{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "Is the Postmaster-General aware that this address of the Archbishop was given as a religious service broadcast, and will he represent to the British Broadcasting authorities that it is altogether deplorable that an occasion of that kind should be used for an outburst of spleen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.27.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I am merely asking the Postmaster-General, as representing the B.B.C. in this House, that he should represent to the B.B.C. authorities the undesirability of allowing episcopal spleen of this nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of that statement and in view of the fact that we are responsible for the liberty of the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "nt will continue carefully to watch the situation in this region, for they are closely concerned in the maintenance of the position in the Spanish zone as laid down by the treaties now in force. I have thought it right to give the House a full statement of the position on this subject in view of the reports which have appeared in the Press and in view of our special interests in the area concernd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "Various correspondents saw them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: On the left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ing to the poll, and that it was a Red Government which was in control at the election. It was, in fact, a Government of the Right. The hon. Gentleman talked about machine guns in the hands of the Opposition of the Left being displayed upon the public squares when the Government of the Right was in control. Surely the hon. and gallant Member for Bournemouth, who sits in such close proximity to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.133.2", "colnum": "133", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "vernment that Spain needs. The hon. Gentleman talked of the humane things that General Franco would do if he only got into power; Franco and his kind have been in power in Spain for hundreds of years. His backers have owned the soil of Spain for hundreds of years, and the people of Spain, particularly the peasantry, have been down into depths of poverty unparalleled in any other country in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "lives of eminent citizens in Spain were no longer safe and that if they were to save anything they must revolt. And the revolution was brought about. What happened then? Civil war took place. General Franco was sweeping everything before him, that cannot be denied, until he was checked at Madrid, a very difficult proposition unless he was prepared to destroy the place, which he did not want to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Russians!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "n-intervention committee had been set up. It is also a fact—and we all deplore it—that forces of Germans and Italians are going into Spain. It is wicked to send young Englishmen there to die—it is wicked for any country to allow people to go to Spain to take part in a quarrel which has nothing to do with them. But let us be absolutely frank—there was a very large number of French defending Madrid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-19", "file": "debates1937-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "c3e34c79d5ea83d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member did not really ask a question. What he said was that we ought to do something, and tell the Germans they must do it; but if the result meant war, would the hon. Gentleman and his friends follow that course of action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-19a.166.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-20", "file": "debates1937-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a5d15d3b065eb3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.198.2", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or private interests?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Certainly; it will be open to any such combination of local authorities as the hon. Gentleman suggests to submit a scheme of that character. The scheme must specify all matters about compensation and a great deal of the detail as to how the slaughterhouse will be run. If those conditions are satisfactory it will go ahead, under the supervision of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-20", "file": "debates1937-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a5d15d3b065eb3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not in business.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "rticular, and he referred to areas in Bedfordshire and so forth where you could not get an acre for love or money under £5 or £6 per annum rent. I know that there are many acres to be got for 30s. or £2, and that there are very special areas. Broadly speaking, the landowner is always out, like any other business man, or man who is not in business, to make the best deal for himself he possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-20", "file": "debates1937-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a5d15d3b065eb3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": "nd—a most important point—advocates the levy-subsidy plan to which, it says, the Government had previously been pledged, and under which a body appointed by the Government, but not responsible to this House in any way, would be responsible for recommending all rates of import duties to the Import Duties Advisory Committee, the proceeds being earmarked for distribution among agricultural producers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-20", "file": "debates1937-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a5d15d3b065eb3e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin", "preceding_text": "000 is not used, I would ask my right hon. Friend whether that surplus will be passed over to following years. Part III deals with control of markets. I am going to ask my right hon. Friend: Does he not think that this is a clear fraud on the farmers? If he has any doubts on the matter, I would point out that, sitting behind him, is a gentleman who will enlighten him as to what fraud really means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-20a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "pokesmen. I must say from my knowledge of the Bill that I do not think the Under-Secretary for Scotland was very wrong when he used those phrases. Let us consider the three methods of help for beef as contained in the Bill, and the Government's policy. There is first of all the duty of ¿d. a lb. I think it is generally admitted that the exporters of beef in the Argentine will pay that duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.365.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "g foreign companies in London. Here is a very interesting fact. I have been told on very credible authority that at Ilfracombe, a well-known health resort in North Devon, where the population is about 10,000 ordinarily and rises to 50,000 or 60,000 in the summer, there is little more North Devon mutton or beef sold. The butchers send for their supplies to Smithfield and get frozen or chilled beef.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.385.5", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "preceding_text": "tly been told by the Government when temporary Measures for dealing with agriculture were put forward, that the Government had a long-term policy which would he introduced in due course. I suppose we are to understand that in this Bill we have at last come to the Government's long-term policy. If that be so, then I must say that after all we heard about it in advance, it is a great disappointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEEF AND VEAL CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Haslam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They all do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Haslam", "preceding_text": "oreign meat, but that is not true of all. A great number of people in all ranks of society prefer homegrown meat. In fact, I think the Mover of the Amendment stated that on the North-East Coast something like 58 per cent, of the meat consumed was homegrown. That is a good large figure, and it shows that a very large number of working people in that part of the world prefer English to foreign meat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEEF AND VEAL CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "preceding_text": " the importer, the agent, the wholesaler and the retailer. There are all those different channels through which this meat is going to pass before you get near the possibility of the consumer buying it. What is the use of saying that the whole of the duty of ¾d. is going to be paid by the consumer? Long before it gets anywhere near the consumer, contributions to the duty will have been paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about this factory?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "preceding_text": " as to the desirability, and indeed the necessity, of doing everything possible for the distressed areas. The subject, however, should be looked at as a whole and not merely with regard to the location of a particular factory. I would like in this connection to state what the facts are with regard to orders that have been placed by Service Departments in the distressed areas over a certain period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "preceding_text": "d be looked at as a whole and not merely with regard to the location of a particular factory. I would like in this connection to state what the facts are with regard to orders that have been placed by Service Departments in the distressed areas over a certain period. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about this factory?\"] I think that the orders placed by Service Departments apply very much to this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "preceding_text": "RS: \"What about this factory?\"] I think that the orders placed by Service Departments apply very much to this discussion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The orders placed by Service Departments since 1st April, 1935, amount to £45,000,000. These are direct contracts and do not include subcontracts, about which Service Departments make a point that they should be put by main contractors in distressed areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, discuss Maidenhead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Sir Philip Sassoon)", "preceding_text": "artments apply very much to this discussion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The orders placed by Service Departments since 1st April, 1935, amount to £45,000,000. These are direct contracts and do not include subcontracts, about which Service Departments make a point that they should be put by main contractors in distressed areas. [ Interruption. ] We are discussing contracts placed by Service Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.487.3", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"100 miles \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "preceding_text": "I do not know off hand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.487.5", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "preceding_text": " that there are difficulties in obtaining suitable labour for this type of factory in many districts after the period of the industrial depression, but we explored first of all from a technical point of view and then explored what labour can be provided. The firm concerned have had a great deal of experience and are satisfied that they can get the labour that they need for this particular factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.487.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "preceding_text": "his agricultural land, I think the fact that we have taken 70 acres cannot be said to have disorganised the whole agricultural life of the district. We are anxious to get on with the scheme, and we have to get these aeroplanes. We may be criticised for having this place, but if we had taken an aerodrome and factory in another place it would have meant delay in the produc- tion of these aeroplanes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.488.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-21", "file": "debates1937-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "c7b1b09669ee64b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFT FACTORY (WHITE WALTHAM).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "preceding_text": " whole agricultural life of the district. We are anxious to get on with the scheme, and we have to get these aeroplanes. We may be criticised for having this place, but if we had taken an aerodrome and factory in another place it would have meant delay in the produc- tion of these aeroplanes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] This is far more justifiable. I hope what I have said will have reassured the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-21a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-25", "file": "debates1937-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "05220f75d712846b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "preceding_text": "anuary, 1937; col. 74, Vol. 319.] I submit that the hon. Member's question was answered in 1931, when there was a Labour Government sitting on the benches opposite and when the hon. Member for Rothwell was at the Dominions Office under Lord Passfield. The answer was given by Mr. G. D. H. Cole, whom no one in this House or anywhere else I am sure, would suspect of being other than a true Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-25", "file": "debates1937-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "05220f75d712846b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE SETTLEMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is worse than any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "he same. In Canada there is an enormous German population. I cannot remember the figures for last year offhand, but I think I shall probably be right in saying that some 150 Germans, 150 Italians and 150 Poles.—small numbers, I know— went into Canada, probably twice as many Ukrainians, as they are described, and 200 Continental Hebrews, as they are called, and you find that there are 15 Welshmen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-25", "file": "debates1937-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "05220f75d712846b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "BEEF AND VEAL CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to detain the Committee more than a few moments, but I must refer to a comparatively small matter on the administrative side of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-25", "file": "debates1937-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "05220f75d712846b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "BEEF AND VEAL CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "preceding_text": "ment to something which is equally important, but which is omitted from the Bill, namely, that liver products are also a vital necessity for manufacturing pharmaceutical chemists in the production of remedies for pernicious anaemia. They are not exempted from the Bill, and I ask the Government whether they will be good enough to consider at a later stage inserting that exemption of liver products?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-25", "file": "debates1937-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "05220f75d712846b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "BEEF AND VEAL CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "preceding_text": "w materials. What I am asking is not a large matter. The quantity under discussion amounts to about 800 tons per annum and an approximate value of £36,000, so that the Treasury will not lose a great deal, but they will certainly help to maintain an essential remedy at a lower price to the public, if they are able to make this concession. I think it is in the public interest that they should do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.717.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-25", "file": "debates1937-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "05220f75d712846b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BEEF AND VEAL CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "producer and the exporter into this country. If the Argentine is going to pay tax on liver, where is the soundness of the hon. Members' arguments? It merely means that the Argentine will be paying a contribution towards providing this essential remedy. The hon. Members are on the horns of a dilemma. We know very well, as all scientific chemists know, that the consumer pays the tax in the long run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-25a.718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On one side!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "e were men in the dockyard service whose actions and whose associations forced the Government to distrust their loyalty. It was not a question of men holding or expressing political views. Any man in the clockyards can have any political views that he wishes. We do not interfere with them. Indeed, we give a man every facility to take part in the normal political life of the country if he so wills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "d by the Cabinet, and the procedure that we adopted was adopted after the fullest consideration by the Government as a whole. The right hon. Gentleman, in the course of his speech, naturally raised the question why, if we thought so gravely of the conduct and associations of these five men, we did not prosecute them. My answer is that we acted as any employer would have acted in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "ly be adopted in cases connected with the Civil Service, or in cases connected with courts of law. That is a course we should have preferred, but we were confronted with the difficulty that the information at our disposal was necessarily secret and confidential, and was obtained from sources which, while legitimate and reliable, could not in the interests of the security of the State be disclosed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "posite that it will place this country at a grave disadvantage. In any case, we came to the conclusion that we were not prepared to disclose the sources of our information and to endanger the system of our intelligence service. I put the matter perfectly plainly and bluntly before the House. Taking that view, what would have been gained by telling the men in detail of the cause of their discharge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.805.6", "colnum": "805", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not know what it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": " only be used in cases where it was definitely hostile to the interests of the State to disclose the sources of information and to treat the cases under normal procedure. I hope and believe these cases will be extremely rare. All my information goes to show that the great body of workers in the dockyards are loyal to the core. They resent the action of men such as the men with whom we are dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.805.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "Has any disciplinary action been taken? We rely on the Navy for our safety, and we rely on the Admiralty to ensure that there shall be no action subversive of discipline in the Navy. I understand the difficulty, and I acquit the First Lord entirely of blame for his—what shall I call it?—somewhat high-handed but necessary action. These men could not be informed of what they were charged with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.813.7", "colnum": "813", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "estion of law, then I am wrong, but only on law. It is an extraordinarily difficult matter for the Admiralty to divulge the sources of their information. It is perfectly true that we must have a Secret Service. I hate it; there is no man on the opposite side of the House who hates armaments more than I do; I loathe them all; but this is all part of the accursed system into which the world has got.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.813.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.815.2", "colnum": "815", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "I do not know what their standard is, but I say that men who sabotage submarines ought to be boiled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "I can only take the inquiries of the responsible Department. If you cannot take the inquiries and the word of the heads of Departments responsible to this House, all government ceases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.815.10", "colnum": "815", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "I have never shirked controversy with any Labour man", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.815.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "e should do so, but there is another side to the question. If the lives of men in the Navy are being endangered by acts of this kind, you cannot take ordinary action to deal with the situation. You cannot treat it as a negligible matter. It is not a negligible matter. Moreover, it has created comment in other countries besides our own. Such a thing is very damaging to the prestige of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "uation. You cannot treat it as a negligible matter. It is not a negligible matter. Moreover, it has created comment in other countries besides our own. Such a thing is very damaging to the prestige of this country. [ Interruption. ] I do not understand the interruption of hon. Members opposite. Either these incidents have occurred or they have not occurred. Everybody knows that they have occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.826.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "knows that they have occurred. [ Interruption. ] Do hon. Members deny that these incidents have occurred? Do I take it to be the argumentative case of right hon. and hon. Members opposite—I am not referring to the case of these men, but to the incidents which have been given by the First Lord of the Admiralty, and which have been put into an official communique—that these things have not occurred?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "The answer is purely a mathematical one. It would have doubled the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member is trying now to set a trap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e men are shipwrights, men who work in gangs and never isolated, all of whose actions can be observed, since they can only be in the dockyard or on the ship during the hours of work. The action of the First Lord of the Admiralty in discharging these men on such flimsy evidence, without proved motive, shows that the whole attitude of himself and his colleagues is one that is biased against the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"And its source.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "the guilt of the men, although the evidence showed grave grounds for suspicion, would he keep those men in national employment in the dockyards? There is another reason against such a trial, a reason which is known to Mem- bers of every section in the House. It was given by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Whatever the form of your inquiry you would, in such a case, have to disclose your evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " which is known to Mem- bers of every section in the House. It was given by the First Lord of the Admiralty. Whatever the form of your inquiry you would, in such a case, have to disclose your evidence. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"And its source.\"] You would have to disclose not merely the sources of the evidence, but the evidence itself, and that might wreck the future activities of your Intelligence Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Judges?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "nterest that any information should be given on any subject, however necessary it may be to do justice to an individual citizen. Those two principles have obtained throughout our history and they are both involved in what we are discussing here. The right of the Executive to dismiss its servants without giving any reason applies not only to subordinate servants such as these, but to every servant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.866.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A private inquiry.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell you. I am stating to you my convinced opinion. It may be wrong, but I am quite certain it is not wrong. After all, I am entitled to my opinion as much as the hon. Gentleman. It was a foreign organisation, any way. Hon. Members of the Socialist party and of the Liberal party have stressed the importance of a public inquiry as to whether these men were guilty or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "told that they are definitely connected with those who did perpetrate it. The men who have been discharged from the dockyard are men in whom, we have been informed, the Admiralty no longer have confidence, and it is not in the interests of the nation that they should continue to be employed in the dockyard. They are definitely linked up with the sabotage that has taken place in Devonport dockyard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Lord Ullswater and the right hon. Member for Hillsborough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": " Government would be only too glad to give. My right hon. Friend the Member for North Cornwall (Sir F. Acland), who spoke for the Liberal party—I was sorry that I was unable to wait for his speech, I have been present as much as I could during the Debate—spoke in favour of an arbitrator being appointed. I think he suggested Lord Sankey or my right hon. Friend the Member for Hillhead (Sir R. Home).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "er and the right hon. Member for Hillsborough.\"] I am not sure, because I did not hear him. On that point, I would say that the responsibility for what has happened is the Government's, and nobody else's. The Government must, and do take, full responsibility. They would be cowards if they did not. It has been their action, and they are trying to defend it as well as they can, in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.893.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to these particular men we have ceased to have confidence in them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-26", "file": "debates1937-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "68d2c61b52e01aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "ROYAL DOCKYARDS (DISMISSALS).", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n the same way similar occasions arise under the State. It is an unpleasant duty, but it is a duty that a Government cannot shirk, and we submit the whole of the case that has been debated to-day to the judgment of the House. I am convinced that a considerable majority of this House will feel that the Government have done what they should have done and in the only way that they could have done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-26a.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-28", "file": "debates1937-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c406538ee6c3b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-28a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATERNITY SERVICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "uld do that as soon as the block grant and the weighted formula have been agreed with the local authorities. At present those matters are in negotiation, and it will not be possible to submit a statement showing what they will get until the percentages have been agreed with the local authorities. As soon as that is done I should be glad to submit it, but I am afraid I could not give a date for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-28a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-28", "file": "debates1937-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c406538ee6c3b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-28a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "HARBOURS, PIERS AND FERRIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whiskey!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "nd Islands of Scotland with good piers and harbours for the fishermen he will be providing a productive asset. There is the question of tourist traffic, which is important. They need plenty of accommodation and not necessarily at a hotel. I believe the crofters could make a very decent addition to their livelihood by providing stands for caravans and providing the owners of the caravans with food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-28a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-01-28", "file": "debates1937-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "7c406538ee6c3b21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-28a.1178.2", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "HARBOURS, PIERS AND FERRIES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And no money.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "opulation. It should and could maintain a much larger population, if it was properly developed. It is the direct responsibility of the State, not of the local councils or the people themselves, to develop this area of Great Britain, and the State cannot shirk that responsibility for ever or pass it on to the many local authorities with their different policies and different compositions and ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-28a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-29", "file": "debates1937-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "20404ba29692f725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-29a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (RETAIL TRADING SAFEGUARDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "ersons employed for wages, but I should say there must be approximately 1,000,000 persons in businesses on their own account who employ members of their own families as well. Consequently, the number of persons engaged in distribution, so we are told authoritatively, is greater than the total number employed in agriculture, in textiles, in coal mining, engineering and one or two other industries.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-29a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-29", "file": "debates1937-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "20404ba29692f725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-29a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (RETAIL TRADING SAFEGUARDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " progressed and extended side by side. There has been such a tremendous growth in retail trading in this country that all forms of business have grown at the same time. I am not sure that the small shopkeeper would care to handle some of the business done by the multiple stores, and I am sure that they would not do all that the Co-operative Society can do, which is the best form of trading of all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-29a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-01-29", "file": "debates1937-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "20404ba29692f725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-29a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (RETAIL TRADING SAFEGUARDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "f the business done by the multiple stores, and I am sure that they would not do all that the Co-operative Society can do, which is the best form of trading of all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Why should I not say that? I am a Labour man. I am a member of the Co-operative Society not merely on principle, but because, on balance, I can purchase to better advantage at the co-operative store than elsewhere", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-01-29a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-01", "file": "debates1937-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "9ef0323d5a403674", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-01a.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British vessels?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "h a cargo of iron ore, and she must have been very much more overloaded when she sailed because the voyage had taken place in the interval and her bunkers had been consumed. The master was prosecuted and found guilty and was fined £50 in respect of the submersion and £50 in respect of increased freight and was ordered to pay the costs. I have here a number of instances of that type of overloading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-01a.1305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If that is correct, how can the hon. and gallant Gentleman say that the county of Durham has not been neglected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you read the Bill? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " of four or five absolutely unknown persons, defining the future governmental control of this country over posterity, without knowing the personality, character, or mentality of the four or five persons who may at some future time be called upon to exercise the functions laid down in this Measure. Quite frankly, I have not the type of mind that can grasp the common sense of that sort of procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "There certainly would have to be some such provision in any form of government, and I believe in making the provision when one knows the circumstances to be confronted and the men who are available for meeting the circumstances; but what are we asking here? In certain circumstances the Regent would be the Queen Mother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "There certainly would have to be some such provision in any form of government, and I believe in making the provision when one knows the circumstances to be confronted and the men who are available for meeting the circumstances; but what are we asking here? In certain circumstances the Regent would be the Queen Mother. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, the Regent might be the Queen Mother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is making the speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, the Regent might be the Queen Mother. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] I am always ready to be corrected, and I must quite frankly admit that when I begin working among these titles, I am not on what I would call terra cognita. If the Sovereign is under the age of eighteen years, and unmarried, His mother… Who is that? What is her title? What is the title of the reigning Monarch?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " when I begin working among these titles, I am not on what I would call terra cognita. If the Sovereign is under the age of eighteen years, and unmarried, His mother… Who is that? What is her title? What is the title of the reigning Monarch? [An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member is making the speech.\"] I was beginning to doubt that I was making the speech; I thought I was interrupting somebody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": ", and the four persons who, excluding any persons disqualified under this Act from becoming Regents, are next in the line of Succession to the Crown or, if the number of such persons next in the line of Succession is less than four, then all such persons. They are laid down for all time as the. persons fit to govern this land in the event of certain contingencies happening to the reigning Monarch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And none\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": " this Bill. No doubt it is necessary that time should be taken by the forelock, but I am at a loss to understand why in the year 1937 whoever is on the Throne should not be able to have any religion he likes. It appears to me to be entirely out of date. I do not find fault with an established faith. I trust that no Member of the House will feel very upset, because there are men of all faiths here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-02", "file": "debates1937-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "fa619feaa6490f2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1532.3", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "CHAIRMEN OF TRAFFIC COMMISSIONERS, ETC. (TENURE OF OFFICE) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hudson", "preceding_text": "The Amendment would hinder our efforts to get the very best men for these positions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-02a.1532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "The Committee was set up to consider the economic as well as the social implications—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1638.0", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "FEEDING OF CHILDREN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The milk scheme!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "ion? Even if that figure were reduced considerably, it would also have to be increased again to cover the cost of extra premises. The whole sum to be provided for the scheme would come from the taxpayer, whereas it would be administered and spent entirely by the local authorities. Is there any precedent for so divorcing the raising of money from the control of its spending? There is one precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1638.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1646.0", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "FEEDING OF CHILDREN.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Brains on one side and brawn on the other.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": "ave a word with my hon. Friend the Member for Barnstaple (Mr. R. Acland), who is much the same height as I am—I am just under and he is just over six feet—I have merely to look over the heads of hon. Members in the Lobby. On the other hand, if I am in the Government Lobby, I can never see him and have to wait until he comes out of the Lobby. I reckon there is an average difference of three inches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1666.2", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "FEEDING OF CHILDREN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "I think that Durham does not provide meals. I do not think that Glamorganshire does either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "CONDITIONS IN LANCASHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "opposite think that the picture that I have drawn as representing the position between 1925 and 1935 is not correct, and if they have the figures for which I have now been asked, I should be grateful if they would give me those figures. I doubt very much whether those figures will do anything but emphasise in one way or another the general picture of decline and restriction in the cotton industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "CONDITIONS IN LANCASHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": " our Colonial Empire the present Government took considerable action in order to try to meet the danger to our cotton exports from Japanese sources. When one comes to the question of India, I would remind the House that in May, 1936, following a Tariff Board inquiry in India, the duty upon United Kingdom cotton piece-goods other than prints was reduced from 25 per cent. to 20 per cent. ad valorem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "CONDITIONS IN LANCASHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "preceding_text": " figure was 1,374,000,000. I pause to mention, for the benefit of hon. Members of the Labour party, that 1929 was the last year before the Labour Government came into office. In 1931, when they went out of office, the 1,374,000,000 had fallen to 390,000,000, a most formidable reduction and a loss which we have never regained, although there has been an improvement here and there and ups and downs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-03", "file": "debates1937-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d07209f317e307da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "CONDITIONS IN LANCASHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "preceding_text": "t is an entirely different case. We cannot recover the ground merely by trade agreements. I quote the position there for the information of some of those who object to our restoration of armaments and our ability to maintain our position overseas. China, which was a market for 500,000,000 square yards in pre-war days, took 72,000,000 square yards in 1932, and last year took 4,000,000 square yards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-03a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We hope so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that these gas-masks will have very much deteriorated before the war starts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1747.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1749.0", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to give the legal position in this area his special attention as the owner of the colliery concerned is chairman of the county council and is in very close touch with the chief constable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1748.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "he dissolution of Parliament. Am I to understand from the right hon. Gentleman's answer to the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) that the Sovereign is debarred from raising a person to the dignity of the Peerage by telegram? As I have admitted, I do not know much about these things. If His Majesty were in Australia and, say, the Chief Patronage Secretary had done something wonderful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1844.5", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 2, line 27, to leave out \"or otherwise.\" At an earlier stage this evening, the question of the value of words, as herein mentioned, was referred to, and one hon. Gentleman said that in his opinion he was mad, but that the rest of the world would not have the same opinion about him. Either I am mad, or these words have no meaning. As I understand the Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1844.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1844.5", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are repeating yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "ble to say: \"He is a bit touched,\" or \"He is not a bit touched.\" That definition came not from a learned Member of the Government but from an ordinary layman, which shows how very careful one has to be in the company one keeps, in regard to mentality. If one understands the meaning of words correctly—and in an Act of Parliament one ought so to understand them, because they ought to have a meaning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1844.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1848.5", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGENCY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for West Fife!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "possibility that was put forward by the hon. Member for South Kensington (Sir W. Davison), who thought that the Prime Minister would be an appropriate person whose word might be taken as to the physical or mental condition of the King. I can see great possibilities there. It is not always the present Government or the present Prime Minister who will be in office in this land. Others might be there", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1848.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1880.0", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Cayzer", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Cayzer", "preceding_text": "He was not talking about shipping, but about capital appreciation. During the War the British merchant fleet was commandeered by the Government; not only the fleet, but the whole of the organisation. The ships were put on Blue Book rates, which were quite inadequate in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1880.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the President of the Board of Trade himself when asked whether the Maritime Board agreement contains stipulations as to overtime, stated that he had drawn the attention of the Tramp Shipping Subsidy Committee to the matter, and on another occasion that he was not aware of any reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-04", "file": "debates1937-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "f31eadc336b76655", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPPING (CONTINUANCE OF SUBSIDY) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "being engaged in circumstances in which a white crew might have been engaged. Let the House understand the position. The owner of the \"Cromarty\" is under obligation, by the agreement he has signed in India, to repatriate his lascar crew to India. He has to get them back by sea to India. The agreement has still 15 months to run. What is he going to do? Pay passenger rates for them to go by P. & O.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-04a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-05", "file": "debates1937-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "df025d6dd4006e9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-05a.1947.1", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMARY PROCEDURE (MATRIMONIAL AND OTHER MATTERS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "hich comes in Clause 2, is a restriction on the numbers of persons who may be present in court. A list is given in the Bill of those who may be present and it is, on the whole, a reasonable and a generous list. The main point in creating this list at all is to try to prevent a host of busybody neighbours of the parties to the dispute going along to the court for, very often, purely morbid reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-05a.1947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-05", "file": "debates1937-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "df025d6dd4006e9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-05a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS (GRATUITIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": " the continental style, on the bill itself. It must be seen that if the proprietors charge a percentage on the bill, that is divided among those who are employed in a fair and adequate way. It is for that reason that my friends and I have asked the Ministry of Labour, although we recognise that it is putting a considerable amount of work upon them, to act, as it were, as arbitrators in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-05a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-08", "file": "debates1937-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "3cb3733f7b78efc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-08a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "preceding_text": "rom the Opposition Front Bench, that the scheme will not apply to the full extent to the lower-paid classes. Finding ourselves on the horns of that dilemma, I feel there is something to be said for a compulsory system of recreation when considering the ideal of physical education. Nobody objects to compulsory mental education, to compulsory mental exercises, hateful as they may be to the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-08a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-08", "file": "debates1937-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "3cb3733f7b78efc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-08a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that include the nine loans?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": ", and I will give the Committee some figures which will show how from the time the Association really began to get down to its work, the loans agreed to in principle mounted up. The figures which I am about to give are taken from answers given in Parliament. On 5th November, nine loans for a sum of £33,800 had been agreed to in principle. On 24th November, there were 14 loans for a sum of £52,300.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-08a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-08", "file": "debates1937-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "3cb3733f7b78efc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-08a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "rms than the association was able to offer, with the result that a private company is now being formed and is likely to succeed. In another case the application was before the district board and the London board for nearly six months. It was a radio company and as a result it lost the Christmas trade and everyone knows that Christmas is the time when those businesses make hay while the sun shines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-08a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-09", "file": "debates1937-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5754e88556425f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Runciman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Runciman", "preceding_text": "There appear to have been a number of results, and one of the most important is that if machinery is required here for our manufacturers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-09", "file": "debates1937-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5754e88556425f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire does not seem to be here, I know that he would wish me to say, is it not the fact that, seeing that the Russian Ambassador— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-09", "file": "debates1937-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5754e88556425f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three thousand additional soldiers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "the reservist's pay of 6d. the same for an artilleryman, a Royal Army Medical Corps man and an Army Ordnance man? Is it a flat rate or is there any attempt to make the pay in ratio to what was the pay of the man in the particular branch of the Service in which he was serving? Is the right hon. Gentleman endeavouring to see that the 6,000 additional soldiers for which he is asking the House to-day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-09", "file": "debates1937-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5754e88556425f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "deed I am in favour of doing so. The hon. Member for Bridgeton said this was an example of trying to run an Army on the cheap. The hon. Member must know that ours is the most expensive Army in the world. There is nothing to touch it. If conscription came and every one among all classes took his turn for a year, we could run it a great deal more cheaply and save money for social and other services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-09", "file": "debates1937-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5754e88556425f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESERVE FORCES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " a great Department at his disposal, cannot get 6,000 reservists. I admit that much could be said about the small consideration that is given to those men, this 6d. a day, and much about the operation of the means test, but, after all, those are side issues and not the real thing. The Minister and this House will not, however, face the real question. I know a whole lot of reservists, fine fellows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-09", "file": "debates1937-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5754e88556425f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Member!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "ndon County Council, because they have some say in the rent, and the Income Tax people—there are whole ranges of people who know; but we here are not to know. An hon. Member opposite asked what happened from 1929 to 1931, when a Labour Government were in office. Suppose that the Members on the Labour Front Bench were occupying the Government Front Bench. I see opposite the hon. Member for Horsham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-09", "file": "debates1937-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "5754e88556425f50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.365.6", "colnum": "365", "heading": "CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "Your predecessor in the Chair was good enough to rule that we were entitled to ask the Minister whether this increase was a voluntary increase or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-09a.365.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-10", "file": "debates1937-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce650f7fdc77e5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-10a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "PRESERVATION OF OLD BUILDINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "preceding_text": "oing on, even at the present time, in what is in some respects the noblest of all mediaeval English cities, York, and, next to that, Norwich, and when I see buildings of antiquity, mediaeval fabrics, torn down and replaced by others obviously inferior, I feel terribly sore. One feels that this age is lacking in its duty. In that city which, next to Bilston, I love more than any other in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-10a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-10", "file": "debates1937-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce650f7fdc77e5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-10a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "TREND OF POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As in Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Acland", "preceding_text": "equire for its solution a very large expansion in the activities of that same building industry. I believe the conclusion will be reached that, either women must not be allowed to take employment or there must be a complete nursery service for children, municipally or nationally run and controlled. There ought to be a nursery school in every residential part of every town within the next 40 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-10a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-10", "file": "debates1937-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ce650f7fdc77e5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-10a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "AFFORESTATION (SPECIAL AREAS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "preceding_text": "No, it is too big a thing for me to do that. My recollection is that we estimated the 50,000,000 plants that we had raised and the preparation of the nurseries in which they had grown as worth something approaching £50,000. I give that figure with reserve because I did not know this question was going to be asked. It is past history and I may be inaccurate in the figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-10a.543.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.573.9", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman see that a footnote is added to the book saying that the religious significance of the Coronation ceremony is no longer what it once was?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.573.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.599.6", "colnum": "599", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order. I ask whether it is in order, not for an hon. Member to stand up at these benches and use that language, but for an hon. Member to come over from the other side of the House without your knowledge and in the most violent manner use language of that kind to a Member of this House? I heard him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.599.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "echanical power introduced into what used to be workshops, and the inevitable result of maintaining this distinction between the factory and the workshop to-day is to raise a large number of rather difficult problems and narrow points, which do no good to anybody, and it would be far better to sweep away altogether the distinction between the workshop and the factory. The Bill proposes to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More than that‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "e law for a woman or young person to work are 55½ hours weekly, the maximum in a non-textile factory is 60 hours. Those are very long hours, As the House well knows, since the War, as the outcome of collective bargaining, and work done by trade unions and employers' federations, there has been an agreed normal week, what I suppose for the purpose of convenience we may call the 48-hour week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clynes", "preceding_text": " surely, is an argument for giving close consideration to a lessening of the number of hours spent in the mill or factory itself. To us it is a very welcome sign of what I would call an improved attitude of mind on these social and industrial matters, to find interested in social problems large numbers of men and women who formerly left them merely, say, to the Labour party or to the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ountry as a whole, wish. I am sure the right hon. Gentleman must realise that we have a terrific problem here. We have the problem of health. Every day the papers are full of it and Ministers make speeches. In thinking of this Bill we have to realise that 16 per cent. of the children who enter elementary schools are physically defective; and they are going to be allowed to go into factories at 14—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Under 16 there is no overtime. From 16 to 18 there is. Many of us still object to women in industry being classed with children. It is perfectly absurd. The right hon. Gentleman said that one of the reasons for improved factory legislation was that women came into factories during the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mender", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mender", "preceding_text": "hat the consequences will be very serious to anybody. This Measure brings a certain number of employers up to a good standard, but the standard in the Bill is still a long way below that which the best employers are providing in their factories at the present time. In the nineteenth century we used to be the leaders of the world in matters of this kind, but I am afraid that we have lost that lead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I was suggesting that the hon. Member, in dealing with that matter, dealt with the general question of the standard of factory legislation as well, and that argument and what he considered to be the lagging behind of the British standard of factory legislation, made up his general argument to which, personally, I rather object. I may be the only Member in the House who does so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-11", "file": "debates1937-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "cf7e728ed920a20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "s not true. The Confederation of Employers' Organisations, which is the counterpart of the Trades Union Congress, has been in conference with the right hon. Gentleman and his staff at the Home Office, and I think I am safe in saying that they have rendered to him, as has the Trades Union Congress, invaluable assistance in the discussion of the detailed points of this Bill, but I say quite frankly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-11a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Greater\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "ll make strikes and lock-outs a thing of the past. I turn to the question of the benefit to the community, for I take it that will be the chief point which will be argued from the Benches opposite this morning. I submit, first of all, that there is no body of workers treated as badly as the miners, and I submit that the rate of accidents is probably as great in that industry as it is in any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The lock-out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "e had an opportunity of looking at this Bill I have in no way changed my opinion. Before dealing with the various Clauses of the Bill I wish to make one or two observations on a more general matter. The hon. Member for Spennymoor referred to the great growth of poverty which had spread over the mining industry since 1924. Quite true; but the hon. Member did not refer to the general strike of 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "Bill is a very curious form of nationalisation—you can rationalise the amount of mistakes that can be made in human nature; and beyond that there is the further question of certain things arising which are beyond any man's control. Indeed, I think it is only fair to say that for last year, 1936, the rate of fatal accidents in the coal mines of this country was lower than in any year since the War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.753.4", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "Then I understand that the members of the Spencer union have got to come into the Miners' Federation before they can have any representation on this Corporation, and that shows that this Bill is really a Miners' Federation Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.753.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quote the whole statement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "So far, therefore, as efficiency is concerned, there is nothing wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They live upon their losses\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "nsideration I would put before the Secretary for Mines. Why should he and the Government hesitate to take this industry out of the hands of the men who have been losing enormous sums of money not for a few years, but almost for generations? I do not remember when the coalowners admitted that they were doing well in that industry. I have heard of nothing but enormous losses in the mining industry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman was limiting his complaint as regards the exploitation of the consumer to the house coal consumer, I would point out that the house coal consumer is being exploited at the present time to the tune of only an extra 1s. a ton, compared with the price last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.798.2", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"With the exception of Harworth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "icient and badly organised, and that private ownership has failed. Personally, I am very proud of the organisation of the coal industry, especially the organisation which we have built up for dealing with labour troubles and questions of that sort. At every single pit to-day of which I have any knowledge the representative of the men has direct access at all times to the colliery manager's office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-12", "file": "debates1937-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "e5c618c46e18a623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.808.0", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ought to be treated nationally, but just as colliery companies in particular areas have been battling and struggling and competing with each other, so have counties been competing with counties and districts with districts, with the results that the wages and conditions of miners have continually tumbled down. In 1924 the wages of miners in Northumberland were 12s. 6d. a day, and in 1935, 7s. 10d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-12a.808.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-15", "file": "debates1937-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6d1cad91ac65f693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-15a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " labour, limiting the amount of overtime which can be claimed, and holidays. Unfortunately the Home Secretary has not taken a broad view of his responsibilities. He has been told where the factory legislation begins and where it ends. He has not soared like an eagle over the broad industrial field. He talked in his speech about the industrial field, but he has not sought to gain the experience of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-15a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-15", "file": "debates1937-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6d1cad91ac65f693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-15a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prescribed by someone else.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Evans", "preceding_text": "lieve in the Debate on the Bill in 1901, in which he said: Every society is judged, and survives, according to the material and moral minimum which it prescribes to its members. That was regarded by Sidney Webb as a fair statement of the object of factory legislation and of such a thing as the minimum wage. It is to attain a minimum state of affairs below which no employer should be allowed to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-15a.877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-15", "file": "debates1937-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6d1cad91ac65f693", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-15a.909.3", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your own benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": " hope that everything possible will be done to keep up the standard of those undertaking this very arduous duty, for, believe me, the success or failure of our efforts under this Bill will largely depend upon the ability of those who are to serve as factory inspectors. Finally, some of those who have halfheartedly opposed the Bill, notably from the Liberal benches, one of whom I see has joined us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-15a.909.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.970.9", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that American films are very much better than the British?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.970.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They never catch up!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of a big loan for increased armaments is carried into effect. One inevitable effect of that policy will be to send up the cost of living. The people dealt with in this Resolution are being prepared in advance for such a catastrophe, whereas in the case of the ordinary wage earner the axiom applies that wages always follow prices—often a long way behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In what capacity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "I would like to make one or two observations, because I think I am peculiarly qualified to do so. For 20 years I was inside a county court, and on this occasion I really know what I am talking about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said £40 a week!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "Listen to that. Could there be any better example of what I have said? The country will be amazed at the frivolity with which the Socialists are talking about £43 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "judges. Of course one could put an advertisement in the papers offering the appointment at £1,000 a year, and even if only banisters of seven years' standing could apply there would be hundreds of applicants, but they would not be from men such as the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary want for these important posts. They want the very best men, men who are earning £4,000 or £5,000 at the Bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "us to take one of these jobs. They are ready to use any amount of intrigue. It is not a secret that many of the appointments are practically political appointments, perhaps even worse. High Court judges and county court judges belong very largely to one political party and one social set. I am told that it is almost impossible for anyone to become a High Court judge unless he has an Oxford accent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "rrister \"pals\" and no friends among the judges, except that I have to appear before one occasionally, though I hope I shall never have to appear before him on any charge. But if I had a case, I would rather go before an English judge or an English county court to plead my case than before many laymen. There are many in the Labour movement who have acquired good posts and are getting good salaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "e. But if I had a case, I would rather go before an English judge or an English county court to plead my case than before many laymen. There are many in the Labour movement who have acquired good posts and are getting good salaries—[HON. MEMBERS: Why not?\"]—and on the Tory Benches, too. As regards the crumbs of office and the pickings, both parties try to get them. I have seen the tussle for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "STATUTORY SALARIES [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"In accordance with the law of supply and demand.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "on, as on that, the argument is the same. If you are to get the duties of these high offices performed, you have to go into the market and pay the market rate. You have to treat the situation as it exists to-day, not as the predilections of any political faith would like to see it exist, and human nature being what it is, and the state of society being what it is, you have to pay an adequate rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1935, AND GOVERNMENT OF BURMA ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: It is like you applying a strike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan Jones", "preceding_text": "t of India and Burma, from their point of view. The hon. and gallant Gentleman said he hoped that at the forthcoming discussions or conferences the hon. Gentleman would use all the force of the economic power at the disposal of this country in bringing pressure to bear on India and Burma so as to secure better concessions for this country. I wonder what he means by applying full economic pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1935, AND GOVERNMENT OF BURMA ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "le machinery in Lancashire and export that machinery to these countries so that they can manufacture the goods on the spot and maintain our Lancashire export trade at the same time. Hon. Members complain about Bombay mill owners sending textile goods to Burma instead of Lancashire doing so. Is it not true that a great number of the textile mills in Bombay are financed by capital from this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1935, AND GOVERNMENT OF BURMA ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "I am dealing at the moment with the India-Burma trade which has grown up and exists at the present time. What happened when the separation came is what the House is really considering. Is it right that that huge inter-India-Burma trade, in which many people in this country are vitally interested, should or should not continue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-16", "file": "debates1937-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "59a6449f061895dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1935, AND GOVERNMENT OF BURMA ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "for me to say that Japanese piece-goods compete with Lancashire goods, and this figure is under half of the total which entered Burma in 1932–33. To that extent the position of the exporter is 50 per cent. better, and if hon. Members will turn to the figures they will see that the figures of Japanese imports are only two-thirds of the 62,000,000 yards which Japan imported in 1935–36.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-16a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1205.6", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After 'a war to end war.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "e been studying it in all its details, it really is extremely difficult to appreciate how vastly more costly is the equipment for warlike purposes of to-day than it was at the close of the Great War. In every country which has any armed forces at all, ever since 1918 experts and scientists have been working to try and devise new means of increasing the striking and offensive power of their forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1205.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "ound necessary during the Great War. But if he meant anything more than that, if he really sought to convey that this Measure was a Measure which was likely to lead to war, I deeply regret that he should have given utterance to any such sentiment. I regret it, because it is fundamentally untrue. It is the very opposite of the truth; on the contrary, this is a Measure for the preservation of peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1217.1", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ould not have put down on paper and published myself. Even with regard to the additional ships that are to be laid down in the current year I think with a little imagination and conjecture I could have guessed at the proposals that we have before us. It can all be summed up by, \"The Government want more of everything—more ships, more men, more planes, more guns, more munitions and more factories.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "Chancellor of the Exchequer has had brought before him the facts that underlie that wide concensus of opinion, and that therefore in what he proposes he is sinning against the light. He contrasted, in his opinion, favourably to himself and the Government, the debt which he is intending to create with what happened in 1931. He must be relying upon the ignorance of the Committee on economic matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has purported to quote my words. Let me say that I do not recollect using the word \"theorise.\" I certainly said that on this occasion I did not think it was in the public interest to suggest that these proposals were directed against anybody or that we should be engaged in war with any country in alliance with any other country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1240.2", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "The statement was that we were not to theorise or to make theories about our allies, and my statement is that it is vital that we should have in our mind and base our policy on a perfectly definite theory as to who our allies will be. Our allies will be those who are prepared to defend the reign of law against aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1241.3", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to discuss who they are. I said the League of Nations, but that is not the point. The point which I am making is this, that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs has laid down a perfectly definite League policy, which has been repudiated by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " implication is that, because the League of Nations was not mentioned, a relevant consideration has been left out, I would ask hon. Gentlemen opposite to examine their own record about the League of Nations. One would think, from speeches delivered from the benches opposite, that the League of Nations and support of collective security had been the continuous and steady policy of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whig.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "of two or three minutes, and he may have dealt with that matter while I was away, but I did not hear him say that he thought that the total amount of armaments contemplated was excessive. Perhaps some hon. Members, speaking from the Front Bench opposite, will make clear whether the Opposition believe that it is excessive. It is true that the right hon. Gentleman who spoke from the Liberal benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I do not suggest it seriously or at all. The case for this loan was that which was stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The money is needed, and it would be an intolerable burden on this country, and a set-back to any chance of the furtherance or continuance of prosperity, to raise the whole of the amount by current taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1297.3", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I might be willing to barter that if the hon. Gentleman would come over. It would be worth a high price to get his support. One of my hon. Friends reminds me that we want some good lawyers. We are sometimes rather conscious of our lack in that direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-17", "file": "debates1937-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "b75a777f00fed2f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1302.5", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "these matters. They made an utter mess of the Disarmament Conference. They threw away wonderful opportunities, which will never come back in the lifetime of any of us. Had those chances not been thrown away this White Paper would have been outside the bounds of possibility and armaments would be far lower than they are, and the prospect of getting them lower still would have been within our grasp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-17a.1302.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1329.5", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1329.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "the comparative failure in the first year of the conference and ultimately for its failure. When one thinks to-day of the immediate danger to our people here, perhaps now the country most vulnerable to air attack of any country in Europe, one realises that but for the folly of representatives of the party opposite at the Disarmament Conference, we could have abolished the use of the bombing plane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1404.2", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "entatives of the Dominions in the last few weeks. On the other side of the Atlantic one of them said to me a few months ago, \"We have had a very severe set-back in regard to collective security within the Commonwealth. If Haile Selassie had stayed with his troops and Mr. Anthony Eden had resigned when his Cabinet would not accept his policy, Canada would still be in favour of collective security.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1408.1", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "well as other classes in the community behind them in supporting collective security, and yet how did they treat it? When the Labour party, by a majority of 20 to 1 at the Brighton Conference in October, 1935, came down in favour of sanctions, and sanctions properly carried through, we were told on all the platforms right up to the time of and through the General Election that we were war-mongers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "that, although here again they will be subject to revision in any fresh emergency and with every fresh discovery, exhaustive reports have been prepared. The distribution of the imports of food, the diversion of shipping from the East coast to the West coast, the organisation at the ports, the internal distribution and inland transport, the choice of routes—ladies and gentlemen, they have all been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "The British Empire has never yet been faced by that situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To Belfast Lough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " reckon it at £4,000,000 or £5,000,000 each. I ask the experts, what are aircraft carriers for? They are to defend the Fleet against attack. There is no danger of our Fleet being attacked by the German Fleet, and, therefore, there is no need for these aircraft carriers. We do not even know—I do not suppose the First Lord has the faintest idea—where the Fleet will go if war breaks out with Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "preceding_text": " question later on. My point is that in this terrible necessity of spending this vast sum, there will be no interference with the general trade of the country; in fact, it will help unemployment. It is terrible to think that this is the thing which will do that, but undoubtedly it will. Hon. Members opposite say that all of this will benefit a small number of very rich people. Is that really true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1476.2", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "preceding_text": "help unemployment. It is terrible to think that this is the thing which will do that, but undoubtedly it will. Hon. Members opposite say that all of this will benefit a small number of very rich people. Is that really true? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] How much of this £1,500,000,000 do hon. Members suppose will go in wages? I should think the whole lot of it, if it could be technically analyzed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1476.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1476.4", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "preceding_text": "hequer that the crisis in that year was not due to hon. Members opposite or the Labour Government. It was due to world conditions. But I do find fault with hon. Gentlemen opposite and their Government in that connection, because they found themselves incapable of dealing with the crisis when it did arise and they said, \"We cannot go on like this and we must allow somebody else to take on the job.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "preceding_text": "t we are safe now and I believe we are just about safe—we have not only saved money, but are providing ourselves with an up-to-date fighting machine as a result of this resolution. I feel complete confidence in the Government in this matter and I do not understand why hon. Gentlemen opposite do not feel as I do about it. Unless the Opposition believe that the Government are deliberately dishonest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Prime Minister's speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "preceding_text": "ing machine as a result of this resolution. I feel complete confidence in the Government in this matter and I do not understand why hon. Gentlemen opposite do not feel as I do about it. Unless the Opposition believe that the Government are deliberately dishonest—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—If they take that view, I have nothing more to say to them but I see no justification for it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Kerr", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"]—If they take that view, I have nothing more to say to them but I see no justification for it at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Prime Minister's speech.] The Prime Minister has always stated fully and exactly the intentions of the Government and it is easy for any man who is not prejudiced either by party or by class to appreciate what the right hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1494.0", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "willing to listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-18", "file": "debates1937-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "6bc0ec3d89e918ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1495.6", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE [LOANS].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "de on behalf of the hon. Member who was incurring the pain of the House. I have heard of such representations being made by the Leader of the Opposition, and I have heard spokesmen from the Government Bench endeavouring to arrive at some more satisfactory solution of the difficulty. You, Sir, denied to me on this occasion the opportunity to do what has been granted on many occasions in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-18a.1495.