{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-01", "file": "debates1938-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8347c08b559ff24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Eire.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say whether the Government propose to recognise the claim of the Free State Government to be known as the Government of Ireland, seeing that there is a Government of Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.8.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-01", "file": "debates1938-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8347c08b559ff24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.31.6", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister seen in the \"Daily Worker\" that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.31.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-01", "file": "debates1938-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8347c08b559ff24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.45.5", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": " to the question on the Order Paper until the finish of Question Time, does it not devolve upon the House to consider his statement as a much more important matter than that raised by any other question on the Paper? Because of that should not additional time be given to put questions to the Government about their change of policy? I now want to ask my question. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.45.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-01", "file": "debates1938-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8347c08b559ff24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " I am absolutely opposed to a means test of any kind directed against poor people, but that could be done even if a means test were operated. Is it impossible to give 10s. a week to the blind without taking into consideration their other means? It seems utterly hopeless to try to make any impression on hon. Members opposite. They will spend more than 10s. on buying one of their colleagues a drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.165.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-01", "file": "debates1938-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8347c08b559ff24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BLIND PERSONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "sure anyone who occupies my position will do his best, to see that any reasonable doubts are satisfied, so that not only shall justice be done but that it shall be clear that justice is being done. The difficulty is that you could not lay down as a statutory obligation the proposal in the Amendment owing to the impossibility in every case of securing a tribunal such as the hon. Gentleman suggests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-01", "file": "debates1938-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8347c08b559ff24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOMINICA BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " two on what this change will mean so far as the treatment of any native labour there may be there is concerned, and what change it will mean in education. I suppose there has been some sort of education in that part; will that education continue in future to be as good as it has been in the past? Is it possible that it might even be improved? I believe that there are 45,000 blacks and 200 whites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-01a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "IMPORTATIONS FROM OVERSEAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "peakers, but I hope that before the Debate closes we shall hear definitely from Protectionist Members opposite whether or not those in our Colonies and Dominions are to be treated as belonging to the Empire or as foreigners. I know that there is a section of opinion in this country which regards Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders as being as much foreigners as Germans, Italians or Japanese.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "e in this House express that desire is going to alter the temper of mankind. My own belief is that at this moment any Motion which we pass—and this does not detract from the merits of the proposal—will have very little effect. At the very moment when we are declaiming against the bombing of civilians most of the great Powers of the world are actually providing bombers in two great theatres of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "ot approve of what I am saying, I am satisfied. We are, day by day, becoming aware of what happens when this kind of warfare is conducted, and it is a great lesson to us that we should try in face of this peril to be united in promoting measures which will give the greatest possible safety to our people on the one hand and provide the most effective form of defence or counter-offence on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "are, day by day, becoming aware of what happens when this kind of warfare is conducted, and it is a great lesson to us that we should try in face of this peril to be united in promoting measures which will give the greatest possible safety to our people on the one hand and provide the most effective form of defence or counter-offence on the other. [ Interruption .] Really it is no laughing matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "I could bring scores of witnesses, but the hon. Lady is so sincere in her views on this question that she would never listen to any evidence from the other side. The hon. Members who have interrupted honestly think, I believe, that there has been bombing only on one side in Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "Of course we have to realise that Barcelona has features similar to the Port of London. It has, let us say, a Chatham, a Woolwich Arsenal, a Hendon and a Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "lladolid, have all been bombed? I do not know whether any exception is taken to that. I have here returns for the months of May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December, when Cordoba, Granada, Seville, Avila, Segovia, Merida, and Motril were continuously bombed by Red planes, and owing to some extraordinary conspiracy in the Press of this country not a word has been uttered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "unded, and eight civilian men were killed and 28 wounded, or 100 in all, in one raid. We heard nothing about that then. Up till May 400 bombers had been brought down by the Nationalists. I cannot give the exact figures of those brought down by the other side. These figures cannot so well be challenged when those machines were what one might describe as actually in the bag, and they are all listed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "are all listed. [ Interruption .] I am only too glad to get any evidence of facts, but it seems to me that up till now we have heard only one side of the case. The facts are that a very large number of machines have been brought down. We all know that there have been, day after day, declamations against the Italians and the Germans, and quite rightly so, I think. I am no friend of these countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have the other side of the story.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "uld have disappeared. Here is another: But for the vast contributions of munitions from Russia and Mexico, the war could not have been carried on. Again we have Senor Negrin admitting the aid of Russia and Mexico, and a Deputy, supporting him, said: Only this aid has enabled the Valencia Government to continue the war. I think that is generally admitted. Then let us get rid of this one-sided talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Gladstone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "ocracy. Things reached a pretty pass when an ex-Minister of the Crown went to Spain and made a speech actually attacking the Government of this country and his own Foreign Secretary. That, I submit, was very bad. I cannot conceive that ever before in the history of this country leading Members of the Opposition would have gone abroad as leading Members of the present Opposition have done recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-02", "file": "debates1938-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "6cc42cd201ef9a6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"The Foreign Office!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": "gh personal regard, is spending a good deal of time on \"black-outs\" and all that sort of thing. Some people appear to think that a \"black-out\" is a sort of magic cloak which can be thrown over London or elsewhere, and which will form a complete protection. That is not so in any sense of the word. All a \"black-out\" will do is possibly to divert a bomb intended for the War Office if you like to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-02a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why 'our'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "onderland sort of arrangement come to between the Under-Secretary of State and the authorities in Berlin for him to go there—I understand that he has been there—does the right hon. Gentleman think the public will have any confidence in this business in view of the fact that the Under-Secretary was sent to Berlin to find out how the German Government will protect their people against our air bombs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.369.6", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEAGUE OF GODLESS (CONFERENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "preceding_text": "Is there any analogy between the freethinkers and these god less Russians?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.369.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What, about us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ise at the present moment the problems that will arise, and that we know arise, whenever amalgamations take place. Let me tell hon. Members opposite that these consequences have already taken place under voluntary amalgamation, but that we have never heard a voice from them raising one of those problems. Some of us are a little bit shaken this afternoon by some of the company which we are keeping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gretton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Support the Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gretton", "preceding_text": "nder that hon. Members opposite have put down the Amendment. I do not like the drafting of the Clause in some respects, and particularly it appears to be a mistake that the Commission shall take measures provided for the transfer. But the drafting can be improved on the Report stage. There is a more important question of general principle, and I am going to vote for the general principle involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Proportionately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "onists of the National Government who accept any story that is told them without giving much thought to it—in fact many Members on the other side are quite incapable of thought. We hear a lot about prosperity, but how many Members of this House are aware that in Scotland at the present time there is more unemployment than there was in England when England was in the lowest depth of the depression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.487.5", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Then are they putting forward the Mining Association's views?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.487.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.487.7", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I cannot say because I am not in the counsels of the Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.487.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ssly inefficient that it is possible to imagine, as they are doing in this case, then they are in fact making it impossible for democracy to work with regard to the regulation and control of industry. They are inviting what has happened in other countries, and that is the supersession of democracy by methods which some people acclaim as being more speedy and more efficient than democratic methods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "and control of industry. They are inviting what has happened in other countries, and that is the supersession of democracy by methods which some people acclaim as being more speedy and more efficient than democratic methods. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"] I am not commenting on the methods of Russia or any other country. I am dealing with the methods of Great Britain in which I am primarily interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "posed a negative resolution maintain that an affirmative resolution was desirable. I am not going to be deflected by suggestions that this is a concession to the coalowners. The real thing that everybody in all parts of the House has to determine is this: Under the Bill the House -of Commons has this duty imposed on it. It has to see that the rights of the mine-owners are not injuriously affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.494.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-03", "file": "debates1938-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "d8c016a0e87c20a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.524.2", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I will not express my views on the principle of amalgamation. This must be about the thousandth time that we have discussed the mining industry in this House and the country. Sooner or later the House and the country will have to realise that there is only one real remedy, and that is to make it a purely public service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-03a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "seems to me that if this Bill is the idea of owning and management by the State, it is rather a peculiar type of nationalisation. I understand from the Bill that the coal-mining industry is to be handed over to a coal corporation, and that that corporation in turn is to delegate its duties to regional boards and pit councils, and those bodies will be under the control of the Trades Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "ption. The whole decision as to what is to be a reasonable price rests within the powers of the Corporation. It is the Corporation which is to settle that price. The hon. Member for Wigan said that this is a very clear Clause, but with great respect, I must say that I think it is an extremely dubious one. Do hon. Members opposite consider, for example, that the present price of coal is reasonable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "vate merchants in distributing coal. They find that they are unable to give much or any advantage in price to their customers. The difference between the pit-head price and the price paid by the consumer is due to distribution costs. You cannot expect coal to be conveyed from the pit-head to some centre, stored, distributed and brought to the consumer's door for nothing. It all has to be paid for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "ience we had in the State control of our mines here. My fundamental and last objection to this Measure is that I believe that if it were passed and put into operation it would be the greatest disaster primarily to the workers in the industry itself. Hon. Members may not agree with me, and may think that I have at heart primarily the interests of owners rather than the interests of employés.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "ed in the Bill. There can be no question about that. I made it clear in fighting that election that I believe in the principle of the nationalisation of the mines. The people who sent me here endorsed that belief. For that reason I support the Bill at the first opportunity\" I believe that the late Member who sat for the constituency which I now represent was respected by all Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "I heard him more easily perhaps, because I was sitting opposite. I am sorry I have not the quotation with me. He was against paying compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "ry unequally, and it is astonishing to find how many small people are hit by legislation introduced in this House and how strong a sense of grievance they feel if they are not adequately compensated. What does this Bill do? This Bill, astonishingly after the statements I have quoted, gives extremely fair compensation to the coal-owners. It gives them a higher compensation than the Government Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "ve changed the tone of speeches of some hon. Members opposite. I was hoping that hon. Members opposite would have been more willing to take a favourable view of nationalisation in view of the speeches that have had to be made by the President of the Board of Trade and the Secretary for Mines during the time that the Coal Bill has been discussed. They have accepted the principle of nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-04", "file": "debates1938-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "330289af54f37a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONALISATION OF MINES AND MINERALS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member who moved the Second Reading, and that of the hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker), who seconded, a good deal was said against modern industrial development in the mining industry. So much was said against mechanisation that I am tempted to ask whether the hon. Members envisage the time, when this industry is nationalised, when there will be a retrogression of progress in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-04a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "he analogy may be in theory in practice it is evident that the sort of obligation which can be imposed on a company whose duty it is to supply water or electricity is quite inappropriate to the coal industry. Is it really suggested, for instance, that some tribunal should lay down beforehand the exact prices which are to be charged for every kind, quality and grade of coal, without any alteration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "t of obligation which can be imposed on a company whose duty it is to supply water or electricity is quite inappropriate to the coal industry. Is it really suggested, for instance, that some tribunal should lay down beforehand the exact prices which are to be charged for every kind, quality and grade of coal, without any alteration? [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] In practice it is almost impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "The sale by the owner of the coal. This does not affect the generality. The point the hon. Member raises will be dealt with by my hon. Friend later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.722.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Give us last year's figures.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": "I have the figures here, and they show that for six years the mine-owners of this country were losing anything from 7½d. to 2¼d. per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.763.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.763.5", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What was the average?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": "I have given the figures of the Miners' Federation's own accounts, which show that during those six years of depression, the loss in the coal trade was from 7½d. to 1¾d. per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "I think I am right in excluding from it the domestic consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " whole Lancashire cotton trade—were satisfied to leave the conduct of their case to one of the officials of the Joint Committee. I am sorry to inform the hon. and learned Gentleman opposite that they employed neither solicitor nor counsel. If a matter so important as the relationship of the Lancashire cotton industry and the price it had to pay for its coal can be so left, and was in fact so left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-07", "file": "debates1938-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "f39878138f7a3e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "preceding_text": "May I say that I should like to withdraw this Amendment and to take the opportunity of thanking the President of the Board of Trade for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-07a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-08", "file": "debates1938-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "ddd6ccde4acd5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister give us one reason why, assuming we may possible be obliged to fight these countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.842.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-08", "file": "debates1938-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "ddd6ccde4acd5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You cannot see them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": ". We want the recommendation of the Royal Commission put into effect. Fourteen years after that report we are asking, not for anything revolutionary, not for Socialist proposals to be put into operation, but that the Government should carry out the recommendation of the Royal Commission. When we have discussed this matter before I have heard hon. Members opposite say—I can hear them saying so now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-08", "file": "debates1938-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "ddd6ccde4acd5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "rse the previous Debate may have taken does not alter the fact that my new Clause deals with a point not covered by the new Clause to which reference is being made. If hon. Members will look at Clause 2 they will see that the Commission are given the duty of granting coalmining leases. I am moving this new Clause solely because I want to preserve a measure of liberty to the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-08", "file": "debates1938-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "ddd6ccde4acd5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At a price! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "int was in a new Clause. I therefore felt a little sad that the hon. and learned Gentleman should try to trip me up after the Chairman had previously tripped me up twice. A large number of people are owners of coal. They are so numerous that if any citizen thinks he would like to own a coal mine the chances are that he will find some coalowner willing to do business with him and grant him a lease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-08", "file": "debates1938-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "ddd6ccde4acd5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "ease, and an unqualified right to refuse to grant a lease to any particular person, it is clear that the rights of the citizen to become the owner of a coal mine or to start a new coal mine are destroyed. Therefore, I think hon. Members will see that in my Clause there is involved the fundamental principle of the liberty of the British subject to enter into any occupation that he desires to enter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-08", "file": "debates1938-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "ddd6ccde4acd5528", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "into an industry destroyed, and the right of the citizen to enter into any occupation that he thinks fit to enter destroyed. I do not want any statutory barrier placed in his way to enter any occupation, because I believe it is vital. The freedom of the people, free economic development, the preservation of free institutions, the preservation of that very democracy which we all think we stand for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-08a.998.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-09", "file": "debates1938-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "cc22fdeae8248b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "STORAGE OF FOOD IN TIME OF WAR.