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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-02-24", "file": "debates1936-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b17e7a97b1dff1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.67.3", "colnum": "67", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "s country to take. Is this country to wait to be led by Rumania, and Holland, and Russia? That is what this spokesman for the Government up to the present has suggested shall be done, and I say that that is not, apart from the dignity of the matter, a reasonable attitude to take. What is the position? The small nations cannot take the initiative because they are frightened of the larger nations. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.67.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-02-24", "file": "debates1936-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b17e7a97b1dff1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": " nucleus of co-operation of western and southern Europe for the maintenance of peace. That was an effective barrier against German aggression. But it left Germany's eastern flank open, and she hid no reason to fear that in a dispute with Russia she would be attacked in the rear. To-day we have broken up the Stresa front, and in consequence we have inevitably driven France into the arms of Russia.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-02-24", "file": "debates1936-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b17e7a97b1dff1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "ed with Hitler f Therefore, I would sap that what we are discussing to-night in regard to the matter of sanctions is not in the least a. question of expediency; it must be looked at from the point of view of whether we are doing right to use our immense power to stop what we think is wrong. It may be risky—every good action is risky; doing the right thing in any circumstances is always unpleasant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.126.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-02-24", "file": "debates1936-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1b17e7a97b1dff1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. WILSON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WILSON", "preceding_text": "we are prepared to apply them against Italy. The Government of Abyssinia is not a civilised Government. It is useless for us to imagine that they are philanthropists, and that all the wrong is on the side of Italy. I have no reason to doubt the truth of what has been told me over and over again, that the Abyssinians in the areas which Italian troops have occupied regard the Italians as liberators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-24a.144.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-02-26", "file": "debates1936-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "8b847ab3b7482333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-26a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "UNIVERSITY FRANCHISE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In 1600?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "ps, and if there is one kind of person less fitted than another to deal with these social, economic and human problems, it is the academic person who normally represents the universities of this country. I will conclude by saying that in my judgment there is no justification whatever for allowing this anomaly of university representation to continue. It was conceived in snobbery, on a class basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-26a.497.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-02-26", "file": "debates1936-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "8b847ab3b7482333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-26a.531.6", "colnum": "531", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROOM-JOHNSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROOM-JOHNSON", "preceding_text": " to the position in Scotland, I know nothing except that which I have learned by attending a few Scottish Debates in this House. Only a few days ago we had a discussion with regard to Scottish rating, and I heard it stated over and over again that many of the difficulties which arise in Scotland in connection with housing matters are due to the anomalous rating system which exists in that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-26a.531.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-02-26", "file": "debates1936-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "8b847ab3b7482333", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-26a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain DOWER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain DOWER", "preceding_text": "e land should pay towards it. The only other point I want to make is this: Let there be no mistake, if the Bill receives a Second Reading, goes to Committee, and becomes the law of the land, it is not going to stop at that. It will be treated as an open invitation to borough and city councils all over England to say that, as the principle has been accepted for London, they want the powers as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-02-26a.569.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "resign. Best of all, to hand over the job at which they have failed, to other hands. If, though it is unlikely, we carried our Motion to-night, that would be the fortunate sequel to this Debate. Failing that, as the second best, what would we have the Government do? To make a plan to restore the Special Areas and to carry out that plan with speed and vigour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you a plan?\"] Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only a glimmer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "hat would be the fortunate sequel to this Debate. Failing that, as the second best, what would we have the Government do? To make a plan to restore the Special Areas and to carry out that plan with speed and vigour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Have you a plan?\"] Yes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"] If hon. Members will do me the honour to be patient, per haps before I sit down I shall give them some glimmering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When you left it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "things are looking up, thanks to the activities of the Government—the subsidies for shipping, the scrap-and-build subsidy and the other steps which the Government have taken to increase the volume of international trade and to benefit the shipping of this country. The special circumstances of the Special Areas cannot be divorced from the general condition of the country as it was when we found it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1034.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One thousand\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDONALD", "preceding_text": "l settlements, the Land Settlement Association has brought this generation very much nearer to a large, successful land settlement than anything hitherto done has brought it. Then there is afforestation, the afforestation of 200,000 acres of land. The hon. Gentleman chided us that we had done nothing specific of that character, but this is 200,000 acres of permanent employment for 2,200 families —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARNOLD GRIDLEY", "cue_text": "Loud laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARNOLD GRIDLEY", "preceding_text": " happened to turn up a few days ago an extract from a newspaper which had these headings: Attack on Sir Arnold Gridley. Mr. E. Brawn Tilts at Scarborough Speech. Die-hard Hounds and the Red Fox. The die-hard hounds had long been seeking the trade union fox, and at last had found a huntsman in Sir Arnold Gridley, who was willing to put on the red jacket and sound the 'view-hallo' after the red fox—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COURTHOPE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have just finished four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COURTHOPE", "preceding_text": "al more to be done, it must be recognised that there are limitations because of the time it takes for a plant to grow. There has been a great deal of wild talk—not I think in this House, but elsewhere—about the millions of acres of bare land and the millions of unemployed, and it has been asked why these men should not be put on the land to grow trees. It would take four years to bring this about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "That explanation only accentuates the curious unreality of the Noble Lord's point of view.. I suppose if you are born the son of an earl that is the sort of thing you think about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1125.3", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was it in 1931?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": " to wish him very much harm. I have no doubt that the people of Cardiff have read the speech of the right hon. Member for Hillhead who has always given support to the Government's tariff policy. What did he say about the effect of the policy of the Government on South Wales? He said that in 1929 the import and export trade of the Bristol Channel amounted to £38,000,000, and in 1935 to £21,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have never been in power!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "It has been definitely said by hon. Members opposite that there have been no steps towards a solution from this side. Let it not be over looked that the moment you start to concentrate on an industry of this kind the first effect will not be easy for the coal industry. At the moment we are governed by an Act which was passed by the party opposite when they were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-02", "file": "debates1936-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f3ff85d4cb53a388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1138.5", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "report hon. Members will find that in regard to Tyneside the Government have sanctioned 68 schemes of public work, for South Wales 65 schemes, for West Cumberland 18 schemes, and, with regard to the contracts made under agreement with the London Passenger Trans port Board and the railways under the recent Acts, contracts are to be given, all other things being equal, to firms in the Special Areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-02a.1138.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-03", "file": "debates1936-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3f8e9f0bf3e531a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The MINISTER of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "atements which have been made, and then my hon. and gallant Friend the Parliamentary Secretary will be at the disposal of the Committee for any points of detail that may be put later. Although I have not been without activity in the House during the last day or two, I thought it would be convenient if I dealt with the general speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Platting (Mr. Clynes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-03", "file": "debates1936-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3f8e9f0bf3e531a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "tricts there has been in many directions an unsatisfied demand for labour. In the former, while trade has on the whole been good, there have always been far larger numbers of men unemployed. The possibility of assisting men to move from the less prosperous to the more prosperous districts needs careful consideration. That is a very remarkable comment on the change that has taken place in 23 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1250.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-03", "file": "debates1936-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3f8e9f0bf3e531a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "It is quite impossible to guarantee a job. We train the man, and then put him into contact with the employer through the Employment Exchange. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), who is the father of the Employment Exchanges will appreciate this fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-03", "file": "debates1936-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3f8e9f0bf3e531a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WARD", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER,: \"Why not give grants to the local authorities?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WARD", "preceding_text": "tlemen above the Gangway that if they really want to obtain what help is available from the Government for the Special Areas, they might urge the local representatives on the local councils to support the North-Eastern Housing Association, and urge the local authorities to make early appeals for the grants in order that overcrowding on the North-East Coast may be dealt with as rapidly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1265.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-03", "file": "debates1936-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "3f8e9f0bf3e531a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON STEWART", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON STEWART", "preceding_text": "liar to our country, I suggest that it is right that we should examine that problem in some detail. In spite of the eloquent addresses from hon. Members opposite and on this side I am not sure that the Committee appreciates the special character of unemployment in Scotland. Broadly speaking it is true to say that acute distress arising from unemployment is in England confined to the Special Areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-03a.1289.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "No, Grimsby.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister bear in mind that Hull is the premier fishing port in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "PREVENTION OF ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SILVERMAN", "preceding_text": "I have had some experience of these matters. I thought that the legal definition \"driving while under the influence of drink\"—not drunkenness—was sufficient to cover the case that the hon. Member is describe- ing, in which a person's driving faculties are impaired by the drink which he has taken, although he is not legally drunk. I thought that the present law covered that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1433.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1437.3", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "PREVENTION OF ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. SALTER", "preceding_text": "s and warning notices to motorists put up on the main roads of this country, and on side roads, but apparently, under the law, it is possible to erect almost unlimited numbers of places where drinking facilities are provided. I think that the Minister ought also to put up notices, just before such premises are reached, warning motorists that these places are dangerous to them and to the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "PREVENTION OF ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. ACLAND", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. ACLAND", "preceding_text": "econded the Motion, spoke about advertising and publicity through posters, but actions talk louder than posters. The one thing which has been said in criticism of the Minister is, that he is always doing something new, and that every month there seems to be some line upon which he is working. Such criticism has the advantage that it keeps people talking, and the more they talk the more they think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1482.2", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "he job is getting too big for them and that the citizens are out of hand, and that unless they get the right to prevent their citizens from chalking the pavement the civic life of Perth will come tumbling to the ground. As a Member of the British House of Commons with some slight knowledge of the history of Scotland and of the city of Perth, I do not believe that Perth, which has wauchled through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUNTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUNTER", "preceding_text": "I am advised that the proper place to put that is in the bylaws, so that those who are opposed to this suggestion can have an opportunity of having the by-law so framed as to satisfy them, if that is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUNTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUNTER", "preceding_text": "ent by visitors to the city. In their desire to make it worthy of its reputation the corporation have practically constructed all streets in asphalt. The hon. Member for Bridgeton said they did this hundreds of years ago. He knows that that is incorrect because not so many years ago, within his lifetime as well as my own, the streets were cobbled and there were no pavements as we know them to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUNTER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUNTER", "preceding_text": "s in asphalt. The hon. Member for Bridgeton said they did this hundreds of years ago. He knows that that is incorrect because not so many years ago, within his lifetime as well as my own, the streets were cobbled and there were no pavements as we know them to-day. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members who live in Glasgow and have only a partial knowledge of Perth seem to know better than the corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1499.3", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "anced city, as well as being the ancient capital of Scotland, there may have been displays of this kind in the sky over the fair city. There is nothing in the Bill to prevent that kind of obstruction. I have not the slightest doubt that the whole force of this new power is to be applied in order to crib and cabin the work of those who are on the left wing in the political struggle in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1499.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-04", "file": "debates1936-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4098c6088372f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1513.2", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPEAKER", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member can only speak by leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-04a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-05", "file": "debates1936-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "6d806d8dcf9a3f1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-05a.1576.6", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "Surely the Prime Minister realises that it is essential that during the course of the Debate the House of Commons should be informed as to who this Minister will be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-05a.1576.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1735.3", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GLUCKSTEIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GLUCKSTEIN", "preceding_text": "ination. The question of whether it is necessary to discuss the relative advertising value or the amount spent on cocoa or beer is not for me to go into, but, no doubt, the noble Lady will have those figures. The point really is that hon. Members who oppose this Measure do not want to amend the licensing laws at all. They want to abolish the trade. They might as well be honest about it and say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1751.4", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " would be true, but those conditions are long past. It is said that those who are interested in this question want to take away the liberty of the British working-man to drink. What we want to do is to curb the iniquities of the vested interest in the drink trade. It is not that we are cranks and fanatics. Let us get back to the real issue. Hon. Members have spoken lightly of the Royal Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1754.2", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "than the Royal Commission or the licensing justices. That is the first thing. The second thing is that this Bill aims at eliminating bogus clubs, but its provisions for the registration of clubs are almost the same as in the Licensing Act of 1910, under which bogus clubs have sprung up, and that Act was unanimously rejected by the Royal Commission. So the Bill will not do anything for bogus clubs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1754.2", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ell, I see that it was not Sir Edgar Sanders, but the Royal Commission; but Sir Edgar Sanders himself spoke about shorter hours, and also about advertisements. He was very strong about advertisements and very strong about the clubs. After he joined the trade, he went to one of the brewers' dinners and said he was really alarmed at the decrease of drunkenness, particularly among the younger people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1755.1", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "the trade had got to get the young people of the country beer-minded if the drink trade was to go on with its profits. Now I ask this House of Commons, do they want to get the young people of this country beer-minded. Is there a single member of the House who wants his child, who has never taken anything to drink, to become beer-minded? Does the country want the young people to become beer-minded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1757.2", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And its taxation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "d if he and other hon. Members knew what was going on, if they knew the machinations of the, drink trade and the extremely clever way in which that trade gets up an agitation and makes others think that there is a feeling in the country when there is not, I am certain they would take a very sane view of this matter. Does the country realise what the trade is doing and how enormous its profits are?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1758.2", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALAN HERBERT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALAN HERBERT", "preceding_text": "What about milk? Is not that controlled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1758.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-06", "file": "debates1936-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0087952118b877bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1759.3", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "ilitate such improvement. This Bill is in two parts; it deals with hours and it deals with bogus clubs. On both these matters there may quite properly be criticism and argument. I am not at all wedded to the hours stated in the Bill, but I think that a. good point in the Bill, from the point of view of the licensed trade, is that. it would regulate and standardise the hours throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-06a.1759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "y be no collective security whatever in regard to the Navy. We are told that the Air Force is to be a deterrent to attack on \"the vital interests of this country.\" Why specifically the vital interests of this country? Is not the Air Force to play its part in collective security? Then we talk of our wide Imperial interests. Are our wide Imperial interests protected under collective security or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "world situation. We are prepared to work and support collective security. We have said that we are prepared to put up the defence forces necessary for that purpose. But you must go beyond that. You will never get peace by merely trying to keep things as they are. What we have seen in the last four and a-half years is a drift to war. We do not charge our own Government with being alone responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Litvinoff?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "ch. There is a League of Nations. In the Reichstag, it is Hitler, Goering and Goebbels, three of the greatest scoundrels the world has ever known; in France it is of the same type; and in Japan it is of the type which despatched men to their doom only a few weeks ago. In every country in the world it is the same type. It is the landlord and the capitalist interests which are congregated at Geneva—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "king-class thought in the slightest degree. He went to the Box and in the most namby-pamby Sunday school speech that I have ever heard, he treated this subject. I sympathise with the members of the Labour party owing to the difficulties in which they find themselves through the outside domination of the old trade union leaders, who themselves are pledged to the Government to carry out this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "It means landlords and capitalists who live by profit, interest and rent. I do not disagree with Conservatives and Liberals in this House who come down and co-operate with the National Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "edly two right hon. Gentlemen in this House, both supporters of the Government—I am excluding those like the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) who is not a supporter of the Government—who by knowledge, experience and position in this House and in the country are fitted to fill that office. I do not propose to pursue that point further except to observe this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "An HON. MEMBER", "cue_text": "How can the Government guarantee anything?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander FLETCHER", "preceding_text": "w much more do they want than is in the White Paper before they are prepared to guarantee our security? If they get the White Paper, are they prepared, for instance, to guarantee Canada in the event of an Anglo-American war? Are they prepared to guarantee Australia and New Zealand in the case of an Anglo- Japanese war? Would they be prepared to guarantee India in the event of an Anglo-Russian war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1920.0", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander FLETCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander FLETCHER", "preceding_text": "One last question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ember for Chelsea (Sir S. Hoare) quite truly said, every one in the House today is thinking, even if he is not speaking, of German rearmament, when we know that the question against whom are these weapons intended to be used is in fact a rhetorical question to which we all know the answer, it is surely pertinent to remember that it is the Government that has created the German Air Force of to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " occurred a full year before Hitler had clawed power with bloody fingers. There was a full year during which it was possible, with a democratic Germany, to do business and I need call no higher authority into the witness box than him whose words I have just quoted, because he was in charge of the air policy of the Government at that Conference. Germany then had no air force, none worth mentioning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " submit that they should already be evacuating London in view of the tenseness of the situation which has developed in the international world. They should already be taking steps and building factories and houses on the West Coast. They should, in view even of the degree of danger now existing, if they still take that defeatist attitude, be evacuating London and other great centres of population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-09", "file": "debates1936-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "0ea3340286a4557d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1928.1", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES (Mr. J. H. Thomas)", "preceding_text": "n to-day. That, in substance, was the answer which the Foreign Secretary gave to-day. That exactly is the intention, and that is what the Foreign Secretary on behalf of the Government intended to convey to the House and to the world as a whole. But how inconsistent with the latter part of his speech was his indictment for the first 20 minutes when he did nothing but put the Government in the dock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-09a.1928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1973.4", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "who never have liked the League of Nations, who never have believed in the League of Nations, who never have realised the possibility of the rule of law in the world, and who are still wandering in the jungle. Their morality is that of the jungle. It is unfortunate that we have witnessed the passing of a great Prime Minister. Politically the right hon. Gentleman is dead; spiritually he is damned —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1973.4", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ntleman is not here—as a flimsy and trumpery speech, he evaded the statements made by the Labour Opposition and by the Liberal Opposition. Instead of the cut and thrust of debate, to which you, Mr. Speaker, have referred, his policy was cut and run. He ran back to his childish amusement with the soapsuds, and, as usual, fell back, as he has done many times, on misrepresentation of Labour's policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1973.4", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "mme. They got back to power to repair the gaps in our national defences—gaps left by Toryminded governments, of whom there has been a majority since the end of the Great War; and they came back to give the people of this country and the world the White Paper. That is a category of crimes for which this Government will never be forgiven by right-minded people. We are faced now with the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1978.3", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " not want to go into the details of the dispute, but I do say that it is folly for the Government to embark on this enormous enterprise without having had full consultation with people who know something about the results that accrued from the great industrial revolution during the War. I am sure that the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) will approve of what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Under SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Under SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "uent, when Dominion Prime Ministers have been present. I insist upon this point because it has a direct bearing upon our present proposals. The essence of the arrangement is that this advisory and consultative body is an inter-Ministerial and inter-Departmental Council to advise the Prime Minister and the Cabinet on strategical and defence questions, and its composition may vary from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1986.1", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " compartments of duty—the duty of strategy and tactics, the duty of personnel and the duty of supply—so the Committee of Imperial Defence have, and is bound to have, a very considerable number of sub-committees dealing with this or the other subject, not from the point of view of a single service but from the point of view of defence as a whole. I will conclude this sketch of the present position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1993.3", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was he a politician?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": " if you could find him, to undertake this vast job in peace-time, if it was impossible for him to continue it should an emergency arise and we found ourselves at war. I do not think that anybody knows where this Admirable Crichton is to be found. The House may remember that the Admirable Crichton was not an admiral but a scholar, though perhaps I ought to add that he had served in the French Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.1993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr, LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " now? According to the figures in the White Paper, Russia has a peace army of 1,300,000. Herr Hitler says that there are 17,000,000 of trained men in the reserves there. With conscription that would be about the figure, and they have been working for years. Their transport is enormously improved. They have a great industrial system behind the lines, and they have the finest Air Force in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2066.1", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIS SMITH", "preceding_text": "profits for those who are called upon to meet them. They are confident that industry as a whole has no desire to exploit the situation…. I want to ask every Member in this House, irrespective of his political opinions, whether there is one person in this House who believes that statement? Is there one person in this House who believes that industry as a whole will not exploit the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No: Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "from their personal experiences, dealt with matters about which I have little knowledge, and that must be the case with a great number of hon. Members. The more I listened to the right hon. Member for Epping, the more I got the impression, which I am sure is an unjust impression, that he was anxious for something dramatic to happen in the world in order that we might try out his various doctrines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2075.2", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " organisation carefully worked out and strengthened as the time goes on. But that has not been done by this Government, and to that extent they have made no real contribution to collective security. Then, in our judgment, the Government—and perhaps this is even of more direct importance to the issue—did not play the game by the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. They did not genuinely seek success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-10", "file": "debates1936-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "067779e58d7b5a3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2075.2", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " and we have no confidence in the White Paper. It reveals the incompetence of the Government in diplomacy and military organisation. We see no signs that the Government are going to pursue a wise diplomacy or give a lead to the world on disarmament, or properly to organise the League of Nations and work out collective security. If we are to be convinced if it were possible for us to be convinced —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-10a.2075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2186.1", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ROLAND ROBINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ROLAND ROBINSON", "preceding_text": "ernment, as has been shown by their introduction of tariffs and trade agreements and by the statutory guidance that has been given to industry in such matters as electricity, agricultural marketing schemes, the Coal Mines Act, North Atlantic shipping, and indeed, more recently, in the regulation of the cotton and beet-sugar industries. It seems that \"The old order changeth, yielding place to new.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2191.1", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "s House. It may be that some people believed we were going to help industry by that Act, but anyone who knew what the economic results would be is not surprised at what has happened. I heard someone on this side, I think it was the Member for Ebbw Vale speak about the equalisation of rates. I hope that that policy will not creep round this House. Some people think the State is a sort of milch cow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2203.1", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said he was a communist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "d, if it appears possible that a closer examination would be profitable, I will invite the hon. Member to be so good as to favour me with further details of certain plans which he only sketched out. But the Government think that the terms of the Amendment moved by the hon. Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) more completely represent their views, and they will be able to support that Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": " of great interest, and not least the one to which he has just referred. I will see that the different Departments have the advantage of their attention being drawn to those points. Had time permitted, I should have liked to discuss the questions of transport and public utility services, the question of labour in industry, and the general question of the structure of industry as we know it to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2235.1", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": " done in the past, has the right to a return if it is put into industry, in the same way that labour has the right to a return. We have these two forces in industry, the investor and the worker. Only under prosperous conditions, where profits are being earned, can both these parties get a fair deal. I welcome the trade union movement in this country; everybody on this side of the House always has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2239.0", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfortunately?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": "I do not admit anything of the kind, because the coal, iron and steel, shipbuilding and cotton industries are depressed on account of world conditions over which we have no control. I live in a distressed area. My constituency is just outside it, unfortunately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2239.0", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russia !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": "told that the Socialist system would cure our troubles, but I have yet to learn what exactly is the Socialist panacea. What are their suggestions? Where has Socialism been tried out and where has it been successful? As far as I know the pure Socialism which hon. Members opposite have in their minds has only been tried in some of the small city states of ancient Greece, and there not for very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2240.0", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that, but I know also that the economic policy of those countries is not based on Socialism. As far as I know Socialism has never been tried out. It is ill defined and has not been tried out. The only places where it, is being tried are the totalitarian States — Germany —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2240.0", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not blame us for that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PEAT", "preceding_text": "but I know also that the economic policy of those countries is not based on Socialism. As far as I know Socialism has never been tried out. It is ill defined and has not been tried out. The only places where it, is being tried are the totalitarian States — Germany — [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—Italy and Russia, where there is the domination of a dictator either in person or by a. political caste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2246.1", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARKLEW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARKLEW", "preceding_text": "ociated with industrial conditions to-day. There are hon. Members on the other side who should be more familiar with history than I am because of the larger opportunities they have enjoyed, who will know that I speak the truth when I refer to that age when an agricultural labourer in 15 weeks' work could earn sufficient to provide himself, his wife and his family with all they needed for the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2260.1", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "I am glad to see our Communist is with us. What is the difference? The Communist is a gentleman who thinks that he can bring about Socialism by a bloody revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.1", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "In that sense we all own underground railways or railway companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.3", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " man or woman whom you appoint to do the job for you. If hon. Members will be kind enough to follow me in what I am saying, they will see that if you have public control in that sense all you have done has been to change one boss for another. You have pat in the place of the private manager a manager who is a servant of the State. You have exchanged King Log for King Stork. Are you any better off?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.3", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true of the manager of a multiple firm !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "he public with which you are dealing, you must not go outside your regulations or you will be false to your trust. What does that mean? It means that in the present system of private ownership, wherein a man can deal with his money, within limits, how he likes, an elasticity and a mercy are imparted to society which would disappear entirely if it were tied up in the swaddling bands of regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.3", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " have been tried. Not one of them has been free from blemishes, imperfections, injustices and wrong, but I venture to say that the system in this country, with all its faults, shows that we have achieved at this moment a state of society which, although it has many faults, still provides, so far as the great comforts of civilisation are concerned, freedom from force and fraud, freedom from hunger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2268.1", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "retful porcupine, could disturb. But any foreigner who might be here, and who might imagine, from the good-tempered chaff from one side of the House to the other, that there were no very grave issues underlying our discussion, would be much mistaken, because there is a vast cleavage of attitude between those on the opposite side of the House who think that what has been and is to-day must ever be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-11", "file": "debates1936-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d6023f0e9bf635ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2268.1", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " ago. To-day they are wondering to what extent it is going to succeed, whereas 10 years ago there was scarcely one hon. Member on that side who did not prophesy that within 10 years the whole system would have broken down. I admit that that system has not existed long enough to enable us to obtain a complete picture of what is taking place there. It is true that Socialism is a work of imagination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-11a.2268.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-17", "file": "debates1936-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d4f36cdd3e46a682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-17a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did Lord Londonderry do that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "atter of fact I think the fate of this Amendment is a comparatively minor matter, for whatever the result is it will not deflect any nation from the course they have laid out for themselves in the arrangements for their civil aviation services or their air defence. But we must look back and see that successive British Governments have done everything they can to persuade other countries to disarm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-17a.358.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-17", "file": "debates1936-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d4f36cdd3e46a682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-17a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": "capital is to be put up in the aircraft industry, but none of that is going into new plant; it is mostly reorganisation for the purposes of company finance, the promoters taking the cream off before the manufacturing takes place, leaving the managers employed direct on production, and the workpeople, to make the dividend. Hon. Members may ask: \"What has all this to do with what we are discussing?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-17a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-17", "file": "debates1936-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d4f36cdd3e46a682", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-17a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "preceding_text": "ngerous precedent. A force of 1,750 aircraft should be maintained for the defence of this country, and if the Under-Secretary is able to give the Committee any assurance on that point it will be appreciated in many quarters. In view of the lateness of the hour, I will keep my remarks exclusively to the Service point of view. There are three or four points which arise in connection with production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-17a.379.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-18", "file": "debates1936-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "d4a189b4f75bd4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "SHORTER HOURS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "erwards discussed. I would like to make two observations on that. Quite clearly there has been no uniformity as between country and country under such general terms as those, and moreover I think it is only fair to mention—I do not want to be fatuous—that of the 27 Governments who voted in favour of the Draft Convention, 18 have not ratified yet the Washington Hours Convention passed 16 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-18", "file": "debates1936-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "d4a189b4f75bd4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.483.3", "colnum": "483", "heading": "SHORTER HOURS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FU RNESS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FU RNESS", "preceding_text": "It is an attractive thing to certain governments to get rid of unemployment by covering it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-18", "file": "debates1936-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "d4a189b4f75bd4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.517.10", "colnum": "517", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "atters, and they assure me that nothing would be easier than for a single raiding aeroplane at night to follow this long line of water and attack an undefended factory at the end of it. If, therefore, strategic considerations be important, it would surely be far easier to defend a place in a distressed area. We are told by the promoters of this scheme that the matter is one of national importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.517.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-18", "file": "debates1936-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "d4a189b4f75bd4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.550.6", "colnum": "550", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The LORD ADVOCATE", "preceding_text": "earlier in my speech that this is a question on which I should expect the Committee to be satisfied and to insist upon the promoters submitting evidence, because this is the basis of the whole proposition. I repeat that the House, in giving this Bill an opportunity for fresh and dispassionate investigation, are committing themselves to nothing in the way of approval of the suggestions in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.550.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-18", "file": "debates1936-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "d4a189b4f75bd4b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.557.3", "colnum": "557", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGLAY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGLAY", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer that. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is very slow to give subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-18a.557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-19", "file": "debates1936-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "89e96bda2f2a2ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BROADCASTING (COMMITTEE'S REPORT).", "cue_speaker": "Major TRYON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same day\" \"In the six o'clock news\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "The British Broadcasting Corporation's comments appeared in the Press the next day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-19", "file": "debates1936-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "89e96bda2f2a2ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.745.4", "colnum": "745", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "preceding_text": "ller owners, that is those owning less than 30,000 tons of shipping engaged in tramp trades, of which the majority own only one or two ships, have received more than half of the subsidy in the aggregate, although they own a great deal less than half of the amount of tramp tonnage. During the passage of this Bill through the House no valid argument against the proposals contained in it has emerged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.745.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-19", "file": "debates1936-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "89e96bda2f2a2ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENJAMIN SMITH", "preceding_text": " out of the subsidy of £2,000,000, which is 26 per cent. of the total. I imagine that the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. and gallant Member for Barkston Ash are really saying \"Parliament is a good thing for a distressed area if shipowners have their being in a distressed area.\" If a small man in business fails, does he get a subsidy? If an unemployed worker loses his job, does he get a subsidy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-19", "file": "debates1936-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "89e96bda2f2a2ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "they will make a supplementary report on those matters. I submit that in a matter of such importance and technical quality, on which the lives of the men and the safety of the ships depend, changes in the steering gear, particularly in the older ships, should be made only with the advice of technicians behind us. We should not try experiments at the expense of those who go down to the sea in ships", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-19", "file": "debates1936-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "89e96bda2f2a2ab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has attempted that which is often attempted by an advocate with a hopeless case; he has tried to score a few cheap and shallow points at the expense of his opponent. One that he has demonstrated beyond the possibility of doubt is the complete and abyssmal failure of Capitalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-19a.765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-20", "file": "debates1936-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdfdee5c56df8ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is precisely the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. WARDLAW-MILNE", "preceding_text": "\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT ( Standing Committee B ), 1st May, 1934; col. 1196.] He further went on to point out that if the Bill were passed there would be a very real reason why a man should keep himself from negligence. The House will notice that the distinguished Member who moved the Bill two years ago did not do it entirely from the same point of view as that which has been put before us this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-20", "file": "debates1936-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdfdee5c56df8ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND LOCARNO TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And also in Eastern Europe?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "ould stress that in the conversations between the Locarno Powers which have taken place, the object of His Majesty's Government has been two-fold throughout. We have sought to meet the peril—it has been a very real peril—of an immediate and gravely critical international situation, and we have sought to create an opportunity for the settlement of Western Europe on a firm and enduring four dation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-20", "file": "debates1936-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdfdee5c56df8ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY AND LOCARNO TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": " Powers which have taken place, the object of His Majesty's Government has been two-fold throughout. We have sought to meet the peril—it has been a very real peril—of an immediate and gravely critical international situation, and we have sought to create an opportunity for the settlement of Western Europe on a firm and enduring four dation.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And also in Eastern Europe?\"]—In both.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-20", "file": "debates1936-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdfdee5c56df8ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INHERITANCE (FAMILY PROVISION) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE", "preceding_text": "We have had no satisfactory guarantees under this Bill. I will deal wish the question of sentiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-20a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-23", "file": "debates1936-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "88c37a2937a75e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not before?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. BRASS", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister consider limiting to 15 minutes the speeches made between 7 o'clock and half-past nine in the evening?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-23", "file": "debates1936-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "88c37a2937a75e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Rates of benefit in respect of agricultural contributions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not according to the Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "ere is nothing in favour of retaining 7s. for a wife who happens to live in the country and whose husband is occupied in agriculture, whereas there is 9s. for her sister who lives next door and is married to an industrial worker. I would like specially to ask the Minister whether, after the second appointed day, the public assistance committees will be allowed to supplement the allowances granted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-23", "file": "debates1936-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "88c37a2937a75e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.920.4", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Rates of benefit in respect of agricultural contributions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are these men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KELLY", "preceding_text": "less than 49s. 6d. a week. In saying that I am referring to the lowest-paid labour, because the key-men, to whom reference was made by one hon. Member, receive many shillings a week more than 49s. 6d. It has been said that the benefits must be made to accord with the wages. If that be so, then this limit of 30s. is altogether too low for the men for whom I am speaking at this moment. It is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.920.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-23", "file": "debates1936-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "88c37a2937a75e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Weekly rates of agricultural benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ERNEST SHEPPERSON", "preceding_text": "We who represent agricultural constituencies feel disposed to support this series of Amendments in the names of hon. Members opposite, to give increased benefits to the agricultural workers. We desire to see the agricultural workers with as good a standard of living as is possessed by the workers in town industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.981.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-23", "file": "debates1936-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "88c37a2937a75e20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Weekly rates of agricultural benefit.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "pictures on the hoardings telling them of the brilliance of the cities, because 14s. is wholly insufficient to keep them where they would serve the nation better. We are not putting up a case in any attempt to get political kudos. There is no kudos to be got in the difference between 14s. and 15s. I hope there is no one who pays much attention to the political side of a scheme of this description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-23a.987.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-24", "file": "debates1936-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "21342fc1c0e74381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-24a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "No, but it is really so significant of the attitude of the country. You continually see that kind of thing. I am not pleading for the Legislative Council to-day, and the hon. Lady is making a great mistake if she thinks I am. I am pleading that we are going on the wrong lines altogether, and I am trying to show that among the quite common people in Palestine there is great distrust.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-24a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-24", "file": "debates1936-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "21342fc1c0e74381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-24a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": " was absolutely impossible to do anything. The Jews merely had to suggest something to have it immediately turned down. It is only fair to say that in the last part of 1934 a municipal ordinance was issued and the representatives were changed to six Jews and six Arabs with an Arab chairman and since that time, although I would not say it has been a great success, they have put up some useful work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-24a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-24", "file": "debates1936-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "21342fc1c0e74381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-24a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "fly with the Parliamentary Secretary when he said that he hoped that Members of Parliament never approached the Import Duties Advisory Committee? Although we are Members of Parliament we do not cease to be citizens, and I have, on two or three occasions, not as a Member of Parliament, but as having some interest in a particular industry, interviewed members of the Import Duties Advisory Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-24a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the costs of the ordnance factories are much too high?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the interest of the general public is far greater than that of either of these sections, does not the right hon. Gentleman think he would be justified in requiring that a place such as the Albert Hall should not be made available for meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1231.4", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "that they should go to it, whether you or I agree with them or not. Equally, of course, the processions of those of another view are looked after with equal care and equal courtesy. I only know that the police—I hope the House thinks they were right—took the most skilful steps to secure that there should not be a collision between the two parties. As for the name of the officer, I will, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "MINISTERS' SALARIES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": " out, an ordinary Member of Parliament can, without any great ingenuity, manage to convince the Inland Revenue that the £400 which he receives all goes in expenses which are entailed by his being a Member of Parliament. If any hon. Member has not yet learned how to do that, I am sure there are many other hon. Members who will tell him. In other words, Members of Parliament do get £400 free of tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "MINISTERS' SALARIES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CAZALET", "preceding_text": "convince the Inland Revenue that the £400 which he receives all goes in expenses which are entailed by his being a Member of Parliament. If any hon. Member has not yet learned how to do that, I am sure there are many other hon. Members who will tell him. In other words, Members of Parliament do get £400 free of tax—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—Well, they are allowed in their tax returns to put their £400.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "MINISTERS' SALARIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Less Income Tax!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Members of the Government, who render greater service, may receive less, but viewed from my standard, with my perhaps limited knowledge, limited upbringing and limited outlook, I gasp at the rate at which they are remunerated. When people talk about £5,000 a year being inadequate it makes me gasp. A salary of £5,000 a year is a tremendous sum, a sum which in my wildest dreams I could not conceive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1334.3", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "WAR AND NATIONAL EMERGENCY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is usually incorrect in his facts. If he will recollect correctly, he will realise that we had gone off the Gold Standard before the Government for 1931 was elected to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "WAR AND NATIONAL EMERGENCY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "y, they come forward and they go back, and they are plainly confused, but they must not be allowed to confuse the House on this very plain issue. It is true that we are proposing something less than Socialism. That is plain to everybody who understands what Socialism means, and we do not mind being told that by the hon. Member for Huddersfield, because he was once, I believe, a very good Socialist", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1357.5", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "WAR AND NATIONAL EMERGENCY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the game that they will play?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "rocedure, using the best technical advice that we can, to assist us in the case of the other Services. But that is a mere suggestion. It is necessary for the Government to secure a willing industry to work with them. We do not take the view of human nature that hon. Members opposite take. We believe that industry will play the game with us, and when I say industry I mean all concerned in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1357.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1368.4", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "DISTURBANCES, KENSINGTON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRITT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRITT", "preceding_text": "hope I am not saying anything unduly controversial if I make this additional ground of appeal to the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary. I know that from the industrial districts in the North and in the South-West, and from London and many areas, and from many classes of people, there is growing up in this country a growing distrust, a growing fear, and a growing hatred of many police forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1368.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1368.4", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "DISTURBANCES, KENSINGTON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRITT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRITT", "preceding_text": "thing that seemed to excite hon. Members opposite was the desire of hon. Members on this side to know the name of a police officer against whom many allegations, whether true or false, have been made, as if hon. Members opposite feared that if his name were known, something dreadful would come out. It is a very tragic fact that the hatred of the police in this country is growing in many districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1368.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-25", "file": "debates1936-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0a47695177bf9400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "DISTURBANCES, KENSINGTON.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "here who appears even to have appreciated how different the facts were. The true facts were that Mr. Strachey, who seems to have been the principal spokesman, had received in good time a perfectly plain and courteous letter from the police authorities informing him that the Commissioner had given instructions that no meeting should be held that evening within a certain distance of the Albert Hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-25a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "those very words are drawn from an agreement between Belgium and France. I think we must distinguish, and clearly distinguish, between staff conversations for a specific and limited purpose now and those conversations in the years before 1914. Before 1914 we had no political commitments. Consequently the staff conversations inevitably entailed a political commitment, though they might be military.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1451.3", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "equently confronted with proposals which they had had no time to consider as members of the League Council. The impression created by these proceedings—the right hon. Gentleman has done his best to disabuse the public mind of that impression, and I am glad he has—is that the British Government were trying to manoeuvre this country away from a League of Nations policy into an Anglo-French alliance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1451.3", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " no time to consider as members of the League Council. The impression created by these proceedings—the right hon. Gentleman has done his best to disabuse the public mind of that impression, and I am glad he has—is that the British Government were trying to manoeuvre this country away from a League of Nations policy into an Anglo-French alliance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] That is the impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1453.2", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " which you could mobilise on your side. If we can get an area wider than the whole of Europe, so much the better, but at least we should take in all Europe, including those Slav nations, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as Soviet Russia, which are an integral part of the European community. In 1924 the Labour party stood for the Geneva Protocol, and by its principles we stand to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NICOLSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NICOLSON", "preceding_text": "abstain. Both sides thought we should be of help to them. Do not let us allow that to happen again. The hon. Member did not make clear that if there is a similar lack of clarity during this crisis, if we run away from Locarno and repudiate these staff conversations, and, if we just say, \"No, we go back to where we were before,\" if we back out of Locarno or give the impression that we are doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1468.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "sance of the fact that the French are taking an absolutely different view of the proposition, and it ought to be made clear in the course of the Debate what the position is. There are certain words in the White Paper which justify it. Their view is that if these negotiations fail at any stage then you concert measures, and these are measures which you undertake after discussion between the Staffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": " high office which he fills. I wish I could feel just the same about the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). I would invite the House to consider for a moment the relevance of his last observation to the case we have to consider. As far as I am aware, His Majesty's Government have never repudiated our obligations to the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Prague.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": " a simple and an alluring proposition, but that sort of thing does not happen and is not going to happen. If you were a member of the German General Staff, why should you choose to follow the hardest military road, when you have stretching out before you the most alluring road, which you have trod before with great success, which begins at Vienna, goes on to Belgrade, and finishes up at Bucharest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-26", "file": "debates1936-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "21e053f1912c4904", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "ill deal not only with political causes but economic causes. We look with eagerness to see what lead is to be given, in that direction. It is possible to lay a great deal too much stress on the question of colonies. That is only a prestige point put forward by Germany. You can lay too much stress on the difficulty of obtaining raw materials. The substantial point will be that of obtaining markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-26a.1531.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-27", "file": "debates1936-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1944980d624a840e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICINES AND SURGICAL APPLIANCES (ADVERTISEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLISTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\".", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLISTON", "preceding_text": "Bill would unjustly penalise unregistered practitioners of various forms of genuine natural healing and would virtually prohibit the employment of many well-tried methods for preventing disease and correcting functional disorders. In other words, it says that the unqualified practitioner is better fitted to deal with certain conditions than the man who has been trained for the medical profession.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-27", "file": "debates1936-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1944980d624a840e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICINES AND SURGICAL APPLIANCES (ADVERTISEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLISTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLISTON", "preceding_text": "dical school they leave behind there chemists, bio-chemists, biologists, physiologists, bacteriologists and pathologists carrying on ceaseless research to keep these men abreast of the latest progress in medicine and science. Is that nothing? My hon. Friend has quoted Voltaire's words about the physician being a person who pours drugs of which he knows little into bodies about which he knows less,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-27", "file": "debates1936-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1944980d624a840e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1582.2", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICINES AND SURGICAL APPLIANCES (ADVERTISEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "Is it not obvious that if they had been diagnosed they would have had to be notified?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-27", "file": "debates1936-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1944980d624a840e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1582.3", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICINES AND SURGICAL APPLIANCES (ADVERTISEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain ELLISTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what did they die?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain ELLISTON", "preceding_text": " me read a few extracts from these letters: \"I owe my life to this treatment.\" \"In time a cure is almost certain.\" \"Think of what it would mean to be deprived of that which you feel sure is saving your life.\" \"I cannot speak too highly of its health-restoring property.\" \"Deprived of this remedy it would seem like a death sentence.\" \"I attribute my life to this medicine.\" All those people are dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-27a.1582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": "nsiderations seem to transcend so much the rest of the Bill that I have felt bound to do what I consider is vital to the future of aviation, and to move the rejection. I ask the House to look on the Bill as in no way a party Measure. It is not put forward as a Conservative Bill or a National Government Bill. If the Labour party were in office to-day the same type of Bill would be before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1708.1", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel MOORE-BRABAZON", "preceding_text": " for a blank cheque for £1,500,000 a year until 1953? Looking at the military side of aviation, has the Air Ministry done so extraordinarily well? Has it ever produced good machines? It was not until this House forced it to produce aeroplanes that it did so at all. On the other hand, as regards civil aviation, is our civil aviation in the Empire anything to write home about? Is anyone proud of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "he machinery of production in the most practical and least injurious manner. If civil aviation were organised on the lines of the British Broadcasting Corporation, it would not be Socialism. If all the great industries were nationalised, it would not be Socialism, because the equality for which Socialism stands would not have emerged and the economic consequences of inequality would still persist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": "I do not know. I have no sort of connection with the company at all. I have no shareholding, and I am not on the board, but my hon. and gallant Friend saw all the machines himself, did he not? I did certainly, and they are being made now. I may be too enthusiastic over Imperial Airways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I was thinking that you would agree with this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1741.2", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No, you were not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I was thinking that you would agree with this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] If there was any offence in what I said, I withdraw. I was speaking generally of shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1748.0", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Who are \"we\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ALFRED BEIT", "preceding_text": "er the new scheme would only require 1½d. postage but a reply from Australia would require 6d. postage. This differentiation seems to he based on a mistaken idea in Australia of her national needs. We propose a flying boat service all the way to Brisbane. Australia still wants land planes from Singapore to Brisbane, though formerly, when the scheme was first mooted, she wanted flying boats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major NEVEN-SPENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Major NEVEN-SPENCE", "preceding_text": "London on a Wednesday will be delivered throughout most of the Shetlands on the following Monday. An air service is already in being in the north of Scotland, developed entirely by private enterprise, Highlands Airways, and it is running very successfully to the Orkney Islands and has given them the benefit of very much more rapid communications than they ever had before, and also of a daily mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE BOYCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE BOYCE", "preceding_text": "subsidy to air transport. I suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that the Government ought to give some consideration to that problem and endeavour to find an equitable solution of it, in the public interest. The granting of an increased subsidy to this particular form of transport will give rise to a problem, with which the Government must deal if they wish to do justice to all forms of transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE BOYCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LESLIE BOYCE", "preceding_text": " a problem, with which the Government must deal if they wish to do justice to all forms of transport. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am not advocating any one of them in particular to-night. I suggest as a solution of that problem that those transport agencies which are prejudicially affected as a result of the Measure should be given priority of claim to participation in the operation of these services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1770.1", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "he purpose of establishing an effective series of air services. The right hon. Gentleman will, I hope, bear in mind, first of all, the necessity that these agreements should be brought before the House from time to time so that the House may have in mind at all times the different services in respect of which agreements are negotiated. It is idle to say that any national service can fly by itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1770.1", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "has achieved substantial results. It is one thing to operate an air service between the frontiers of one country or even in Europe, but it is a very different thing indeed when services have to be operated, as Imperial Airways services are now functioning, over four Continents and something like 30 countries. Criticisms may be made—and most of them have been rather unfair towards Imperial Airways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\" and \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "preceding_text": "I only wanted to answer one question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, there is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. SASSOON", "preceding_text": "use, I would like to answer the question put to me, so that I shall not give an impression in any way of having shown discourtesy to hon. Members. In connection with Imperial Airways shares, I would like to say that the Government's deferred shareholding entitles them to half the profits earned over 10 per cent. In this way there is no possibility of excessive profits being made by private capital", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1776.5", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GARRO-JONES", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GARRO-JONES", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1778.5", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were all wrong!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": " are cries of \"Withdraw!\" Apparently his character is at stake. It is an offence to receive a subsidy. But, if you look round, there are Members whose friends are receiving subsidies. This Government can never develop aviation and the Bill can never develop it. It can only hinder it. An hon. Lady gave figure after figure to show that we are the one country that is dragging back in aviation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1778.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-30", "file": "debates1936-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "f15316b2763d50da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the Minister for Thought?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "uld have been at least two Ministers who should have addressed the House on a matter of such importance. Since the House of Commons reassembled last autumn it has not been treated by the Government with the respect which its historic position demands. It is no use the Prime Minister writing pleasant essays about democracy. This House has got to justify democracy if it is to live in Western Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-30a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1796.1", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKPATRICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKPATRICK", "preceding_text": "Are not many of these questions relating to Argentina untimely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1862.2", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "us ways. They will become liable to this taxation owing to causes for which they are not in the least responsible. Suppose that a Scottish manufacturer and a user of yarn desire to extend his factories. At the present time he is being supplied by his own spinning, but after the Bill comes into operation this manufacturer will be practically compelled to import yarn from the English spinning mills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BURKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BURKE", "preceding_text": "an of the cotton mills trust said only a few weeks ago \"If you could only add a farthing per pound to the price of yarn it would make the difference of £44,000 in our profits.\" It would be very easy to add a farthing on to the price of yarn. As a matter of fact, this levy of one penny and one-sixteenth will, as far as I can calculate it, add a considerable fraction of a penny to the price of yarn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1933.0", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Do you mean an extra penny?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RADFORD", "preceding_text": "ust to make any such suggestion. Some hon. Members who are present are associated with the trade and know more about it than I do, but I can quote figures which will satisfy those who are not in the trade that that trade is not so inefficient as some of its critics make out. If the Lancashire spinning industry could receive 1d. per mile for its yarn, it would be in a state of abounding prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1943.1", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "l leave private capitalism still supreme in Lancashire. Within their own area those capitalists will still compete for trade with one another. That is not the case in connection with London transport. But if this Bill is a violation of free trade and free competition in industry it is a remarkable circumstance in the political life of our country that the father of the Bill is a prominent Liberal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1943.1", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never mentions it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "at is not the case in connection with London transport. But if this Bill is a violation of free trade and free competition in industry it is a remarkable circumstance in the political life of our country that the father of the Bill is a prominent Liberal. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He was!\"] Well, the right hon. Gentleman, as far as I know, has never disclaimed the fact that he is still a Free Trader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I will bring the hon. Gentleman a little bit nearer to the truth. If he had £4,680 for 10 years, he would increase it by proper investment more than £5,000 in that time. I have the honour to be responsible for half a. million of money for my approved society, and I know how much I have to make by way of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON SPINNING INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "le for half a. million of money for my approved society, and I know how much I have to make by way of investment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] It is quite common for Liberals and Tories in this House to imagine that a Labour man knows nothing at all about finance, but I want to show that on occasion we understand as much about finance and handle more money than some of the Tories opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1945.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1963.1", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of LABOUR (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "terest in it, but long before that. The test of need is no new thing in this country. It has been and is applied by local local authorities up and down the country to all those applying for public assistance who are in need. With regard to the test of need on a national scale, let us see how it arose. There has been an attempt for a number of years on the part of those who have advocated a change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-03-31", "file": "debates1936-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5449d84a4393ac87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1965.1", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"While the people have been starving.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e been plainer, more definite, or clearer. In order to allay suspicion, the Government said that these arrangements would take place in the spring. It is now the spring, and I am happy to answer the hon. Member's question, as I have answered other hon. Members, and to say that the Government have been continuing their investigations absolutely on the lines of the pledges in the Election manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-03-31a.1965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.1993.5", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander LOCKER - LAMPSON", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman see that England does not take her marching orders from Germany under Herr Hitler?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.1993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2017.6", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "ers. This is really a serious problem. I am always interested when men emphasise the fact that their wives are purely dependent on them. I appeal to the Noble Lady the hon. Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) to say that surely to-day, or at any time I should imagine—I speak subject to correction by those who know more about it than I do—surely to-day a wife is an asset.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2017.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2017.6", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "mmons, when it had to face the same problem in its own ranks, did so with great commonsense and strength. When women were elected to this House, there was no question of their being paid anything but exactly the same as the men. I do not claim that women Members of Parliament do equal work with the men; they do a great deal more than the men. If the average woman here did not do a great deal more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2017.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2030.1", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss RATHBONE", "preceding_text": "ay in this country. The effort began in 1920 when the House passed its first Resolution on lines similar to the Amendment now proposed by the hon. Lady. Has any progress been made in those 16 years? Have those who have brought forward the Amendment very great hopes of its acceptance? I do not know what is in the mind of the Financial Secretary, but I should be rather surprised if he acceded to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " grades and classes it would amount only to £1,000,000. But we are not asking so much, because we know the Government will not do that at once. As other hon. Members have said, we wish to be reasonable and to get what we can. If the Government say they cannot afford it, they will make the House look ridiculous, and hon. Members will look ridiculous if they go into the Lobby against this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "rfect right to remain single if they want to remain single. As to the argument which has been advanced about dependants, one could give many instances of women in the Civil Service who have dependants. I have one friend whose whole family is dependent on her work. She is in the position, not only of doing equal work with men but of seeing men who are under her more highly paid than she is herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "ked to apply, is against the general proposition that is advanced. I make no point, because it would be ungracious to do so, of the fact that the hon. Lady's speech was devoted to a narrower issue than that comprehended in her Amendment. She has desired that we should consider more particularly that section of women employed in the Civil Service who are in what we know as the common entry classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " how the hon. Lady sees it in asking the House to accept it as a guiding principle. We do find, in fact, that employment for men and women is rewarded by higher pay to the men than to the women, and I suggest that the reason for that is to be found in our society, founded as it is upon the family, the family in turn founded upon marriage, and marriage in turn casting the greater burden on the man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2063.1", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are doing the same work as men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "—not all the women in the Civil Service, but only those who are lucky enough to find themselves in a common entry grade, that is to say 15 per cent. of the women employed in the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2063.1", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "ct they will see, as the hen. Member who so ably seconded this Amendment has pointed out, how shallow that view is. If we were to accede to this request and to raise the pay of this happy band of sisters, choosing them from all the other women employed in the Civil Service to receive this particular benefit, is it thought that we could resist, with any hope of success, the claims of their sisters?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2068.0", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "These are competitive examinations, and the result would be that you would have a greater chance that the top places would be filled by women than you have at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2069.0", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "What about sugar-beet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2070.1", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do get such cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "loyment in the condition in which they would be if they were employed outside in the comparable rank, in regard to wages and conditions. That is the principle which has been applied in this case. It is recognised in the Civil Service. An hon. Member drew attention to the fact that you might, in a very rare case, find a woman who is getting less money supervising a man who is getting more than she.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2083.5", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "der all the established precedents of this House, the work of the House should not go on as though nothing had occurred. It is simply taking away from this House its one important control over the executive. On the previous occasion to which I have already referred, the Government of the day under Mr. Bonar Law's Premiership was defeated in almost similar circumstance to those which obtain to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2083.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "scussing those other matters which hon. Members are anxious to raise. We should also have to postpone the passage of the building Votes for a month, and that would be a very un-businesslike method of procedure. I hope very much that after that explanation the House will proceed with the business in a quiet and dignified way and will not dissipate itself, just to go away for an evening's amusement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-01", "file": "debates1936-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "a09d7e1d72525ea7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": " he took up the position that the Government, in behaving as it was on the matter, believed it was voicing the opinion of the people in the country. He challenged the Division on the basis that this was a matter of major importance, and on a matter of major importance I submit to the Prime Minister that the only honourable thing the Government can do is to go to the country for a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-01a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I think that is a little exaggeration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2132.3", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "Does it really come into touch with the proposal that the Minister himself has made with regard to the difficulties of getting social centres in these large housing areas, in which the Territorial hall is generally one of the most useful centres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2137.2", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "With regard to the right hon. Gentleman's second question, of course that does not quite represent what happened. When the substantive Motion was put, that substantive Motion was defeated. I admit that there was a great deal of confusion in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2138.1", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "Again I think the right hon. Gentleman has not quite appreciated what happened. The House was not quite at its best in coming to the decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2145.2", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SANDYS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SANDYS", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I would like to draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the OFFICIAL REPORT of 1st April, in which it is quite clear, whether it was a mistake or not, that the hon. Lady, when she moved her Amendment, said: I beg to move, to leave out the word 'That,' to the end of the Question, and to add instead thereof,\"— the words following.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2146.5", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) has tried very hard to bring us up against what some of us feel is the actual case. As I understood the Prime Minister, he not only said that he was going to move to set up the Committee of Supply, but was also going to put a Motion on the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2146.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2207.1", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Power of Treasury to guarantee debentures of Corporation.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "d. It is undesirable for the combination to burden itself with too great a quantity of liquid cash. It requires some but not all of the liquid cash. That liquid cash would have to be taken over at some rate of interest. If it were taken over at a rate of interest comparable to what would be required to be paid in the open market, that rate of interest would be fully 5 per cent., and probably more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2214.6", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Power of Treasury to guarantee debentures of Corporation.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "on of the birth of the Corporation. I understand that there is a company which at the moment has fixed capital assets on which it is not able to earn money to pay its debt to the Treasury. Now the Treasury proposes to put that company, along with a number of other companies, in a Corporation and transfer the assets that it has and then, by giving a Treasury guarantee up to a maximum of 7 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2214.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2246.4", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 11.—(Conditions for Receipt of Assistance.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " from his own benches. While we have never ceased to object, and will not cease to object, to the extent to which the public has been exploited under a thoroughly bad scheme for 12 years in such a way that foreign investors have made large profits out of the exploitation of the British taxpayer, yet we feel that this narrow bar against foreign technicians is absurd from the British point of view.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2246.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2250.1", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 14.—(Calculation of effective rates of assist lace.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Surely the growers stand to gain by anything that makes for the increased efficiency of the industry. Moreover, very little attention has been paid to the growers by hon. Members opposite, who have voted for the rejection of the Bill and the complete extinction of the growers as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2251.1", "colnum": "2251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 14.—(Calculation of effective rates of assist lace.