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1525.3", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "ical inexactitude,\" a phrase suited to his mastery of the English language. The Liberal party's new allies, the newly-formed Labour party, had also won seats on their support of what was known as Shackle-ton's Bill. The great majority did a double somersault on that Bill and, to their great surprise, the House of Lords did not throw it out. That laid the foundations for the general strike of 1926.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1529.7", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Then the vote which he gave last night was wrong. This is an intolerable doctrine. That is to proclaim the doctrine that minorities in this House have no rights at all, and that whatever they do is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1529.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Not many. The hon. Member's party were very lucky when they were in office, As a matter of fact, if they had rejected the Road Traffic Act, 1930, the hon. Member for Wolverhampton East (Mr. Mander) would be able to take all his constituents to Grimsby. Now he is pressing for Amendments. Why did the House of Lords pass that deplorable Measure? Because they lost faith in themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "or Wolverhampton East (Mr. Mander) would be able to take all his constituents to Grimsby. Now he is pressing for Amendments. Why did the House of Lords pass that deplorable Measure? Because they lost faith in themselves. [ Interruption. ] Some of the Socialists are not now too keen on the Coal Mines Act, 1930. No, the House of Lords was amazingly kind to the Socialist Government of 1929–31.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1546.7", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "sted the people's rights are now plotting and intriguing with people from other lands in order to take these rights away from us. Recently, we had an example of it, when a man who came into this country dare not travel through the country in his own name, but had to go on the railway in the name of Mr. Smith, because he realised what he would be faced with, because of the feeling in this country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1546.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1546.7", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which newspaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "people from other lands in order to take these rights away from us. Recently, we had an example of it, when a man who came into this country dare not travel through the country in his own name, but had to go on the railway in the name of Mr. Smith, because he realised what he would be faced with, because of the feeling in this country.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"]—Read this morning's newspaper.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1546.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " just a few people? I am asked whether I would support it, and that is quite a reasonable question. Certainly I should not support it, and for reasons that I shall give. If we are to have a referendum why not apply the principle of it to the whole of the people instead of to a relatively backward number of people to whom the hon. Member wishes to apply it? That is what the hon. Member has in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Precisely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "evelopment proposals going through this House, to submit questions of this character to the people. The fact of the matter is that they always oppose what is in the interests of the people, and, particularly, what is in the interests of the working classes. They and most of the people they represent live in the South, in beautiful country. Hon. Members might ask, what has this to do with the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "d introduce a political element into the local elections throughout the country. Party politics would enter those elections and people would be elected because of the role they would play in the event of a referendum. I think that would be very undesirable. It is far better for the good administration of the State that local authorities should continue to elect their members in a non-party spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know what is in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " it should have occupied the whole day, as many things required in an ordinary election are not necessary in this case. There is another omission. Although the hon. Member for South Croydon (Mr. H. G. Williams) bears a name which is well known in Wales, he does not mention Wales in the Bill. Why is nothing to be done so that the ballot paper can be printed in Welsh in certain Welsh constituencies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1591.4", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "s back a power which they have not effectively exercised for 200 years. What does the hon. Member offer us in return for all this? The hon. Member offers us a referendum which is to be put to the members of local authorities, and that means exactly the same result as is already registered in the House of Lords. The local authorities are elected upon a comparatively narrow and restricted franchise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1591.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1597.2", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Through the usual channels.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "n the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) said on one occasion that if the audience to whom a man is speaking does not understand him, he must not blame the audience but himself, because he has not been lucid enough. If I have not been lucid enough, and the hon. Member does not understand what I am trying to say, perhaps he will give me the query, and I shall be happy to elucidate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "Having regard to the fact that the object which I had in mind, namely, the ventilation of this subject, has now been adequately served, I beg to ask leave to withdraw my Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a decent fellow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore", "preceding_text": "ey know perfectly well that were we to have a single Chamber here it would inevitably resolve itself into a dictatorship. You have an example on the far side of the Channel, in the Irish Free State. In the Irish Free State they have eliminated the Senate for one purpose only, and that is to give the decisions and dictates of Mr. De Valera widespread and complete domination throughout the country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-19", "file": "debates1937-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "d5b76de3a45922b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT ACT (1911) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore", "preceding_text": "I would ask my hon. Friend the Member for South Croydon to think it over again. He has my suggestions. He should also I think introduce into the numbers I have suggested, a further 50 to bring in the Churches. I include the Free Churches as well as the established Church, and I would bring in representatives of the Salvation Army. I would give representation to all who deserve well of their people", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-19a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-22", "file": "debates1937-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "05afc6c551ed26c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1682.3", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sir Gallacher!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " Member believe that it requires £152,000 to have a solemn affair? I do not see how any hon. Member has got into his head the idea that there is anything solemn about this. If it were to be a solemn affair, it would be simple and there would be no expense attached to it. I have read in certain histories—I do not know whether it is true or not—that when Sir Galahad was preparing to become a knight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1682.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-22", "file": "debates1937-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "05afc6c551ed26c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Yorkshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": " and it has varied a great deal. There have been some hon. Members who thought the prices of the seats were too dear, and some who have thought, on the other hand, that no price should be charged at all, and there have even been some who thought that the Coronation itself should not be held in Westminster Abbey, but, I think the hon. Member for Springburn (Mr. Hardie) said, on a Scottish hillside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-22", "file": "debates1937-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "05afc6c551ed26c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1715.3", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not declared.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "The long delay gave time for the Arabs to organise, equip and make themselves a really dangerous force. It was not until 30th September that martial law was declared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-22", "file": "debates1937-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "05afc6c551ed26c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1731.1", "colnum": "1731", "heading": "CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "And now, behold the anarchist saying that there was not enough military power exerted against the Arabs in Palestine. Truly the world moves, and those within the world also move in very strange ways. I wish to take the greatest possible exception to the general accusations which have been made and which have suggested that this fine body of people, the Arabs, are murderers and blackguards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-22", "file": "debates1937-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "05afc6c551ed26c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1746.0", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "t's attitude about future supplies from Argentina? We sometimes detect on the opposite benches objections to imports from Argentina. Where do the Government stand? Are they for Argentine food supplies or against them, or are they in favour of some limitation? They had better make up their minds, because we shall be dependent to a considerable extent upon Argentina. I think it was Mr. Lloyd George—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-22", "file": "debates1937-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "05afc6c551ed26c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "nute under which private borrowers under the Agricultural Credits Act are treated more favourably than local authorities. If local authorities wish to repay the Public Works Loans Commissioners prematurely, they have to pay a very stiff premium in certain cases, but private borrowers under the Agricultural Credits Act are allowed to repay the bare amount of their indebtedness, without any premium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-22", "file": "debates1937-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "05afc6c551ed26c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Amendment was made by your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-22a.1785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-23", "file": "debates1937-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b6e7c8eb285db1ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "GRESFORD COLLIERY EXPLOSION.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall never forget.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "y of which, of course, cover some of the aspects of this particular disaster. This disaster is one which was unparalleled for a period of over 20 years in the number of deaths that were involved, and naturally, in a catastrophe of that kind, there were many wounds inflicted. More is the pity, in a way, that we have to have this Debate, because time must be beginning to heal some of the bitterness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-23", "file": "debates1937-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b6e7c8eb285db1ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1867.1", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "GRESFORD COLLIERY EXPLOSION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "From anybody. Therefore, their only way of deciding which pit to inspect is to decide it for themselves and to take a sample. In the North Wales area which we are discussing, it is a curious thing that during the whole of 1934 no complaint was made to the inspectors about any pit. In 1935 there were only two, in 1936 only one, and this year none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-23", "file": "debates1937-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b6e7c8eb285db1ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1874.1", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "GRESFORD COLLIERY EXPLOSION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " it. I want the House to accept it. I do not want there to be any division of opinion between the two sides of the House on a matter of this kind. It will be easier for us if the hon. Member, instead of saying in his Motion, \"to prevent such disasters\" would say, \"to try to prevent,\" because while the Legislature is a Sovereign Legislature there are things called \"acts of God\" which cannot really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-23", "file": "debates1937-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "b6e7c8eb285db1ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1961.5", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "GRESFORD COLLIERY EXPLOSION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "put this to the House? Let us at least show some gratitude that, when all is said and done, the fatalities last year were the lowest of any normal year. We are making strides in bringing down the total of fatal accidents in this country. Last year the total was down to 777. The efforts which are being made by the inspectorate, by mining engineers and by scientists are gradually having some effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-23a.1961.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-24", "file": "debates1937-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0853edfdbc37ac4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "t is why I emphasise the fact that we have received no adequate consideration up to now. I will not burden the Members of this House with descriptions of the weight of our social services in general, but I want to refer to a few figures. At the beginning of the mining depression the population of the Rhondda was 162,000; to-day it is 132,000. A town as big as Jarrow has been lost from the Rhondda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-24", "file": "debates1937-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0853edfdbc37ac4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2123.1", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "s one matter that I should like to raise. It comes under the heading of \"Conveyance of Mails,\" the cost of which is increased by £116,000. On page 24 it is stated that £29,000 additional provision is required for the letter mail traffic, which is greater than was provided for in the original Estimate. The letter-carrying business covers millions of letters. My complaint is in regard to one letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-24", "file": "debates1937-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0853edfdbc37ac4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2138.6", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": "ose Members of the House who have to deal with juveniles, both in the schools of the locality and in approved schools, would have liked more information about it. We are not being told where these six new schools are, and I think we ought to know, because one finds that some magistrates are making it a practice to send young people to colonies for mental defectives rather than to approved schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-24", "file": "debates1937-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "0853edfdbc37ac4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "ion. There will be great difficulties again if there is not a general conscription of the food and the food-producing power of the nation in the next war. I hope than any organisation which may be set up, even if it is in an embryo stage, will get in its terms of reference a full assurance that it shall get whatever powers are necessary. But I wish to conclude my remarks on this particular matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-24a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2173.9", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardie", "preceding_text": "to the meticulous methods he was adopting in order to get all kinds of information, why cannot I have an answer to the last part of the question? What is behind this general idea among Ministers, that, when it comes to this money being swindled out of the taxpayers, we cannot get the information we desire? Cannot the right hon. Gentleman answer that question now? Why cannot we get the information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2173.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2181.3", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Major Colfox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Colfox", "preceding_text": "Is not this another instance of the Socialist party trying to penalise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2181.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2224.0", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "At the expense of the unemployed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "mounting to over £40,000,000, in addition to an amount of debt redemption within the Fixed Debt Charge of £32,500,000, a total of £72,500,000. Besides that, do not let us forget that the Unemployment Insurance Fund, which in 1931 was accumulating a burden of debt at a rapid rate and had already reached over £100,000,000, has now been put into a solvent condition and reserves have been accumulated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2224.1", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "son to sweep them away, but what I say is that that rise is not due to the fact that we are proposing to borrow £400,000,000. It arises from speculation in the base metals, and the speculation which brought about that rise is founded upon the prospect of this great sum of £1,500,000,000 being spent during the five years, which it is anticipated will increase very much the demands for these metals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2235.1", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about factories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " quickly, especially in view of the developments that are taking place every day. I doubt whether you could find anything more perishable than an aeroplane at the present time. The loan is to be for 30 years, and I submit that by the end of that time not a single one of the things that we are building will be in existence either ships, aeroplanes or tanks, and others will have to take their place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2246.3", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Horne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Trade was going down then!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Horne", "preceding_text": "I came to the conclusion—and a very much more important person in the shape of the right hon. Gentleman came to the same conclusion—that the best thing we could do to stimulate the country was to take a shilling off the Income Tax. When I proposed it, I was condemned by every economist in the country, and I remember Mr. Asquith getting up to tell me that I was gambling with the nation's interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "To defend the working-class of Russia. But are you going to tell me that the National Government, with all its pro-Fascist sympathies, wants an Army to defend the working-class of this country? No; you are destroying the working-class of this country. Is not the population going down all the time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " other night to paint the most gloomy picture, saying that if things went on as they are going on now there would, in a matter of 30 years, be catastrophe in this country from the point of view of its population. Who is doing it? The monopoly capitalists, who are concentrating on getting profit. They are destroying industry, destroying towns and villages, and destroying the lives of men and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-25", "file": "debates1937-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "a94ba5df8779c6c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2335.1", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), who put it some years ago very plainly when he said: Germany disarmed; Britain followed and even anticipated the process of disarmament, but she stood alone in carrying out her obligations. Every other country that signed the Treaty rearmed. Their armaments are more powerful to-day than they were in 1914. Everybody knows that is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-25a.2335.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-26", "file": "debates1937-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f8df73f2b97c7f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2371.3", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "preceding_text": ", that of the Workmen's Compensation Act, irrespective of negligence, is a method which really does more good, taking it by and large. I agree that in many cases the amount to be recovered is much smaller than at common law. Again hon. Members will be able to supplement my experience with their own, but the largest sum for which I have ever settled a workman's compensation liability claim is £950.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-26", "file": "debates1937-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f8df73f2b97c7f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2415.0", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": " no unemployment pay. You hamstring the workmen in every direction. The party opposite, with few exceptions, do their utmost to restrict the liability of the employers and, had it not been for this party, the Workmen's Compensation Act would not be what it is to-day. I believe, with few exceptions, they are not likely to get redress from that side of the House. They can get it only from this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-26", "file": "debates1937-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f8df73f2b97c7f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2418.9", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What cases?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "I would like to know whether, if this Bill became law, all these cases would be heard in the county courts, or would some of them go to the High Court?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2418.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-02-26", "file": "debates1937-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f8df73f2b97c7f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2418.9", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know there will be any cases?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "I would like to know whether, if this Bill became law, all these cases would be heard in the county courts, or would some of them go to the High Court? [An HON. MEMBER: \"What cases?\"] The cases under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2418.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-02-26", "file": "debates1937-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "f8df73f2b97c7f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2420.0", "colnum": "2420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "ance is such that it ought to have been brought in by the Government of the day, if at all. I feel convinced that the majority of Members will vote against it as an expression of their opinion that if Measures of this kind, involving such large principles, are to be introduced, the Government ought to make themselves responsible for such Measures. I hope the Bill will not receive a Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-02-26a.2419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-01", "file": "debates1937-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bdd195fc0a551e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Hills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hills", "preceding_text": "oney in you are pumping money out. You are not only borrowing £80,000,000 a year, but you are taking £220,000,000 a year out of money that remains in the hands of individuals and public companies in this country. On that argument I very respectfully differ from the hon. Member, and I am glad to see that that great authority whom I admire as much as the hon. Member, Mr. Maynard Keynes, agrees also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-01", "file": "debates1937-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bdd195fc0a551e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With a hammer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "to get a ticket of admission to the gallery. In those days the place where the Parliamentary Secretary is sitting was occupied by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, and when Members of the Opposition brought forward pernicious proposals of this kind he always said, \"Send for the sledge-hammer, and we shall soon finish off these hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite.\" Then Mr. Asquith would come along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.121.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-01", "file": "debates1937-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bdd195fc0a551e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "ember sitting on these benches and below the Gangway will be pleased to hear the hon. Member's admission that he is a political prisoner. He very frankly told the House that if he could have his way he would withdraw this Order. The hon. Member, referring to the speech of the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Mr. G. Griffiths), declared that if he had it in his power he would readily withdraw this Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-01", "file": "debates1937-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "4bdd195fc0a551e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "es, lumped it together in weight and value and divided one by the other and arrived at an average figure of British manufacture of something like ios.—not 5s.— a lb. The cheaper end of the trade is, of course, very much cheaper, just as the more expensive is very much dearer. The Germans, concentrating on the cheaper end of the trade, brought the invoice landed prices down to a figure of about 2s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-01a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC (LICENSING OF VEHICLES).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir George Courthope", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir George Courthope", "preceding_text": "for doing so is this: While it is very difficult from a verbal description, though my hon. and gallant Friend has been perfectly clear in what he has said, and I make no complaint about it, to gather exactly what the intention of this Bill may be, it is quite clear from my hon. and gallant Friend's remarks that he proposes to deprive the railway companies of some of the powers which they now have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.196.4", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have missed the boat\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "rights of everyone and causes great fear. Everyone of the neighbours of that country is nervous and apprehensive. I should like to ask whether the Foreign Minister has spoken as plainly to Germany as the circumstances warrant? Germany should be asked de- finitely whether she wants peace. What kind of peace does she want? Does she stand for peace all round? Cannot we find out from Germany directly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": ". The leaders of it have been afraid of this nightmare, or this ghost or religious bogy which has been thrown up. They have been afraid to face up to the Roman Catholic-hierarchy in this country. Every man who has a Roman Catholic population in his division has succumbed to that overwhelming power, that electoral force in his division, and failed to stand up for that which he believes to be right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What religion does Stalin profess?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ly and his suggestion that the insurgents are endeavouring to instal Christianity in Spain against the wishes of the Government will not hold water for five minutes. As has been pointed out, the insurgents are being aided by the Mohammedan Moors, and there is Mussolini, a notorious Atheist. The Nazi Bishop has re-written the Sermon on the Mount to bring it more into harmony with German militarism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "ntervention on the Government side, I have always felt that intervention by any country in Spain was unwise and foolish, and that intervention by this country would be criminal folly. I quite appreciate some of the motives which animate hon. Members of the Opposition and that they think they are supporting and wish to support in Spain a constitutionally, legally, democratically elected Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "Opposition and that they think they are supporting and wish to support in Spain a constitutionally, legally, democratically elected Government. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am delighted to think that that is their motive, and I can produce, though I do not suppose it will have much influence on them, any amount of evidence to show that that Government is not constitutionally or legally elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "any amount of evidence to show that that Government is not constitutionally or legally elected. [ Interruption. ] It is quite clear that hon. Members are conscious that there is evidence to that effect. The President of the Republic at that time, President Zamorra, has made a public statement to the effect, and he himself now says that the election when it took place was entirely unconstitutional.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "h would allow the state of affairs to continue in Spain which took place in the early months of last year does deserve the support or loyalty of the masses of the people it was supposed to govern? I quite realise that the opinions of hon. Members opposite are largely influenced by the fact that they are frightened—and perhaps there is some ground for that fear—that if and when General Franco wins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "I believe they largely exaggerate the danger from those quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "xaggerate the danger from those quarters. [ Interruption. ] I am not a Nazi. I am as anti-Nazi as any hon. Member on those benches. One hon. Member from those benches gave a figure to-day of 90,000 Germans and Italians helping General Franco's side. It is no good saying that one does not believe that figure, but I am convinced that it is overwhelmingly exaggerated. The figure is nothing like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "to have as good eyesight as the hon. Member. I certainly saw Germans there. There is a good number of Germans there. All that I say is that the number has been grossly exaggerated. Furthermore, I wish to make this point: I confess that there are Germans on General Franco's side, and that they have given considerable assistance, but not a word do I hear of the French and Russians on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Moors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. McGovern) talked about the enthusiasm and ardour which he saw among those who were supporting and fighting for the so-called Government of Spain. I can also pay equal testimony to the other side as I have also seen hundreds and thousands of men showing equal ardour, enthusiasm and determination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-02", "file": "debates1937-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "2aae6b5e7970fe9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "f Turkey goes in with Germany again? And do they really believe that they will win a war of major importance with an alliance such as that? We must come back to fundamentals and recognise that unless we restore the validity and binding force of international law, the Covenant and the Kellogg Pact, there is no hope for mankind. On that point the policy of this party has always been perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-02a.310.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-03", "file": "debates1937-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6af1e1794d2d534c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.350.10", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "Could not the right hon. Gentleman find out further information; and is he aware that this official communique stated that there was a Jewish demonstration in Tiberias and the evidence was that a party of Jews—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.350.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-03", "file": "debates1937-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6af1e1794d2d534c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": "A great deal has been said about the debt. I am not going to insure against the future, as hon. Members opposite have tried to do, but I will simply say that this debt was caused at the time hon. Members opposite were in office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-03", "file": "debates1937-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6af1e1794d2d534c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "ommended that the scales of benefit and scales of contribution should be alike for men and women. That would have cost a very small sum, and the reasons given against it were to my mind inadequate. They amounted, as I have said, to the plea that it would be a shock to public opinion if men and women were put on the same level in this respect. Women are less organised than men, and less articulate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-03", "file": "debates1937-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6af1e1794d2d534c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.436.14", "colnum": "436", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Clifton Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Clifton Brown", "preceding_text": "itional danger of the electric current \"— They admit that— differs little in negotiability from a fast flowing river, and it should only be crossed where crossings are provided for the public. That is the very threatening answer which we received when we asked them if they could not meet us in some way. I wonder what the public would say if the Minister of Transport issued the same sort of threat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.436.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-03", "file": "debates1937-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "6af1e1794d2d534c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are supplied with rubber gloves.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "preceding_text": "was with the multiple unit system. There is no doubt in our minds that, for the dense suburban traffic, the third-rail system is the better in every way. There is another point I would like to make with regard to the dangers. We employ many thousands of platelayers, permanent-way men and others whose daily work is in these electrified districts. We have not had a fatal accident from the live rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-03a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " looked to with friendly, appealing eyes by a large number of peace-seeking nations. We do not give them a chance of adjusting their policy, their future outlook, to ours if we chop and change from year to year, and swing to and fro in accordance with the minor and superficial variations which take place. We have now got a policy in foreign affairs based upon the Covenant of the League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.593.9", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "g about it, we have here all the power which the authoritarian States have to keep their peoples in ignorance of the knowledge which they ought to have in order to give intelligent judgment on important issues which confront a nation in its daily life. The right hon. Gentleman congratulated the Government on what they are doing in this Measure, and told them that they had the nation at their back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.593.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was put and take.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ese proposals are based. I thought that I had never heard the voice of Pecksniff speak in such authentic accents as when the Chancellor of the Exchequer in recommending this Bill gravely rebuked civilisation and told us of his \"disgust and shame\" because countries do not settle their differences by \"give-and-take.\" I wonder whether he was thinking of the give-and-take of the Hoare-Laval proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Harold Balfour", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does it matter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Harold Balfour", "preceding_text": "istol (Sir S, Cripps), who said that they would be used for \"the continued domination of subject peoples.\" I wonder whether he spoke as a Labour Member or not. He is in a state of suspended animation. \"To be or not not to be,\" is the question for him. We are entitled to ask whether he speaks for any authoritative section of the Labour party or whether he speaks as someone outside the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "n. Member, who is a Communist and very lucky to be in a capitalist House of Commons, should never interrupt anyone. He is very fortunate indeed to be allowed to live in a capitalist country, because here he can say what he likes, without going to Siberia. We have been let down by seeing the rest of Europe not taking any part in the League of Nations in the spirit in which we have taken part in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ope. I am deeply distressed at the Chancellor of the Exchequer having to ask for so much money, but I am certain that the men and women, and the working men and women, of this country will be grateful that we have a Government which has common sense and also a great deal of common humanity, in saving our social services and trying to control profiteering as much as it can, but that is not so easy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is too much!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " any country which becomes, technically, an aggressor. But we heve had experiences in the past which were bitter for both sides of the House, in Manchuria and Abyssinia; and we do not want further experiences of that kind, whatever happens. We are at the moment committed to go to war at once, in defence of France and Belgium should they be attacked. Beyond that we cannot, at present, prudently go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore", "preceding_text": " and that is why I feel that I must make special reference to it. We know that there are ambitious, greedy nations in Europe which, if they read the papers and see that we are not united and that we have wealthy territories scattered all over the world which have not got adequate protection, may say that, although they are unwilling to strike at strength, they may be tempted to strike at weakness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you give them up then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "t he does anything that he is disgusted with himself for doing it. They want peace, but one trouble is that they want a tremendous number of other things inconsistent with peace. They want peace, they want the trade routes of the world, but they cannot have them both. They want every Colony that they took in 1920 and every Colony that they had before and they want peace, but they cannot have both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.658.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " the Left Book Club, or that they cannot hold public meetings. They may be used to defend the system in British Somaliland, whereby under the free Union jack you are not allowed to defend yourself on a criminal charge unless you can first show that you have a good defence. They may be used in Ashanti, where if you are tried for murder you are not allowed to have counsel or solicitor to defend you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " trust themselves and they must arm and lie, and lie and arm, until the great final catastrophe. We are being asked to-night, with disgust and shame, to throw the might of this country into the armaments race before it is too late for us to make as big beasts of ourselves as the other people are making of themselves. The world, or at any rate five-sixths of it, is morally and politically bankrupt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.667.3", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "er controversialist, or even an intoxicated controversialist, in this country who seriously thinks that we ought to arm against Russia, because everybody in his heart knows that if a cramped capitalist country such as Germany threatens war she may make it, but that an uncramped Socialist country, busy on her own building-up, will honestly not be arming for anything except real and genuine defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And starves her people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " of this country, which are influenced by people attached to the larger party of this Coalition, are running round the country to-day with shots of munition works, and little pieces about the disarmament programme, and little captions about more work for more men; whereas every time the U.S.S.R. builds another aeroplane she has to sacrifice another tractor which she really wants for peaceful ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "er thing that is said by a good many hon. Gentlemen opposite is that there is no antithesis between collective security and national security, and that you cannot defend collective security unless you can defend yourself. I would like to answer the last of those two things first. If you defend collective security, you will automatically defend yourself by the arms of yourself and 50 other nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "essor however unlikely—are becoming stronger than you should be within the League framework, and are theoretically, and perhaps even practically, calling upon all the Powers in the League to readjust all their schedules, with everybody building up a little further in order to deal with possible aggression from you. That is a very serious consideration. I shall not weary the House very much longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not so\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "ingle point in the Bill has been subjected to a concentrated attack, but one hon. Member has taken up one point and another has taken up another, even in the same party. This discursiveness and want of concentration on particular points have been due to the underlying fact that there is a real, general, fundamental measure of agreement in the House upon the necessity for rearmament. That being SO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-04", "file": "debates1937-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "7da7868ec6baa542", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is begging the whole question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": " proceeding with rearmament for our pleasure. I have expressed my disgust and shame at civilisation which has resulted in such a course. The hon. and learned Member says that I am persisting in my disgusting and shameful course. Would it not be a still more disgusting and shameful course if I were not to rearm and were to leave this country defenceless and open to the attacks of any other country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-04a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-05", "file": "debates1937-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "33e6b2ebc23b46f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORTATION OF HORSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So they do!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "ay in a few minutes why that is so. Two days ago I received from the Secretary of the International League against the Export of Horses for Butchery a pamphlet entitled \"Merciless Butchery on a Spanish Sunday.\" That pamphlet contains many exaggerated statements about Spanish bullrings, and the whole suggestion, although it is not specifically stated, is that British horses go to Spanish bullrings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-05", "file": "debates1937-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "33e6b2ebc23b46f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORTATION OF HORSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you object to the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "laughter such work-worn horses in their own country than to export them to be worked abroad by callous owners until they reach a condition often unspeakably pitiful. This, in a nutshell, is the case for the Bill. And that, in a nutshell, is the case why this particular Bill is nonsense, for there is not the slightest scrap of evidence that work-worn horses are exported except for prompt slaughter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-05", "file": "debates1937-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "33e6b2ebc23b46f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORTATION OF HORSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "ance to any Member of this House in a political argument, and he went a long way to establish that fact. Mr. Fox, with typical fairness and generosity, has permitted me to say to the House that when he said the horse would have been exported, all he really meant was that in the existing state of the law it could have been exported. There again, the hon. Member for East Fife and I are in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-05", "file": "debates1937-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "33e6b2ebc23b46f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORTATION OF HORSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How are they distinguished?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "t the export of horses for slaughter to Belgium and France is negligible to-day, whatever it may have been 10 years ago, but in order to be able to consider the matter from both angles I have made inquiries and from Belgium Government figures I learned this. I have already observed that there is a higher rate of duty against horses for working, than against horses for slaughter in both countries.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-05", "file": "debates1937-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "33e6b2ebc23b46f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORTATION OF HORSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are no Whips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Campbell", "preceding_text": "ave; in my family the bravest member is the smallest. I thought the hon. and gallant Member's speech was an extraordinarily good one, but it created in my mind certain diffi- culties which always arise in connection with Private Members' Bills. I have been in the House for a number of years, and I have always found that the most difficult days on which to take a decision are private Members' days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-05a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "o the right hon. Gentleman's speech to-day would have supposed that I should on that occasion have had the enthusiastic support of the right hon. Gentleman and of all his followers from above the Gangway. Nothing of the kind occurred, and in fact the party above the Gangway, with the connivance of their Whips, managed to engineer a count for the express purpose of stifling discussion of my Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": " in its primary functions or as regards public opinion of the House of Commons. That is why I sympathise with the manner in which this question was approached by the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the House. We have to face the fact that the House of Commons is passing through a difficult time. Much less public interest is already taken in our Debates than was taken 30 or 40 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": "ee that what interested the public in those days is not, to a very large extent, what is considered to be of interest to the public to-day. There are numerous causes why the House of Commons is going through a difficult time and one is the size of Parliamentary majorities. The mere fact that the Opposition, in numbers and often in debating power, is very much weaker than the Government of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "ould have, if they have not at present, protection by you, Sir, when, in their view, a Financial Resolution was too narrowly drawn. You would be able to safeguard the rights of the Government under Standing Order 63, and I believe that by that method, and by that method alone, this difficulty in which we are now placed can be met. I cannot, for reasons which I have indicated, vote for this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "preceding_text": "are familiar with the objects of those proposals and the Government have decided that the broad objects, indicated in the Amendment, are to be objects of this Bill. But what is there narrow about the terms of the Resolution. Paragraph ( c ) has been criticised more than any other, but is it narrowly drawn? It enables the Treasury to give financial assistance for any area outside the Special Areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": " repeatedly asked him to think about the semi-Special Areas. I see a proposal on these lines in paragraph ( c ) of the Resolution, which has been made the subject of controversy by the hon. and learned Member for Bolton (Sir C. Entwistle) and the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) and one or two other hon. Members. I remember last December, that the Y.M.C.A. set up a howl—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.896.3", "colnum": "896", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not on the field.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I tried to put that ball in the goal, but I do not know whether it went outside or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.896.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "preceding_text": "gid a system under Standing Order 68 as under Standing Order 69. The setting-up Resolution will be drawn in exactly the same terms as this Order that is on the Paper. I am not in the least seeking to make a technical point on a Motion which has served to raise a valuable and interesting discussion, but in fact the Motion would not effect any of the objects which hon. Members opposite have in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And discussion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It does prevent a Motion on which a vote can be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It does prevent a Motion on which a vote can be taken. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And discussion.\"] Not discussion. Take an ordinary Supply Day. Is that no use?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-08", "file": "debates1937-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "f169468c209e158e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PUBLIC BUSINESS).", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It does prevent a Motion on which a vote can be taken. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And discussion.\"] Not discussion. Take an ordinary Supply Day. Is that no use? [ Interruption. ] I was asked as to the use of discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-08a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "gress as a result of a Ruling which has been given by me and by others in the Chair repeatedly. It is not as if this was a new question at all. I am not in any way responsible for the position in which the hon. Member finds himself. It seems to me to be a question which the hon. Member can raise in Debate. His particular grievance, if I may put it in that way, is not a grievance against the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member considers for a moment, he will realise that his question is an abuse of the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take it away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "I now rise to speak on the Financial Resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "w undertakings in the Special Areas; to enable the Commissioner to assist certain road, street, and field drainage works in the Special Areas; to provide financial assistance for the provision of factories in certain other areas suffering from heavy and prolonged unemployment; and finally to enable the Treasury to provide financial aid to new undertakings both within and without the Special Areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1008.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1009.8", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I move that the Question be now put.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I have already stated that I cannot deal further with other points such as those which have lately been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1009.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1009.8", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "ith other points such as those which have lately been made. [An HON. MEMBER: \"I move that the Question be now put.\"] I am afraid now that it is my duty, in order to do my best to preside over the conduct of this Debate, to say that I must ask hon. Members not to continue to interrupt the Debate by such points as those which have been raised for the last 10 minutes or more. If hon. Members decline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1009.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.5", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\" and \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I really want to make an appeal to the Committee at least to allow the Government spokesman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.6", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I really want to make an appeal to the Committee at least to allow the Government spokesman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\" and \"No\"]—in the ordinary interests of Debate, to make his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.8", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brown rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.12", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As Members are aware, during the last two years special efforts have been made in areas scheduled in the Act of 1934, which is known as the Special Areas Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.12", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As Members are aware, during the last two years special efforts have been made in areas scheduled in the Act of 1934, which is known as the Special Areas Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] During that time an experiment has been undertaken through two Commissioners, one having the oversight of the Special Areas in England and Wales, the other having the care of the areas scheduled in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.12", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "reas Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] During that time an experiment has been undertaken through two Commissioners, one having the oversight of the Special Areas in England and Wales, the other having the care of the areas scheduled in Scotland. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] The White Paper gives an outline of the measures which are the result of these experiments and figures as to their potential cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1010.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "one hand and the time-factor on the other. In addition to that, the Defence programme is likely to have increasing effect upon the Special Areas, and it may interest the Committee to know that whereas in the Special and depressed areas during the whole of the financial year 1935–36 the orders amounted to £17,000,000, in half the year 1936–1937 the orders have amounted to £19,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1014.5", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I was asked to answer a question and I have given an accurate answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1020.4", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "se and sound policy, and one of real alleviation for the Special Areas. Trading estates have been established. The Team Valley Trading Estate has received 217 inquiries up to the 4th of this month, of which 66 have proved definitely unfruitful, 151 are still under discussion and 20 have resulted in definite orders. Seeing that this is a new experiment, that is a remarkable beginning. At Treforest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1020.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member will allow me to put my case. The organisation at Treforest has been in existence for a shorter time, but out of 66 inquiries 46 inquiries have been definitely unfruitful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1025.3", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will understand that the Resolution has been drawn in this form in order to give flexibility to the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1026.3", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " merely in London, but in other great cities, and it gives rise to grave problems, not merely of industry, but of health, communications, vulnerability from the air, and other problems that go far beyond the issue raised by Sir Malcolm Stewart. The Government feel that these wider issues deserve authoritative and comprehensive study, and they propose to appoint a Royal Commission for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " the help of his very able and equally sceptical officials, upon the relatively exuberant Ministry of Labour staff. I will pass to the question of the local rates for a few moments. A great deal has been said about the block grant, about these niggling adjustments of the block grant under which the rates in Merthyr Tydvil, in spite of the much advertised relief, are to remain at 22s. in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Do not be too sure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "sal of any substance that has been made by the Government relates to the establishment of new industries, and the inducements the Government are going to offer to industries go to these areas. There is to be what amounts, I think, to an extension of the Special Areas Reconstruction Association. I am very glad that the right hon. Gentleman is going to extend it to areas outside the scheduled areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peat", "preceding_text": "xtent, physically and mentally degenerate. It cannot be helped. They are soft from the point of view of labour, and mentally they are depressed. To deal with the first point, perhaps an hon. Member opposite who sits for a Welsh constituency will put me right on this. Is it a fact that a miner who has been out of employment for a number of years is regarded as a dangerous person to take down a pit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "mense benefit to the North-East Coast and to my constituents. For purposes of clarity and cogency I take some of the provisions contained in the White Paper, though I do not propose to bore the Committee by going through them all. Paragraph 2 of the White Paper states in general what the Commissioner has done, and I wish to draw attention in particular to what has been done in my own constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-09", "file": "debates1937-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "42a5db35261fd37a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1089.4", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gateshead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": " and how the idea was decried and derided by hon. Members on that side who now are complaining, and asking that they might have a trading estate or a site within their constituencies. It was a wise decision to concentrate on one good estate rather than to have two half-empty ones. In paragraph 5 of the White Paper particulars of the North-East Trading Estate are given. Where is the trading estate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-09a.1089.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1123.7", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman suggesting that these warnings justify General Franco in shooting foreigners with arms; and is it not a fact that the Government of Madrid have given most stringent orders against any shooting of prisoners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1123.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. HoreBelisha)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cinemas\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. HoreBelisha)", "preceding_text": " in 1933, it was 97; in 1934, it was 99; and then we reversed the tendency. In 1935 the total killed and injured per 1000 vehicles licensed had fallen to 88, and in 1936 to 85. I must thank all those who have contributed to this result, whether they be public authorities or private agencies, such as the National Safety First Association, or whether they are school masters or ministers of religion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1237.7", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Better late than never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": "be some form of aerial defence which a raiding aeroplane would have to encounter. Again, is it reasonable to say that the strategic reasons for this Bill are so important that we must agree at once to the erection of the factory there, when the promoters, on their own showing, do not propose to produce calcium carbide for at least three years? If there is an emergency it may come long before then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1237.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1244.5", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "I do not know about that, but I think it is right that the figure of eight referred to the actual districts involved, whereas the figures of the Noble Lord were the figures for the whole county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1244.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1254.3", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Was not the figure 15s. a ton?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I say frankly to hon. Members that naturally I am guided by the promoters of the Bill on this particular matter. They tell me that it is the cheapest estimate they can get of the production of steam power in South Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1254.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of Clydesdale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of Clydesdale", "preceding_text": "It would be a very simple matter to have the anthracite shipped to Corpach. There is no doubt that calcium carbide cannot be manufactured economically by coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For and against.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "ject a similar Bill. I have listened with great interest to the speeches which have been made up to the present. When we hear experts' figures being quoted on one side and the other—figures which can prove nothing to the average Member of this House without very carefunl investigation—we can judge of the success or failure of the intensive lobbying that has taken place with regard to this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "rested persons who certainly supported this Measure on the county council, out of a town council membership of 59, only 32 members voted-26 for the Bill and six against. I would also like to inform hon. Members who may not be aware of the fact that the 21 members of the county council representing the main objectors, the Inverness authority, were prohibited from voting on this particular question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "problem. I want only to add this on the question of Defence, that if the House turns down this Bill again it will, in my judgment, be essential for His Majesty's Government to deal with the matter in other ways to produce calcium carbide. I would ask the House to remember that the cost of rearmament is not inconsiderable, and if we can have this produced by a private company asking for no subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Elliot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Elliot)", "preceding_text": "y sharp division of opinion, and it is not my desire to stand between the House and hon. Members who have a great deal to say on this matter before the Division comes. We are discussing this matter under conditions of the utmost liberty. There are no Whips on, and no fettering financial resolutions such as the House has complained of earlier this week. The House itself has to decide this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1280.3", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "the House of Commons itself; but that is my personal conviction. I am not putting that forward as the Government's decision. I am putting forward the Government's decision that the solution of to-night's problem lies with the House of Commons. If the House of Commons declines to solve the problem, responsibility then falls back upon the Executive, and I have said that the Executive will forthwith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1280.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "There is just one other point. The right hon. Gentleman says that the position before the House is that the Government will examine this matter as to where carbide shall best be produced, or that the House itself should do so. If the Bill is sent to a Select Committee, will that Committee have power to examine where carbide shall best be produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1282.3", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "e not the high mountains that they have in Norway or in Canada, which make it possible to generate electricity so cheaply, and therefore I do not think we need accept the argument that calcium carbide cannot be profitably produced here at all. There are four ingredients in the manufacture of carbide—limestone, coal, electricity and labour. None of these is to be found in the Highlands of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the sinking fund?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "ly bound to use the local stuff, but I got over that. When we used the local stuff we had not one-third of the market, but since we used Welsh anthracite we have had the whole market. If you want to produce carbide economically you must go to where there is plenty of water power. Suppose £3,000,000 are spent on this power scheme. At 3 per cent. or 2½ per cent. that would not mean very much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the tragedy of South Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " I do not think the hon. Member realised the impression which his words would make on a Highlander. I do not say that he gibed at the Highlands but he did mention the fact that we have only 3,000 unemployed in Inverness. Why is that? Because the people of the Highland counties are being bled away. The Highlands are almost bled white. There are no people there. That is the tragedy of the Highlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is only a wee mine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": ". The hon. Member for Rushcliffe said: \"Do not industrialise the Highlands.\" Why, it is the one hope for the Highlands. There is a village called Brora in my constituency which has a coal mine and that mine does not make the village hideous. It is a lovely little village and people go there because of its beauty. You can play golf and bathe there and the mine does not frighten people away from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ral districts. It is a splendid form of economy to have them; it is healthy for the industrial workers and it provides a market for the rural workers. I appeal to the House. I feel deeply about this question. All my colleagues from the Highlands, with the exception of the hon. Member for Inverness, who has very important points to make on behalf of that burgh, have spoken in favour of this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-10", "file": "debates1937-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "30d60e1bca8e0d29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "is scheme. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] All who have spoken have spoken in favour of it, and we know what the feeling is in the Highlands. I have seen letters in the newspapers from a number of eminent gentlemen on this subject. These eminent men have said that they are against this scheme. But the men who have worked with these people, men like the Cameron of Lochiel, the convenor of the county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-10a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1307.8", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Is the report available in the Stationery Office?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will remember that the Committee made some suggestions. They, of course, lie in the sphere of the Ministry of Agriculture as regards England and the Secretary of State for Scotland as regards Scotland. A question is to be put by the Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) next Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1307.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "preceding_text": "My question really refers to old age pensioners and I have in my hand a petition from a large number of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " no anchor, no special objective, certainly has no detailed plan laid before us of relativity to other naval Powers. The statement he laid before us is that we must have a Navy strong enough of itself to keep open and free all the sea routes of the whole of the British Empire. If he did not use the words, his statement implied that it must be strong enough to operate of itself in both hemispheres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "no longer be in the position of humility in which we were put in connection with the League situation on the Manchurian issue. At the end of that programme, as far as I can see, you may stand in grave danger because you have discarded real support of collective security and you have no alliances of the kind that you had before the War. You will probably be without an effective friend in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " I entirely agree with the First Lord that we have no need to worry about the increase of the United States fleet if only the United States and ourselves are to be considered, but is it not perfectly true to say that, for every ship that the United States lays down because of the increase of the British programme, you may expect a similar provision to he made, as far as they can, by the Japanese?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1394.3", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "k is 12; in the same period the number of rankers promoted in the Army is 285. I should think that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping to whom the lower deck owes a great deal for his introduction of the system of promotion, must be disgusted at the administration of the regulation which he inaugurated. Steadily, during the last few years, promotion in that channel has been choked down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Manchuria.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "he good will of those great Powers who have so long stood at her side—ourselves particularly—in times of the gravest crisis in her history. Moreover, if the Japanese desire any further assurances they have only to rejoin the League of Nations, in which case they would derive all the benefits of the Covenant which is now, gradually but surely, acquiring the material force to invest it with reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "preceding_text": " are outside the League of Nations, and another great Power is determined to keep out of European entanglements and to maintain a powerfully armed neutrality. I have no belief that the League of Nations can give security or maintain peace, and I have had no faith whatever in collective action ever since my experiences when I took part in the Relief of Peking by an international force 37 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I think the Navy ought to make more efforts in that direction. A number of young men are coming from the public schools and the Navy is welcoming them and likes them very much. I do not agree that it is fathers and sons who are going to the Navy. After all, in the case of miners, the sons follow the fathers in the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Personality!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ve it just as much as young men who come from Eton or Dartmouth. Young men of that type ought to have a chance. Hon. Members opposite must realise that although young men may have certain qualities which enable them to pass examinations and so on, they may be a complete failure if an attempt is made to push them into places for which they are not fitted. There is a certain quality which they need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "aid that one of the great questions he had to ask himself was whether we are building the right type of Fleet. The only answer I can make to that is that we are building a fleet of precisely the same character that we had in 1914, and which was found to be unable to perform the two main tasks of the Navy, namely, to bring the enemy battle fleet to decisive action and to protect our seaborne trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-11", "file": "debates1937-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "dac06d071d1e75ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ing the right type of Fleet. The only answer I can make to that is that we are building a fleet of precisely the same character that we had in 1914, and which was found to be unable to perform the two main tasks of the Navy, namely, to bring the enemy battle fleet to decisive action and to protect our seaborne trade. [ Interruption. ] Is that an unfair definition of the two main tasks of the Navy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-11a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1547.3", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "sses me every time I study this problem. When you come to talk about industry, no one includes agriculture. Industry means iron and steel and copper, mines, transport and building, but the greatest industry in the land is never counted as an industry. Someone said to me the other day, rather a learned academic gentleman, \"No professor of political economy living has made any study of agriculture.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1547.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Transfers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "ed no improvment whatever and that we still were where we had always been. At any rate they cannot say that any longer. The White Paper shows that in a period of little over two years the figures of unemployment in the Special Areas have been brought down by 120,000, and that even in South Wales itself, probably the most difficult of the areas to deal with, the reduction has been over 20 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You take the younger ones!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "pot, but we all know that that is impossible. At any rate for some time there must remain a large number of people unemployed there whilst other measures are being developed, and in those circumstances, where a man has an opportunity of raising his own standard by finding continuous employment at good wages elsewhere, I cannot understand why hon. Members opposite show any objection to the process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "th the strings of his purse very tightly drawn, and as always opposing the more generous sympathy of his colleagues. But the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland described me as a man who from the beginning had taken up a pessimistic and cynical attitude upon the whole subject and as one who had made up his mind that it was quite impossible to do anything to improve the conditions in the Special Areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "buke from many hon. Members not only on one side of the House. Perhaps we are beginning to recognise that this is a real problem which has to be faced. It is for that reason, that I have always maintained that, while Governments must do all they possibly can to promote employment, they must not cherish the idea that whatever they do, we shall ever get to a time when there will be no unemployment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "vernment schemes for the distressed areas in view of the fact that they are the areas where the coal trade exists, and that that trade has been left in a lamentable condition of disorganisation for 15 to 20 years. Had there been a Minister responsible for this problem he would have said, \"If you are going to tackle the problem of the distressed areas you must tackle the foundation industry there.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "t make. The suggestion was that the Commissioner said that we ought to have a Minister; he said nothing of the kind. Any Member who will read his Third Report will find that he said nothing of the kind. Sir Malcolm Stewart did say, in suggesting these new inducements for new industries, that the problem whether a Minister should be appointed ought to be re-examined. That is a very different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "g to do something to improve the lot of the unemployed and to assist in the development of the Special Areas. The strain and anxiety of my responsibilities have been considerable and now that the work is running smoothly, and perhaps most of the major measures possible under the Act inaugurated, I feel justified in seeking a rest. I would call hon. Members special attention to the word \"smoothly.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-12", "file": "debates1937-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c9ed7805f7b0841", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (MONEY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ner—for he never stood at the Box—and over and over again argued that a new technique would have to be evolved in Government in order that Parliament, on the one hand, and industry and labour on the other, should be able to work together to face new situations. What was the technique? The technique was the setting up of statutory bodies for which a Minister on the Floor of this House would answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-12a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-15", "file": "debates1937-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7da51214aa4f006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Sassoon", "preceding_text": "I could not tell the hon. Gentleman quite accurately, but it might be anything between 12 per cent. and 20 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-15", "file": "debates1937-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7da51214aa4f006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Seely", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the same one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Seely", "preceding_text": " House that the hon. Member should have come to it with the knowledge which he has shown on this subject. I think I can assure him that, every time he speaks on this subject, he, with his knowledge and skill will be listened to with attention. I also wish to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary on his speech. It is now, I think, the fifth or sixth year in which he has made it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-15", "file": "debates1937-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7da51214aa4f006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "y. They looted shops and created a reign of terror, and later it took the police three days to get the underworld of gangsters down and out. My own country provides an earlier illustration. Until after the second Jacobite rebellion we had the private army system in full blast. Every baron, every great landed proprietor, was the chief of a clan and had his own private army, his own armed retainers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-15", "file": "debates1937-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7da51214aa4f006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1783.6", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "nce of any objection from hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite to any part of the Estimate, large though it is. The hon. Gentleman the Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) has assured us of his support on the Estimate, although he is not confident that the Government's intentions are quite as honest as his own. I gather that hon. Gentlemen opposite will vote against the Estimate, although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1783.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-15", "file": "debates1937-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7da51214aa4f006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1783.6", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": " we must be prepared with such forces as will be necessary to make counter-attacks. Here let me make one reservation. The right hon. Gentleman suggested that Government spokesmen had committed themselves to the proposition that the only defence we can make is by way of counter-attack on the enemy's civil population. I do not think he will find that any Government spokesman has made that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1783.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-15", "file": "debates1937-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7da51214aa4f006", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Rolls Royces on your side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Everything comes to those who wait, but if the Patronage Secretary expects us to wait and deal with Vote A he is labouring under a serious mistake. If he keeps us here until our trains and trams are gone we are left to tramp along the weary road while others sail along in their nice limousines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-15a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-16", "file": "debates1937-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dacf01d99ce4015d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.1914.1", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Had taken the examination.