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " process must take place every year? It is difficult enough in the case of wheat, but it is far more difficult in the case of other commodities like bacon or beef. Referring to beef, the hon. Member said that it does not very much matter because you could not store chilled beef and there was no point in building up a supply of it; but presumably beef is one of the commodities which must be stored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-09", "file": "debates1938-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "cc22fdeae8248b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1153.6", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Harold Balfour", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Harold Balfour", "preceding_text": " overlapping by increasing efficiency in the social services and co-ordinating insurance, possibly in the future under a minister of insurance, and it will save a little of your budgetary expenditure, but only a very little. Other administrative economies will help, but I believe that in policy alone will be found the way to alter, and in great sums, the difference between expenditure and revenue,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1153.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-09", "file": "debates1938-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "cc22fdeae8248b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": "uestion on which I should like to say a word is the basis of local taxation. Nothing has been said on the subject of the way in which either National or local revenue is raised. I have ventured to make suggestions to the Government before on this question, and I suppose I can go on doing so, and that it will not have much effect. I do not say that unkindly, because I know what the difficulties are", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-09", "file": "debates1938-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "cc22fdeae8248b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The party opposite has only approved of social reform when it has been politically dangerous to oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-09", "file": "debates1938-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "cc22fdeae8248b9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "PROPOSED TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, SOUTH KENSINGTON.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "They will help to screen the building all right. The building will not occupy the whole of the site by any means. There will be a good deal of ground which will be properly laid out, and we are going to give Kensington a very nice addition to their public parks, if they have any at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-09a.1219.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-10", "file": "debates1938-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b57a5e42bbc79bf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-10a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. and learned Gentleman that it now gives a more general uniformity, and I am quite prepared to say that we are satisfied that the general provisions of the Bill are right, and are going to be fair in the interests of the Commission we have in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-10a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-10", "file": "debates1938-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b57a5e42bbc79bf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-10a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "sel that we had a good claim to put forward,\" and reading this section it is obvious that the intention of Parliament was that the parties were to have all their costs. I should like at least to have words put in to show that that is not the intention of Parliament that everyone should litigate as much as possible and spend as much as possible on the lawyers. I think that is a thoroughly bad idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-10a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-10", "file": "debates1938-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "b57a5e42bbc79bf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-10a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ers to 1940. What is the significance of that date? The National Government will remain in power until 1st January, 1940, and God help the man who has to invest during that period. But the right hon. Gentleman sees a hope for him. The Government will then be replaced, a firm basis for investment will arise in this country under the next Labour Government, and it will be safer then to invest money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-10a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-11", "file": "debates1938-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a71ffa53f1e76f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-11a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "ELECTIONS (MOTOR CARS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The cost of living has gone up \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "oll. That is why private motor cars may be used but hackney carriages may not. My hon. and gallant Friend who moved this Motion referred to the anomalous position which has arisen by reason of the fact that it is unlawful to expend money on buying intoxicating liquor for the purpose of influencing votes. It is unlawful to spend whatever the price of beer may be—a shilling a pint or whatever it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-11a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-11", "file": "debates1938-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a71ffa53f1e76f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-11a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "ELECTIONS (MOTOR CARS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "he purpose of influencing votes. It is unlawful to spend whatever the price of beer may be—a shilling a pint or whatever it is—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"The cost of living has gone up \"]. Well, how much is it? Perhaps the hon. Member knows, but I do not. While it is unlawful to buy a pint of beer yet it is perfectly lawful to spend 3d. on buying petrol in order to take a person to the poll in a motor car—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-11a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-11", "file": "debates1938-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "4a71ffa53f1e76f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-11a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "ELECTIONS (MOTOR CARS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three miles in some cases!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": " not seem to be very convincing, and I should like to put the opposite case of what happens where voters have to be got to the poll somehow or other. As regards the Kelvingrove division of Glasgow surely the queues of electors referred to were not disfranchised because they had no motor cars, whereas our party had. Surely they were not so far from polling stations that they could not walk to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-11a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-14", "file": "debates1938-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "14a66a7c5ec6cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1508.2", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "When a very serious statement of this sort is published and generally accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-14", "file": "debates1938-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "14a66a7c5ec6cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1531.0", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRINIDAD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-14", "file": "debates1938-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "14a66a7c5ec6cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "ections of the industry which make this particular material. On the other hand, there is evidence available to the committee that supplies of cheap Japanese material, which were kept out by the Order of July, 1936, are still available at prices very little higher than those of 1936, and for these reasons the committee consider it desirable that this industry should have one more year's protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-14", "file": "debates1938-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "14a66a7c5ec6cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1616.5", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "d. per square yard was imposed, in order to help British producers to secure a greater share of the market in cheap carpets, and, in particular, of cheap stair carpets. The present Order applies to wool, cotton, hair or jute carpets, which were previously subject to 20 per cent. ad valorem or 9d. per square yard, whichever was the greater. The minimum specific duty is now increased from 9d. to 1s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1616.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-14", "file": "debates1938-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "14a66a7c5ec6cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1626.2", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "The consumers of the goods are the people who have to purchase them for sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-14a.1626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "usly provided, is desirable when changes are in prospect. I would like to say a word or two on the new financial provisions and on two important changes which are being made. I believe that the two principal alterations suggested in the financial arrangements have generally commended themselves to the local authorities of the country, and I hope that they will be generally acceptable to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Almost impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": " I hear those voices of dissent. The first is the fixing of the two subsidies for slum clearance and overcrowding at the same level. There is at present a very substantial difference in the amount of the contributions for slum clearance and overcrowding, and there is at present payable a fixed subsidy of £2 5s. per person in respect of slum clearance, and a possible subsidy, but rarely admissible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Yes, through the roofs.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Have those cottages running water?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I cannot say what was the number of applications, because I lost my job before the applications began to come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1747.3", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Wakefield?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "cal authority will lose on this transaction, on 1,100 houses, £6,325 per year for 40 years. That is the measure of the right hon. Gentleman's generosity to the local authorities, with whom he has been in such close and perfect communion in recent weeks while he has been hatching out this wretched Measure. The town that I have quoted is Bristol. I make a present of that to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1781.1", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Act? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "The Act which would have done so much good was sabotaged by his Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yours is the exception.