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "For hon. Members opposite to say that they show any interest whatsoever in the growers is to state something which is patently absurd. They desire that the extinction of the industry should be complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2251.3", "colnum": "2251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 14.—(Calculation of effective rates of assist lace.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "I have done so. Hon. Members appear to be going back on what they have just been saying. May I ask for a fair answer to a fair question? Are they now in favour of the beet sugar industry going on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-02", "file": "debates1936-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "a4f35e888a2a9012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2276.3", "colnum": "2276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 21.—(Provisions as to the making, approval, and revocation., of licensing schemes.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " a public inquiry into grievances of applicants for these licences. As my hon. Friend the Member for South East Ham has pointed out, the body to be set up will be one to grant licences. Let us not forget that this is not a licence to do this or that in the way of production or distribution in a Socialist community in which whatever is done is for the ultimate benefit of the whole of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-02a.2276.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2311.3", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALAN HERBERT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALAN HERBERT", "preceding_text": "e put right and amended in Committee. I submit that this is not one of those occasions, because this discrepancy goes to the very essential purpose of the Bill, and it is impossible to carry out that purpose without making such drastic alterations, both to the Title and to the object of the Bill, that the whole purpose of these rules would he defeated if it were amended in that way. One word more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2317.1", "colnum": "2317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J RUSSELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "olicitous that the poor man, the worker, or the idler should continue to have a flutter, and who think that the Bill will take away that flutter from him, I am sorry to say that I can make no such claim. A far greater measure than this would be necessary to that end. We may accomplish something, but much will still be left to be done. It may be said that the solution is along the lines of control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2329.1", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUSSELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUSSELL", "preceding_text": "I am trying to deal seriously with the matter. I come to my last point. First of all, who asked for this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2351.3", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "hool children, and it can be shown that all over the country school children, instead of buying \"humbugs,\" are joining the halfpenny pool, for which facilities are provided. I know that children do not matter to many hon. Members opposite, who think in terms of individual liberty. They would desire to employ children at six years of age, and have always fought in this House for the right to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2351.5", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "interruptioan", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "oved the Amendment as a giant of democratic government and freedom; the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Remer), who should have moved the rejection of the Bill, but, apparently, on second thoughts, decided not to do so, the hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Wise) and the hon. Member for—I am not sure which constituency he represents, although I know where he lives and I know what club he supports —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2351.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2354.1", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may do many things that I, as a simple Member of this House am unable to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2355.3", "colnum": "2355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "is because the Government lacked courage in 1934 that we are confronted with this problem to-day. They gave way to the interests behind the doors and now we are having to pay the price. I derive no joy or pleasure from standing here and preventing some of the best constituents there are in the country from having what they regard as a pleasant pastime and a pleasant investment in football pools. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2355.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2371.6", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have the support of one of my hon. Friends on this issue. Let me now say a word about the hon. and learned Member for Withington (Mr. Fleming).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2371.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-03", "file": "debates1936-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "4f2e9eaca43bf799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2387.2", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTING (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "accused hon. Members who are opposed to the Bill as being absolutely rigid individualists. We are not so rigid as he would suggest. He said that we were the sort of people who liked to put sand in sugar, and that sort of thing. If when he is in his more valiant mood he will introduce a little more reason into his rhetoric, we should be a little happier about the remarks that he occasionally makes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-03a.2387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2444.6", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "ages than are obtainable by any other class. I do not think that that feeling exists to-day to any serious extent. I only say that, if you make the margin so great, I believe that to get a feeling like that would not be a good thing for the country. There have been Debates in this House on the particular subject which formed the Amendment in question, and I think it was the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2496.5", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "g. I stand on definite Socialistic principles in this House and I do not have to go shilly-shallying and dodging about. I would prevent any company from selling oil in these conditions or any other conditions, and my hon. Friend may he perfectly certain that in any direction in which we could save the lives of Abyssinians, or Britishers, or Italians, we would always be ready to support any steps.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2496.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2498.1", "colnum": "2498", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "If that be the case the hon. Member should apply at once for the leadership of the party. If he is capable of making one common policy out of those five conflicting views, he is the one man who is wanted. I am sorry that I have detained the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2500.7", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Peace Ballot!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "hem unless you tell our people openly and frankly that with the imposition of sanctions the issue of peace and war passes out of our hands into the hands of the other party. In other words, you ought not to take our people—you have no right to take them—blindfold into a risk, concealing from them what that risk is. I was prepared in the Italo-Abyssinian conflict to take all those risks, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2500.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2525.3", "colnum": "2525", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "ith rioting in an area where, unfortunately, such conduct has been all too prevalent. If they are to be given a free run for their subversive opinions they must give some undertaking or show in some way that they are ready to give other people a free run for their non-subversive opinions, and I submit that there is no evidence of such toleration in those Welsh valleys. We have had case after case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2527.4", "colnum": "2527", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was not the charge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "here are such things as sedition, treason, high treason and—I really cannot give way any more, I have been interrupted several times already. As the hon. Member for Caerphilly says, agitation in this case meant Communist agitation, definitely subversive of the existing order in this country, and in this specific case it was agitation directed to encouraging physical violence against their fellows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2532.1", "colnum": "2532", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "ts of the case. Let me give the names of the 12 Members who twice voted against the Government. There was the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Armagh (Sir W. Allen). He has been here since 1922. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sparkbrook (Mr. Amery) has been here since 1911. The Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) has been here since 1919.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2537.1", "colnum": "2537", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "t I express my ordinary commonsense point of view that political opinions in the ordinary sense have nothing to do with it. I do not believe that there is a judge on the bench, or responsible administrator of the law, who would ever permit unchallenged statements made by either a policeman or anybody else simply to give a man a black mark by saying that he belonged to a particular political party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2537.1", "colnum": "2537", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Fascists\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "\"] I would suggest that hon. Members should have rather a better opinion than some of them seem to have of those who are trying honestly to administer justice. Policemen are entitled to a little sympathy, too, as well as those who are administering justice. I must in candour add that, if there be persons who take the view that the right way to secure what they want is to promote violent agitation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2548.1", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "de this House, invites us to find the pea under another thimble. The Foreign Secretary's intervention interesting though it was, needs further exploration but that is not the only issue before the House to-night. The Prime Minister came down here and asked for a Vote of Confidence in the Government and to quote the words of the late Lord Asquith he left the House in \"a state of inspissated gloom.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2548.1", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tripe?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "leman in support of his contention that the House should give the Government a Vote of Confidence, confined his statement to the question of equal pay for equal work. If I may say so, that case had been equally well put by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on Wednesday last. The Prime Minister has really discovered this question for the first time. He had been supplied with a brief of trite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2556.1", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the natives?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "mandates. No provision is made for the transfer of a mandated territory from the original mandatory Power to any other Power, and I believe it may be taken that, in order to effect such a transfer, there would at least be required the assent of the mandatory Power, the assent of the Power to whom the territory was to be transferred, and. finally, the assent of the Council of the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-06", "file": "debates1936-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "36ea7c8deac5c89c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2556.1", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "e first. The result was not the same as if the House had accepted the second question. As to the attitude of the Government, let me remind the House of one thing. The Government suffered a defeat on the first question. That defeat has been claimed by hon. Members opposite as the climax of a series of incidents which they say has thoroughly discredited the Government in the House and in the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-06a.2556.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-07", "file": "debates1936-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d52f9f855d5ae974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-07a.2682.1", "colnum": "2682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Amalgamation of companies manufacturing sugar from home-grown beet.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. QUIBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. QUIBELL", "preceding_text": "It did not seem to be very noticeable while I was upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-07a.2682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-07", "file": "debates1936-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d52f9f855d5ae974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-07a.2682.3", "colnum": "2682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Amalgamation of companies manufacturing sugar from home-grown beet.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. QUIBELL", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Labour party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. QUIBELL", "preceding_text": "ountryside and who shared all the fruits and blessings of small wages and very low standards of life are no longer content to put up with an economic or Free Trade system which makes slaves of those in the countryside in order to provide cheap food for our large town and urban populations, and thus maintain cheap labour. The Liberal party can claim what advantage they like from this sort of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-07a.2682.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2762.5", "colnum": "2762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander AGNEW", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the continuance of the international tin restriction scheme is absolutely vital to British producers of tin?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2762.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2812.1", "colnum": "2812", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "n was required except the bare facts as to what has happened in this country during the past six years. If there is any party which ought to know that, it is the party to which the hon. Member belongs. This problem is one of the most difficult that any party would have to meet in a time of difficulty, and if there were an established level of benefit it would be much harder to attack that benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2815.1", "colnum": "2815", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "uestion but to make a speech, and I will, therefore, proceed with my remarks. There is quite a considerable number of firms, in difficult industries, which have had hard times, employing large numbers of men, who will welcome, and indeed do welcome, this prospective reduction in July of a penny in the contributions. Now I come to the last point. The Treasury will benefit to the tune of £2,150,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2835.1", "colnum": "2835", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SPENS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SPENS", "preceding_text": "e first question that this House ought to ask itself when it is considering the recommendations of a committee in regard to dealing with this surplus: Where did the surplus come from, and to whom does it belong? Hon. Members opposite all seem to think that this is a fund of money which we in this House can vote shall be used as we think best for the future of unemployment and the insurance scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2878.1", "colnum": "2878", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "preceding_text": "d treat the unemployed as if they are a detached, independent part of the economic body. They are not. The unemployed population are a part of the problem of employment. In the Election which took place last November, my Socialist opponent never, to my knowledge, made one speech except on the unemployed, and it would appear that the millions of people who were in work were of no importance to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.3", "colnum": "2879", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "preceding_text": "n productive industry, and that there are three partners in productive industry, the State, the employer and the worker. I claim that the Government are taking a courageous and wise step in reducing the contribution rather than spreading the benefits, so that in the long run, and taking the long view, employment will be increased, wages will eventually be increased and the stigma will be lessened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.3", "colnum": "2879", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "preceding_text": "the risibility of hon. Gentlemen opposite. I am sure that you believe with us that the one thing that matters is to stimulate employment, and I take it that this is a constructive move towards that end. I unhesitatingly support the Government in taking this courageous step, which I think even those of you who always take the short view and who never believe that there is anything five years ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.5", "colnum": "2879", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Absurd!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "preceding_text": " am sorry. I will bring my remarks to an end with this one observation. While Mr. Speaker was in the Chair, there was some discussion about the cuts made in 1931. One of the hon. Members opposite spoke of them almost as though they were a loan and should be repaid later on. We are misled by hon. Members opposite, who perpetually treat the unemployed as though they were not part of the whole State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.5", "colnum": "2879", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\" and \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BAXTER", "preceding_text": "one observation. While Mr. Speaker was in the Chair, there was some discussion about the cuts made in 1931. One of the hon. Members opposite spoke of them almost as though they were a loan and should be repaid later on. We are misled by hon. Members opposite, who perpetually treat the unemployed as though they were not part of the whole State. [HON MEMBERS: \"Absurd!\"] I will end my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2879.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2883.0", "colnum": "2883", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": " say that at least there is a surplus, and, if these dreadful Labour people had been here, there would not have been one. Is the surplus anything to be pleased about? It is not a trading surplus. It is not a surplus such as you might have got through the operation, say, of the Post Office. It is a surplus that has been secured by niggardly administration. Mathematically you can secure any surplus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2883.2", "colnum": "2883", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to excite hon. Members opposite, but they make the most extraordinary statements, and one has really occasionally to put them right. I am aware that we are dealing with standard benefit, but throughout the administration of standard benefit there has been this attempt, whenever it has been possible, since 1931 to turn people off benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-08", "file": "debates1936-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "6376b1ce510e6ee7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2900.1", "colnum": "2900", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1985.", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a cheap point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the MINISTRY of LABOUR (Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead)", "preceding_text": "se we were bringing forward this proposal when the regulations of the Unemployment Assistance Board were probably shortly to come before the House. What is my right hon. Friend the Minister to do? He is taunted almost daily because of the delay in the Unemployment Assistance Regulations, yet, when he brings something forward, the burden of the complaint is that he is bringing it forward too early.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-08a.2900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-09", "file": "debates1936-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "726eaa831324dde8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.2997.1", "colnum": "2997", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ew of principle and of the application of the form of the actual Regulation. The next thing was to consider how in each particular item of the Regulations, either in itself or in its impact upon some other item in the Regulations, we could meet what fair-minded people would regard as genuine grievance and hardship. Those investigations are almost at an end and the House will not have long to wait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.2997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-09", "file": "debates1936-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "726eaa831324dde8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3002.6", "colnum": "3002", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "blem of the board and of the House is that, whereas some local authorities administer the money of the State, the transitional payments, with the same care with which they administer the money of their own ratepayers, there is another class of authority who do not do that, but are more lax. Hon. Members opposite would say that they are more generous with State money than they are with local money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3002.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-09", "file": "debates1936-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "726eaa831324dde8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3005.7", "colnum": "3005", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What commission? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "d the result would be disastrous to the potato market. Take the position to-day. The people who champion the Orders removing the duties—and I have spoken to a few of them lately—have said, \"You take your stand on supplies, but we cannot get potatoes, we cannot buy potatoes.\" I have telegrams here from all over Great Britain from people who are prepared to sell 85,000 tons of potatoes here and now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3005.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-09", "file": "debates1936-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "726eaa831324dde8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3005.7", "colnum": "3005", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The landlord.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "preceding_text": "ry. Only a few nights ago we set up another one in Scotland —the Raspberry Marketing Board. What are these people going to think when they see the treatment which is meted out to this Marketing Board, which has been the first to make a success of its job? Will they be encouraged to make a success of their own job, or will they follow the example of the miners and ca'canny? Who is going to benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3005.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-09", "file": "debates1936-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "726eaa831324dde8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3059.1", "colnum": "3059", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER).", "cue_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Viscount Cranborne)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Viscount Cranborne)", "preceding_text": "those circumstances it is quite impossible for me to explain to the House this afternoon what action has been taken, but I can say that my right hon. Friend at Geneva has pressed very strongly the policy he adumbrated in the House on Monday that there should be a short time limit for conciliation, and if no results were obtained it would be a question of calling together the Committee of Eighteen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-09a.3059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-21", "file": "debates1936-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "de6f1a812b109d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain F. E. GUEST", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain F. E. GUEST", "preceding_text": "years of the War in it trying to help in a small way to get it. The second reason is that I have acquired property in the territory. It is, therefore, obvious that my comments will be limited, although they will be very sincere. It is, however, not only my personal point of view that I put forward. I have a great many British friends who have invested a great deal of money in Tanganyika Territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-21", "file": "debates1936-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "de6f1a812b109d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "is propaganda of the great power and might of the British Empire, and I thought that it was the kind of propaganda that made us unpopular and presented us in a selfish light to the world. That is the wrong kind of propaganda. The time has come when the Government of this country should tell the world that these territories to which we have access should be equally free of access to everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-21", "file": "debates1936-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "de6f1a812b109d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRENFELL", "preceding_text": "oor now. Ottawa and other agreements have changed all that. We should say to these people that they are welcome to go to these territories on the same terms as ourselves, that they have equal right of access to raw materials as we have, that they are equally free to invest their surplus capital if they have any. We should say, \"You have the same right of marketing in these territories as we have.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-21", "file": "debates1936-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "de6f1a812b109d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "ted and we are certainly not in the habit of being defeated by Italy. The time has now come when we cannot shirk the issue any more. If civilisation is to be saved, a heroic effort must now be made, to use a colloquial term, to get a \"show down\" in the next few weeks. I realise that until the French elections are over it is not possible to take any definite action. We have to get over that period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-21", "file": "debates1936-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "de6f1a812b109d81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MANDER", "preceding_text": "hether it be a question of oil, or shipping or ports, or the prevention of Italian ships with poison gas and munitions and troops going through the Suez Canal—an action which, in my opinion, ought to have been taken six months ago. If it had been taken the whole trouble would now be over and Hitler would never have gone into the Rhineland. Some hon. Members will probably say, \"Sanctions mean war.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-21a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.157.6", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why unjust?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " of that which they brought in before the Coalition Government came into existence in 1931; and that takes no account of the various subsidies and other forms of impost on the consumer which do not find their way into the Exchequer itself. In addition to those various kinds of taxation, there has been the unjust special taxation which the right hon. Gentleman imposed on the co-operative societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "been the failure to stop or to bring to an immediate end the war between Italy and Abyssinia that has been in part at any rate responsible for the action of Hitler in tearing up the Treaty of Locarno. I think there is no doubt that if we could make it clear, once and for all, that aggression does not pay—that might mean a certain amount of difficulty, and we on these benches do not disguise that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " Hitler in tearing up the Treaty of Locarno. I think there is no doubt that if we could make it clear, once and for all, that aggression does not pay—that might mean a certain amount of difficulty, and we on these benches do not disguise that —[HON. MEMBERS: \"War!\"] Well, I do not think it is necessary to take stronger words to meet the case. It might represent a considerable amount of difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SI NCLA I R", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SI NCLA I R", "preceding_text": "s might have to be supplemented. For my part I devoutly hope that it will never be necessary to complete them. The Chancellor must know how much it will cost to complete them and I strongly urge that the Committee are entitled to that information, on a matter which is not one of policy or opinion but of arithmetical calculation. The Chancellor said \"Butter makes you fat but guns make you strong —\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "that were then imposed. He is practically alone in still bearing the additional burden put upon him in 1931. This means that in many cases the higher Income Tax payers will now be paying as much as 13s. in the £, and in the case of the very high rates, to which Lord Snowden referred when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, they are paying, if they make provision for Death Duties over 20s. in the£.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": " in a country which has doubled its wealth in the last 25 years there should be such a blemish that such a large section of the population is definitely short of the very basis of life—food. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been asked to temper the wind to the Income Tax payer. He has done so, but when he comes to deal with evasions I am afraid that he will have some unruly children behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Russia is in it \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "ccept the pre-supposition which is behind our foreign policy. I do not accept the League of Nations as an efficient instrument of peace. I believe the League of Nations is a league of bandits. I believe it is to-day, as it was described at its inception, by a great Russian revolutionist, a league of robbers. It is a league of capitalist governments representing capitalist or imperialist interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.227.7", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major HILLS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major HILLS", "preceding_text": " is overproduction, food destroyed, corn burnt and herrings thrown back into the sea; at the same time people are going hungry. There is cheap money, cheaper than ever in my lifetime, but nobody will use that cheap money to start new industries. I believe that, the solution of this situation will turn out to be extremely simple, and that future generations will say: \"How could they be so foolish?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.227.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ISIDORE SALMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not much money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ISIDORE SALMON", "preceding_text": "nvestment he has made will be backed up by the Treasury. Again, I would like to say a word in reference to the question of the money that is necessary in connection with maternal mortality. May I remind the last speaker that no one has taken a greater and keener interest in that subject than has the Chancellor of the Exchequer? When he was Minister of Health, he spent a great deal of time upon it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. SALMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. SALMON", "preceding_text": "Against aggression. If we are protected against aggression we shall be able to play our part in the world, and ensure security and peace much sooner and much surer by having a strong armed force. We have to get down to reality. We tried for years to get disarmament. We not only preached it, but we practised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-22", "file": "debates1936-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "8585d92f13a52aca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. SALMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. SALMON", "preceding_text": "f the world went on increasing armaments, and we reached a time when it became dangerous for this country. Any body of men occupying the Ministry to-day, of whatever party, would find is essential, having regard to the general affairs of Europe, to increase our armed forces. Hon. Gentlemen criticise the increase of our forces, but a few weeks ago they would have had this country entering into war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-22a.253.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-23", "file": "debates1936-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cad15ea32917148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " the Government with them. There is no scientific point in that. I do not understand at all those who suggest that in the present circumstances we should have as little of it as we can. There is no sense in that. Let us have whatever is the best interpretation of the new theories which are now established, and which are going to last all our lives—which are not going to be removed in our lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-23", "file": "debates1936-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cad15ea32917148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are knocking at the door all the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": " essential that they should be given as fair a chance as were the strict theories of bygone years. It seems to me that this system has been justified, and there is this admission that ought to be made. I gladly admit that the fears that we had in bygone years about corruption, lobbying and monopoly creeping in in the wake of a tariff have been unfounded, and that the apparatus of the Tariff Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-23", "file": "debates1936-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cad15ea32917148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "expendi- ture on residential buildings, has been as follows In 1933, nearly five milliards of marks; in 1934, nearly eight milliards of marks; and in 1935, nearly 11 milliards, a total of 24 milliards, or roughly £2,000,000,000. I am taking the rate of exchange at 12 marks to the pound, and I am thus making allowance for the fact that armament production is much cheaper in Germany than it is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.336.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-23", "file": "debates1936-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cad15ea32917148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "I believe the reduction last year was something like 500,000 tons as compared with the year before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-23", "file": "debates1936-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cad15ea32917148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ve the reduction last year was something like 500,000 tons as compared with the year before. [ Laughter .] I do not know why there is this triumphant laughter. I am giving the figure for which I understood the hon. Member asked. I do not carry the whole figures of the coal trade in my head. The second reason why the coal trade of South Wales has diminished is that it has lost the trade with Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-23", "file": "debates1936-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cad15ea32917148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ucted, so as to save us from the necessity of rebuilding our defences to-day. The only exception was the hon. Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence), who told us in one sentence what the foreign policy of the Government should have been. He said the right policy would have been for the Government to prove, at whatever expense, that it does not pay to be an aggressor. What does that mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-23", "file": "debates1936-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "cad15ea32917148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "ing, and the hon. Member emphasised it by saying, \"At whatever expense.\" I want to know whether that is the policy of the Labour party. Are they prepared to go to whatever expense may be necessary in order to prove to Signor Mussolini or to Herr Hitler, let us say, that war does not pay? Are they prepared to do that? [Hort. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"] If they are, they cannot criticise this Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-23a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-24", "file": "debates1936-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1dd650205038679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "preceding_text": "Only up to two o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-24", "file": "debates1936-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1dd650205038679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CLUSE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CLUSE", "preceding_text": "ous sensibilities and about religious justice and fair consideration for all religious opinions we must remember that there are two Sabbath clays in the week. If we consider the sensibilities of the Christian who does not like to see his Sabbath desecrated, what about the position of the Jew who does not like to see his Sabbath desecrated? I am not a Jew, but I stand for justice for all religions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-24", "file": "debates1936-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1dd650205038679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "preceding_text": "vies), who said that it is our job to specify to the London County Council what shops will be allowed to be open, I would point out one difficulty. Under Clause 5 Jewish confectioners are allowed to open their shops anywhere in Great Britain. If this Amendment were accepted, as I read it, it would prohibit an orthodox Jewish confectioner opening in certain market areas in London and anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.517.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-24", "file": "debates1936-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1dd650205038679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apart from exceptions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOFTUS", "preceding_text": "ers are allowed to open their shops anywhere in Great Britain. If this Amendment were accepted, as I read it, it would prohibit an orthodox Jewish confectioner opening in certain market areas in London and anywhere else. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round.\"] No, surely if this Amendment is accepted it will prohibit the opening of any confectionery shops in these particular market areas in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.517.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-24", "file": "debates1936-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "e1dd650205038679", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Member would, but I am referring to the promoters of the Bill as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-24a.520.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-27", "file": "debates1936-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8a3864dd224a18b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-27a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": " less than 1 per cent. On 12s., which is a medium priced tea in a very high class shop, it is 1.35 per cent. I ask the Chancellor to compare a tax of 64 per cent. on the millionaire's tea with 12½ per cent. on the tea of the old age pensioner. As a matter of fact, the millionaire has no need to pay the 2d., because I am informed that the 25s. tea will not be raised by the amount of the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-27a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-27", "file": "debates1936-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8a3864dd224a18b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-27a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is full of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss WILKINSON", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member is prejudiced entirely in favour of beer, because I would point out, again referring to the very excellent report recently published on the presence of vitamins in food, that tea is regarded as a useful source of vitamin. I do not know whether there are any vitamins in beer. I have not tried it, so I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-27a.593.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-04-28", "file": "debates1936-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bdeff4f89b8e7ee9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-28a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (ROAD FUND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of Order. May I point out that one of the reasons which I gave in my Budget speech for asking that this sum should be transferred to the Exchequer was that I was about to propose the change embodied in the second part of this Resolution? It is difficult to defend the first part of the Resolution without raising the question of the second part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-04-28a.776.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-04", "file": "debates1936-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5368a14b7b8a9b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady is very fond of the United States, no doubt, but we should place a great deal more value upon an understanding with them—an understanding which we would always welcome—if in the obtaining and maintenance of collective security they were really doing their part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-04", "file": "debates1936-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5368a14b7b8a9b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. ROSS", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. ROSS", "preceding_text": "Because the best position was at Alexandria—for the same reason that the Commander-in-Chief in the last War took the Fleet to Scapa Flow, and that was before the days of aircraft. The position is almost exactly analogous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-04", "file": "debates1936-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5368a14b7b8a9b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "need not try to attack this Government on the ground of any failure of policy. This Debate shows clearly that, if our defences are in a bad way, it is because this Government loyally backed up the League of Nations and kept their agreement under the Versailles Treaty. I am delighted with the Government. They have given a certain amount to the Royal Dockyards, and I wish they could have given more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-04", "file": "debates1936-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5368a14b7b8a9b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1436.2", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAN DER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAN DER", "preceding_text": "of it, in order to avoid the certainty of an absolutely first-rate attack which is bound to come to you in due course. The policy of the Government represented by the Vote we are considering to-night has placed this country and the Navy—it is no fault of the Navy, they were ready enough to do their work—in the most humiliating position which this country has occupied for centuries, I should think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-04", "file": "debates1936-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5368a14b7b8a9b6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. SUETER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A lame drake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. SUETER", "preceding_text": "0,000 tons of water in her, and also that one of the engine rooms was flooded. After I had written the letter to the \"Morning Post,\" two Admirals wrote letters objecting to my saying that the \"Marlborough\" was a lame duck. Just fancy a battleship with 10,000 tons of water in her and one of her engine-room compartments flooded not being a lame duck! I wonder what they would like to call her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-04a.1454.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1522.6", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. COCKS", "preceding_text": "Is the Government's policy still to support the policy of collective dishonour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1522.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "The Money Resolution we are discussing impinges very closely on the Duchy of Cornwall and there is a reference to change in the law relating to the hereditary revenues. The Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall are both part and parcel of the hereditary revenues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1601.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1602.2", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member who preceded me informed the Committee that he moved a reduction of the Vote by £1,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1602.6", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES \"We shall!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friends and I have a somewhat similar Amendment, I hope that if they do not proceed with their Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1602.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "e ground that it is luxury expenditure. I think everybody in the House would agree that, while the masses go without, such an extravagance can, in itself, have no justification. It is argued that the display of Court functions, and all that penumbra of imitative events that surround them, are necessary to show the pomp and circumstance of the Sovereign, and that, in any event, the people enjoy it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. and learned Gentleman two questions, the answers to which he, as a K. C., ought to know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1618.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1626.5", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "Of course, a man who makes a speech like that of the hon. Member for Springburn (Mr. Hardie) is idiotic enough to jeer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1626.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not know the King then!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "d at this and good at that, when everybody knows it is not the case. I understand that the Monarchy has, of recent years, improved out of all knowledge. I am told that in the old days the Liberals, led by Sir Charles Dilke, were republicans and at one time, round about 1910, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Derby (Mr. J. H. Thomas) voted in this House to have this salary reduced by £25,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-05", "file": "debates1936-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "cb56a654f4fc94ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — I. CONSOLIDATED FUND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trade union rate !