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ness of the Army as compared with the other Services? Is it a sense of inferiority on the part of the rank and file as compared with the officers? Is it a lack of free-and-easy relationships between the rank and file and the officers? I think the whole subject requires examination from that angle. I was glad to hear that a number of the rank and file had gone into the commissioned ranks this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-16", "file": "debates1937-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dacf01d99ce4015d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2001.7", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Warrender", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He does not buy food.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Warrender", "preceding_text": "If the cost of living is lower, presumably his purchasing power is higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2001.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-16", "file": "debates1937-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dacf01d99ce4015d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2001.7", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Warrender", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Warrender", "preceding_text": "hat interested me most was that I hardly heard one that we had not already had under consideration at the War Office. My hon. Friend the Member for North Bristol (Mr. Bernays) also asked me about troopships. That is a matter which we are going into with the Board of Trade, and we hope to be able to do something towards making the conditions of life in the troopships more comfortable in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2001.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-16", "file": "debates1937-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dacf01d99ce4015d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2004.4", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Allen", "preceding_text": " officer. Here are the 44 pages of number two edition; anyone can see that it could not possibly be the original, because it is not on the regular Army form which is usual for taking down evidence at a court-martial. There is abundant proof that this is number two copy of the evidence, and that number three, or the typed copy, differs materially, to the detriment of the officer, from the original.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2004.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-16", "file": "debates1937-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "dacf01d99ce4015d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2010.0", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Allen", "preceding_text": "rtial, in which reference is made to the Rules of Procedure, and a note on the constitution of courts-martial to which are added the words \"See Rule of Procedure 21 B.\" Moreover, there is another Rule of Procedure which distinctly states that all Rules of Procedure shall be taken judicial note of, and that also is mentioned in the Army Act. The Army Act teems with references to Rules of Procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-16a.2004.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2053.8", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I ask for your protection, Mr. Speaker, quite seriously, against the charge—I am sure quite unintentional—. which is entirely untrue, that the right hon. Gentleman made against me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2053.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2141.1", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. Gentleman. It is quite true and I will leave the Portuguese point alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2150.1", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "preceding_text": "d? Questions of that sort affect the Dominions as well as ourselves, and I should like to think that the Dominions have been consulted on this matter. The trade route from the Mediterranean down the West Coast of Africa is important to them as well as to us. Even during the War I believe we did not lay mines outside our territorial waters except in retaliation for some action taken by our enemies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2155.1", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": " have power, of course, to report to the Non-Intervention Committee, and, if the countries which have put their signatures to the Non-Intervention Agreement are sincere in their desire for non-intervention, you must give them a chance at the beginning. The only country which declined to take up its sphere of action under the agreement was not Germany, not Italy, not France nor England, but Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "the country. Although we receive reports, they are not always comprehensive, and in the nature of things cannot be so, and sometimes they reduplicate one another —a man in one town may see what he believes to be a group of Italians, that group may go to another town and may be seen there by another man. Consequently, when we say that we cannot give the House accurate and comprehensive information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2190.5", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "With regard to these nationals, of whom the Noble Lady is so proud, going to fight with the Government forces, does she not know that many of these men went over there completely under false pretences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir Henry Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir Henry Croft", "preceding_text": " strongly on this question. We had an honest speech from their leading speaker, who said quite definitely that he was out to support the Spanish Government side. There was no doubt about it. He said that he was biased. We have heard again and again in speeches from hon. Members the phrase: \"This is what the Spanish people and the Spanish Government are standing for.\" Let us hold the scales fairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir Henry Croft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is supported by Italians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir Henry Croft", "preceding_text": "ish Government are standing for.\" Let us hold the scales fairly. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I am glad that we have had those cheers. I presume it will now be admitted that at least half of Spain is in General Franco's territory. If the people in that territory are not behind General Franco, how is it that he can leave the whole of his line of communication without defence for hundreds of miles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-17", "file": "debates1937-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "4d5f712dce0d31e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir Henry Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Sir Henry Croft", "preceding_text": "Franco made his attack on Malaga there may have been many people there who sympathised with the Red forces, but it has to be realised that very large numbers of young Spaniards are training as volunteers for General Franco. They have not been used yet. They have been training for six months. General Franco and his supporters do not persuade their people to go into the line before they are trained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-17a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-18", "file": "debates1937-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "892e748a4a19c4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2229.2", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will put the question down, I will try to give him a mean answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-18", "file": "debates1937-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "892e748a4a19c4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2394.3", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "k the hon. and learned Gentleman is quite right in his interpretation of the Sub-section as to penalties. I do not in any way dissent from his reading of the Clause, but I do dissent from the suggestion that the penalty of £100 is so derisory that owners or masters of British vessels are going to stand convicted in a public court of a misdemeanour for offending against a law which is to implement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-18", "file": "debates1937-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "892e748a4a19c4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2408.1", "colnum": "2408", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "panish Government were not embarrassed by the rebellion of General Franco and had a large fleet, we would not dare to interfere in such a way, but we are solemnly sitting in the House of Commons taking advantage of the weakness of the Spanish Government to deprive her of sovereign rights. I would like to know whether the consent of the Council of the League of Nations has been obtained to justify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2408.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-18", "file": "debates1937-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "892e748a4a19c4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2411.0", "colnum": "2411", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And Russia.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not often honour us with his presence. We have discussed on the Second Reading and on a number of occasions this question of the civil war in Spain, and it has been established beyond all doubt that the first interventions in Spain were by Italy and Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-18", "file": "debates1937-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "892e748a4a19c4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2413.4", "colnum": "2413", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " of any member of the League. It is hardly consistent with that policy that we should be asked to discuss a Bill which delegates those rights to a nation not a member of the League. I should like to know what is the position of the front Opposition Bench on the matter. It is rather astonishing that we have no statement of any kind. Are they conniving at this abrogation of Spanish sovereign powers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-18", "file": "debates1937-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "892e748a4a19c4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2415.4", "colnum": "2415", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING (SPANISH FRONTIERS OBSERVATION) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I asked a perfectly simple question of the Front Bench three-quarters of an hour ago.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-18a.2415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-19", "file": "debates1937-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "466429bcf9432e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-19a.2502.1", "colnum": "2502", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are working overtime now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowson", "preceding_text": " as I can see, it brings us up against this problem: Some time ago a certain mine was closed in Lancashire, and one bright indivdual said that the men should work a week at a time in turns, and so share the work. I take it that if we transfer industry from the south of England, and put it in Lancashire, we might get the people back to work there, but the people in the South would lose their jobs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-19a.2502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-19", "file": "debates1937-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "466429bcf9432e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-19a.2525.1", "colnum": "2525", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he put. I am sorry that the hon. Member belittled the trading estates. In my judgment they are great new experiments, well worth making, and they will be very profitable to these areas in years to come. The Commissioner might say—I will not mention any town, though I have three or four in mind—\"This is an industry which would suit that town very well. If you go there, I will give you the maximum.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-19a.2525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-22", "file": "debates1937-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "592ed289ca7feaaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2582.1", "colnum": "2582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "It seems a strange place for petticoat influence, but it will interest the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) to know that there is one station in the Royal Air Force where when the commanding officer appears on parade murmurs go round to the effect: \"Here comes the commanding officer and her husband.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-22", "file": "debates1937-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "592ed289ca7feaaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2616.0", "colnum": "2616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we shall hear an answer to our questions from the Minister for Co-ordination of Defence. I hope somebody will answer them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-22", "file": "debates1937-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "592ed289ca7feaaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2621.5", "colnum": "2621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "l importance, this new route is of particular interest in that it may very likely prove to be a first link in a trans-Atlantic service.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th March, 1934; col. 2937, Vol. 286.] I think that anyone who read that, or heard it, would be quite justified in thinking that that line was operating. That was in March, 1934. I should like to ask where the New York-Bermuda service is to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2621.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-22", "file": "debates1937-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "592ed289ca7feaaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2643.0", "colnum": "2643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "or their task, and I ask the House to say that neither charge has any foundation. The hon. Member is going back 20 years and says that because during the last War at the Ministry of Munitions unhappily there were cases in which people made undue profits, these three gentlemen are not fit to be entrusted with this task. I do not believe that line of reasoning will appeal to any unprejudiced person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2643.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-22", "file": "debates1937-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "592ed289ca7feaaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2643.2", "colnum": "2643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shut up, buttercup!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "You are using the same machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-22", "file": "debates1937-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "592ed289ca7feaaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2646.2", "colnum": "2646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nobody?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "he limitation of production, but that does not alter the fact that at this moment there is a world shortage, and if the Government were to attempt to specify a price which was to be the limit of what they would pay for the raw materials they needed, the only result would be that they would not get the materials for the armaments programme. Nobody likes to see the prices of these materials jumping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-22", "file": "debates1937-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "592ed289ca7feaaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2679.1", "colnum": "2679", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (FINANCE ACT, 1936, AND IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have the united front now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " imagine that the cartel would have continued to sell steel to us at a low price? Having destroyed our only method of competing with them, they would have charged us any price they wanted. That would have been the result of free and unfettered competition, and we would have suffered for it in the long run. We now have the trade organ. We want greater and more effective control from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-22a.2679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-23", "file": "debates1937-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cac22d3a9de5001b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-23a.2781.5", "colnum": "2781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEN DISTRICT (FLOODS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "turally, the matter required a good deal of consideration. But in 1930 we got the present Land Drainage Act clue to my right hon. Friend Dr. Addison who is not now in this House. In that Act an attempt was made to give legislative effect to the proposals of the Royal Commission. It is true that Amendments were proposed in Committee upstairs by hon. Members opposite to limit local responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-23a.2781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-23", "file": "debates1937-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cac22d3a9de5001b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-23a.2860.1", "colnum": "2860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FEN DISTRICT (FLOODS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "idgwater (Mr. Croom-Johnson) said, it has caught the eye of the publicists. The cinematograph people have been hovering over it and now we know something about it. If there had been the will on the part of the National Governments, either No. 1 or No. 2, that problem would have been dealt with long since. Speaking in this House in 1933 I said: The Don Valley is not the only valley in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-23a.2860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-24", "file": "debates1937-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "6daf5b4a9ccfc2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2948.0", "colnum": "2948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS CONTRACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Salmon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us what they were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Salmon", "preceding_text": "Then it does not reflect credit upon the right hon. Gentleman's acumen. I am challenged as to the arrangements that were entered into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-24", "file": "debates1937-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "6daf5b4a9ccfc2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2948.0", "colnum": "2948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS CONTRACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Salmon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the arrangements?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Salmon", "preceding_text": "the arrangements that were entered into. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us what they were.\"] The right hon. Gentleman himself says he knows what they were, and I say that if you read the arrangements that were made with a certain industry at that period you will find that those arrangements were anything but businesslike, but I should be called to order if I were to go into that question in any more detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-24", "file": "debates1937-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "6daf5b4a9ccfc2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2948.4", "colnum": "2948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS CONTRACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Salmon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Salmon", "preceding_text": "eman himself that, in dealing with a particular contract, whether large or small, you must take each of the factors into consideration, and it would not be to the interest of the State that a definite profit should be stated that the firm ought to make. As a matter of fact, the right hon. Gentleman knows that the Government are very careful to see that the profit should not exceed, shall we say, x", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2948.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-24", "file": "debates1937-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "6daf5b4a9ccfc2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2967.0", "colnum": "2967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS CONTRACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "c concern that has been aroused by this case, and the possible consequences to the Treasury, in view of his own statement that this old-established and reputable firm, with a thousand employés, makes a specific offer to turn out shells at that price, which the right hon. Gentleman says his advisers told him was much too low, will he agree to lay a paper or, failing that, to have an inquiry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2967.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-24", "file": "debates1937-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "6daf5b4a9ccfc2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2968.8", "colnum": "2968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMAMENTS CONTRACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do. I think that the Stock Exchange has the most curious ideas of the value of shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.2968.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-24", "file": "debates1937-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "6daf5b4a9ccfc2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.3021.1", "colnum": "3021", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Base ingratitude!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "r level, and my recollection is that that involved the payment by the firm, to some hundreds of workers, of an increase of 4s. 4d. per week. That happened very shortly before the General Election of 1931, but the fact that I had had some hand in securing that increase of wages did not save me from a very heavy adverse vote in that Election. That is why I was out of the House between 1931 and 1935.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.3021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-24", "file": "debates1937-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "6daf5b4a9ccfc2cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.3041.4", "colnum": "3041", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " War. I was a trade union official. I remember that at one meeting, when we were discussing wages, it was stated that the bulk of the money went in wages. I was a skilled man, and I did not get high wages. They used to talk about engineers getting fancy wages. I was working at some of the most intricate and delicate work in connection with submarines and airships, and I was getting £2 18s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-24a.3041.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-03-25", "file": "debates1937-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "885504b5a33cbe6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3071.3", "colnum": "3071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "May I ask why this machine was not fitted with de-icers when they have been the regulation in America for three years and are used on every other line in Europe; and how long do the Government intend to allow Imperial Airways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-25", "file": "debates1937-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "885504b5a33cbe6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3149.3", "colnum": "3149", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "preceding_text": "alternative. What would have happened if a Government had been established in the Iberian Peninsula which owed its origin and—I do not like to use the word \"idealogical\"—its political inspiration to the Communist International? Let the Noble Lady contemplate the establishment of a Government founded upon international principles of that character. General Franco's movement is essentially national.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-25", "file": "debates1937-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "885504b5a33cbe6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3150.1", "colnum": "3150", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "preceding_text": "By her reference to the anarchists I suppose the Noble Lady is referring to the Anarcho-Syndicalists who are united in the organisation which is known by the initials C.N.T. The members of that union have adopted what is really a system of Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-25", "file": "debates1937-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "885504b5a33cbe6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3150.1", "colnum": "3150", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "preceding_text": "By her reference to the anarchists I suppose the Noble Lady is referring to the Anarcho-Syndicalists who are united in the organisation which is known by the initials C.N.T. The members of that union have adopted what is really a system of Communism. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, certainly. It may be a libertarian kind of Communism, but it is certainly a type of Communism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-25", "file": "debates1937-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "885504b5a33cbe6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3155.1", "colnum": "3155", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the other side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "tter from a man who had lived in England for years, Marquis Merry del Val, to justify the shooting of wounded in hospital. What about the massacre of the people of Badajos? Perhaps they had or had had arms, but they were driven into the bull ring and shot down with machine guns. Take the taking of Malaga. I had a letter to-day from someone who was there. Three hundred men and women were shot down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-03-25", "file": "debates1937-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "885504b5a33cbe6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3163.1", "colnum": "3163", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "e Italian anger than Italian contempt. That is what the Government have got, and earned it to the full. Nobody has earned more contempt than they have done in their action towards Ethiopia. They need not do more. They have won it. They need really do no more. Are not they going to do something to earn some respect for the British Government? We were told that we could not tackle the Italian Fleet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-03-25a.3163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but even if it were so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA (SITUATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "As the Viceroy is in the stronger position, would it not be a graceful thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.37.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.103.0", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "preceding_text": "trial wreckage. I do not understand why Members opposite are so upset by the appointment of the South-West Durham Board. I do not think there is any proposal to clear away the whole area, but where there is a village that has been entirely dependent upon some colliery which is derelict, surely it is better to clear away the industrial wreckage and disperse that population in more prosperous areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A big voice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "preceding_text": "pt the Bill not as a sop but as a substantial step forward, but I beg the Government not to rest content with this one step. As we have heard from all sides of the House, there are many problems to be dealt with, and I hope that the Government will energetically tackle those other problems. The right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) gibed at the Minister as being only a voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman the Member for Hemsworth (Mr. G. Griffiths) must have gathered that this is one of many proposals which we have had, and which we are still to expect on a long-range basis. Trading estates are not an immediate practical proposition to put men back to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "peeches in terms of abstract benevolence, or study resolutions in terms of abstract benevolence, or watch Amendments on the Order Paper in abstract terms, the speeches about them are generally vague, broad and comprehensive, but the practical suggestions that arise out of the speeches are not in proportion to the comprehensiveness of the terms either of the Resolutions, Amendments or the speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about results?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "for Newport (Sir R. Clarry) referred to the question of research into methods of obtaining oil from coal. So far from Government research with regard to fuel being behind that of the rest of the world, this country has everything of which to be proud in the work which is being done in the very fine research station at Greenwich in regard to the use of all types of fuel and the derivatives of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Still an experiment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "average basis is 4d. for 10 years. That is a substantial aid to those who are engaged in the development of the low temperature carbonisation process or the process which is going to be established in South Wales, in addition to the process to which my right hon. Friend the Member for Hillhead referred and that very big experiment which is now taking place at Billingham in regard to hydrogenation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-06", "file": "debates1937-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2d2ad00f1ddf210c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " I have received as Minister of Labour from other areas which are not likely to come within the ambit of this Bill. They do not regard this as a niggling little Measure, but think that the magnet of relief from rates, taxes and rent may be so powerful an attraction that it may actually mean unfair competition with industries in their areas which do not get the benefit of the terms under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-06a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Education (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Education (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "ning it. During the years I have been in the House, I have seen several experiments on the part of hon. Members. I have seen hon. Members who produced bottles from their pockets or pieces of stuff which they waved to the House, and of course, if the same privilege were extended to me and it were possible at some period during my speech to call upon the Front Bench to give a practical demonstration", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Education (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Education (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "ception by youth. Therefore, the most important appeal which we have to make is an appeal to youth. Most people will admit, without any derogation from those of older age, that an appeal to youth usually comes best from youth. Certainly on any question of physical training of this kind it comes best from those whose figures are still concave rather than from those whose figures have become convex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "he B.B.C. should not provide a course of physical exercises during that part of the day when they broadcast nothing, except occasionally a few cricket scores. I am suggesting that the right hon. Gentleman might follow that up by getting into touch with gramophone companies. Why should we not have gramophone records for physical exercise for those who do not find the hours of the B.B.C. convenient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "to the right hon. Gentleman what I think is not done at the present time, namely, that he should get into touch with those who have such a scheme. I would make one further observation on the remarks made by the right hon. Gentleman about the use of leisure. If he wishes to develop the use of leisure he might take a very strong step to develop in the schools a liking and understanding of gardening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because the land is exempt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "o to the schools to which he ought to have gone—schools of which we are ashamed, schools which we cannot better. A turn of the economic wheel and your distressed area in South Wales ceases to be distressed, but turn that wheel as you like, and we remain distressed. A penny rate in my county produces only £600 a year compared with one county in England in which a penny rate produces £69,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHYSICAL TRAINING AND RECREATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What is the refreshment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": " but I think no one would seriously suggest that the necessary expenditure of money to make good the calories is beyond the reach of the ordinary boy or girl. It is now a common practice in many voluntary organisations to provide the requi- site refreshment at cost price, and I am advised that by the expenditure of a penny the calories used up in two sessions of physical exercise can be made good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY SALARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "eeper of Green Wax at the Exchequer. Here we have a Knight of the Thistle. Being a Knight of the Thistle he is entitled to take precedence in all public ceremonials over masters in lunacy. He is Carrick Pursuivant of Arms, whatever that means. I hope to hear the Lord Advocate expounding this at some length. Will the Lord Advocate tell us what Sir Francis Grant does when he is the Rothe-say Herald?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY SALARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ge and help them, instead of sticking them into a court in the way that happens to-day? All sorts of cases are stuck into the same court, with the same atmosphere, the same inhuman atmosphere. I wonder whether hon. and right hon. Members have ever given any consideration to what places our courts are. There is no country in the world where the courts have been reduced to such an inhuman character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.304.2", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY SALARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no increase,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": "impression upon the House. We should like to know from the Lord Advocate why we are asked at this time to give increases to these officers and particularly to Scottish officers such as the Secretary to the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Scotland. Is their work increasing or is there more importance attaching to it, or is it considered that the present salaries are inadequate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-07", "file": "debates1937-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "73fcab277b180ca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY SALARIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " entirely unsympathetic condition of affairs. Hon. Members opposite do not regard the atmosphere of our courts as frightening because they rarely come before them. The kind of crimes of which they are guilty are not yet illegal. The only reason why they are exempt is that they are themselves legislators. I know of acts of which hon. Members are guilty for which I would send them to jail to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-07a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-08", "file": "debates1937-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "7c9060b397bf9f7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.359.2", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not admit that there is a shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.359.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-08", "file": "debates1937-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "7c9060b397bf9f7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is desirable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I cannot satisfy the hon. Lady's inquiry. It has also been alleged that in the matter of State help women are not being treated as we would desire them to be treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-08", "file": "debates1937-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "7c9060b397bf9f7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "nister who replies—that those who are now voluntary contributors under the existing scheme will have the option to contract out of the existing scheme and to come within the new proposals. It has been suggested to me in certain quarters that it would be much better if they had positively to contract out instead of being automatically transferred to the new Bill unless they express a contrary wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-08", "file": "debates1937-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "7c9060b397bf9f7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "t, whether it be the case of my father or anybody else, if, in his old age, sufficient means are not going into his home, and if, when a person who has given his best to the nation reaches old age, no provision is made for him to have comfort at his own fireside, something is radically wrong in the state of society. It is for that reason that I recognise this Bill as a step in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-08", "file": "debates1937-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "7c9060b397bf9f7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "wage earners, but among the classes to whom this Bill specially applies, that we should have this demand for a pension of 10s. a week at 65 years of age. An hon. Member on the other side waxed very lyrical because a Bill of this kind with its commitments of the Treasury of something like £1,000,000 a year, was only possible because we had a strong National Government which had restored prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-08", "file": "debates1937-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "7c9060b397bf9f7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": " Llanelly (Mr. j. Griffiths), who pleaded for the nationalisation of the whole system of pensions. I do not share what is no doubt to him the sanguine view about the early advent to power of the Labour party, but, as he did not tell us why in his opinion they are likely to come into power soon, there is, I dare to think, no reason why on this occasion at least I should tell him why they will not.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-08", "file": "debates1937-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "7c9060b397bf9f7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WIDOWS', ORPHANS' AND OLD AGE CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTORS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "tunate widow was eventually successful, and I do not say that importunity qua importunity is necessarily to be deprecated. Many interests are importunate in the House and in the Lobbies outside. A Government, particularly a National Government, enjoys pressure. The Lord President of the Council, when Prime Minister, told a deputation from the Churches to go on pressing, and pressing, and pressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-08a.470.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-09", "file": "debates1937-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d28d03c87c10b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-09a.539.2", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS (ANIMALS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "preceding_text": "I will not detain the House very long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-09a.539.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-09", "file": "debates1937-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d28d03c87c10b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-09a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "der to enable pupils without sufficient economic resources to carry on their education. I have been interested as a layman, to observe the amount of opposition which has been promoted against this Bill by the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, which I observe an hon. Member in a previous debate in this House described as an organisation to prevent this kind of Bill becoming law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-09a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-09", "file": "debates1937-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "7d28d03c87c10b25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-09a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": "I thought, in my innocence, that my remarks ought to be addressed to you, Mr. Speaker, and not to the hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite. Here is a very interesting letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-09a.576.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.589.7", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do we understand that His Majesty's Government will not in any circumstances tolerate the removal of any British firm from Abyssinia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.589.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ABYSSINIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Can the Noble Lord say whether the British Consul-General in Addis Ababa protested against these executions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.589.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A kitty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "for their personal advancement than they do for the public well-being, the House will have struck a blow at the democratic system of government. It is for that reason that hon. Members on this side of the House, after very careful consideration, have come to the conclusion that the best thing the Government could do would be to stabilise the idea of a kitty in which everybody would properly share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like Mr. Speaker's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "he Leader of the Opposition to meet expenses necessarily incurred in the carrying out of his duties as Leader of the Opposition. That would not mean that he would be the slave of the right hon. Gentleman opposite or his successor. It would not impair his freedom in any way, because the appointment of the Leader of the Opposition does not reside on the Government side of the House. It resides here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "de the Prime Minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer ever does. I know that the First Lord of the Admiralty sometimes takes a Member for a sail in the Admiralty yacht, but the cost of that is borne on the Navy Votes, and not by the Minister himself. Then there is the question of keeping up the dignity of the position. Not one of us knows anything about the private life of any Cabinet Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "I am ready to admit that at first sight the fees, which are in the neighbourhood, not of £30,000, but of £15,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is in the Cabinet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "My humble submission is that these three Ministers should be put in the same category, and that their salaries should be £3,000 a year. One point I would like to ask is whether, if the Minister of Transport in some future Government is not in the Cabinet, his salary will be £5,000, because he is in the first category?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "I do not deny it. Surely that is a thing we wish to avoid as far as possible, and I believe the best means of avoiding it would be to pay Members of Parliament a salary on which with reasonable economy they could exist—I will not put it higher than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": " say of my own knowledge that in the last seven or eight years there have been counsel appointed to these high offices who have sacrificed incomes of £30,000 or £40,000 a year to come into this House and be remunerated by the figure accurately given by the hon. and gallant Gentleman. At the same time I am sure that if, instead of paying £12,000 a year plus fees to the Attorney-General and £10,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-12", "file": "debates1937-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "31f9e374ec249d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Baldwin)", "preceding_text": "e some observations that seemed to me to be full of common sense. I am sure, from my own experience, that one of the difficulties of government to-day is that in certain offices—not all, but certain offices—the work and the anxiety in anxious times are incessant and never stop; and, looking back, what impresses me is how rarely Ministers, either singly or in cooperation, have enough time to think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-12a.740.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Acland-Troyte", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that while he is shillyshallying about with these trade agreements large numbers of poultry producers are being forced out of business and can he not at least give some indication as to when negotiations will be commenced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "e congenital trouble. It is right to remind the House that, in the last few years, since the medical profession and a large section of the public learned how simple, safe and effective the operation was, many people are to-day upon eugenic grounds having themselves sterilised. There are no figures available, but it is well known that many people are having themselves sterilised on eugenic grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the right hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Jones", "preceding_text": "this proposition. We have got on very well without voluntary or other sterilisation. They have tried it in Germany, and what is the result? They have sterilised the whole population. They can say nothing but \"Heil Hitler.\" A hundred Members of this House are to accept an invitation to go to Germany and \"Heil Hitler.\" They are going round Germany. What for? To become part and parcel of the machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.899.8", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Postmaster-General?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "x- penditure in connection with a temporary trunk telephone exchange at Norwich, and the Vote which we are asked to give this evening is for a sum of £2,350, while the estimated expenditure on the work to be carried out is £2,450. This appears rather a large sum for what are described here as adaptations of a temporary telephone exchange and we should be glad to have a few details as to this work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.899.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Margesson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Margesson", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to make a reply to the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson), who, I understand, is leading to-night for the Opposition. In consequence of that situation, we have to deal to-night with the Army Annual Bill. I do not see, therefore, how it is possible for us to consent to report Progress until we have completed the Committee stage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Allen", "preceding_text": "In that case I find that not only are the War Office and the Whips against me, but the rules of the House also are against me, and, being against me, they are against this British officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "If a lawyer carries out his profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.952.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "Surely the best judge of whether a man has made an error is the man himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.953.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-13", "file": "debates1937-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "12e70352369855b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.960.2", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "r and man in the British Army against injustice, but after the statement of the Secretary for War, and particularly when he told us that so distinguished examiners of the facts as the present Lord Chancellor and the Lord Privy Seal had come to the conclusion that there was no substance in the case made for a further appeal, I think the Committee would be well advised to reject the proposed Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-13a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did you consult the French Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend will bear with me for a moment, I will deal with his point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "nselling British shipping not to expose itself to the dangers there threatened, was done only last week. I will remind the House of a very well-known instance, occurring not so long ago, which it is very necessary for us to bear in mind before we pass judgment on this matter. Let me say first that, if we take the view that this country ought in all circumstances and at any length to help one side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " well-known instance, occurring not so long ago, which it is very necessary for us to bear in mind before we pass judgment on this matter. Let me say first that, if we take the view that this country ought in all circumstances and at any length to help one side—[ Interruption ]. If one takes the view that the proper course for the British Government is always to help one side in all circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which side are you on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "illa, in Spanish Morocco, would thus be treated, and they proposed to act in the same way in regard to certain ports in Southern Spain. It is simply a question of fact. It is a fact that the men-of-war in the hands of the Spanish Government were at that time engaged in warning British merchant shipping that they were determined to put obstacles in its way if it attempted to approach those regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "irect communication from the Board of Trade, the effect of which I have just given to the House. The consequence is that steps have been taken to dissuade ships from proceeding to Bilbao, just as we thought it was our duty to dissuade merchant ships from proceeding last autumn to the coast of Morocco—in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reasons and in pursuance of exactly the same policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " terms of the telegrams sent by the Board of Trade to His Majesty's Consul at Bordeaux on, Saturday afternoon, l0th April, was this: Please arrange immediately for local Consul to inform British ships now in St. Jean de Luz that British Government desire them not to enter Basque ports for the time being on account of the dangerous situation there and to wait at St. Jean for further communication.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "reby recognising such rights? That is a fair point. But the Prime Minister laid it down the other day that we neither recognise nor concede belligerent rights and will not tolerate interference with British shipping at sea. We have made that communication expressly to General Franco afresh in the last few hours. We have communicated with General Franco direct. That is not a very usual thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "The civilian population is about 400,000 in Bilbao alone, if we include the refugees, and the military people would number only 20,000 or 30,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1051.7", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1051.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "May I say two things in answer to the Noble Lord's point of Order? First, that I, at any rate, did not interrupt the right hon. Gentleman's speech, except on two occasions, when I asked permission to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "art of his case here. He said that the order given to British merchant ships then was that they were to go first of all into certain ports, and that if they wished to proceed from those ports to certain Spanish ports they would do so at their own risk—that the high seas, at any rate, were to be absolutely free to them, but that within territorial waters they were to understand that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": ", indeed, was exactly the point I wanted to make. He never used the words. He said in fact that it was within territorial waters only that they had to fear any interference by the Spanish Government. They were to be free on the high seas. Were they not to be free on the high seas? Does the right hon. Gentleman say that he was not maintaining the right of passage for British ships on the high seas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Baronet appears to be so excited that he cannot remember things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So was Zeebrugge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ndeed, we are interfering in the rebellion in Spain. If we accord that right, we are doing only what is legitimate. The action of the Government in advising ships not to go to Bilbao is, in fact intervention in the internal affairs of Spain. The right hon. Gentleman justifies that on the ground that the entrance to the harbour of Bilbao is blocked with mines, and is exposed to attack from the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman criticising the action taken by the captain of the \"Blanche\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "rnment. The German Government were not satisfied. They shelled one Spanish cargo ship till it ran aground, they captured two other Spanish ships and they handed them over bag and baggage to the insurgent forces. That was the answer of the German Govern- ment to interference with their shipping and, as we know, interference with their shipping ceased. Cannot we secure as much freedom for our ships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"War\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "n Government were not satisfied. They shelled one Spanish cargo ship till it ran aground, they captured two other Spanish ships and they handed them over bag and baggage to the insurgent forces. That was the answer of the German Govern- ment to interference with their shipping and, as we know, interference with their shipping ceased. Cannot we secure as much freedom for our ships—[ Interruption ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "Foreign Affairs said in his speech that the one reason why he attached so much importance to the policy of non-intervention was the cooperation of the French Government. He said: \"We are, in common with M. Blum, upholding a policy of non-intervention.\" Is this action being taken in common with M. Blum? Have the French Government been consulted? The Paris correspondent of the \"Manchester Guardian\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ny intervention in which we engaged. I cannot feel any enthusiasm for these rival creeds. I feel unbounded sorrow and sympathy for the victims, but to give a decisive punch either way, without making sure that the result of it would not be to make yourselves responsible for a subsequent catalogue of foul atrocities, would be a responsibility which no one in the House ought to be willing to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1066.7", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any doubt about it. Telegrams have actually been read out from a naval officer who says a blockade at present exists. What the Prime Minister said was that we had not recognised the blockade. We may not recognise it in a formal manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1066.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was a Tory then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "the rebels in the war of American secession. There, we had a civil war in which the rebels were not only rebels but slave owners. Mr. Gladstone went about the country, and in a famous speech either at Newcastle or Hull proclaimed that the Confederate States had not only founded an army, but that they had founded a navy, they had founded a government, and, more than that, they had founded a nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ds a solution on the following lines—a period of six years, in three stages. The first stage would give little more than peace, order, and time to cool down, with no vengeance, no executions except for common, non-political murderers on either side. The second stage would be a kind of compromise, a hybrid Government of elements in Spain that have not been involved in the ferocity of this struggle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "We already do that at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "hink if ever a Vote of Censure were justified it is justified to-day in the circumstances that the country has had to face over the week-end. We had every newspaper in the country featuring a special hurriedly summoned meeting of the Cabinet to deal with the situation. Every newspaper in the country tells us that the \"Hood\" has left Gibraltar and is steaming full speed to the North Coast of Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "avy into these waters if it is just simply for the trivial reasons that have been put forward to-day and to meet a situation which has been adequately dealt with by the captain of the \"Blanche\" It will not do. There is a whole lot more that this House has not been told to-day by the Home Secretary. We are waiting to be told. We may get it from the Foreign Secretary at the conclusion of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "Jean de Lux only fulfilled its duty towards its own safety and the spirit of the Non-Intervention Agreement, that we should entirely avoid any suspicion of intervention, by taking the attitude it took. In moving the Motion of Censure the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition made an extraordinarily effective speech, but it was the most partisan and the least non-interventionist speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "uggle in the Basque country is a struggle of the Spanish people against foreign invasion. There are Germans on that front; the artillery and the aircraft are German. If hon. Members desire to have evidence of the presence of Germans there, I have photographs of German troops taken from a German prisoner a few days ago. There are great numbers of Moors fighting on that front. There are no Russians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thirty ships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ront. As the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) interjected, we have a special friendship with the Basques. As he said, the Basques did a great deal for us during the last War. The Leader of the Liberal party told the House that certain Basque ships were sunk while providing Great Britain with the minerals without which our armaments could not have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " Non-intervention is limited to those two agreements and it has nothing to do with the despatch of food. The rights of British ships not carrying arms are governed by the rules of international law, which remain intact, except so far as those two agreements have made exceptions. What are the rules of international law? The Government say that they recognise no belligerent rights to General Franco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "incing on the question of mines. He offered us no report, no dates, no specific facts. A British sea captain this morning declares in the \"Daily Telegraph\" that he does not believe there are any mines and that he is perfectly ready to sail from St. Jean de Luz to Bilbao. The Basque Government say this morning that there are no mines and that they have a fleet of mine-sweepers continually sweeping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"On the high seas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "it so. I want to ask the Foreign Secretary three questions: (1) Do the Government intend or not to protect British ships on the high seas? Will they prevent General Franco from interfering with them in any way up to the limit of the territorial waters? (2) Will the Government protest against the laying of mines by General Franco on the high seas and will they ensure that such mines are swept away?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "warships. What he did ask—this is the same question that the hon. Gentleman put to me just now—is, would we protect British ships on the high seas up to the three-mile limit, and he gave an example which I took down. If one of our ships disregarded the warning that has been given, would it be protected if it were attacked before it reached the three-mile limit? The answer is quite definitely \"Yes\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-14", "file": "debates1937-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2249489d709d2aaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "SITUATION AT BILBAO.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ating in the activities of the League. It had to be improvised in London, and the task has not been easy. But something has been achieved. We have secured agreement about the supply of arms and volunteers, and also in regard to the observation scheme. More may be achieved yet. I am informed that discussion on the withdrawal of volunteers is going to be resumed by the Committee at its next meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-14a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-15", "file": "debates1937-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "94c6f7c7cae7e44f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-15a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC RECORDS (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He bought it for is. 6d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "preceding_text": "s to collect and preserve these records, it is nevertheless true that there is a vast amount of the vital history of our country which at the present moment is in nobody's control, with nobody responsible for collecting it. I have a friend who picked up in Glasgow, on an old trader's barrow, for is. 6d. the Kirk Sessions Record of the Parish of Stoneykirk—priceless material which money cannot buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-15a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-15", "file": "debates1937-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "94c6f7c7cae7e44f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-15a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC RECORDS (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": " said earlier in the Debate as regards the second and seventh items in the Schedule. Both those documents were in Edinburgh Castle on 29th December, 1282, when they were indexed by officers of Alexander III. Speaking, I am sure, with the support of all Scottish Members interested in this matter I think it will be found that they have the very strongest opposition to giving up any of the documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-15a.1267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Agnew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Agnew", "preceding_text": "erting the other party, although he or she did not get one penny during the period of desertion, would be determined to go through with it until the qualified period had been completed. The promoters of the Bill sternly and firmly resisted such a proposal. They said that although a woman had deserted her husband, it was still right for the man to connive at desertion by continuing payments to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Agnew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Agnew", "preceding_text": "force such a person to take that step. The action they take may continue to be collusive over the qualifying period, after which they are able to come to the court and apply for a decree of divorce. This paragraph which it is proposed to insert in our law for the first time will lend itself to a wholly new series of abuses. I was speaking two days ago to a prominent official of the Mothers' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": " fundamental with us. We regret all through that this temporal conception of marriage has come to stay, and everything that we can do will be devoted to bringing back the old conception of an indissoluble union. Why on earth do people go into church and take these solemn vows, the most solemn they are able to take, and with apparently the intention of breaking them for comparatively minor reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": "If my hon. and learned friend thinks that that is a subject which should be treated separately, it ought to be treated separately in the Bill. I am not sure that I should be in order in arguing that particular point, because I think it is dealt with in a later Clause. That particular act, of course, involves an act of adultery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—not necessarily, but in most cases it would, and, therefore, it would come within the present law. But if the Solicitor-General thinks that it ought to be a ground for divorce, I suggest that it ought to be dealt with in the Bill. I am dealing with the Bill as it stands, and the Solicitor-General has said in our hearing that a single act of cruelty would under this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1388.3", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": "in a matter of this sort, which no Government likes to handle and which therefore has to be dealt with by private Members, it is very difficult to get speedy amendment if we make any mistake. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford University (Mr. Herbert) will bear me out on that point. That is the danger of trying to deal with the whole of the Report stage in half a day. The Mothers' Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1388.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Agnew", "preceding_text": "Lieut.-Commander Agnew rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "We cannot hear a word.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "preceding_text": "I think I can give the Noble Lord the assurance for which he asks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-16", "file": "debates1937-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "19c51f45fc3ff596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1395.2", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "preceding_text": "May I anticipate any objection on the part of the Noble Lord by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-16a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-19", "file": "debates1937-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b338ededdf54b625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1453.2", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has overlooked one or two points. An Amendment is not out of order merely because it quite certainly means an increased charge; it is out of order also if it permits, or might permit, of an additional expenditure. That, I think, disposes of a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-19", "file": "debates1937-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b338ededdf54b625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1461.3", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It was Sunday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ence operations. That statement, which is not unlike statements that appeared in the Northern Press in connection with the possibilities of that trading estate area, gives rise to an optimism which is not consistent with the facts of the case. I passed by the Team Valley Trading Estate yesterday, just after reading the paragraph to which I have referred, but I looked in vain for signs of activity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-19", "file": "debates1937-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b338ededdf54b625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1527.0", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "serve their purpose far better by trying to get the Bill through rather than spend all this long time in debating the Clause. I only rose to say these few words because the hon. Member for South Shields suggested that hon. Members on this side were thoroughly satisfied with the Bill as it is as an approach to the whole problem. We are not, but we feel it is better to welcome some sign of activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-19", "file": "debates1937-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b338ededdf54b625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "ations among the Government supporters. I have said comparatively little in the House about the conditions in my constituency, because I detest debating in terms of comparisons between one Special Area and another; but the exhibition given to-day by supporters of the Government, who have obviously been told not to speak in this Debate, of abject and ignominious grovelling to an order of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-19", "file": "debates1937-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b338ededdf54b625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1534.0", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What have they done?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": "l Commission is to be appointed. Hon. Members opposite sometimes legislate first and find out the facts afterwards. I hope the Minister will appoint a Commission very soon, but that is not the matter we are discussing in this Clause. If hon. Members are going to vote against the continuation of the Act, they will be voting for the scrapping of the Special Commissioners and all that they have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1533.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-19", "file": "debates1937-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b338ededdf54b625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1543.3", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": ". He said the fact was that if this Clause were defeated the whole machinery and apparatus which are based upon the Act of 1934 would fall to the ground. I do not wish to quarrel with either question or statement. I tremble to think what time I should have to occupy were I to attempt to deal with the innumerable issues that have been raised on this simple issue in the course of the last six hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-19", "file": "debates1937-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "b338ededdf54b625", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1543.3", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "l to the ground. I do not wish to quarrel with either question or statement. I tremble to think what time I should have to occupy were I to attempt to deal with the innumerable issues that have been raised on this simple issue in the course of the last six hours. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Hon. Members know what they would think of any Minister who said any unnecessary word in defence of his own Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-19a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCIAL STATEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "he region it applies to. Now I candidly say that I can hardly expect hon. Members to grasp at the first hearing and in full all the implications of the system which I have been endeavouring to describe. I spent considerable time in trying to frame words which would exhibit at once a simple and an accurate description of this system of graduation, and I am afraid I may have had very little success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Dr. Burgin)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member would never do me an injustice. I am not in the least smiling at the plight of the people in the Basque country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1656.1", "colnum": "1656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And what the captain said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " up to 6th April, I think we can take it for granted that within the policy laid down up to that time by the Government, ample protection was being afforded to British shipping. Can we say that adequate protection has been afforded since? Take the case of the \"Marie Llewellyn.\" Will the First Lord be able to tell the House to-night exactly what was the message conveyed to the captain of that ship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "preceding_text": "undertaken to do is to protect any ship when it sends a message or when it appears to need protection on the high seas.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th April, 1937; col. 1409, Vol. 322.] Is not that a complete contradiction? Is it denied that the answers of the Foreign Secretary meant that, of course, instructions had been sent to the commanders of British warships on the spot that they were to accompany?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No one doubts it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": " ports of the Government or the ports of the insurgents, from the military point of view that would be an operation which the Navy could very easily carry out. Thirdly, it should be made quite clear that throughout all these difficult months the Navy has adopted an absolutely impartial attitude to both sides in Spain. If I wanted evidence to convince any hon. Member who might doubt that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": ", from the military point of view that would be an operation which the Navy could very easily carry out. Thirdly, it should be made quite clear that throughout all these difficult months the Navy has adopted an absolutely impartial attitude to both sides in Spain. If I wanted evidence to convince any hon. Member who might doubt that statement—[An HON. MEMBER: \"No one doubts it.\"] No one doubts it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1683.5", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "Well, while I will not say that it is untrue as far as the right hon. Gentleman is concerned, I am sorry to say that upon the facts, it is not correct. In this case, what he himself read of the transaction between the captain of the \"Marie Llewellyn\" and the captain of the \"Brazen\" showed that he was ordered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1683.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1686.3", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon; that is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weir", "preceding_text": "Did not the Prime Minister say that mines were laid by both sides? Answer that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "re not so—but they are a very small minority. There is not the slightest doubt, as far as the Opposition is concerned, from the watery pink of trade unionism to the full blood red of the Clydeside, they are all to a man for the Spanish Government. I am at a loss to understand their argument; why, because the Government is the legal Government, it is therefore the Government that must be supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Legal Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": " trade unionism to the full blood red of the Clydeside, they are all to a man for the Spanish Government. I am at a loss to understand their argument; why, because the Government is the legal Government, it is therefore the Government that must be supported. [ Interruption. ] Would the hon. Member say the same thing about the Nazis? If there was a rebellion against the Nazis would he be in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "as a rebellion against the Nazis would he be in favour—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Legal Government.\"] The Nazis are far more representative of German democracy than the Spanish Government of Spanish democracy. General Franco is only a provisional revolutionist. We have never really had an answer to this question: Would the Opposition apply the same test to the Nazis as they are applying in the case of Spain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Adrian Baillie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You may learn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Adrian Baillie", "preceding_text": "eign countries, and I am glad to know that they are determined not to intervene in this internecine strife in Spain. I am not in the least biased as between the political persuasions of one side or the other in the Spanish conflict. I feel very much like the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), and I can see no very great difference between Nazi-ism, Fascism, Communism, or even Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-20", "file": "debates1937-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "84bef623143ea2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1705.3", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (BRITISH SHIPPING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has a Welsh captain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": ". He was told this story, which has now been proved to be untrue. The Government have been misled. This morning the \"Seven Seas Spray\" went into the port, with two women on board, without the slightest indication of danger. Those people who delivered their cargo of food are to be praised. I think the House and the people of this country should be proud of the gallantry of the persons on that ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-20a.1705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-21", "file": "debates1937-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1aef599c3d352269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1756.5", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hardie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hardie", "preceding_text": "Does the Under-Secretary deny the issue by the Scottish National Building Trades Federation of a circular dated 12th March that o lock-out was the only way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-21", "file": "debates1937-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1aef599c3d352269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Jones", "preceding_text": "s to making money out of national necessities, they will be on the job straight off the reel, every one of them. You cannot tell where they begin and where they end. Therefore, so far as some of us are concerned, the Budget is very nice. I am glad that the Chancellor is not increasing taxation for anybody else, except for the 3d. on Income Tax. If he is going to give me a rise I shall not grumble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-21", "file": "debates1937-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1aef599c3d352269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1855.1", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "swer to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead and the right hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Ripon, with his orthodox economic outlook. If their economic analyses were correct, this note would represent the motive power which has brought the country to its present position. I would remind them that if I place that 10s. note upon this bench it can remain there for ever and ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-21", "file": "debates1937-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1aef599c3d352269", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lieut.-Colonel Colville)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Lieut.-Colonel Colville)", "preceding_text": "t to the right hon. Gentleman who has just spoken, applied himself diligently to the examination of the Budget. He opened by expressing no sorrow for the increase of 3d. in the standard rate of Income Tax. He regretted, I think, that it had not come before. This is the point of view held by a great number of hon. Members opposite, namely, that a higher rate of Income Tax is a good thing in itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-21a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1941.6", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ate yester1942day, and one remembers the circumstances in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer presented his Budget, which is his sixth successive Budget and is said to be his last, there is a great deal to be said. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, again with that disarming smile of his, said that it was difficult for anyone to belittle the financial achievements of his right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1943.1", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " should really be to take stock of the financial position as it is to be left by the right hon. Gentleman when he takes the position of First Lord of the Treasury. When I begin to study that position I cannot for the life of me understand how it is that hon. Members opposite repeat over and over again, \"What wonderful people there are in charge of the national finances.\" \"How wonderful,\" they say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1956.1", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " time joined with the others in compelling Lord Snowden to withdraw that tax and Lord Snowden had to content himself wilth a bare formula, which may have satisfied his soul but brought not a penny piece into the nation's purse. That was double taxation; and if it was wrong then, according to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it must be wrong now. What justification can there be for upsetting trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1965.1", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Owen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give an example.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Owen", "preceding_text": "e said that it was received with the greatest gloom by hon. Members opposite when it was announced by the Chancellor on Tuesday, and that when hon. Members went into the Lobbies and into the Smoking Rooms the language which they used about the tax was language which certainly would not be permitted within the confines of the Chamber. I might even say that the language was rather turgid in quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.1965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2000.9", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With a subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ng the War: Firms put their profits away, they hid them in various reserves by building construction of all kinds. I know of cases of that kind happening at the time, and I know it may happen again. May I put one question which concerns agriculturists? I do not think that many agriculturists under the present situation of the industry are likely to come in under this National Defence Contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2000.