deprive any country applying sanctions of such advantages as the commercial agreements concluded by the participating States with Italy afforded it through the operation of the most-favoured-nation clause; … There are three or four other paragraphs. I will read the whole document if the House wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-23a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-24", "file": "debates1935-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "010072d3b06156d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ns will be one. Where, then, is the difference? The fortunes of the British Empire and its glory are inseparably interwoven with the fortunes of the world. We rise or we fall together. Indeed, if we survive to-day the extraordinary situation it is because even in bygone times our ancestors so managed that in the main the special interests of Britain conformed to the general interests of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-24", "file": "debates1935-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "010072d3b06156d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.366.3", "colnum": "366", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " no one has suggested that we could do more than we have done, or that we should take isolated action. As far as we are concerned, one of the causes and circumstances which make the strain painful to us is the prolongation of the spectacle we shall have to witness in Abyssinia—the painful spectacle of the desperate resistance of these people barely armed against all the resources of science.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.366.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-24", "file": "debates1935-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "010072d3b06156d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "hs of their anxious thought yielded nothing? Have the Government reached no conclusions of any sort, apart from the obvious electoral bribe to which I will refer in a moment? If they have nothing to say now, before the House rises, they stand condemned before the people for having betrayed the unemployed. We learned with astonishment that the Government are going to increase children's allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-24", "file": "debates1935-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "010072d3b06156d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.377.3", "colnum": "377", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hannen Swaffer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "Then, after getting this very important fact made quite clear to his audience—that this was a black spot on a white piece of paper—the right hon. Gentleman went on to say \"That is true of the country. That spot is the depressed areas. Always remember the white paper.\" A political commentator said of him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-24", "file": "debates1935-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "010072d3b06156d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "wife and four dependent children, old rate 34s., new 38s. Man and wife and five dependent children, old rate 36s., new 41s. Man and wife and six dependent children, old rate 38s., new 44s. Man and wife and seven dependent children, old rate 40s., new rate 50s. Man and wife and nine dependent children, old rate 44s., new rate 53s. Man and wife and 10 dependent children, old rate 46s., new rate 56s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-10-24", "file": "debates1935-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "010072d3b06156d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (WAGES).", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": " It should be made clear that in my statement I merely gave the view of the Government. I was not discussing what had been said on the part either of the owners or of the miners. I do not think the time is ripe for that. I was trying to put before the House the contribution which the Government felt themselves able to make. I hope that this suggestion will receive very serious consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-10-24a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "t, we have a certain amount of trimming, and the words of the Gracious Speech will need a good deal of filling out. We have already heard something with regard to the educational services, from which it appears that the raising of the school-leaving age will be a very minor matter, because there is to be no question of seeing that the poor as well as the better off shall be able to stay at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Political memories are short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.67.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.67.2", "colnum": "67", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "All over the world.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " throughout the whole of the year 1931. I always think it is extremely bad taste in this House to refer to recent conflicts that may have taken place—I have heard it done—but I have a dim kind of idea that something may have been said on this question in the heat of the conflict on one side or the other. The tendencies to-day are in the opposite direction to the tendencies in force four years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Support of the League of Nations as heretofore!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "ative votes, but upon the personality of the Prime Minister, in whom we all feel some right of possession, in whose faith in Parliament and democracy we place confidence and whom it may fall to our lot in this Parliament, as in the last, to support against many of those who would claim to be his political henchmen. Never was I more puzzled to know what to make of a Gracious Speech from the Throne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody said we were going to do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "y get it. It is not sound statesmanship; it is not in keeping with the claims of the hon. Member who has just sat down that their interest is in the general welfare of all sections of the community. Let me pass on to the next item. Listen to the vague generality contained in this: Proposals for making improved arrangements for assistance to the unemployed. Where is the abolition of the means test?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "I know; I read reports of speeches. It did not end there. What Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said, and what was broadcast in nearly every constituency in this country by the National Government candidates, was \"I would not remain a member of any Government that did not take steps to abolish the family means test.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": " test. Many of those representing the party opposite at the last Election and the previous Election made all kinds of promises. Our opponents promised almost the moon. We never attempted to compete with those promises. But nobody has been more zealous than the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) in bringing out in this House the fact that the means test was introduced by a Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You made them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "ernment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"] We desire that the means test should be applied with humanity and fairness but we hold that there must be a means test and I would only say to hon. Members opposite that it is idle for them to promise the moon. They must know perfectly well that many of the promises which were made were merely vote-catching promises which they would never be in a position to fulfil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "There can be no doubt about the fact that among the measures which the Socialist Government had to introduce at a time of great pressure was a means test of the type adopted by all trade unions in connection with the payment of public money after the expiration of real insurance benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-03", "file": "debates1935-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "ced86e40e8742ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "May I intervene for a moment? It is an appropriate point which I wish to put forward", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-03a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. HERBERT", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister will not think that all private Members are quite so deficient in imaginative and constructive power as that. At any rate, in answer to that point, let me tell him that I have in my hand a Bill which I am ready to introduce next Friday, or on the Friday after, or on all the Fridays, until it is passed into law; and I swear that it shall be passed before this Parliament is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. HERBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. HERBERT", "preceding_text": "able and unlikely constituency to give this message, the first thing that happens is that the Prime Minister says, \"The first day on which you might move your little Bill is taken away by the Government.