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "Member for Keighley (Mr. Lees-Smith), who was Minister of Education in the Labour Government, also voted for it. He was a Liberal then but since he has gone from Liberalism to Socialism he has advanced from £25,000 to £109,000. The Labour party of those days composed almost exclusively of trade unionists—men like David Shackleton, George Barnes and Arch—every one of them voted for £25,000 in 1910.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-05a.1631.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1713.9", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "eaking on the subject of foreign affairs. I believe that there are few members of the Committee who do not feel personally humiliated by the events on which comment will be made to-day, and I do not think that the Foreign Secretary in his speech at Leamington on Saturday accurately reflected the feelings of the country. He said: We have nothing to reproach ourselves with, nothing to apologise for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1713.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1713.9", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "eemed for one brief and fleeting hour to have assumed the leadership of the peace cause at the League of Nations and then to have ignominiously surrendered it, and not only to have ignominiously surrendered it, but to have succeeded none the less in incurring for this country the bitter hatred of the Italian dictator, which in days to come, in certain contingencies, might cost us very dear indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1713.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1713.9", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " clear that the policy of the Government has created for the Committee of Imperial Defence some very hard, new problems which they will need to study very carefully indeed? My indictment, and the indictment of my hon. Friends behind me, against the Government is in these terms and along these lines: We charge the Government with having been responsible for the outbreak of the Italo-Abyssinian war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1713.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "the House my view as to the manner in which we should meet this situation. It is by frankly facing the facts. My chief complaint against the hon. Gentleman is that at no time did he make any attempt to do so. What is the first accusation, an accusation which was made also by the Leader of the Opposition when appealing to the electors of Peckham? The accusation is that we have let the League clown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "e Canal with the inevitable result of war.\" I tell him that there is then no foundation for his criticism. There was, in fact, no immediately effective sanction that could have been taken but that. If the hon. Gentleman answers \"Yes, he would have closed the Canal,\" how utterly illogical is the position of hon. Gentlemen opposite when they vote against all Estimates for the provision of armaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not give them a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "cept by League action. I ask hon. Gentlemen, fairly, and not with partisanship, to put to themselves this question: In view of the attitude of many Governments, the attitude revealed in their own \"Daily Herald,\" towards sanctions, do they really believe that a unanimous League Resolution could have been passed to close the Canal? I am absolutely convinced that there was never the least hope of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "Herald\" files and see. We did our utmost to keep the matter before the League, and in that we were not supported by other great Powers. I feel that I am justified in trying to show this Committee—and I could go on doing so in immense detail—that at every step our endeavour was to keep the matter within the League. It may be argued that it would have been much wiser not to bring the League into it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "icy of the Government would be at the meeting of the Council on Monday. I think the Committee will agree that in present conditions it is not unreasonable that I should ask, as I have asked heretofore, that some measure of confidence should be placed in the representative of the Government on this occasion. The action to be taken must be collective action, and we will play our part in that action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "these questions, but I think that the Committee, on reflection, will not really wish me to do so. I want these negotiations to have the best possible chance of success, and I would ask the hon. Gentleman to consider whether I should really be serving the interests of the negotiations if I were to state here the questions we are proposing to ask, before they have even reached the German Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1767.1", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN.", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Proud?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN.", "preceding_text": "row. No man who is not prepared to tell his countrymen that it is their duty to take part in such a war should play about in this way with the demand for sanctions. When once you put on sanctions, the issue of peace and war passes from your hands into those of the other party, and he would be a rash man to-day who would venture to predict that Italy, flushed with victory, proud of her achievement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1787.3", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": " not taken into the confidence of the Government. The Foreign Secretary asks us to drop partisanship and act as true citizens of the nation. We will willingly do that if the Government will only take us into their confidence and tell us what they intend to do. I think we are entitled to be told. We are led to believe that the Government have some settled policy to put before the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1787.3", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "ould do that, they could go to the League of Nations as the representatives of a united Parliament, to tell them what we intend to do. We all believe in the League of Nations; to my mind it is the only effective means of stopping war; but it does require that the leading nation of the world should give a lead to the League of Nations. It includes only three great Powers, Italy, France and Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "o be neighbourly with her in the days to come. It seems to me that two vital points should be made clear to Italy, that if we are prepared to endeavour to forgive, in spite of everything that has happened. in a neighbourly manner we must have an absolute assurance that Abyssinia is not to be used for the militarisation of the people, but that the country will be developed in trust for the natives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": " of taking care of itself against any possible aggression in that direction, and it will not be attempted. Now is the time to speak frankly. We have to recognise a fait accompli . Make it clear that you are prepared to be neighbourly, but that it must depend upon the spirit and temper in which Abyssinia is to be developed in the days to come and that the head waters of the. Nile will be preserved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "l postscript to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman was surely a declaration that behind that speech was the pledge that Great Britain would throw in the whole of the resources of her Army, Navy and Air Force against an aggressor. But what did we do We all went off to our constituencies—Members of every party—and told our constituents that in no circumstance would we support military sanctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Carry on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "d that the fiercest objection is raised by the party opposite to any proposals that the attractions of life in the Forces should be laid before the unemployed. The Dictators have kicked the League and found it, not granite, but paper, and for that the party opposite must bear a substantial share of responsibility. What is to happen now? I do not want to sound the note of party polemics to the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1816.1", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FOOT", "preceding_text": "hey regard a system of collective security as a sort of obstacle race in which certain obstacles and difficulties are put in the way of the aggressor; if he can get over them in a given time, he is given a prize amid the plaudits of the onlookers. The attitude which hon. Members have taken up today amounts to this, that they are proposing to reward Mussolini for the use of poison gas in Abyssinia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. AMERY", "preceding_text": "imminent storm in Europe. The result of that fatal error on his part was not slow in showing itself. At the very next intensification of sanctions Herr Hitler tore up the Locarno Treaty, to which he had pledged himself less than a year before, and marched into the Rhineland. May I remind the House that it was only the self-restraint of France that at that moment prevented a European conflagration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "If the Government, through the League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "If the Government, through the League of Nations—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] If the Government at the League of Nations had insisted publicly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1828.0", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEES-SMITH", "preceding_text": "Yes; I take note of what the right hon. Gentleman says. I assume that America would have cooperated with us. There is every reason to believe that, if we had acted in November, America would have co-operated with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-06", "file": "debates1936-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "981719c82dba3685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "give any leadership at all. It is admitted by the Italians themselves, by observers in all parts of the world, and by practically everybody except hon. Gentlemen opposite, and I think it is not a very pretty sight to see them blackening the face of their own country to make a party holiday. I understand it is suggested, that owing to the history of this dispute we ought to hang our heads in shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-06a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-05-07", "file": "debates1936-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ea0e22828601dc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.1875.7", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TANGANYIKA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "To whom were they advanced?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THOMAS", "preceding_text": "These sums were advanced under the mandate for the development of these particular territories, and the figures I have given indicate how faithfully we have discharged our duty to the territories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.1875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-07", "file": "debates1936-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ea0e22828601dc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.1952.1", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS RECONSTRUCTION (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HANNAH", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HANNAH", "preceding_text": "nt has carried out a great work if we compare the condition of our country now with what it was years ago when this Government first took office. From my own point of view, if I had to face my constituents at the present time I should go to them with far greater confidence than I did at the General Election. The National Government is strengthening throughout the length and breadth of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.1952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-07", "file": "debates1936-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ea0e22828601dc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.1969.3", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS RECONSTRUCTION (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Any Englishmen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "ries went northwards in order to get near to the source of their main raw material, which was coal. Exactly the same consideration applies to South Wales. When you see the assemblage of the unemployed in South Wales now you find among them Irishmen, Scotsmen and even in one place, I believe, in Merthyr, a very healthy and flourishing colony of 'Spaniards, who have been there for three generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.1969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-07", "file": "debates1936-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ea0e22828601dc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " and I must confess that the great difficulty is to get into the houses, because the Treasury is looked upon as a first-class landlord. Taking the Treasury as an employer of labour, my experience —and I do not think there is an hon. Member on this side of the House who would say I am incorrect in stating this—is that the ambition of every working man is to be employed by the Treasury or the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.2005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-07", "file": "debates1936-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ea0e22828601dc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "tuates. I confess that I do not share that view. The fluctuations in the revenue of these properties, if they occur, are likely to occur in connection with some general movement throughout the country, and to my mind it is rather an advantage than a disadvantage that the Sovereign should feel himself, in his own person, some of the effects which are present to the minds of so many of his subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-05-07", "file": "debates1936-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "ea0e22828601dc1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.2012.2", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "I submit that in this case something very irregular was done, and that it could not have been done if this Amendment had been carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-07a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-05-08", "file": "debates1936-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f5d252d44032820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2042.4", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS (PAYING PATIENTS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "No. Question put, \"That those words be there inserted in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. WILSON", "preceding_text": "arranged if necessary by the Charity Commissioners under the last two lines of the Clause. That being the case, I do not propose to press the Amendment, but I beg the House to realise that this Debate has served a useful purpose because it has made clear to the Charity Commissioners that there should be consultation in all cases with local authorities. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-08", "file": "debates1936-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f5d252d44032820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2061.1", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING LICENCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir GIFFORD FOX", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And your marriage licence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir GIFFORD FOX", "preceding_text": "g a motor car without having been licensed. As we proceed nowadays, we seem to have more and more licences to think about. This morning I was making a list. First, there is the wireless licence, then the dog licence, then the male servants' licence, the armorial bearings licence, the driving licence, the game licence, the firearm licence and, lastly, you have to get the licence for your motor car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-08", "file": "debates1936-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f5d252d44032820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2084.4", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING LICENCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"Agreed\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "preceding_text": "As was the case with the previous Bill which received its Third Reading this morning, the House passed the Second Reading without a discussion, and it might be as well if I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-08", "file": "debates1936-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f5d252d44032820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2091.5", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORR-EWING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORR-EWING", "preceding_text": "sary steps to educate that opinion. I submit that public opinion in that regard, and for the use to which the day of Sunday can be put, and the uses to which the day of Sunday cannot or should not be put, rests very largely upon the churches, the chapels and the pulpits which exist in this country. Very far from desiring to make Sunday the type of day in which I was brought up North of the Border—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2091.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-08", "file": "debates1936-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f5d252d44032820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2096.1", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sing it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "oughout the country Sunday is to-day recognised as a day for pleasure and enjoyment. It is impossible to estimate the actual amount of human misery—I speak from experience—which has been inflicted by means of the gloomy Sunday of the past. I do not know whether hon. Members read newspapers. They must have seen recently a story about a song written called \"Gloomy Sunday.\" I have never heard it sung", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-08", "file": "debates1936-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f5d252d44032820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2099.0", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ORR-EWING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ORR-EWING", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said that all the enjoyments of the poor would be removed if this Bill became law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-08", "file": "debates1936-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f5d252d44032820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2099.6", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (SUNDAY TRADING RESTRICTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Many are !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "uments of my hon. Friend on that score. I suppose that he is so much opposed to Sunday that he would like us all to work on that day and have our Sabbath on Tuesday. Possibly that would meet his agnostic point of view. The hon. baronet the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) said that the trams and omnibuses were running on Sunday. The factories, however, are not running on Sunday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-08a.2099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-11", "file": "debates1936-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ab00d520ba54a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-11a.52.5", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS RECONSTRUCTION (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BENSON", "preceding_text": "In Clause 4 the guarantee is definitely limited to 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-11a.52.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-11", "file": "debates1936-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ab00d520ba54a12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-11a.89.3", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS RECONSTRUCTION (AGREEMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Mabane) is wrong about the first point, because even if the Amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benson) did increase the administration expenses beyond £20,000 it would not increase the charge to the State, as the company would have to bear the rest of the expenses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-11a.89.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-18", "file": "debates1936-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "39168613cf37d224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw the Bill ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "preceding_text": "ropose two other Amendments in Committee. The first is to deal with the position of what are described, somewhat loosely, as ancillary undertakings. The Amendment that will be put forward will be designed to secure that coal mines now ancillary to undertakings which are not primarily engaged in, the production or treatment or sale of coal, cannot be included in any compulsory amalgamation schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-18", "file": "debates1936-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "39168613cf37d224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of TRADE (Mr. Runciman)", "preceding_text": "ory amalgamation schemes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw the Bill ! \"]—without the consent of the owner concerned. That is done in order that iron and steel companies which own their own collieries will not be required to come within the scheme. The other Amendment will be put forward for the purpose of meeting the criticism stated in the resolution passed by the Federation of British Industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.853.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-18", "file": "debates1936-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "39168613cf37d224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.862.4", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "points, and that certain Amendments might be necessary in Committee upstairs. I have followed that precedent closely to-day and when the Bill reaches the Committee stage, as I have no doubt it will, hon. Members will be able to discuss these points upstairs. I ask the House to give a Second Reading to the Bill which is one of the most difficult Measures we have had to deal with in this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.862.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-18", "file": "debates1936-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "39168613cf37d224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"He was !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": "That is not what the President of the Board of Trade said. The Prime Minister was not present in the House when his colleague spoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-18", "file": "debates1936-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "39168613cf37d224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MICHAEL BEAUMONT", "preceding_text": "on. Members who make them have had a long Parliamentary experience. I am still a comparatively young Member of this House, and I have never been conspicuous in support of anything which deprives the House of its rights in Debate, but when the right hon. Member for Hillsborough (Mr. A. V. Alexander) says they ought to have the Amendments on the Committee stage of the Bill before the Second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-18", "file": "debates1936-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "39168613cf37d224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel GRETTON", "preceding_text": "one which needs the support of all those interested in the coal industry—they are not likely to get that general support in the light of what has occurred this afternoon; far from it. I think there is a little more in the complaint of the Opposition than a mere party move. We are in a difficulty, and I regret that the Prime Minister has treated these objections so cavalierly, as he appeared to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-18", "file": "debates1936-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "39168613cf37d224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir HENRY CROFT", "preceding_text": "e had such an immediate wave of concern from producing and also from using industries throughout the country. I was prepared to go into the Lobby against the Government. I was prepared to argue three special points in the Bill. I was not aware there was to be a statement by the Minister, but I admit that on those three points the right hon. Gentleman has met the case which I was prepared to argue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-18a.879.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-19", "file": "debates1936-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "66bc3dd5a70009cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-19a.1102.3", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "AIR NAVIGATION [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A minimum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SOLICITOR-GENERAL", "preceding_text": "I agree; nor do Imperial Airways get £1,500,000. They are to have a share of the subsidy, and all that we know at the moment is that a figure of £600,000 has been given to the Committee by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-19a.1102.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-20", "file": "debates1936-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "8b4908a9d56efd77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-20a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " speech: We have always maintained from these benches that the policy of the defence of this country must be related to the collective action of the League of Nations as a whole.''—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd April, 1936; cols. 165–6, Vol. 311.] Quite clearly, the sanctions to which I referred must be the sanctions of the League as a whole. We have never advocated sanctions unilaterally imposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-20a.1317.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-21", "file": "debates1936-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9ff133e411aedfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He forgot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "Supply was exhaustively examined in 1920, and after a prolonged inquiry the decision was taken to do away with the Ministry of Munitions and to allow the work of supply to revert to the Service Departments. The right hon. Gentleman will remember it better because he was at the time Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air, and therefore assented to the destruction of the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-21", "file": "debates1936-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9ff133e411aedfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "The whole question is whether the circumstances have so changed since 1920, or whether the emergency which he contemplates, when a great expansion has to be made in a very brief space of time, has arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-21", "file": "debates1936-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9ff133e411aedfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": " possibility of Sir Maurice Hankey giving evidence was considered after he returned from Australia a long time ago, and even before the Members of the commission were actually appointed. May I suggest that there is no impropriety at all. It is a novel doctrine, surely, that when a Royal Commission is appointed to get to the truth of some question the man who knows most about it is to be prevented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-21", "file": "debates1936-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9ff133e411aedfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There were 11,000,000 people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "nce and of the manufacture of armaments, extending over 35 years, and such as nobody else has had, without from time to time giving an answer declaring perhaps more an expression of opinion than a statement of fact. Let me give an illustration. The right hon. Gentleman especially referred to the fact that Sir Maurice Hankey did not regard the opinions of the peace ballot upon a particular question", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-21", "file": "debates1936-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9ff133e411aedfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "point I am putting is that Sir Maurice Hankey had given evidence when one of the members of the commission put to him, out of the blue, some question as to whether he did not attach importance to the answer of 11,000,000 people on the question of the manufacture of armaments. Was Sir Maurice Hankey to say, \"Sir, I have come here to give evidence on statements of fact rather than express opinions\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-21", "file": "debates1936-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9ff133e411aedfb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1518.3", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "ur defence. Whether or not the armaments we are now asking the House to give us are great armaments may be a matter of opinion, but there is no doubt that there is no ground for any attack upon the Prime Minister's good faith in this matter. I feel that I am indebted to the whole Committee for the consideration they have given me, and I should like also to tender my thanks to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-21a.1518.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-25", "file": "debates1936-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c435b33e9b63faf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-25a.1683.3", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or behind it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "hope the Committee will not agree to such a long period of subsidy. I do not think any of the subsidy proposals which have hitherto been before Parliament have covered such a long time and I do not see why this subsidy should be treated on a different basis from others. It is understood that the service is likely to develop and that it ha s a future before it as a means of international transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-25a.1683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-25", "file": "debates1936-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c435b33e9b63faf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-25a.1695.5", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SIMMONDS", "preceding_text": "subsidised concern such as Imperial Airways to develop some national service, we should see that in due time, before one agreement runs out, we discussed the forthcoming agreement. That is what we have not done in this case. Thus I believe I are right in saying that the Government have largely had to take, in regard to the question of period, the terms that Imperial Airways were willing to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-25a.1695.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-25", "file": "debates1936-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c435b33e9b63faf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-25a.1756.1", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HARDIE", "preceding_text": "hat there is something to hide in this business. The body is already well known to the Minister. I am certain, having listened to every word of the Debate, that the Minister has within his knowledge the body, which is already in existence. He has within his knowledge the basis upon which this agreement is to be made. He knows that the agreement is already made. He knows the names of all the firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-25a.1756.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-26", "file": "debates1936-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "4dc01021aa54acf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-26a.1890.6", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARKHAM", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARKHAM", "preceding_text": " am honest and sincere in this matter, and my whole intention in fighting at the last. election on the side of the Government was to support the reforms which I believed the National Government had planned, and this was one of them. There was the definite statement that the school age was to be raised to 15. That was point No. 1. Point No. 2 was that there might be exemptions in exceptional cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-26a.1890.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-26", "file": "debates1936-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "4dc01021aa54acf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-26a.1898.5", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the effect of this Amendment, if passed, would be to enable a particular local authority to decide to grant no exemptions at all in its area.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-26a.1898.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-05-26", "file": "debates1936-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "4dc01021aa54acf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-26a.1957.1", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord E. PERCY", "preceding_text": "er 14 at school from working far more than 40 hours a week during the holidays. Moreover, there is nothing on the Statute Book preventing a child from working during the school holidays between 6 and 8 in the evening or before 8 o'clock in the morning. What would be the result of this? A child of 14 can start work at 6 o'clock in the morning and he can still be at work at 8 o'clock in the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-05-26a.1957.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-10", "file": "debates1936-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9adfb73091d6ccfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-10a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "I am very keen about this matter. I know it is difficult for the Government, having once made up their mind at the beginning of the discussion, to give way now, but I would put this point to them: I see the Minister of Education sitting on the Treasury Bench, and I know I have his sympathy here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-10a.232.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-17", "file": "debates1936-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f424618c19c75c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-17a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER,: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MUFF", "preceding_text": "pentine, good spirit, largely in those trades which have been so ably dealt with by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Ripon (Major Hills). We come to the Financial Secretary, and we ask him to remember his past. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Lady the Member for Jarrow (Miss Wilkinson) would suggest that the Financial Secretary to the Treasury has no past, and only women have a past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-17a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-17", "file": "debates1936-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "f424618c19c75c57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-17a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE GIBSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE GIBSON", "preceding_text": "ere to be drawbacks on exported goods in which linseed oil had been used, and that is a principle which has obtained ever since the Import Duties Advisory Committee was set up. A few weeks ago the Opposition were very vehement when the duty on leather imported into this country was increased. They protested because it was a raw material of an industry. Why do they not show support for this Clause?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-17a.1113.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1197.9", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "e our full share in any decision which the League of Nations in its Assembly at the end of this month may decide to take. We are not the League; we are a member of the League. We shall act fully and loyally in line with any action which the Assembly of 50 nations may decide upon. It would be, I suggest to the Committee, open to the Government to say that, and to say no more until we get to Geneva.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1197.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1197.9", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor of the Exchequer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "ggest to the Committee, open to the Government to say that, and to say no more until we get to Geneva. [ Interruption. ] It would be open. It would be the very collective action, in one aspect, of which hon. Members speak. It is impossible to have it both ways. You cannot both complain that we must take our full part in collective action and also complain that we do not state our views in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1197.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "e who at that time or now looked at its proceedings would maintain that our own Government did not do the utmost they could to bring about its success. Again, in September my right hon. Friend the First Lord of the Admiralty took the lead at Geneva in a speech which met with approval from all sections of opinion in this country; and in October, when it came to the actual organisation of sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Rome.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "overnment that it is its duty to take the lead again. No doubt it would be easy, quite easy for us not to do so, and to leave it to someone else and to follow after someone else's lead, but I do not believe that that is the right attitude for this country to take. I am quite convinced that so far from this lead, which we are going to take, embarrassing others, it will be welcomed in many quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": " could not operate at once, would produce their effect and assist thereby to obtain a settlement. In any event, I ask the Committee to remember that there was a very good reason for the League to enforce the sanctions, the particular ones they chose, because with an incomplete membership they were the only ones they could impose and which by their own action alone they could hope to see effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1198.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1200.5", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame,\" \"Resign,\" \"Sabotage \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "ion of which this question of sanctions forms only a part. We cannot tell what will be the views of the various Governments represented there, but His Majesty's Government, after mature consideration, on advice which I as Foreign Secretary thought it my duty to give them, have come to the conclusion that there is no longer any utility in continuing these measures as a means of pressure upon Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1200.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1200.5", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "umbling of the sanctions front, so that in a few weeks' time the League would be confronted with a state of affairs still more derogatory than that which we have to face to-day. If further maintenance of sanctions would serve no useful purpose there is a danger that to attempt them would only bring disorder into what are at present the well-ordered ranks of the League countries imposing sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1200.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1200.5", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "their decision. But I must repeat that the decision which is to be taken is a League decision, and the Government will, of course, concur in whatever is the view of the Assembly as a whole. None the less we have thought it our duty in advance to state our position before we go there. There is another aspect of the events of the last few months to which I wish the Committee would allow me to refer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1200.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " financial sanctions that may be considered effective for the settlement of the dispute. That was in April. A great change has taken place since. There has been another event of some significance. Within a few short months the right hon. Gentleman's predecessor was back in high office—was back in the councils of the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty. His absence this afternoon has been noted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": " of nations who were sworn to stand by her. No Government in this country, bad as some have been in the past, ever humiliated itself or the people it represented more shamefully and more completely than this Government has done to-day by the proposal to dispense with the one effective weapon in the hands of the League of Nations, the one effective weapon by which the rule of law can be vindicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"What powers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "miting but for enlarging the powers of the League in the light of the unfortunate experiences of recent months. Surely all people who have given thought to this question stand for a League of Nations, not crippled, not emasculated, not dominated and terrified by dictatorships, but a League given powers which would enable it to set its face relentlessly against aggression from wherever it may come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1218.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1219.4", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How? By war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "his question flippantly, I know. I will repeat the point and perhaps hon. Members opposite will understand it. There must be no place for this trembling, vacillating, cowardly Government, which is leading people backward instead of forward, and we must have a Government that sincerely believes in the possibility of an effective League of Nations, that is prepared to put that principle to the test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1219.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "e. That is anarchy, and there will be international anarchy the moment it is known and recognised. It is no use saying, as the Foreign Secretary did, that he is going to reconstitute and reform the League. There is not the slightest use. The League is sufficiently loose in its constitution to adapt itself to every contingency. That was the object of it. It is not an elaborate written constitution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Germany!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "debating society, Ministers flying over there delivering great speeches, and coming back feeling that the thing is done. We have had that for years over disarmament. You must have some sort of authority there and the nations must stand by it. Which of the nations have refused to stand by it? Which of the nations have failed to stand by sanctions? I put that question to the Prime Minister. Not one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "reat speeches, and coming back feeling that the thing is done. We have had that for years over disarmament. You must have some sort of authority there and the nations must stand by it. Which of the nations have refused to stand by it? Which of the nations have failed to stand by sanctions? I put that question to the Prime Minister. Not one—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Germany!\"] Germany is not in the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "little nation. Why? \"The danger of war\" said the right hon. Gentleman. The danger of war is less than when we entered into these sanctions. I know the kind of thing that was then being said: that our Navy was unprepared, that it had insufficient ammunition, that it was ill-equipped under this patriotic Government. It was broadly said that this great Navy of Britain could not face the Italian Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "is correspondent—and I think the \"Times\" had a similar communication. It said: The position of the French Government on sanctions may be defined as follows: The Cabinet and M. Blum, the Prime Minister, have informed the British Foreign Office\"— Is that so?— more than once that France would be ready to back Britain in every step she was prepared to take to enforce the League Covenant. Is that true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "That in substance—I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether I am misinterpreting his answer—is what the \"Daily Telegraph\" said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Certainly. That they are prepared to back Britain in the action which it is taking. That is what I understand. They have not gone back upon that. Then this statement stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ar in Europe. All I say is that the dangers are less now than when you undertook sanctions. I am trying to find out your reasons for changing your mind. Austria? Well, Austria is always with us, always full of trouble. But there is one thing the people of this country have made up their minds definitely about. Whatever Government is in power they will never go to war again for an Austrian quarrel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abyssinia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "ging your mind. Austria? Well, Austria is always with us, always full of trouble. But there is one thing the people of this country have made up their minds definitely about. Whatever Government is in power they will never go to war again for an Austrian quarrel. [ Interruption. ] I am just telling you what my conviction is about the feeling of the country, and there is not one of you can deny it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " Foreign Secretary? He said, \"They will take time.\" He gave that answer to me. Oil sanctions would have been immediate, but economic sanctions, he said, would probably take time. We have not given them time. The foreign trade of Italy has dwindled to more than half. Why do you say sanctions have failed? You say: \"Addis Ababa has been reached. Abyssinia is conquered. What is the good of going on? \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "he capital. We captured it, and being fairly wise people in those days we went back. Addis Ababa is not even traditionally the centre of Abyssinia. It is not, even now, the nerve centre of Abyssinia. It was one of the difficulties experienced by the Emperor when he organised the forces of the country. It is a tribal organisation, exceedingly loose. Let us not forget our experience in the Boer War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I again ask: If those who are organising guerilla warfare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "I again ask: If those who are organising guerilla warfare—[ Interruption, ]—this is really a very practical question and it is bound to arise—in two-thirds of Abyssinia, are able to buy arms and to get them to the frontier, are the British Government going to impose an embargo on their passage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": " His one great objection to a Labour Government was that it was not stable. Among the many gifts that my right hon. Friend has inherited in this life, a sense of humour is certainly not one. A few months ago there was not a speech delivered by a National candidate or Member, and certainly not by a Minister, which did not include the old phrase, \"The prestige of this country has never been higher.