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2017.1", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "enomenon, and that no Government could be held responsible for the depression in this country. Now the Chancellor is in a much more fortunate position, because there has been a revival of trade and industry, and throughout the Debate he has been congratulated because, it is said, it was due to his wise guidance in the financial affairs of the country that we have advanced from slump to prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "I intervene for a few moments because the discussion has really landed the Committee into a hopeless position. I heard the right hon. Gentleman say a minute or two ago that land was going to be leased at an economic rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2112.5", "colnum": "2112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): May I now beg leave to withdraw the Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2112.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2122.11", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Clause 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2122.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"An important thing\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "This Sub-section does not refer to schemes of land reclamation, such as the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) has in mind. The Commissioner has power under the original Act for that purpose. This refers to field drainage. It is really a Clause to do a very small thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-22", "file": "debates1937-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6dd2a9522e862d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2226.4", "colnum": "2226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL AREAS (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "preceding_text": "I promise not to detain the Committee for more than a few moments:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-22a.2226.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-26", "file": "debates1937-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "50eb9bf45c9d39ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-26a.96.5", "colnum": "96", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Extra accommodation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": " every hon. Member by the London Passenger Transport Board, and I read it in an endeavour to find something that would enable us not to press this Motion, but I could find nothing in the statement that held out any hope that the congestion would be dealt with. They speak of a suitable depot for their trains at Aldenham, but I cannot see how that will help in the matter of the transport difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-26a.96.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bére", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bére", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that no concrete, crystallised plan dealing with the stabilisation of feeding stuffs is under consideration by the Ministry? How long is this country to go on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not dumping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "preceding_text": "ing myself to their effect upon one industry and that is the industry of rubber boots and shoes. As regards Canada, our position vis-à-vis that Dominion does not seem to be fair. It is true beyond the shadow of doubt that Canadian rubber shoes are being dumped into the British market—that is they are being sold here at less than the price at which they are being sold in the Canadian market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "preceding_text": "Canada, our position vis-à-vis that Dominion does not seem to be fair. It is true beyond the shadow of doubt that Canadian rubber shoes are being dumped into the British market—that is they are being sold here at less than the price at which they are being sold in the Canadian market. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not dumping.\"] It is one of the definitions of dumping which is generally accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chamberlain", "preceding_text": "As I have already said on another occasion we have not in front of us here an unlimited expenditure to face. We are not in the position we were in in the Great War, when nobody knew what was going to be the end of it, and all we knew was that we had to raise every penny we could collect. We can see the end of this exceptional expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ons which could be made of it, in the form in which we have seen it up to the moment. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will not accept the final suggestion made by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillhead that this matter should be postponed for 12 months. Had he remained in the Chamber I should have liked to ascertain from him how he had got a week's advance information about the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": ", with the greatest astonishment. The right hon. Gentleman's other argument went even further. He said that, if they were still not satisfied, and could not gain sufficient protection by their agitation in this House and in the country, they would not only take their capital and their companies to the Dominions, but would take them abroad to foreign countries. Which foreign countries, may one ask?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " know even now what the tax is going to be. I do not know how the profits are to be assessed, I do not know the standard years or what the capital is going to be. The Chancellor says there is a principle in this matter. Let us clear our minds with regard to it. Let us admit that it is necessary to raise revenue, let us admit that prosperity has come and that everyone is sharing in that prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "speech, it was so humble and so apologetic? The Golden Calf was before him and he humbled himself low and prostrated himself. There are people in this country to-day starving because of the means test. Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer discuss the means test as he has discussed this tax. There is not a Member here who did not pledge himself at the General Election against the family means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-27", "file": "debates1937-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "7bd21bd52a18ec5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "elf low and prostrated himself. There are people in this country to-day starving because of the means test. Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer discuss the means test as he has discussed this tax. There is not a Member here who did not pledge himself at the General Election against the family means test. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"] Yes, every one pledged himself against the operation of the means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-27a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ster and Minister. I do not at all dispute the proposition that there is a certain amount which nearly every Minister is bound to regard as the proper thing to meet. The right hon. Gentleman below the Gangway put upon the Order Paper an Amendment proposing to deal more generously with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, and originally the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a misprint.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "osition that there is a certain amount which nearly every Minister is bound to regard as the proper thing to meet. The right hon. Gentleman below the Gangway put upon the Order Paper an Amendment proposing to deal more generously with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, and originally the Home Secretary. [ Interruption. ] I say it was on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " is whether the value of those \"plums\" should be increased, and whether such an increase would be in the interests of this House and of democracy. We do not like place-men in this House. We do not want to have more Members here simply for what they can get out of it. The value of this House is in its unpaid service. The value of the Front Bench opposite is that Members sitting there are one of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.380.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "rnment require an entire devotion of the whole time and attention of those who fill them; that their own private affairs must necessarily be neglected; and that if care should be taken on the one hand to avoid the scandal of private fortunes amassed at the public expense, it is neither for the interest nor for the honour of the country, on the other hand, that they should be ruined in its service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Hardie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Hardie", "preceding_text": "rare mental capacity are not those who are always scrambling and pushing, but are generally very modest people. Here we see the scramble going on. If all Members were paid the same salaries, there would not be that scramble for office. The tendency would be that men who were most fitted for the positions would get them. Let hon. Members consider the Front Bench opposite, and see the misfits there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Barrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Barrie", "preceding_text": "at what appears in the report of a committee gives full expression to what that committee has thought on a particular subject, and the Committee in question had in view a consideration which so far has not been expressed in this Debate. They felt that the prestige and dignity of the office of a Cabinet Minister demanded that the salary attached to that office should not be less than £5,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " used here to-day be used by the same hon. Members with reference to the means test? Many of the arguments advanced in favour of raising Ministerial salaries could be used effectively in discussions which concern human life and human well-being in relation to the means test. Can anyone supply me with a weekly budget of how this money is to be spent? How much of it is to be spent on food and drink?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "t of the present system is that the: fees which the Law Officers receive are, very substantially lower than the fees of those members of the legal profession whom they find opposed to them in the cases which they are called upon to conduct, and that is obviously right. For one thing, as has been pointed out, we have a secure position—security of tenure—and the best client in the country behind us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Don't you believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "mply preposterous. It would be possible to get anyone in the profession to fill these offices, which put their occupants right at the head of the profession. Moreover, when a man has the prospect of becoming Attorney-General or Solicitor-General in the ordinary course of events, a matter of so many thousand pounds a year ceases to be of very great significance to him, because he has so much money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "tary to the Treasury was the Chief Whip? I always thought that the Chief Whip of the Conservative party was the Patronage Secretary, and, lo and behold, I find that it is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury. In any case I am confident that: £2,000 is quite enough for him. I know the arguments that will be brought forward. The Patronage Secretary works early and late distributing patronage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "for it. The doorkeepers in the House of God are very useful members, and the lads who keep the doors in this House are worthy of better treatment. I do not agree with the hon. Member for Torquay in making this distinction. I could have better understood it if the Parliamentary Secretary had been receiving £600 a year, plus the comfort of the fireside, the pipe and whatever else he has in his room.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "n salaries. Certainly it will be used throughout the country as an example of how the Government look after their own friends. A case was made out earlier for putting all on the same level without increasing the total amount. There was a way out. But by voting for this Clause we shall be adding some £30,000 to the salaries of right hon. Gentlemen opposite. We increase every salary in the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No such luck.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "e is no other source. Yet there is no consideration for the people who produce it. The Minister of Labour has refused to do anything for the boys and men who are on strike at Parkhead, because they want two or three shillings a week more in order to meet the rising cost of living. I wonder whether, if this Clause is defeated and if this \"rise\" is refused, there will be a strike on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "l gesture on the part of one who is going to those who have been very kind to him. He says: \"Before I go I will give you a hand.\" But what a contemptible crowd who are prepared to accept it. And there is not an intelligent man or woman in the country but will understand and will appreciate to the full the character of the Government Front Bench to accept such a thing as this. The distressed areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "e this afternoon, it is all most unfortunate. We have witnessed during the discussion on the salaries of the Law Officers almost every Member of the House, without regard to party, feeling in his heart of hearts that this is a most unfortunate thing, so much so that the Government themselves, through the mouthpiece of the Minister of Health, agreed that they would have to reconsider the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-28", "file": "debates1937-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "5c2c4ef2a701915d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "oble Lord has said in thanking the Patronage Secretary for giving us additional time; but I would also say very respectfully as a back bencher that I would like to make a strong protest against altering the business twice on two consecutive days. I cannot for the life of me see why this haste is necessary. I notice that one or two of the junior Whips are naturally very anxious to get this through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-28a.498.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Has he accepted?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the boy who was not fit to be birched on the day when the other five were birched has been invited to attend the police court on Tuesday next to be birched?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Salary of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, and pensions to persons who have been Prime Minister.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "May I explain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Salary of Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, and pensions to persons who have been Prime Minister.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "May I explain? [ Interruption. ] Surely an individual in immediate expectation of receiving one of these salaries has a rather different interest in the matter than one who has not. I regret very much that the Labour party have no chance of coming into office immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not family life.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "The fundamental basis of the family in the old days, surely, wa s the responsibility of the father for the maintenance and direction of the children and, rightly or wrongly, the whole business of socialising the education and management and direction of children is a fundamental alteration. It will not be denied, surely, that the modern Opposition cuts at the basis of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "see why democracy should be coerced by all the forces of Government into having the thing done in that way. There are more things that I could say, but I have already spoken for longer than I like to speak. I do not wish to put the considerations I have adduced too high. I do not say they are desperately terrifying, I do not believe that, if this Clause is passed, civilisation will come to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "aps it is rather difficult to foresee when they may come towards an equality in numbers. Let me go back to the case which occurred in 1931, when the Labour party were the Official Opposition, being about 50 in number, and would have been entitled to the remuneration. But the party that came second in the House was the Liberal party, which was divided, some being in the Government and some outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Annesley Somerville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Annesley Somerville", "preceding_text": "agree to it. I have listened to arguments from the opposite side with respect to what we have already done. The chief argument has been that we are adding to the burden of the country at a time when there are depressed areas and the money ought to be spent on those areas. Hon. Members opposite must realise now that they cannot use that argument against us because they are accepting this principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Chief Opposition Whip?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "of the Opposition or as leader of the second largest political party in the country. Therefore, I think he deserves a salary of more than £400 a year. Whether £2,000 is the right figure or not, is a matter for Debate, but if he is to fulfil the functions of the office which he holds, with all the responsibilities which fall upon his shoulders, he certainly ought to have a salary of more than £400.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " of that election, there were some 250 or 260 Conservatives in the House, there were about 190 Labour Members, and there were about 150 Liberals, so that there was not a big gap between any of those parties, and the Leader of each one of the parties in those circumstances was able to speak for a very considerable proportion of the House. We might easily have some situation like that in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": " told that the function is to examine, moderate and limit the Government's proposals. As a result of exercising that censorship over the Government's proposals, the Leader of the Opposition is to receive £2,000 a year. I do not believe that the Labour party will gain anything from it. If the Labour party are willing to be bribed by the Government, for heaven's sake let them get a big enough price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.658.5", "colnum": "658", "heading": "CLAUSE 5.—(Salary of Leader of Opposition.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the Noble Lord?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ng, in a few sentences, why they intend to take that course, after the speeches of hon. Members who take a different view. In view of the very cheap party point which the hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Foot) tried to make and the views of the Noble Lord, who used to belong to us but now finds himself more at home with the hon. and learned Gentleman and his friends, we are entitled to say a few words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.658.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Provision for payment of salaries and pensions.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "e Leader of the Opposition. The reason why the Vote of the Minister of the Crown is presented year by year is in order to subject his administration and policy to the criticism of the House. It would be very unfortunate—and I do not see any reason for it, certainly no such reason as is applicable to a Minister—if the salary of the Leader of the Opposition should come before the House year by year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-29", "file": "debates1937-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "148386e61b95540d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "CLAUSE 10.—(Interpretation and determination of questions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "happens? The party whose man is not picked as Leader of the Opposition will never forgive Mr. Speaker. Immediately, he will cease to be Mr. Speaker to that party. To them he will become a party man. He will have gone on the party basis. That party might be 100 strong and it could give the Speaker a very uncomfortable time. Even a smaller party can be very active in this House—even a party of four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-29a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.690.2", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "down to any Bill since I have been in the House of Commons, but it is understood that Amendments which come up for discussion on Report stage in the House of Commons ought to have received some consideration in Standing Committee before they come down here. These Amendments should come down on the Report stage only after having been discussed freely, openly and intelligently in Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "House—and as in every sense of the word a mobile illustration. Why should we not have, if we desire it, this amenity, and why should the ordinary man have his choice interfered with and be dictated to? As an independent Member of Parliament and an individualist I stand for the rights of the individual. My State-ridden hon. Friends on the other side of the House would stand for State dictatorship.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "two matters to which attention was drawn by the hon. Member for Torquay. I am sorry that he is not here. I hope he will forgive me when I say that he is that type of informed person who does not need a lawyer to help him, although he pretends that he does. He was not quite so clear to-day as he usually is. He invited me to define \"race meetings, public gatherings and other like special occasions.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Aberdeen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "he fact that in London, although it is illegal to carry more than a certain number of passengers in a taxicab, he had seen more than that number carried on many occasions. I want to know whether this Bill will affect the liability in respect of insurance to any extent. I should be glad if he would say a word or two on that matter. Perhaps he has heard of the incident in either Glasgow or Aberdeen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are optimistic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": " does not deal with anything that matters. It says in effect to the public: \"Some of you have been breaking the law so far, and you will continue to break the law, in various ways, but you can share these taxi-cab fares.\" If I go for a taxi-cab journey with two or three of my Scottish colleagues in this House, that will be about the only occasion upon which the Bill will be of any advantage to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ld be required by four Members to take them that distance. Would that be an illegal happening under this Bill? We have now reached this stage, that twice this week it has been necessary for those of us who live on a certain line to make arrangements, other than those provided by the London Passenger Transport Board or the railway companies, to get home, and I have already made a fresh partnership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where's that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "hester, and most people imagine that it rains there more than anywhere else. I hope hon. Members will not take that as a fact, because all that happens is that it takes longer to come down. But, leaving that point, may I come to the one, which I want to put to the House. I shall take a taxi cab next Monday from Cardiff, through Llandaff, the Taff Valley, Abercynon, Ystrad-fodwg, into Mountain Ash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-04-30", "file": "debates1937-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "06aa789cc0465516", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nothing to-day to prevent the business of the House proceeding in the normal way. If we have been moved to say more than we ought to have said on certain points, or if we have left unsaid things that ought to have been said, that is not our fault. I think we on this side have behaved with dignity and with decency and that we have succeeded with the help of a few blacklegs from the Government side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-04-30a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-03", "file": "debates1937-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "59874a2463976f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-03a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s for compensation, when, by Act of Parliament, this apparently permanent employment has terminated. The question is, shall we carry this provision into the wide arena of private employment? Shall we take the step of giving a statutory right of compensation to every individual up and down the land whose employment is affected because of some change in Government policy or some action of that sort?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-03a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-03", "file": "debates1937-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "59874a2463976f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-03a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From the levy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Member says that the compensation may come from the Cattle Fund, from the £5,000,000. Where does the compensation for auctioneers and others come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-03a.844.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-05-03", "file": "debates1937-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "59874a2463976f80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-03a.902.4", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 4.—(Subsidy to producers of fat cattle.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had already clearly said that as soon as the industry is prosperous enough to do without any subsidy at all—I am sure I shall have the support of every farmer in this country in saying this—we shall desire to see it removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-03a.902.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-04", "file": "debates1937-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "091363988ae5d0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I have not come forward with information as to where the slaughter-houses are to be situated, I would ask hon. Members to believe that my secrecy has not been because I did not want to give all information in my power, but because it would be improper for me to make any suggestion on the subject at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-04", "file": "debates1937-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "091363988ae5d0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " The agriculural research stations have been working at this for some time, and it is only because they have not got sufficient financial support that they have not yet produced an average figure which would give us an idea of what the costs of production of fat cattle are. If we cannot know that now, the Commission should at least take steps to ge the facts upon which the subsidy should be based.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-04", "file": "debates1937-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "091363988ae5d0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1080.3", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE (PART I).—(Provisions to be complied with in connection with the making of Livestock Markets Orders.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Do hon. Members think that these words would do that? If I had it in mind, as Minister of Agriculture, to torment these people and to put them to inconvenience, if these words were inserted and if there was a public inquiry to be held, I could put them to far more inconvenience than would be involved by making them come to London, for I could direct that the inquiry should be held on a bleak moor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-04", "file": "debates1937-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "091363988ae5d0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIXTH SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A very reasonable Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "consequence of the way in which the Debates on the later stages of the Bill have been postponed from time to time and the uncertainty as to whether the final stage would be taken to-night, it becomes necessary for me to move a manuscript Amendment. I have supplied a copy of our Amendment to the Minister, and I apologise to other hon. Members of the House for the fact that it is in manuscript form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-04", "file": "debates1937-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "091363988ae5d0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIXTH SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Major Dorman-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Dorman-Smith", "preceding_text": "n through which the industry has passed and whether they give any hope for the future. First of all, there is this subsidy of £5,000,000. I absolutely agree with those who say that the subsidy should not be paid if the price of fat cattle becomes remunerative. No farmer that I know would claim for himself the right to take the money, if his price were good enough and he were able to do without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-04", "file": "debates1937-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "091363988ae5d0b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIXTH SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will you vote for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "at, I cannot see my way to vote against it. Although it has defects, I prefer to trust to public opinion and to criticism which will be levelled from time to time in the House to bring about in time improvement in its operation, and ultimately to amend and extend it. Therefore, believing as I do in the force of public opinion in this country, I hope the Bill will get through. I will not oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-04a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-05-05", "file": "debates1937-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4a9bc705170a06e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-05a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thought that a reply to those questions was sent almost immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-05a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-05", "file": "debates1937-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4a9bc705170a06e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-05a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": "o decide what it is that has created this position. I understand —I may be wrong—that the members of both the Nottinghamshire Miners' Association and the Nottinghamshire Industrial Union were willing to agree to the principle of the amalgamation of the two units; in fact that they agreed to this many months ago, and that a draft agreement was drawn up and submitted to the respective organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-05a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL DEFENCE CONTRIBUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "Is it a fact that at a private meeting of Members the right hon. Gentleman stated this week he was favourably considering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1332.4", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "om their homes with bombs which dropped charges of high explosives. People were pursued in the countryside by machine gun, even through the ploughed fields. A terrible thing, of immense and overwhelming significance, happened that day. We should be false to the best interests of our own country, and of our people in the world, if we allowed the incident of Guernica to pass unnoticed in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "ngs of the foreign journalists' investigation. It states that they were taken by officers of General Mola's headquarters staff to Guernica, and that They were able to verify the fact that none of the panels of the walls still standing bore any traces of bombing, while all the windows were encircled with traces of flames. They were able to show that the burning of the town had been a voluntary act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1352.3", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will produce his evidence on the Floor of this House later in the afternoon, no doubt we will listen to him. I suggest that, as far as we know, there are factories—and I have a letter here which suggests that one is in the town, but I have no confirmation of the fact—which manufacture small arms in or around Guernica, and that it is not therefore an open town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1352.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Neither can you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman explain which argument he is using? Was Guernica burned by the Basques, or was it bombed because of the munition factories that were in it? He cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1354.6", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I say that it is a deliberate and a calculated lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1358.3", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"General Franco has also objected!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "upon as the leader, almost the prototype, of democracy. The Spanish people realised that when we had sent volunteers to Spain we had sent them on the side of the people almost exactly 100 years ago. What they could not understand was not the idea of non-intervention, but that non-intervention should be used by this country in such a way as to form the most effective weapon that General Franco had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "ugh and made nugatory the one advantage that the Government of Spain possessed, namely, that they had control of the national finances, and therefore had the power and in international law the right to buy arms. The Non-Intervention Committee neutralised that one advantage. That is why I say that this country came to the aid of General Franco. I have been among the soldiers and the young officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "e than that employed by the hon. Member for Gower (Mr. Grenfell). I noticed in the course of that speech from the Front Opposition Bench that it did not express a complete rejection, or indeed any rejection, of the policy of non-intervention. Nevertheless, every remark made throughout the Debate which has drawn any applause from the Labour Opposition has been a remark repudiating non-intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "w well those propositions fit together, the House may form its own conclusion. As to the first proposition, that there is no danger, that is a question of fact, and I think the British people would prefer the view of the Naval authorities on the spot to chance remarks by different hon. Gentlement opposite, even on the Front Opposition Bench. British shipping, of course, can believe which it likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "tion policy. According to the ordinary methods practised in all previous wars, we should long ago have recognised belligerent rights in both combatants. We may still have to do that. I have no doubt that the Government had weighty reasons against that course. I believe that some hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite think that one can recognise belligerent rights in one side and not in the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be funny!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ist is a unilateral war. If the hon. Member who said \"Why not?\" will look in a dictionary, he will see that \"belligerent\" means carrying on a war, and one of the facts about war is that there must be at least two sides. It is elementary common sense and international law that if one concedes belligerent rights to one side, one must concede them to the other side. It is too elementary to be argued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The pleasure? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " come to the conclusion that belligerent rights should be recognised, they should not be alarmed by any outcry from the Left. The outcry from the Left is so invariably inconsistent that it is negligible. I had the pleasure on Saturday last, which was May Day, of listening to the speeches delivered from numerous platforms of the United Front in Hyde Park which dealt with Spain among other subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-06", "file": "debates1937-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "2a77f33708c85819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1377.0", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Griffith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Griffith", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to make any imputation of bad faith, but we were attacked from the benches behind the Government on the ground of having abstained on that occasion, and I was merely explaining that the reason for that was an assurance which we had got from the right hon. Gentleman which we understood, and which I think everyone would have understood, to include the protection of our ships by convoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-06a.1377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.53.5", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty times!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "That is what it costs now. If hon. Members would allow me to proceed, it would be better. I make the point that to-day the House is proposing to vote to the Monarch 30 times the amount that we have voted to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.53.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"His unregenerate days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " basis, should be taken away from hysteria and should be taken away from those principles about which the right hon. Member for Epping in his later years is so enthusiastic, but which he did not support in his earlier days—I was going to say his more virile days, but one cannot accuse the right hon. Gentleman of having yet lost his virility. I will, therefore, say, in his younger and fresher days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They get much more than that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "t is what the right hon. Gentleman has come to in his later days. He has chosen his path. I have more kinship, much more in common with the London busmen, who during this period of rejoicing have been struggling to get conditions of life that would make a healthy life possible for them much more in common with them on their fr50 a year than I have with anything that is proposed in this Civil List.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "nemployment and financial policies of the Labour Government. The right hon. Gentleman was not himself a Member of the Cabinet at that time, and did not give us the authority on which his statement was based. I cannot conceive to what he refers unless it was that undoubtedly the financial and unemployment policies of that Government did give widespread dissatisfaction to the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedģwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedģwood", "preceding_text": "onnected with the household—private secretaries, equerries, aides-decamp—are at the present time bleeding not this House, but bleeding the Royal purse. We have put this Amendment on the Paper in order that that form of parasitism may be checked. It is not merely a waste of our money, but it also has an extremely bad affect upon the attitude of the country as a whole towards our Royal institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "orking man, a step or two nearer the symbol. If I get into the Cabinet, if, through some change of fortune, a Labour Government should get in and decide to have a representative of my party in the Cabinet, I am supposed to move still nearer to this symbol and get £5,000 a year. I am supposed to live according to that, to change my entire life. But if I change my entire life, I change my character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "a year. I am supposed to live according to that, to change my entire life. But if I change my entire life, I change my character. [An HON. MEMBER \"Why not?\"] If I should begin to live as the bourgeois lives, I should begin to think as the bourgeois thinks. As a matter of fact, the symbol is there to make it clear that no working man can occupy a position of any kind in the affairs of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-24", "file": "debates1937-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "b458297af0f8bbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"One third.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ing with detail points. Many of them were moved a year ago when the Civil List was previously before the Committee, and when we had very indifferent support. Now the Official Opposition are opposing the Civil List as a whole, and there has just been a vote in this House in which one half of the Members have opposed the Civil List, and have made out a strong case for an inquiry at some future date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-24a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.115.9", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "he line that they propose to follow in order to take advantage of the new situation that has arisen in the last 12 months, and declare that there must be some modification in the principle of the Ottawa agreements. I do not know whether the people of the country realise how thoroughly unpopular the Ottawa Agreements are abroad, and even among those who concede the principle of Imperial Preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.115.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.115.9", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "onial empire of their own. That is of the greatest possible importance owing to the new technique of government, developed in certain quarters of Europe, which consists of exploiting the feelings and passions of the people in order that dictators can turn them to their own advantage. Those in touch with the Press of Germany must know of the allegations made of the starvation of Germany by England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.115.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.124.4", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "en and citizens of the Empire overseas. It would be dangerous at the present time in any way to weaken our economic defence. I ask the Committee for a moment or two to consider the question of the adverse balance of trade. Memories are not so short that we forget the dangerous position in 1931. I am not suggesting that we have arrived at anything like that now, because we are balancing our Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "I have not the figures for Canada, but I am happy to be able to state that our trade with Canada is very nearly balanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.140.7", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Tariff Board is done away with.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "tended list of articles was reduced in duty. There is for this country free entry for a very large range of goods into the Dominion of Canada. That is one of the results that has accrued from bringing together industrially this country and the Empire. A declaration has been made by those responsible in Canada that the Tariff Board of Canada will not increase the duty against any British commodity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.140.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They want our trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "ng out for a greater measure of freedom of trade, and that is why I felt a sense of disappointment with the President's speech. I hope the Parliamentary Secretary will make up for that defect and that we shall respond wholeheartedly to the appeal that has been made by these statesmen. The leading statesmen of every country have been making greater appeals for a greater measure of freedom of trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "ever Government came into power, that it could wipe away tariffs tomorrow morning. We are not putting that forward. We know the impracticability of that suggestion. It is mere school-boy debating business to put that up in order to knock it down. This is the distinction between us and the party opposite. You believe that tariffs will save everything, and that is the ultimate object of your policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "ss to put that up in order to knock it down. This is the distinction between us and the party opposite. You believe that tariffs will save everything, and that is the ultimate object of your policy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Am I misrepresenting the hon. and gallant Baronet the Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft) when I say that? We believe that the ultimate end should be the elimination of tariffs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Granville Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Granville Gibson", "preceding_text": "I have listened with great interest to the speech of the hon. Member for Stoke (Mr. E. Smith), who made a special plea to the President of the Board of Trade that we should have a new economic policy in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": " that those who are not dependent upon weekly wages are doing very well, but I cannot see the same satisfactory conditions of things for those who are employed in our industries in Lancashire or elsewhere. The hon. Member for Bolton (Sir J. Haslam) referred to a statement made by a former Prime Minister of this country, in which he spoke of the time when 13,000,000 were on the verge of starvation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-25", "file": "debates1937-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8ac23ffbed7e6f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Over- worked and underpaid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": "mp in this country. It is not to that time that we should look, but to the immediate moment. There are people in every one of our counties, even in this part of the country which is referred to as prosperous —in London and Greater London—working under conditions that are not a credit to this country, and there are many unemployed, as one can see if he cares to go round to the Employment Exchanges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-25a.214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.281.11", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "roved that that is true. If the Commission were to report on this part of the subject at all they ought to have made an inquiry; they ought to have had power to seize without warning the files and records of the armament firms, they ought to have skilled experts to go through them and public money to finance them, and they ought to have had power to subpoena witnesses and to take evidence on oath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.281.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.281.11", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ity of the Government for the production of and trade in arms. In every part of this report I have searched in vain to find if the Government are prepared to go one step further than they have gone already towards making this principle effective, towards making Armament manufacture a matter of \"public service.\" Apparently they reject it entirely, because they accept nothing that will carry it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.281.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "It does not always follow that it is wise to do a thing, merely for the sake of doing something. The hon. Gentleman seems to think that there is some virtue in merely doing something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": " basis of so much of their own policy. They understand perfectly well what I mean. The mere fact that the Government's policy agrees with the first three recommendations of the report is no reason why the Government should not get the credit of being able to say that they have accepted the report of the Royal Commission on these three points and they are the three main points of its investigation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very wise of you to ignore it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "What about Senator Nye's inquiry? Sir T. Inskip: Senator Nye's inquiry is beyond my purview. There are many things which go on in the United States and which are of interest to the people of the United States, but I have quite sufficient to deal with in the discharge of my own duty here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "lists who take the view that this question must be tackled at the earliest opportunity. I understand that one of the favourite defences put forward by those who support the present system—and I believe the Minister for the Coordination of Defence took the same view to-night—is that there would be a difficulty in the disposal of surplus arms in the event of the armament industry being nationalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "preceding_text": "country, who had been running their businesses as private enterprises all this time. The Government are controlling profits in every possible way, but there is no doubt that without these private firms we could never get warships or aeroplanes or the Army equipped in time. The Government had to go to the private manufacturers. But were private manufacturers always ready to take up these contracts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-26", "file": "debates1937-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "d76aeafe485eecc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": ". Take away their armaments, and they fight with their hands. You may persuade them not to fight, but it is no good snatching their armaments out of their hands and in that way try to stop them fighting. The idea is widely held that there are these mysterious individuals going about the world stirring up and starting wars solely in order that they may sell their armaments to one side or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-26a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-27", "file": "debates1937-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "477b2a04ce176448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "CIVIL LIST BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "m beginning to end, has seemed to me to be frivolous and out of touch with the feeling of the vast mass of the people of this country; certainly out of touch with the feeling of the people in the Dominions. I trust that we shall have no more of the frivolous speeches that we have recently had from the other side and which made fun, vulgar fun, of a thing which is a sacred thing, because an emblem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-27", "file": "debates1937-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "477b2a04ce176448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "TRADE MARKS (AMENDMENT) BILL [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Broad", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Glow lamps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Broad", "preceding_text": "Glyco-Thymoline.\" Other firms began to do the same thing, calling it \"Glycerinated Thymol,\" or \"Glycerine of Thymol,\" and, since \"Glycerine of Thymol\" or \"Glycerinated Thymol\" sounds very like \"Glyco-Thymoline,\" it might be said that one could never sell glycerine in combination with thymol because of this trade mark \"Glyco-Thymoline.\" What I am afraid of is the creation of monopolies in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-27", "file": "debates1937-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "477b2a04ce176448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PUBLIC HEALTH (DRAINAGE OF TRADE PREMISES) BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "g the pollution of our beautiful streams and rivers. The condition of many of them is a disgrace to our vaunted civilisation. Through Sheffield, my adopted city, rues the River Don. When I was a boy I remember a citizen of Sheffield describing what a beautiful river it was and how in the very heart of Sheffield salmon and trout were to be seen and caught by the anglers and fishermen of those days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-27", "file": "debates1937-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "477b2a04ce176448", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.543.3", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PUBLIC HEALTH (DRAINAGE OF TRADE PREMISES) BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "t in the preservation of the countryside and in maintaining the amenities, and beauties of our streams and rivers. What is the state of the River Don to-day? From Penistone until it enters the Humber and finally reaches the sea, it is a veritable cesspool of filth and pollution. A few weeks ago I went to Sheffield to look at the River Don. It seemed to me to be flowing in agony, ashamed of itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-27a.543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-28", "file": "debates1937-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "eaaad5cb5abb85f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.568.3", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "preceding_text": "king up of family life in this country. My hon. Friends and I feel very strongly that the presumption should not be based upon the mere absence of one of the parties but upon the actual facts. Every step taken in the Bill makes divorce easier, and particularly makes it easier in the case of poor people. Most of the people who go to the divorce courts in this country are in very poor circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.568.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-28", "file": "debates1937-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "eaaad5cb5abb85f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": " the writer refers. There is a very large volume of opinion in all the Churches against this Measure One regrets very much that certain distinguished ecclesiastics have registered their view in favour of the Bill. I venture to suggest that in our great national Church and in the Catholic Church and among much of the Nonconformist opinion in this country, there is a strong feeling against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-28", "file": "debates1937-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "eaaad5cb5abb85f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": " the Court of Appeal that a marriage between persons tinder the Soviet law, which empowers either of the spouses to put an end to the marriage by a mere notification to the Registrar without any interference by the court, was, in the contemplation of the English law, a marriage. Of course, such a decision is a complete degradation of the whole conception of marriage to the level of the Soviet law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-28", "file": "debates1937-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "eaaad5cb5abb85f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "do not go smoothly and it is a protection for the children. It has surprised me to see so many members of the Church of England to which I belong and even members of the clergy and of the bench of Bishops supporting the loosening of the marriage ties, the breaking of the solemn vows made at its altars, sacrificing the interests of the majority for the minority and lowering the sanctity of family.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-28", "file": "debates1937-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "eaaad5cb5abb85f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "e apprehension which it is causing in sanatoria throughout the country is, I am told, already most marked. It is part of the nature of the disease of mentally deranged people for them to lose their sense of proportion, and I am told on really excellent authority that many patients are so afraid of the provisions of this Bill that they have already suffered very serious setbacks in their condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-28", "file": "debates1937-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "eaaad5cb5abb85f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "tatement, I would remind them that in the election of 1929, an hon. Member of this House, whose name I will not mention, fought an election on this very question of divorce in the City of London. All the forces of the Church were mobilised against him, and the Roman Catholics fought him to the best of their ability. There was no Socialist candidate, and divorce was the sole issue of that election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-28a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.703.3", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "e of furniture into the lowest storey of a three-storied dwelling and the ceiling is low, there may be many cases in which you have to measure and calculate and find out whether any portion of the furniture will need to be cut down or altered in order to get it into the room. Raise the ceiling however and there will be an increasing number of cases in which these inquiries will become unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.709.5", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ions. First, I would very seriously invite them to consider carefully and at leisure what I have said as to these adjustments, for just as some criticisms originally made of the scheme may have been well founded and well deserved, so I feel confident that the changes now made, when they are maturely considered at leisure, will be recognised by fair-minded people as removing many of the objections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.709.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " hon. Members who support it to develop it, but I ask leave to make one observation which it suggests. The Opposition Amendment makes reference to price levels, and alleges that this Finance Bill will promote a further rise in them. The recovery which the country has enjoyed is not in any way to be regarded as the precarious by-product of rearmament. Our prosperity does not depend upon rearmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "e a further rise in them. The recovery which the country has enjoyed is not in any way to be regarded as the precarious by-product of rearmament. Our prosperity does not depend upon rearmament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The recovery of the country was thoroughly well advanced before rearmament began, and the pace of recovery, though it goes on, has not noticeably quickened as the result of rearmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "pe liability for the tax altogether. That surely is adding a very considerable inducement to those which at present exist for companies now registered in London to remove overseas and register elsewhere, and I should have thought that was not a practice which it was the business of the Government to encourage. Seventhly, Clause 22 fills me with dismay. It deals with refunds. One test of a bad tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Debate proceeds. We should consider the improvements of the past two years and try to find a plan which meets most of the facts. The hon. Gentleman who preceded me mentioned the question of the inequality for ordinary shareholders as compared with debentures and preference shareholders. Let us look at the facts. The ordinary shareholder knows what he is doing when he subscribes towards the shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.761.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "hered the opinion of this House, he should at once withdraw the tax. To go on with it in the teeth of opposition certainly will not make his path as Chancellor of the Exchequer a rosy one. Another thought which comes to my mind is that since I came back to the House after the last Election, I have heard nothing but a continuous chorus that the National Government has brought us back to prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Higher wages may come, but the hon. and gallant Member will agree with me that they are usually a factor which follows some way behind the rise in prices, and if it were not for the existence of trade unions—organisations that are not altogether loved by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " to inflate the cost of the rearmament programme, and it is beginning to be serious for the housing operations of local authorities, to which the Government are committed. There is no tendency on the part of the Board of Trade to worry itself about it at all, and there is no tendency on the part of the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer to worry himself about it as far as financial policy is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "he workers. If it is permissible for the chambers of commerce, for the Federation of British Industries and the Mining Association to use their economic power to compel the Chancellor to withdraw this tax, it is equally permissible for the workers to use their economic power to compel the Government to do something else. I will see that the workers whom I represent will be made aware of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-05-31", "file": "debates1937-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "a0064899e820d52e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: And Co-operators.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ned to find money. I do not want the Prime Minister to consult these people. If he will consult me I will give him some good advice. It is a sound tax, a sensible tax, and if he will make up his mind to carry it through, having with great courage brought it forward, and discuss it with me, I will show him how to operate it, and make firms like Marks and Spencer and Lyons pay more than £25,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-05-31a.819.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.845.7", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD STORAGE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware of the very widespread concern throughout the country that nothing has been done up to this date; and does not he think that it is about time something was done to prevent the possibility of ruin in the event of a national emergency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.845.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did you not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "300,000,000 or £400,000,000 at one stroke, if my recollection serves me. Moreover, the profits in this case had actually been made and they could be measured with considerable accuracy by comparing them with normal pre-war years before our affairs were so violently interfered with by the great struggle. Personally, I do not mind saying that I would have gone as far after the War as a capital levy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "r tax has been riddled and shown to be virtually unworkable; secondly, an altogether excessive and exaggerated, but none the less costly, reaction has been produced in the markets and in industry; thirdly, both the parties of the Left, the Liberals and the Socialists alike, have denounced and derided the tax, so that it cannot be made very great use of in inspiring the munition workers; fourthly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "tax entirely separated from the rest of the Budget; then will be the opportunity to vote for some special improvement: and I hope and trust that we may be met in some way in the matter then, if the worst comes to the worst. But no one who wishes to see the rearmament programme carried out, and who is pledged to that, will think of giving an adverse vote upon the Second Reading of the Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Weight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " shoulders, he is in an altogether different position. His success in his new office is a matter, not only of party, but of national importance. We all want him to have a fair start. He has a perfect right to take a new decision, and in my opinion he is bound to do so. The only trail worth following at any given moment is the well-being of the nation. The Bible says: \"Lay aside every impediment\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "31. I trust that the people at large will recognise that this is the second time that the City of London has intervened in the framing of a Budget, although on this occasion it prefers a different method of defeating the Government from that of forcing a General Election. The record of the National Government is one of rising national expenditure, rising taxation, rising prices and rising profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And rising wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "gnise that this is the second time that the City of London has intervened in the framing of a Budget, although on this occasion it prefers a different method of defeating the Government from that of forcing a General Election. The record of the National Government is one of rising national expenditure, rising taxation, rising prices and rising profits. [ Interruption. ] I emphasise that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": " those 1,000,000 persons within the Income Taxpaying class, the Government further accentuated the inequality to which I have referred. Moreover, they lowered the exemption limit from £162 to £125 a year, which means that the well-to-do section of the community is not in any way bearing its fair proportion of the increased expenditure embodied in the Budget. I will now bring my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, it has affected it already!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "our Budget is unbalanced because we are including in it £80,000,000 for part of the expenditure upon armaments, I am not going to argue upon that point, because it is quite unimportant. The really important thing is what is the effect which it produces outside. Does it create a feeling of anxiety, of doubt, of uncertainty as to the future course of our finances. Does it affect our national credit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "preceding_text": "have just listened to two speeches made with great restraint from the opposite side of the House, and I am sure that many Members in all parts of the House will agree with some of what has been said; but I think that the case is a little unfairly put when the point is raised about the Monarchy costing £410,000 a year, and it is assumed that, if the Monarchy were abolished, that sum would be saved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.940.5", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL LIST BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "preceding_text": "ay in which simplification is growing. There is the question, for example, of Court dress. In Queen Victoria's day there were the most stringent regulations as to dress at Royal garden parties and so on. Now-a-days it is possible to go, as I have gone, to a Royal garden party in an ordinary lounge suit. When I go to a garden party in a lounge suit, the people in top hats are hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.940.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "lidays, the capitalists cannot afford them. If we want anything on pensions, they say, \"We cannot afford that, although we can afford £1,500,000,000 in five years for the manufacture of armaments.\" The amount that the men who get hurt in industry get is a standing disgrace to the country. A man who gets injured in industry is looked upon to-day in the British Isles as one of the biggest criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.980.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-01", "file": "debates1937-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "fa7dfb8eafed3395", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.982.7", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-01a.982.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-02", "file": "debates1937-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "f6c98c691fec1a73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-02a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "l these benefits.\" It is true that in our passion for improving administration and justice and for establishing educational works, public works, and so on, we are very apt to go beyond what the revenues of the country can really sustain unless taxation is pressed very far, and therefore as we develop our services, as we improve and perfect our administration, we really cause increasing discontent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-02a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1191.5", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "General Election, but one cannot form any idea who will be sitting on that bench receiving these salaries. It may be that the present National Government will continue to grace that bench and to conduct the affairs of the country for many decades to come. On the other hand, there are those who can see a Labour Government sitting on the other side. It may be that there will be a Liberal Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " I suggest that in these days, when it is desirable on so many occasions that we should have an authoritative legal statement made from time to time on points which arise quite casually in Debate, in addition to having the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General, it might be greatly to the advantage of the House if one of the sinecure offices was filled by an eminent member of the legal profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Earl Winterton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bonar Law!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Earl Winterton)", "preceding_text": " from the Constitution of many Continental countries, and especially the one great country which I have in mind, changes of Government and changes of Prime Minister, and indeed short Parliaments, are very much more the exception than the rule. There has been in fact, so far as I can recollect, no case for a great many years in which a Prime Minister has held office for a period of only six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "I remember one occasion in the last Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ners\" of garages includes occupiers of garages. The Minister nods his head, and I am glad to have that assurance, but why was that not specifically stated in the Regulation. One cannot expect every motorist to go to his legal adviser with this Regulation and ask him to give him an opinion on it, and I am sure that 99 per cent. of the population were not aware that the term \"owner\" meant \"occupier\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1298.3", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "rakes of a car? It is easy to find out in a garage that a car has no brakes. There are practical methods to find out not whether any particular standard of efficiency is attained or whether the brakes are insufficient. That is a matter of practical common sense. The brakes may be tested on the road or with the consent of the owner of the premises, and that means somebody in charge of the premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1298.3", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "test the brakes on the road. That is one set of circumstances, and that obviously will be by far the larger part of the practical results of this Regulation. You are also to have power, if the car is not on the road, but has been removed from the road, to follow up the car. You cannot go into private property, so you are to get the permission of the representative of the premises where the car is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1298.3", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What happens if the permission is refused?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "ses. That permission is either given or refused. I will assume that it is given, and the officer proceeds to an examination or a test of the car. The officer may be one for whom the Ministry of Transport is responsible, or he may not; he may be a police officer in uniform. The Regulation says that it must be a police officer in uniform or an examiner, who must, if required, pro-duce his authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1300.5", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": " So far we are in agreement. The hon. and gallant Member and his friend now ask that before the inspection of testing of a car takes place the owner should be notified so that he or his representative can attend. I agree, and as Minister of Transport I give an undertaking to the House that directions will be issued at once to all officers under the control of the Ministry that wherever practicable", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Strickland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Strickland", "preceding_text": "nt perhaps, but when the Minister suggests that badges are not mascots, I suggest that in the case of a man being thrown back on to the sharp edge of a badge, it is just as likely to cause serious injury to that man as is a mascot. After all, a mascot is a mascot. We know what a mascot is, but practically every ordinary mascot in use on the recognised makes of cars will come under this Regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Strickland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Strickland", "preceding_text": " inspection of vehicles, but it was necessary that duly authorised officers should have power to test and inspect brakes, steering gear and so on, not merely on the roads, but elsewhere, both for the convenience of the motorist and for the convenience of administration. He was very careful to define what he meant by \"elsewhere,\" and he laid down that the owner of the vehicle ought to be protected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1305.5", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d that the owner of the car should be notified, and that a direction would be issued that wherever practicable notice should be given with a view to the owner of the car being present. When it was pointed out that he had no power over the police he referred to an answer given by the Under-Secretary to the Home Department that the police would not do this without notifying the owner of the vehicle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1305.5", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "le examiners under the Act of 1930, and to the examiners under the Act of 1933, but we have the permission which is here given to police constables who may not be skilled in the examination of motor vehicles. They may have no sort of qualification for the task which is contemplated in this particular Regulation, but they may afterwards be called upon to give evidence that the vehicle is defective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-03", "file": "debates1937-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "070495edd629ca64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1305.5", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "s contemplated in this particular Regulation, but they may afterwards be called upon to give evidence that the vehicle is defective. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"] That is an exceedingly serious matter to a large number of people, because if a man is alleged to have taken out a defective vehicle, that may be an offence for which he can be prosecuted, and if he is a road haulier he may lose his licence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-03a.1305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-04", "file": "debates1937-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "15db0a3f8aacf1b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1323.4", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Or in the strength of the beer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "atistics about which some hon. Members may be suspicious when I mention it, but I do so merely as a matter of fact. The only figure which shows a substantial increase in this connection is that in rela- tion to drunkenness. If l had my way, the brewers of this country would be compelled to maintain their victims in prison, and then I suppose we would see a reduction in convictions for drunkenness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1323.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-04", "file": "debates1937-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "15db0a3f8aacf1b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1333.2", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "preceding_text": "they had not missed the book; nobody could have found the boy out with regard to the money that he had -taken to get the books which he desired, but he was guilty, and had to come before the bench of magistrates. People said that the magistrates would never dream of convicting a boy for a first offence of that kind, and so no lawyer was engaged to defend him. The result was that he got two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-04", "file": "debates1937-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "15db0a3f8aacf1b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxtor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxtor", "preceding_text": "tion of payment for conduct and good work applies to all, and always has done; and this £6,900, as far as I can gather, is the total provision for the ordinary remuneration that is given to all prisoners for good conduct and good work and the special allowances that are to be paid to these special prisoners as well. I am very dubious as to what the special prisoners will get. When I was in prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-04", "file": "debates1937-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "15db0a3f8aacf1b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "st bit in favour of the prisoners, that some of the other warders will report them. But the big question which I want the Home Secretary to consider is that of torture in British prisons. When I say \"torture in British prisons\" I know that many hon. Members will say to themselves, \"There is no such thing.\" But there is torture in British prisons that surpasses anything known under the Inquisition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-04a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-07", "file": "debates1937-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0232dd25e342ad39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1431.2", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "It can be done if it is the wish of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-07", "file": "debates1937-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0232dd25e342ad39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1447.3", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": " give figures again, compared with the pre-War 100. The figure in May of this year was 136, as a matter of fact the same figure as the wholesale price, compared with 126 in May of last year and 118 in 'May of the year before. A rise all round of nearly 20 points in two years, nearly one-sixth, or 2d. in the shilling is a serious thing, particularly for the unemployed and to those with small means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-07", "file": "debates1937-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0232dd25e342ad39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1523.1", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "House that I do not like subsidies, but as the representative of a farming constituency, and seeing the difficulties of agriculture, I have always thought it necessary to support such subsidies as have been proposed. I am bound to go on doing so, though I do not deny that my conscience is sometimes troubled. I should feel more happy if some part of the existing subsidy, or some additional subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1523.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-07", "file": "debates1937-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0232dd25e342ad39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So it does.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tartan", "preceding_text": " drainage. I remember the hon. Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) coming down when I was living in White-chapel and explaining agriculture to the inhabitants of Whitechapel. That was the time when the Liberals should have been helping agriculture. I understand that at that time the Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer went to Limehouse and said that the land belonged to the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-07", "file": "debates1937-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0232dd25e342ad39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ive a premium, for the very good reason that it was singularly incapacitated for breeding purposes; but farmers who were buying were never told of that fact. If the method of Northern Ireland and Scotland were followed, farmers going to the sale would know what in the judgment of the livestock officer was the best bull for breeding purposes, and the livestock officers are people of great judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-07", "file": "debates1937-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "0232dd25e342ad39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He gave percentage figures\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "preceding_text": " cent. on the land. He failed to appreciate that in 1881 the population was only 26,000,000 people, whereas to-day there are 40,000,000. If you take the percentages of the population you find that there were 1,600,000 on the soil in 1881 compared with 1,200,000 in 1931, a drop of 400,000, which is admittedly serious, but not a drop of a complete half as one might be led to expect from his figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-07a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-08", "file": "debates1937-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6013747a0349a05d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1611.7", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bigger one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "ut rural housing, which presents its own special problems. Rural district councils are at present concentrating upon slum clearance, and increased attention is being paid to it. It has resulted in the original slum clearance programme for rural district councils being increased by approximately two-thirds. There is almost as big a slum problem in the rural areas as sometimes there is in the towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1611.