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christie", "preceding_text": "y. We have heard a great deal of abuse of rural councils because of the ugliness of the buildings they have put up. While in certain cases this is to some extent justified, in many cases it is not justified at all. My own rural district council has always employed an architect, and he has done very well indeed for them. I must say that in the case of my district council these remarks do not apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Rayner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you like to live in one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Rayner", "preceding_text": "s are so often entirely different. Medical officers of health, with the very best will in the world, are also inclined to be too drastic and ruthless in their condemnation. It seems absurd to condemn as unfit for human habitation a cottage in which successive generations have lived to a ripe old age. I cannot help thinking that if water could be laid on, low ceilings would not matter a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ime; stops and starts, a push forward, then an economy campaign; a push forward again, and then a reduction in the State grant; another push forward, and now to-day another reduction in the State grant. This is not unconnected with the private Member's Motion which was before the House last week. I believe that we are at the beginning of an assault on the social services by the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Treasury at the expense of local authorities. This is not a Bill to provide houses. It is a Bill to save money for the Treasury. The right hon. Gentleman has got his orders to save money at the expense of the local authorities, at the expense of the people who live in the houses, or at the expense of not getting the job done. The truth is that the Labour local authorities have been doing too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n, I say that the purpose of the Bill is to save money for His Majesty's Treasury. It is one of the first of the economy Measures in the new campaign to be led by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health for a reduction of expenditure on the social services. The Minister of Health in my experience is not a terribly good friend to the-ratepayers. Certainly he has not proved himself one to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernays)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernays)", "preceding_text": "ion. The fundamental condition as regards the £6 10s. grant is that it should be restricted to certain cases only, as defined. To leave out those conditions would open the door to the payment of this extra £1 generally. The similarly fundamental condition in regard to the second grant, the agricultural subsidy, is satisfied by the inclusion of the words \"agricultural population\" in the Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "d this point has never been successfully challenged—we must take into account the fall in interest rates. In March 1930, the interest on loans for the Public Works Loans Board was 5 per cent.; now it is 3⅝ per cent. It is difficult to exaggerate, in this question of the housing conditions of the country the beneficent result of the prudent and far-sighted policy of His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "s to be built and let at rents 6d. to 9d. a week below the present average. They can be let at 6s. 3d. a week, as compared with 6s. 9d. to 7s. for existing houses. Now I come to the question of overcrowding. There was a complaint from the right hon. Gentleman that the standard of overcrowding was too low. But, as my right hon. Friend said, this is only a beginning. It will take six or seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-15", "file": "debates1938-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b57e4ba218736f19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1845.2", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Give us their names and the cases so that we shall have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-15a.1845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1893.4", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA (UNITED PROVINCES AND BIHAR: MINISTRIES' RESIGNATION).", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the whole situation under which these prisoners were convicted was due to their objection to an alien rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1893.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "SUPPLY OF BRITISH NEWS ABROAD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maitland", "preceding_text": " for distribution at foreign ports. Aeroplanes might also be used for the same purpose. Letters for abroad might bear a British slogan, varied according to the circumstances, and exporters of British goods might accompany those goods with suitable literature of a propaganda character. Britishers travelling abroad might also be persuaded to leave a few pamphlets at hotels and in trains, ships, etc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "SUPPLY OF BRITISH NEWS ABROAD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Splendidly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "preceding_text": "ut I think it will be agreed that propaganda, in the first place, is based upon avoidance of the truth and I think it will also be agreed that in this country, in general, we object to untruths. As I say, I do not want to be self-righteous, because in a national emergency we can be as untruthful as, or more untruthful than, anybody else. During the War we lied damnably. Let us be clear about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1946.1", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "SUPPLY OF BRITISH NEWS ABROAD.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "nal object, greatly increase the world's knowledge of those matters and thus promote what I may call the invisible export of cultural relationship. I should like to make an appeal, standing at this Box, for all possible support of the work of the British Council. I think the House will agree that it will be undesirable that the whole financial side of the work should be provided by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "GUILDFORD CORPORATION BILL (By Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "tes to itself the function which belongs to the House alone. The group says that the Bill must conform to some principles of its own, and if not, the Members in it pool this special privilege of private Members and see that the Bill does not get a Second Reading. That is the reason they tell local authorities to come before a Committee upstairs. As my right hon. Friend said, it is an impertinence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "PENSIONS DISABILITIES OF CERTAIN UNMARRIED WOMEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "MR. GALLACHER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": ", because there is no doubt that during the last few months it has been debated up and down the country, I should think, more than anything else. But the debate has not been all on one side, even among the spinsters. I think there is general agreement among us on that, because in my Division, the Withington Division of Manchester, there are a great many spinsters of what I call the educated class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.2005.7", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "PENSIONS DISABILITIES OF CERTAIN UNMARRIED WOMEN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member for West Fife will allow me to continue. I am in favour of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.2005.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-16", "file": "debates1938-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "8dda3c7e29be9447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "PENSIONS DISABILITIES OF CERTAIN UNMARRIED WOMEN.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "obby in favour of the Motion. If hon. Members vote for the Motion, it will start the Government thinking. I assure the Government that thousands of their supporters feel strongly about this matter. We have an overwhelming case, and I hope that we shall hear no nonsense about the country not being able to afford these pensions. The country that can give £7,000,000 a year for sugar beet can do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-16a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-17", "file": "debates1938-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c28c7267fe1b4f35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-17a.2037.1", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "It is a legal practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-17a.2037.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-17", "file": "debates1938-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c28c7267fe1b4f35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-17a.2058.8", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COUNCIL OF FOREIGN BONDHOLDERS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And the B.B.C.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the masterly state of inactivity of the Council of Foreign Bondholders, and why it is that they have succumbed to the blandishments or dragooning of the Foreign Office, Treasury——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-17a.2058.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-17", "file": "debates1938-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c28c7267fe1b4f35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-17a.2185.8", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'NO answer.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to the hon. Gentleman. I was referring to someone much more important. What actually happened, I remember very well, was that I gave a detailed and as I thought careful answer, and there was a shout—here it is in the OFFICIAL REPORT——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-17a.2185.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-18", "file": "debates1938-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "bfa21b1bcb4b1518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2242.3", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKEHOUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": " is five or six hours old. It is the same question as the old one, \"When does a fresh egg become stale?\" I am satisfied that the housewife wants bread brought to her house as fresh as possible. Take the case of the breakfast rolls in France. I am sure that I know France as well as hon. Members opposite. The great attraction of France to a great many English people is the hot, fresh breakfast roll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-18", "file": "debates1938-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "bfa21b1bcb4b1518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2243.5", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKEHOUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Commodity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": " had been baked in the early hours. But, as I was about to say, if there is a demand for fresh bread and if the Bill tends to prohibit the provision of fresh bread, then I am afraid that the Bill, even if it becomes law, may share the fate of other Measures which have attempted to prohibit something which the public in general want. In the United States there was prohibition of a certain commodity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-18", "file": "debates1938-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "bfa21b1bcb4b1518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2243.5", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKEHOUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fleming", "preceding_text": " States wanted to get, in spite of medical opinion which proved conclusively that it was doing them harm. The best possible case was put forward for the prohibition of that article, but in the result that Act failed to achieve its purpose. I am inclined to ask the House to treat this as a matter in which there is undoubtedly a great public demand, and to deal with it on the lines of the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-18", "file": "debates1938-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "bfa21b1bcb4b1518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2268.2", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKEHOUSES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Salter", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for Harrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Salter", "preceding_text": "here is no question about the thousands of members in that union desiring to abolish night baking. I have never met a baker anywhere who did not want the change. I have been in constant touch with the operatives as well as the employers in the trade in London for many years, and I have never met an operative who did not want night baking abolished. I challenge anybody in this House to produce one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-18a.2268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "use has just listened to a very important, and I think very moving, statement by my right hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden), in which he explained the reasons which in his mind made it necessary for him to separate himself from the Government. Clearly, in comparison with the resignation of a Foreign Secretary, the resignation of an Under-Secretary is a very small affair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.50.