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So they do now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LLOYD GEORGE", "preceding_text": "Fifty nations trusted us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "ause I want the Committee to be realistic, when it talks about collective security, and to know what it means. That is the security which we should desire and the security which we believe, and always have believed, we should aim at. Our experience of these last months has conclusively proved to me and to the Government that collective security in anything approaching that form does not yet exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To the frontier on the Rhine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": " there is such a loathing of war as such not from fear, but from a knowledge of what it may mean, that I sometimes wonder if they would march on any other occasion than if they believed their own frontiers were in danger. I do not know the answer to that question, but I often ask myself that question, and I wonder, and when you begin to wonder on these points your wonderings may travel a long way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "I said in the light of my experience. I wish to say a word or two about the totalitarian States in Europe, because I regard it as of the first importance in Europe that Germany, France and ourselves should work for peace throughout all Europe side by side, as the Foreign Secretary said earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "orld. It is not surprising that neither the Prime Minister nor the Foreign Secretary has one word to say of the dupes slaughtered because they trusted his word. You had a Bing and his people. Your Government refused them arms. You left them to fight the battle of the League. You left them to be conquered by the aggressor, and when they were beaten and ran away you have not a word of pity for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is not that the Parliamentary method of moving a reduction?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "remind the Noble Lord of the fact that when the Naval Estimates, the Supplementary Naval Estimates and the Air Estimates have been before the House we have not voted against the Government. We have moved Amendments, as we are entitled to do, to reduce the Votes by £100 or £500, to call attention to certain things in the policy of the Government, but we have not voted against the Estimates as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "e of us must experience at the present situation. We do not want to make party capital out of a situation like this. It is too terribly serious. There has been no more terrible disgrace to this country since the defeat at Yorktown, under George III and Lord North, when we lost the American Colonies. I only wish that it was not true that we have Lord Norths sitting to-day on the Government benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRICE", "preceding_text": "ibly serious. There has been no more terrible disgrace to this country since the defeat at Yorktown, under George III and Lord North, when we lost the American Colonies. I only wish that it was not true that we have Lord Norths sitting to-day on the Government benches. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but I would remind them that it was Charles James Fox and his associates in Opposition then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1247.4", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir WILLIAM DAVISON", "preceding_text": "s year. I do not care whether we get the money or not. If we get it, we shall have a victory;\"— that is to say, a victory of the London County Council over Parliament— If we do not, we shall have a first-class grievance that will be of the greatest political value. Some of us were twitted last year that we were dragging in politics. I have always taken the line that this is not a political matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1247.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "preceding_text": "to come to the House, particularly as this is a new Parliament and to ask the House to remove the existing grievance. That is all the London County Council is doing. I would put briefly to hon. Members a wider aspect of the question. It will be agreed, I think, that at the present time none of us should do anything which might conceivably undermine public confidence in our democratic institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. TASKER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. TASKER", "preceding_text": "time in this House—because I have read every debate on Waterloo Bridge—that the County Council were not guilty of folly in taking the action they have taken, but did only what men of my own political faith and creed should have done years and years ago. The only time I was howled down in the County Council was when I was telling members of my own party that they ought to pull down Waterloo Bridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "ry interesting remarks upon the genesis and progress of the bridge, and good advice as to what we should do to-day. It is very amusing, and it will be interesting, to see the right hon. Gentleman, as Chairman of the county council, defying himself as Member of Parliament, and urging himself to flout the authority of Parliament and to give him what he wants as chairman of the London County Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "The decision in that case was made in entirely different circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ould get—not the advice of a lot of people who only think they know, but of people whose business it is to know. I hope that hon. Members opposite who have come down for the purpose of bilking the London County Council once more will reconsider it from the point of view put by the hon. Member for North Lambeth and not at all met by the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Penryn and Falmouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. STRAUSS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. STRAUSS", "preceding_text": " itself and in its miraculous combination with Somerset House it was one of the architectural glories of this city. But that architectural glory has been destroyed, and as one who was not in the House at the time in question, I can only recall with a certain regret that, to the best of my recollection, nobody in any quarter put up much of a fight for the bridge as an architectural thing of beauty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " the bench opposite a moment ago the representatives of Carnarvon, Edinburgh, Leeds, Sheffield and other great centres of popu- lation? Were they attracted here to-night merely by the eloquence of the right hon. Gentleman? Neither he nor I believe that. They were here because the party opposite has been very active in saying, \"We must have a good show to-night.\" Do not bring in that sort of stuff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-18", "file": "debates1936-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "c9a6333421b0f636", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "s when others do it? Do not let us be humbugs in that way. People send out a Whip when there is a debate on, and put in whatever words they think will draw support. I have not done the kind of thing of which the right hon. Gentleman complains. I have never sent out a Whip in which I have prejudiced an issue which was not an issue between Conservatism and Socialism by making reference to Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-18a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-19", "file": "debates1936-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "83bfe6118fef63c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "ws out of Germany and out of Poland, where the pogroms are ruling just now? An hon. Member said that the Jews in Germany were suffering unspeakable cruelties, and that although they fought for Germany they were not being allowed to live there. Hon. Members talking about the Jews to-day are the very Members who are prepared to support the gangsters in Germany who are carrying on their bloody work.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-19", "file": "debates1936-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "83bfe6118fef63c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And prosperity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "There is a worse massacre than that going on in Palestine now. But hon. Members opposite do not seem to be very much concerned about it. I hear them talk of the blessings that have been brought to Palestine. All these things have been brought about because of the coming of capitalism under certain conditions into Palestine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-19", "file": "debates1936-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "83bfe6118fef63c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Communists!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "ave been fooled by those politicians who are under the leadership of the Zionist movement and who are the agents for British Imperialism against the Arab masses. Many Arab leaders have been arrested. t has been stated that the leaders are wealthy capitalists. I challenge the Minister to give us the name of any wealthy capitalist among the leaders. They include doctors, teachers and various others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-19", "file": "debates1936-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "83bfe6118fef63c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " grumble. They are glad to do it. It is work typical of the finest of British colonisers in the history of our Empire. You cannot sneer at this kind of thing. Why should these men be the victims of constant murderous assaults by Arabs, poor people I know, but Arab poor people, as is the case with most poor people who commit assassination and assault, egged on by rich people, exploiting the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-19", "file": "debates1936-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "83bfe6118fef63c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": "le in self-government—and I am all for it—why start at the wrong end? The capacity of this country for self-government was built up first of all not upon Parliamentary, but upon local government. Why do you not extend local government in Palestine? Why do you not develop it? The Tel Aviv Municipal Corporation is in the position that its estimates have to be approved by the Government in Jerusalem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-19a.1388.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-22", "file": "debates1936-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "38cd8e6dc2fb6c70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEETINGS, FINSBURY PARK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MONTAGUE", "preceding_text": "May I submit that, in view of the answer to my last question, I am entitled again to say that I make no reflection upon the conduct of the police? But it is the fact that the band at the meeting was protected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1428.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-22", "file": "debates1936-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "38cd8e6dc2fb6c70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1437.10", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to reduce the Vote by £100. Perhaps I ought to explain that, as this is the Vote upon which the Unemployment allowances are paid, the last thing we on this side of the Committee would desire to do, would be to vote against this Estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1437.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-22", "file": "debates1936-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "38cd8e6dc2fb6c70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1453.1", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Transitional payments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT ASKE", "preceding_text": " a significant fact. Appendix 8 shows what that amounts to in actual payments per annum, and one finds that in the last recorded period before the Regulations the number of applicants was 720,000, and there was a total payment at the rate of £41,000,000 per annum. At the end of December after the Regulations, payments were being made at the rate of £1,000,000 more per annum for 690,000 applicants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-22", "file": "debates1936-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "38cd8e6dc2fb6c70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss HORSBRUGH", "preceding_text": "cuss this subject simply in connection with unemployment allowances or some scheme to deal with poverty. We ought to be discussing it in connection with schemes of education. Just as I think that in a great many cases applicants for assistance do not realise how that assistance can be obtained, so I think that all have far too little knowledge of what is the best food to give the most nourishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-22", "file": "debates1936-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "38cd8e6dc2fb6c70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE BOARD.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "preceding_text": "lfare of the present and the future generation. There are a great many books and articles written by thinking people on the very serious fall in the birth rate and the serious effect that it is going to have. The abolition of this distinction will be a very practical way of starting to do something to encourage the birth rate. I have made no bones about it. I stand for a test of some form of need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1476.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-22", "file": "debates1936-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "38cd8e6dc2fb6c70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "he slightest responsibility to the people, and we cannot control them here. What do hon. Members opposite suggest they should do? Vote every four or five years? I am not going to use exaggerated language, but I hope that if the Regulations which are brought in worsen the condition of people in my district they will behave in such a manner that you will require to send a regular army to keep order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-22", "file": "debates1936-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "38cd8e6dc2fb6c70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GUY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would have been out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GUY", "preceding_text": "ainst the Board. I wish to deal with some points in the speech of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale as showing the nature of the arguments used by him. He admitted that he was not going to deal with the merits of the Report, and although he referred to the speech of my right hon. Friend the Minister, he made no attempt whatever to reply to the questions which the Minister put to hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-22a.1539.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1605.12", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "e between two loyalties. He seems to have said, \"What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his old school tie?\" We draw an indictment against the whole of the Government, not upon one item of their policy but upon the whole field, the tortuous vacillating policy which they have pursued for the last five years, and which has brought this country from the proud position of 1931—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1605.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "inning of his speech, that of whether the situation in which the League of Nations finds itself is one of great distress and concern to every sincere supporter of the League. Those two questions are not necessarily connected and we had better do our best to look at them separately. Let me begin by saying what I very deeply feel, and what we all feel, that the League has had a most serious setback.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1615.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With Mussolini?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "every sanction which could be agreed upon and which was calculated to be effective—such as could be made reasonably effective by the League members without the assistance of nonmembers of the League—and this Government, as far as it had responsibility, constantly said, both at this Box and at Geneva, that for our part we were prepared to put on such other economic measures as could be agreed upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was murdered by the Italians\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "d be lost. It is no argument to say that we should go on because no British lives have yet been lost. In fact, in the Birthday Honours to-day you will see the Albert Medal in gold, which is the civilian equivalent of the Victoria Cross, was awarded after his death to Dr. Melly for his gallant services in rescuing refugees in Addis Ababa. The House must be gratified that that is in the List to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"War.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "hich the Government has stated quite clearly what its own view is as to the correct policy to pursue. It has not said: \"Leave us to go to Geneva and argue it out.\" We have said at this Box what we think should be done. In these circumstances am I not justified in saying that it is perfectly legitimate to inquire, and I hope we may learn before the end of the Debate, what is the alternative course?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "e worse case seem the better; but I venture to think, having regard to the importance of this occasion, having regard to the fact that the House of Commons has been waiting to hear a declaration of policy on behalf of the Government, having regard to the fact that all the people of the country have been waiting to hear it and will be gathering round their wireless sets by their firesides to-night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "ve got once more to a crisis which can only be solved, or they think it can only be solved, by war. I am certain that if that issue had been put to the country fairly and squarely last October, no party would have received anything like a majority vote on behalf of war or preparation for war. Every single party in the State did its level best to persuade the electors that there was no fear of war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NICOLSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NICOLSON", "preceding_text": " pledged himself definitely to devote his whole energies to restoring to the League the plenitude of its powers. It is on the basis of that statement that I shall vote against the Motion to-day. If that statement had not been made, I should feel grave hesitation in voting for the Government, but we have that assurance and we know it is a definite assurance which means something. What does it mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1668.3", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "t, which, presumably, it is still the desire of the Government to establish, is being dropped and the hon. Gentleman defends to-day the withdrawal of sanctions with the same eloquence and skill as he defended their application. His hon. Friend behind him, the Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Emrys-Evans), speaks, I understand, in something of a representative capacity for back bench Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1671.3", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The greatest army in the world!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "It may be, but it is a force for peace, and everybody knows it, and Great Britain banks on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la BERE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la BERE", "preceding_text": " so far as the Government are concerned, has given of his best. I do not want anyone to think I am subscribing in any way to a Vote of Censure on the Government. I am a supporter of the Government, and I believe that, under the conditions and difficulties which they have had to face, they have not only acquitted themselves well, but have done remarkably well. They have taken courage in both hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you follow his example?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "I must congratulate the hon. Member on condensing into a very short period of time a very interesting point of view. He has perhaps given some of us a lead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir STAFFORD CRIPPS", "preceding_text": "ervatism. Hon. Members will find it very interesting to take the list of Ministers in 1931 and see what has happened to them in the development of national government. The Lord President of the Council, of course, and people of that type are naturally regarded as nonentities throughout the country to-day, and shortly the Prime Minister will join them in the lumber-room of Conservative politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "nd frightfulness, and yet those who would not lift a finger, would not lift a stretcher, would not even carry the wounded in order to save Belgium, have the effrontery to come to this House to-day and put down a Motion of Censure and say that by our cowardice we have betrayed Abyssinia. I propose to quote one of those gentlemen, these ex-conscientious objectors, not for the sake of personal abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1699.0", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BERNAYS", "preceding_text": "ent of Africa or of Abyssinia but the enslavement of western European civilisation under the iron heel of militarist oppression. What did my hon. Friend do at that time? I will give an extract from \"Who's Who.\" No doubt he contributed, as we all do, dossiers to \"Who's Who.\" Opposed Great War; became conscientious objector; imprisoned; deprived of post as teacher; refused re-instatement as teacher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "ent themselves to get out of that mess, and it is the duty of the Opposition to criticise the Government for putting themselves into that position. That is the object of the Vote of Censure. It is not for us to say what we will do when we take office. If hon. Members would like to know what we would have done if we had been in office 12 months ago, I can very soon tell them. We would have avoided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about armaments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "eep on saying, \"War, war, what about war? Are you in favour of war?\" I can only speak for myself, but for what it is worth I can state my own position. I believe that anyone who supports the collective peace system, as set out in the Covenant of the League of Nations, has to be prepared to face all the consequences naturally flowing from the enforcement of the Covenant against an aggressor nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": " We who support the Covenant of the League say that we are prepared to face all the consequences flowing from the enforcement of the Covenant on a basis of mutual aid. It does not mean that the British Navy or the British Army has to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the rest of civilisation. Nothing of the kind. After all, a nation cannot do more than give an assurance, and I do not believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": " against every vote for the Navy. They vote aganst every aeroplane for the Air Force. They vote against every proposal in the House of Commons for the production of an extra shell for the Navy. The Home Secretary this afternoon made a statement a little more skilful, savoured a little more with legal cunning, but substantially equivalent. I stand at this Box to say that that statement is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "h and for other dates when Estimates have been before us, and having taken the trouble to fortify my memory as to the facts, I say with complete confidence that there is no justification whatever for the Prime Minister's statement that my hon. Friends have voted against every vote for the Navy, every aeroplane for the Air Force, and every proposal for the production of an extra shell for the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "ussolini, through the mouthpiece of Signor Grandi, who is now the Italian Ambassador in England, with whom from time to time the right hon. Gentleman meets in order to arrange comfortable accommodation about the future status of the African territories. It was Signor Mussolini who first proposed that all the nations at Geneva should agree to abolish by international agreement all bombing aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Run away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "give a straightforward and clear answer to questions put to me by the Government spokesman, and I venture to say that if the spokesman of the Government would answer as directly the questions which we have put to them, we should have more light upon the future course of British foreign policy; and that, after all, is the principal topic of Debate to-night. What are the Government going to do next?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Can we help that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "f war and the importance of eradicating them, and I wholly share his view on that, and so do all my hon. Friends. We would all be with him on that point. But I am speaking of a different aspect of things in which, before you can come together in any such conference or consultation, as my right hon. Friend properly demands, you have to deal with a Germany which is arming, arming, arming day by day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DALTON", "preceding_text": "d you were frightened of Signor Mussolini. You will be more frightened of Herr Hitler. You will find just the same excuse for selling oil to Hitler when he has localised war in East Europe as you found for selling oil to Mussolini when he localised war in Abyssinia. Is that where the Chancellor is leading us? I have made my undertaking with the Prime Minister and I will sit down within one minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-23", "file": "debates1936-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "7700c3384ce0560a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "I will do my best to answer all the questions that have been put to me. Most of them are questions which ought to be answered in this House, and deserve the most serious consideration. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman who has just spoken considers that the latter part of his speech will make our task any easier with Herr Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-23a.1718.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-24", "file": "debates1936-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4fae473710a946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "d to consume it. There is another side to this question, but I should be out of order if I pursued it. There would be a great more coal consumed if people had the wages with which to buy it. If you leave people in a position where they are unemployed and so on, and at the same time you raise the price of coal, there will be less coal used. Honestly, I would prefer nationalisation to these schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-24", "file": "debates1936-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4fae473710a946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JENKINS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JENKINS", "preceding_text": "ance of what has been happening during recent years, but what has that meant? It has meant the creation in this country of what we now call the Special Areas, which are the product of this policy which has allowed the coal trade to drift. I have said before in this House that we have had difficulties with the coal-owners. I think that generally speaking they are the most stubborn of all employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-24", "file": "debates1936-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4fae473710a946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1848.4", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridiculous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " any price we like.\" There it is, quite bluntly. It is quite respectable to do what the Chicago gangster does because it is being done inside the law. It is a strange, new doctrine. I am not saying that the coal miners are adequately paid. They very often live in a district where agricultural workers also live, and in general the average wage of the miner is double that of the agricultural worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1848.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-24", "file": "debates1936-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4fae473710a946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1848.4", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": " vary. The number of shifts worked altogether was 49,000,000, and they might have worked another 3,500,000. I am taking the case of the man who happens to have worked a full week's work and, basing his earnings on that, his wage would be about £3 a week. The bulk of agricultural workers earn about 30s. The average coal worker is, therefore, paid twice what the average agricultural worker receives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1848.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-24", "file": "debates1936-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4fae473710a946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1851.8", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are too low.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "ain number of coal miners get stood off in the summer time. Taking these figures and making any fair comparison, I am not far out in my statement. The people who buy coal would include a large number whose earnings are less than the average earnings of the coal miner. I think, of course, that the coal miners' wages are too low, but it is true that a large number of the customers of coal earn less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1851.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-24", "file": "debates1936-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "5a4fae473710a946", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another leakage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": " agencies, this supposed amalgamation, is desirable? Does he not think that the coalowners would have been better advised not only to have followed the example set by Lancashire but to have bettered it? I was rather amazed to find to-night that the Durham scheme has been quoted here by a Member on the Government side. That has created some alarm in some parts of the House, including these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-24a.1886.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.115.3", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ATTLEE", "preceding_text": "retary of State for War in making, in a foreign country, immediately prior to the assembly of the League, a public pronouncement which conflicts with the declared foreign policy of His Majesty's Government and the treaty obligations by which this country is bound. This afternoon, questions were addressed by the hon. Member for Shoreditch (Mr. Thurtle) and other hon. Members, to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ech of the Secretary of State was a statement of policy, but is it a statement of new policy? Does it not lie within the broad ambit of the policy which the Government have declared? The procedure that my right hon. Friend adopted seems to me to have been most scrupulously correct. He actually sent his speech beforehand to the Foreign Secretary, very rightly, and the Foreign Secretary examined it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "cretary examined it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Certainly, in the first instance. All we have been told is that it did not come in its final form. The two Secretaries of State, very important Ministers, who enjoy a high measure of respect, consulted together over the speech, and modifications were made in it by the Secretary of State for War at the request of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.124.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "ned to conflict with the policy of the Government. I ask the House to note two phrases. I have already mentioned two points in which the speech does conflict with the policy of the Government. The right hon. Gentleman said that it was an urgent necessity, a question of life and death, to the two nations to get together. To what was he referring? Of course he was referring to the menace of Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend forgive me? I am really trying to state the facts. I repeat exactly what I said at Question Time—I can say no more—that in its final form the speech did not come under the personal notice of the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Have you read it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "policy of the Government on foreign affairs, because we do not know what the Government's foreign policy exactly is. We are doing our best to guess at it. In so far as we can do so, we must make comparisons between the Government's foreign policy, as revealed in statements in this House and by the statements of the Foreign Secretary in the country, and the speech of the Secretary of State for War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "ment must have known, when the accounts of the speech were published in the Press, and comments were made upon it, that there would be a dispute in this House about the speech. If they had wanted the Opposition to be acquainted with the whole speech, why did the Government not take the precaution of sending to my right hon. Friend a full copy of the speech and say: \"You will probably be tempted—.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "untry. The Government have not done so, and the obvious reason is that there is nothing substantially wrong with the reports which have appeared. I venture to take the House through the reports, not in a Liberal or Labour newspaper, but in a highly respectable Conservative newspaper, which is daily in touch with the Conservative Central office and takes its politics usually from that organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "er from the speech he has now made. He said: My right hon. Friend was addressing a society which exists for the purpose of promoting friendly relations between France and Great Britain, and his remarks were, of course, not a declaration of policy. The right hon. Gentleman now says that the speech was not only submitted to the Foreign Office, but was seen as a first draft by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "at was not done. It is true according to the Home Secretary that the Foreign Secretary did see it, but it is also true that, after its first submission, the final draft, including modifications that were made, was not approved by the Foreign Secretary, but was apparently approved by the officials at the Foreign Office. That may be the Government's way of conducting foreign affairs; it is not ours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-29", "file": "debates1936-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "116d613dd454c86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "cated? It is not illegitimate; it is a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. So in the first place there are statements made, confirmed later on, in which he says that in 1914 we did not fight for justice, we did not fight for principles; we fought for solid, British self-interest. That confirms the point that, if France is in a war, we have to be in it irrespective of the merits of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-29a.152.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-30", "file": "debates1936-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac708b94172a1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-30a.246.4", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. DAVISON", "preceding_text": "an's death involved a heavy fall in the value of the shares, because he had held a great number of them. The executors had to pay Estate Duty on the value on the day of his death, before the fall occurred. It would be only fair to take insurances at the surrender value on the day of the death. I have shown that the new Clause should be accepted not only on grounds of equity, which I hope is clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-30a.246.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-06-30", "file": "debates1936-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ac708b94172a1392", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-30a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Social services!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "s anxious to make the poorest of the poor pay more. But enough of this fooling talk about indirect taxation. Hon. Members may laugh about the arguments which I am using. Your taxation is towering up; it is rising, and you cannot stop it. You have pursued this process of indirect taxation year in and year out. It means that you are eating into the income of every working-class home in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-06-30a.297.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-07", "file": "debates1936-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "e6d46d5726e866e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-07a.1089.5", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MIDWIVES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RHYS DAVIES", "preceding_text": "d a provision in this Clause which goes beyond that. It invites the formation of new voluntary organisations to undertake the work that has to be performed under this Bill when it has passed into law. We have been taunted on this side of the House that we are opposed to voluntary organisations. I suppose that there is no body of men in this land who have done more voluntary work than we have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-07a.1089.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-08", "file": "debates1936-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "86ec0ebb3ff874dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1294.3", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Major DORMAN-SMITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I will send the hon. Member something.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major DORMAN-SMITH", "preceding_text": " matter than that. It is not an old subject. I do not think that any of us thought in terms of nutrition or malnutrition until the scientists focused our attention upon them. I have looked through pamphlets and policies of hon. Gentlemen opposite, and I can find, no more than I can find in our own, anything about it. That may be blameworthy. I do not know whether hon. Members can show me anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-08", "file": "debates1936-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "86ec0ebb3ff874dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MARCUS SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about fish?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MARCUS SAMUEL", "preceding_text": " which calls upon the National Government to settle a world-wide problem. Whence comes that \"plenty\" which is so glibly spoken of? It is not produced within the confines of this country. Time after time when the Opposition refer to the burnt wheat, coffee and other corn-modifies, they are dealing with matters which are going on in other parts of the world over which the Government have no control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1301.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-08", "file": "debates1936-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "86ec0ebb3ff874dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "ple of the country. Side by side with that standstill policy, there was a spate of tariffs, levies, restrictions, and schemes of one kind and another, for which the mass of the consumers in this country have to pay, either by doing without things or by paying more for them. The policy of the Minister of Agriculture has been one of prosperity for the farmer and paucity of supplies for the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1324.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-08", "file": "debates1936-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "86ec0ebb3ff874dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is only half the people!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "e relieving officer can be charged before the law courts of this country if he is not giving benefits where they are needed. Nobody suggests that there are not diets of the people of this country which are deficient. Deficiencies exist, but they are being reduced. There are 22,500,000 people in this country in receipt of the optimum diet, a figure never reached before in any period of any society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-08a.1332.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-09", "file": "debates1936-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "57fb2bd75a0ad9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-09a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de ROTHSCHILD", "preceding_text": "t out that our own Colonial policy may well have justified such a demand? Let me remind the Committee that since Ottawa we have sought deliberately to make our Colonial markets into preserves for British trade and that this policy, by excluding other nations from the markets of our Colonies, hampers them in the purchase of raw materials, of which our Colonies produce so much of the world's supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-09a.1422.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-09", "file": "debates1936-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "57fb2bd75a0ad9aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-09a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Major MILNER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major MILNER", "preceding_text": " that as a matter of practice such alienation rarely, if ever, occurs, but supposing my hon. Friend the Member for Gower (Mr. Grenfell) was appointed, as he might very properly and deservedly be, Governor of Kenya. He might desire to effect a variation in that procedure and to permit Asiatics to occupy land in the White Highlands, but if the Order in Council be passed he will not be able to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-09a.1490.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1667.2", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a colleague of his in another place described this letter as a masterpiece of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1698.2", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Member forgotten nothing and learned nothing since 1930? Has he forgotten that we are now discussing a subsidy Act for meat? Who does he think gets the benefit of the subsidy for meat? The consumers. This is a consumers' subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1699.5", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ELLIOT", "preceding_text": "Of course the fall is due to the fact that world prices have fallen. The ignorance of hon. Members opposite is shared by many prominent economists —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1712.5", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are getting doles!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": "I do not want Govrnment money. I want fair play for the industry, and we are as much entitled to demand it as the hon. Member is entitled to demand fair play for any other industry. I do not want doles. I resent them entirely. We are told over and over again that agriculture is having doles. I want only fair play, and agriculturists are not getting fair play.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1712.5", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are higher than here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAMBERT", "preceding_text": " duty of ¾d. on Argentine meat. Why are Dominion products to be admitted free? The Dominions tax our manufactures. It will not be a good advertisement for Imperial trade if you get the hostility of the agricultural interest. I do not think anyone quite realises the competition that we have in cattle production. There are low wages in Argentina. I do not know what the wages are in Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BARNES", "preceding_text": "exercise a free choice in the purchase and the consumption of British beef on the one hand, or frozen or chilled beef on the other, there is not the slightest doubt upon which side their choice would fall. It would be on the side of British beef every time, because in quality, nutriment, taste and everything else, it has an apparent and unquestionable advantage as far as the consumer is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1775.2", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "not getting it, and the landlord is not getting it. Who is getting it? It can only be the labourer. Have the wages of the labourer increased by £40,000,000 per annum? Where is this large chunk of subsidy going? Will any hon. Member opposite have the decency to get up in his place and tell me—because I am in rather a quandary—where this subsidy is going? We all know that ultimately it goes to rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-13", "file": "debates1936-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "ad308551a38b1870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1834.4", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 25.—(Provisions against double pensions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TINKER", "preceding_text": "I raise an objection to it being reported to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-13a.1834.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-07-14", "file": "debates1936-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b5c39bf4fd8ca44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN RHODESIA.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PALING", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand then that the right hon. Gentleman agrees with this policy which in the matter of education alone imposes such disabilities upon native children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-14", "file": "debates1936-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b5c39bf4fd8ca44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER \"Some of them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOOTHBY", "preceding_text": "l layout, and the provision, in immediate proximity to the houses, of improved facilities for rest, recreation and social intercourse could be achieved at no great cost. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Stirlingshire (Mr. Johnston) referred to barracks. Modern tenement schemes need not be barracks. They are barracks because we make them barracks. They are not barracks on the Continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-14", "file": "debates1936-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b5c39bf4fd8ca44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which old Book?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": " to have been in his place, but he can read my remarks in the OFFICIAL REPORT if he wishes to do so. Although I consider that some of the suggestions he made are very helpful, there are some of them with which I do not agree. The hon. Member talked about contraception being a gift from God. I have read the old Book and I rather think the old Book does not agree with men doing anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-14", "file": "debates1936-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b5c39bf4fd8ca44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Burns!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": "T if he wishes to do so. Although I consider that some of the suggestions he made are very helpful, there are some of them with which I do not agree. The hon. Member talked about contraception being a gift from God. I have read the old Book and I rather think the old Book does not agree with men doing anything of the kind. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Which old Book?\"] There is only one old Book in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-14", "file": "debates1936-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b5c39bf4fd8ca44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. TRAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. TRAIN", "preceding_text": " of the water supply, and also the best use of rivers as outlets, with proper sewage purification in order not to pollute the streams. It has been done in the past, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, and Renfrew-shire. Glasgow some years ago spent £2,000,000 in intercepting sewage going into the Clyde in order to purify that river, but what did Paisley do? Paisley continued to pour raw sewage into the Cart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-14", "file": "debates1936-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b5c39bf4fd8ca44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1976.1", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. W. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. W. SMITH", "preceding_text": "I wish to deal with the question of infectious diseases in Scotland, and in that connection to draw the attention of the Minister and the Committee to one or two passages in the report on the Scottish health services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-14a.1976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2053.4", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "May I put it to you, Sir, that the question on the Paper—not the supplementary question—was perfectly specific, and the Minister stated that he would not reply until he knew what the hon. Member's motives were?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2053.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "greements with Empire and numerous foreign countries; while finally there has been the fertilising influence of cheap money. These four factors, I am glad to say, still operate. The confidence of the business community is unimpaired. The trend of industrial profits is still upward, and, although costs are gradually rising, there are no indications that profit margins are likely to be much reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2101.0", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. CROFT", "preceding_text": "ly of British nations have been able to increase their trade in this way one with another owing to sane and sound trading arrangements. I beg the right hon. Gentleman not to give any pledge in this Debate or between now and the time of the next Imperial Conference that he is going to adopt the one-sided approach that was adopted at Ottawa. I do not think anyone will accuse me of being anti-Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2122.3", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. M. SAMUEL", "preceding_text": "y of fashion in articles of luxury, so there may be too many retail shops to meet the needs of the public. That makes for waste, and ought to be tested or checked. The great effort of manufacturers is to do away with waste. If we have too many shops in an area, one shop filching trade from another, and all selling the same things, that is hardly good trading and is a form of waste in distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": " never speak on the distressed areas again because it took too much out of me: I could not trust myself to express adequately the needs of these areas. I take it for granted that the Committee and the country know full well all about the problem which faces us in these Special Areas. Nor am I going to say anything about the manufacture of steel, for the obvious reason that I know nothing about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2160.1", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "ind, but they must find an initiation somewhere, and I do trust that those who are feeling anxious about the position at Jarrow, especially those in the north country, will consider whether they could not reasonably put some of their capital, if they have any surplus capital in the north—I dare hardly suggest that they have after what we have heard—into enterprises such as that suggested to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE GIBSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When he gets it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRANVILLE GIBSON", "preceding_text": "n. and right hon. Members opposite when the President of the Board of Trade referred to the fact that employers were now making profits again, and that it appeared likely that. in the near future they would make more profits. It does not seem to me that it is a heinous offence on the part of any employer to make profits. He has the same right as any operative has to have a reward for his industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2175.2", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "r agricultural products, she must turn her back upon the development of a textile industry of her own. There is already some move in the direction of a textile industry in Denmark, and it should be made plain to Denmark that she cannot hope to have entry into our market here with agricultural products, if she, in turn, if to develop her own textile industry and so reduce the volume of our exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2175.2", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOSEPH NALL", "preceding_text": "ary increase in Danish exports to this country. This is a matter for negotiation and agreement, and it is reasonable for us to say to the Danes or to any other country, \"If you want a share in our markets for your agricultural products, you must reciprocate by restricting your own textile or other industrial productions and be prepared to take a corresponding volume of the things that we produce.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2183.5", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " the gap between wholesale and retail prices. If, therefore, we are asked for our version of what economic planning implies, I would venture these observations. I repeat that we must accept as an accomplished fact the tariff policy. If a Labour Government came in, they could not remove tariffs as a whole; it must be a gradual process. We must consider world economic implications. I recognise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir EDWARD CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "e but in the country, that the Protection policy of the Government has not been successful. He has only to remember the position in which we were, some four or five years ago, when his party, funking the issue that was before the country at the time, ran away from their duty, and left the National Government to take over a ship which was nearly sunk. [An Horn. MEMBER: \"Who was the captain of it!\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2189.3", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Subsidies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "I apologise for addressing the hon. Gentleman opposite instead of yourself. In any case, Sir Dennis, I am sure that you recollect that for four years the Government have carried on step by step, and have built up a Protection policy which has put hundreds of men into employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-15", "file": "debates1936-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c3801ed3487bf73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2189.3", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "r addressing the hon. Gentleman opposite instead of yourself. In any case, Sir Dennis, I am sure that you recollect that for four years the Government have carried on step by step, and have built up a Protection policy which has put hundreds of men into employment. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Subsidies.\"] Yes, we have employed subsidies. Perhaps I may be allowed to give an example of the subsidy. Last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-15a.2189.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-16", "file": "debates1936-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "8232798d930c5d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-16a.2317.0", "colnum": "2317", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Caused by vaccination?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. TATE", "preceding_text": "four very expert medical men to treat that child in the early stages of the illness. The case was diagnosed first as typhoid, then as paratyphoid, then as influenza and then as gastric chill. It was not until the patient was brought to London, and when the symptoms of almost complete paralysis were present, that the case was diagnosed as what it was, one of poliomyelitis and following vaccination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-16a.2317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-16", "file": "debates1936-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "8232798d930c5d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-16a.2321.1", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. SMITH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. SMITH", "preceding_text": " not proportionately such as we should have a right to expect in the year 1936. I want to deal with an area which is experiencing the results of a legacy and an endowment from the industrial revolution. In this area you will find fine women, as good as any women living in the country, and as good as the so-called ladies that we see hanging around such a centre as this, when we are assembling here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-16a.2321.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-16", "file": "debates1936-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "8232798d930c5d3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-16a.2387.0", "colnum": "2387", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will be dead\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": " estates, 10 per cent. of them are overcrowded on our standard. I say to the hon. Gentleman—I do not want him to admit it here to-night—that London will be busy on its slum clearance and its overcrowding programme for the next 10 years, low as the standard may be; and when London has completed that task, and when other local authorities have done likewise, from what I know of my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-16a.2387.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-17", "file": "debates1936-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "87792c368e8f01d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-17a.2422.7", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cobden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "Government cannot claim credit for that. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether it has not been for 100 years the policy in this country to import cheap food from all parts of the world? Has it not been the policy of every Government to buy cheap food at any time, and to bring it here so that the wages of our industrial workers could remain small and industrial profits could remain very large?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-17a.2422.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-17", "file": "debates1936-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "87792c368e8f01d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-17a.2480.1", "colnum": "2480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATTLE INDUSTRY (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "or being so slow in moving towards that reorganisation of slaughtering, and therefore obtaining an economic price for the producer for his finished product. I am conscious that time is going very rapidly. After the length of the Debate to-day, the Minister ought to have adequate time to reply. I hope that he is not going to get away with that quick, short sort of speech which he gave us on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-17a.2480.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-20", "file": "debates1936-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "94c67a337e0ad0d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "I think he was right in saying it—I want this House, in Committee of Supply to-right, to have a real look at the financial position. I say that this Government, which claims that it rehabilitated the nation's finances, is rapidly leading the nation to financial disaster. They are bringing the country to the position in which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping put my colleagues in 1929.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.169.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-20", "file": "debates1936-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "94c67a337e0ad0d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "There is not in this country a decent supporter of the League of Nations who will ever honestly trust that Government again. There is not one of the small nations in Europe who will trust them again. What are you going to say to all the countries in danger in the North and North-East of Germany? What are you going to say to Czechoslovakia? Can they trust you? What are you going to say to Lithuania", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.173.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-20", "file": "debates1936-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "94c67a337e0ad0d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "ircumstances, the right hon. Gentleman the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, attacks my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to-day for his speech in regard to recruiting. Let me assure him that he will get no support for his point of view here. We say that if you want to get support from this side of the House for military action, you will never get it, except on one condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.177.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-20", "file": "debates1936-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "94c67a337e0ad0d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. INSKIP", "preceding_text": "ry. Perhaps it will be sufficient if I refer to an answer given in this House by my noble Friend the Member for the Fylde Division (Lord Stanley) on 1st July as to the number of drifters that would be necessary for the Fleet in time of war. My right hon. Friend assured the House that the size and condition of the drifter fleet in relation to Admiralty requirements was kept constantly under review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-20a.184.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain CROOKSHANK", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the statement that all this dust is injurious to health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.284.5", "colnum": "284", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ve it? Would he receive it on the same terms, and of the same amounts, as those entitled to benefit? If so, how long would the contributory scheme survive? Why should a man pay for something that his neighbour gets for nothing? If the contributory scheme disappeared, it would surely be replaced by a general needs test and a general means test. There would be no alternative, and everybody knows it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.284.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ve received no coherent answer. The truth is that social justice is the need of all citizens and not only of those who are unemployed. If the relief of the unemployed is to be a charge upon the National Exchequer, it is only common justice to all who pay their taxes, including the ordinary working man, to see to it that the proceeds of their industry are not wantonly and needlessly frittered away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.285.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "m Graham used to be very eloquent on the subject of the new technique when he stood at this Box some years ago. I will say only this about it. Technique has its own special difficulties and problems, both for the statutory body on the one hand and for the Minister who has to answer in the House on the other hand. But our history shows that with good will we have a genius for solving such problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " supplementary allowance to bring the total payment up to what would have been paid by way of transitional payments. It is important to note that the Regulations were not withdrawn and that at the present time 41 per cent. of the applicants for assistance are being paid under the original Regulations. That is a very remarkable fact, and seeing that this has been done with little outward complaint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ion resulting from the original Regulations and the standstill arrangement. I am quite aware that by some people we may seem to have been over-long in reaching our conclusions, but I am quite sure that many hon. Members will agree that it is not a question upon which one could or should take a hasty decision. It is a sound military maxim that time spent in accurate reconnaissance is seldom wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.286.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBEES: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ite of this difficulty the great majority of authorities carried through their onerous task in an efficient manner. But I should be lacking in candour if I did not say that there were some to whom the opportunity proved too great a temptation. The fact is that where the State's money was involved there were some authorities who were more lavish with State money than they were with their own funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.292.5", "colnum": "292", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "The Act of 1931, which imposed upon public assistance committees the obligation to treat applicants for assistance in the same manner as applicants for Poor Law relief, imposed a certain legal obligation on the public assistance authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.292.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I would not have raised these cases if hon. Members themselves had not provoked me to do so. [ Interruption. ] I was studiously unprovocative in making a statement of fundamental facts about this problem. Hon. Members opposite asked for the names of the districts, and I have named them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.295.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "Let me repeat that it was the impact of a uniform system—[ Interruption. ] No, I do not propose to allow hon. Members to forget. I have been interrupted for the last 20 minutes, but I have not forgotten what I was saying. The impact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.296.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Why should we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "old, after making due allowance for personal requirements. By the first paragraph of Regulation IV, the resources calculated in accordance with the second Schedule are deducted from the scale allowance calculated by the first Schedule, and in the normal case this provides the standard allowance for that household. If hon. Members will turn to pages 15 and 16 of the Board's explanatory Memo randum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.296.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "g paid. In some cases there are four or five such persons in a household. In order to avoid hardship there is to be a transitional period of 18 months. It is difficult to say precisely what changes will take place in the numbers and circumstances of the Board's applicants and their households in so long a period. For instance who can say how many of them will have got steady work during that time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "visional and approximate estimate, and the Board has done that and set it out on the last page of their explanatory memorandum. It is that, having made the assumptions I have mentioned, the annual expenditure under the new Regulations, exclusive of the cost of administration, will exceed the amount now being paid, including the supplementary allowances paid under the standstill, by about £750,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "onal cost after the second appointed day on 1st April, 1937, is concerned, it is not possible to give any estimate, but that it will be substantial there can be no doubt. Whatever it may be, it will be paid willingly as the price of taking all the able-bodied who normally work for wages from public assistance. If anyone had prophesied this great change five years ago, he would have been ridiculed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "ly persons, married persons with families, the young earners, and the householders without means. After my series of visits to the homes of the unemployed I have been reminded of the saying of the old countryman—\"There is nothing so queer as folks, except other folks.\" When I looked at the Amendment on the Order Paper, I thought—\"There is nothing so queer as politicians, except other politicians.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quibble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The Front Bench did not say so at the last General Election. The Front Bench drafted the Labour Manifesto at the last Election, which promised to abolish the humiliating means test imposed by the National Government, which is a very different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The Front Bench did not say so at the last General Election. The Front Bench drafted the Labour Manifesto at the last Election, which promised to abolish the humiliating means test imposed by the National Government, which is a very different thing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Quibble.\"] If they do they will then have to answer the question as to what rules they themselves propose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or £15?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "on these benches On the contrary, we saw an enormous increase in the unemployed. To talk about work is an evasion of the issue. The real issue is whether they will or will not abolish the test of need, and, if not, where they propose to draw the line. Will they draw the line when the resources of the household amount to £4 a week, or £6, or £8, or £10, or £12, or, as in cases on record £14 a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "I have two advantages instead of one. After all, the voice is the most personal thing about any man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "onal thing about any man. [ Interruption. ] We have got on quite happily as far as I am concerned. One advantage I have had is that at any time in the last 12 months I could have sat down and written out at length a list of the adjectives which hon. Members opposite are going to apply to me. It would not have mattered what Regulations I had brought, the adjectives would have been exactly the same,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "gulations I had brought, the adjectives would have been exactly the same, [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members have been very good to me, and I will conclude in two or three sentences. I want to say a personal thing. I want to pay a tribute to the secretary and officials of the Board, and to that wise counsellor the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, Sir Thomas Phillips, and the staff there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they all ablebodied?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WHITE", "preceding_text": "r or agent to do some of the work for them. The advisory committees will have hard work to do. I should like to ask the Minister why Sections 40 and 41 of the Act of 1934 have not been operated by the Unemployment Assistance Board. These sections have been a dead letter. When the second appointed day arrives and the 200,000 people have to be taken over, the question of scope will be all-important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.340.6", "colnum": "340", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot. I am advancing my own argument. I say that we want to save the unemployed from a repetition of the disaster of 1931. Those who now sit on the Opposition Benches, and were then in office, with the most admirable intentions endeavoured to be most generous to the unemployed, but was the result in the end good for the unemployed? In my view it was not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.340.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.340.6", "colnum": "340", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MABANE", "preceding_text": "y own argument. I say that we want to save the unemployed from a repetition of the disaster of 1931. Those who now sit on the Opposition Benches, and were then in office, with the most admirable intentions endeavoured to be most generous to the unemployed, but was the result in the end good for the unemployed? In my view it was not. [ Interruption. ] You may blame it on the vices of human society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.340.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are doing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STOREY", "preceding_text": "ns test. The hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell) said last week that prosperity and the means test were incompatible. I hope that every worker in the country will ponder on that statement. It simply means that everyone who is at work and is enjoying some measure of prosperity, is to be made to contribute to the upkeep of those who are not at work whether those persons need the assistance or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.351.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.364.10", "colnum": "364", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": "t us, but the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) said some time ago something with which I am certain we should all agree. We would much rather see people properly and decently cared for than make party capital out of the matter.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th December, 1934; col. 1091, Vol. 296.] I quite agree, and we are entitled to ask how hon. Members opposite would deal with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.364.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": "In view of that statement neither the right hon. Gentleman nor any other Member on that side, with the exception of the four hon. Members below the Gangway, has any right to turn round and attack us on this particular point. Suppose that hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.5", "colnum": "366", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": "Every word that the hon. Gentleman has said is true, but that does not in the slightest way alter my argument. The question that we are entitled to ask is: If hon. Members opposite abolished the means test, as they suggest, wiping it away altogether, what would they put in its place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7", "colnum": "366", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Students.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": "Fortunately for political scholars, if I may use the word, or political inquirers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7", "colnum": "366", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": " hon. Member. I should have said \"political students.\" Fortunately for them, the right hon. Gentleman has already made his statement, and what did he say? The means test must be abolished. The only real test possible, in order to find out the tiny percentage of shirkers from the vast majority of willing workers, is the offer of work under fair conditions. That is the genuinely-seeking-work Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7", "colnum": "366", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An offer of work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": "est possible, in order to find out the tiny percentage of shirkers from the vast majority of willing workers, is the offer of work under fair conditions. That is the genuinely-seeking-work Clause. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman cannot deny that that is the very principle of the genuinely-seeking-work Clause, with which hon. Gentlemen opposite had so much to do when they were in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7", "colnum": "366", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": "e you to judge whether that offer is accepted or not? You can only judge on the very basis with which hon. Members had all the trouble when they were in office. If I may turn now to the Regulations, I would say that every Member of the House, irrespective of the side upon which he sits, will agree that we all owe a great debt of gratitude to the Minister for his introductory speech this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7", "colnum": "366", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CARTLAND", "preceding_text": "f statistics and of proper inquiry into how wages, Insurance and Assistance relate to each other. I have a certain amount of sympathy with the question of how Public Assistance will fit into this scheme. It is a little early to say. One gathers from the Report that the Unemployment Assistance Board is encroaching slightly upon what has previously been the domain of the public assistance committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.366.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-21", "file": "debates1936-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "e57b21d9f8ac5e87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BOULTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BOULTON", "preceding_text": "he average of the 1,000,000 unemployed who will receive relief from the Unemployed Insurance Board is promised by the new scales issued last night. That is something to be thankful for. It is more than we hoped and better than we feared. I wonder how long we are to wait before we get another announcement from the \"Daily Herald\" on the present Regulations. I am not suggesting that they are perfect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-21a.381.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "oing to be pacific in this connection. They are not going to be pacific. They cannot be. You can only give an increase of £750,000 a year to close upon 1,000,000 unemployed, five-sevenths of whom have been unemployed for more than six months, and some for more than five years. But you can spend scores of millions of pounds on increasing armaments. More money for armaments, less for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.480.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.490.4", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Through the means test!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. COLLINS", "preceding_text": "s to make inquiries from 250 single unemployed men in different parts of Scotland to find out why they were living by themselves. They were chosen from the cities in Scotland. The result was that in 85 per cent. of the cases the men were living by themselves independently of anything to do with the means test. The remaining 15 per cent. had left their homes because of all sorts of family quarrels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.490.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JONES", "preceding_text": "House—young men who have never been called upon to make a contribution to their own home—will vote to-morrow night to make other young men make contributions to their homes. Never a sacrifice have they personally made; never have they been called upon to make any financial contribution, because of their fortunate circumstances. The hon. Member need not hold his head so high; he knows it is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.590.7", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "preceding_text": "cale rate, and they have labelled that rate as totally inadequate. The second line of attack, which has been repeated time and again, and in particular by the hon. Gentleman, is that the principle of the means test must go. Those speeches could have been made with more conviction if only hon. Members had been able to conceal some of their own record on the subject. I do not want to be provocative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.590.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.590.7", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "preceding_text": "y will play a great part in the next election, whenever that may come. So I think it is important, both from the point of view of this House and of the country, that people should be absolutely certain exactly what is the attitude of each party in this House with regard to the means test. Let me put the case of this side of the House absolutely and categorically. Directly we introduced and passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.590.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MACLEAN", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I ask the Noble Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "preceding_text": "I accept that as the view of the Labour party. It is clear that whereas five years ago they refused to consider an amendment of the Independent Labour party to abolish the means test, they have now changed their mind", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.594.4", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lord DUNGLASS", "preceding_text": " falls out of the insurance and comes on to public assist- ance and has therefore to be kept at the public charge they realise that in such a case information as regards resources is essential. I believe it to be equally true that the family instinct and pride of the working people of this country is extremely strong, and that they do not wish to be relieved of their proper family responsibilities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.594.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Address the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": "I do not mean to say anything that is not absolutely correct. I said you made a speech which was academic. You said you had acquaintances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cabinet Ministers\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LOGAN", "preceding_text": " no means test whatever, applied to our people. I want to give my reasons for that. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen have said in this House: \"What do you mean when you say you would not apply a means test?\" I will give the reason; hon. Members may not accept it, but to me it is quite satisfying. Take two men with the same occupation in life, for example, boilermakers, fitters, scavengers, engineers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EMERY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EMERY", "preceding_text": "ot the least of which is what I have referred to as the breach in the structure which allows a considerable part of our man-power to run to waste. This is the greatest imperfection, and I wish to see that breach healed and the structure strengthened into one that will make it bring a still greater measure of happiness and contentment to the greater number of people. I have faith in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "Pharaoh hardened his heart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "preceding_text": "we have done the big thing.\" These Regulations are a great deal better than they have ever done, and they are the best that have ever been put up. Of course, we would all like to see higher scales and more money given to all these people, but it is no use whatever ignoring the fact that this relief must always be guided to a great extent by wages, not only in this country, but in the world itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The shipowners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "preceding_text": "ple will get back to the land. If we can get them back, they will be better grown and stronger physically and more able to deal with the difficult times in front of them. The Opposition criticises the subsidy on shipping. What is the object of that? It has no other object than to give our shipping a fair show in the shipping of the world and to try to relieve unemployment in the shipping industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Socialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "preceding_text": "BER: \"The shipowners.\"] You have to keep the shipowners going to keep the men in work. If you are going to do away with your farmers and shipowners, you are going to have more agricultural labourers and sailors out of work. The whole object of the Government is to create more work and employ more people as the result of these subsidies, and every one in the House knows it. What is the alternative?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "preceding_text": "I apologise. It was the hon. Member for Burslem (Mr. MacLaren). He told us the other night that in his view the whole of the taxation of the country was paid by the employés. Do hon. Members agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "preceding_text": "That does not quite answer my question. Does that mean that they are against any means test?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And better unemployment benefit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel KERR", "preceding_text": " meal, one thinks how much it has cost and asks oneself what it would mean to people who are really distressed. It is a thing that I feel as strongly as anyone else, and we must all feel it. It is a nightmare to be continually feeling that one ought not to be spending so much money on that sort of thing, and a great many other things as well. The only way out of this is more work and higher wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ERRINGTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ERRINGTON", "preceding_text": " administered. I can give an example of what I mean. A young man who is earning 25s. a week was asked under the old Regulations to contribute 9s. 1d. to the upkeep of his parents. Under the Regulations that are before the House now that sum has been reduced to 4s. 6d. Is it unreasonable to ask a young man of 18 or 19 earning 25s. a week to contribute 4s. 6d. to the upkeep of his parents? I say no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": " have to come back to voluntary committees with power to determine without any Treasury interference in legal cases and without leaving it to officials. I am not going to say a word against any officials of the Board, or of any board of guardians, because the business of investigating people's characters and what they need is a most demoralising job for the investigators as well as for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "hon. Member will agree, irrespective of the side of the House on which he sits, that if they are to be effective, protests must come from those in work as much as those out of work. In fact, it must be a protest by the community on the broadest possible basis. If the reply of hon. Members opposite is that the unemployed do not yet understand these Regulations and that the protests are yet to come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "No. We gave way the whole evening, and our Ministers gave way consistently.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "No, I do not forget. If he does not wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or an Astor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": ", it is a capitalistic system. The right hon. Gentleman said that if he were a dictator he would do such and such things. That is true. If he were a dictator he would do that. But I am certain that there is not a single hon. Member on the Opposition benches who would give up our free system of Government and come under the hands of a dictator, whether he was a Hitler, a Starhemberg or a Mussolini.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why make it worse?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "the man for not telling his wife the truth about his money, because nobody tells his wife all the truth. Do hon. Members opposite tell me that they will hand over public money without any means test? I say to them, \"You cannot do it.\" I agree with much that has been said about Wales, and I am not surprised that the hon. Member for Caerphilly speaks as he does, because Wales presents a big problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "ot vote for the subsidies. I have no sympathy at all with our agricultural policy. It is mostly based upon a theory by a very advanced man—I will not tell hon. Members who he is—who accepted a lot of the half-baked Socialist theories of hon. Members opposite. That is why our agricultural policy is such a mess; it has too much of Labour party policy in it and not enough practical farming knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you know about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "One of the things about the House of Commons is that we can all be merry and bright, even after we have sat all night. I want to say one more word, about the family means test and the breaking up of the home. It is my personal opinion that boys and girls who have to do something to help their homes make far better homes than the children of the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have an American party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Sometimes I think this House should be grateful that there is not an Irish party in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who won the Derby?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "Sometimes I think this House should be grateful that there is not an Irish party in it. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We have an American party.\"] You need not talk about that. I am a proud and unbending Virginian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "One day the hon. Member may elect an autocracy which will not let him speak in the way which he does in this House. He is the last person who ought to interrupt anybody if he believes in free speech, because he will never have free speech if we get the theory which he holds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.762.8", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": "y free to do it; but that under an autocratic government we can say that there will be no means test of any kind, but they will have to go where they are told to go and they will do what they are told. I am certain that the women will be the first to say: \"We will not be taxed to help other people, unless other people are prepared to let us know what they have got.\" We, who have to give our money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.762.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.762.8", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess ASTOR", "preceding_text": " there will be no means test of any kind, but they will have to go where they are told to go and they will do what they are told. I am certain that the women will be the first to say: \"We will not be taxed to help other people, unless other people are prepared to let us know what they have got.\" We, who have to give our money—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose money?\"] I am perfectly prepared to answer that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.762.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. FYFE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been here all night!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. FYFE", "preceding_text": "gnise that at least 75 per cent. of the total expenditure on armaments will go in wages in one way or another. I do not want to occupy too much of the time of the House, but simply to indicate the points as they appear to me, and with great trepidation I want to follow the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury), who, I am sorry to say, is not in his place at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.790.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.800.5", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is only because the means test has been rigorously applied.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": " the other by the hon. Member for West Salford (Mr. Emery) early this morning. Both those hon. Members have objected to the Regulations. The hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker) objected to the means test, but I hope that he and the hon. Member for Farnworth (Mr. Rowson) will recognise that these scales are going to be a great deal better for their people, and for my people, than the present scales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.800.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "espond to the amount now given? What is the remedy if it turns out that individuals get harsher treatment from the Board than the House intends?\" The answer in part is to be found under the system of appeal, and there is a second answer which I would like to give also before I sit down. Under Section 39 of the Act of 1934 a person has the right to appeal to the appeal tribunal. There is a proviso.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.848.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-22", "file": "debates1936-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "7a69cbe97c59d7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.918.3", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "preceding_text": "the Debate be now adjourned.\" I do this to give the Minister an opportunity to enlighten hon. Members as to the nature of the Regulations. The action of the Government in submitting the Regulations is unprecedented and a treachery upon the workers. They have during three days endeavoured to console themselves that these Regulations are vastly different and an improvement on those of 18 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-22a.918.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "ts view, Mr. Lester has carried out the duties of a most difficult post in an admirable manner. He has earned, and he deserves, the complete confidence of the Council of the League. Whatever may be the political opinions about the existence or the functions of his post, I feel sure that all sections of opinion in this Committee will agree that he is entitled to courteous and considerate treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "I would rather not answer. At the other extreme are those who say they would like the obligation to render military assistance to the victim of aggression to be universal and automatic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give a lead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I cannot possibly say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I cannot possibly say. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give a lead.\"] Certainly not. Can we be sure that if the object we have at heart is to secure agreement we shall best do that by giving a lead beforehand, taking up a position when we see already two camps where positions have been taken up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1135.2", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDEN", "preceding_text": "l never be used in a war of aggression. They are perfectly right in their assumption. I would ask the Committee to take note of this: Our armaments, for which we are asking, will, in fact, never be used for a purpose inconsistent with the Covenant of the League or the Pact of Paris. They will not. That is the undertaking. They might, and, if the occasion arose, they would be, used in self-defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1135.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1138.2", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HENDERSON", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman challenged Members on this side of the House by saying that the object of the Government's rearmament policy was for the purpose of our own defence. There are some of us on this side of the House who are prepared to defend this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has already been done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the particular communiqué to which the hon. Member refers. I hope that he will not interrupt me again. He and his friends no doubt will have an opportunity in this Debate later on of dealing with this very important question. I repeat that to make a blunt, unqualified statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": "ence of their own shores might be an adequate and suitable policy, but for the British Empire, which spreads into every sea, which has outlying districts and trade routes which must be traversed in security, any such policy is entirely out of the question. There is no use saying that the defence of our homes has really nothing to do with foreign policy. It has everything to do with foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ought we to have gone to war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHICK-LAWRENCE", "preceding_text": " fight for each nation. Each case has to be considered on its merits, and we have to know how far each country can take action, and what that action ought to be. But there never can be a clearer case than that of Abyssinia, there never can be a case in which it is more possible for us to act, and there never can be a case in which the ultimate failure and ignominy of what we did can be more plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1169.3", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'How? By war?'", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "eded him, and the last few sentences of the right hon. Gentleman's speech had been interrupted. He was saying: There must be no place for this trembling, vacillating, cowardly Government, which is leading people backward instead of forward, and we must have a Government that sincerely believes in the possibility of an effective League of Nations, that is prepared to put that principle to the test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-27", "file": "debates1936-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "bdd39b8965ae7d1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHAKESPEARE", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that we cannot accept this or any of the consequential Amendments to which the hon. and gallant Member referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-27a.1262.