\" This little Friday, which cannot mean very much to the Government, might mean a great deal to me and to the thousands of unhappy souls who might benefit from this Bill if it were passed into law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.149.6", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to accept his challenge and to compare 1931 and 1935, but from a somewhat different point of view. The right hon. Gentleman, with a very broad brush, painted a picture of the good that had come from four years of the National Government. It is astonishing, with that enormous volume of credit to its advantage, that in 1935 it did not do much better than it did at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " at a General Election are always disposed to praise the wisdom of the British democracy, whereas those who do not succeed are always disposed to say that the electors have been misled, deceived or trapped in some way. Nothing was more amusing that to hear during the last days of the Election, Members opposite prophesying that there would be some dreadful trick played on them in the last 24 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "Government? That, I submit, is a fair question to put to this House. I listened with some attention and, if I may say so, with some amazement to the dialectical utterances of the Home Secretary this afternoon. I am not afraid to say—I understand this House want plain speaking—that it was a shameful utterance in the existing industrial circumstances. What do we care about a post mortem examination?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "areas, one of which he represents. I am sure he will understand if I beg to differ from him with regard to one or two of his statements. He suggested that a high rate of maternal mortality had something to do with the depressed areas, but I would like to asure him that the maternal mortality rate is higher in Eastbourne than in Merthyr. It has been found that that idea does not bear investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He defeated a man who did that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "new what was in our hearts, that he knew us ill enough; but he showed us what was in his own heart. He has not learned anything in those four years in the wilderness. He comes back with all his brilliance, and all his venom, and all his hatred, which I am quite certain is not real. I believe that the hon. Member would be quite willing to go with nearly any Government as long as he could get a job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would do you good to have a taste of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "have our money given to them have a means test? We want to make it better, and we will, but we are not going to take it away. The right hon. Gentleman opposite, who will not fight for the Abyssinians but fought me for my seat all right, himself said that he would not give away public money without a means test. It is misleading the people to make these speeches about the cruelty of the means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not a fair comparison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ay. The right hon. Gentleman opposite, who will not fight for the Abyssinians but fought me for my seat all right, himself said that he would not give away public money without a means test. It is misleading the people to make these speeches about the cruelty of the means test. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It would do you good to have a taste of it!\"] I have had a taste of it. They take my money away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "will consider whether they cannot bring them into insurance. They got over the difficulty of the agricultural labourer, and I hope they will get over this. With regard to Abyssinia, I am glad that the Government has stuck to their guns. No one in his senses believes that this or any other Government in the world wants war. One man may want it, but I cannot believe that the Italian nation wants it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "ancial interests were threatened in the North of Africa. The attitude of the National Government towards the League of Nations is to utilise it as far as it can in order to force Italy to make a deal for the safeguarding of British interests in the Sudan and Egypt. When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) was in Moscow last year, in a real atmosphere of peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "e. Will hon. Gentlemen take down the Cenotaph? The rearming of Germany is a serious question, and has brought a menace to the whole of civilisation. Now the scene having changed. The one-time Foreign Secretary, Hitler's Man Friday, is now at the Home Office. We are getting a German invasion of London. Is any hon. Member prepared to say that this has nothing to do with bona fide football and sport?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": " no headway against maternal mortality. Where does the trouble come from? It comes from low wages and low unemployment relief. The mothers and children have to suffer. You may pay tribute to, or worship, the Madonna and Child, but day after day you are doing the Madonna and Child to death. On this side of the House we represent and speak for the workers of this country, the men who toil and sweat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "om? It comes from low wages and low unemployment relief. The mothers and children have to suffer. You may pay tribute to, or worship, the Madonna and Child, but day after day you are doing the Madonna and Child to death. On this side of the House we represent and speak for the workers of this country, the men who toil and sweat. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So do we.\"] Oh, you do speak for the workers, do you?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": "c policy, by the nationalisation of mines or industries, they can ever get away from the eternal truths of our economic life, which they tried to root out and blast in the years 1929 and 1931. We have had to grapple with that situation and have been partially successful. That is the reason why we have been returned to office in 1935. I am privileged to have been returned for a Durham constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are taking no notice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": "ll the energy I have, not because I represent Darlington, but because it is a fallacious doctrine which gets us nowhere. Work ought to be given to the distressed areas which is at present being done by firms outside the distressed areas when those firms are working something near capacity. It is a point upon which I feel very strongly, and I hope the Government will take some notice of my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKIE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKIE", "preceding_text": "mind of the Scottish workers somewhat approaching that of 15 years ago, when they thought that they could make a better bargain in the open market in regard to wages than they could through a wages board. That is, however, for them to decide, and if they wish a board I am sure that the House of Commons will not deny it. I have taken up rather longer than I intended, but these are important points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anything is to be gained by carrying on this discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.234.5", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "When you discover an Irishman that is frightened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.234.5", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. ALLEN", "preceding_text": "discover an Irishman that is frightened—[ Interruption. ] I was going on to say, with regard to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, that he gave his best to the nation when the nation required it. His former friends deserted him. No doubt they would say that he deserted them, but what was the reason for his maintaining his position? It was the financial mess into which hon. Members opposite had got the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-04", "file": "debates1935-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fad8514b3e370868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "ny individual? And they say that: Men earning over £5 were lifting 15s. insurance. Men earning £6 10s. in four days were drawing two days' benefit. It is a shameless lie to say that this Act was put into operation in order to deal with these men. There are men in trade unions to-day who are drawing two and three salaries for work which they never perform, and the means test ought to apply to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-04a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-05", "file": "debates1935-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b074b3993b85cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.319.6", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "h the first is that they have almost completely wrecked the world Disarmament Conference. If that judgment should be challenged, I quote the very summary statement of one of the delegation appointed by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to conduct the negotiations, who declared: It is my considered opinion that the British Government carries the main responsibility for having wrecked the Disarmament Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.319.