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-08", "file": "debates1937-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6013747a0349a05d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1640.1", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": " but perceptibly. I would set off against this, that although the population has been declining, there is no decline in the housing problem because houses have been giving way to flats and offices. Meanwhile, the population is steadily drifting outside and new towns are being created at a terrific pace. I know that hon. Members above the Gangway may suggest that London is only one of the problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-08", "file": "debates1937-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6013747a0349a05d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "No, I asked the hon. Member to put me right. The work the Committee did was most valuable and it is unfortunate that their recommendations have led to nothing. Sir Malcolm Stewart, in his report on distressed areas, made a significant reference to the position of London, going so far as to say that London should be placed out of bounds for industrial purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-08", "file": "debates1937-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6013747a0349a05d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Working!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " North Camberwell (Mr. Ammon) referred to the fact that in his area there was overcrowding to the extent of a thousand persons per acre, and in many parts of London the population is about that figure. In dealing with slum areas it is found that, broadly speaking, there is a population of about 300 to the acre, and all those persons want to be rehoused as near as possible to where they are living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-08", "file": "debates1937-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "6013747a0349a05d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1716.1", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernays)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernays)", "preceding_text": "rovocative on this question, but I would remind hon. Members opposite that, though the rate of interest may have increased from 3¼ to 3½ per cent., when the Labour party were in office it was 5 to 5½ per cent. The fact that it has come down is a big factor in the progress made with housing development and a great tribute to the fruits of the financial policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-08a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1737.8", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (BRITISH AMBASSADOR'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1737.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1737.10", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (BRITISH AMBASSADOR'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that what the Ambassador meant when he said that we could learn a useful lesson from Germany was not what has been attributed to him by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1737.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1755.1", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Czechoslovakia and other places have planted their highways with apple trees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1783.3", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "In my belief it has had a steadying effect on the market, which cannot be shown to be anything but beneficial. It is true that the Brewers' Society have an agreement with the Hops Marketing Board, which regulates the price of English hops, providing for a standard average price and restricting imports. The agreement is of a voluntary character. He went on to say that human nature being what it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1784.0", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There may be another Government before then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": " remove the duty would be to take an action which is not generally called for by the people of the country, and would have an unsettling effect on the market. We, therefore, think it right that it should continue for a substantial period. The hon. Member asks, why four years? Four is not necessarily a golden number, but four years, in our view, is a proper period to give stability to the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "it is a pretty bad example of legislation by reference. The representative of the Board of Trade or the Chancellor of the Exchequer will correct me if I am wrong in my description of what this really is. In 1919 the first essays in Imperial preference were made. It was about the time that this country was giving a lead to the world in the race of economic nationalism, which we now so much deplore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1823.0", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "I really do not think that is relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1823.0", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "e Board of Trade that foreign countries do not resent the British Ottawa policy, and I was merely stating that that was not in accordance with the facts, and I quoted my evidence for refuting his contention. The President of the Board of Trade went on to say that after 1931 there was a wreckage of all international trades and that this little island was saved by Protection and Imperial Preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1828.0", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member may be making a reference to myself, may I say that the answer is that the trade in anthracite coal with Canada has been undersold to such an extent by Russian slave labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "n people are to admit, during 1937, 250,000 tons of anthracite from Russia to the exclusion of anthracite from West Wales. I presume, therefore, that the Russians are more kith and kin to the Canadians than are the South Wales miners. I therefore want to ask the President of the Board of Trade and the Government—the Government who are failing to keep the trade which the Labour Government built up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-09", "file": "debates1937-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "178e6898cc016208", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1904.1", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "here will be no advantage in the current financial year to the Surtax, because that dates back to the previous year, to which this provision does not apply, so the advantage to the collection of Surtax will not begin until the next financial year. But, with regard to this retrospective legislation, I should like to ask, if it is found that, in spite of the Bill, the method of evasion is practiced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-09a.1904.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-10", "file": "debates1937-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cb3d5879d3d4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.1927.2", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CATERING TRADES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that, notwithstanding the suggestion put forward this afternoon, there are many lucrative posts to be had in the catering trade; and what useful purpose does he think the Opposition serves by constantly suggesting that things are not right whenever a suggestion or proposal is made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-10", "file": "debates1937-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cb3d5879d3d4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "CLAUSE 15.—(Charge of national defence contribution.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And of the Communist party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ht ago, before the full fury of the torrent was let loose, but as soon as he sat down the barrage got going, and now he comes to carry through the burial. But in burying this tax the Government and the Tory party are preparing the way for a bigger burial, a greater burial. They are preparing the way for the burial of their National Government and of the gang that is behind the National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-10", "file": "debates1937-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cb3d5879d3d4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2011.3", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "CLAUSE 15.—(Charge of national defence contribution.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "There can be no better testimony to the democratic patience of this House than the way the Committee have quietly and with self-restraint listened to the Communist gentleman who has just spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2011.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-10", "file": "debates1937-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cb3d5879d3d4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2018.8", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "CLAUSE 33.—(Repeal of Stamp Duties on certain honours and dignities.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "So far as my information goes all have been required to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2018.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-10", "file": "debates1937-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "5cb3d5879d3d4778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the inspectorate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "re would be vigorous complaints from hon. Members opposite. I hope that the spirit of sweet reasonableness will prevail, as indeed I am sure it will. I think it is probable that when the representatives meet each other face to face they will find that they have more in common than they have separating them and more to gain by agreement than by disagreement. I do not wish to prolong the discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-10a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-11", "file": "debates1937-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "2aed58c60282e50a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-11a.2156.1", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Major Tryon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not always!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tryon", "preceding_text": "I will gladly go into that and see what can be done, but, of course, in the case of an automatic call it is the sender who usually makes the mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-11a.2156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-14", "file": "debates1937-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "819b7b54476f577a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-14a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plenty of good, healthy food.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " discussed this question in the House. The Committee will agree that physical education is inseparable from complete health in the case of the school child. Here again our circular made four points, (1) proper facilities for gymnastics and games; (2) time in the curriculum for physical education; (3) properly trained teachers; and (4) organisers of physical education in the area of each authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-14a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-14", "file": "debates1937-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "819b7b54476f577a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-14a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "tter is that we know enough already about nutrition in order to feed our children properly. We know that meat, eggs, milk, fruit, greenstuffs, all this varied diet, will provide the nourishing and protective foods that are necessary. We do not want scientists to tell us any more in order to meet the problem of malnutrition. What is wanted is more money, more income, more power to buy these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-14a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-14", "file": "debates1937-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "819b7b54476f577a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-14a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unite the Liberal party!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": " guarantee that future generations will consist of men who will be able to man all these big armaments which the Government are building and, what is more important, will be able to provide the geniuses which will enable those forces to be put to the best use? We are told that there are dangers from within and that the country is faced with the peril of destructive agencies, Communism and Fascism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-14a.138.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-15", "file": "debates1937-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "7b07c5cb7a3b854d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-15a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURAL CREDITS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the fact, and do the Government think that it is fair to give to the railways money at 2½ per cent. and make another rate for the farmer, charging him 5 per cent.? Is it not a screaming breach of equity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-15a.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-15", "file": "debates1937-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "7b07c5cb7a3b854d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-15a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "ve washing facilities, manicurists, chiropodists, permanent wavers, and so on. If it is right that these facilities should be established for the purposes of the business of the employer, then they ought also to be established for the welfare and cleanliness of the workpeople. This Clause shows the weakness and timidity of the right hon. Gentleman, who belongs to the same party as his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-15a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-15", "file": "debates1937-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "7b07c5cb7a3b854d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-15a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes, there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "processes. There are methods of cleaning, such as vacuum cleaners and electrical scrubbers and wipers, which really do not cause inconvenience to the workers. We ought to consider not merely the general mass of employés. May I say one word for the charwomen and cleaners? Many powerful unions are represented by their officials in this House. I am not aware that there is a union of charwomen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-15a.308.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.540.4", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is it not also true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.540.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "he number of people over 60 years of age. What does that denote? It means that we have extended the average age of the individual by about 12 years in the last half-century, and have extended the school life of the child by only two and a-half years during the same period. That disproportion ought to be removed by the extension of the school life. I see that a right hon. Gentleman opposite sneers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.591.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "It may be that there was one, it may be there were two, but I am sure the hon. Gentleman would agree with me that the great preponderance of argument on both sides of the Committee was overwhelmingly in favour of the reform for which we are now pleading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: You have a long way to go!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": " think that it is rather creditable for a boy—and if he loves his parents there is no one prouder to do so—to want to bring home something with which to help the resources of the family. It is a very laudable thing and should not be discouraged. My right hon. Friend the Member for Ripon said that he had been educated to the age of 21. I am sorry to hear ii: because I am being educated all my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "n of beneficial employment. If I went to my constituents and said that, having got their votes by promising exemptions for beneficial employment, I was going to double-cross them by bringing in a provision of this sort in this Bill, I should rightly be taken to task as a man who did not stick to his pledges. The party to which I belong prides itself on sticking to its pledges and carrying them out", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd", "preceding_text": "bers appear to realise. May I point out what would be the result of passing the Amendment? It would be to say that while local education authorities have power to grant certificates of beneficial employment, there is one employment in the country which, in no circumstances whatever, can be re- garded as beneficial to the juvenile, and that is factory employment—the mainstay of productive industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.631.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And women, too!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": " to his statement in this House that he is anxious to avoid these accidents and to prevent the suffering that arises from them. I ask him to implement that statement by accepting this Amendment and giving the children of the country conditions that will enable them the better to fit themselves to take their place alongside us in later life. We have no right to take every ounce out of the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.671.4", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "eak on this subject because I consider that I have had as much factory experience as any other hon. Member in this House. I have heard references in this discussion to France, Finland, the Irish Free State and the United States. No one would suggest that France is a manufacturing country that can compete effectively overseas. Finland and the Irish Free State I do not consider worthy of discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.671.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-17", "file": "debates1937-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "172221b1fb696a23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "n in which I lived, I was greatly distressed at the way in which children were being denied the opportunities that they ought to have had, and it drove me into the more active field of politics. But I also had experience as a teacher. I was teaching in the evening schools, and it was no unfamiliar experience for me to find members of my class falling asleep over their exercises during the evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-17a.674.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-18", "file": "debates1937-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "6c307bbb57095ff1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-18a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about working-class houses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "with building was uniformity. Of course, it is nothing of the sort. No speculative builders in this country are worse than those who offer, say, 20 different designs. In no period of great architecture have people been frightened of uniformity. Does anyone complain of the uniformity of the terraces at Bath, the uniformity of Nash's London or the uniformity of the Bloomsbury Squares? Of course not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-18a.738.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.827.5", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.827.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "country which is not director-controlled? Has any hon. Member ever attended a company meeting as an ordinary shareholder? How few of us shareholders do, and if we do what sort of influence have we in controlling that company? Every company is director-controlled, and it is quite time that we should realise that the interests of directors and of shareholders are diametrically contrary and opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.908.5", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gluckstein", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gluckstein", "preceding_text": "iew, and I do hope that between now and the introduction of the new Clauses in the Finance Bill it will be found possible to bring preference shareholders within the scope of the tax, because that will not mean a loss of any tax, but will simply mean spreading the tax over a larger number of people. I think that the sense of the Committee is that preference shareholders ought to bear this new tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "ax on excess profits at all. It is a tax on the ordinary profits of industry, and there are no circumstances of that kind to bring about its termination. In fact, if what we all hope is the case, if industry is prosperous and profits continue, it may well be that the tax will yield far more than the Treasury, for whose estimates I have the greatest respect, at this moment think it is likely to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "ax on the stomachs of the poor. You starved the unemployed, the old age pensioners and the poor generally. The House would not face up to the fact that there was in the country even then plenty of work. It is an insult to our intelligence to say that the situation of relatively paltry financial difficulty that the country found itself in could not have been dealt with without semi-starving people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ort of discrimination? I will give another instance of the effect of the new taxation. Struggling shipping companies, which are the first line of defence in days of war, must pay their National Defence Contribution, but the railway companies are to be let off. I am not complaining that railway companies are let off—I think that that is a good thing—but it would also be prudent to let off shipping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "their resources they should remember that the National Defence Contribution is their last resort because of the lush subsidies which have been paid to a number of industries during the last two years. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not responsible and probably disagrees as much as anybody with those subsidies. But he should remember what has been thrown away on sugar beet and other industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ninepence!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ndoned of getting any special contributions from armament makers and armament firms. That has all gone. The Prime Minister in his Budget speech created the illusion in many minds that the armament makers were being compelled to disgorge substantial profits accruing to them by reason of the arms programme. All that is abandoned; it is all gone. What are they going to pay? One shilling in the pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ime which should not have been made and should be removed. On the other hand it is open to two very grave defects of an opposite character. There are two respects in which the tax falls unfairly in certain directions and in which alleviation should be made if the tax is to be tolerable at all. One of these is in respect of the Special Areas and the other is in respect of the co-operative movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-21", "file": "debates1937-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c6e51fdd302a4885", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " was bad and the unemployment record high. The right hon. Gentleman then quoted with great pleasure and appreciation the judgment of Treasury officials: Continued State borrowing on the present vast scale, without adequate provision for repayment, would quickly call in question the stability of the British financial system. The \"vast borrowing\" then was at the rate of less than £40,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-21a.967.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1030.2", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Or Russia.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman, from his knowledge of the negotiations with regard to the plan for evacuating foreigners from Spain, think that there is any possibility of Italy and Germany agreeing to such a plan at an early date?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1061.0", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Some of them.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Acland", "preceding_text": "of members of local bodies to be paid for their services, and further because in the opinion of this House, there would be a peculiar impropriety in Members of Parliament voting salaries to themselves—[OFFICIAL REPORT, l0th August, 1911; col. 1384, Vol. 29.] It is rather curious to find that the party which supported that Amendment then has now, I think, rightly, come to a different point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You never enjoy anything!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman who spoke from the Opposition bench fills me with admiration. He regards a General Election as a kind of rag. I have never enjoyed a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "l effect upon the country may be disastrous. What about the great spending Departments? If we are to be economical in our administration, we must be economical ourselves. Look at the Civil Service. Will they be keen on economies in the future? They will say: \"There is no necessity to economise; Parliament is voting increases of salaries to itself.\" I entered the House in the days of Mr. Gladstone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "ssary sums so far as armaments are concerned, and on other things. Where is it going to end? I would ask lion. Members on this side of the House, who will have to meet their constituents two or three years hence at a General Election, what will be their position then? They will be asked whether they will vote for increases in the old age pension, and whether they will vote for spinsters' pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a whole-time job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "re are other considerations. Contrary to the views expressed by the right hon. Gentleman who spoke from the Opposition Front Bench, I consider that nothing would be more disastrous for this country and for our democratic Constitution than to make politics a profession, a whole-time job. When a man is paid£600 a year, one gets very near the point at which the job is expected to be a whole-time job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "ort of job like that of a policeman-in the park in which I would only have to walk round and would have very little to do. I never made a bigger mistake. This is a hard place. I am generally the first out of my hotel every morning and I am always the last in. There are many hon. Members opposite who know that full well because I go home with them and they will vouch for me that I go straight home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Heaven knows!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "king as I do on three Committees, but I have always been used to working hard at anything about which I was concerned. It is not only the work in Parliament but the work in our constituencies which counts. The man who lives in his own constituency is the man whom constituents prefer to have as their representative. How is it that I am here representing the strongest Labour constituency in England?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Grigg", "preceding_text": " who have looked into this matter, when they say that it is a proper increase. I oppose only the principle that Parliament should vote this increase to itself. I conceive that we are in the position of directors of a company, of which the country—the electorate—are the shareholders. Who can conceive of the directors of a company deciding to raise their own fees without consulting the shareholders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman suggested just now that if this matter were to come up at the General Election no candidate could be found prepared to recommend the increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"] I have been in the House all the time to-night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-22", "file": "debates1937-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "63b7b78b224d65bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1146.2", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "I think I am the only Member who has spoken to-night and has not served on the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-22a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "m not sure that it does not come out of his sub-consciousness. I have a distinct recollection that on many occasions various advanced thinkers on the left have referred to him as a \"dyed-in-the-wool reactionary\" and I suppose the adjective has sunk so deeply into the right hon. Gentleman's consciousness that he could not help flinging it as a word of prejudice across the Floor of the House to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "es on one side and sometimes on the other, as indeed is bound to happen in any constructive examination of any complicated subject by reasonable men who are not merely using slogans. For slogans have one defect in common. All slogans leave out too much, and that is why the right hon. Gentlemen sitting there have always found it more easy to state their slogans in abstract terms when out of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not give a lead?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "convinced the countries in the Conference there that there was a necessity for revision, and they found out, not merely that there was a necessity for revision on our two points, but on three others as well. The Convention was revised. We then gave our word, as indeed did everybody else with one exception, that when other countries ratified that Convention, we also should be prepared to ratify it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1292.3", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "as important the maintenance of our existing machinery for the settlement of wages and labour conditions.\" If they are prepared to let this go, well and good, but I am sure they recognise that if there is to be compulsion among all countries and in all countries with regard to hours, there will necessarily follow a compulsory arrangement internationally with regard to wages and conditions of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "ial and industrial habits of the peoples of the world. Moreover, it is not seriously argued, except by the unique Member who is an argument all to himself, that 40 hours of work a week is the maximum which humanitarian considerations permit. In origin the number 40 is a slogan, designed to promote the movement towards shortening the hours of work with a view to relieving the unemployment position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "g that happened 100 years before was wrong. He stands by the sound old Conservative doctrine that everything that is is right, quite forgetting that that also carries the corollary that everything that was was right, and the fact that the world moves sometimes a little more quickly than he is apparently prepared to contemplate is due to the fact that a rearguard action is sometimes tin-successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "r he would not prove himself to be what the hon. Baronet this afternoon called him, \"an advanced thinker.\" I really did not want the right hon. Gentleman to do things that would make it uncomfortable for him with his colleagues in the Government, but I did not regard him as a thinker. I never have regarded him as that, but as a man of action—a man whose actions would speaker louder than his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: A Queen's Roll.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Herbert", "preceding_text": " good to anybody? He said that there are bad employers, bad houses and so on. Many of us feel very strongly on this point, and I think hon. Members opposite will agree with what I am about to say. There are some very bad employers but, on the other hand, there are some very good employers. Would it not be possible for the Minister of Labour to consider having a King's Roll of those good employers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Herbert", "preceding_text": "r with him on the subject of agriculture. We must stop the feeling in the country which may be growing that agriculture is bad as an employment and that it is merely for uneducated people. That is not good for the agricultural industry, and it is not true. Besides there will arise a great danger, if we do not look out, that we shall have trouble in finding skilled agriculturists to go on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-23", "file": "debates1937-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "4bcf3675c4d83cd7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1331.3", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eighteenth century!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "that the success of France—to put it very optimistically—has not yet been proved. I will try to sum up the reasons why the Government did not lend their support to this convention. Our attitude is not one of opposition to the International Labour Office itself, as my right hon. Friend has proved. It is not actuated by nineteenth century motives, as the right hon. Member opposite tried to make out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-23a.1331.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-24", "file": "debates1937-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b10a9dc8c72045e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1379.5", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What sources?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "In view of the reliability of the sources from which this information was obtained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-24", "file": "debates1937-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b10a9dc8c72045e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "r areas the estimate has so little relation to the real requirements as to be useless. What is to be done in the face of that serious charge? Is it true that the estimates by the county councils are useless? If so, is the intention of the Act of Parliament to be defeated; or what do the Government intend to do? In conclusion I shall refer to only one other recommendation which this Committee make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-24", "file": "debates1937-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b10a9dc8c72045e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ecords Bill, when there was a similar undertaking. If the right hon. Gentleman will refer to the OFFICIAL REPORT he will see that he exceeded the time by more than 10 minutes on that occasion. I did not complain at the time, and I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will make no complaint against me now. I propose to discharge my responsibility to my constituents as quickly and as shortly as I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-24", "file": "debates1937-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b10a9dc8c72045e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "preceding_text": " city of Aberdeen, where there is an opportunity, as I understand, of using a very fine example of late seventeenth century Scottish architecture as a section of certain new buildings that are required. Does anybody pretend that the reckless expenditure so characteristic of a town like Aberdeen, that tore down a splendid old Dominican church and built that gingerbread nightmare, Marischal College.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-24", "file": "debates1937-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b10a9dc8c72045e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "repared to assert that in every rural district in Scotland, and I know a good part of my own country, at least 50 per cent. of these houses, by every test of hygiene and public health, are unfit for human habitation. I beg the Secretary of State to bend his great energy to this problem, even for a little time. There is scope for action in the countryside where there is little or none in the towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-24a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What foreign Powers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Incidents are bound to occur which involve foreign Powers. The very duties which foreign Powers have imposed upon themselves in trying to stop the importation of weapons and ammunition into Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1547.7", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I quite agree that everybody should be given a free hearing in this House, and a fair hearing, but I cannot agree with you, Sir Dennis, with all respect, that we should make distinctions between one person and another", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1547.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the bombing of Almeria.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hips taking arms and ammunition into Spain, involves an interference with the hostilities and, therefore, is bound to create strong feelings of resentment among those in Spain who feel that they are thus being handicapped. That leads to accusations of want of impartiality and counter-accusations, and then to such deplorable incidents as the bombing of the \"Deutschland\" and destruction by bombing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ises. The events in Spain are only a replica in miniature of what has happened in the world during the last five years. Every time the Government have retreated from the obligation of standing by law and order, and the result has been that aggressors feel immune. Support always falls away from those who take a weak attitude. If we want to see an example of that, we have only to look at this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "nment were weak, the chorus got louder below the Gangway. Everybody likes to be on the winning side. It is just the same in world affairs. If the Government fail to stand fast by the League, the League is weakened and the time-servers tend to run over to the aggressors. The question I have to put to the Foreign Secretary on the issue to-day is, What is he going to do to restore the world position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1555.0", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Peace.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "t again to the Government—if they do not like it put to the Foreign Secretary, I will put it to the Prime Minister—is, What is the policy of the Government to try to restore peace in the world? Whenever we suggest they should stand by the League the answer is \"Oh, you want war.\" I heard the murmur from those Benches to-day. The Government have never stood by anything, and what has been the result?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "preceding_text": " world. There is no desire in this country—the by-elections have shown it—to break away from the policy of non-intervention. When the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition speaks about responsibility, he should bear in mind his own responsibility. I am told on very good authority that in Italy there is at the present time considerable anxiety with regard to the policy of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "preceding_text": "e. Therefore, hon. Members opposite should bear in mind that they also have their responsibilities. If a situation arose in Spain in which it became clear that certain foreign Powers meant to establish themselves there—the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition referred to that aspect of the question—and cross our trade routes and those of France, a very different situation would arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Even by force?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "preceding_text": "We should make it perfectly clear that we would not allow that situation to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1558.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1561.7", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "This is a very important matter. This is an accusation against the Royal Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1561.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "hich has been displayed in some parts of Spain. I hope that I shall find some basis of agreement in all parts of the House when I say that we all want to prevent this war in Spain developing into an international war. I am not quite sure whether so many of us really agree with those of us on this side when we say that we also want the Spanish people to be left to decide their own political future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "re lies. In other words, if you exclude any suggestion that Germany has territorial interests in Spain, it is true that the German Government, in the interests of Europe and the world, have taken steps to hinder what is taking place in Spain to-day, based upon their allegation that it is the responsibility of the Comintern. That is a frank admission that Germany has intervened in the War in Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was of no political importance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "held that the presence of that great massed power will of itself prevent aggression. It has not done so since the War. It did not do so in South America, where no one that I know of paid very much attention to the fact that two nations belonging to the League decimated themselves with arms supplied by other members of the League. It was far away, and precious little interest was taken in that war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1580.0", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is the secret of war.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "duce G.L.\"— that is myself— to give up saying that the British people love peace. I am sure he thinks it, hut the unfortunate foreigner says things of this kind—14 mandates under the Versailles Treaty: Japan, one; Belgium, one; France, three, and the peaceful British Empire, nine; Italy, none. Out of 29 raw materials, adequate supplies: Japan, three; Germany, four; Italy, four; British Empire, 18.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "Of course, it is the secret of war. We have been throwing out challenges to one another this morning, and if anyone challenges me as to what I would do if I sat over there where the Prime Minister sits, I should say to Europe what Campbell Bannerman said in another connection in 1905, \"Let us stop this fooling. Let us come together.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": " laid at the door of the Spanish Government, created such a feeling in the United States as to make war absolutely certain. When we talk about our ships being on the coasts of Spain, I would ask hon. Members to consider what might be the action and the feeling in this country if one of our ships by any ill-chance suffered the fate of the \"Maine.\" I think Germany is sincere in her desire for peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ll the rules of the game. But he just failed because of one or two little acts of stupidity. And so did Franco. But by that time the Pact had been signed. What happened then? Germany was bound by her signature and Italy was bound by her signature. Franco then said, \"Unless I get more material, I can never get in.\" Without hesitation they brushed it on one side, and they poured in men and material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "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": "n. Gentleman the Member for Caithness (Sir A. Sinclair) who leads the party opposite, because I thought he would leave found in that speech the answer to some of the charges he made. It is sometimes interesting to reflect how closely history repeats itself, and I would like for a moment to examine this charge of cowardice, not a very agreeable charge, and which the right hon. Gentleman is so fond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Eden", "preceding_text": "em to occur to the right hon. Gentleman that the account which he gave was, I thought, a little partial. Russia was kept very well in the background. It was only obtruded after one or two questions, and only then by a passing reference, whereas in fact there is no doubt that war material, aeroplanes, tanks and so forth supplied to the Government side in Spain from Russia is very large in quantity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Eden", "preceding_text": "well in the background. It was only obtruded after one or two questions, and only then by a passing reference, whereas in fact there is no doubt that war material, aeroplanes, tanks and so forth supplied to the Government side in Spain from Russia is very large in quantity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"] I cannot say how much, but hon. Members opposite find no difficulty in assumptions on their side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-25", "file": "debates1937-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "3ffa1e64b1c40ab3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Eden", "preceding_text": "s and so forth supplied to the Government side in Spain from Russia is very large in quantity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"] I cannot say how much, but hon. Members opposite find no difficulty in assumptions on their side. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true\"]. It is certainly true. Everybody knows it and admits it, that war material in considerable quantities has reached the Government side from Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-25a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-28", "file": "debates1937-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "70efd28cbd78995e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ries reap the interest on securities. One of the advantages of this fund is that it is forcing the Treasury to have an individual and positive mind of its own with regard to the question of currency and finance. The time was when the Treasury never had a mind on finance until it had run round to the Governor of the Bank of England to find out what he had to say on the matter. That day has gone by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-28", "file": "debates1937-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "70efd28cbd78995e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": " met. I should like to say a word about the general position created by this proposal to-day. The Chancellor referred to the original purpose of the Account and its establishment. I notice that he did not read the whole sentence which indicated the purpose. The account was established \"for the purpose of strengthening the currency and checking undue fluctuations in the exchange value of sterling.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-28", "file": "debates1937-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "70efd28cbd78995e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "will agree that French policy in the last few months has been representative of the views of the extreme Left. Such a policy means a great strain on finance and industry. If 40-hour week Bills and so on are to be introduced, then there is an additional burden to be borne by trade and industry, and the effect is to weaken the exchange of the country in which those experiments are being carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-28", "file": "debates1937-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "70efd28cbd78995e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Henderson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Henderson", "preceding_text": "no Government under the present system can be held responsible, because it has not the control. If that is the case under the present National Government it certainly was the case under the Labour Government of 1931. Therefore, I hope that in future, when the party on this side of the House have taken the places of right hon. Gentlemen on the other side and if we get into another financial crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-28", "file": "debates1937-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "70efd28cbd78995e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "were doing the reverse of inflating. If you reduce the number of Treasury bills, you are deflating, and if you increase the number of Treasury bills, you are inflating. The more you borrow, the more you have got in this form of inflation. You create this new credit, you pay foreigners for their gold or for their bank credits, and in exchange they get credits in our banks which they may move about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-28", "file": "debates1937-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "70efd28cbd78995e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1752.2", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS UNDERTAKINGS ACTS, 1920 TO 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes he did.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "I never mentioned Gorse Hill and I do not think that the hon. Member for Stoke (Mr. E. Smith) did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-28a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-29", "file": "debates1937-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e0edb8bb94b7cf64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "AGRICULTURE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes he is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "time of the operation of the quota and to introduce sliding-scale payments which would gradually come down as the years passed. He received important support from the Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) and according to the OFFICIAL REPORT which I looked up a day or two ago, the then Minister of Agriculture, who is no longer I think a Member of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-29", "file": "debates1937-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e0edb8bb94b7cf64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "AGRICULTURE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams) pointed out. Some of the farmers do not keep balance sheets—I keep a balance sheet but in that I am different from some farmers—but farmers all over the country know how their land should be treated and they treat their land well whenever they are allowed to do so by the Government in power, and whenever the prices are sufficient to enable them to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-29", "file": "debates1937-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e0edb8bb94b7cf64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "AGRICULTURE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "and whenever the prices are sufficient to enable them to do so. [ Laughter. ] It is all very well for the Socialists to laugh. We had a great confession tonight from the Socialist side. The hon. Member for the Forest of Dean (Mr. Price) explained that Lord Addison was anxious to give a guaranteed price for barley, and I expect for oats, but he was prevented through disunity in the Socialist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-29", "file": "debates1937-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e0edb8bb94b7cf64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1893.2", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "AGRICULTURE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e towns. The suggestion was made in the letter that local authorities should hold back some of their work at certain times of the year so as to force back on to the land the agricultural workers who have left it. In other words, the suggestion is that bigger wages should be withheld from the men so as to compel them through poverty to take a low wage. Is that the attitude of hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-29", "file": "debates1937-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "e0edb8bb94b7cf64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1922.4", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "AGRICULTURE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "This short Debate has served to bring out assurances of the greatest value on particular points, and I accept them. I have the specific assurance that the services are to be improved rather than reduced, and I am prepared to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-29a.1922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not Christian doctrine!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "s financial crisis for the very same reason that we were faced with a serious financial crisis in 1932, namely, that we had not enough gold. All I would say is that I would much rather, human nature being what it is, and human beings thinking what they think, that we had too much gold, especially in existing conditions, than too little; and I say that both in my personal and in my public capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2003.3", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXCHANGE EQUALISATION ACCOUNT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": " as this country is concerned the necessary steps were laid down by the Macmillan Committee as every hon. Member of the House knows, and confirmed by a resolution of the members representing the Empire who gathered after the World Economic Conference, namely that we should raise the price level, and, having raised it, should endeavour to keep it stable. Speaking very broadly we have not raised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2003.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2040.1", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "er to the new Clauses or the Schedules in the Chancellor's name. I am sure the Committee will agree that after that, when we come to the further new Clauses and Schedules, we should at once read each new Clause or new Schedule a Second time, and then proceed to the Amendments. If the Committee generally approve of that course, I am sure that it will be for the general convenience of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2068.2", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "ness as a director-controlled company, and they made £10,000 profit, they could put £2,000 to reserve, then distributing the £8,000, and having £4,000 each, and they would be liable to tax and Surtax only on the £4,000, and not on the £2,000 which they had put to reserve. So, by operating as a limited company, they would be saving themselves Surtax on £2,000, which the private firm could not save.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2094.1", "colnum": "2094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Income Tax, upon all the people in receipt of incomes in the country, but as a special tax upon the profits of industry. The Chancellor of the Exchequer must know that our objection to including industrial and provident societies within the scope of this tax is not because any of our members or shareholders have any special antipathy to paying their due and proper share of the burden of armaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "No, it does not belong to anybody in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And political propaganda.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "at it becomes subject to this tax. The reason is obvious. In the first place, any responsible board of a co-operative society has to carry on its business in such a way as to guarantee financial security to the investors. Secondly, the co-operative society is not merely a trading concern; it exists to carry on many functions which are carried on normally by religious and educational organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": " in such a way as to guarantee financial security to the investors. Secondly, the co-operative society is not merely a trading concern; it exists to carry on many functions which are carried on normally by religious and educational organisations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And political propaganda.\"] Yes, and political education, too. The people in this country require more than anything political education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-06-30", "file": "debates1937-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "9dde96b501adccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2107.1", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ge which co-operative societies make, and, therefore, we think that co-operative societies' gains\"—I want to use a neutral word—\" will be exempt.\" That was a perfectly correct opinion, and I hope it was worth the money. What has happened in regard to National Defence Contribution? Years afterwards Parliament took up this sub- ject and altered the law. I am not saying whether it was right or wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-06-30a.2107.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2121.6", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact that in Yorkshire at the present time, when a lad receives an increase of 1½d. per day because of his age, they take it off his father if he is on public assistance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2121.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2147.0", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPERIAL AIRWAYS, LIMITED (SHARE ISSUE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "Does the Chancellor of the Exchequer realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2178.1", "colnum": "2178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "lustration was of a company holding a block of offices or flats. He said that their total rents would be taken into account and expenses deducted, and they would be taxed as if they came under Schedule D, Case I. Let us take the case of a man—not of a company—who has bought a block of houses, or a number of separate houses. If the Chancellor's explanation is right, he will be brought into the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2179.0", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a company!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Chancellor. I would mention the case of one gentleman of my acquaintance who builds houses and sells them. He lets a number of houses also. He carries the whole thing on as one kind of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2238.1", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "game ever to commit ourselves in advance to support something that we had never seen. This tax is frankly a bad tax. It has only one merit—it is not as bad as the one that it superseded. We know that it is bad from past experience. It is the Corporation Profits Tax slightly extended. The old Corporation Profits Tax was abandoned for precisely the reason that this Amendment is being moved to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2300.2", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Always try to speak well of the dead!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": " public money, improperly, the life of that Government would not be worth two minutes purchase. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has not in the least faced up to the constitutional position. No one expected that this would make the slightest difference in the last 12 months. I must say this to the credit of the Liberal Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the Liberals did try to defend this principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2300.2", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "of our rights to consider our business irrespective of His Majesty's requests. Why do we bang the door in the face of Black Rod? Not because we are afraid of that genial retired General who comes to deliver a Gracious Message, but because we are reminded of a certain event that happened. I am not sure whether it was Charles I or Cromwell. Cromwell came with his soldiers to arrest the five Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-01", "file": "debates1937-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e54a2bc56c15ca50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2312.1", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A half-bottle, you said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I fear that I did not make myself clear to the hon. Member. He will probably remember that in the Debate last year the Chancellor of the Exchequer, quite rightly, said that he would require proof that mead was commercially made. I thereupon sent him a bottle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-01a.2312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-02", "file": "debates1937-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "243ef7985b2fe83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-02a.2351.1", "colnum": "2351", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPER-ANNUATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "I was on the Committee of this Bill and also on the Scottish Bill and, unfortunately, we did not spot this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-02a.2351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-05", "file": "debates1937-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b126ff1798298002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-05a.9.0", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the reply on 3rd March referred to negotiations with the Spanish Government, and in view of the tremendous burden now placed upon the Basques by the presence of vast numbers of refugees, would not His Majesty's Government consider giving some financial aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-05a.9.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-05", "file": "debates1937-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b126ff1798298002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-05a.73.1", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Hills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hills", "preceding_text": "e thought that the farming community, the most individualistic in the world, would have accepted the principle that nobody may plant an extra acre of potatoes without paying a heavy fine? Who would have thought that the milk producer would have agreed to sell his milk only to a certain purchaser? Both of those things might have been claimed by hon. Members opposite as part of the Socialist policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-05a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-05", "file": "debates1937-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b126ff1798298002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-05a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christie", "preceding_text": "enefits, he never handed any of them on to the agricultural labourer. I do not think that he appreciates two things: First, that if it were not for these benefits agricultural wages could not have been maintained at their present figure; second, he does not appreciate that the minimum wage is only a minimum wage, and that the vast majority of agricultural workers are being paid a much greater sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-05a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hope", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the Scottish Whip?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hope", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The Secretary of State for Scotland is Minister in Attendance on His Majesty the King in Scotland, and the Under-Secretary, who is Hereditary Standard Bearer of Scotland, is also there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "preceding_text": "Really, the right hon. Gentleman knows very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What type of labour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "lt work. A permit has to be granted, and the Ministry of Labour has the duty of safeguarding the interests of British workers. In 1936 the grand total of applications was 21,652 including applications to the Home Office and permission was granted in 19,119 cases. This year to the end of May, the last figures that I have, the total applications were 11,086 and permission was granted in 9,182 cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " a satisfactory solution of the problem, and to make quite sure that we do not get arbitrary conclusions because we have drawn an arbitrary basis. I do not think that the Noble Lady, who takes a great interest in all problems effecting health and nutrition, will regard this as waste of effort. I think that it is one of the big decisions which have been made by the Government in the last six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.213.3", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t is a very satisfactory one. Sir William Beveridge's Committee works as a statutory body. It is charged with the duty of seeing that the Unemployment Fund is kept solvent and of making an annual report, or a more frequent report if necessary, to the Minister. We are paying off the funded debt at the rate of £5,000,000 a year for principal and interest and we have a balance in hand of £49,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "es which provides the greatest amount of employment in this country is the building industry and particularly the building of houses. In fact, a great deal of the improvement that has taken place in our employment figures in recent years has resulted from the fact that, inspired by the policy of the present Government, great strides have been made in improving the housing conditions of our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " 29s. The sum of is. is \"docked.\" Can the Parliamentary Secretary tell me where that 1s. goes? I am putting forward the case of a man who goes for training to that training centre in Argyllshire, a man who is on standard benefit. He is told that nobody can touch his standard benefit, not even his wife, that it is his; but somebody \"docks\" is., and he gets only 28s. I want to know who takes the 1s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boulton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boulton", "preceding_text": "ion, is, so far as I can find out, being used to the full, both in the spirit and the letter, and as Parliament truly wished it to be. That is borne out not only in my own experience but by the advices which I have received from those who are able to judge. Although you are bound to have grievances here and there, the legitimate grievances have, to a very large extent, practically ceased to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boulton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boulton", "preceding_text": "In any case where there are so many jobs and where so many girls take precarious work or are unemployed, it does seem wrong that we should have to import so many foreigners into the country to undertake this work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "preceding_text": "e productive, contributing to the national wealth. I am going to make a proposal. The hon. Member who spoke last is very sorry because the supply of domestics is running short. I will tell hon. Members opposite what I think they ought to do. Instead of spending so much time training girls to be domestics, and deploring the fact that in the school curriculum they are not taught to be humble enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "ation in this honourable House and throughout the country. By May, 1937—this will be of interest to the hon. Member for Burslem (Mr. MacLaren)—the percentage of unemployment in Leeds had sunk to 7.9. Any hon. Member can work out precisely what that means, The figures of unemployment in that city sank from 43,000 in the autumn of 1931 to 14,000 in May, 1937, and it so happens that I am able to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "ty. And for what has been done I am personally, and so too, I am sure, are the citizens of Leeds, sincerely thankful. None the less I am rather anxious about the future. I would like an assurance that the Government are ready with expedients to arrest and mitigate any backward tendency. I do not think that it will come upon us so deeply, so hardly, and so seriously as it did between 1929 and 1932.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.285.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-06", "file": "debates1937-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d35af6b82bf29b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.290.2", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What are the trade unions for?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "er cent. and the increase has been passed on to the consumer by general agreement amongst the trade, which has been organised into a strong association for the control of selling prices and prevention of severe price-cutting which caused such losses during the recent depression. The employer's association clearly fixed the price at the highest possible price they could screw out of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-06a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will pay no attention to the landlords of this country. Ever since I came to this House, for the last 15 years, every Chancellor of the Exchequer has been subjected to the same amount of weeping by the landlords of this country. Agriculture has had £30,000,000 in subsidies, and the major portion of that money has gone to the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ts votaries among greedy manufacturers and credulous Conservatives. Protection never protects the consumer \"— that point was adequately made by another hon. Member— and merely raises the level of home prices by making everything more expensive. When it came to the General Election, and the right hon. Gentleman was making preparations for changing his allegiance, which he promptly proceeded to do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you get so many subsidies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "preceding_text": "than when tariffs were introduced. The hon. Member for Carmarthen (Mr. Hopkin) drew attention to the question of the rise in price of feeding stuffs and pointed out that they had gone up by 20 per cent. He did not point out that if he liked to examine my farm accounts he would find that the price of cakes and other feeding stuffs that I buy is considerably less than when the tariff Act was passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "preceding_text": "In view of the not unsympathetic answer of my right hon. and gallant Friend, and feeling that nothing would be achieved by pressing this to a Division, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations of Income Tax provisions as to computation of profits.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " it is for his friends, his political friends. Before we come to a further consideration of the matter we are entitled to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what this is going to cost. What is the difference going to be in the year? You are going to make these special allowances to the companies who have investments or the persons who have investments in the Dominions, and what is to be the cost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations of Income Tax provisions as to computation of profits.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is finding out now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "titled to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what this is going to cost. What is the difference going to be in the year? You are going to make these special allowances to the companies who have investments or the persons who have investments in the Dominions, and what is to be the cost? [An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"] If he does not know, the matter ought to be adjourned until he finds out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-07", "file": "debates1937-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "418fc4ef19ec83b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW SCHEDULE.—(Adaptations of Income Tax provisions as to computation of profits.)", "cue_speaker": "Major Hills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hills", "preceding_text": "reased. They are now very large and very heavy. These funds are necessary for the purpose of meeting those liabilities, and there have to be such investments as will not fall in value. I assure hon. Members that large numbers of companies must have at their disposal very big investments. Besides the insurance companies, Lloyd's are also concerned, because they incur very heavy insurance liability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-07a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.595.7", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": " is clear that we are making the assent of the other place necessary to the imposition of a charge. That is not only contrary to the purpose of the Parliament Act, but it is contrary to the stand that we have always taken for many centuries on matters of finance. I would remind the Committee of the terms of a very famous Resolution passed by this House on this matter as long ago as 3rd July, 1678.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.595.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Let me work it back. If the ruling price is the standard price of 8s. and the output is 16 cwts. per acre, then, quite clearly, he will get £6 8s. for his acre of oats, but if the price falls to 7s. 6d., he will get 7s. 6d. per cwt. for 16 cwts., plus £1", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "work it back. If the ruling price is the standard price of 8s. and the output is 16 cwts. per acre, then, quite clearly, he will get £6 8s. for his acre of oats, but if the price falls to 7s. 6d., he will get 7s. 6d. per cwt. for 16 cwts., plus £1 [HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"] Well, as the Bill stands at the moment, the price having fallen 6d. below 8s. per cwt., the subsidy would be six times 6d. per cwt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.675.3", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Heneage", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing of the kind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Heneage", "preceding_text": "That is what the Amendment says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.677.3", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No one has said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "ore unhappy from that side than from this on these questions. Would agricultural Members address themselves to the question whether they think 40s. a week is too much for the agricultural labourer? I understand that in the major part of the North of England that wage is paid, and I cannot for the life of me understand any man who would say that 40s. is too much for an adult person in any industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": ", there has been nobody to overrule the county wages committees' decisions which have left agricultural wages where they were. That is the reply to the hon. Member for East Fife (Mr. Henderson Stewart). When county wages committees have been less than fair to agricultural workers, there has been no national wages board to step in and refer those decisions back to the counties for further revision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I understand what he said—when there is no application for the subsidy the farmer would have no obligation to pay the wages, and therefore would not pay the wages. That was the idea he wanted us to have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.700.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS UNDERTAKINGS ACTS, 1920 TO 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not an ex-Lord Mayor of Manchester.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that he should know so little about the details of the gas supply of his own city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.723.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-08", "file": "debates1937-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "6dafff830b1846c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.727.4", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS UNDERTAKINGS ACTS, 1920 TO 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More expensively.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": "ggestion is all against the tendency of modern industrialisation. We are getting past the time when each local authority is trying to do its own little job, in its own little way. The tendency is towards bigger plants and amalgamation of authorities and co-ordination. Stretford, all along, has been parochial in its outlook. The Manchester Gasworks can turn out 36,000,000 cubic feet of gas per day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-08a.727.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-09", "file": "debates1937-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6daee1311910d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "e faced with figures of that kind, while redoubling the attention that he would give to matters relating to motorists, will obviously have to extend his observations very much further, because five-sixths of the trouble can be located among three classes of road users. The evidence would seem to dictate that part of the remedy lies in asking for a higher standard of care among those three classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-09", "file": "debates1937-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6daee1311910d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"£100,000,000!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "de progress. The present Prime Minister when Chancellor of the Exchequer—it was during an election when Ministers are more verbose than they are between elections—stated on 4th November, 1935, that the Government were embarking on a five-year plan involving the expenditure of no less than £100,000,000. That has already been referred to by the Minister, who tried to explain that 100-year programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.765.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-09", "file": "debates1937-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6daee1311910d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.786.0", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"Pity the poor soldiers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon", "preceding_text": "of those gates; they are not particularly beautiful, only iron gates. In any other capital of the world if they had not been broadened by now, they would have been knocked down. How the English public stand it, I do not know. We cannot advocate here knocking down those gates. There is one other thing about the traffic laws. The late Minister of Transport—now thank goodness, he has left the office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.784.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-09", "file": "debates1937-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6daee1311910d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who says he is a Liberal?", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon", "preceding_text": "Only because he is a Liberal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-09", "file": "debates1937-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6daee1311910d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.828.2", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hudson", "preceding_text": "e tracks which are already in existence there. The hon. Member for Wigan (Mr. Parkinson) asked me a question about level crossings and bridges. During the last two years 10 level crossings and 267 weak privately-owned bridges have been dealt with. I would remind the Committee that we give a special grant of 75 per cent. for approved road work to any local authority which replaces a level crossing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-09a.828.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.839.9", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is it not regrettable that the Italian Premier should make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.839.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there has already been a broadcast from Bari criticising the report and describing it as \"an ill-omened document\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.851.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Will it be available to this House?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "No, nobody will have it. It will not be printed by then. The report is so full and so exhaustive and contains all the material facts, that I am quite sure it would be superfluous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.945.2", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "ort of addition to his money wages in respect of a cottage or in other ways which these workers will not get. Thirdly, the agricultural worker lives close to his work, whereas these people may be involved in travelling expenses. To expect this kind of work to be done at agricultural rates is entirely wrong, and I hope that when the Report stage comes the Minister will give us an assurance upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "t which can be dealt with by the Minister. The qualification quoted by the last speaker, however, makes a great deal of difference to the original statement. If you are going to allow larger wages to be paid to men to do this work in agricultural areas, than you permit the agriculturist to pay to his own men, you will further deplete the land of the labour which is necessary to maintain fertility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.946.4", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "It is agricultural work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.946.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "has been raised, I will certainly look into it to see what has been done, and I will take an opportunity of making a statement or answering a question on the subject in the House of Commons at an early date, but the Committee would think me, I am sure, very rash if, on my present scanty knowledge of the exact terms of this so far undisclosed document, I were to make any definite statement upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-12", "file": "debates1937-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "ee55026b3cfa765d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cranks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "vice in Scotland is high, and I do not expect that it will be made any higher by the Bill. I pass to the other question, which is important. To put an English officer in Edinburgh is not sufficient to meet the views of the Scotsmen who desire to maintain their own system of health services. It is offering ammunition to the most extreme exponents of separate government, and of Scottish Nationalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-12a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-13", "file": "debates1937-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "f76666d47750315f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1063.8", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL (REGISTRATION OF OWNER SHIP) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "which are to be registered. The first Clause defines more particularly the details to be registered, that is to say the mines and coal property and rights held in association with it, the restrictive covenants and so on, which may be matters that either benefit or are adverse to the coal. Those are roughly what should be registered. The register when it is drawn up will be a confidential document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1063.