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-28", "file": "debates1936-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "68ecb2e808d180d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": " send it to the Committee. As hon. Members well know, when a Bill is sent to a Committee it is assumed that both sides will be represented and that the Committee is a judicial Committee which will hear both sides and deliver judgment accordingly. This Bill went to a Committee consisting of very distinguished Members, but only one side was represented. There was no opposition representation at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-28", "file": "debates1936-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "68ecb2e808d180d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN of WAYS and MEANS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the other way round!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The CHAIRMAN of WAYS and MEANS", "preceding_text": "I quite absolve my hon. Friend from having said anything wrong or any thing derogatory to the Members of the Private Bill Committee or anyone else personally in this case, but I cannot help feeling a certain amount of amusement at the idea of the great city of Birmingham being frightened by the Parliamentary agents concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-28", "file": "debates1936-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "68ecb2e808d180d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. HANNON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. HANNON", "preceding_text": "irmingham Corporation is not willing to buy the land, and seeks powers in Part IV to restrict the height of buildings, trees, etc. There is not a single word about the fact that wherever they had to acquire rights over buildings or impose restrictions, compensation was always contemplated as part of the scheme. This document is signed by 12 distinguished colleagues of mine in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1433.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-28", "file": "debates1936-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "68ecb2e808d180d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BIRMINGHAM CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MacANDREW", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sterilise it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MacANDREW", "preceding_text": "ly objection to doing that is that it would cost a great deal more money. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] For this reason. In an aerodrome the aeroplane is run on the ground for a distance and gradually rises, and therefore, although the land round the aerodrome is not required, the space is needed for rising, and surely it is common sense to take powers to restrict the height of buildings in the vicinity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-28", "file": "debates1936-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "68ecb2e808d180d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a charge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. WILLIAMS", "preceding_text": "y going into the details or possible effect of a duty upon track-laying tractors, which are mostly used by agriculturists in this country. I want to say to the Patronage Secretary that he has been somewhat of a villain during the last several months in the way in which he has imposed a multiplicity of Import Duties Orders upon the House when the House is not in a fit state to debate intelligently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-28a.1486.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LANSBURY", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman considered the possibility that he may offend more people by not appointing a woman on this commission than he would have offended had one been appointed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Yes, there is a very strong feeling about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1514.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1581.0", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not cheap, is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOPKINSON", "preceding_text": "The further remarks of the hon. Member have nothing whatever to do in the remotest degree with what I was talking about. He asked me to prove that employers of labour were or were not philanthropists. Some are, and some are not. I should say that the proportion at the present time of employers of labour who are philanthropists is greater than the Members of the Labour party who go under that name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1581.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1615.5", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "It is the same now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The point I was making is that the standard of living is anything which the arbitrary action of any Government, Italian or Japanese or any other, decides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1615.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1634.0", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "What about the capitalists?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LYONS", "preceding_text": "ords on industrial matters generally. We sometimes hear the criticism that machines are putting people out of work. I want to see every modern invention used in every industry in order to take away every possible drudgery. I do not believe that we are going to put people out of work because we bring in a modern piece of machinery to ease industrial life and to take away the drudgery from industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1643.3", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "r people if hon. Members opposite had been allowed to continue the policy which they were pursuing from 1929 to 1931. I know that in this Debate I have been controversial, and I intended to be controversial. I do not see why hon. Members opposite should always get away with it, but it is a very curious thing how they seem to forget entirely what happened from 1929 to 1931, when they were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sweden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "I am told that that is an argument which is often brought up, and I daresay the hon. Member is possibly thinking of the case of Germany, but re-employment in Germany has been largely due to the manufacture of munitions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In office\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "o not catch electors with philosophic reasoning. Perhaps the hon. Member has forgotten that article. One of these days they may be bound together and republished. But if he is able to \"catch\" his own electors, he will not catch the House of Commons, because the House of Commons and the country do not forget the record of his party in the two years from 1929 to 1931 during which they were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "I shall be glad to receive figures from the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-29", "file": "debates1936-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "25a4a78e5e2e569f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1646.1", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Snowden, but Webb.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PETHERICK", "preceding_text": "ersonally, dislike machinery intensely, but I have always felt that machinery was given to us, was invented or discovered, for use simply in order to promote a greater degree of leisure and comfort in the population. I think we are all agreed on that, but what we disagree upon in the broad sense is this: Lord Snowden referred some years ago to what he described as the inevitability of gradualness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-29a.1646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-30", "file": "debates1936-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "9ef29c62bf01a8e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-30a.1778.1", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OFFICE ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For some of them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENMAN", "preceding_text": "eration. That is the picture that we have as regards work in factories. What are we to suppose is happening in the unregulated trades, about which we have had no information in recent years? There is a report of some years ago showing that hours up to 70 and 80 were being worked, and we know that there is a Departmental committee in the Home Office considering what ought to be done in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-30a.1778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-31", "file": "debates1936-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "e566b4c268668b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL-BAKER", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why privately?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL-BAKER", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will permit me, I will tell him privately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-31", "file": "debates1936-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "e566b4c268668b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. NOEL-BAKER", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. NOEL-BAKER", "preceding_text": "laints about the terms of the statement which was made by the Foreign Secretary the other day, but there has been a regrettable tendency in some quarters in this country to represent the Government forces now doing battle in Spain as being Communists, and to imply that General Franco and his fellow-conspirators are trying to rescue their country from a bloody and irreligious despotism of the Left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-31", "file": "debates1936-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "e566b4c268668b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "n the country last weekend, said something on the same lines; that there were some people beginning to whisper that war was inevitable and all that remained was to calculate how soon it might happen and prepare for the worst. I cannot say whether the Opposition sometimes whisper, but I know that the Government and supporters of the Government are shouting from their Benches that war is inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-31", "file": "debates1936-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "e566b4c268668b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. ROBERTS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. ROBERTS", "preceding_text": "orse than it was in 1914. Nothing that the Opposition has ever said can equal that. The Attorney-General, speaking last week, said, Black as the prospect is, I do not despair. That pessimism is not coming from these Benches either above or below the Gangway, but from the Government's own supporters and Ministers. Some of us are beginning to believe that the Government think that war is inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-07-31", "file": "debates1936-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "e566b4c268668b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1918.6", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The Black and Tans.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "I have been very patient in giving way to interjections of that sort which are not at all apposite to the question under discussion. What murders were committed by one party or the other is not the point I am discussing. I have not mentioned murders committed by the Communists. I was referring only to murders carried out by the armed forces of the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1918.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-31", "file": "debates1936-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "e566b4c268668b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1965.2", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "as occupied a large portion of the Debate to-day. The Government fully recognise that there were Members in this House, and people in the country, who were disappointed because they did not receive a more detailed statement of Government policy. I recognise, too, that the disappointment was not caused by any desire to embarrass the Government, but was due to a very deep attachment to the Covenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-07-31", "file": "debates1936-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "e566b4c268668b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1970.1", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "der Fletcher) referred to the offer of Germany to limit her army to 300,000 men and he seemed to indicate that it was the Government that was responsible for the failure to accept it. That is not so. My right hon. Friend went to Berlin to discuss the proposal with the German Chancellor. It is true that it was not accepted, but it was not the British Government that was responsible for the failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-07-31a.1970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.14.2", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "Will it be made clear that the commission will be prepared to bring about a settlement which will include justice for those who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.14.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Biarritz.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "d: When the Government of the French Republic recommended non-intervention it did not do so in a spirit of indifference. It had previously gauged the dangers of rival interventions in the supply of arms, the fatal consequences of incidents which must of necessity have occurred. I do not know whether the House has noticed that at a recent meeting of the Radical party in France, at I think Bordeaux—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "as to do all in our power to ward off the possibility of this state of affairs spreading to other nations. No one can imagine, no one who knows party politics in France or here can imagine, that M. Blum's task, or that of his colleagues, was an easy one. Whatever any hon. Member of this House may feel about this agreement, we must surely be in accord that its initiation was an act of rare courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.39.3", "colnum": "39", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": " countries in this affair have perhaps a special responsibility, and a difficult role and a specially difficult work to fulfil. The recent difficulties which have confronted the Committee are surely illustrations enough in themselves of the dangers we should run if this arrangement were to break down altogether. There is no alternative policy except to allow the free export of arms to either side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.39.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ARTHUR GREENWOOD", "preceding_text": "eatly concerned for the peace of Europe as any Members in this House. But we are also concerned with the fate of a democratic people. I have said nothing in this Debate to suggest that I am neutral in this struggle. The whole of my sympathies are on the side of the Spanish Government and people. Hon. Members opposite, judging by their cheers in the Debate, probably take an entirely different view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Germany.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. SINCLAIR", "preceding_text": "s had outstripped the Communists and had fastened upon the Spanish army and navy. The generals who had sworn to defend the Republic turned their weapons against it and led native troops from Africa in an invasion of their own country. Their adventure could never have succeeded without military assistance from Italy and that assistance must have been arranged beforehand with the Italian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member said, with a lantern, in the middle of the night, to find out movements of goods through particular ports. Easily we could have known precisely what was being done and could have had it stated in this House. What we are prepared to believe, from the various sources of information, which are not generally denied, outside this House, is that both Germany and Italy have been pouring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ncouraged Italy to go on. I am not going into this, because it is the Government's funeral, but what it is going to do is to make Spain an advanced outpost of Fascists on the Mediterranean. It will be the Government's job to clear that up a little later on. Undoubtedly the Mediterranean is going to be the Fascist sea. Hon. Members say, \"We would rather have Spanish Fascism than Russian Communism.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.77.4", "colnum": "77", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not fight for them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "anny, trying to get a share of life, and I should support them, and, given the opportunity, would go and fight with them. The Spanish Government represent the same point of view, represent to common minds, to the simple peasant and the industrial worker, their hope of getting something more than the poverty which has been meted out to them in the past. I say the hope of the common people of Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.77.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.84.2", "colnum": "84", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "d the revolt as they have had it not been for the policy of nonintervention—the policy of the National Government and of the Foreign Secretary. I tell this House that I do not believe, and if the Foreign Secretary swore it on a stack of Bibles I would not believe it, that M. Blum took the initiative without any interference from this country. I have here a quotation from the \"Manchester Guardian.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.84.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EMMOTT", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EMMOTT", "preceding_text": "I agree that both questions, and particularly the second, are extremely important. In reply to the first, I should say that the reason of the support of Italy and Germany, if it is established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "preceding_text": "es to sell them. It is said that the fact that officers of certain countries happen to be found serving in the ranks of the rebels shows that those countries are taking part in the war, but there are foreign officers working on both sides. Hon. Members who have gone to the district of Catalonia will know that there are foreign officers serving there; it is six of one and half a dozen of the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.125.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.128.2", "colnum": "128", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DENVILLE", "preceding_text": "What I am trying to infer is that what is called the popular Government in Spain is not the popular Government which existed at the outbreak of war. The best elements have disappeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-10-29", "file": "debates1936-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "b4e453b24671e5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The PRIME MINISTER", "preceding_text": "njust for this reason. I am going to state what the position is, but the fact that Sir Henry Chilton is not in Madrid is due to the action of this Government, and not his action. He is not in Madrid because of Government orders. If that is wrong we are responsible—we are responsible in any case. I had the pleasure of knowing Sir Henry Chilton at Washington when I went over about the American Debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-10-29a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-03", "file": "debates1936-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ff87b8729f771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-03a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "AN HoN. MEMBER: \"Too generous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "us who have been here for any length of time know what are the accidents of chance which decide whether a man is to be official or unofficial. Hon. Members on the back benches opposite know all about that. A general level of £600 a year for Cabinet Ministers—which would be putting them on a 50 per cent. higher level than the ordinary Member—would seem to me to be a reasonably generous arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-03a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-03", "file": "debates1936-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "3d4ff87b8729f771", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-03a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "ompulsion but working in accordance with the desires and inclinations of the youth of the nation, we shall have to give them facilities for equipment. This is a much wider question than some of our friends think. It will be no use establishing isolated cricket or football clubs; you will have to establish athletic clubs throughout the country. The membership should be limited to 500 or a thousand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-03a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-04", "file": "debates1936-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "bcaa64f3638b6e4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-04a.83.6", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "al personnel which the Army is likely to get now. While we regret that it has been left to a time of recruitment and intensive effort to recruit more men for belligerent purposes to discover the deterioration in our physical standard, we will say this for the Government, that while we charge the system of capitalism, of which the Prime Minister is still unashamed and to which he is still attached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-04a.83.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-05", "file": "debates1936-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "be1f9386d1f4e964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-05a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Oil!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAMBERLAIN", "preceding_text": "o find with some hon. Members opposite it is that even yet, as it seems to me, they are not willing to face up to realities. What is the position, what was the position, of a League crippled by the absence of some of the most powerful nations in the world, a League many members of which were either disarmed or insufficiently armed? We tried out the system of sanctions, short of military sanctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-05a.382.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-06", "file": "debates1936-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "12f017c506ced91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-06a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. WOOD", "preceding_text": "decrease in wages amounting to over £250,000 a week. That was in 1929 and 1931—significant years. This tendency of wages to fall continued right through 1932. Since 1933 conditions have improved, and in 1935 over 2,300,000 workpeople benefited from a net increase of wages of nearly £190,000 a week. The aggregate net weekly increase in rates of wages was greater in 1935 than in any year since 1924.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-06a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-06", "file": "debates1936-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "12f017c506ced91f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-06a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STANLEY", "preceding_text": "That remark from the hon. Member is very interesting. The Amendment I quoted was one moved in 1930, when hon. Members opposite were forming a Government. This Amendment which I have quoted was moved by a member of the Independent Labour party, and the defence which the hon. Gentleman says is exactly the same as that which he is now hearing was put up by a spokesman of his Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-06a.470.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-11-09", "file": "debates1936-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c95fb09d95bb1caf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.586.0", "colnum": "586", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "To each family.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "n 31st March, 1934, it was 19s. 7d.; in the following three months, 19s. 9d.; and in the three months after that it was 21s. 6d. It has since been increasing steadily until, at the end of the month of June, the last figure that I have, it had gone to 23s. 7d. While, therefore, the total has gone down, the average payment to each person since the means test came into being is now not less but more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.585.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-09", "file": "debates1936-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c95fb09d95bb1caf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CROSSLEY", "preceding_text": "rs making cheap goods for multiple stores and furniture shops. And I am bound to say that one of the principal causes of anti-Semitism in the East End is that the furniture trade is practically entirely in Jewish hands at the moment. The hours they have to work are disgracefully long, and the wages they are paid are very low, and I hope that this matter will be dealt with in the new Factory Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-09", "file": "debates1936-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c95fb09d95bb1caf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HERBERT MORRISON", "preceding_text": "ute who is not now guessing, calculating or trying to work out the time at which the trade depression will come. Hon. Gentleman opposite know that trade depression will come; the only uncertainty is when it will come. If there is any continuance of political bad luck, I imagine that it will come about the time of the return of another Labour Government, though that will have nothing to do with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.632.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-09", "file": "debates1936-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c95fb09d95bb1caf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.640.5", "colnum": "640", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MORRISON", "preceding_text": " shares. We and the Government ought to be deliberately, consciously and with all practicable speed—I know it cannot be done in a week-end or a happy fortnight—moving towards the public ownership of the soil of Great Britain and the public ownership of all the great industries in Great Britain with a view to their effective and efficient management in the national interest and for the public good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.640.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-09", "file": "debates1936-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c95fb09d95bb1caf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Orders in Council !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. SIMON", "preceding_text": "eful, tepid balanced account, but all the fierce attack and counter-attack which we know goes on in our newspapers to-day. I cannot see how that is to be secured by adopting the Opposition's proposal. There comes at last this practical point. It is all very well wishing for the moon. It is all very well to describe what wonderful things are going to happen when you get there. How do you get there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-09a.648.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-10", "file": "debates1936-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "53d69590a4da78d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-10a.753.3", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "not a statement which we have been accustomed to hear. It was of a rather curious character. I do not want to attempt to analyse it, because this is not a foreign affairs Debate, but I think that tomorrow, when the newspapers are opened, readers in Europe may be rather surprised. He said that, in his opinion, the defence of this country was about the only standard which this country would support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-10a.753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-10", "file": "debates1936-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "53d69590a4da78d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-10a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "ion has been better than the estimates. I do not want to prophesy as to the future. The position is fluid, but it is none the less satisfactory to be able to tell the House that, at any rate in present conditions, the position is satisfactory. On the whole, our forecasts of the strength of other air forces proves to be accurate; on the other hand, our own estimates have also proved to be accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-10a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-10", "file": "debates1936-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "53d69590a4da78d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-10a.829.6", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. HOARE", "preceding_text": "I need not continue the argument. My right hon. Friend agrees that the situation is fluid. That seems to be a good reason for not taking up a rigid attitude at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-10a.829.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-11", "file": "debates1936-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "32e4b24df27ae37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "SHORTER HOURS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LAWSON", "preceding_text": "ot be any reduction of wages as far as we are concerned. We certainly will not have that. There is no virtue in having your standard of life raised on the one hand, and then have us much taken away on the other. That is not the concern of the Government; it is our concern. I know that hon. Gentlemen opposite have a way of putting snares down so that gentlemen walk into them and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-11", "file": "debates1936-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "32e4b24df27ae37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS' PETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "se people tell you of the effect that the Regulations were having, it would have saved you from the humiliating retreat? Have they not expert knowledge of a subject that few understand? What is the difference between the unemployed marchers and any other section of the community? The Trade Union Congress has the right of access; great bankers, farmers, every kind of interest has a right of access.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-11", "file": "debates1936-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "32e4b24df27ae37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS' PETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "our Government, and as one who was among its most severe critics, that it is not accurate to say that the Labour Prime Minister refused to see them. He did receive them ultimately. The hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) and the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood) brought a deputation of unemployed men to 10, Downing Street and were met, and they put their own case in their own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-11", "file": "debates1936-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "32e4b24df27ae37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS' PETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even the Baptists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "ster and to the Minister of Labour against the means test and the Regulations. It is of no use the Minister of Labour giving tips to the Prime Minister as though I were not telling the truth. They have received these protests. There is not a section of the population in South Wales, not any organisation or any class, which has not sent a protest to the Minister of Labour and to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-11", "file": "debates1936-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "32e4b24df27ae37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "UNEMPLOYED MARCHERS' PETITION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. CAMPBELL", "preceding_text": "t the Bar of the House what will they be told? They will be told exactly what their representatives in this House have been told, and the Opposition, in urging this course, are acknowledging that they are very poor representatives of such people, because they are incapable of putting their case before the House so strongly that they can get things done themselves. Therefore, for all those reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-11a.1002.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-12", "file": "debates1936-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "29a0edda80bfc0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "esponsible—I am not going into the personal aspect nor into the particular technical merits—and also the public complaints of a company called the Alvis Company are important, not so much in themselves, but because, like a lightning flash, they have illumined a confused landscape of Air and Army production. We do not even know at what period the Minister for the coordination of Government defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-12", "file": "debates1936-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "29a0edda80bfc0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "suggest. We were promised most solemnly by the Government that air parity with Germany would be maintained by the home defence forces. At the present time, putting everything at the very best, we are, upon the figures given by the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, only about two-thirds as strong as the German Air Force, assuming that I am not very much understating their present strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-12", "file": "debates1936-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "29a0edda80bfc0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1191.4", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "to be charged as electrical machinery. That is a refinement, however, with which the House need not be troubled to-day. Having dealt with Orders Numbered 25 and 24, I pause to point out that Numbers 22 and 23 deal with the duties on lace and felt hats, neither of them increased duties, and, therefore, they do not require affirmative resolutions of the House. Number 26 deals with hot-water bottles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1191.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-12", "file": "debates1936-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "29a0edda80bfc0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "What I would prefer to say, as a broad generalisation, is that in the development of the building trade, there has been an increased demand for tiles and that the proportion of that trade which has gone to the foreigner is an expanding and increasing proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-12a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-13", "file": "debates1936-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a686cd672b8ab43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And what about Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KIRKWOOD", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has raised a very knotty problem as far as my country of Scotland is concerned. I do not think that he need labour that point, because in Scotland we have a distinct tradition and distinct laws, and certainly we would require to have a Board in Scotland as well as the one in London. We have a Lord Advocate here and we have a Solicitor-General here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-13", "file": "debates1936-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a686cd672b8ab43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHAPMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHAPMAN", "preceding_text": "e likely to be readers of either the London Gazette or the Edinburgh Gazette? Some of us may look at those publications in the normal course of business but I do not think that we make them our Sunday reading, as a rule—at least I am certain that I do not. We have the fullest discussion in the House on Import Duties Orders and only last night a great many hon. Members were on the tiles as it were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-13", "file": "debates1936-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a686cd672b8ab43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BULL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your own side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BULL", "preceding_text": " to feel timid. The mover of the Bill said he was sorry not to see the Minister of Mines present. I have been looking for an hour or more for him and the Seconder. I should have expected that such matters as lunch would not count when such an important measure was being discussed, and that the benches opposite would be packed, but for an hour past there have been no more than a bare baker's dozen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-13", "file": "debates1936-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a686cd672b8ab43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STRAUSS", "preceding_text": " Commonwealth which it is their object to introduce. Liabilities are left on the individual employer, and the relationship of employer and workman is the whole basis of the Bill. Therefore, the Bill is presumably what the Opposition believe to be appropriate to a dying capitalism, but I think they should explain whether it is in their opinion designed or calculated to hasten or postpone its death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-13", "file": "debates1936-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a686cd672b8ab43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1294.3", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "W. LLOYD", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More than once.\"", "preceding_speaker": "W. LLOYD", "preceding_text": "e. I have no personal experience in this matter, but from what I have heard from medical inspectors and Home Office and other doctors, it is a terrible disease. I listened with perhaps a certain sympathy to the hon. Member's criticism of doctors, although I think he went a good deal too far; but it is true that medical ideas concerning nystagmus have changed a good deal during the last generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-13a.1294.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-16", "file": "debates1936-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "58051cea26f12edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir PERCY HARRIS", "preceding_text": " the whole House and country recognise his greatness as a lawyer, and I doubt whether any other man in this House—I would almost go so far as to say in the country—could have shown such skill in drafting what is though it is a short Bill, a complex and technical Bill. I have felt some diffidence about taking part in this discussion, because a Bill of this character is largely a matter for lawyers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-16", "file": "debates1936-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "58051cea26f12edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander BOWER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander BOWER", "preceding_text": "ace. The breaking up of the meetings has been absolutely deliberate. Moreover, when we left the meetings gangs were assembled outside. I noticed that if I walked out in a determined way, being a rather large individual, they parted in front of me, and then closed in behind and indulged in the rather safer pastime of kicking the shins of the womenfolk who had been brave enough to come down with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-16", "file": "debates1936-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "58051cea26f12edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not without reason.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. KINGSLEY GRIFFITH", "preceding_text": "ears during which I have been a Member for that constituency I remember only one meeting at which I was refused hearing. Therefore, I do not want it to be taken that the experiences of the hon. and gallant Member opposite are common on Teesside, because that would not be fair to the district. Yet we all know that there are constituencies in various parts of the country in which such things happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-16", "file": "debates1936-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "58051cea26f12edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "feeling, but of homes being broken up. The hon. and gallant Member, I am certain, is more concerned about meetings being broken up than homes being broken up. When people have been driven desperate because for years they have had no work, little or no money, and little food, and they get arrogant braggadocio such as we have heard in the House to-night, is it any wonder that meetings are broken up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-16", "file": "debates1936-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "58051cea26f12edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"A political uniform.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "very much worried over Clause 1. I do not like the position in which we are to make it illegal to wear a uniform. To-day any man may go about in any public place in any attire, so long as it is decent and is not female attire. If we pass this Bill, we shall alter the position and say that he must be in decent attire but must not be in female attire, and, also, must not wear what we call a uniform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-16", "file": "debates1936-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "58051cea26f12edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER.: \"Worse luck!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "pe that they will not make the Bill, as they may well do, an occasion for legal hair-splitting. We have the assurance of the spokesman of our party—and I was very glad to hear it—that we are to give general support to the Measure, and, in addition, that we are not going to support Amendments of an obstructive character. We are under an obligation to behave in that way. We have asked for this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-16", "file": "debates1936-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "58051cea26f12edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"They do not control the police.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": "nd seemed to Members of this House to cause processions to go out of their way when they should not have done, or to prohibit demonstrations, then, surely, the democratic remedy would be for us in this House to challenge the Executive on that occasion and cause the police to mend their ways. If it be in the provinces, there are elected authorities where the same corrective action could be applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-16a.1434.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-23", "file": "debates1936-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "89edc7341a74a4f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "ing of such banners. When the hon. Member opposite quotes the slogan of the Fascists, \"We must get rid of the Yids\" and says that that is provocative, I entirely agree, and it is partly to prevent the use of such inscriptions that I support the Home Secretary. It is only fair to point out that such inscriptions as \"Death to the capitalists,\" or \"Death to the baby starvers\" are equally provocative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-23", "file": "debates1936-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "89edc7341a74a4f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "question than that contained in this Bill. It is a question which affects everyone; it is the heritage of English public life. The hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) has addressed a powerful argument to the Committee, but I think that his conclusions are wrong. I do not propose to argue why his conclusions are wrong, but will leave that for the Government to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-23", "file": "debates1936-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "89edc7341a74a4f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.181.3", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They never have demonstrations!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BEVAN", "preceding_text": "ld be intolerable if the Order proscribed Fascists and Socialists, or Fascists and Communists, and allowed Conservatives and others to hold demonstrations. If you have an Order, it must proscribe all forms of political demonstration. The Tories have, therefore, only to behave in an utterly unreasonable manner in certain boroughs in order to prevent the rest of us from holding demonstrations there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-23", "file": "debates1936-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "89edc7341a74a4f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "nstrate against it. They want to demonstrate in favour of Imperialism. They want to advertise it in the schools. They have full power to advertise it in the cinemas, the Press and everywhere. We cannot, as the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) said, have a great Press or have special features in the cinemas, or organise, and bring thousands to, garden parties.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-23a.185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-24", "file": "debates1936-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "07e75d863f434cb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.337.3", "colnum": "337", "heading": "ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount CRANBORNE", "preceding_text": "al part of that country but a universal means of communication and also an essential means of communication between different parts of the British Empire. Finally, I think we all want to show the world how international problems can and could be settled. On her side, Egypt has much to gain. She desires to be free and independent, and to have the powerful friendship and assistance of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-24", "file": "debates1936-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "07e75d863f434cb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "ber will recollect, in a question on the 11th November, when the figures were given by the President of the Board of Trade. The figure he gave was the quantity ordered, and perhaps the hon. Lady will accept that figure as indicating the quantity imported. The federation has already ordered from the Cartel about 300,000 tons of iron and steel in addition to the amount provided for in the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.343.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-24", "file": "debates1936-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "07e75d863f434cb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under Protection.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": " am rather amused at the hon. Member for Chesterfield when he says that if we go back to free competition the whole thing would be chaotic; that if you get a monopoly you cannot control it but by some wonderful means of a State monopoly everything in the world is going to be all right. I still believe in free competition. I am pleased at the success which the steel trade is enjoying at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-24", "file": "debates1936-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "07e75d863f434cb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are now down a bit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": "nly to watch the share market. I should have thought that hon. Members who support this tariff were even more interested in the share market than we who sit on this side of the House. Let me give some of the figures. The shares of Messrs. Baldwins, according to the \"Times\" were, on 19th May, 9s., and are now 14s. 10½d.; Cammell Laird, on 19th May, 9s. 1½d., and on 11th November, 19s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-24", "file": "debates1936-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "07e75d863f434cb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the use?