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-05", "file": "debates1935-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b074b3993b85cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "e of my friends and colleagues on these benches in regard to sanctions and war. It is entirely untrue that we advocated, or advocate, any provocative action such as the closing of the Suez Canal, which is in itself an act of war. We are sometimes accused of being bellicose pacifists because we are said to advocate these measures and at the same time are not prepared to give support for rearmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-05", "file": "debates1935-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b074b3993b85cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "er half have been plucked. I believe that peace is essential and that a revision of the Covenant is equally essential. The League of Nations can perform a very useful function. If two nations are drifting into war—and of course quarrels will occur between nations—in nine cases out of ten neither of those nations really wants to go to war. In such a case the League can stop a war from breaking out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-05", "file": "debates1935-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b074b3993b85cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or night club!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": " anxiety to do all that we possibly can to try to back it up in a most difficult time. I have lived among foreigners a great deal, and I am very surprised to find that we have been able to get even 50 nations of the world to agree to one policy. I do not mind where it is, whether in Labour party meetings, our own meetings, Liberal party meetings, in our cricket or football clubs or wherever it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-05", "file": "debates1935-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b074b3993b85cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "rong supporter of the Government's policy in relation to the League and the Abyssinian question. I wonder what he would have said to the proposition that before the League could be called upon to defend Abyssinia, in a dispute like the present one, the Abyssinians must provide themselves with adequate armaments and make an adequate contribution to the effective force at the disposal of the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-05", "file": "debates1935-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b074b3993b85cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "ious that there is growing up among the Labour party support for what is called a collective peace system. A collective peace system, in my view, is perfectly impracticable in the view of the facts of to-day. That is the fact that the United States, Germany and Japan are not in the League. It is hardly worth considering when these be the facts whether a collective peace system could be undertaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-05", "file": "debates1935-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b074b3993b85cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER for LEAGUE of NATIONS AFFAIRS (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER for LEAGUE of NATIONS AFFAIRS (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "used at election times. May I now say a word on the subject of armaments, about which there has also been much discord in the present Debate? When hon. Members opposite say that their conception of collective security is different from ours they are right, because their conception of collective security is that the world should be made safe for us, but that we should do nothing about it ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-05a.424.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-06", "file": "debates1935-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "dd729a444b5f6b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-06a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That would not be enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE", "preceding_text": "s, because I believe that the hon. Members who make them are knocking at an open door The Government are an are greatly in sympathy, as they have shown by their manifesto, with the miners. There is not a Member of this House, and there is not a person in the country, who would not willingly pay an extra 2s. 6d. per ton for coal if they knew that it would go directly into the pockets of the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-06a.497.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ed by the rest of the community. If you can do it for the shipowners, why not do it for the miners? It all depends on what your idea of our present society is. The right hon. Gentlemen opposite have abandoned the idea of an unplanned society quite as much as we have abandoned it, but they are seeking to plan it on a class basis. They consider it essential that the property claim should come first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "resent time was nationalised. He pointed to Italy, to Germany, and finally to Russia. He was, of course, careful to point out that in none of these cases had the Socialism or the nationalisation of those countries a very great attraction for the brand of Socialists which we produce in this country. He did point out, with truth, that two-thirds of Europe is nationalised to-day or socialised to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.587.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ment had not put into its policy proposals for transforming the system of this country from a Capitalist to a Socialist system. I am not going to repeat election speeches—I get too tired of my own to attempt to repeat them here—but I think I am justified in saying that at every election in the country where there was a contest the issue between Socialism and Capitalism was put before the electors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And speculation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "e crisis that might be produced in any industry by a rapid change-over to Nationalisation and Socialism. Let me take two concrete cases and put a question to right hon. Gentlemen and hon. Gentlemen opposite. Take the case of the north-western area and the contraction in the cotton industry. Everybody knows that that is the result of competition from Japan and the growth of India's cotton industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "ons. There is no difficulty at all in going to a hard-pressed electorate and telling them that you will abolish the means test. The question is whether it is right to do so when everybody knows that it is impracticable. The abolition of the means test involves a right for an indefinite period to draw public money at a fixed scale irrespective of need. Does the party opposite commit itself to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.634.5", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "n regard to the Billingham experiment. There are others able and willing to try experiments. I will be told, probably from responsible quarters, that it means huge costly experiments, but what about it. Who is afraid of the big black wolf of the cosmopolitan financiers who nearly had us down and out in 1931? These people have no country at all and look for half of half per cent. benefit each week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.634.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERRINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERRINGTON", "preceding_text": "ing to decry, has provided us with a considerable sum by way of block grants. In spite of that position, however, the difficulties in Bootle continue. I would refer to three sets of figures to illustrate the point which I am making. In 1931, the cost of able-bodied relief was 3d. in the £. I am ignoring fractions. In 1935, the cost of able-bodied relief in the Borough of Bootle was roughly 2s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERRINGTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Planned\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERRINGTON", "preceding_text": " the Government are prepared to support and help us. Diversity of industry is of tremendous importance. Heretofore you have had a coal-mining district, a shipbuilding district, a cotton district; and, when those industries have gone badly, there has been nothing to which the people displaced by the bad condition of industry could go. Would it not be much better to have industries of various kinds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.656.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "bour, is contracting, I am happy. As long as that process goes on, I know the time is not far distant when there will be a clear majority of the electorate for Labour, and I frankly tell the House that that is the only thing with which I personally will be satisfied, because that is the only thing that can really give us power. This Election, fundamentally, has been healthy from our point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "f the Council on 20th July, 1933, under the Tory Council, decided to invite on the next occasion of tender quotations for pencils of foreign as well as British manufacture. That was the decision of the Prime Minister's own friends, with which we concurred. The acceptance of the quotation for German pencils was unanimously agreed to by the Supplies Committee on 24th April, 1934, under our majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.670.