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They were not there.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "lace in the Mediterranean which, in our opinion, rendered it impossible that conversations at that time could have any chance of success. Nevertheless, it is well to remember something which my right hon. Friend omitted to mention in his account of past history, namely, that he was successful at Nyon in arriving at an agreement with the Italian Government about the patrolling of the Mediterranean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the identically same facts are regarded from two different angles. I am informed from many sources that all this time when to us it appeared that the obstacles to conversations had arisen entirely by Italian action, exactly the opposite view was being held in Rome.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ding questions, including the question of Abyssinia. All outstanding questions, it is important to recognise, did include the question of Abyssinia, and I emphasise this because of the point of view that has been expressed by my Noble Friend. I am sure the House will not have failed to notice that in his view the issue is one quite different from that which was put forward by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mussolini will tell him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "countries, but he was quite definite that there must be a public law in Europe, there must be some definite observance; for, after all, that was the basis on which the Government went to the country. The Prime Minister disregards that entirely. Before I turn to the main issue which is raised here I would like to say one thing. We shall be told in due course who is to replace the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "is new friend. All over the world will go the story: \"You see how great is the power of our great leader. He says that the Foreign Secretary must go, and he has gone.\" I do not think there is any parallel for that in our history. I do not know of any case where a Foreign Secretary, acting professedly with the support of the Cabinet, has been subjected to most outrageous abuse by foreign countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ust go, and he has gone.\" I do not think there is any parallel for that in our history. I do not know of any case where a Foreign Secretary, acting professedly with the support of the Cabinet, has been subjected to most outrageous abuse by foreign countries. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not quite realise that we have not such power over the Prime Minister as has a foreign dictator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "smissal of M. Delcassé. This is a humiliating surrender. The late Foreign Secretary had, I believe, striven under great difficulties to try to get some kind of performance for the promises made at the last election. He has had indifferent success, but the fact that he has stood alone, except for his Under-Secretary, has shown very plainly that during these years he has been used as a cloak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member in a rather contemptuous way—I do not think the country agrees with him—said that the late Foreign Secretary has been virtually hounded out of office in order to placate Signor Mussolini. Some of us have a vivid recollection of the attempt of the Trades Union Congress to dictate as to who should be Ministers in a Labour administration. We do not cast Signor Mussolini for the role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "nd when there has been a substantial withdrawal of volunteers. If the case of the Liberal and Labour party is correct, that the whole strength of the insurgent forces depends on volunteers, then the withdrawal of these volunteers will cause the insurgent forces to collapse. I can assure the Prime Minister that the country as a whole, whatever some Members here may say, is very solemnly behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "preceding_text": "is a well recognised fact, and, therefore, it is idle for the hon. Member to lay the blame at the door of Signor Mussolini alone. He pointed out, quite rightly, that there is in the country a great body of opinion which clings to the League of Nations and supports the idea of the League of Nations. The Prime Minister in his speech this afternoon said that we still believe in the League of Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You made a mess of it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "preceding_text": "st week, when he said that the victory of Socialism would not be complete until the proletariat of all countries were united against the bourgeoisie. The hon. Member for West Leicester spoke with all the eloquence of the old diplomacy. I could not help smiling, because, for two years, I endeavoured to groom myself up to that old diplomacy, and to prepare myself for entering the diplomatic service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "me to-day rather sympathetic to his point of view, but I am bound to say that, if one sets aside the purely sentimental feeling that one may well have, the balance of solid, cold reasoning definitely lies with the Government to-day. I have as much right as hon. Members opposite to make the further statement that, after perhaps a day or two of excitement, the whole country will be on the same side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "preceding_text": "r leaving the Government. It is a curious and memorable fact that in both instances the occasion has arisen out of transactions or proposed transactions with Italy. In the earlier case, when the present Home Secretary rose from that corner seat to explain his resignation from the office of Foreign Secretary, it was because he had not of his own accord I think, but at the request of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "preceding_text": "rs, it is important to know where the dividing line is drawn between the responsibility of a Prime Minister and the responsibility of a Foreign Secretary. There could be no position more unsatisfactory to this House and to Governments abroad than that of not knowing with whom one is dealing as the responsible spokesman of the Government in these matters. Perhaps I may interrupt myself to say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-21", "file": "debates1938-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "06773c14d5849db2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that the assurances given to us by the Italian Government were inconsistent with some words which had been used by Herr Hitler in his speech yesterday. It is not for me to say what is the explanation of the inconsistency, if inconsistency there be. But my hon. and gallant Friend drew the conclusion that this inconsistency proved that the Italian assurances given to us were not to be depended upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-21a.151.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Gentlemen opposite went to the country. Either they meant what they said or they did not mean what they said. I want to read some of the things which they said in that manifesto. The League of Nations will remain, as heretofore, the keystone of British foreign policy. The prevention of war and the establishment of settled peace in the world must always be the most vital interest of British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "y fought. This is the programme which they have now abandoned. The right hon. Gentleman has fled from all these principles as from the plague, and instead of fortifying the spirit of the world now—and the world needs it—he has scuttled to the back door of the dictatorship States to make a deal behind the backs of others. Instead of the widest possible discussions with the maximum number of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ither \"Yes\" or \"No.\" I am using this point partly because I think we are entitled to an answer, but partly because, if there has not been the fullest consultation with the French Government, my claim that the right hon. Gentleman is now pursuing an isolationist policy is true. I ask the House, what is the actual position to-day? The ex-Foreign Secretary had for some time been subject to attack by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " of by certain newspapers. It is very interesting to notice that just about the time the Grandi talks began the attack was let loose again against the right hon. Gentleman. More recently Herr Hitler made a speech, which has been smothered by the greater crisis. I hold in my hand a copy of the\" Frankfurter Zeitung,\" containing a verbatim report of Herr Hitler's speech, and so far as I can make out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Members would read the whole of this leading article. This is what a paper supporting the Government says about this new policy of the right hon. Gentleman: It is difficult to be much impressed by Italian acceptance of a formula, for formulas have repeatedly been accepted before with little or no practical effect. The right hon. Gentleman talked about a vendetta. We have no vendetta against Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Stalin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ys about this new policy of the right hon. Gentleman: It is difficult to be much impressed by Italian acceptance of a formula, for formulas have repeatedly been accepted before with little or no practical effect. The right hon. Gentleman talked about a vendetta. We have no vendetta against Italy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] We are implacably opposed to dictators who deny the people their freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ce of negotiations, or was it, as was stated on his own behalf by my Noble Friend the Member for South Dorset (Viscount Cran-borne), a great principle of international good faith? Let us be quite clear about this. If it be a great principle of international good faith, I think the conclusion is that conversations could not be held with countries whose record is not, like our own, completely clean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.221.4", "colnum": "221", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " by the right hon. Gentleman opposite—no truck with the dictators—is another variant of it, not perhaps put on quite such a high moral principle, but intelligible as coming from the Opposition. But there are others who do not go quite so far as that. They say, \"We do not refuse ever to talk with them, but in view of their past record, let them first say that they are sorry for what they have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.221.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.222.3", "colnum": "222", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman stops at Spain. Why does he not add that they should come out of Abyssinia, too? It seems to me that, according to his principles, we ought to ask them that. The right hon. Gentleman would ask it. That exactly demonstrates the point that I am endeavouring to make, that really this suggestion that we would enter into conversations providing these things were done first, is humbug.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.222.7", "colnum": "222", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ssors—John Morley, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith! Do not let hon. Members trouble themselves because others try to belittle their country by talking of surrender and running away. Let us rather ask ourselves whether what we are doing is right, and whether it will contribute to the end we have in view. It is suggested that in what we have done we have had to go behind the backs of our friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.222.7", "colnum": "222", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "country by talking of surrender and running away. Let us rather ask ourselves whether what we are doing is right, and whether it will contribute to the end we have in view. It is suggested that in what we have done we have had to go behind the backs of our friends. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Who speaks with knowledge of what we have done and whether we have gone behind the backs of our friends?