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-13", "file": "debates1937-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "f76666d47750315f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL (REGISTRATION OF OWNER SHIP) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "tion is that the register will be useful later for the purposes which I have adumbrated. So much for the procedure of registration. The final point is, of course, the question of cost, which is dealt with in Clause 2 and in Part II of the Second Schedule. The Government recognise that in a case of this kind owners cannot reasonably be expected to bear the costs incurred as a result of legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-13", "file": "debates1937-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "f76666d47750315f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL (REGISTRATION OF OWNER SHIP) BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is Nervo? Which is Knox?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any good in carrying out a sort of Nervo and Knox argument across the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-13", "file": "debates1937-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "f76666d47750315f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUPER ANNUATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " Book. The hon. Member for Govan (Mr. Maclean) said that it was difficult to get together the Glasgow Corporation. That may well be, but the people who are concerned in this matter are anxious drat the Bill should receive consideration by this House at the earliest moment, and they are entitled to have the Bill proceeded with. I do suggest that time has been given for the examination of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-13a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1229.2", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman answers that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1229.7", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, in the circumstances, it is perfectly safe for any British ship to go in or out of Santander?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1229.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1231.3", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "With regard to the first part of the question of the Noble Lady and the question put by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, it may interest the House to know that a British ship was captured attempting to enter Santander this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1231.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "That is a hypothetical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should they be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Member say whether the policy and the report have been submitted to the United States Government? That is in the latter part of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "SEA FISH (DYEING AND COLOURING PROHIBITION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": " the supplies reach the people who consume them, and carried fish is not as good as fresh fish. The same applies to the herring. It occurred to some people who knew something about the curing of other food to see whether the process of smoking would not be equally useful in preserving herring. They smoked the herring and they called these herring \"keppers,\" that is to say, herring that would keep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "A good many other hon. Members of this House would have been glad to pay the right hon. Gentleman's Income Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " imposed upon them since 1931. That indirect taxation bears more hardly upon the small income man than it does upon the rich taxpayer. They pay in many cases the same amount of indirect taxation whether their income is £250 a year or £12,500 a year. The policy of the Government is to tax these people from the day they are born until they are put in their coffins and the shroud is placed upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "ch taxpayer. They pay in many cases the same amount of indirect taxation whether their income is £250 a year or £12,500 a year. The policy of the Government is to tax these people from the day they are born until they are put in their coffins and the shroud is placed upon them. [Interruption.] Even the shroud of the hon. Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Mr. Lennox-Boyd), as he will learn when he dies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "e, it would cost the Treasury £22,500,000 a year. The hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker) says that he would have a steep, graduated system of taxation from £300 upwards. We have it already. We have a graduated system of taxation—it does not affect me very much because I am not in the higher range of incomes—which is so oppressive as to be the cause of a good deal of the unemployment that prevails.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that due to Income Tax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "xation from £300 upwards. We have it already. We have a graduated system of taxation—it does not affect me very much because I am not in the higher range of incomes—which is so oppressive as to be the cause of a good deal of the unemployment that prevails. [Laughter.] Hon. Members opposite may jeer, but the fact remains that at this moment of good trade we still have 1,400,000 people without jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1346.4", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Question put, \"That the Clause be read a Second time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Gentleman's undertaking, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1410.4", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Georǵe Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And paralysed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Georǵe Griffiths", "preceding_text": "inimum wage of the agricultural labourer is 33s. 3d. When this Bill is put into operation next October, the drainage workers in the rural areas of Sussex, which is only just across the fields here from the House of Commons, will get 33s. 3d. a week and not a penny more. The West Riding of Yorkshire is a very big county. It is industrialised, it is urbanised and it is also to some extent ruralised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1414.0", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "If I put the case too strongly, I withdraw, because no case is ever improved by over-statement. The written words contain much, but the tone of voice in which the Minister used those words led us to suppose that he was denying the existence of the circular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "preceding_text": "will be found to be reasonable that the proposals of the circular should be carried out. One difficulty that would arise from the acceptance of this Amendment would be that there might be a large authority covering a very considerable area, including some urban and some rural land, and in such a case, under the terms of the Amendment, there would be a uniform rate right through the whole district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1428.2", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " as approved by the Ministry must not be increased without the express sanction of the Ministry. In no case can payments of navvy fates or piece-work rates be entertained, but where it is found necessary to employ skilled craftsmen such as carpenters, foremen and gangers, such men, if properly qualified, may be paid at the ordinary rates applicable to their particular class. Is that any different?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-14", "file": "debates1937-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "eea470f28499e155", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1429.7", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "No one is going to quarrel over a word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-14a.1429.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The doors would be closed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "Is it possible, in the case of a person who is drunk and is taken to the police station, for him to ask his local Member of Parliament to come down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1459.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1487.5", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Circulate it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "e steamship \"Molton\" when captured yesterday; what was the position of the insurgent vessel when making the capture; where is the steamship \"Molton\" now; has she been brought or ordered to proceed outside Spanish territorial waters; what British ship reported the capture, and in what terms; did she make any signals to the steamship \"Molton\", and, if so, what were they, and did she take any action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1487.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1489.5", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Llewellin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "Let us be quite clear. This ship was not attacked", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Llewellin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "I think I was quite clear. We do not know where the \"Molton\" is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You do not seem to know anything.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "I think I was quite clear. We do not know where the \"Molton\" is. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "mpanies have been exempted on the ground that either their profits or their rates of charges are limited. Here is a case where people supply what is a part of an essential public service, and they have been limited in their profits ever since 1915. The rents that these people draw are proportionately very much less than the rents charged by local authorities for houses of equivalent accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1531.4", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Three.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the hon. and gallant Gentleman is now accepting the four Amendments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "h he tries to cover it up, inflicts the most terrific injustice on the members of the co-operative societies. He has said that nothing unfortunately has been done to relieve the people of small means, but that that applies to every company. But he understands, and every Member of the Government understands, that as far as the ordinary company is concerned the man with small means is the exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1584.3", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "upply of munitions was sent to him. You would have thought he had every opportunity to raise a great Spanish army. He has had plenty of aeroplanes and plenty of munitions, but the fighting has, in fact, apart from a mere handful of enthusiastic Fascists, been done by the Moors and the Italians. When he is in trouble, he calls out for more Italians. He has not managed to get the man power of Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1584.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "was reached the Netherlands Minister proposed that His Majesty's Government should undertake the task of finding a way out of the deadlock, and he was supported by all the nations present. The right hon. Gentleman claimed that that showed what confidence they had in His Majesty's Government. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that they were meeting in London, the capital of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "sty's Government. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that they were meeting in London, the capital of this country. [Interruption.] If hon. Members opposite interrupt that statement I will say that I do not think the right hon. Gentleman has a right to claim that the mere fact that these nations asked His Majesty's Government to undertake this task is a measure of their confidence in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "t, that if you could get the foreign volunteers from each side to withdraw, it would be well worth while according the very limited and guarded form of belligerent rights recognition which is proposed here? But I must say this, that the refusal to accord any measure, even the most restricted, of belligerent rights to a combatant Power which disposes of armies numbered by several hundred thousands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "public good will, has not avoided international complications and risks to the peace of the world, especially in the way it has been administered, and the more it is apparent that it has not made Europe more secure for peace or minimised the risks of war. The very elaborate machinery of non-intervention has increased the complications of the diplomatic situation and has increased the risks of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "the French Government and the Soviet Government had said: \"Here is a rebellion against constitutional authority which is not a Fascist government, and not a dictatorship government either of Fascism or Communism.\" I say quite seriously that there is a sacred right of rebellion against any dictator of any character. A moral right of rebellion exists when a country is denied freedom of institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "is a rebellion against constitutional authority which is not a Fascist government, and not a dictatorship government either of Fascism or Communism.\" I say quite seriously that there is a sacred right of rebellion against any dictator of any character. A moral right of rebellion exists when a country is denied freedom of institutions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Certainly, Spain was a democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Minority government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman admittedly is rather scornful of Democracy, let him not pose here as a champion of Democracy. Spain had a Liberal government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nment.\"] Who are the Tory party to talk about minority government? They have had governments upon minority votes before now. A Liberal government and not a Socialist government was in office. It was not a Communist government. Heaven knows why the people were so careful to return the Popular Front, and then put the Liberals in office, but they were. It was a Liberal government, and these traitors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.3", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hall be continued. I was interested, and a little sad, to find the Liberal party supporting the Government in this policy. It is really rather pathetic. I thought the Liberal party had shed their reactionary elements, who had become Ministers or hoped to be Ministers, and that they were now a progressive party. The Liberal Opposition are taking an exceedingly unsatisfactory attitude. Their leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.3", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " for organised intervention in a military sense on behalf of Germany and Italy. The Italian newspaper goes on to say that General Franco resolved to fight the Fleet with aeroplanes, but only possessed six, of which two were out of date. He ordered three tri-motor bombers and chasers from foreign factories. He received at Morocco, at the end of July, 1936, just after the beginning of the civil war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "admitted by the right hon. Gentleman, and is stated in the White Paper itself, that its success is dependent on genuine co-operation, good faith and willingness to implement it all round. The German and Italian Fascist Governments never meant to implement non-intervention. Breach of faith, breach of their pledged word, breach of what they promise to do, is a cardinal principle of Fascist politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stalin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t is precisely because of the cowardice of the Government, coupled possibly with their simplicity, that Europe is in the serious situation it is. Let us have a look at some more evidence of Italian and German neutrality, because we are told to-night that all Europe, 27 nations, are such admirers of the Foreign Secretary, they have such confidence in him, including Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ate type of Toryism which exists at present and which is governing this country. It is the case that the German and Italian Governments have supplied men and arms to the rebels. They supplied them before they agreed not to do so and they supplied them after they agreed not to do so, and they will continue as long as they want to. What is the result? The Dean of Canterbury said at a public meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "is the result? The Dean of Canterbury said at a public meeting— [Interruption.] Hon. Members not only receive with hilarity the holding up of a British ship but they are scorning the Church of England. May I say that the Church of England would be a much greater institution than it is if it had more men like the Dean of Canterbury? He sent to Spain, and he saw German aeroplanes with German airmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He must have seen Russians!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "a public meeting— [Interruption.] Hon. Members not only receive with hilarity the holding up of a British ship but they are scorning the Church of England. May I say that the Church of England would be a much greater institution than it is if it had more men like the Dean of Canterbury? He sent to Spain, and he saw German aeroplanes with German airmen. [Laughter.] It is really nothing to laugh at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "emselves were prevented from importing by sea new equipment, munitions or volunteers because of the control of the Navies which were preventing that from being done. Indeed the British Navy has warned food ships off. Is it not the elemental truth that, in fact, non-intervention so-called has become the instrument for intervention by the Fascist Powers against the constitutional authority in Spain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "London, where the Soviet armies were not in occupation, Soviet nationals in order to see that the United States, for example, did not send us materials for military purposes. Would any of us be happy that Russian people, sent by the Russian Government, with a Russian army in occupation of part of our country, should be placed in our cities? That is precisely what is being urged in these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": ". Then I was asked a question about ships going to small ports, a question which was re-echoed by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hackney That is a very material point for the Committee but obviously one of the disadvantages of the Opposition having raised this matter before the scheme has even been submitted to the Committee is that these questions are inevitably more difficult to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "re by either belligerent. On the actual details of the scheme, as I say, these must inevitably be worked out by the Committee when the scheme comes before them. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Caithness also asked how withdrawal was to be carried out and whether it would be in proportionate numbers on both sides. That, also, is of course a question that must be dealt with by the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN (NON-INTERVENTION PROPOSALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I said that this was a rebellion by a number of officers; in fact, I said it was the majority of officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-15", "file": "debates1937-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f65138efb4af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Seely", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Seely", "preceding_text": "That is where the money does go. It does not go to the agricultural labourer, it does not go to the industry. The Government are on the wrong tack in thinking they can build up an industry by merely doling out large sums of money which is not going to the industry but to a few particular friends of theirs—and perhaps to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-15a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1665.5", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Complete the simile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "ss beside his son, but when they met the next group of people they said: \"That is cruelty to animals. See those two lazy people riding that poor ass. They are more able to carry it.\" The miller and his son dismounted and arrived at the market carrying the donkey. Had we accepted all the advice we received on the subject of the National Defence Contribution an absurd result would have been reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend could not have done other than he has done this year in framing his financial proposals. Frankly, I read the Amendment of the Opposition with amazement. They may criticise the Finance Bill and vote against it, but if they were in office to-day, they would be faced with the same inescapable necessity of raising no less money than we are raising at the present time. Do they deny that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1684.3", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "I cannot follow that, because I should be out of order, and also I desire to be brief. I feel that today I am somewhat the sponsor of a lost cause, the cause of economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1712.1", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A hot-air port!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member represents an airport and not a seaport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ency, which is a seaport. I do not know whether he has studied the annual report of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association, but he will find there that in 1936 we imported into this country a greater weight of goods than ever before in our history. I am speaking from memory, but I think I am right in saying that the weight of goods imported in 1936 was over 30 per cent, greater than in 1931.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1728.3", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said: \"If I believe what I am saying\". He is suggesting either that I am advocating that course or that I do not believe what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1728.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1748.2", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many workmen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ess. May I give the House two simple figures? Since the beginning of 1934, the rise in rates of wages recorded at the Ministry of Labour shows that the aggregate level of full-time rates of wages in the industries affected has risen by £1,100,000 per week. How can it be said that there is nothing but misery and suffering in store for the masses of the working class in the face of a fact like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1748.2", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "0 per week. How can it be said that there is nothing but misery and suffering in store for the masses of the working class in the face of a fact like that? [An HON. MEMBER: \"How many workmen?\"] I will give the figures. In the last 12 months, ending on the 31st May, about 4,250,000 workers covered by these figures obtained increases in rates of wages amounting in the aggregate to £600,000 per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-16", "file": "debates1937-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "565cc0d4466b5b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and gallant Friend, in his opening speech, made a very amusing reference to prize days, and I could not help being reminded of the story about prizes in \"Alice in Wonderland.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-16a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Nonsense!\" and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is it not plain that since the capture of the first British ship, which was received in this House by applause and laughter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1782.7", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1782.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1782.10", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Very naturally I bow to your desire, and I have no desire to come into conflict with the Chair, but I repeat that on important issues of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1782.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " well-known desire for it are very slow and lukewarm. But in the political as distinguished from the economic field there have been bad breaks in Anglo-American relations. There was a bad break at the Disarmament Conference, for example, where the United States made admirable proposals, which the present Home Secretary, during his disastrous tenure of the Foreign Office turned down contemptuously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "s, no doubt, will be reported more fully later. So far all that we know is that he has been travelling. We do not know whether he has had any success at all. In the third place, there was some reference, which was received with icy silence by the right hon. Gentleman's supporters, to reducing trade barriers. My hon. Friend the Member for Burslem (Mr. MacLaren) cheered loudly; the rest was silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "First, it is beyond dispute that the rebellion in Spain was begun by some mutinous Spanish officers and disgruntled Spanish plutocrats, aided and in contact with German and Italian agents. It is also not as clear as it ought to be, because it has been deliberately overlaid by many commentators, that the Spanish Government against which the rebellion was directed was a very mild Liberal Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "nding of armed forces by Germany and Italy following upon the preparation of the revolt by German and Italian agents. I sometimes wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would accept the aid of a member of the Comintern to fish him out of the water if he were drowning. It may well be that a political situation may arise one day not dissimilar from that, and then we shall see what he has to say about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1821.3", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I am willing to answer the question, but de minimis non curat lex. I know the hon. Member will understand that, but the International Brigade was a flea bite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1821.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who said that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " now leads me to quote these words from a well-known authority: Strategically\"… That is, from a victory for General Franco— the danger is so obvious that it is difficult to understand the eagerness with which some of the most avowedly patriotic sections of the British public have desired the rebels success. Class-sentiment and property-sense would seem to have blinded their strategic sight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1821.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "that even in great newspapers like the \"Times\"—I prefer the record of facts to statements of opinion. The Parliamentary report related what happened here. The leader endeavoured to distribute praise, blame and prejudice, and I am less concerned with that. What the \"Times\" reports is, that when the First Lord reported that a British ship had been captured there were Ministerial cheers and laughter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "dy for new adventures. That will be a new and a still more dangerous phase of the international situation than any that confronts us now. Therefore, I repeat that it is in the interests of international peace and of British interests that General Franco should not win this war, and I submit that the policy of His Majesty's Government should be directed towards seeing that he does not win this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "lations, but we are bound to have official representatives who can inquire about these facts from General Franco and make to him any representations which may occur to us upon the subject. To leave great ships like the \"Hood,\" the \"Rodney,\" the \"Nelson,\" the \"Renown\" and the \"Royal Oak,\" lolling about under the potential discharge of cannon of this calibre would be a crime against national safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1834.1", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ower throughout the world. Let hon. Members mark this, if such an event did happen, it would not be the end, but only the beginning of a tragic chapter in human history. Is this not the time to raise this question very directly with General Franco, who controls this area at the present time? Will any advantage be gained by waiting for a year, when perhaps he may be master of practically all Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes, it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the noble Lady for repeating what I have heard her say so often before. But that does not alter the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1853.3", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady's evidence has been thrown into the pot. I am making a speech and the Noble Lady has chipped in with her bit of evidence. I have one or two remarks to make, because I am absolutely determined that this country shall no longer fail to have the truth about intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "ber, 13; pursuit planes, Boeing and Rata, 43; Russian and French pursuing planes not separately classified, 86; or a total of 239. I am giving the House this information which is just as definite as any information given by hon. Gentlemen who interrupt over the last few months. They can accept these facts as correct from fellow-countrymen of mine in Spain who have told me that these are the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "r should be turned into the Cortes and that instead of discussing the means test and the Special Areas we should have Spain, Spain all the time. The fact remains that as regards tanks and planes, Russian and French intervention has been of a decisive character. When the Italian attack on Madrid, which was so much advertised, took place, they advanced 25 miles and landed up where they started from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1856.3", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "d have guns that can be turned against us in any conflict that under God's will may come to us—does he really mean to say that they would keep faith next time? The right hon. Gentleman asks what is the alternative. The alternative is not war. The alternative is, exactly as he himself said, to leave the Spaniards to decide their own destinies. Why not? That is the one thing that has not been tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1862.1", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "t this to the right hon. Gentleman. He is going to meet these negotiators again, he is going to try to put through another patched-up Treaty. Parliament will not be sitting when the failure of this fourth attempt becomes manifest. Therefore, I hope the right hon. Gentleman then will do exactly what he has now suggested. Let us leave it to the Spaniards. Let all countries be neutral. Let us simply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1890.1", "colnum": "1890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "nvert the heathen. It is a question of our being able to prevent the heathen coming in to convert us. Therefore, these missionary luxuries, much as I could love them, are dangerous. They are also unreal. What really do hon. Members opposite mean by the word \"democracy\"? Do they mean \"government by the consent of the governed\"? In that case Italy and Germany would certainly be democratic countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1896.1", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "eneral Franco to win—whatever their motives may be for it—and of a willingness to see him win by the help of his foreign Allies. Parliament is to adjourn, and much may happen in the interval. I have very little doubt that the Government will succeed in keeping out of war. The war may come later, at a time when we have destroyed one democracy after another in Europe, compelling us either to submit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ble invasion of Manchuria, followed a year later by the Chaco, and a year later by the failure of the Disarmament Conference. Nevertheless, the British people continued to hope that this new system could be brought to life, and the peace ballot proved that there was an overwhelming demand from the people of this country. that the system of collective security, through the League, should be upheld.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1911.5", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Wal Wal, if then a commission of inquiry had been set up, that dispute would have soon disappeared, because he would have known that we were determined to unhold the Covenant. Later, we could have settled it by an oil embargo in three months, as the League Committee reported. If we had been attacked, the Mediterranean Powers were ready to stand with us. We know that we could have stopped it alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1911.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1911.5", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " few months. The Conservative party are perfectly prepared to fight in certain circumstances. When Mussolini sent troops to Libya to threaten Egypt, the Government sent the Fleet to steam past Italian shores. Was not that a challenge to war? Is it not certain that if Mussolini had attacked Malta or Egypt or even the deserts of British Somaliland this Government would have replied by force of arms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1911.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "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": "the Hungary-Yugoslav dispute, the dispute concerning the Sanjak of Alexandretta—all these were very considerable successes of the League, and another very great success was the use of the League, in regard to the occupation of the Rhineland. To my mind, that was a shining example of what, I believe, is one of the main purposes of the League, and that is to achieve delay in an international crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the the right hon. Gentleman the information. It would not be in the public interest to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-19", "file": "debates1937-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "be8e8948e46fb19e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1921.4", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "We are entitled to the information. It is demanded on both sides of the Committee. The question which I ask the Noble Lord is, I think, a fair and proper question. He says, he does not deny, that they are r2-inch howitzers, the guns that are planted by General Franco on the shores of the Mediterranean in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar. He says they cannot hit Gibraltar from where they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-19a.1921.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-20", "file": "debates1937-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "11873ec0f187ec71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON NAVAL TREATY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " a place like Plymouth. Proud as I am of the British Navy, I told them I would rather see no navies, if we could get universal peace in that way. Now I say, \"Thank God for the Navy,\" and hon. Members opposite are in exactly the same position. Although they come to this House and criticise the Navy there is not one of them who does not say in his heart \"Thank God we have got a National Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-20", "file": "debates1937-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "11873ec0f187ec71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Instead of the whisky taste.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "preceding_text": "ardly be worth £5. I can assure the Minister that there were no ricketty children in that area. I am anxious to get that milk taste, that is so desirable in our large towns, developed. It is pitiful, as the hon. Member for Jarrow (Miss Wilkinson) says, to find even men in decent positions who have neither the desire for milk nor the desire to pay for it, but if we begin to acquire that milk taste—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-20", "file": "debates1937-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "11873ec0f187ec71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "hat will all be spent by the end of the year. That is connected with the school scheme, and there is some unspecified amount, which he says he does not know, which deals with the Jarrow and Rhondda schemes. When he says that the Government have nothing to do with that, and they are not Government schemes, I would ask, have not the Government everything on earth to do with the Milk Marketing Board?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-20", "file": "debates1937-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "11873ec0f187ec71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2137.5", "colnum": "2137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE I.—(Registration of particulars of ownership.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Miners will be deeply interested in this Bill and in the subsequent Measure. Suppose the Miners' Federation decided to ask their officials to examine the register; would they have the right, as being as much interested in this matter as anybody else, to inspect the register, take particulars from it and report what they found there to the members of the Miners' Federation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2137.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-20", "file": "debates1937-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "11873ec0f187ec71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2169.1", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Warrender", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Warrender", "preceding_text": "I make no complaint at all but I suggest if points of detail were to be raised, I should have been given notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-20a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2185.7", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of the younger of these unfortunate children are already beginning to forget their own parents; and, further, does he think that the political prejudices of the members of the committee to which he refers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2185.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2200.9", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You are reading it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether he is aware that Messrs. Cammell Laird—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2200.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2204.1", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "Will the new regulations contain a prohibition of advertisement flying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2274.1", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does 'form' mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " recommended by the Commission represents the best and most hopeful solution of the deadlock. The Secretary of State truly points out, using the language of the White Paper, that the Resolution which we are asked to pass to-day is only to enable the Government, on the general principle, to work out subsequently the \"form\" of a scheme of partition—not details only, but the whole form of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2328.0", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "On this particular occasion several hon. Members rose, including the right hon. Member for Epping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2329.13", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "r lack of that precipitancy for which I have of ten been blamed, I did not notice the point upon which my hon. Friend finished his speech. I thought there were two or three more words in his sentence, and therefore I did not immediately jump up. I will gladly give way to any hon. Member, but I do not think that it has ever been the rule that the first person who gets up is the person to be called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2329.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2344.1", "colnum": "2344", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "riendly relationship which existed between them and the Jewish community. We went outside and there were Arab children coming in from the neighbouring Arab villages. We went to the Jewish school and saw the Arab and Jewish children meet together and we heard them sing a Jewish song and an Arab song, and when we left the village the Arab and Jewish children were sitting down having a meal together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2344.1", "colnum": "2344", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "estion. I have had a letter by air mail from Palestine to-day and I gather that among the Jewish collectives, there is a growing opinion that one of those countries might be prepared to take over the Mandate. I do not believe Britain will give up the Mandate. But I believe that the British Government has failed in carrying out its Mandate because all the time it sought to keep the two races apart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2350.1", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "it is unavoidable—the dice are loaded against them, because of this fact, that they have no representatives in this House, that there are no men of Arab race in this House, and that there is no Arab vote in this country. That is a physical fact which cannot be got over. At the same time, I must express some regret that in the speeches to-night some bias has been shown against these Arabs as Arabs,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-21", "file": "debates1937-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "fde8d295038e0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2358.2", "colnum": "2358", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "n and developing their own civilisation in conjunction with the Mohamedans in Spain, and the lesson of Spain and the part that the Jews played there should be borne in mind by Jews in every part of the world now. I appeal to the masses of men and women in the Zionist movement to understand the terrible situation that confronts the Jewish people. Let the Zionists make an arrangement with the Arabs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-21a.2358.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-22", "file": "debates1937-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "bcb6635740e2a09e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-22a.2453.2", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERRING INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "to Germany extended, or we shall be out of work.\" Those are the difficulties of the post-war world. But they are the difficulties with which the Herring Board has to grapple. Let us remember these difficulties when we feel inclined, as some people or some Members of the Committee do, to raise our fists to high Heaven and call for the heads of nearly all those who sit on this side of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-22a.2453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-23", "file": "debates1937-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0627da876c57daa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-23a.2605.1", "colnum": "2605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS, 1931 to 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And sense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I understand that this is my hon. and learned Friend's birthday. We wish him \"Many happy returns\" and hope that on many other occasions he will deliver speeches with as much entertainment in them as the one with which he has just delighted the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-23a.2605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-23", "file": "debates1937-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "0627da876c57daa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-23a.2617.1", "colnum": "2617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE BILL (changed to \"MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL.\")", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are the experts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "ing of the ordinary man and woman. Very few marriages break down in the course of the first year, but after 18 months or two years there come those differences and difficulties which may lead people to think of getting out of the marriage. A breakdown may occur at the end of two years, and experts on marriage say that it is not very likely that people will fall in love again in the next two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-23a.2617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2689.12", "colnum": "2689", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has any oil been found?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " The work to which the prospecting licence holders have put their hands is one which has involved them in the expenditure of a vast amount of money, and is work of great value, and I am sure the Committee will wish them success in their search, because, while coal is our great concern, there is no doubt that the discovery of oil in our country would be of an importance almost impossible to assess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2689.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2689.12", "colnum": "2689", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From all the coal-fields.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " have carried out their obligations under these agreements, sometimes in conditions of considerable difficulty. I give only one figure, and that is to compare the figure for 1931, the last year before there were any trade agreements at all, and 1936. There was a sharp rise in those periods of exports to trade agreement countries by just 90 per cent., that is from 6,000,000 tons to 11,500,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2689.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2733.1", "colnum": "2733", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "orking days, and the increase in wages rates which have been made in the last 18 months, we find an extraordinary effect upon the average annual earnings of the men. In the year 1930, for every employé in the industry, £114 was paid in wages. Last year that figure had gone up to £129, an increase of £15, and there is very little doubt that this year the figure will be nearer £140 than £130.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2734.3", "colnum": "2734", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "make the facts perfectly plain. They are these. From 1927 to 1933 the average profit per ton of coal for the industry never exceeded, in any of these seven years, 3d. per ton, and in some of the years there was a deficit. In 1934 the profit was 5d. per ton; in 1935, 6d. per ton; and last year, just under is. This year the indications are that it will be in the region of is. 3d. or 1s. 4d. per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2786.1", "colnum": "2786", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " but specific cases are not so often brought to my notice. Very often when specific cases are first looked into, one finds that those who know the circumstances very well have perhaps a little more sympathy with the difficulties than those of us who sit here. I am prepared to investigate any case which is brought forward. I would remind hon. Members that inspectors' visits are made without notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2786.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2814.6", "colnum": "2814", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "How am I to challenge the figures that will be put in the Journals, whether they are right or wrong, unless I am given the opportunity of knowing the figures now? Secondly, why is it that in the House only the other night our numbers were recorded from the Chair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2814.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2819.4", "colnum": "2819", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We are not concerned whether they did or not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the hon. Gentleman a question before he sits down? I moved the original Amendment upstairs, and I want to know whether it is a fact that the Mine Workers' Federation agreed to five o'clock when the Bill was discussed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2819.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-26", "file": "debates1937-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "a121e1a129bc6ffe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2819.5", "colnum": "2819", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1937.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "We are not concerned whether they did or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-26a.2819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-27", "file": "debates1937-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "2c0456ed3cba47e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.2926.1", "colnum": "2926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All your life.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "he horrid sphere of force. All this I say in order to emphasise the necessity that Ministers should not in any way encourage newspapers to put a gloss upon their statements—in fact they should discourage them from putting a gloss upon their statements, which, read in their literal text, may possibly be justified. I myself have been a sufferer recently from the love of newspapers for broad effects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.2926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-27", "file": "debates1937-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "2c0456ed3cba47e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.2955.3", "colnum": "2955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twenty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": " supplies in an emergency. When that committee has reported the Government will be able to consider whether the cost of such a scheme and the loss involved is disproportionate to the advantage to be obtained. But I may point this out to the hon. Member opposite. If you were going to produce oil from coal you would want not one or two or three units but perhaps a number running into double figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.2955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-27", "file": "debates1937-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "2c0456ed3cba47e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3034.4", "colnum": "3034", "heading": "FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why give it up?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ours on each of the days, and this new Clause deals solely with that point. I would remind the House that the record of the Home Office in this matter is blameless. We did not accept this provision of 6 p.m. as the limit when it was proposed by somebody else. We considered this problem from the point of view of the young persons and came forward ourselves without pressure to make 6 p.m. the limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-27", "file": "debates1937-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "2c0456ed3cba47e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3039.2", "colnum": "3039", "heading": "FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "sition as a Parliamentary Secretary to the work he has done for the education of adolescents, at Toynbee Hall and in connection with clubs. We want him to come along now and tell us why his Board of Education has done this astonishing thing. Why have they agreed to this extra hour of employment for young people which will vitiate so much of their work? There is no need for me to say anything more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3039.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-07-27", "file": "debates1937-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "2c0456ed3cba47e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3043.0", "colnum": "3043", "heading": "FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must point out that the hon. Member cannot speak again on this Clause except with the leave of the House. Has the hon. Member leave?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3042.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-27", "file": "debates1937-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "2c0456ed3cba47e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3044.1", "colnum": "3044", "heading": "FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "y I ask the Under-Secretary for the Home Department to put the House in possession of the facts with regard to how many factories and what percentage of factories would have to work until seven o'clock at night? In my experience in the North I cannot recall any. Perhaps I may have the attention of the deputy for the Leader of the Opposition who is getting £2,000 a year for opposing the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-27", "file": "debates1937-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "2c0456ed3cba47e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3044.1", "colnum": "3044", "heading": "FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "d the most favourable consideration, I regret that such an important Amendment as this was not thought of before the Bill came before this House or went to the other place. I dislike very much, as a Member of this House, taking any instructions at all as to the social conditions of our people, from another place, where they cannot know, as we know, what are the conditions appertaining to industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-27a.3044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3094.0", "colnum": "3094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": " sent a letter to the National Union of Packing Case Makers setting out various results of our consultations on the question both with the employer and with others. At the present moment we have not had a reply to our letter from the National Union of Packing Case Makers. As regards the contents of the letter, I do not think it is necessary at this stage that the exact terms should be made public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3182.1", "colnum": "3182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "income of 36s. 10d. I am not suggesting that that is high or that it is low. Whether it is enough for the average family to live on or not is not a point which I intend to discuss. To-day, that would be equal to 57s., and if the cost of living is based upon an income of 57s. I consider the amount is too small. I should say that the income of the average wage earner is more like 70s. a week to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3207.1", "colnum": "3207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "hey tried to exploit, it ill becomes hon. Members opposite to criticise. Before I deal with the matter particularly before the House tonight, I wish to make one or two observations upon the general position throughout the country. We can, at any rate, congratulate ourselves upon that, after some six years of administration by the National Government, who saved the country from catastrophe in 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3207.1", "colnum": "3207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We were sold.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": ", at any rate, congratulate ourselves upon that, after some six years of administration by the National Government, who saved the country from catastrophe in 1931. [Laughter.] Hon. Members opposite can laugh as much as they like, but the facts that I am going to disclose to-night could never have been disclosed in 1931, when they had to run away from the position which they themselves had created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3207.3", "colnum": "3207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again. Hon. Members opposite have gone about the country saying and hoping that the present prosperity of the country will not be maintained. However much they dislike the facts of the present situation, they have to face them and recognise that this condition of affairs has arisen through the confidence created by the National Government since 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3208.4", "colnum": "3208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "Since 1931, when the National Government have done salvage and reconstruction work, the figure of unemployment has gone far below the 3,000,000 mark. We have had an upswing of wages; a record upswing in the last three years, and the purchasing power of wages and benefit has been kept safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3232.1", "colnum": "3232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Wholesale prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "e report says: Our objective should be, so far as it lies in the power of this country to influence the international price level, first of all to raise prices a long way above the present level, and then to maintain them at the level thus reached with as much stability as can be managed. Again in the report these words occur: A large rise towards the price level of 1928 is greatly to be desired.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3247.1", "colnum": "3247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banfield", "preceding_text": " while it is quite true that at one time it was only at the end of the week that people could afford to buy a sixpenny cake, there has undoubtedly been a great change of recent years. There is a far greater demand for cake, and it is spread over the whole week. People do not have cake only on Sunday. They have it on Monday, too, and on most days of the week you will see confectionery on the table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-28", "file": "debates1937-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "00279e55732737db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3257.1", "colnum": "3257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FACTORIES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " the Moseley Division (Sir P. Hannon) and the hon. Member for Bolton (Sir J. Haslam). They talk about a 48-hour week, but how far is this question of the working day within the 48-hour week to go: Will any hon. Member opposite defend a proposal that women should work two shifts of 24 hours each, for instance? Would anyone say that in that case the 48-hour week was still sacred? Where is the limit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-28a.3257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-29", "file": "debates1937-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b10b94e95ece0081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-29a.3426.1", "colnum": "3426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "s petitioned that the Dominion Constitution of the Island should be suspended, and to-day its Government is in the hands of the Governor and six appointed Commissioners. It is sometimes suggested at Question Time in this House, and it has been suggested again to-day, that these Commissioners are showing incompetence. It is sometimes suggested that conditions in the Island are worse than they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-29a.3426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-29", "file": "debates1937-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b10b94e95ece0081", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-29a.3433.1", "colnum": "3433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINION AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": " and anything which is in the Schedule and which is not appropriate to the present constitutional position should be a matter for discussion, so that some other appropriate safeguards with regard to these matters could be substituted. All I say is that that Section and the Schedule attached to it remain a part of the South Africa Act. They have not been repealed; they are not going to be repealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-29a.3433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-30", "file": "debates1937-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "03a192bea2d43dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3541.0", "colnum": "3541", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady's policy had been carried into action we should have been at war long ago, and I doubt whether we should have been supported by other States, even supported by France and I know that we should not have been supported by the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-30", "file": "debates1937-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "03a192bea2d43dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3547.1", "colnum": "3547", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Volunteers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " say that for every thousand returned to their respective countries by Franco, the Spanish Government will also send away a thousand? What is the good of that? If it happens that Franco is right and the figures he gives are approximately right, supposing he sends back 20,000 and 20,000 are sent back from the other side, there will still be large numbers left of the volunteers of Italy and Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-30", "file": "debates1937-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "03a192bea2d43dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3554.0", "colnum": "3554", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "This is such an important point. If there was any interruption by anyone on the Front Bench I should be willing to give way, and no one is more ready to give way than I am, as a rule, but on this occasion I must insist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-07-30", "file": "debates1937-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "03a192bea2d43dd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3554.2", "colnum": "3554", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "he was put there, except that I remember the explanation that was given of the reason why Lord Cranworth was made Lord Chancellor, when there was a very much abler and more brilliant lawyer available at the time. The question was put, \"Why was Cranworth made Lord Chancellor instead of Bethell?\", and the answer was, \"There is only one answer, that it is so much better to be good than to be clever.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-07-30a.3554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "hat Europe has more than once been on the very brink of the precipice. The position was very critical when Germany reoccupied the Rhineland. It then said: It was publicly declared by Leon Mum to have been very critical in the first weeks of the Spanish war and, as this war has continued, the danger of its spreading into a European conflagration has never been absent. Those who read that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "f peace, and especially of economic appeasement. But I must say I found it difficult to follow that part of his speech in which he spoke of countries like Italy and Germany, aggressive imperialist countries, being ruled in the interest of the capitalist classes. If there is one wretched class more downtrodden than another in Germany, Italy and Japan at the present time, it is the capitalist class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " forward at the Brussels Conference. While I regard the first of these charges as entirely false, the second I regard as true, but consider that the Government are entirely right. I wonder how many of the hon. and right hon. Members who make these charges have looked up the Debates that took place on the position in 1931–32, or any record of events then or have even read Mr. Stimson's book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": " at the expense of the other. We should endeavour to preserve, as far as we can, complete impartiality in Spain. What is the alternative to non-intervention? The only possible alternative is a policy which must in the end lead to intervention on one side or the other. That must in the end lead to the embroilment of this country and other countries in a major war which would rage throughout Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And you said ' Shame.' \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Oh, no. There was a question put here one day—I will look up the reference—and a supplementary question was then put from the Liberal benches about something that was being said or done by Hitler, and the Foreign Secretary got up at that Box and said, \"The same can be said about Stalin.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "presentations of that kind. Let me come to the particular question of the Spanish situation. Let us consider for a moment what our object should be with regard to the Spanish situation. Supposing that there had been going on in Spain to-day a civil war without any intervention of any foreign troops whatsoever, would the party opposite then have been urging us to intervene on one side or the other?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There would be no war!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "n of the Spanish situation. Let us consider for a moment what our object should be with regard to the Spanish situation. Supposing that there had been going on in Spain to-day a civil war without any intervention of any foreign troops whatsoever, would the party opposite then have been urging us to intervene on one side or the other? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The right hon. Gentleman says \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": ". MEMBER: \"There would be no war!\"] The right hon. Gentleman has just admitted that in that case there would have been no desire and no suggestion that it was the duty of the Government of this country to intervene on one side or the other. He has, in fact, admitted that the problem in Spain is the intervention of foreign troops, of foreign soldiers fighting either on one side or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-21", "file": "debates1937-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "e612f5a8bd7a8aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ion had not been pursued, originally at the instance of the French Government but all through with the hearty and full co-operation of the British Government—if that policy had not been pursued. there was every prospect that the civil war in Spain might presently become a European war of unknown magnitude. The events of yesterday have, of course, very largely knocked the bottom out of this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-21a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-26", "file": "debates1937-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c97c2d061f524a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-26a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No more than on the other side\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "ment, have the right in law to purchase arms, and, in the special circumstances, they might be said to have not only a legal right, but a very great moral right to purchase arms, because the insurrection with which they are dealing is not an insurrection of their own people, but is an insurrection which has become menacing and important because of the intervention and assistance of outside Powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-26a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-26", "file": "debates1937-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6c97c2d061f524a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-26a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a question of opinion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": " His Majesty's Government. We have to face the facts. The control of the seas is largely in the hands of the Insurgents, and the consequence is that the French frontier is a vital channel for the flow of war material to the Spanish Government. In spite of rumours to the contrary, the French frontier, as far as materials of war are concerned, is closed like an oyster against the Spanish Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-26a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.87.7", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " has certainly continued in this present year. I do not think there is any solid ground for saying that on the whole there is any palpable indication that this progress will be arrested.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th October, 1937; col. 25, Vol. 328.] I am prepared to take up this argument, and indeed that is the reason why I raise the matter. The fundamentals of our economic life remain what they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.87.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ding that it is not. It is no good persuading people that they are living in a paradise without any end, and I see no signs of the Government making any kind of reference to what, after all, is a very important problem. Those civil servants who advise the Government know perfectly well that before very long there is bound to be a trade depression as bad as anything remembered within living memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "s, in which I am particularly interested, he has committed himself to the furtherance of projects amounting to £3,800,000. For housing, considerable assistance has already been given by him. Altogether there are visible signs, with all that has already been achieved, that there is considerable improvement. I could go on and illustrate that further by the trading estates that have been established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "ounting to £3,800,000. For housing, considerable assistance has already been given by him. Altogether there are visible signs, with all that has already been achieved, that there is considerable improvement. I could go on and illustrate that further by the trading estates that have been established—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"]—and matters of that kind, but I will content myself by saying again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.102.5", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And their wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "assistance to the rural areas, and that it will make a substantial improvement in the conditions under which our agricultural workers live, and I hope it will be a material help to the agricultural industry. I am more convinced than ever that if we are to keep our agricultural workers on the land we have to improve considerably a good many things, including their standard of housing accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.102.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": "th 1,400 or 1,500 houses out of 15,000 in the whole county we have country, but that total is obviously far too small. I was extremely glad to hear the Minister say—and he will agree with me I am sure in this—that in many rural districts a very large number of new houses are wanted, and it is no use to say that houses are already there. They sometimes are. The question arises, what sort of houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": "eech. This is how it strikes me. You find in the King's Speech this sort of phrase: There will be proposals: for carrying out some of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Despatch of Business at Common Law; and for giving effect to certain recommendations of the Law Revision Committee on the subject of the limitation of actions. I have no doubt that these are absolutely epoch-making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": " demanding of other nations that they should take effective economic action in co-operation with us in defence of international justice; be prepared to take full economic action ourselves as long as a sufficient number of others will do the same, and, thirdly, let it be known that if the aggressor tries to shoot himself out of the economic difficulty, we promise to fight for international justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.116.5", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": "ctions, because we should not be acting under the League of Nations. Putting the position at its worst—although I do not conceive it possible that Japan would declare war—if an attack were made on Hong Kong, and Japan took it, there would be this certainty that with all the other countries on our side the war would not stop until we got Hong Kong back, and a great deal more, but not for ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.116.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "less demand for consumption; there was a lower standard of living; stocks of goods, largely held by overdrafts, had to be allowed to go at sacrificial cost and great loss; and the holders had to sack their workpeople by the thousand. We all know what happened after the return to the Gold Standard in. 1925. We had the general strike in 1926, the effect of which on our foreign trade was devastating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "to be allowed to go at sacrificial cost and great loss; and the holders had to sack their workpeople by the thousand. We all know what happened after the return to the Gold Standard in. 1925. We had the general strike in 1926, the effect of which on our foreign trade was devastating. [ Interruption. ] I am quite serious. It does not matter who did it; we are all to blame for allowing it to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "our bedrooms. Thank Heaven there are still, and always will be, big families. We are confronted with this big programme, at which we rejoice, and the houses are being made small in order to meet the decline in the birth rate. We come there to one of the most pressing problems of the whole of the future of the race. Do we believe we are going to make headway when there is this declining birth rate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "decline in the birth rate. We come there to one of the most pressing problems of the whole of the future of the race. Do we believe we are going to make headway when there is this declining birth rate? [An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope so.\"] It may be hoped so by some. An eminent American professor who is lecturing in London at present believes the world will be better off with half its present population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "t the armament position. I think that I can speak for my right hon. Friend right away and say that we are not in the habit of whittling away our statements. It is perfectly true that the capitalist Press, as soon as the National Council of Labour issue a statement, will put its own construction upon it for its own purposes. It is true that the national Press and that some Conservative politicians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": " of unemployed, 1,300,000 with no hope and no chance of having a job. When the Government have made no real preparation in the Gracious Speech they will find some difficulty in resisting the claim of Labour, not a new claim as it was made as far back as the last year of the War by the late Mr. Arthur Henderson in the book he published, for public works and other operations to prevent unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": " the worn-out system under which this country is supposed to be operating I think of how, during the time of depression, during the years when other countries were in difficulties, we were the saving grace of the world, the market with the greatest purchasing power, the market which not only bought commodities but paid for them and prevented many another country from going into financial collapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "gthening of the British defence forces. No one pretends that these forces, or any part of them, are likely to be used for any aggressive purpose. The greatest bulwark against the disturbance of peace and the preservation of settled industrial conditions is a strong united British Empire prepared against all emergencies, and for that the country looks entirely and solely to the National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "eat deal has been said by various speakers as to what ought to have been done in various areas of the world in which there are disturbances, in Spain and the Far East, and I would ask them this question; How is it that you deal with law breakers? You do not deal with them by taking the law into your own hands. A problem of that kind is dealt with by strengthening, upholding and supporting the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-27", "file": "debates1937-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "09a0c76918623f79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "law. [ Interruption. ] Will hon. Members allow me to conclude my sentence? In international affairs precisely the same law applies. If there is a breach of international law you do not commit a breach on your own part, you the more faithfully observe the requirements of international law. You strengthen, support and uphold the international law. The rule of law is the important rule in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-27a.209.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.219.4", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to read the instruction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.281.6", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ans of restoring peace to the world.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st October, 1937; col. 166, Vol. 327.] I hope that hon. Members opposite will help us to ensure that every citizen in the country shall read and understand those words. For my part I am intensely grateful to the Prime Minister for having made this issue so extremely clear. He said that the Government do not believe in the League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.281.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.281.6", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "those words. For my part I am intensely grateful to the Prime Minister for having made this issue so extremely clear. He said that the Government do not believe in the League of Nations—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—as a practical means of restoring the peace of the world. The Government do not think it is now \"an effective instrument.\" They do not think it can now be made \"a guarantee against aggression.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.281.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.281.6", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "n now be made \"a guarantee against aggression.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that at all.\"] His words were: The League as it is at present is not a guarantee against aggression. Quite so. That is exactly what I said— the League as it is to-day is not an effective instrument or guarantee against aggression. Therefore, the Government have abandoned the League as their instrument of foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.281.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "the defences, and that on the other side such artillery as you have got will be of the lighter kind that has no chance at all. I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that that is so. That is the difference. What is responsible for that? Non-intervention. Who is responsible for keeping non-intervention alive? His Majesty's Government. If democracy is beaten in this battle, whatever the consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Marseilles?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "sty's Government. If democracy is beaten in this battle, whatever the consequences—[An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not democracy.\"] At any rate, if Fascism is triumphant in this battle, His Majesty's Government can claim that victory for themselves. While this is going on the French frontier is closed. The only means by which any supplies could be sent in to the Government of Spain from outside is closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "his form of words will not frighten people who have not the least intention of being frightened by anything the Government can say, and that it means nothing at all. Finally, I should like to say that there is no unity whatsoever in this country as to our foreign policy. Not for a moment should the Government go on repeating that statement. There is unity, I agree, on the necessity for rearmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "being frightened by anything the Government can say, and that it means nothing at all. Finally, I should like to say that there is no unity whatsoever in this country as to our foreign policy. Not for a moment should the Government go on repeating that statement. There is unity, I agree, on the necessity for rearmament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, there is a very large measure of agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "atement. There is unity, I agree, on the necessity for rearmament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, there is a very large measure of agreement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—that we must have armaments in order to play our part in the world at the present time; but there is the profoundest difference between one side of the House and the other as to the way in which those armaments should be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Cox", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Cox", "preceding_text": "a remarkable statement. The Leader of the Opposition says that Democracy and those questions are not of vital interest to himself and his colleagues, but that the main thing is that once the Socialists gain power they must maintain themselves in office by these unconstitutional measures. I will say this. The Leader of the Opposition wishes to do away with the democratic system of local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Cox", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By the Leader of the Opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Cox", "preceding_text": "at Democracy and those questions are not of vital interest to himself and his colleagues, but that the main thing is that once the Socialists gain power they must maintain themselves in office by these unconstitutional measures. I will say this. The Leader of the Opposition wishes to do away with the democratic system of local government. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] Certainly, that is in this book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Chapman", "preceding_text": "It is very seldom that I can support the hon. Gentleman the Member for Camlachie (Mr. Stephen), but to-night I can certainly go with him the whol way in his congratulations to the hon. Member for Stalybridge (Mr. Cox) on his maiden speech. It shows careful preparation and close analysis. I noticed that hon. Gentlemen maintained a discreet silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Surely people could not be in the water unless there was some sort of dispute going on on the coast. I have given the position with the utmost clearness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "th in the last Debate on the Address by no less a person than the present Prime Minister totally disproving that contention, but I will not weary the House with it, because I am sure it would make no difference to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs. He said the whole of the policy of non-intervention was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated by great nations on a weak people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a Foreign Office fake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated by great nations on a weak people. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"] Yes, I hear applause. From whom? From the Socialist party for a policy initiated by the Popular Front. After all, if they consider that the greatest frauds and cravens sit on these benches, are they then going to apply it to the Socialist Leon Blum and the Members of the Popular Front?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "n it came before the Assembly of the League. The hon. Gentleman must know these things; it is his business to know these things; he speaks for his party on foreign affairs; he has no right to speak if he does not know these things. He tells the House that this was a Resolution of the League branding certain foreign nations as aggressors, and he says that it was carried by the League. It is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-28", "file": "debates1937-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "30d3c7b7a5c0daba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "What he said before was that the League had passed a Resolution on aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-28a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-29", "file": "debates1937-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cea727d81a6e3377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.425.7", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ed. It is notably the case with the present Prime Minister. He is a very different Prime Minister from the late Prime Minister, but I am not complaining. He will suit us much better than the last one. We shall defeat you with your Prime Minister before we have done with you. If ever there was a man who possessed a crude, mercantile class conscious outlook, this present Prime Minister is that man.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.425.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-29", "file": "debates1937-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cea727d81a6e3377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the number of unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "months of this year the bank clearings were 34 per cent. more than in the corresponding period of 1931, and retail sales were also much greater in value. The number of insured persons, excluding agricultural workers, in employment rose from about 9,250,000 in September, 1931, to about 11,500,000 last month. These are the facts, and I challenge hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite to refute them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-29", "file": "debates1937-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cea727d81a6e3377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is 1,300,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": " number of insured persons, excluding agricultural workers, in employment rose from about 9,250,000 in September, 1931, to about 11,500,000 last month. These are the facts, and I challenge hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite to refute them. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the number of unemployed?\"] And unemployment, I forget by how many hundred thousands, is less to-day than it was 12 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-29", "file": "debates1937-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cea727d81a6e3377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "nd right hon. Gentlemen opposite to refute them. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the number of unemployed?\"] And unemployment, I forget by how many hundred thousands, is less to-day than it was 12 months ago. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is 1,300,000.\"] I ask the right hon. Gentleman these questions: Can a similar improvement in the social and economic life in any country be found anywhere else in the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-29", "file": "debates1937-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cea727d81a6e3377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "at about the number of unemployed?\"] And unemployment, I forget by how many hundred thousands, is less to-day than it was 12 months ago. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is 1,300,000.\"] I ask the right hon. Gentleman these questions: Can a similar improvement in the social and economic life in any country be found anywhere else in the world? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"] Can it be found in Germany or Russia?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-29", "file": "debates1937-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cea727d81a6e3377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "preceding_text": " House, that it might not be a bad thing if the workers of this country refused to play any part in the building up of the defences of the country, but were to allow a potential aggressor to come in and invade and overwhelm us, for the result might then be the setting up of a Socialist State, under which rearmament and the building up of adequate defences could take place under a different regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-10-29", "file": "debates1937-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "cea727d81a6e3377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "preceding_text": "The Mover of the Amendment said something about oranges being thrown into the Black Sea and spoke of it as being the fault of the Government. What British territory is there on the Black Sea? How can the Government possibly be responsible for anything that goes on there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-10-29a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"War!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e of the country. But the right hon. Gentleman, having succeeded to his high office, led the rout at Geneva, and Signor Mussolini at that time conceived at once a hatred and contempt for this country which in the eye of history may be most important. It was the incapacity of the Government to warn him not to go to Abyssinia or, once he had started to stop him, but they did neither of these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ia in the last nine months 440,000 tons of goods. valued at 3,5oo,000. The trade was hardly complementary, because at the same time Spain only exported 44,000 tons of goods. One interesting thing which these figures show is that from January to September this year Russia shipped to Spain nearly 10 times as much in weight and 4½ times as much in value as in the corresponding period for 1936.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "conomic development which was recommended years ago, the policy of capital expenditure, not for unproductive armaments, but for productive forces, had been put into force then, we should have got back to the 1929 level in perhaps half the time it has taken the Government to do so. There is no doubt at all that it is the rearmament programme which has effected the recent improvement in the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Reorganisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "oyment in the iron mining industry, an industry in which I am interested. Is it the Protectionist poliicy of this country which reduced that figure by 1936 to 1I.3 per cent? It is, as everybody knows, the demand for iron for rearmament. Can it be that the unemployment in the iron and steel industry, which in 1933 was 32 per cent., has been reduced to 12.8 per cent. as a result of Protection alone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.617.3", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "preceding_text": "rrespondence were no doubt used by the Anglo-Saxon Government of King Ethelred the Unready at the time when it was decided to buy off the aggressor. This correspondence, however, is having a very bad effect in Europe to-day. A friend of mine who returned only recently from Central Europe says that we are looked upon there very much as Turkey used to be in the old days, as the \"sick man of Europe.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Much better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ter all the talk about it, prosperity has not reached those Welsh valleys yet. There is immense man power there still unemployed. The speeches made by Ministers about the prosperity of the country leave us quite cold because they assume that the standard of life reached now is the furthest step we can get. The kind of reply is this; \"We are just as well off as we were under the Labour Government.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "is, first, that the Special Areas have had a very substantial share in the reduction of unemployment. The total numbers of unemployed in all the Special Areas together has fallen from 442,000 in November, 1934, which was immediately before the Special Areas Act was passed, to 264,000 at the end of last September. That is a total reduction in the Special Areas of 178,000, which is over 40 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "nce, officially or unofficially, has played a part in it. It is significant, however, that in this two-year period for which I have given the figures, the numbers in the Special Areas have decreased by only 20,000. The indication, therefore, as the House will see, is that far the greater part of the reduction in unemployment is due to those who have remained in the area and found work in the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "e, that is a very different thing from concentrating attention on index numbers, either for cost of living or for wage rates. The standard of life in this country for people of all sorts—and not least for the labouring class—has risen enormously. The great outpouring of public money for social assistance, the cheap amenities of life, such as the wireless set, which practically every home has got.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "onfidence, or prosperity, than the alternative to the policy of the Government. I do not want to create any new rift in what is now a happy combination, but it does not follow that because the Labour party has produced a new short programme, we are not entitled to reflect upon what they have told us about their intentions. They have told us that their policy cannot be carried out without a crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-01", "file": "debates1937-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7c6d4f70cdf6313", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " not follow that because the Labour party has produced a new short programme, we are not entitled to reflect upon what they have told us about their intentions. They have told us that their policy cannot be carried out without a crisis. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said so?\"] If the House will give me two minutes I will read them. The first is the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-01a.680.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-02", "file": "debates1937-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6beebd9e43e0a037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RECRUITS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That may be the photograph.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. There has been a very considerable improvement in enlistment. In the last two weeks the increase has been about 80 per cent. compared with last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.726.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-02", "file": "debates1937-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6beebd9e43e0a037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "and I do not propose to take up very much more of the time of the House, but I should not be doing my duty as a Scottish representative if I did not draw the attention of the representatives of the Government to the fact that we have first-class schemes in Scotland for absorbing labour and material, if the Government are prepared to find the money, or, at any rate, a respectable part of the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-02", "file": "debates1937-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6beebd9e43e0a037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.844.1", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "It is the dinner hour, and before the dinner hour there was hardly a space on those benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-02", "file": "debates1937-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6beebd9e43e0a037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "Agreements the Canadians were able to recover it. It was diverted from the Americans to the Canadians. I listened to the speech of the hon. and gallant Gentleman with great care and he did not mention timber. British imports of American soft woods have fallen from 2,000,000 tons in 1929 to 1,000,000 tons in 1936, while the corresponding Canadian imports have risen from 1,000,000 tons to 4,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-02", "file": "debates1937-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "6beebd9e43e0a037", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Earl Winterton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Earl Winterton)", "preceding_text": " of unrestricted entry so weakens our productive manufacturing power causing unemployment and reducing our consuming power, that the patient will slowly wilt away. In this as in other matters we have to choose between two extremes. I say, and neither I nor any other Minister standing at this Box need apologise for using such a phrase, that we have to be opportunists according to the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-02a.874.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-03", "file": "debates1937-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "8aec9b685b0822cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-03a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "HOURS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who wrote that?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "ess and impotent. It appears to he still dazed by the inevitable confusion that followed the launching of these great reforms without the slightest preparation or planning. The Government looks on while the disparity between production costs and retail prices grows wider everyday…. No other conclusion can he reached than that … the 40-hour week is already doomed—at least, for a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-03a.1041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-03", "file": "debates1937-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "8aec9b685b0822cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-03a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "HOURS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "hen we have such a large measure of prosperity. Professor Sargant Florence, the great advocate of the 40-hour week, recently said: I am an enthusiastic advocate of shorter and even shorter hours, but I believe that the reduction should be made, as it usually has been made, in time of prosperity, but in depressed trades shorter hours with the same weekly wage are a doubtful remedy for unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-03a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-03", "file": "debates1937-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "8aec9b685b0822cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-03a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "HOURS OF LABOUR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has not reduced the hours of workers in his own industry in this country to 40, but he has put up his prices in order to meet a small reduction of hours. If there is any crisis in France it is not due to the 40hour week, but to the jiggery-pokery work of financiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-03a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-04", "file": "debates1937-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "763eda16069aa33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1101.7", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that they have a system whereby Nazis in this country supply names to Hamburg, and that masses of literature are sent from Hamburg to these people for the purpose of distribution in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1101.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-04", "file": "debates1937-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "763eda16069aa33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the censorship?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "s making, that the help should be definite, that he should know what assistance he is really going to get. Only so can a producer plan for the future. With a viewing test is it possible to have any such certainty? The viewing has to be done by some body whatever body is selected, whoever they are, however many of them there be. The ultimate test of the film is simply the opinion of certain people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-04", "file": "debates1937-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "763eda16069aa33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "t in any gangster film there must be three gangsters killed for every \"G-man.\" Every film shown to this body must be shown on its own, with no possibility of an objective test, with no code of precedents for it, and it must depend on the individual opinions of the individuals composing that body. I ask hon. Members who go to the films, as I do, Have they on any film agreed with three other people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-04", "file": "debates1937-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "763eda16069aa33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1190.1", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On all sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s of the House. It is easy to be wise afterwards, but, if the spirit of this Debate up to now had been the spirit of 10 years ago, we should probably have had a better Bill. In this Bill the Government are trying to undo the mischief of 10 years ago. Having, for my sins, read the Debates of 10 years ago, I am amazed at the foolishness of the speeches of some of the so-called wise men of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-04", "file": "debates1937-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "763eda16069aa33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1227.3", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Communist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": "me. That is not what is happening on the screen to-day. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed Swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread. Not the contagion of Communism or Fascism, which, good or bad, represents ideals not primarily selfish, but of the worship of money, and of violence, and the acceptance of the lowest motives as natural and inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1227.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-04", "file": "debates1937-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "763eda16069aa33e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1274.2", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Trade Facilities Act?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "uld deal with these financial conditions? He has told us, and I am sure that he is right, that a large number of budding capitalists have poured money into film promotion in the last few years and lost it; and it seemed to me that he was suggesting that His Majesty's Government should step into the breach now vacated by those more or less penniless capitalists and proceed to finance British films.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-04a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-05", "file": "debates1937-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "618e7c9899693497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1324.3", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INHERITANCE (FAMILY PROVISION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because other people have to look at it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Davies", "preceding_text": "If I have a piece of land, why should I not be allowed to erect on it any sort of edifice that I choose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-05", "file": "debates1937-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "618e7c9899693497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INHERITANCE (FAMILY PROVISION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "It will be a gold mine for the lawyers, but I do not believe the legal profession want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-05", "file": "debates1937-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "618e7c9899693497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1360.3", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INHERITANCE (FAMILY PROVISION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I must deal with one contention at a time. I was dealing with the point made by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ashford, that the man who could tell most about the matter is not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-05", "file": "debates1937-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "618e7c9899693497", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INHERITANCE (FAMILY PROVISION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "preceding_text": ", but I think it must have occurred to some hon. Members, and I cannot quite understand why it has not been advanced, because it is not altogether negligible. It seems to me that, if we pass this Bill, a wife will then be able to nag her husband with impunity for the rest of his life, and there will be nothing that he can do to stop it. I think that that is a point which ought to be borne in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-05a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernays)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernays)", "preceding_text": "n the light of the recommendations of that inquiry, the new legislation will be introduced before the Rent Restrictions Act expires, and upon that my right hon. Friend is prepared to give this specific pledge, that he will certainly introduce new legislation well before the present Act expires and, he hopes, quite early in next year. It will be passed through all its stages well before June, 1938.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Francis Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Acland", "preceding_text": "rance has several consuls de carrière in Spain, and we have only one. If we tell France that we are going to supplement that one by appointing not fresh career consuls, because that would be something in the nature of recognition, but that we are appointing totally different people, it does not seem to me at first sight that the French Government are called upon either to disagree or agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Acland", "preceding_text": "elves in political as distinct from trade matters then certain consequences will follow? I understand they are to be sent there as trade representatives. Are they sent there as trade representatives or as political negotiators? If they are going to negotiate on political matters, we should like to know it. Secondly, will it be clearly indicated to General Franco—so far as these things can be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "with a considerable lack of candour. To come to the question of the consideration which has been given by General Franco in return for the decision to appoint agents, I do not think we have had all the considerations mentioned. General Franco understands one section of the British character very well indeed, because I see he has given permission to the Calpe foxhounds to hunt in Spanish territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "in, if he has the courage to do so, by reading the beginning of his answer this afternoon; We have commercial and financial interests. But the interests of the people of this country are more important than any commercial and financial interests. I again assert that these financial and commercial interests are interests of members of the Cabinet. Let them have the courage to stand up and admit it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "wall asked was there any precedent for what we are doing. There are, I believe, a number of precedents, the most interesting of which is that during the Great War we accredited an agent to President Venezelos when he was in rebellion against the Greek Government of the day, to whom we had also accredited a representative. That is an almost exact parallel with what we are doing at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "the Greek Government of the day, to whom we had also accredited a representative. That is an almost exact parallel with what we are doing at the present time. [ Interruption .] The hon. Gentleman opposite says that we were fighting then. Thank Heaven we are not fighting now, but I do not think that vitiates the argument. I know that hon. Gentlemen opposite wish we were fighting now but we are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I will, of course, accept that that is the hon. Gentleman's point of view. He is entitled to his point of view just as I am entitled to mine. But I have no desire to say anything offensive, and I regret it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-08", "file": "debates1937-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4b4b0e16e1b686c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " on behalf of democracy by Mr. Baldwin, if we should take all the speeches of the Foreign Secretary on foreign affairs, and then look at what has actually happened, we find an enormous difference. The fact remains that with all the fair speeches that we get from the Foreign Secretary, the actions of the British Government for the last 18 months have invariably inured to the side of General Franco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-08a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-09", "file": "debates1937-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "aa8b81ece4464e65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AGRICULTURAL POPU- LATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "ir statutory obligations, and while on most occasions I stand here as a sort of defender of the local authorities in Scotland, I hold no brief for the majority of those reactionary authorities in Scotland, the county councils, who ought to have been doing their duty far better than they have been in dealing with rural housing. They are as reactionary as any in dealing with this particular problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-09", "file": "debates1937-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "aa8b81ece4464e65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1695.5", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AGRICULTURAL POPU- LATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "bour party and agricultural labour, Mr. George Dallas. What did that Labour representative sign? He signed the report of the Committee, which contained these words: Whatever form any modification of the system\"— that is, the tied house system— may take, it is obvious that the process must he a gradual one. They did not condemn the tied cottage. The tied cottage must be on the farm privately owned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-09", "file": "debates1937-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "aa8b81ece4464e65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1695.5", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AGRICULTURAL POPU- LATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Whatever form any modification of the system\"— that is, the tied house system— may take, it is obvious that the process must he a gradual one. They did not condemn the tied cottage. The tied cottage must be on the farm privately owned. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] There is no use trying to dodge about with words. A tied cottage on a farm means a tied cottage owned either by the farmer or by the landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-09", "file": "debates1937-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "aa8b81ece4464e65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AGRICULTURAL POPU- LATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " am not merely demanding houses for the people; I am demanding, from the Secretary of State, homes for the people of Scotland. Of course, it will cost money, but there is no use telling me that when I am also told that we are living in a prosperous age, and that this is the mightiest kingdom and the mightiest Empire on which the sun ever shone. If it is true, and I say it is the irrefutable truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-09a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-10", "file": "debates1937-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6466a733b011dcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1753.4", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer, answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Is this not a step towards acceptance of the Nazi regime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1753.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-10", "file": "debates1937-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6466a733b011dcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1768.8", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to enter into arty detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1768.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-10", "file": "debates1937-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6466a733b011dcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister perfectly satisfied with all the questions he has heard put across the Floor backing up the statement I have made in this question, and is he satisfied that he is doing his job correctly in allowing conditions to remain as they are", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-10", "file": "debates1937-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6466a733b011dcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1770.7", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We cannot have every question repeated. If hon. Members do not remain quiet, I cannot keep them quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1770.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-10", "file": "debates1937-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6466a733b011dcb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "As the person who put the supplementary question in the House I want to say that the facts as stated by the hon. Member for Dumbartonshire (Mr. Cassells) I accept, but I myself could not see why the hon. Member should ask the Secretary of State for Scotland in this House to use his powers to put an end to birching when he himself had requested in a Court that the Sheriff —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-10a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-11", "file": "debates1937-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "344e586574259d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1815.2", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-11", "file": "debates1937-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "344e586574259d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1825.9", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNION BANK OF SCOTLAND (EMPLOYES).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1825.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-11", "file": "debates1937-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "344e586574259d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1837.4", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF GODLESS (CONFERENCE.).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "e has no information of any kind that such a conference is to be held, and yet he gets up and tries to suggest that I have some responsibility for some such conference, and that he is glad of my assurance that it is not going to be held. I consider that that is a deliberate support on the part of the Home Secretary for this anti-working-class attitude, and I demand the withdrawal of the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-11", "file": "debates1937-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "344e586574259d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1916.1", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And some applying no standard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "ject—that the State should take over the entire cost of assisting the blind. There is nothing to be said against it. I am very heterodox on this question of local and national expenditure. The money has to come from somewhere, and, in my judgment, it is better that it should come from the whole body of citizens, than from this place or that place, with each authority applying a different standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-11", "file": "debates1937-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "344e586574259d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He should be condemned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "his case. Why do we not make it obligatory on every local authority? If they cannot keep a blind person decently when he is alive let us make sure that they bury him decently, but rather than spend money on wreaths I would give blind persons a chance to smell the flowers before they died. I think there is an overwhelming case for a bigger Measure, but the Minister is not the master in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-11", "file": "debates1937-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "344e586574259d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1973.3", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (JUVENILE CONTRIBUTORS AND YOUNG PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor: If", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would go on holiday!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor: If", "preceding_text": "you gave me that £130,000 a year, and part of the £4,500,000 you are spending on medical benefits", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-11a.1973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-12", "file": "debates1937-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4a9f4bd6f20b306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the spring\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "terday, this Committee is expected to report at some time towards the end of the year. The Minister indicated that additional evidence was to be given on the 17th of this month and on 1st December, and, after 1st December, the Committee will begin to frame its report, so that we may expect the report of the Committee within a comparatively short time. But we are dealing with the Minster of Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-12", "file": "debates1937-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4a9f4bd6f20b306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2045.1", "colnum": "2045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jonah Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jonah Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " our industrial relations are really based upon freedom and complete equality of negotiations between employers and operatives, conducted in a spirit of enlightened democracy. It is a surprise to me that hon. Members above the Gangway should be so enamoured of compulsion and all that typifies Germany and Italy—compulsory military service, compulsory extinction of the real powers of trade unionism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-12", "file": "debates1937-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4a9f4bd6f20b306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2050.3", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ng, but an extremely good thing. The parties meet knowing full well that there is no third party to whom they can appeal, that there is no appeal to the political arena, to the Courts or to an arbitrator. They know very well that they must settle the matters themselves, and they meet with the hope, the expectation and the intention of settling them. They meet together on terms of perfect equality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2050.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-12", "file": "debates1937-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4a9f4bd6f20b306", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2079.1", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANNUAL HOLIDAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": "he only question this afternoon is the practical one of deciding upon the manner in which holidays with pay may be assured for the greatest number of workpeople. It is not a question of deciding whether you are in favour of a compulsory system or a system of voluntary agreement. It is a question of deciding upon the manner in which holidays with pay may be assured to the greatest possible number.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-12a.2079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "preceding_text": "me, the British Empire has been faced with great dangers, but never has it been faced with any danger and sat still, inert, inactive, despondent and despairing. Always has it attempted to meet the danger, and always, up to the present, I am thankful to say, it has overcome it. There were in 1917 many who believed that the submarine campaign was going to shake the British Empire to its foundations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "d be available to put them out almost as soon as they start. Accordingly, we intend first of all to provide the householder with detailed advice as to how to deal with one of these bombs when it actually drops. Secondly, we have been making a series of very interesting experiments with a view to enabling householders to obtain at very small expense a cheap hand pump and a shovel and a box of sand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.58.3", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "do; and the right hon. Gentleman endeavoured to make the best bargain that he could for the Treasury, as he was entitled to do. Surely, no hon. Member blames the local authorities, for whom I acted as spokesman, for trying to make the best bargain they could for their ratepayers, any more than we blame the right hon. Gentleman for making the best bargain he could for the Treasury. Rates do matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.58.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "more than I could say about his predecessor. But we do not get the same story. The Secretary of State has told us to-day, \"Don't you believe that the bomber will get through; we will see that he won't.\" Conservative Ministers cannot tell the same story for five minutes on end, and it is most important that Ministers should try to say the same thing and thereby follow the example of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "w that the late Prime and the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary did not always get on. There was some apparent disagreement at one time, as a result of which the right hon. Gentleman had to resign and go back again to the back benches for a month or two to do penance, and until he had done penance, he could not come back. He says the bomber will not get through, but what did Mr. Baldwin say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Home Secretary did not always get on. There was some apparent disagreement at one time, as a result of which the right hon. Gentleman had to resign and go back again to the back benches for a month or two to do penance, and until he had done penance, he could not come back. He says the bomber will not get through, but what did Mr. Baldwin say? [An HON. MEMBER: \"What date?\"] On 10th November, 1932.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "precedent of war. As I listened to them, I wondered whether the idea was that the population of the East End of London should, when things looked bad in the international sphere, be taken away to South Wales; then, if the Foreign Secretary made one of his speeches and the international situation improved and the tension was relieved, they could take omnibuses back to the East End from South Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "and he told me that at the review next morning, when people were going through it and listening to the umpires decide who had been knocked out and who had not—and some were surprised to find themselves alive—three young ladies walked in. They had been marked as wounded, tied up and left by the side of a wall for somebody to pick up. But the persons who had been told to pick them up lost their way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedderburn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedderburn", "preceding_text": "ssibly approach a very large sum. If we were to make this concession, which the right hon. Gentleman says would satisfy the local authorities, what would be the result? It would have no effect whatever—certainly not in 99 cases out of rno. The only possible authority, which would be that one out of rno that conducted its affairs without regard whatever to economy and with the utmost reckless ness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-15", "file": "debates1937-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "9a83a1d3b4341a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": " Member has raised, the evidence tendered on my behalf to the Royal Commission on the Location of Industry. We discuss this to-night under the difficulties which arise from the fact that although a lot of people have talked, and great newspapers, to which the hon. Member referred, have written, about the evidence which has been tendered, I suppose that I am the only person who in fact has read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-15a.170.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.187.5", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "It is a detail which is not at present available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.188.6", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, certainly. By the time the appropriate occasion arises for distributing the money, no doubt this information will be available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.188.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " My right hon. Friend gave us a long account of the successive stages of the negotiations in the last few weeks. He began by offering to share the administrative services on the basis of 50–50. That, I should have thought, was a very fair offer. Still, after three or four separate concessions had been made, the position at this moment is that the Government are bearing at least nine-tenths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" They did !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": " same time, I do not think it was quite fair for the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Hackney (Mr. H. Morrison), when he spoke yesterday, to make out that local authorities have no share at all in the blame for the delay. Surely, even though the financial provisions have not been actually settled, they could have got on with their plans and schemes for which the Government had asked them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In an air raid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "that hon. Members have made a mistake in assuming that you have to evacuate the whole of the East End of London or that you have to evacuate nobody. I think only certain people will have to be evacuated. You cannot evacuate the whole of the people in the East End of London. Most of them will be there because they are doing important jobs, and they must remain. But others will have to be evacuated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they effective?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "rs can be worn by aged and infirm people without any discomfort and with no ill effects, and that, as a matter of fact, in the case of asthma there appears to be a positively curative result. Now I come to the question of gas-proof rooms. There has been a good deal of confusion with regard to gas-proof rooms. The recommendations of the Air-Raid Precautions Department are simple, and they are cheap", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.310.5", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "have the least conception of what the House has done just now, or of what this Committee is going to do in relation to this Money Resolution. I think the fact that we have reached a position in human affairs in which every so-called civilised Government in the world is taking the same steps that we are taking, really means international suicide, and I could not allow this Resolution to go without—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.310.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-16", "file": "debates1937-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0bdd4cd0bb43f9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE (JUVENILE CONTRIBUTORS AND YOUNG PERSONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Francis Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Acland", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I cannot support the Amendment. I know that in many of these juvenile employments wages are lower than they ought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-16a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.377.7", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Surely when the Clerks at the Table check up errors in questions that: are submitted to them, the same principle could be applied to this matter? As a Scottish Member I enter my protest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.377.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "preceding_text": "untry or we will shut down the whole of British civil aviation.\" I am as good a Conservative as any hon. Member behind me, but I cannot help wondering whether nationalisation of our internal air services and our external air services - would not be preferable to the present position, because as far as I know the whole of British aviation is rapidly coming under the control of two financial houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"The T.U.C.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "preceding_text": "possible, because we have a suspicion—a very good suspicion, I think—that the Guild of Air Pilots is in close connection with Imperial Airways. If we cannot amalgamate with the Guild—and I have very grave doubts whether that will be possible—there is only one alternative left to us, and it is to look around for another and bigger tree, a tree with different leaves, under which we can take shelter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "I think that is a very grudging admission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.458.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. and gallant Member sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "preceding_text": "ve enough dictatorships of various forms in the world without creating another. As I said before, the railways have suffered from restrictive legislation. The road transport industry at the moment is suffering from objections. Everyone seems to be able to come forward and object to a man getting a licence. What is going to happen in the event, so hoped for by the Opposition, of a decline in trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "preceding_text": "thout creating another. As I said before, the railways have suffered from restrictive legislation. The road transport industry at the moment is suffering from objections. Everyone seems to be able to come forward and object to a man getting a licence. What is going to happen in the event, so hoped for by the Opposition, of a decline in trade—[ Interruption ]—prophesied with such glee, shall I say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's face is so full of glee as a rule that I put that interpretation on it when he spoke. This sword of Damocles is hanging over the industry. It never knows when everything is to be swept away. When the decline of trade comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Isidore Salmon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Isidore Salmon", "preceding_text": "Take the London Transport Board, for instance. It has been suggested that that is an example of nationalisation, but I do not agree that it is nationalisation. I am perfectly prepared to face up to the position, and that is what we are doing in our Amendment. The London Passenger Transport Board is ran by men who know their job thoroughly and who are not responsible to anybody but to shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you vote for it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "e substantiated. I ask the hon. Member another question. If there is any lack of facilities, who is to blame? The right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Hackney is one of the persons to blame. The 1930 Act was an Act of restriction practically all the way through, and it was backed up by the 1933 Act. In both there was the same sort of disease—restriction, restriction, restriction all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did your party do? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Hackney is one of the persons to blame. The 1930 Act was an Act of restriction practically all the way through, and it was backed up by the 1933 Act. In both there was the same sort of disease—restriction, restriction, restriction all the time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you vote for it? \"] I did not. Hon. Members may, if they like, look up the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": " restriction all the time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you vote for it? \"] I did not. Hon. Members may, if they like, look up the OFFICIAL REPORT. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What did your party do? \"] I am not concerned; I am speaking for myself. The whole idea behind all this legislation—and the House knows it very well—has been to put the road transport industry into irons for the benefit of the railway companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Haslam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Haslam", "preceding_text": "ties. I watch his party very closely from the seat which I usually occupy, and when there is a Division if there are a dozen of them in the House four go in one lobby, four go in the other and four abstain from voting. We have heard a lot to-night about co-ordination and unification, and it is about time the Liberal party had some co-ordination. May I say a word about the subject under discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Haslam", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including bacon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Haslam", "preceding_text": "ple in my constituency saying how well consolidated were the railway directors in the House of Commons, and I invariably say that those who look after railway interests in the House of Commons are not always railway directors. After the exhibition we have had to-night, I shall be more emphatic than ever in pointing out that certain hon. Members allow their vested interests to rule their arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-17", "file": "debates1937-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "49931bb4a0e26be0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "TRANSPORT INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "he job and have something towards a 100 per cent. load factor, then it cannot be helped; but if it be the case that the railway can efficiently carry something near a 100 per cent, load then is it not the case that somebody somewhere will have to carry the fixed capital charges, fixed minimum maintenance and running charges, without the undertaking discharging its full effective economic capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-17a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-18", "file": "debates1937-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fb14a71b9501399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.547.8", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Of course I am not satisfied with these figures, but when the hon. Member asked another question, namely, what the figure was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.547.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-18", "file": "debates1937-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fb14a71b9501399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.566.5", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (BROADCASTING).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Three Lords.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that in a country where they have a real people's Government, namely, in New Zealand, they have already adopted this policy; and will he consider that, if we are living in a real state of democracy, the people of this country are dependent for news of the proceedings of this House upon newspapers owned and controlled by two Lords in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-18", "file": "debates1937-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fb14a71b9501399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.673.3", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "preceding_text": "place, when he dealt, I think for the first time in the Debate, with the subject of inshore fishermen. We have heard a great deal about the trawlermen; a number of Members seem to think that they should wear halos instead of sou'-westers; but, if you ask the inshore fishermen round our coasts what they think of the trawling industry, they would wish it in a place where halos are not normally worn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.673.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-18", "file": "debates1937-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6fb14a71b9501399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ttle consistent. She and her friends have always used the argument, \"Do not let the State interfere,\" but even the hon. Member for Penryn and Falmouth, who entertained us so much with his claims for the rights of private enterprise, has got so far as to say that he is not wholly in favour of laissez faire, that though he certainly would not agree to State control, perhaps there is a halfway house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-18a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": "ot strict enough to rope in some of those I should like to have seen roped in. However, there was a system of compulsion as regards military service, and to-day I have heard hon. Members talking about compulsion as regards insurance as though, because it has been adopted in one direction, it is bound to be adopted in another. That is not at all the case, and I do not follow that sort of reasoning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.785.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": "l referee. It is not so left in the county courts. Once in my ignorance I submitted to a learned county court judge that a case was being decided by the medical referee. He soon put me on the right lines. The medical referee never decides any case in any county court—I am speaking now of course of workmen's compensation. The final decision is with the judge and the medical referee does not decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": "Again the hon. Member has missed the gist of my remarks. I never used the word \"certificate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.790.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.790.8", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Leave him alone.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cassells", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.790.9", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"You are not worth it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": "I think I agree with the advice just given to hon. Members opposite by, I thing, the hon. Member who seconded the Motion and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.790.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the hon. Member has no intention of giving way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is only an instalment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": ", who seconded, on the moderation of their speeches. Indeed, I noticed that both of them referred somewhat pointedly to what they described as the modest character of their Bill. I can only think that they were making that point in contradistinction to the Bill referred to by the hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker), which has been brought forward by the party opposite on several previous occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-19", "file": "debates1937-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "1ed846615d36de7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "iations. The point arises, therefore, whether it is right to lay a statutory obligation for insurance, either with an insurance company or with a mutual indemnity association, upon employers with a view to safeguarding the benefit of the workmen without having also taken steps to make sure that the \"mutuals\" are in a similar position with regard to guarantee of solvency as the insurance companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-19a.808.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Whiskey.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "What is the liquid in which they grow the produce?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.840.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You did not win on that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "t of 1930 are retained, and there will be no diminution of protection to the parties as the machinery essentially will be capable of operating in cases where it is right and proper so to do. I pass to Part I of the Bill, which deals with the unification of coal mining royalties. This Part gives effect to a promise which was contained in the National Government's programme for the election of 1935.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "There will be, first of all, the total of the values of the individual holdings in the region, as valued by the regional board and, secondly, there will be the share of compensation which has been awarded by the central board to the regional board. Each individual holder will receive that proportion of his valuation which the total valuation of the region bears to the total allotted to the region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I have already described it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "to arrive at a global sum to be paid. Let me give this example: If to this particular region there has been allocated a sum of £10.000,000, and the regional valuation board, having valued every property inside the region and added up those valuations, arrive at the total of say, £12,000,000, each one of the individual holdings will receive the proportion which 10 bears to in, which is five-sixths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "us—\" and this Member of the Cabinet said to me, I have seen the mineowners for the first time to-day, and they are not fit to run small industries'. \"I think that that, coming from a man of great experience in affairs, was a judgment which has been justified subsequently. The mineowners are like the Bourbons; they never remember and they never forget, in great contradistinction to other employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "re that with the lot of the royalty owners and the mine-owners. The prospects of the mining community of this country, and especially under this Bill, are indeed bleak. Disregarded by Governments, the miners have become the forgotten soldiers of peace, as many maimed men to-day are the forgotten soldiers of the last Great War. Those are facts which cannot be denied. And that brings me to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": "they came to know of the conditions obtaining in regard to the royalty owners, the public felt that some injustice was being done to the miners, while they themselves were being imposed on. That applies also to industrial consumers who are dependent on coal for the necessary supplies for their industries, and also to the home consumer. At last this policy of nationalising coal is being undertaken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel The Marquess of Titchfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel The Marquess of Titchfield", "preceding_text": " the surface is worth, for some reason or other, and, when the Commission seek working facilities, I think the compensation should be paid, not on the actual rent charged, but on the true value of the land. That is all that I wish to say, except that I want to make a plea for a very excellent body of men, the mineral agents. Under this Bill the mineral agents are to get no compensation whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.995.6", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (OIL FROM COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman asks me to give directions that the representatives of one process should be heard, what is to prevent some other person in the House, or possibly outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.995.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-22", "file": "debates1937-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "4b090f4ea96f36aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (OIL FROM COAL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": " tittle of evidence to-night to justify any such suspicion. In these circumstances the committee being perfectly competent to conduct their own inquiry and being perfectly above suspicion also, there is no ground whatever for me to interfere with the inquiries of this committee, any more than any other Minister has interfered with the inquiries of committees set up with the approval of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-22a.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1014.5", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Yes. The account that I have given to the House states that the man was struck twice on the head by a baton. That would be compatible with his having two scalp wounds. The warder. was seriously injured and blood was pouring from his wounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1014.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So were slaves.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " to be adjusted, as far as the law can adjust them, by good social legislation and by just distribution of taxation, but they are not to be adjusted by doing injustice to the owners of private property. There are two or three things that we must realise in considering this subject. For instance, these properties have been the subject of purchase and sale, with or without the land, for generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ed, which is a very complicated one, and the time that it is bound to take. If hon. Members will refresh their memories from the Third Schedule, Part III, they will see what a very complicated machinery is necessary, in order that this may be carried out in the case of the 3,000 to 4,000 individuals involved. The method I may briefly explain and summarise. The country will be divided into regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " the Exchequer. Nationalisation is a phrase often used in many connections, but, at any rate, the idea of this scheme is not that the Treasury is going to get any benefit at all. If the scheme is a great success, it is not going to result in the Chancellor of the Exchequer announcing on Budget day that he has a windfall from the Coal Commission in the form of so many millions due to the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ion clearly. At the bottom of page 21 it says that as the Commission comes into funds they may use their surplus to reduce rents within their control. At the top of the next page the Bill describes the sort of order in which this ought to be done first in respect of underground wayleaves; second, rents payable by particular undertakings which are more than the average of the rents in the district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Seely", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Seely", "preceding_text": "id against them, one ought to have been ashamed to have been a royalty owner. I am a royalty owner, and I have also collieries which I own, which are being worked under royalties. Therefore, I do not propose to vote in the Division, but I would point out that all the arguments that are being used, and all the abuse that is being indulged in with regard to royalty owners, is not entirely justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are there no inefficient miners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rying to convince us that we ought not to return to conditions of unchecked competition. That is common ground in all parts of the House. Amalgamations, if they are desirable, would have occurred in the mining industry long ago if inefficient mine owners had not been able to unload the consequences of their inefficiency on their poor miner employés by reducing wages and prices indefinitely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When you earn it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "would remind him of the wages that we have at the present time. We have an average of 10s. 11.74d. per shift. Does the hon. Member seriously suggest that this legislation is being passed in order to assist the miners? We are a decoy; we pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the coalowners; and for that we get an average wage, including all colliery managers and all managerial staff, of £3 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": " the past, owing to his having to pay the average for the district and only receiving a sum which, invested at 3 per cent, or 4 per cent., will bring him in less than half of what he has to pay to the Coal Commission. Hon. Members may think that on that point the colliery owners are speaking for themselves, but that is not really so, for they are speaking as much for the workers in the coal trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Beaumont", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Beaumont", "preceding_text": "ost of the supporters of this Measure. I do not propose to go over the whole ground again. This is a nationalisation Measure; it is neither more nor less. As a lifelong opponent of nationalisation, who has resisted it in every election and on every platform, I feel bound to vote against the Bill, not, as I have already said, because I have any particular attraction towards the Socialist Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And make you dictator!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "n carrying the whole burden of exploitation. They have been patient under that burden, I believe, all too long. I hope that this new futility which is being produced by the National Government will help to convince them that the time has come for them to act, for them to give up their passive attitude and give the community the charge of their own industry, in the interests of their own standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": ", not so much in this House, though they were voiced towards the end of the Debate by the hon. and gallant Member for the Drake Division (Colonel Guest). But I dare say hon. Gentlemen have received this document from the Mining Association of Great Britain which I hold in my hand. I just want to deal with what they have o to say, because after all they are an important part of the mining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They all get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " this Bill compensation should be awarded, whereas in point of fact it does not occur in other cases? Would not that be the most fantastic inequality of treatment in that area? I can imagine a pit voluntarily amalgamating, and another group which had compulsorily to come into the provisions of this Bill. Some people would get compensation, and others would not. What is the difference between them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ts that are put before them. There have not been so very many complaints. It is said by some that that is because people have no confidence in them, but it seems to be very extraordinary, if you have a complaint, not to complain to the body which is authorised to deal with the problem. These committees have turned down, I believe, every single complaint that has been put before them excepting one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "t the beginning of the end on the direct road to nationalise coal or any other industry. I put it to them that that does not follow. Let them remember that in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Poland—take European countries alone—in all these countries the coal measures are under public control, but it has not led either to the nationalisation of the coal industry or to any other industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-23", "file": "debates1937-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "7cb52510c29636f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are a National Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "with which they had to deal before they could present the Bill to the House. Hon. Members on this side will, of course, wish to defeat the Labour Amendment. If there is to be a Division on the Second Reading, I would urge my Conservative friends to follow us whole-heartedly into the Lobby. They may not all like the Bill or all its provisions, but it is the boast of our party that as Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-23a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1216.2", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOLD COAST.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that there is no foundation for the statement that the Government are considering giving Germany a free hand in Austria and Czechoslovakia, in exchange for no demand for colonies for six years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "o other parts of the world. We are not pushing the farmer down; we want him to have a decent living; but we say that his best market for his produce is not at the other end of the world, but in the mining districts where we live, and we are the best customers when we have money to spend. As the hon. Member for St. Rollox says, when the worker gets money he does not spend it in the South of France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "r meal. And then we say, \"All's well in England,\" and we have some folk in this House telling us that the workingman's wife does not know how to spend her money on food values. Food values at 1d. a meal! It is disgraceful and an insult to the working women of this country. There is no waste as far as they are concerned in spending 5d. a day. I have here a Ministry of Health Report for 1932.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the hon. Member mean by luxuries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": "arges of family budgets for things other than food and fuel. Every shilling on the rates is a shilling off the table. Local authorities to my mind are spending more than they should in what are, comparatively speaking, luxuries, thus adding to the rates and reducing the amount of food that a family can buy. The increase of the rates is serious but there again the Government have no responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "movement has compelled the unwilling employer—frequently the unwilling Conservative employer—to give a less inadequate standard of wages than was the case before the trade union movement secured power and influence. The party opposite, with which the hon. Member is associated, has done its best, sometimes with brutality and frequently with cruelty, to oppose the growth of the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "h of these health foods, they would have to give cash allowances to the tune of£5,000,000. I do not believe we can do that at once. We all know that the hon. Member for the Combined Universities (Miss Rathbone) has talked in this House for years about family allowances, and we all know too that for many years past one of the great difficulties has been that the trade unions have been against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "hink the electorate will regard them as childish. In the financial year 1930–31, when the Labour Government were in power, 153 local education authorities provided free meals; now the number is 247. Under the Labour Government, 185,000 children were fed free; now it is 535,000. When the Labour Government were in power, 27,500,000 meals were provided; now over 100,000,000 meals are provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, they have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "e real answer to the charge of poverty. Wages are the vital matter; 1,500,000 more people are getting them now than under the Labour Government. The country knows that the tremendous rise in employment could not come without some rise in prices. What were the difficulties when the Labour Government were in office? No responsible man has ever put the whole blame for the slump upon the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "MALNUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "dren examined in Cheshire, one doctor found three sub-normal boys. In the same zoo children, another doctor found 90 sub-normal boys. What reliance can any Government place upon ex-parte statistics of that kind? But the plain inescapable fact, which no amount of statistics will get round, is that no man or woman in this building to-night can feed a child on 3s. per week. The thing is not possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1324.3", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with the Debate.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph McConnell", "preceding_text": "Have the local authorities no by-laws?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is easy!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "ce, they have to prove that when their particular plan, which for want of a better name I will call Socialism, comes into operation, there will he no gross inequalities under it. They have to prove that their Socialist state will so increase the national wealth that it will be able to pay for all the vast social improvements which they propose and many of which I agree are desirable in themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "w opposite, but to revert to what I was saying, all these photographs are of life under the Capitalist system, not Socialism. Now notice the cover of this publication, which says, \"What everybody wants.\" It then says: Regular work at fair wages. A decent pension in old age. Plenty of food at fair prices. A decent home at a fair rent. At the bottom it says: Labour will see that everybody gets them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1341.3", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Major Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Owen", "preceding_text": "ang of reactionaries, but it would be a catastrophe, in my view, if applied to our economic life as a whole. It is true that we could find better men to replace a \"dud\" Cabinet, but we have no reason to suppose that Whitehall could supply an army of officials capable of running all our trade and industry more efficiently and more effectively than the private business men who now have it in charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1353.3", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " world, wealthier than ever before, making record profits, which are still increasing, and the racketeers are buying and selling in the open market, making the very poor people lose the little they have got. Some of us could very well sit on those benches opposite. Some of us enjoy the prosperity of this system. Only one thing we would lose by going over to that side, and that is our self-respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "em. It is a most iniquitous system, but no more iniquitous than the capitalist system. It is an off-shoot of this very system. I tell the House what this woman living in a council house and starting on this capitalist system has done to-day. If only one person per day were enlisted into this investment scheme, this wretched, scandalous, fraudulent method which is learnt from the capitalist system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1357.3", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "s that have been made in the course of the Debate, there are some that I must introduce. If it is indeed true that the capitalist system has failed, why do we see the remarkable figures already quoted as to the drop in the standardised death rate from all causes per thousand living from 18.7 in 1885 to 9.2 in 1936? That is an enormous drop, and the drop in infant mortality is even more remarkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-24", "file": "debates1937-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "80470031365b7bff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ts of the State. There are other questions I want to ask which have never yet been answered by the Socialist party. There is the question of production and distribution. I see that under the plan these are to be in the hands of the State. Who is going to manage this production and distribution? Are the Government to manage it, is Parliament to manage it, or is it to be an uncontrolled bureaucracy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-24a.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-25", "file": "debates1937-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b93c6a4a49b89aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-25a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nine days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " population in the event of war it is our duty to do everything possible to provide such a situation as will minimise danger, suffering and death. In order to Understand the problem with which we are dealing we must have some idea of what is meant by modern war. In modern war the one thing that we can rely upon is military stalemate. It has been said that if war comes it will last about five days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-25a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-25", "file": "debates1937-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "b93c6a4a49b89aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-25a.1512.5", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " streets, whereas the organisation of air-raid precautions is based on an organisation of streets. While undoubtedly the strong personalities of the trade union movement would be suitable, as indeed would any other citizens who had the respect of their neighbours, I think it would be carrying the matter rather far if one depended upon the trades councils, which are organised on a functional basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-25a.1512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-26", "file": "debates1937-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ee1df0c403bb145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES (RATING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": " we wanted was a new register. What happens under the rating system if a man has more than two children? He wants more room and accommodation for his children. How do we encourage him, and give them more room to live in? What do we do under the rating system? When we find that his house is larger than the other man's house, we make his assessment larger, and the rating penalty goes up accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-26", "file": "debates1937-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ee1df0c403bb145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES (RATING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "ot all. I want to come to another point upon which nobody has yet touched, and that is with regard to the builder. The builder purchases the land, and, as hon. Members know, he does not build upon it at once. Very often three or four years elapse before he starts building. He deposits the title deeds of the vacant land with his banker in order to get the security for his building at a later stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-26", "file": "debates1937-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ee1df0c403bb145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES (RATING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "opic part of their development, namely, the early stages and these bear no relation to present-day realities. I repeat that if it be asserted that the land was robbed from the people, that assertion rests upon the assumption that Communism at one time existed in this country before the dawn of our history. That assertion is made without any evidence to substantiate it. I will come now to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-26", "file": "debates1937-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "7ee1df0c403bb145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1620.1", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND VALUES (RATING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "preceding_text": " the commons? A law was made to the effect that where land was held in common by villagers, a landowner, accompanied by two witnesses, could go to court and if he could prove that he was able to put it to better use, the land passed into private ownership. Under the operation of that law in 150 years no less than 7,669,000 acres of land in this country passed from common into individual ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-26a.1620.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": " 'the House or the public; he would be the last person to desire that; but before he goes on and leaves that subject I hope he will make it quite plain that no single State in Australia, so far as I can discover by researches, or in New Zealand, asks the particular kinds of questions to which my hon. Friends and myself object. In order to make my meaning clear I would say that we do not object to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "preceding_text": "land, there would have been no misunderstanding whatever. My main objection to this Bill is the fundamental one that it puts the wrong questions to the wrong people. What is the main question to which we are addressing ourselves? It is \"Why are there not more babies?