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "No, as in Britain. I have been to Russia, and I have a great respect for much of the economic work that Russia is doing; and if you ask me whether the British are more competent in industrial management, under a potential Socialist State, more competent in the arts of public administration, I say that we certainly are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "f public enterprise. The telephones are publicly owned, and will anybody say, since the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health sang the praises of the telephones to such good effect—and, I am bound to add, advertised in the newspapers, at proper trade rates, with very great effect—that the British telephone system now is not better managed than it was under the old National Telephone Company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I have yet to know that Africa is not part of the British Empire. If we are to be told now that Africa is not part of the British Empire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything about entirety. I merely used the phrase used by the right hon. Gentleman this afternoon when he talked about the parcelling out of Africa. I answer it by saying that so far as we on this side of the House are concerned we have never heard of any parcelling out except from speeches from the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "ection. I want to deal with something that played even a bigger part in the Election than lead pencils or the means test. Am I putting it too high when I say that of hon. Members on the other side of the House there is not 10 per cent. who did not pledge themselves, first, to the abolition of the means test and, secondly, to the statement that the means test was imposed by the National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.3", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "e meanness of the General Election I put it to the House that there was nothing meaner than responsible leaders of the Opposition conveying the impression that they themselves were opposed to any means test. There is no leader sitting on that Front Bench who was a Member of the Labour Government with me who dares to say that he opposed the means test. Therefore, if that statement be true, as it is", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The family means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "iately we come back it is wrong. In this House we can be called up for any misstatement of fact. The House will meet again and any statement of mine can be challenged, but let us at least have the fairness to face the truth and the facts of the situation. I challenge denial. It is admitted that an overwhelming majority of hon. Members opposite pledged themselves to the abolition of the means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "emonstrates what I wanted to point out to the House. How many hon. Members opposite had the courage to say to their constituents, \"We want to differentiate between a means test and a family means test\"? Had you done that it would have been an honest statement. You not only did not do that, but you conveyed the impression deliberately that the National Government was responsible for the means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "So far as the Scottish Members are concerned, they have not as much complaint against my right hon. Friend as the English Members. This is the circular: In assessing the amount of relief—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.7", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.10", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Running away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "at statement. If, therefore, it is true that the means test has been in operation since 1603, how can he put it upon the National Government? I put it to the House that hon. Members opposite cannot have it all ways. Many of them said that this means test was due to the National Government. They now have it on the authority of one of their leaders that it goes back to 1601. I pass from that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.10", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Running away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "table for hon. Members opposite, but however hard they hit they, at least, were given an opportunity of stating their case. I am well within the recollection of the House when I say that I declared my readiness to answer not only points raised in this Debate but also this point which was raised during the General Election. I would refer to one other point made by the speaker for the Liberal party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.692.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I express on behalf of all sections of the House the hope that a settlement will emerge which will benefit the miners, but equally I want the miners to be consistent. It is no good for them to go to their constituencies complaining of the cost of living and blaming British agriculture when at the same time they are saying \"We do not care what the price of coal is; we want a living wage.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.694.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-09", "file": "debates1935-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "85520890eeec359c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.699.4", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (MEANS TEST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ntruthful statement that the late Labour Government brought in the means test and imposed it on the unemployed only needs to be stated for any ordinary, honest person to know how untrue that statement is. The unemployed who were receiving transitional payments never came under any means test until after the Economy Act, brought in by Lord Snowden, was passed by this House. That is unchallengeable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-09a.699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "k for Free Trade and I cannot see why they should not be sitting here. During the Election I received a good many documents from a body entitled \"The Council of Action\"—I think it has been called the \"council of faction\"—and a good many telegrams. They went into my waste-paper basket because they definitely asked me to give up my right of free representation of my constituency for no other reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.781.5", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "I believe there was no quibble. It was perfectly clear in that document that I was asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "preceding_text": "de and the problem of unemployment. I will con- clued with this remark which, I hope, will not give offence to hon. Members opposite. In listening to these Debates, both in this Parliament and the last, I have felt that we were hampered by the inheritance of the 19th century ideas. I feel that many minds are closed because they brood over and hold to the fixed dogmas of that very dogmatic century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DINGLE FOOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ninety- three per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DINGLE FOOT", "preceding_text": "igures of those drawing Poor Law relief. In my constituency, in September, 1931, the number of those drawing poor relief, with their dependants, was 4,158, and in September of this year it was 8,737, an increase of more than double. If you take the whole of Scotland the figure for 1931 was 189,661 and in September of this year 341,654, an increase of something in the neighbourhood of 80 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": " contradiction of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and, more serious still, or just as serious for our purpose, they are an abandonment of the foundation upon which the Government fought the last Election and as a result of which they practically came to an understanding with the British people, all parties combined, and as a consequence of which understanding they sit where they are to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER for LEAGUE of NATIONS AFFAIRS (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER for LEAGUE of NATIONS AFFAIRS (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "pia for the purpose of social, economic and administrative developments; special facilities for Italian settlers and Italian companies in connection with that economic development. Those are the three principles upon which these proposals were based. If the right hon. Gentleman will carefully consider them he will see that they are at variance with the examples he gave to the House this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is your League.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "see Italian Fascism having its own way and over-running Abyssinia?\" There have been a lot of Abyssinians killed in spite of your sanctions, and this constructive policy of backing the fraud and the imposture of the League of Nations has not carried you very far. The Minister is very confident that whatever Britain and France agree upon, all the other pigmies of the League will agree to afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-10", "file": "debates1935-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "05cf29cf56b68b44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.842.3", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that matter at the proper time and place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-10a.842.