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tted to say. He went on to observe that I had said nothing about the League or about collective security. I will say something about them now. I have often expressed the view that the party opposite allow themselves to be governed by phrases, the actual meaning of which they never take the trouble to think out. Among those phrases is \"collective security.\" What do they mean by collective security?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No…\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to think out. Among those phrases is \"collective security.\" What do they mean by collective security? [HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you mean?\"] I mean by collective security a system under which the collective action of a number of States is assured to prevent aggression, or if aggression is undertaken, to put a stop to it and punish the aggressor. I wonder whether anybody differs from that definition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.226.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you stay in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " its functions. At the time of the last Election the conviction that it could not carry out its functions was not universal, even if some suspicion had entered into the minds of some members of the League. I say that to-day you will not find anywhere in the League any conviction that collective security can be provided by the League as now constituted. What is the conclusion to be drawn from that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "stay in?\"] I am staying in because I still have faith that the League may be reconstituted, because I still believe that there is important and valuable work for the League to do. But I doubt very much whether the League will ever do its best work as long as its members are nominally bound to impose sanctions or to use force in support of obligations. I would not change an article in the Covenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " Then there has been this episode, this tragedy in Austria and the violent pressure placed upon the government of that country. How does this show improved relations? I was told by a friend who arrived from Vienna a few days ago one of the results of the Halifax Mission. One thing he said was that Lord Halifax had given him to believe that England would not object to German authority over Austria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.259.6", "colnum": "259", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "Yes, certainly, when such great issues were involved and when it was known that there was a document of this importance and the Prime Minister never took the trouble to secure it, and Count Grandi never took the trouble to deliver it, because he wanted to get rid of the Foreign Secretary. At any rate, it shows the muddled way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.259.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.259.6", "colnum": "259", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "shevik gutters of Moscow, from hon. and right hon. Gentlemen behind him. That is what would happen. It is exactly the same situation here. He has been beaten by the dictators. You could see it in the speech of Herr Hitler. There was a tone totally different from anything which I have seen in any of his speeches. Before they were tactful; they were courteous in their references to France and to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.259.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.259.6", "colnum": "259", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At Ipswich.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " time one of the most momentous declarations which the Prime Minister has made—that we could have the League of Nations without sanctions. That is the theory of the anarchist. The doctrine of the anarchist depends upon law and upon resolutions which are carried by a community who do not have any law to enforce them. It is anarchy. Beaten in Manchuria, beaten in Abyssinia, beaten in Spain, and now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.259.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What sort of Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " Members will give me and my colleagues the credit of being not completely partisan in our outlook. We are able, perhaps, to take a more objective view of political things than the majority of hon. Members, and I say very deliberately and definitely that the only way in which Great Britain can re-establish itself among the nations is for a change of Government to take place at the earliest moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Labour party has no guts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "s of that party, I believe it is absolutely necessary that this Government ought to be put out of office and a new Government put in. I have no reason to assume that a Labour Government could not fill the position in international affairs infinitely better than the Government now holding the reins of office. I can see them making mistakes, but I cannot see them crawling in front of Fascist Powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "n I say that I think he was let down before he took office. I do not believe that he could have carried himself in that office with greater dignity, or with greater dignity for this country, and I believe he can look back upon his period of office with the consolation that never did he lower the prestige in which his country was held. I would like to say a word or two to the new Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "pping and Carnarvon Boroughs. I think the Prime Minister has been a little unkind to the late Foreign Secretary. If I may say so, I think nothing would have been lost in this Debate if the Prime Minister had gone out of his way to pay adequate tribute to the work of a departed colleague, adequate tribute to the labours he has performed as a Member of his Government in the field of foreign affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As between Count Grandi and the Prime Minister\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "nday morning, promptly to the Foreign Office, in order that the proper Minister might have been made aware of its contents officially, and it is curious that it was not handed in. Then it was handed to the Prime Minister, apparently after the resignation of the Foreign Secretary, and one feels that there was here a little bit of tactics as between the late Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Nobody will be more delighted than I am if the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " the issue of whether we want a stern pro-capitalist Government that keeps its workpeople in order or a possible Government of the Left of some sort that will promote popular freedom and\" the economic liberation of the people,\" then it is that their international, capitalist class-conscious bias leads them astray. That is an authentic explanation, psychologically, of the Prime Minister's attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d happen to this British Commonwealth if we were faced with a war against Germany, Italy and Japan? That being the situation, and hon. Members know it, whatever the degree of rearmament in the British Commonwealth and in this country, we should have—and I say it with regret—a good chance of going down. If we know that, we ought to pursue a foreign policy in which this country will not be isolated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "erilled as time goes on. It is because we of the Labour party love all that is best in British democracy and British traditions that we do not want to see our country go down or the British Commonwealth go down in an attack by Fascist dictatorships. It is unjustly said—I suppose we all say unjust things about each other from time to time, and we shall probably go on doing so—that Labour seeks war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "etween the Governments of Fascism and the Government of the Soviet Union. The Governments of Fascism laud and encourage the spirit of war, openly and without any shame, whereas it must surely be agreed that the leaders of the Soviet Union, while certainly engaging in military preparedness, have nevertheless lauded the spirit of peace and Mr. Litvinoff at Geneva has done all he can to implement it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " a very important statement, in which he has frankly indicated that the Government has decided to break all the pledges that it gave at the General Election with regard to its foreign policy. To-day's statement on the League of Nations means that the Prime Minister intends that the Covenant, at any rate so far as sanctions and collective action against an aggressor are concerned, is to be torn up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs insisted on certain requirements before the conversations could be agreed to. The chief of these was that there should be some progress made with the withdrawal of troops from Spain before we entered upon conversations at all. That, I understand, was the most important matter at issue between us. On the other hand, time was pressing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "preceding_text": "f of these was that there should be some progress made with the withdrawal of troops from Spain before we entered upon conversations at all. That, I understand, was the most important matter at issue between us. On the other hand, time was pressing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because there was cause to believe that if this opportunity were missed, another opportunity as good might not so easily recur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "preceding_text": "l of any kind. I can tell the House quite frankly that had there been anything of that nature apparent to us, I and my colleagues would have thrown out any proposal that came barbed in such a way. I want the House to appreciate that there are two sides to this question, and that what we had to decide was, when we had the opportunity, if it slipped, would we get another opportunity again, and when?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I did not say \"final\" or anything of the kind. What I said was that unless you take opportunities as they come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-22", "file": "debates1938-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "873979da214a0c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go to the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "here nothing of the kind was involved at all. Our relations with France and the United States will continue as close and friendly as they were before. We also saw that there was only one thing to do, and we decided on this very quickly. Having come to a decision which we thought was right, our duty, in spite of the difficulty, was to go to the House of Commons and say so, and allow them to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-22a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-23", "file": "debates1938-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a383dcfc5805379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-23a.354.2", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "In view of the profound difference in the accounts given of this communication by the Prime Minister and the late Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-23a.354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-23", "file": "debates1938-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a383dcfc5805379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-23a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " hon. Member who spoke from the Labour benches seemed to put extraordinary faith in a commission of three or five paid bureaucrats. I understand that the Socialist party always like the idea of seeing industry run by three or five paid bureaucrats, but I was very surprised to hear that the representative of the great Liberal party also wishes to have the industry run and controlled by bureaucrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-23a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-23", "file": "debates1938-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5a383dcfc5805379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-23a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " are provided for at present in the Schedules so that if, after several years have passed, the circumstances justify them in doing so, the Council will be able to take more courageous steps than those contemplated at present by the Board of Trade. I have a definite fear that many hon. Members, and possibly even my right hon. and gallant Friend as well, have a certain bias against British pictures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-23a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-24", "file": "debates1938-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "cbe2eda5040330de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-24a.532.6", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONSCRIPTION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not think that it should be the policy of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-24a.532.