\" To whom is this question going to be addressed? (A) To people who have just had a baby, and (B) to those who have just passed away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pilkington", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pilkington", "preceding_text": " countries which I have mentioned it is financially advantageous for a couple to get married; in this country alone is such a couple heavily penalised. The only section of the people in this country who are financially encouraged to have children are the unemployed on the dole, and it is at least open to question whether that section alone of the people should be encouraged to have large families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayday", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayday", "preceding_text": "e about them? What does Parliament care about them? What do the well-to-do care about them? Nothing, only so far as they can exploit them. There is joy in having a family if that family can be assured of possibilities, and not be handicapped from the very commencement. The housing problem to some extent is a deterrent. I know of many young couples who have to pay 15s. for rent out of wages of 45s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to take part in the discussion, but after hearing the speeches I am tempted to rush in. Angels rush in where fools fear to tread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1799.1", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your own?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " of experience of population I possess, without a doubt, the most unique possition of any Member of Parliament who has ever been in this House, right from 1268, when I believe Parliament first started. I do not believe that any Member has come through that door who has claimed Queen Anne's bounty from three Kings for three separate lots of triplets in three separate years for three separate wives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1809.3", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your own side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "If anything has proved the necessity for this Bill it is the mass of contradictory and inaccurate statements which we have heard from the opposite side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1819.1", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Up and up and up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "y for collection's sake. We have been told by those who are entitled to speak from the medical point of view, that when you have got these returns they will only be the starting point. The hon. Member for St. Albans said that you must not try to circumscribe the range of your inquiries and that this was merely the first ring made on the pool by throwing in the pebble. It would go on and on and on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1819.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": " rate, but we cannot come to any kind of conclusion until we have proper fertility statistics. There is the bare possibility of some pervasive, widespread physical factor militating against the birth rate, apart from all the considerations mentioned this afternoon of social customs and economic obstacles. That is what we want to find out, and that is what these statistics will help us to find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1826.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1830.0", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be sorry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "important but quite unexceptionable inquiry left out. It had relation to orphans and dependent children: It was not included, and under the provision of paragraph 3 we were able to include it, and I suggest that these are ample safeguards. I would ask my hon. Friend the Member for Dundee (Mr. Foot)—and I am very sorry that I should have to come out on this occasion against my old friend like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1832.12", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impersonal!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "teps in this Bill to preserve secrecy than under the Census Acts. A different procedure is adopted under this Bill from that at a census. There will he no question of a door-to-door visitation. All that a citizen will be required to do will be to give the details asked for to the registrar in private. These details will consist merely of impersonal material for the extraction of statistical facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1832.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "give him and the Ministry a direct negative to the suggestion that all the questions contained in this Bill are contained in any single Australian or New Zealand Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "he was asked by the registrar. If the Measure goes to the Statute Book, I shall have the responsibility of instructing the Registrar-General in these matters. I shall certainly instruct him that people who have to answer questions shall not be pressed, and that if they say \"We do not know\" or \"We have not the necessary information in our possession,\" that, of course, would be an acceptable answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "alia and New Zealand. I hope he will look to-morrow at what I said on this subject and at the information given him in regard to those countries. On examining this question, and the reply which my hon. Friend has given, as well as the references given to the Statutes concerned, I have not the slightest doubt that my hon. Friend and myself will be able mutually to satisfy one another in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-29", "file": "debates1937-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "c3e027a3fb0e563c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POPULATION (STATISTICS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "e. I would ask the Minister if it is not the case that the majority which passed and maintained the means test will pass anything that is offensive to the mass of the people. Has the Minister any experience of what working men and women have to go through when such investigations are made? The questions suggested here are similar to the class of questions that are asked by the means test officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-29a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1878.3", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is proposed to have a Debate on foreign affairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has not got one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "the glass by cellophane and by the hanging of a spare blanket—if one happens to have one—over the window, is it believed that the refuge room will be any good unless it is sandbagged? The Government themselves suggest that windows should be sandbagged. I am certain that the Under-Secretary would not put his wife and family in any refuge room in London which had not been sandbagged over the window.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "that was not a very dangerous district. All I can say is that a few nights afterwards a bomb fell in the gardens of the next street but one to where I was living and made a hole about the size of a taxi-cab. It blew the railings of the house right over the roof and they fell into the street on the other side. It was my duty to inquire into such things and I was there about half an hour afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "and a half gallons of water were used and less than 30 lbs. of sand, and I understand that in each case these young ladies were submitted to a medical examination—of course they were very carefully supervised by a man expert from the point of view of their safety—and this young lady went through the medical examination perfectly, and her main comment was that she enjoyed the experience enormously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1955.1", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " very carefully supervised by a man expert from the point of view of their safety—and this young lady went through the medical examination perfectly, and her main comment was that she enjoyed the experience enormously. [ Interruption .] It is quite wrong, if I may say so, for hon. Gentlemen to laugh at this matter. The truth of the matter is that in this country we have a very spirited population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1955.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "In view of the Under-Secretary's explanation, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1996.2", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Elliot)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Elliot)", "preceding_text": "ends money in pursuance of an approved scheme it will get the grant. If it spends money over and above that, it spends it out of its own pocket. The answer is very simple. There is no question of any conflicting explanation having been given; the explanations are perfectly consistent. The Under-Secretary explained one part of this Clause and the Solicitor-General explained a further portion of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.1996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2013.1", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. and learned Member was so anxious to discover some hidden snare in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2014.3", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Let me read again what my right hon. Friend said. It was that the Government would lay before Parliament proposals for compensation which would cover members of public air-raid precautionary services.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 29th July, 1937; col. 3296, Vol. 326.] etc., but that was in the event of war, and that stands. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State said most specifically, and I repeat it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2018.3", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Chairman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " Clause. We believe it can be done under the powers the Government have. If it cannot be done, I give an undertaking that we will come down to the House and get the power. Whether it can be done under these powers can only be resolved when the Act is on the Statute Book. I can only say that I have greater confidence in my advisers than in the advice of the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-11-30", "file": "debates1937-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bb4a3de508a7047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2040.1", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC WORKS LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "ere is an opportunity of receiving early repayment, we think it is often prudent to take that opportunity. The hon. Member referred on a previous occasion to a question, which I do not think he raised to-night, whether we were not rather free with our remissions of loans. As this is St. Andrews night, I could not do better than quote the Scottish proverb: Ye canna tak' the breeks off a Hielan'man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-11-30a.2040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2125.1", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The old story.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "ancially unsound. We should be careful not to give people hopes which would be dashed It would be disastrous if the scheme ever came into force, because the workers would pay from the age of 16 and probably before the time came for them to benefit not only would there be bankruptcy in the fund, but there would be bankruptcy in the country. I base that statement on what is contained in the booklet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2126.2", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has asked about the giving of subsidies; I consider that is far more sound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2129.1", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the firm is not bankrupt !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "The actual contribution by the firm is between 5s. and 6s, a week. Everyone, of whatever age, was brought in at once, so the contribution was very heavy. When the State pensions for husband and wife are taken into consideration, in many cases this would bring the total up to 55s. a week. It is not really too bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "lies. She was deeply concerned by the thought that if the whole of our scheme were carried out, and if we advanced, as it were, to a new frontier, there would be anomalies on that frontier. There will always be anomalies on any frontier. In social reforms one is always able to discover difficult cases, and that will be so until we reach a classless equalitarian society in a Socialist commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2173.1", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know them all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Chapman", "preceding_text": "Of course. We were there to get opinion. I will tell the hon. Member what opinions we had on the other side in a few moments. Hon. Gentlemen say opposite that they represent working-class constituencies, but there were working-class representatives in the witness box. There was a gentleman named Mr. Charles N. Gallie. Is he unknown to hon. Gentlemen opposite? I will give his qualifications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2174.1", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Chapman", "preceding_text": "e space below the Bar here bears to the rest of this House—wet for six months, but not to alter the conditions over the rest of the large area of Pollokshields. If they had gone for a vote, the previous vote might have been reversed, and Pollokshields might have gone wet for years to come. It was really out of consideration for the majority of the voters of Pollokshields that they did not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2189.3", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "uch, I think we are bound to offer the normal facilities for refreshments to our visitors. I remind the hon. Member that power was provided by the Temperance (Scotland) Act to grant all that is being asked of this House to-night, but the power was vested in the electors within the Pollokshields ward of Glasgow. By a Provisional Order to be passed, I believe mainly by English Members of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2196.3", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Every Provisional Order, let us say, obtained by the City of Glasgow—Orders for rating and valuation, Orders dealing with Burgh Police Acts and Local Government Acts—every single one of these to a greater or lesser extent overrides a public general Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-01", "file": "debates1937-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7efdb16b53f8b413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2196.3", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "f Glasgow—Orders for rating and valuation, Orders dealing with Burgh Police Acts and Local Government Acts—every single one of these to a greater or lesser extent overrides a public general Statute. [HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"] But these are the facts of the case. Every single Provisional Order which is promoted to some extent or other overrides a public general Statute, and that is why they are promoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-01a.2196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-02", "file": "debates1937-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a16395051c8c16ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2257.5", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has said he will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I have most excellent reasons for supposing that such questions have been put, and if I give him this information will he take steps to see", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-02", "file": "debates1937-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a16395051c8c16ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2289.3", "colnum": "2289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ernest Brown Centre.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "magnificent centre like that of Glasgow, which I was able to visit the other day, or that in the coalfields of Lanark, where at Burn-bank there are 500 boys and nearly 300 girls; or that in Liverpool, where there is a centre in which I take a particular interest because they did me the honour of calling it by my name. It is a most admirable centre and typical of the way in which this work is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-02", "file": "debates1937-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a16395051c8c16ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2300.0", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a Yorkshireman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It would be a Yorkshire-man who would make a jest of that kind about this great paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2300.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-02", "file": "debates1937-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "a16395051c8c16ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2396.2", "colnum": "2396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-02a.2396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2436.1", "colnum": "2436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not vote for the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine Hill", "preceding_text": "ally and properly realises that the man who is working all day with a machine has to be considered. Solely in relation to the physical effects upon himself. But workers in a hospital are working with people as their medium, and before we attempt to alleviate their lot we must arrange to do so in such a way as to produce the best possible effects on the subjects of their work, namely, the patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2441.1", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "preceding_text": "t in chaos. The hon. Member for Brightside (Mr. Marshall), who seconded the Motion for the Second Reading of the Bill, mentioned the shortage of recruits for the nursing profession. Does the right hon. Gentleman who moved the Second Reading or does his Seconder really think that if you pass this Bill, there will immediately be forthcoming a tremendous surge of recruits into the nursing profession?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2447.0", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": " as desirable in these days. As to the question of their arriving tired at the hospital in the morning, perhaps some Members do not realise that sometimes the homes for nurses are quite a distance from the hospital, and to that extent they do live out, hut when it is said they would have to get up at home and \"scramble their ham,\" I think the hon. Member said—I suppose he meant their ham and eggs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2451.1", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "e the Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) should consider that it would be sufficient to pass the Bill, recognising that the obvious result would be that municipalities everywhere would be bound promptly to increase their staffs and to take nurses away from the voluntary hospitals throughout the country, including the cottage hospitals and so on, which would go absolutely phut and be spoilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2451.1", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "x County Council. I understand that some of their institutions have gone far in this direction, and have had no difficulty in recruiting their hospitals. That does not affect the general situation. If one authority among so many gives these advantages, which we are all so keen on getting if possible for the whole nursing profession, that draws in recruits from all the rest of the nursing services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2454.1", "colnum": "2454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "o a hospital, I did the same thing, as did many others with me. So intense is the responsibility and the interest of this medical life in hospitals that you concentrate entirely, and shut out the outside world. It is a finer life for those taking part in it, whether doctors or nurses, and an infinitely finer service for the patients. But under this Bill all that is to be left to look after itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2466.0", "colnum": "2466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "I think it stands to reason that if a Government Departmental Committee makes an inquiry legislation will follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2470.1", "colnum": "2470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "preceding_text": "ury). I have not consulted those who are responsible for the Bill, but I suggest that, on the terms that the Bill receives a Second Reading to-day, they should agree to postponing its operations until 1939 or 1940 or even 1941. That is a Committee point. If the promotors of the Bill agree that it should not be put into effect until a date such as 1940, will hon. Members opposite vote for the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-03", "file": "debates1937-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "9dcc07a606c0be23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2471.1", "colnum": "2471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH HOSPITALS AND INSTI TUTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Write more plainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "Owing to a mistake on the part of the Clerks at the Table my name appeared attached to the Amendment which has been moved from this side of the House. All hon. Members will agree with me that it is very seldom that our friends the Clerks at the Table make a mistake but on this particular occasion I put in an Amendment in relation to another Bill, and by mistake it was transferred to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-03a.2471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": ". How are they to share in those proceeds, as long as there are private undertakings responsible for coal treatment and no power vested in national hands? When we speak of efficiency we are concerned not only with production and distribution, but with adequate means of livelihood for the men engaged in the industry. Therefore, while we are not arguing for nationalisation as someone seems to think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.91.11", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) should make his speech now and that the Minister should reply immediately. We have been discussing this Amendment for almost three hours, and we have all made up our minds about it. I want to get on with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.91.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We do not mind.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": "If I were to do so, it would take me so long to go through the various mis-statements which have been made by hon. Members opposite, that I am afraid we should have to sit until after 11 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "We have had a long Debate on this Amendment and perhaps the Committee is almost ready now to come to a decision upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.131.5", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "s uneconomic to employ that particular number of persons in an area, and the Commission has to employ redundant people, it has to do that particular work in an uneconomic way, and therefore the whole argument means—dces it not?—that the result would be that the Commission would keep the pits open, but inefficiently, that the form of control under the Coal Commission would mean inefficient working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.131.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.136.4", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " work it myself.\" That is an essential part of the value of any freehold which exists in any kind of property. Here we are forcing the Commission to pay the full value on the basis that the owner can use his own property, because that is the basis upon which royalties were bought in the years preceding the fixation of the sum, and in spite of the consultation with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.136.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Unfound minerals are being purchased, but, like other unfound things they have no value. They are being purchased when they have no value, like a good many other articles which are purchased from time to time. Why is this decrease in value being forced on the Commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "n that we should regard the difference between what hon. Gentlemen opposite consider is uneconomic and what we on this side call uneconomic. I asked the hon. and gallant Member for Yeovil (Sir G. Davies) when he was speaking what he meant by uneconomic, and he said he did not want to explain. I do not know whether that was because he could not or because he did not wish to, but he did not explain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"They can acquire the land.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " even power to enter on the land where they are to bore. They can search for coal, but they must not go on to anybody's land to search for it; they can bore for coal, but they must not go through the surface on anybody's land to make the boring. I do not think there is any such power. The hon. and gallant Gentleman may say that there is, and I may be wrong, but that is not the point at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "We are now having developed in the Committee a new technique, and as a person who is willing to adapt himself to any circumstances, my only comment upon it is that it is a little surprising that the Opposition should think it necessary on this Amendment to put up two Front Bench speakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ase. If the hon. and learned Gentleman obtains his way and the Amendment before the Committee is passed, and this Commission has a very much larger staff than otherwise would be the case, when he assumes the position of dictatorial power to which he looks forward, and he finds that some pit is not as economic as it ought to be, he may shoot nine mine workers. To come back to the more serious part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "d Member sailed off into a little cheap stuff about subsidies to tramp ship-owners and subsidies to farmers, which had no relevance at all to my interruption. Money is cheap to-day, not through the efforts of the hon. and learned Member and his associates but through the efforts of hon. and right hon. Members on this side of the House. Hon. Members opposite left us with a Bank Rate of 6 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Member wants to talk the Bill out if he can", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " no means an advantage. It does not follow that if you have complete unification in private hands you have achieved anything very great for the workers in the industry. If workers get into trouble at one pit, it means that they are debarred from working in the other three pits. It is clear that if you are to remedy that state of affairs and the tyranny that inevitably comes from private ownership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "at for the workers in the industry. If workers get into trouble at one pit, it means that they are debarred from working in the other three pits. It is clear that if you are to remedy that state of affairs and the tyranny that inevitably comes from private ownership—[ Interruption. ] There is no comparison between what is possible under private ownership and what is possible under nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.163.7", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AIR.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": " \"an issue which the Prime Minister ought to face firmly.\" The Prime Minister may return me one of his aloof, monosyllabic, faintly discourteous replies. He will make a great mistake if he does so. The Prime Minister gave way over the National Defence Contribution, he gave way over the Civil Aviation Convention, and in the long run he will have to give way over this. Public opinion is against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.163.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-06", "file": "debates1937-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "1cfd356f5746bd0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.167.5", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AIR.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " restriction on the opportunities of a Prime Minister, who had to form a Cabinet, to insist that he should find always Members of this House to represent particular Ministries. I listened very attentively to the hon. and gallant Gentleman and I was unable to find that he had made out any case for selecting this particular Ministry, rather than other Ministries, for the purpose of his observations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-06a.167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-07", "file": "debates1937-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0df6176843186279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-07a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "y a central authority there will be complete confusion. Therefore, the Government have taken the only possible course open to them, and I believe that this evacuation can be carried out only with the assistance of local authorities and with the assistance of the Government. No doubt, under D.O.R.A. or some such regulation, all transportation will have to be very strictly nationalised and operated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-07a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-07", "file": "debates1937-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "0df6176843186279", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-07a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It says 'may'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "or promoting the welfare of blind persons. That duty is specifically imposed upon them. The word \"may\" is used only as a sort of sign post as to what exactly the council shall do in pursuance of the duty which is imposed upon them. It is not an exhaustive definition, but has simply been inserted in order to put beyond doubt the fact that the arrangements which the councils must make shall include—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-07a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-08", "file": "debates1937-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3066a2ce90db983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-08", "file": "debates1937-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3066a2ce90db983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ening their control over industry. The change of plan about the White Waltham factory conceded the essential point that the siting of industry is a matter of national interest. The fact is that we are up against the profit motive. Conservative Governments just hate to stand up against that motive, although I believe there are many enlightened younger Members on the other side of the House who see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-08", "file": "debates1937-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3066a2ce90db983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.413.2", "colnum": "413", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": " General Goering that he must go where he could make most profit and not where the General wanted him to go. National defence is the first consideration in Germany, and should be the first consideration here also where location of industry is concerned. I see there is an Amendment on the Paper in the name of the hon. Member for Huddersfield (Mr. Mabane). It is a typical National Liberal Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-08", "file": "debates1937-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3066a2ce90db983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "t the hon. and gallant Member who moved this Motion desires to say that business men shall not venture their capital here, but there. The proper, and quite obvious, reply to any such dictation is to ask what guarantees will be given if in consequence the venture ends in failure? If you give guarantees you must take some control of the industry, and control is the short step to socialised industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-08", "file": "debates1937-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3066a2ce90db983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peat", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peat", "preceding_text": "ot has yet to be done. The whole question of the location of industry can be divided into three main objects, (1) the rehabilitation of Special Areas, (2) the strategic position of this country, and (3), the efficiency of industry nationally. The House knows the strides that have been made in the last year by the National Government in attempting to get industries established in the Special Areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-08", "file": "debates1937-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3066a2ce90db983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peat", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peat", "preceding_text": "e rehabilitation of Special Areas, (2) the strategic position of this country, and (3), the efficiency of industry nationally. The House knows the strides that have been made in the last year by the National Government in attempting to get industries established in the Special Areas. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"] It has happened in two of the main Special Areas—South Wales and the North-Eastern area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-08", "file": "debates1937-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f3066a2ce90db983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " to him, so that I cannot understand why he has voted for so many agricultural Measures as he has done. In this country a man may not sell milk below a certain price; he is compelled to sell it at a certain price. I am not arguing against that, but simply arguing the principle of compulsion. A farmer may not put down another field of potatoes; you may not put any more hops down—or whatever you do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-08a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.565.4", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (VISIT OF THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "—In raising a question of the honour of a Member of this House in his absence, I should like to ask him whether his answer postponing a reply to the hon. Gentleman really implies any reflection upon my right hon. Friend or suggests that there is a charge which he has to meet; and may I ask further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.565.4", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (VISIT OF THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " House in his absence, I should like to ask him whether his answer postponing a reply to the hon. Gentleman really implies any reflection upon my right hon. Friend or suggests that there is a charge which he has to meet; and may I ask further—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"]—whether he is aware that my right hon. Friend has most emphatically repudiated—because I spoke to him on the telephone this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.565.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "In view of the reassuring explanation of the Secretary for Mines, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "o but where subsidence still goes on. I know of working-class houses in my own constituency which have sunk, and there is one historic place in the neighbourhood, Moseley Old Hall, where Charles II was once in hiding after the Battle of Worcester, where subsidence has taken place. Further, and this is of much more importance, a Liberal Club at Portobello in my constituency is in danger of sinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord Apsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Apsley", "preceding_text": "h one of the difficulties which are bound to crop up under this Bill. This is one of the problems connected with nationalisation, and I am very glad that hon. Members opposite are beginning to find out how difficult these matters are. I hope they will press the question of who is to be made responsible for subsidences. At the present moment any subsidence is well covered by the terms of the lease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. J. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the land.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. J. Williams", "preceding_text": "used by subsidence. Someone really ought to pay compensation when it is obvious that, as a result of the working of minerals under property, that property is damaged. This Debate indicates clearly that it is not sufficient to nationalise royalties, and that we ought to nationalise the mines as well, for in that way, of course, we can certainly solve the problems that are confronting the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that they say that the present methods of coal-mining about which I know something technically, result in certain possibly dangerous situations to which they have referred, but nobody has yet told the Committee during this Debate what is the economic difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is under a misconception. The whole of the valuation will be completed before the Commission ever begins to serve. The only point that I am making is that it is the right of anybody who thinks that his coal has a value to claim under the machinery, and if he can satisfy the Valuation Board that it has a value he receives compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.699.5", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lord Apsley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Apsley", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to coal but to hematite ore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.699.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "preceding_text": "to pinch either from the one side or the other. All I say is that this narrow point involves a difference of £5,000,000 and whether that sum goes into the pockets of the royalty owners or the Coal Commission. It is quite a usual practice, a matter of every-day business when property is passing or businesses are being sold and especially where, as in this case, the price has already been agreed to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, fixed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "preceding_text": "nto the pockets of the royalty owners or the Coal Commission. It is quite a usual practice, a matter of every-day business when property is passing or businesses are being sold and especially where, as in this case, the price has already been agreed to. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The total price for the purchase of the whole of the royalties is set down in the Bill and the price has been agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-09", "file": "debates1937-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "6657ec60c9f14378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.709.2", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of Titchfield", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of Titchfield", "preceding_text": "ervene. I take it that he does not. I quite agree with my right hon. Friend that we must have some sort of finality with regard to these valuations. He is embarking on a new venture, and many unforeseen circumstances may arise. These valuations, I think, will take a good deal more time than my right hon. Friend thinks, or, indeed, than hon. Members opposite think. There is one estate that I know.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-09a.709.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-10", "file": "debates1937-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "1da954873202ca1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-10a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIRE-PURCHASE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "s lost. Over 500 wireless sets were taken back in one week in a provincial city, and the average payments made on these wireless sets before seizure represented over 25 per cent. of their value. One trader confided to another that he had taken a set back no fewer than seven times and had sold it for the eighth time at the original price, and he said that he had got his money back three times over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-10a.739.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-13", "file": "debates1937-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "02a702cf8cd8a02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.793.6", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "7th May?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman say whether any special milk was supplied to the British Broadcasting Corporation on 8th May?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.793.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-13", "file": "debates1937-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "02a702cf8cd8a02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.803.9", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And no rates and taxes.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "Is it the case that all the gas and electricity for the cooking and refrigerating plants is supplied free?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.803.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-13", "file": "debates1937-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "02a702cf8cd8a02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is that? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "erty uniformly is very remote. I think also it would be a pity if any Amendment were made in the Bill which would make it impossible for new leases to be entered into in the intervening period. I know of cases where leases are now in negotiation in the ordinary course for the starting up of collieries in the Special Areas and it would be a pity if it were made impossible to enter into such leases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-13", "file": "debates1937-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "02a702cf8cd8a02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "xpress it in the House, where we can all hear it and can answer it. There are two quite separate points. His attack really is upon the principle of property, and about that I will say something in a moment. I do not think that, admitting the principle and practice of property as it is established by law in this country, he would assert that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are bad property owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-13a.889.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.979.10", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that that statement is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.979.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or on no one at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, because I said that, generally speaking, the law is now that the damage falls either upon the worker of the coal or the owner of the coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ng in resolutions asking for this matter to be dealt with, they would probably be prepared to consider our plea with regard to compensation. My hon. Friend has been proved right, and I have been proved wrong. It is obvious that the Government and their supporters have no sympathy with suffering caused as the result of mining subsidence. The Amendment was drawn up by competent Members of our party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "the power to acquire royalties. I have listened to hon. Members here make appeals for getting rid of the royalties. Here is a Measure that is going to get rid of the royalties. For generations the miners, and the working classes generally supporting them, have been trying to get rid of royalties, but we have never got any support from hon. Members opposite. Certainly they are now going to help us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have no capital sum given to them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "ished altogether as a principle in their separate undertakings, and they regarded all the net surplus of the undertakings as available as dividends for the colliery shareholders alone, how would it affect the other collieries in this country? South Wales pays already an average of about 8d. per ton for royalties. They would then have to compete with collieries that have no royalties to pay at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": " book entry. The other objection that has been put forward by hon. Members opposite is that in some mysterious way the coalowner is going to get a tremendous profit out of it. I do not know how they can square that with their previous utterances on the Bill. They have announced long, loudly, and with almost wearisome reiteration that the sum proposed as compensation for royalties is far too large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1100.5", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "preceding_text": "There may be structures underground with which it would not be wise to interfere. What structures can there be underground with which it would not be wise to interfere? I and my miner Friends have no idea what structures there can be. The Commission is given power to deal with coal for coal-mining purposes. What else can there be underground?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1102.3", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To hell itself!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "re workable. The Commission get a right in the coal under the Clause which we have passed. For the proper working of the coal, quite apart from what they have to do on the surface, they may have to go through adjacent underground land which is not in itself coal. That you cannot do unless you have power to do it, because in our system of law, ownership in land goes down to the centre of the earth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-14", "file": "debates1937-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c46e2185b0d94be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "This seems to be the first example of the efforts of the hon. and learned Gentleman to rule us by dictation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-14a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "COMPANIES ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shark.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "preceding_text": "hes. There has been general commendation from all parts of the House of the Motion of my hon. Friend and of the speech with which he proposed it. I think it was the great Barnum who said that there was a Sucker born every minute. The Motion is not before its time. The hon. Gentleman who spoke from the Liberal benches a few minutes ago said that nothing could save the born gull from the born crook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "COMPANIES ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "preceding_text": "e Times.\" They stick at no title. And what a rogues' gallery! I can trace 100 of them who entered this country with Canadian or American passports in two years. They get in for three months, they stay here for 2½ months, they take an aeroplane to Paris for a holiday, come back in another fortnight, and proceed for another three months to operate on British soil. Well, we had Shapiro.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "COMPANIES ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "y other matter which we know is not just right, it is very often difficult to get any measure of agreement as to how it should be put right. Therefore, I support strongly the attitude of my right hon. and gallant Friend that before we attempt to amend the Companies Acts we should have a full inquiry and consider what are the proper amendments to make, otherwise we shall be simply wasting our time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "COMPANIES ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "rolling every sort and kind of activity, from public utility companies down to privately run companies. The hon. Member who moved the Motion never explained it, but the right hon. Member opposite did, and what he is asking the House to vote for is one huge Government holding company, with a Government guarantee. Thus if anything went wrong it would form a charge on the taxpayers. That is the idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weir", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ramsay MacDonald is dead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weir", "preceding_text": "a book to prove it. He cannot do it without criticising some well-known figures, and he will find before long that he has set out on a very difficult and perilous adventure. He will find that the Official Secrets Acts will be cited against him, that the law of libel will be used against him in every possible way. He will be threatened, he will be blackmailed, and his publisher will be intimidated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "ry different in practice from what it is in theory. If we study the most recent works on the subject of what the next Labour Government will do, one thing, at any rate, we understand, and that is that the Socialist party have a very different conception of Parliament from what we have to-day. We hear of enabling Acts which would give the Executive powers which would have shocked the early Stuarts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1259.4", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "nomic matters, you have to interfere with every other as well. We have seen these plans put into practice in various countries, and these results have always followed. Either the plan breaks down altogether, or they plan entirely wrong, and you find an immense shortage of the commodities which the people most desire. If you stop the exchange of goods, you will very soon stop the exchange of ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1259.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "f the Leader of the Opposition addressing Spanish soldiery with fixed bayonets, no doubt explaining to them how great are the liberties in this country. I have been in political life for 30 years. I have spoken as much in London constituencies as any man in this House during that time. In the East, in parts of the North, and in South London I have very rarely seen fair treatment given to speakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "CIVIL AND POLITICAL LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not everybody.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "ictions. It used to be said, and I think Lord Hewart laid down this contention, that the task of the Executive was to govern the country and that the task of Parliament was to make laws, but as a matter of fact what happens is that the Executive does both. It governs the country and makes the laws. It simply presents to Parliament its decision, and everyone has to troop into the Lobby behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1297.10", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOR LAW (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "I am glad my hon. and gallant Friend has raised this question so that I can deal with it, because I know that everybody wishes to safeguard the interests of the ex-service men. The position is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1297.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-15", "file": "debates1937-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "bea7c092851aa5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1298.12", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPECIAL CONSTABLE, HARTLEPOOL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benjamin Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benjamin Smith", "preceding_text": "n action of duress forced upon an individual who values his freedom as much as any Member of this House or any being in this country, to do a thing which you cannot force upon the Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, or Fire Brigade, all of which are voluntary organisations Yet this man has been compelled to serve for a year. We argue that it is because of the political colour of the Hartlepool Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-15a.1298.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1312.2", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I could not answer that question without making a much longer draft on the time of the House than I feel justified in making, but I shall be very glad to print a statement of the arrangement in the OFFICIAL REPORT if hon. Members desire it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tyne-side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": " is the case. But the Commissioner admits that all is not well with the areas. For that concession we are truly thankful. There are still many spots which have hardly been touched by the returning tide of prosperity but hope has returned. I should like to know where. It is not in the Rhondda Valley. I do not know where the hope is unless it be in the mind and the heart of the Commissioner himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "em is now much narrower in scope than it was in 1934. That is not to say that much more does not remain to be done. The areas now have within them three types of communities. There are in the Special Areas communities which have attained a higher level of prosperity. There are some townships in Special Areas whose unemployment figures are lower than the average unemployment figures of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some are higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ember for Aberdare (Mr. G. Hall) knows me well enough to know that I would not mislead the House on this issue or indeed on any other issue. But the fact remains that there is quite a number of areas now and townships in the Special Areas which are rejoicing in a higher level of employment, and where the unemployment figures are below the general average of the unemployment figures of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "eduction, as compared with a year ago, in West Cumberland is 3,324, and in Durham and Tyneside 30,442. And I would add that contrary to popular impression the general improvement for Durham has been slightly more than that for Tyneside, and it is not the case that Tyneside has improved more than Durham, as I have found popularly supposed. In South Wales the figure is 42,552, and in Scotland 9,709.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "At the moment there are 1,255 employed in development and construction and 725 employed in the factories in the Team Valley Estate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "cts will follow. Take Treforest. The latest report is that three factories have been built and occupied, 13 ordered or in construction, and 736 people employed in development and construction, and, in the three factories which are occupied, 64 persons are now employed. As to Hillington, the Secretary of State for Scotland will no doubt deal in his speech with the progress that has been made there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "And no one can see why he should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Anderson", "preceding_text": "loyment of direct labour. I find that an unusual term is being used in the Commissioner's endeavours to introduce industrialists into the area. When you go to the Commissioner's department for a factory they say: \"We cannot put up a factory for you unless it is a standard factory.\" I never heard the term\" standard factory \"mentioned in this House at any time when this question was being discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1438.1", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "by the Tyneside Council of Social Service, that the statutory social services should be examined. I am a Northcountry woman, and it seems to me sometimes, with regard to voluntary services, that if anything happens to you in London you can always get assistance. If you want to get assistance for medical appliances, or to get your teeth looked after, or anything like that, you can get it in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ing, \"We are doing one thing here and a little bit there. We have got the Team Valley Estate, and we have something else at another place.\" He really took on a bigger burden than he can possibly carry, and I thought showed a certain lack of proportion. The right hon. Gentleman made a great feature of the amount of money being spent. He added it up and brought it to £13,500,000, a considerable sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Very well, the hon. and gallant Member is able to deceive himself in three ways. The Chief Whip says that he is now trying to rebamboozle himself. I have had some experience of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "e to this area when there is an offence to the eye, the nose and the ear. Surely we all know that the Clyde was a standing scandal, and a thing which no one could regard without aversion, and for the first time we are going to have the Clyde cleaned up. I am reminded of the words of Disraeli that a policy of sewerage is certainly not a policy upon which the Conservative party should turn its back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "e cleaned up. I am reminded of the words of Disraeli that a policy of sewerage is certainly not a policy upon which the Conservative party should turn its back. [ Interruption .] I am trying to point out that it is by such things as this that we are trying to bring about what we all desire in the distressed areas. I notice the hon. Member for Jarrow (Miss Wilkinson) sitting there, very respectful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Milk Bill which will shortly be laid before the House. The hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring (Mr. Stewart) came back to the question of Durham and asked whether it would be possible to bring men back to the land. If and when the hon. Member and his friends are willing to extend to the producer on the land the same reasonable remuneration that they claim so consistently for the worker underground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "SPECIAL AREAS AND UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "re to make sure that in the second industrial revolution, the worst of these evils are got rid of. They can be got rid of in time, but nobody can get rid of evils entirely and all at once. The hon. Member for Shettleston (Mr. McGovern), in a most eloquent speech, only last night referred to the evils which arise from proletariat dictatorships as well as other dictatorships of one kind and another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1486.0", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONER, BARLINNIE GAOL, GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "On this we are asked to hold an inquiry. He must be aware that under those conditions, with the man inside, according to his own story at the far end of his cell, and with people in the doorway, it would be quite impossible for him to see anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-16", "file": "debates1937-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "1d69530825a9314c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1486.6", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRISONER, BARLINNIE GAOL, GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ion. He was thereafter transferred to the asylum. I have had reports recently, the last of which was from a Deputy Commissioner of the General Board of Control on the 9th instant. He says: From all the evidence at my disposal, I am of opinion the patient is still convalescent from maniacal excitement amounting to certifiable insanity. Surely, that disposes of the statement made by the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-16a.1486.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": "gistered within two years\". It is no argument to say to a man, \"You ought to be registered because midwives and people who sell firearms are registered.\" Why should architects be compelled to be registered? This Bill is an attempt to compel a man to do something. At present it is optional, if this Bill be passed it will be obligatory. Barristers, solicitors and accountants do not have to register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": " \"You ought to be registered because midwives and people who sell firearms are registered.\" Why should architects be compelled to be registered? This Bill is an attempt to compel a man to do something. At present it is optional, if this Bill be passed it will be obligatory. Barristers, solicitors and accountants do not have to register. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Doctors do not have to register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1521.1", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "there— be entitled to be registered under the principal Act, if the Council are satisfied on a report of the Admission Committee that his application for registration was made within two years after the commencement of this Act and that at the commencement of this Act he was, or had been, practising as an architect in the United Kingdom. That is the part that is operative, and nothing can undo it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1523.5", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "Of course, we are protesting against incompetents coming in, but my point is this: If we, or my hon. Friend's organisation, came to this House and asked the House to give us legal power to extract fees for registration, does he suggest that the House would give us that power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1523.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "tset of my remarks that we are all agreed that there must be some qualification, but the danger is, and I think the hon. Member is inclined to forget it, that this Bill proposes as the next step to make a monopoly of the word \"architect\" and shuts out everybody who does not possess that qualification. In seeking to do that, the Bill is tending to lower the whole standard of architectural practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "It is a surprise to me to find the spokesman of the Liberal party supporting a Bill which, in its final application, will mean restriction of the liberty of the subject and will prevent men telling the truth. On whatever else we may agree or disagree, I think it is well recognised that architecture is a creative art. In other words, the archi- tect is born rather than made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"The next step\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "ered or unregistered, are to blame for the ugliness of which we have heard. They are very largely to be exonerated, and as far as buildings not designed by architects are concerned, this Bill will have no effect. It does not provide that a building can be designed only by an architect. It gives no power to local authorities to refuse to pass plans which have not been drawn by qualified architects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-17", "file": "debates1937-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "69d271303a5aee7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": " designing, and I am certain that if a vote could be taken of the Members of the R.I.B.A. they would be found to be absolutely ashamed of the developments of modem middle-class house architecture in this country to-day. An hon. Member remarks that the houses were not built by architects. We want to make sure that the gentlemen who build them have had the education which fits them to be architects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-17a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1637.5", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "f technical financial details, but the interest on£75,000,000 at 3½ per cent. is£2,625,000 a year, and something over and above that has to be provided for sinking fund. If the sinking fund period is 30 years, there will be no surplus whatever. If it is 60 years, there will be a surplus of about£1,000,000 a year. That surplus has, first of all, to be devoted to the building up of a reserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1640.1", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Since 1921.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " getting£3 a week each, that would be£6 for two inspectors, or£36 for six weeks, and that requires to be done three times a year. If a pit is to be thoroughly inspected by workmen's inspectors, it requires to be inspected at least three times a year. What came out at the Gresford inquiry? It came out that that pit had not been inspected by the workmen's inspectors for, I think it was, three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1644.3", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members seem to be divided on that side, but in this House we have come to look on the hon. Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peake) as the official spokesman of that poor, downtrodden body, the mineowners. When he speaks, he speaks not only for North Leeds, but for the mineowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1659.0", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths), in a very able speech, referred to modern developments, I would point out that at present the greater part of the cost of research is borne by the Miners' Welfare Fund, although the Secretary for Mines has power to make, and already makes, contributions for the purpose of research. Under this scheme, nothing could be available for at least five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1695.3", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O. Evans", "preceding_text": "e Exchequer says, and I am going to read further than I did before because it refers to the hon. Gentleman the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths): At the top of the next page the Bill describes the sort of order in which this ought to be done first in respect of underground wayleaves; second, rents payable by particular undertakings which are more than the average of the rents in the district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Financial Secretary to the Treasury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "he assistance of the Attorney-General, and there is not even a Parliamentary Private Secretary available to run between the Minister and the Box. It is not treating the Committee with proper respect that on a Clause like this, where issues have been raised mainly by hon. Members on the Government side, we shall find the Government represented by a minister who is not in the Cabinet, and two Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1707.5", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the Commission? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the wording proposed by my hon. and gallant Friend would result in placing more of a burden on the colliery owner than our wording does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1707.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "eries in the county from which I come which are not paying the same amount in royalties as the others. Nobody knows that better than the hon. Member for North Leeds (Mr. Peake), who has all this business at his fingers' tips. This paragraph suggests a colliery company coming cap in hand to get the royalty reduced, but does not say they will be asked, \"Look here, what banking account have you got?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "alties Income Tax is levied on£4,500,000. When this scheme goes through. Income Tax in respect of those royalties in future is to be levied on£7,000,000. We have only got to conduct a sufficient number of transfers so that every penny counts 2d., and we can raise all the revenue we like in this ingenious way. The real income which arises is£4,500,000. Are we going to have assessments on£7,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-20", "file": "debates1937-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "3079d98cac92d104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1742.9", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the Noble Lord.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "rned such coal or mine may not be worked without his consent or any person claiming under such last-mentioned person, I wish that my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Spens), in whose name this Amendment stands, had been here, because it deals with a legal problem of very considerable complexity, and I do not suggest that I have fully mastered all the complexities of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-20a.1742.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1759.8", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": "d frame it a little more carefully? In view of the fact that a week in Russia is calculated on a six-day week, whereas it is calculated in this country on a week of seven days, will the hon. and gallant Member take steps to ensure that the British position, which is calculated on a Sunday basis and gives the worker 1½ days' rest for his 40-hour week, whereas the International Labour Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1759.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ind a world very little in accord with the peaceful traditions of the season. We have war raging in Spain and in the Far East. There are grave incidents and grave controversies. Since we last discussed foreign affairs there have been a good many happenings. There have been important conversations. There have been the Hitler-Halifax conversations. There has been a series of visits to the Continent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "tatement of Government policy. I hope that the Prime Minister will be able to give the people of this country some hope. I believe that there is a need for a general review of the situation. I notice that one of the Government papers even wanted to make the Prime Minister's speech for him. That is quite unnecessary. A leading article in the \"Times\" sets out that there is no real need for a Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "that there is another and a better method, that the method of force will not succeed, that we do not intend to yield to the method of force, but that their aims can be secured by a peaceful co-operation of all the great States of the world. I believe that to-day the dictators are sitting less easily in the saddle than they were. There is a good deal of discontent in Italy, in Germany and in Japan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " did not paint a very optimistic picture of the situation of the world. He pointed out that there were present to-day in the situation all the elements which might conduce to another war. If we are to take his view that British commercial interests can only be protected by us if we protect all the interests of the world, and if we are to constitute ourselves in that way the policeman of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1811.2", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"What about others?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That seems to me to be only a repetition of the view that it is the duty of this country to protect interests all over the world, quite apart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1811.3", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, in company with others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": " be done would be for international help to be given to these countries. I want now to say a few words about the Jews. Anybody who listens to the stories about the Jews, either from Governments or from Jews themselves, must feel appalled at the position that is rapidly being created for that race throughout Europe. It is really an appalling situation. It has nothing to do with Hitler or Mussolini.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A quarter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "e real causes of war were economic and I maintain that that is the case and that until the nations settle down to discuss the economic causes of war there is no hope in the world of disarmament and peace. Men's minds will not be diverted from war if they feel that they are suffering under injustice. Let us who are talking about British interests not forget that we own about one-third of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " of pressing for war or for war-mongering, or in the opposite direction to continuing to work for constructive peace, members of the party opposite might have had something to say about it. In fact, we have come to the present position in world affairs to-day, with all its imminent dangers, because of the continued rejection by Conservative and Coalition Governments since the War of Labour advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ion between this country and the United States of America, but I agree with those who have said that it it not the best way to obtain the full support of the people of the United States of America to ask them to intervene in support of purely British or purely American interests. I think the best way to appeal even to the American nation is to appeal to it on the wide basis of collective security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "rably later than the beginning of the last phase of the operations in China, licences had been issued for the export of arms to Japan from this country, and when a supplementary question was put to the right hon. Gentleman, he just pointed out that there was no embargo against the export of arms to Japan. When I consider the indignation in the country and the great mass meeting at the Albert Hall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "could contemplate any action of that kind in the Far East unless they are convinced that they have overwhelming force to back their policy. Do right hon. Gentlemen opposite really think that the League of Nations to-day, with only two great naval Powers in it, ourselves and France, have got that overwhelming force? It must be perfectly clear to everyone that that overwhelming force does not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1907.3", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I just want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1920.3", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"His driving licence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": " In the case of gamekeepers, I should have thought the committee could have got into touch with a much larger number, because nearly every gamekeeper has a game licence and his name is therefore registered with the local taxation officer. There is, I admit, greater difficulty in the case of chauffeurs, because a chauffeur does not require any particular licence, involving registration of his name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1920.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-21", "file": "debates1937-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "698f4a15c503138f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1928.1", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "lasgow, there are 8,900 children medically defined as suffering from malnutrition, suffering from a lack of the necessary foodstuffs, because of the lack of adequate unemployment benefit. I think it is a disgrace, and the Minister of Labour, who, I understand, acts in some capacity as a lay preacher and attempts to preach the religion of Christianity, is a disgrace to the precepts of Christianity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-21a.1928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-22", "file": "debates1937-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "60f2cf869ea539f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.1946.3", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND JAPAN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that if the German War Minister had been as reasonable as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.1946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-22", "file": "debates1937-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "60f2cf869ea539f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2073.2", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You mean cart grease!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member say 1s. 7d. for butter? It is 1s. 4d. in London—at the Army and Navy Stores, half a mile away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2073.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-22", "file": "debates1937-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "60f2cf869ea539f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2088.6", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "I have the figures here. The figures for potatoes per 7 lbs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2088.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-22", "file": "debates1937-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "60f2cf869ea539f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about sugar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "r was 10d. a lb. in 1934, and it now stands at 1s. 3d.; Danish butter was 1s. 2d. and is now 1s. 5d.; fresh butter rose from 1s. 1d. to 1s. 6d.; imported eggs rose from 1s. to 1s. 2d.; colonial cheese rose from 8d. to 10d. lb.; cheddar cheese from 6d. to 9d. lb. and margarine from 3½d. to 5d. lb. I could go through a long list of items, nearly all of them showing very substantial increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-22", "file": "debates1937-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "60f2cf869ea539f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2103.3", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": ", pensioners, and others with fixed incomes. But I submit that, taking the country as a whole, even taking the working classes as a whole, the people to whom I have been referring only represent a minority, and that the majority of people in this country, and, indeed, the majority of working people in this country, not only do not suffer from this rise in prices, but gain actual advantage from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-22", "file": "debates1937-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "60f2cf869ea539f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I did so only last Friday. I do not think any one on this side makes any apology for this increase in prices. On the contrary we take pride in the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-22", "file": "debates1937-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "60f2cf869ea539f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "COST OF LIVING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you vote for that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " living alone on 10s. a week. The other is the married man of over 70 whose wife is yet too young to get the pension, so that there are two people living on 10s. a week. These classes are really having a difficult time now. It would be out of order for me to go into this, but nothing would give me greater pleasure than if some little improvement in the pension rights of these people could be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-22a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "May I give notice that, owing to the completely unsatisfactory nature of the reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2164.3", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (CLOCKS).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "May I ask the First Commissioner of Works whether any decision has been arrived at about the face of the three imitation clocks that we have in front of us, and the dummy moon, and where the new clock is to be erected? So far as I am concerned, the clock should be where the dummy moon is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2231.1", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "country, and therefore did not apply. He was able to carry on his work as mining engineer for only a short time, when he broke down with neurasthenia. He belonged to some of the most famous clubs in London and was well known to Members of this House and of another place, but he gradually went down step by step in the social scale until finally he reached the point at which I made his acquaintance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2240.1", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How many disabled ex-service men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "preceding_text": "tion of that kind as satisfactory evidence of general discontent. What other evidence have we? A number of complaints presented by hon. Members. This year the number of complaints presented to the Ministry by hon. Members of this House totalled 3,129. There are something like 4,000,000 ex-service men. Therefore, the percentage of complaints to the number of ex-service men bears a proportion of.07—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2240.1", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "EX-SERVICE MEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been present.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "preceding_text": " is entitled, from his necessarily limited experience, to come forward and say that, as a matter of knowledge and of evidence, there is general discontent and dissatisfaction throughout the country. I will give an instance of the way in which hon. Members may be misled. The hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker)—I regret that he is not present, but I know that he takes a great interest in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2282.1", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "PRISONER, BARLINNIE GAOL, GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member makes false accusations, but I do not wish to bandy words with him on that point. He said that he and other persons have refused to make accusations for fear of the warders, and he said that Healy had been hurried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2282.1", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "PRISONER, BARLINNIE GAOL, GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": ", but I do not wish to bandy words with him on that point. He said that he and other persons have refused to make accusations for fear of the warders, and he said that Healy had been hurried out. [ Interruption .] I dealt with that point at Question Time, and I will deal with it again. The hon. Member, after making the statement that the man was attacked, stated that the man struck the first blow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1937-12-23", "file": "debates1937-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "e715c9bd7f1fdc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2282.3", "colnum": "2282", "heading": "PRISONER, BARLINNIE GAOL, GLASGOW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member admits that. He admits in the hearing of the House that the first person to strike a blow was Francis Healy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1937-12-23a.2282.3"}