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "ittee, who were charged with the investigation, the supervision and the smooth running of the whole of this cartel arrangement, were satisfied that the undertakings given to them by the British Iron and Steel Federation were being carried out. I repeat that assurance. Has the Co-operative movement complained to the Import Duties Advisory Committee about the price? My information is that it has not", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-24a.376.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-25", "file": "debates1936-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "651f3227addd0261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-25a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SMITH", "preceding_text": ". The subsidy they took last year, despite these figures, was £9,856 13s. Let us try another one. Here is a series of cargo liner and tramp companies. I refer again to the Clan Line. Its paid up capital is £1,900,000; reserves, £482,500; the book value of the fleet, £2,347,615. There are 43 vessels of a gross tonnage of 263,000 tons. The amount of profit was £169,750, or 8.93 per cent. Not so bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-25a.513.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-26", "file": "debates1936-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "ba34bc62fdfa60bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-26a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Clause 4 (Prohibition of offensive weapons at public, meetings and processions), ordered to stand part of the Bill.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. EDE", "preceding_text": "n taking place. I also wish to reinforce the point that my hon. Friend has made. The first time that I was ever connected with the Home Secretary was when, in the 1906 election, after he had won Walthamstow, he was imported into the Epsom division to address a meeting at Cobham. When I was the Labour candidate for Epsom I had the greatest possible difficulty in getting a chairman at all in Cobham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-26a.663.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-27", "file": "debates1936-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf6a5f1b7ce9bdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-27a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tea\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "support, who are employed for a full week in a textile mill, for 18s. 3d. per week. You cannot very well beat that, even in Japan. I would like to ask the hon. Gentleman whether, supposing that that argument about foreign competition were disposed of, he would be willing to grant holidays with pay under the law in all those industries where foreign competition does not prevail—mining, agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-27a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-27", "file": "debates1936-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf6a5f1b7ce9bdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-27a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.ASSHETON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: —Does that apply to all the employés?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.ASSHETON", "preceding_text": "m by Acts of Parliament. I have no axe to grind in this matter. In my own business, I am glad to say, my employes have Saturdays off and three weeks' holiday in the year. Therefore, I have nothing to gain if this Bill is not passed. Indeed I have something to lose because it would be much better for me if everybody else were obliged to give three weeks' holiday every year to their employés.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-27a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-27", "file": "debates1936-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "bf6a5f1b7ce9bdc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-27a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ASSHETON", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ASSHETON", "preceding_text": "It does not follow that everybody in the country can do the same thing. I look forward to the day when it will be possible to have the Saturday holiday in a great many trades, but, as I said, I do not believe that it is possible to introduce such a reform by Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-27a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-30", "file": "debates1936-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c30d0b9c6b694ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-30a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUNK ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "Among the many anomalies of this very anomalous Bill, this anomaly seems to be the greatest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-30a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-30", "file": "debates1936-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c30d0b9c6b694ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-30a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUNK ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"A poker face.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. JAMES BROWN", "preceding_text": " passes in its present form, Ayrshire and many other parts of Scotland, and England as well, will suffer heavily. I understand from my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg (Mr. Quibell) that Lincolnshire 'will suffer and I believe that applies to many other districts all over the country. I trust that the expression on the Minister's face means that he is going to give us relief in some shape or form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-30a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-11-30", "file": "debates1936-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c30d0b9c6b694ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-30a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUNK ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HORE-BELISHA", "preceding_text": " under which 88 different committees managed these roads and to vest them in one central authority, namely, the Minister of Transport. My object is to get something done, and I thought that was the object of everybody who advocated this Bill, or something approaching. No sooner do I introduce it than the warmest supporters turn round and propose that I should be circumscribed by another committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-11-30a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "WILD BIRDS PROTECTION (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MATHERS", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MATHERS", "preceding_text": "o well written by my hon. Friend the Member for Bothwell (Mr. Welsh) when he was exiled for a time in New Zealand and felt the call of the home country: I can hear the wild whaup mournin', Wi' his eerie hauntin' sigh, And the circlin', swoopin' lapwing Raspin' oot his twa-fauld cry, And the wee bit birds a' cheerie singin' Sets ma hert aflame, But I maunna let them draw me, For I'm no' gaun harne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1167.3", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of TRADE (Dr. Burgin)", "preceding_text": "rom the attitude of His Majesty's Government that it would be wise to give a lead in this matter which lies solely within the power of the Government to achieve. The Committee cannot wish that arms which cannot be sent from this country should be sent from another country in British ships to a destination which would be illegal if these ships loaded at British ports. That is an untenable attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. THURTLE", "preceding_text": " not dream of unilateral action in those matters, and that they must have all the other Powers with them before taking action. If that reasoning on the part of the Government was sincere, I suggest that the same reasoning applies to the present case. Either they were hypocritical and insincere on that ocassion, or they are hypocritical and insincere on this. It might be the case on both occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. PRITT", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"A port in Bulgaria?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. PRITT", "preceding_text": "ll to-morrow afternoon. But suppose it is the law the day after to-morrow. A shipowner goes to his solicitor and says \"My ships have not been sailing very profitably lately, my shareholders are becoming particularly and have the offer of a perfectly good, reasonable, well paid charter at 1s 6d. a ton over the market rate to carry some munitions from a port in Greece or Bulgaria or Mexico to Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Morocco.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "place. That is the object of the Amendment. The Com- mittee appreciate at once the point that was made during the Debate on the Second Reading of the Bill, that we are not dealing in terms with the port of Lisbon alone, or the country of Portugal alone—that the Amendment would cover, as an hon. Member said, Marseilles or any port in the whole of France as well as any port in the whole of Portugal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "ary of the experience of the Great War would be that in order to prevent contraband passing through a neutral country to a belligerent, you have, in effect, to censor, supervise, check and control the whole of the traffic to the country through which you suspect it may pass. Let the Committee realise what it means, and what it would be like. It is suggested that Portugal, one of our oldest allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "nd control the whole of the traffic to the country through which you suspect it may pass. Let the Committee realise what it means, and what it would be like. It is suggested that Portugal, one of our oldest allies—[ Interruption. ] I am, after all, but stating an acknowledged fact. It is suggested that we should control, supervise, check and stop the whole traffic of British ships to that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1199.3", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. BURGIN", "preceding_text": "Certainly. If I did not give that impression, the fault is entirely mine. It is the impression I endeavoured to create. I think it will be found, when the words are read, that we have said in terms that that is what the Spanish ship has not the right to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-01", "file": "debates1936-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d39bcd01ea444ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Prohibition of the discharge in and transhipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war front certain ships.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. RUNCIMAN", "preceding_text": "il of it with great care. That has been done before the Bill was submitted. With regard to the points which have been put by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for West Birmingham (Sir A. Chamberlain) and by others in this House, I think I can say that while at the present time we do not see the necessity for making the change which he has suggested, we are quite prepared to look into the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-01a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-02", "file": "debates1936-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a8ac4e6c6c6fee92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1346.3", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GRIFFITHS", "preceding_text": "sions asking them to support the Motion. I hope that it will be supported overwhelmingly. Let me cite a different aspect of the case. We have many workmen in South Yorkshire who are working short time. A collier very often gets on his knees and asks Almighty God to send the coldest weather possible on this side of the grave, in order that more coal will need to be burned, and then he can get work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-02", "file": "debates1936-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a8ac4e6c6c6fee92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "laim for travelling expenses is most reasonable; but, as I have said, to go further would be to embark on something which may be dangerous, and any such proposal should be approached with very great caution. We are at the moment at a rather critical period of local government. The whole situation of elected local government in this country is being called in question from powerful sources outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-02", "file": "debates1936-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a8ac4e6c6c6fee92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And in Parliamentary elections, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. WISE", "preceding_text": "untry is being called in question from powerful sources outside. [HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"] In the general conversation of a good many people. I would remind the House that the extremely low polls at council elections do indicate that to a great extent the people of this country are not as interested as they ought to be in their local government, particularly, of course, in rural and county areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-02", "file": "debates1936-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a8ac4e6c6c6fee92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir JOHN TRAIN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir JOHN TRAIN", "preceding_text": " about that Act, and I do not think that it would do his case a great deal of good were I to enumerate the difficulties which have arisen through that Act being put upon the Statute Book. There are Members in the House, I believe, who were engaged at one time as King's Counsellors in connection with cases in which expenses were being claimed under that Act, and it was not always very nice reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-02", "file": "debates1936-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a8ac4e6c6c6fee92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SEXTON", "preceding_text": " high as they could. The hon. Gentleman opposite suggested that if we pay members of local urban and rural councils they should have to undergo examination. I sat for no examination when I came to this House, and I do not know how many Members either on this side or opposite would be here if they had had to undergo an examination. Without having been examined, I am paid at the rate of £400 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-02", "file": "debates1936-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a8ac4e6c6c6fee92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "EXPENSES OF MEMBERS OF CERTAIN LOCAL AUTHORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HUDSON", "preceding_text": "isted. I have an even stronger piece of evidence in the writings of a, gentleman whom hon. Members opposite still, I believe claim to belong to their party, and that is Sidney Webb, Lord Passfield. In his book on \"Local Government in England,\" issued in 1922, he pays a very high tribute, quite rightly, to the part that has been taken in local government by members of the so-called working classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-02a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-03", "file": "debates1936-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7195e7f2a0e6c372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-03a.1499.8", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUNK ROADS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Richt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir ROBERT HORNE", "preceding_text": "t may be, any decision may be upset by reason of the fact that the person was giving a judgment in which there was a challenge to his favour. In these circumstances, I should think the Minister of Transport would be willing to get over such an awkward position. I remember the words used long ago by Robert Burns in one of his poems: When self the wavering balance shakes, It's rarely right adjusted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-03a.1499.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-03", "file": "debates1936-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7195e7f2a0e6c372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-03a.1501.3", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUNK ROADS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. TURTON", "preceding_text": "threat? I want to know, because, as this Bill has taken a certain course, there is a road on which we shall have to ask for grants. If the Minister, by these words, is levelling a threat at my council, then I think it is a most monstrous statement to make to this House and one which is not worthy of the dignity of the high office which he holds or the distinguished Cabinet of which he is a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-03a.1501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-04", "file": "debates1936-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "402c891c7628a93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1574.3", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES REGULATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "mbers opposite have been in office, they will find that the Government side, as it is to-day, has done more for the public health and for the benefit of the country than all the other people put together. The hon. Member for Clayton (Mr. Jagger) said that nothing had been done since the time to which the hon. Member for Balham (Mr. Doland) referred, when he started in an office at 14 years of age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-04", "file": "debates1936-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "402c891c7628a93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1575.3", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES REGULATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is disputed now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "I have not the date, but it was not disputed last time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-04", "file": "debates1936-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "402c891c7628a93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES REGULATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"October !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. LEVY", "preceding_text": "The outcome of the introduction of the previous Bill in March, 1936, was that owing to the propaganda --and I agree that propaganda is necestiary—the Public Health Act, 1936, was passed and came into operation, I think, in June or July of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-04", "file": "debates1936-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "402c891c7628a93c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICES REGULATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS FREMANTLE", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"The Shops Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir FRANCIS FREMANTLE", "preceding_text": "pervision of these premises is required. Everyone knows that the condition of many of these offices, in which typists and secretaries still continue to do their work, is perfectly scandalous, and I am told that in the bargain sale department of one of the big stores in this City the ventilation and accommodation are perfectly insanitary and ought to be inspected, supervised and brought up to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-04a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-07", "file": "debates1936-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5921835c76e580a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "May I ask to have that answer explained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-07", "file": "debates1936-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5921835c76e580a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Speech,\" and \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "ether he could give us an assurance that no irrevocable step—[Hoist. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that no irrevocable step will be taken before the House has received a full statement, not only upon the personal but upon the constitutional issues involved? May I ask him to bear in mind that these issues are not merely personal to the present occupant of the Throne, but that they affect the entire Constitution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-07", "file": "debates1936-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5921835c76e580a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1643.3", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CHURCHILL", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for what the right hon. Gentleman has said, but I ask that there should be an assurance that no irrevocable decision will be taken until at least a statement has been made to Parliament of the constitutional issues involved, and of the procedure involved in such an event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1643.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-07", "file": "debates1936-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5921835c76e580a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1679.3", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has that to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl WINTERTON", "preceding_text": "The Left wing organisations in this country have been allowed to indulge in this kind of thing during the last 10 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-07", "file": "debates1936-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "5921835c76e580a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1682.5", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ORDER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain RAMSAY", "preceding_text": " a charge might much more easily be brought against the central organisation. Moreover, it is possible that local persons might not be so well trained and might lose their heads. I am very happy in the fact that I have not needed stewards at my meetings, although I remember the election before last when a number of people followed me about in charabancs for the purpose of interrupting my meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-07a.1682.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-08", "file": "debates1936-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "05eb83f3c989cc2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-08a.1948.4", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Bobby's job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HALL", "preceding_text": "at sense than are the industrial workers of this country? May I give a personal example in regard to my own family? I have three very excellent brothers. The four of us worked underground for a very long period. One brother thought he would like to have a change. He was very fortunate. He joined the police force. He served 25 years and at the age of 49 was pensioned off with a substantial pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-08a.1948.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-10", "file": "debates1936-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "40faba23e760cb65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2191.1", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE KING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ations that have become attached to them over the centuries, are not necessarily the institutions which can cope with the problems of modern times. We therefore intend, however it may be against the general run of opinion in this House, to take strongly the view that the lesson of the past few days, and of this day in particular, is that the monarchical institution has now outlived its usefulness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2191.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-10", "file": "debates1936-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "40faba23e760cb65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2193.1", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE KING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel WEDGWOOD", "preceding_text": "tives—to continue lonely, disappointed, bitter, ruling the Empire, or else to do what he has done, to throw up royalty and remain a man. We shall all commend him for that choice of the two, for nothing could have been worse than a Kingdom ruled by a man with a grievance, partly hostile to every Minister who had put him in the dilemma—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—collecting round him false friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-10", "file": "debates1936-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "40faba23e760cb65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE KING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. GALLACHER", "preceding_text": "rces which have been operating behind this will now stop. There is victory for one group at the moment, but they will not stop. The forces will go on. I want to draw attention to the fact that Mrs. Simpson has a social set, and every Member of the Cabinet knows that the social set of Mrs. Simpson is closely identified with a certain foreign Government and the Ambassador of that foreign Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-10", "file": "debates1936-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "40faba23e760cb65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2195.1", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE KING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": " wanting to unload him? Because you know he is a weak creature. You want to get rid of him and you are taking the step to-day. The great tragedy of it is this: If an ordinary workman had been in this mess, everyone in the House of Commons would have been ashamed of him. You would have refused him benefit. You would have ill-treated him. Look. at the Minister of Labour sneering at collusive action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-10a.2195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-12", "file": "debates1936-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f363e7b5822eff3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-12a.2205.5", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIS MAJESTY'S DECLARATION OF ABDICATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Together again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAXTON", "preceding_text": "ractical politics than it has been for many years. I know that a large proportion of the Members of this House will do their utmost to place monarchy back in the position it was in some months ago. I want you to remember your childhood's nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, All the King's horses and all the King's men, Could not put Humpty Dumpty back again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-12a.2205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-12", "file": "debates1936-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "f363e7b5822eff3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-12a.2208.1", "colnum": "2208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIS MAJESTY'S DECLARATION OF ABDICATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. The issue has appeared to me as one of very great significance for the working people in this country. As I sat and listened yesterday to the Debate I thought of how a few weeks ago the impression was abroad throughout the land that the Monarch was almost a unique personality —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-12a.2208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-15", "file": "debates1936-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19050f362d03f2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2344.3", "colnum": "2344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": " to the Board of Trade, referring to the restrictions on imports of bacon, told me that I should have to learn a new economics, the economics of glut. We cannot afford to buy in the cheapest market; there is a glut. The Government have abandoned the policy of cheapness and substituted —I say these words after having given them consideration—the deliberate policy of raising prices to the consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-15", "file": "debates1936-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19050f362d03f2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2346.1", "colnum": "2346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. HOLDSWORTH", "preceding_text": "s friends were arguing that meat should not be on the free list, the Chancellor of the Exchequer answered him to this effect: \"It is not the duty that we are concerned about but the quantitative restriction.\" Now we are getting both. We are making the worst of it both ways. We are restricting the quantity and taxing the smaller supply. Nobody is more concerned than I am to see the farmers prosper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-15", "file": "debates1936-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19050f362d03f2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2384.1", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLAREN", "preceding_text": "Dorman-Smith) was on his feet and reading a long list of commodities which the farmers have to use, that are taxed. He advanced the argument that because the farmers have to pay heavy taxes on these imported articles, they are entitled to receive this appropriation to-night. That did not in any way seem to penetrate the skulls opposite. There are some hon. Members—why they come here I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-15", "file": "debates1936-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19050f362d03f2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2394.1", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. ALEXANDER", "preceding_text": " something like £311,000,000. If the returns of the last 11 months are represented in the 12 months of the year, we shall have an adverse balance of trade, in the visible sphere, of something like £340,000.000. This is not because of Free Trade. It is in spite of the high tariffs, which make us now one of the highest tariff countries in the world—not the highest, of course, but one of the highest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-15", "file": "debates1936-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19050f362d03f2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2395.3", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain WALLACE", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain WALLACE", "preceding_text": "of all, there is the argument that we have made a bad bargain with the Argentine Republic—in simple language, that at the end of many months' negotiations His Majesty's Government have been done. I think it ought to be known that if we had not been able, after all these negotiations, to secure in the new trade agreement signed the other day a mutually satisfactory arrangement which would benefit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-15a.2395.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-12-16", "file": "debates1936-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "dd5c5c5e6f6b7502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2556.2", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "DISTRESS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CASSELLS", "preceding_text": "h statistics as far as Scotland is concerned. Scotland is a land ideally situated, and has been most properly described as of the valley and the flood. It is windswept from east to west and from north to south, and on the average it is many hundreds of feet above sea level. Yet we find the astonishing fact that our death rate is proportionately much higher than that of the mother country, England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-16", "file": "debates1936-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "dd5c5c5e6f6b7502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2556.4", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "DISTRESS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. CASSELLS", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. CASSELLS", "preceding_text": " benefit of any doubt that may exist. We have the Secretary of State for Scotland, who may be a bit dour at times, but I believe that if we put forward a real tangible case to him he will, like a real Scotsman, give it the consideration it merits. We have the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, another Scotsman. I would have thought that he at least would have been sitting on that bench to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-16", "file": "debates1936-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "dd5c5c5e6f6b7502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2557.1", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "DISTRESS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Major NEVEN-SPENCE", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER7: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major NEVEN-SPENCE", "preceding_text": "s to refer to them in the terms of distressed areas. It does no good to paint an imaginary picture of distress which does not exist, because it will only prejudice the real case of the Highlands and Islands. I claim to speak for roughly one-quarter of the area we are discussing, and I think that the two groups of Islands for which I speak are a fair sample of the rest of the Highlands and Islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2557.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-12-16", "file": "debates1936-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "dd5c5c5e6f6b7502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2558.0", "colnum": "2558", "heading": "DISTRESS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Nonsense!", "preceding_speaker": "Major NEVEN-SPENCE", "preceding_text": "an imaginary picture of distress which does not exist, because it will only prejudice the real case of the Highlands and Islands. I claim to speak for roughly one-quarter of the area we are discussing, and I think that the two groups of Islands for which I speak are a fair sample of the rest of the Highlands and Islands—[HON. MEMBER7: \"No\"] —both from the industrial and agricultural point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2557.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-12-16", "file": "debates1936-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "dd5c5c5e6f6b7502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2576.0", "colnum": "2576", "heading": "DISTRESS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "He said so!", "preceding_speaker": "The SECRETARY of STATE for SCOTLAND (Mr. Elliot)", "preceding_text": "this evening. Many Members are interested in this subject and many Members have valuable contributions to make. I was particularly interested in the thoughtful speech of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Major NevenSpence), and I think that hon. Members opposite did him an injustice when they said that he asserted that there was no poverty in the Highlands and Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-16a.2575.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.2", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "The hon. Member said \"the means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "I was talking about the Anomalies Act. I made that quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "If I said the means test, I certainly meant the Anomalies Act, and I am quite certain that I said the Anomalies Act, because that was what I intended to say. The Motion expresses what we all desire. It is an appeal for another standstill order, and that is what we all desire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "If I said the means test, I certainly meant the Anomalies Act, and I am quite certain that I said the Anomalies Act, because that was what I intended to say. The Motion expresses what we all desire. It is an appeal for another standstill order, and that is what we all desire. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Of course we do. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members listen they will discover what my opinion is. The hon. Member for Aberdare said that matters would be worse in the distressed areas because of the reductions. Why is he so sure? How does he know that there will be inevitable reductions? Has he forgotten the existence of the local advisory committees? Surely they are of some use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": "ase is different from the others, and the circumstances are constantly changing. Over and over again, within a few months, I have had to plead the cases of individual men, who found the position bearing very harshly upon them, although six months before they were quite content with what they were getting. The local advisory committees have humane ladies and gentlemen; there is no doubt about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2675.0", "colnum": "2675", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAGNAY", "preceding_text": " are far more generous and are adaptable to the circumstances of every individual family. They offer not a comparison, but a contrast, with what the Regulations did when hon. Members were in office. Hon. Members are perfectly right, at the moment. They and the country have a right to expect better things from this National Government, and I shall be grievously disappointed if that does not result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2685.1", "colnum": "2685", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain HAROLD BALFOUR", "preceding_text": "e of local authorities, which all Governments have endeavoured to put down in the past. Secondly, the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) asked us to look at the wickedness of this Government and to justify if we could 28s. 6d. for an outof-work miner. I would remind him that 28s. 6d., inadequate as it may be, is a greater sum than was supplied by the Labour Government in the years 1929 to 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2697.1", "colnum": "2697", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Battleships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGOVERN", "preceding_text": "fied that if there were an opportunity for me to take a plebiscite on the means test in that constituency, I would get an endorsement of the rejection of the means test in its entirety. There is no opportunity under Parliamentary government for getting the mind of the people. At election times there are all sorts of cries. The building of a Cunarder returns an hon. Member. It may be a question of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2698.1", "colnum": "2698", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. SHINWELL", "preceding_text": " rising tide of industrial improvement, with this diminished unemployment and reduced cost, can afford to be more generous. In situations of crisis, in periods of economic depression, one could understand the attitude of the National Government. It is proper to conserve our resources in those circumstances. But the situation to-day is different from what it was in 1931, or even several months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2698.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2707.5", "colnum": "2707", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has stated what is the case. There is no distinction drawn, as he said in his speech there was, between those now coming off benefit who have not been under the Board and those who have for some months been under the Board. Later on when reductions are made to single persons in an area their treatment will be equal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2709.3", "colnum": "2709", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "That is not due to the new Regulations. It would have taken place under the old Regulations, as in similar circumstances it has taken place under public assistance practice. I am pointing out that no person has, because of the new Regulations, received a notice of reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1", "colnum": "2713", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": " other facts before the House about the amount of payments per person on an average that have been made. In November, 1931, the average weekly payment to applicants receiving assistance was 19s. Since then it has been steadily rising. In April of 1935 it was 22s. 11d.; in January, 1936, it had risen to 23s. 7d. On the 1st November, 1936, it was 23s. 10d. On the 21st November, after the first week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1", "colnum": "2713", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Per case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "; in January, 1936, it had risen to 23s. 7d. On the 1st November, 1936, it was 23s. 10d. On the 21st November, after the first week—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Members will only listen they will get the facts. On 21st November, 1936, after one week's survey of about rather over one-quarter of the new cases, it had risen to 24s. 1d. That is the average payment made per applicant receiving assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1", "colnum": "2713", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said per person.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "e 1st November, 1936, it was 23s. 10d. On the 21st November, after the first week—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Members will only listen they will get the facts. On 21st November, 1936, after one week's survey of about rather over one-quarter of the new cases, it had risen to 24s. 1d. That is the average payment made per applicant receiving assistance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Per case.\"] I said per applicant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1", "colnum": "2713", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BROWN", "preceding_text": "d risen to 24s. 1d. That is the average payment made per applicant receiving assistance. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Per case.\"] I said per applicant. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You said per person.\"] I took very good care to read it out exactly. What I said was that since 1931 the average weekly payment to applicants receiving assistance has been steadily rising, although it may be disagreeable to hon. Members opposite", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2717.1", "colnum": "2717", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MAINWARING", "preceding_text": "When are we to get the complete estimate of needs? Perhaps the Secretary of State for War will come in and say what he requires to be done in respect of physical fitness. Perhaps the Admiralty will have a shot at it, and the Royal Air Force, after that. Perhaps the needs of the unemployed will be adequately met when we have completed the round of all the Government Departments and sub-Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2717.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2744.0", "colnum": "2744", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Not much.", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "onsideration of the persons concerned. The Corporation are prepared to give full facilities. There is one point upon which we need not dwell much and that is Sunday programmes. I ventured in a previous Debate to give an opinion of my own, which I think is widely shared, that Sunday programmes should be brighter. I think the House would agree and many people would agree that they are much brighter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2742.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2759.1", "colnum": "2759", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Major TRYON", "preceding_text": "That is quite untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2759.4", "colnum": "2759", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander FLETCHER", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander FLETCHER", "preceding_text": "orandum of 6th March and the withholding of the increment, how can the Board of Inquiry possibly support their statement that they reject entirely Mr. Lambert's theory of persecution? It is very satisfactory to note paragraph 42, which contains a severe censure of the B.B.C. governors and of the officials concerned, and we can only wait and see if resignations will follow upon that severe censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2759.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2764.5", "colnum": "2764", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. DAVIES", "preceding_text": "I did not understand him so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2772.1", "colnum": "2772", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member may say \"Nonsense,\" and he is entitled to his opinion, but I admit that when we take into account the tremendous income of the Corporation, the entertainment and instruction provided are pitiful in the extreme. The statement has been made again and again that the Broadcasting service of, this country is the finest in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2772.1", "colnum": "2772", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Scottish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. STEPHEN", "preceding_text": " Members to realise that they are the trustees of millions of people outside who are entitled to much better Sunday programmes than they are getting at present. As regards the choice of programmes, generally there are only two programmes to choose from—the National and the Regional. All the stations that were opened for broadcasting have been co-ordinated until the choice is now between those two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-17", "file": "debates1936-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "26792fd3acd40002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2776.1", "colnum": "2776", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. WOMERSLEY", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. WOMERSLEY", "preceding_text": " the \"someone\" was. I know someone who telephoned to someone else and said, \"Do not say anything that is private, the operator might hear,\" and the voice of the operator came back, \"Oh, no. I am not listening at all.\" Can it be that the person they are afraid of is the girl operating the switchboard at the B.B.C.? I have been assured that the right hon. Gentleman's statement is without foundation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-17a.2776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-18", "file": "debates1936-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5629a5b50e0265a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-18a.2830.1", "colnum": "2830", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain MACNAMARA", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain MACNAMARA", "preceding_text": "nk, about 3,000 to 4,000 strong. It consists of Frenchmen, Italians, German—people who have fled from Germany and Italy—Poles, Czechs, etc. and a few Britons. Although we have good evidence that the Russian aeroplanes and tanks that are being supplied to the Government are driven by Russian aviators or worked by Russian mechanics, we did not see any evidence of Russian soldiers fighting in Madrid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-18a.2830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-18", "file": "debates1936-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5629a5b50e0265a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-18a.2862.2", "colnum": "2862", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "e is no shortage of bricklayers in the Corporation department. If the department would do building repairs and wanted a bricklayer they could get ten. The Corporation bricklayer has a guaranteed week, payment for holidays and superannuation. He has no casual employment. Give the ordinary bricklayer who builds houses the same conditions and you will get all the houses and all the men that you need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-18a.2862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1936-12-18", "file": "debates1936-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "5629a5b50e0265a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-18a.2862.2", "colnum": "2862", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. BUCHANAN", "preceding_text": "s no use telling me that you have built 43,000 houses. There are 60,000 needed and, if you go on at the rate of the last year, it will take 30 years to complete them. If the Tory party had been in the Council and had built only 2,300 houses in a year, there would have been an outcry. This year they are completing 1,600 to the end of October and they expect to build 600 more by the end of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1936-12-18a.2862.2"}