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By how much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "he rise in the cost of living. I believe it is true that at that time the Trinidad Government wrote home to the Colonial Office to see if they could be informed of the methods adopted here of arriving at the cost of living. But the oilfield companies did not wait. They approved an increase for the lower grades on the Apex oilfield, and it was not limited to the lower grades, but applied all round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "ted on the oilfields are ample to enable the workers to secure adequate food supplies. About that, we have no doubt. If I may detain the Committee a few moments to tell what is done in other ways to make the workers contented I would say that in this respect they are much better off than the workers in some industries in this country. They get one week's holiday with pay after five years' service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Major Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Owen", "preceding_text": "That is not what the hon. Member said. He was comparing the wages paid to the workers in the oil industry with some other wage-earners somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.800.4", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "Here it is not a question of opinions, but one of facts. I asked what was the average wage of the worker, and I was told that it was between one dollar 12 cents and one dollar 20 cents a day, which amounts to about 30s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.800.4", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "es are wholly relative, I gather that the equivalent figure in Trinidad is something in the neighbourhood of 12s. 6d. Therefore, the case that has been made against the oil companies on the ground of wages is not a very good one. There are other aspects of the question on which hon. Members opposite could much better pursue their attack. The report itself states that the wages are relatively good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.800.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.810.2", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the Commission. As I have said, these things did not make it easy for the Commission. It was unfortunate in some ways that the Colonial Secretary was on a visit to this country for the Coronation, and it was unfortunate also that Captain Cipriani, whom I know personally and who I feel is a very reasonable man in most ways, should also have been representing Trinidad at the Coronation celebrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "on. Member recall the important discussion in this House last week, and the issue involved? It was whether we should negotiate with a criminal or wait until he had first expiated his crime, and the hon. Member for Eastbourne voted for immediate talks as the commonsense thing to be done, as against the view of the late Foreign Secretary, who thought that the criminal should be kept at arms' length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paragraph 204.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " an isolated unit, a police officer, is sent in such circumstances to arrest a man, some share of the responsibility must rest upon those who expected him to go there in the ordinary routine of his duty. I cannot find the place in the report, but it is in my mind that the report says that Inspector Power only discovered after he had withdrawn his men that Corporal King was not with the detachment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.822.5", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the franchise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "he two are mutually exclusive. In Trinidad there is still an official majority, which I have to instruct the Governor to use. I therefore am fully responsible both for their legislation and their administration. In Barbados there is no representative of the Colonial Secretary in the Legislature. It a wholly elective body. They have complete control of all legislation and complete control of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.822.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.836.7", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1938 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "If we asked for British taxpayers' money to house the workers on the Trinidad sugar estates the hon. Member opposite would be the first to vote against it. I hope that the work will be proceeded with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.836.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " suggested that there is a particular advantage, in difficult times, in the Foreign Minister not being a Member of this House. It is said that it relieves him of strain, that he is spared confrontation with the popularly elected Members. I believe that to be definitely wrong. An admirable statement on the subject was made by the present Colonial Secretary, speaking in this House on 15th May, 1919—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "t the Leader of the Opposition so truly said are questions which are vital to the future of our country and the peace of the world. I think there can be no dispute in any part of the House that Lord Halifax, by his character and attainments, and by his recent experience in foreign affairs, does command the confidence of Members of this House, and I do not believe there is any Member of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " him, and I shall expect him to treat me in these controversies, with the full rigour of the game, but I would say, let our controversies be on main issues, the vital and big issues of policy which the Prime Minister's new departure and the ex-Foreign Secretary's resignation raise. Do not let them be on these comparatively minor issues. If there is a vote to-night I shall cast none which might be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " in the House of Commons. I am very glad that the Prime Minister did not take the view which was taken by the leader of the Liberal party. I am afraid that the National Government are considerably in advance of, and more progressive than, the Members of the Liberal party because the Prime Minister said that he recognised the propriety of having a representative of the Foreign Office in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I have been trying to get in in order to say a few words which I consider are of the very greatest importance. There is a constitutional question at issue, and one which ought to be faced. It is not simply a matter of this House and of how this House views the question. I want to speak for the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "n important matter of this kind? I do not know why the Chief Whip is muttering. Let him speak up or remain dumb. I maintain that if the Prime Minister had half the character that has somehow or other been attributed to Lord Halifax, or if Lord Halifax had the character that is claimed for him, Lord Halifax himself would say this is a question in which the people of the country ought to have a say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-02-28", "file": "debates1938-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "61dbe8efea54f9a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ttributed to Lord Halifax, or if Lord Halifax had the character that is claimed for him, Lord Halifax himself would say this is a question in which the people of the country ought to have a say. [HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"] Yes, surely. Did not the late Prime Minister, Lord Baldwin, go to the country and ask the people to vote for his policy, and then as everybody admits, a drastic change has taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-02-28a.881.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1087.5", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman think that one year's imprisonment is a proper sentence to pass upon a man for carrying a revolver, when the judge himself said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1087.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "ontrol takes place, and I was suggesting that in any area, in the case of the individual B class house which is about to be decontrolled, if the landlord attempts to put up the rent by 2s. 6d. or 3s. 1d., the tenant has not got to remain in the house unless he wants to. If the tenant therefore has, in the district in which he lives, an opportunity of getting, at about the same rent, another house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1160.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "er may be said, hon. Members cannot get away from the fact that housing conditions in Scotland to-day are far behind those which prevail in England. It is obvious that any solution of the problem must be largely a matter of compromise. If it were possible to do away with all control, in a comparatively short space of time, a year or two, the housing problem and rents would have settled themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "ts in decontrolled houses and those which local authorities charge, is infinitesimal. I do not say that that statement applies to London, because it does not. London is an exceptional case. I mean that, if rent restriction were done away with, it would not be long before the natural law of supply and demand would result in rents very little more than are being charged for controlled houses to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Graham", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does he look?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Graham", "preceding_text": " no question that decontrol, as in the past, will increase rents. That is my main objection to this Bill. Again, I do not agree altogether with the criticisms expressed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Stirling and Clackmannan, in his opening remarks, about the Minister of Health. I think the Minister is a kindly-disposed individual. I think he is one of those men who feel just as they look.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "e he was really making a plea in favour of leaving everything alone. I agree that towards the end he became a little lyrical, particularly on the subject of the rats, though, honestly, I do not see what the rats had to do with it. I once lived in a rented house where there were rats, but I did not make a speech about them. I exterminated the rats, which seemed to be the rather obvious thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "ith. It would be rather interesting if we were magicians to twist the House round and find hon. Members opposite under compulsion to introduce a Rent Restrictions Bill. There would have been a profound modification of some of the speeches to which we have listened if a Labour Minister had been responsible for introducing a Bill for the continuation of rent restriction for a further limited period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": " round and find hon. Members opposite under compulsion to introduce a Rent Restrictions Bill. There would have been a profound modification of some of the speeches to which we have listened if a Labour Minister had been responsible for introducing a Bill for the continuation of rent restriction for a further limited period. [ Interruption .] Everybody agrees that it should be for a limited period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Croom-Johnson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He could get it if he wanted it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Croom-Johnson", "preceding_text": " which I have been trying to make since, that in very many instances the difficulty of getting possession of a landlord's own house affected him more from the point of view that he wanted to go and live there himself, and that in the meantime he was having to pay more for accommodation in a decontrolled house than for the accommodation he could get in his own. That is not a fantastic thing at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the address?