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WATKINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WATKINS", "preceding_text": " is money enough and to spare to lift the standard of life of the working collier to a much higher figure. I am a railway man. I hear from railway officers that consignments of coal change hands three times between Nottingham and London. People outside the House, the ordinary consumers of coal, are pointing out that they are paying 50s. a ton for coal, whereas the pithead price is, shall I say, £1", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RITSON", "preceding_text": "of the men will be unequalled once they start. Let me give you an idea of the difficulties. I do not want to put forward any sob-stuff. We had an after-dinner speech from the Colonial Secretary the other night. After-dinner speeches should never be delivered from that Box. If he had made that speech at six o'clock in the morning instead of ten o'clock at night he would not have known where he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAKE", "preceding_text": "this House is going to pass definite resolutions in favour of particular claims by particular bodies of industrial workers surely it becomes a logical conclusion that it is up to this House to find the money wherewith those claims can be met. In the present temper of the House and the country I do not think there is any probability of a subsidy from public funds being granted to the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not in the Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAKE", "preceding_text": "nt that central selling organisations are going to be set up with a view to enhancing the proceeds of the industry; and, finally, it urges the representatives of employers and employed to enter forthwith into discussions—[An Holy. MEMBER: \"Nationally?\"]—nationally, to ascertain what increase in wage rates is immediately possible, having regard to the present and potential capacity of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER,; \"Philanthropists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WRAGG", "preceding_text": "s question. It is to be regretted that the hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell) should describe the coalowners as avaricious, malicious, and short-sighted. That may be good enough for the hustings of Seaham, but it is certainly not good enough for the House of Commons, and I hope to show, at any rate that the coal-owners are not avaricious in the slightest degree. They may have been shortsighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "represented in this House and outside as identifying the Government with one or other of the parties to the dispute. That is not a position which, while the negotiations are proceeding, as I am happy to say they are, the Governent can take up. It is for the House to decide these matters on private Members' days. Some hon. Members may expect me to say something as to how the negotiations are going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SILVERMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The landlords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SILVERMAN", "preceding_text": "how to pay people not to work. Only in that way can we use that dividend of civilisation in the interests of the community which has achieved those things. But does that hon. Gentleman, or any hon. or right hon. Gentleman, think that within the ambit of the present capitalist system we could ever pay people not to work, could ever pay people to eat rather than to produce? Somebody says that we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1023.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1028.1", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SILVERMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Maiden speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SILVERMAN", "preceding_text": "I am unable to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1028.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1036.8", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member for Seaham spoke about things that were not solutions, I noticed in his speech the absence of their solution. We had it given to us in general terms by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Silverman) in his maiden speech. Perhaps we may discuss that further on some other occasion. We talk of human resources. Human resourcefulness is one of the greatest of all human resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1036.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1036.8", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Durham?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "our years' work a great improvement not merely in the whole employment situation throughout the land, but in these areas also. Nothing was more remarkable at the last Election than the fact that some of those areas which hon. Members: opposite had hoped on this issue to sweep into their net, registered against them, and nothing was more remarkable than the fact that Tyneside was among those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1036.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS (AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": " this question. There are patches in the county of Lancashire which are every bit as distressed as any part of the counties of Durham, Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Although there are areas in Lancashire, there is nothing in this Resolution which promises to help them. There are, of course, railway shops all over the country. There is one at Horwich in my division and that is why I am speaking now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-11", "file": "debates1935-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "9a0b2afc6aaa2d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAYS (AGREEMENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to keep the House for more than two minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-11a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-12", "file": "debates1935-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "903cee9172b4b2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: £1,500.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "rate of interest very high but the price of the houses was very high, because the loans covered the peak period in the cost of house building. Therefore, we are paying very high rates of interest on houses that are now worth nothing like the capital sums paid for them when they were erected. Some of the houses built in the neighbourhood of London, three bed-roomed houses cost £1,100 in those days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-12", "file": "debates1935-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "903cee9172b4b2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1203.2", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (EXTENSION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ion, and 1st October was mentioned.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th February, 1935; cols. 1785–6, Vol. 297.] Speaking later in the Debate the hon. and gallant Member for Tiverton said: It will be remembered that it was originally intended that the appointed day should be 1st October last year.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th February, 1935; col. 1851, Vol. 297.] That was specific. It has never been denied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-12", "file": "debates1935-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "903cee9172b4b2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1232.4", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (EXTENSION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was an umpire's decision.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "them. The Labour Government abolished the \"not genuinely seeking work.\" but the story does not end there. It was then thought that, following on that, the great mass of able-bodied unemployed would go from the local authorities and become a national charge, but that did not occur, and the \"not normally in employment\" condition took the place, or a substantial part of, \"not genuinely seeking work.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-12", "file": "debates1935-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "903cee9172b4b2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1232.4", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (EXTENSION) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "ision.\"] It was not a matter of an umpire's decision. Until then \"not normally in employment\" was confined to a limited number of people, and the decision was made by insurance officers first, and then submitted to the umpire, but the insurance officers were servants of the Minister of Labour, and it would never have gone to the umpire had not those servants of the Minister of Labour put it there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-12", "file": "debates1935-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "903cee9172b4b2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "he tremendous asset which tariffs have been in the so-called recovery of the country. I have always noticed when I have been looking at the examples of industrial and commercial recovery in the country that the Government are usually careful to build their case on sterling values. Even then they have a pretty bad record to show when they begin to compare 1934 and 1935 with a normal year like 1929.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-12", "file": "debates1935-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "903cee9172b4b2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGHEE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGHEE", "preceding_text": "I crave the indulgence of the House which is usual for a maiden speech. I am sorry to have to enter into a discussion upon such a controversial subject. I noticed that the hon. Member for Hallam (Mr. L. Smith) admitted that there had been a certain amount of log-rolling in connection with these duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-12", "file": "debates1935-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "903cee9172b4b2f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You went in on the tide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "r for Hillsborough said he recollected that in my dreadful political past, I held other views on the question of the exchange of goods than those indicated by this proposal. There is a difference, even at the seaside resort nearest to Sheffield, between high tide and low tide, and I am one of those who saw that when the balance of trade became adverse to this country new methods had to be adopted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-12a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-12-16", "file": "debates1935-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "077f5a351a378faa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-16a.1381.4", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ITALY AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "Do the Government still accept responsibility for these shameful proposals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-16a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD", "preceding_text": " preferred the system. She replied, quite naturally: \"Well, I am married and I can get my housework done in the mornings.\" I asked her: \"Is it not rather a strain to work a shift in the factory and then to do the housework at home?\" She replied: \"The housework has to be done, anyhow, whether you are on day work or shift work,\" and she added, confidentially, \"We do not have to work very hard here.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "preceding_text": "ng to say that although he disagreed with parts of the Bill, because there were things in it which ought not to be there, he agreed with the report. At first I thought he was proposing to base his objection on the fact that the Bill did not carry out all the suggestions of the report, but before he sat down he gave us to understand quite clearly that he was altogether against the two-shift system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "preceding_text": "s not the worst system and that there was not an urgent need to get rid of overtime. I can imagine nothing worse for the women of this country than continuous working of excessive hours. That is far worse, with its exhaustion, than getting up early in the morning. The only way to abolish overtime is by the two-shift system. It may be said that there should be neither overtime nor two-shift system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1637.1", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "preceding_text": "point. They might also need fewer cups and saucers if they had their meals at different times. Do those who speak of the possible breaking up of family life because the entire family is not going to be at home after half-past five or six think that in one household the entire family, sons, daughters, father and mother, stay at home during the evening or that they all go out together to the cinema?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROOKE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROOKE", "preceding_text": "presents. No people in this country played a greater part in the agitation for the 10 hours Bill and in the struggle for better conditions for factory workers and young people than the people in his division, and in my division in the early part of the nineteenth century. The voice of Richard Oastler was more familiar and welcome in that division 100 years ago than the voice of the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1664.3", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ction than that they should throw so much of their energy into attacking the two-shift system, which means to the workers engaged in it a less working week than the people referred to in the report I have quoted are experiencing. They have to get to work at six o'clock in the morning in many cases, and that is going on over a large area of industrial England. There is another point I want to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "e procedure laid down for ascertaining the opinion of the workers. At present there is none. I am sure the whole House will believe that His Majesty's inspectors of factories, whether men or women, do their very best to secure that any decision is fairly arrived at although I understand that some hon. Members with experience say that there are cases in which the present system is not satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931–1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then there will not be any bacon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BATEY", "preceding_text": "marketing of bacon. I take it that the first board mentioned there is the Pigs Marketing Board and that the board mentioned second is the Bacon Board, and then follow these words in regard to the Bacon Board: If there is no such board\"— that is, the Bacon Board. Does the Minister anticipate the Bacon Board's coming to an end very quickly and that there will be no Bacon Board in a very short time?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931–1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "upported by Conservative Members behind the so-called National Government. We have in Runcorn, in Cheshire, a co-operative concern which has a substantial business in bacon curing and which buys pigs from a farmer very near their own premises. Someone drives the pigs a few yards from the farm to the slaughterhouse. Every one of these pigs is charged a flat rate for carriage by the railway company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1709.3", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931–1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "That may be. None of us is infallible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931–1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Marsh and Baxter!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "oard that there would be adequate supplies to the factory in question. That does not apply to the case put forward by the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton. Again, let me call his attention to the fact that there are factories in existence, and that if we are going to set up new plant we must do our utmost to see that there is a reasonable use of the plant already in existence, and that new plant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-17", "file": "debates1935-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "9c2c59c984c635c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931–1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "The discretionary power of the board to cancel contracts deals with certain cases where the contracts are not valid; where, for some reason or other, side contracts have been entered into which invalidate these contracts, where the contracts are received after a prescribed date, or for some other reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-17a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-12-18", "file": "debates1935-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e2e6215b66da8aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "Apart from broadcasting, has the right hon. Gentleman seen the leading Arab newspapers, and is he aware that, without the slightest interference from the Palestinian Government they are now publishing this: We are all now determined to fight England, because England is the source of trouble everywhere. She is a past master—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1736.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-18", "file": "debates1935-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e2e6215b66da8aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "EMIGRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Correct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "preceding_text": " revealed the truth. We all recognise that the Members on the opposite benches really do not want emigration to the Empire. I would suggest that in the recent Election not one Member on the opposite benches raised the question of Empire at all, except perhaps in connection with Abyssinia, or to recall that it was gathered together with brigandage and methods which would not stand the light of day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-12-18", "file": "debates1935-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e2e6215b66da8aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1828.4", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "EMIGRATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "I do not want to misrepresent the hon. Member, but I think he said in reply to the intervention: \"That is the sort of cheap back chat\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-18", "file": "debates1935-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e2e6215b66da8aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1838.1", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "EMIGRATION.", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Douglas Hacking)", "cue_text": "An Hex. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. Douglas Hacking)", "preceding_text": "e minds of this Government and the last. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Bournemouth and several other speakers have mentioned the recent inquiry by the Inter-departmental Committee of which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Dominions was chairman. I was rather sorry to hear my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Bournemouth describe the report as a defeatist report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-18", "file": "debates1935-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e2e6215b66da8aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "WORLD PEACE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. TAYLOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. TAYLOR", "preceding_text": " I think it is relevant to examine some of the causes of it. Developing my argument in relation to the strength of Britain and its effect on the peace of the world, although I do not agree that might is right I do believe that had not our defence forces been reduced to such a lamentable condition much of the present trouble and difficulties and the present war in Abyssinia might have been avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-18", "file": "debates1935-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e2e6215b66da8aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1896.4", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "WORLD PEACE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "preceding_text": "I turn from the Motion to refer briefly to one remark made by my hon. Friend the Member for East-bourne (Mr. Taylor). He said something to the effect that Japan, having regard to pressure of population, ought to learn more about birth control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1896.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-18", "file": "debates1935-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "e2e6215b66da8aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "WORLD PEACE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "preceding_text": "I can imagine few things more calculated to treat international than advice of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-18a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2007.2", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "as the League supervision was concerned, was it to be differentiated from the rest of Abyssinia. I am aware that this part of the scheme has met with the fiercest criticism. I would, however, remind hon. Members firstly, that a free hand was left to the League to fill in this chapter as it willed; and, secondly, that from all parts of the House we have heard demands for Italian colonial expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2007.2", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir SAMUEL HOARE", "preceding_text": "unable to implement and give effect to those sympathies all that we had done was to encourage them, with the result that in the end their fate was worse than it would have been without our sympathy. It was on that account and with that fear constantly in my mind that I approved of the telegram going to Addis Ababa that appears in the White Paper, in which I asked, or in which the Government asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2017.2", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "s at all and, from those letters, one can collect what the reactions to this business have been. I want to quote just one or two of them. Here is one: As a lifelong Conservative I write to you to say that I consider the difference between the Paris peace plan and the pre-Election pledges of the Government so great, that I am bitterly ashamed of having supported the Government at the last Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ates. There was a definite question put to the French Government. The late Foreign Secretary, speaking in this House on 22nd October, said: The French answer is the answer we felt sure it would be.… They interpret Article 16 as we interpret it. In the event of an isolated attack inconceivable though such madness might be\"— On 22nd October it was inconceivable. To-day it is a terrible peril.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "rument of national policy and a heavy responsibility on those who have wavered in the cause.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd October, 1935, col. 32; Vol. 305.] When we read that, we all thought that the right hon. Gentleman wanted the League to succeed. The right hon. Gentleman to-day seems to think that the most terrible thing would be if this thing were brought about by the defeat of one of the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ll thought that the right hon. Gentleman wanted the League to succeed. The right hon. Gentleman to-day seems to think that the most terrible thing would be if this thing were brought about by the defeat of one of the parties. [HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"] The impression that I got from his speech all through was that there must be negotiations and that there was danger if the League were successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "with it. I was just going to say a word about what the right hon. Gentleman said in regard to the storm that arose through the country. I am coming shortly to what is the position of the Government, but I would like to make clear that never throughout that week had I or any one of my colleagues any idea in our own minds that we were not being true to every pledge that we had given in the Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2036.0", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Come over here.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "he other nations in. 'Hitch your wagon to a star.' Above all, work for all you are worth for that collective peace which, difficult of attainment as it may be, hard as it may be to get, is yet the only alternative between a race in armaments and the risk of uncontrolled war breaking out some day in the world and lighting a fire that mankind will not be able to put out before it has destroyed them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why did the Foreign Secretary resign\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "t in your eyes, I claim that we have kept that pledge. We have played our part in setting that formidable machinery of the League to work. We have made those preparations which my right hon. Friend explained to the House had been made to fulfil in the letter and the spirit whatever might be demanded of us under the Covenant of the League of Nations in all and every circumstance. We have done that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2052.1", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": " further any discussions\"— let me call the attention of the Opposition to this— which may offer the hope of a just and fair settlement provided that it be within the framework of the League and acceptable to the three parties to the dispute. We only said that we would take no action in isolation and that we would only take collective action shared in by its members, with emphasis on \"its members.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "upreme arbiters—\"We do not like what you are doing; it is not in accord with British public opinion.\" Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen talk as if they were dictators. We can only carry this through by being on good terms with the other members of the League. I think there has been grossly unfair criticism of M. Laval in this country. But for him there would have been a Fascist dictatorship in France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "t in the difficulties of the situation, and they are terrible, the National Government, although it may have made grave errors in the past fortnight, has a policy which is the right one, and that by it alone can we be saved from the dangers and horrors which I have attempted to describe. What are those dangers and horrors? First, a universal conflagration. The Government's policy is to avoid that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "rnment, although it may have made grave errors in the past fortnight, has a policy which is the right one, and that by it alone can we be saved from the dangers and horrors which I have attempted to describe. What are those dangers and horrors? First, a universal conflagration. The Government's policy is to avoid that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which policy?\"] There is no difference. There is no alteration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ot ask much as an old member of the Privy Council, but I cannot answer three Privy Councillors at the same time. I am greatly honoured by the fact that almost every Privy Councillor opposite at one time or other has interrupted me during my speech. I say there is no difference. Our policy is the only possible policy in the present situation, and I ask the Conservative party to support it to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2063.0", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "I will put a question to the hon. and learned Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "May I recall to the House what actually happened? There was no doubt when the Motion was being moved as to what was implied by it. It implied a definite vote of censure on the Government and a definite vote of censure on the honour of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2071.1", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. MACPHERSON", "preceding_text": "throughout the country. Like many other hon. Members I addressed a great many meetings recently and I have never found meetings more anxious to hear all about a situation—in this case the Italo-Abyssinian situation—and I never found people more eager to show themselves in agreement with the foreign policy of the Government. There has never been any doubt about the foreign policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2081.1", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " still they remained sceptical and unconvinced as to the soundness of that policy. We have the march of events. A General Election comes on. A new lease of power is granted by a great majority to the Prime Minister. At the same time, and in this same march of events, a policy of sanctions is applied. It is one thing to talk about sanctions in theory and it is another to face sanctions in practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2104.1", "colnum": "2104", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"What other members of the League?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "cleared up. I go further. My right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) raised a point in the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which I would now put to the right hon. Gentleman in the form of another precise question. Is it only from France that we have made these inquiries? Have we or have we not made inquiries from other members of the League?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2108.1", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "tially nor seriously amended. We shall vote for what I believe is the overwhelming weight of public opinion in this country. It will be quite different from the weight of opinion in the Lobbies. We shall vote to-night in the name of millions of people who did not support myself and my hon. Friends at the General Election but who voted—and who now think they voted mistakenly—for the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2112.1", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I answer that question. Of course the Cabinet knew that discussions were going on between these officials in Paris. Had not the League specifically asked the two Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2112.1", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "at discussions were going on between these officials in Paris. Had not the League specifically asked the two Governments—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] What is the use of hon. Members saying \"No\"? Everybody knows they did. They specially requested the Governments of Great Britain and France to investigate the possibility of an accommodation which would put an end to the hostilities proceeding in Abyssinia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I think we are really disputing over words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Somebody\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I think we are really disputing over words. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think what exactly happened was that somebody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I think we are really disputing over words. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think what exactly happened was that somebody—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Somebody\"]—suggested that these two Governments should undertake this task. It was suggested in a Committee of the League—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "vernments should undertake this task. It was suggested in a Committee of the League—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—the League knew that this task was to be undertaken by the two Governments, and the League approved of it. If the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting that the two Governments undertook this work behind the back of the League then he is suggesting something which I am sure he cannot substantiate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " that this task was to be undertaken by the two Governments, and the League approved of it. If the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting that the two Governments undertook this work behind the back of the League then he is suggesting something which I am sure he cannot substantiate. [ Interruption. ] Then I do not know what the dispute is about. It was undertaken with the full approval of the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ssary for the Government to choose whether they would accept the agreement or whether they would throw over their colleague?\" The answer to that is simple. The statement had been published in the Press, which not only declared that agreement had been reached but purported to give the terms. They could not reject the agreement without everybody knowing that we had thrown over our Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have thrown him over now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ernment to choose whether they would accept the agreement or whether they would throw over their colleague?\" The answer to that is simple. The statement had been published in the Press, which not only declared that agreement had been reached but purported to give the terms. They could not reject the agreement without everybody knowing that we had thrown over our Foreign Secretary. [ Interruption ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-19", "file": "debates1935-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b5df47910ff936b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a penny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e Leader of the Opposition said to-day that we were living in dangerous times. You will not get peace, he said, by running away. Well, then, the corollary of that is, that you must be ready, if necessary to fight. Where will he and his friends stand if presently we come to them and say, \"Now we ask for the authority of the House to repair the gaps in our defences\"? We can see now where they stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-19a.2116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-20", "file": "debates1935-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "479ab35a78ef3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2168.1", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT G. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Normal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT G. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "House could be summoned back at an early date should any emergency arise, and the Prime Minister said that it had become a common practice to submit on the day of the Adjournment a Motion which would enable Mr. Speaker to call the House together at short notice. It is obvious that if for any reason whatever there were a risk of a general paralysis of industry in this country any normal Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-20", "file": "debates1935-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "479ab35a78ef3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2172.1", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General SPEARS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General SPEARS", "preceding_text": "ice thereof in the Order Paper to be circulated on the day on which the House shall so meet, be, such as the Government may appoint, but subject as aforesaid the House shall transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to the day on which it shall so meet, and any Government Orders of the Day and Government Notices of Motions that may stand on the Order Book for the 4th day of February\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-20", "file": "debates1935-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "479ab35a78ef3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2196.1", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Miss WARD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WARD", "preceding_text": "es and will to the best of their ability insist on these two points being met. It is very difficult for a Conservative Member of Parliament who believes in private enterprise and disapproves thoroughly of Socialism to find herself in the position of having to condemn a system in which she believes. It is not the fault of the system, it is the fault of the way in which the system is being operated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1935-12-20", "file": "debates1935-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "479ab35a78ef3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2206.1", "colnum": "2206", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not make it again?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "led to assume that I have not made appeals in other quarters. If the hon. Member will refer to the closing part of the speech that I made on the Estimates this year, he will find that I definitely asked all concerned in the industry to try their best to watch the problem. If he looks up the OFFICIAL REPORT, I do not think it would lie in anyone's mouth to say I have not tried my very best to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1935-12-20a.2206.1"}