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "artment— and also Sir Kingsley Wood for having produced a most useful Measure. It certainly checks many of the abuses at present being employed by speculators against numbers of poor, old and ignorant persons. And from the generous way the House of Commons treated the Leasehold Bill, which is aimed against abuses by the same class of speculators, I hope you will have an easy passage for this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-02", "file": "debates1938-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a1090d396883e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the rent book question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " of tenants but of landlords, to go hastily and rashly into the policy of decontrol, and to break up the solidarity, and the sense of fan-dealing, which have existed ever since this system was brought in. Both landlords and tenants are satisfied that this House gives attention to their problem, and protects them against evils such as hon. and right hon. Members opposite have brought to our notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-02a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-03", "file": "debates1938-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e9db897977835ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FASCIST MEETING, STRATFORD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Groves", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Groves", "preceding_text": "spect of his conduct? Why did the inspector take such action if he heard nothing to warrant interference? In view of the fact that I was there, may I further ask whether it is not a fact that a policeman took a full shorthand note, and whether, following a warning from the inspector, one of the Fascists referred to the audience as \"scum\" and another referred to them as \"hook-nosed unmentionables\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-03", "file": "debates1938-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e9db897977835ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1331.3", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Twice a day?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rious with happiness. That is different from the experience of the hon. Baronet. In Liverpool on these sites it is necessary to deal with casual dock labourers, most of them unemployed for most of the time. You could not take them to the suburbs and endeavour to give them small houses, because they would have to travel eight or nine miles twice a day to the Employment Exchange in order to sign on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1331.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-03", "file": "debates1938-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e9db897977835ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "£3,000,000 an acre?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I know, but it suits the people. It does not suit them as well as the cottage and a quarter acre each of which an hon. Member spoke earlier. But you cannot give thousands of people in the centre of Liverpool each a cottage and a quarter acre when some of the land costs £3,000,000 an acre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-03", "file": "debates1938-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e9db897977835ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Proper wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "de at the moment because they have not proper housing conditions, and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health is trying to put that position right. Then the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield objects. It is an extraordinary position. I would remind him that two out of five agricultural workers are leaving agriculture between the ages of 25 and 40 because they have not proper houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-03", "file": "debates1938-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e9db897977835ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1351.2", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Mills", "preceding_text": "d receive the subsidy, they might say, \"It is true that this is the only case we have before us now, but our district is large and we might get 20 or 30 other applications; we cannot, therefore, say that there are special circumstances.\" Through their desire to be scrupulous in carrying out the Act, they might refuse, and so defeat the intentions of the Clause. This is almost a drafting Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-03", "file": "debates1938-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "8e9db897977835ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not you want rearmament?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "e a budget of £500,000,000? The State can find the money for what it wants. The Prime Minister has taunted me time and time again in this House for the statement which I made when I said that the people of this country can pay for anything they want. The right hon. Gentleman does not want housing as much as this Government want a Budget of £1,000,000,000, swollen because of rearmament expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-03a.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the co-operative societies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "c society in which vast monopolies of all kinds are growing up to menace the private trader in every direction, and I have never heard from hon. Members opposite a single word in denunciation of those processes. The municipal authorities would not seriously damage private traders in comparison with what they suffer from the great chain stores—Marks and Spencer, Burton, The Fifty Shilling Tailors.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Mr. Chamberlain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": "sses together in common work for the common good, and in that way they constitute a wise alternative to those revolutionary proposals for social regeneration which sometimes find currency amongst ignorant people, but which, if carried to their natural results, would produce nothing but anarchy and national disaster. That speech was made by Mr. Chamberlain, the Member of Parliament for Birmingham.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is because it has had to be taken out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I do not think so. No local authority has ever asked for power to sell coal. That provision has never been included in any local Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1434.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "propriate as a Government Measure. I should hope to take a hand in a Government Measure of this kind, if there was one, as I think there may be one day.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th February, 1930; col. 868, Vol. 235.] The right hon. Gentleman voted for the Bill. He discovered the foundling on his doorstep and took it in, but after he had taken it in he very quickly took it upstairs and wrung its neck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "erances of the chief associations of local authorities, that a Bill on these lines is desirable. In the opinion of the Government the Bill would be injurious to traders, particularly the small traders. I have been interested by the way in which hon. Members opposite have dealt with the argument about the small trader. It has really amounted to this, that after all the small trader does not matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "ting businesses. It does not compel local authorities to start new enterprises in competition with, and in opposition to, existing enterprises. That is the answer to the challenge in connection with the co-operative societies. I do not propose to be led off the track by challenges of a rhetorical and debating character, but we know precisely where we are with respect to the co-operative societies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "RS: \"Where?\"] As an hon. Member behind me has already said, we are all members of co-operative societies. We believe in and support the principle of co-operation and, what is more, there is no quarrel between us and the co-operative societies upon this question. There is machinery for the friendly adjustment of any slight administrative differences as to the carrying out of the municipal services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1479.1", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member forgets that the Co-operative party is part of the Labour party. We are able to settle our own—not differences, but variations of views—upon questions of administrative detail", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1479.5", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "My answer is that the co-operative movement, of which we are all members, support the principle of municipal trading. There is no difference.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-04", "file": "debates1938-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "a1b84f89358ba53d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not with public money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "was a high standard of local government, but he then made the suggestion that, if this Bill were carried and local authorities adopted its provisions, there would be great opportunities for corruption. There are, however, great opportunities for corruption in local government or any other form of public representation, just as there is opportunity, and much more opportunity, in private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-04a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": " to prevent avoidable waste and extravagance in the carrying out of the rearmament programme. Meanwhile, the most tragic aspect of this great effort is that by itself alone it can never give us security and peace. Indeed, as the Government move away from the League and as the Prime Minister expresses his disbelief in collective security and calls on other nations to abandon their belief in it too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": " to turn away from us. What does it profit us if we gain a battleship or a few squadrons of aeroplanes and tax our financial and economic strength to do it if the Army and the whole resources of even a small State are turned over in the balance sheet of world power from one side to the other? Collective security does not now exist, and none of us would assert that it does. But it could be created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "but are actually financing the Government's programme themselves, and there is the danger that the investigations into accounts may actually cause delays in delivery. I believe it is only because of the private manufacture of arms that we can finance the cost of this programme. Do the Opposition mean in their Amendment that this programme should be carried out by a nationalised armaments industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " and that we shall not be confronted—I use the word \"confronted\" purely for purposes of comparison, for we are not now talking about the possibilities of war, but on questions of Defence, as far as this country is concerned, in a detached and impersonal manner; we are not discussing the political or diplomatic side in any way, and when I say \"confronted,\" I speak only in the sense of a comparison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e time table, and if they were not outshone by other relative facts occurring elsewhere. Every country admires what it is doing itself, but what is not always seen is what is being done by others. I say that the hard responsibility for the failure to fulfil the promises made to us rests upon those who have governed and guided this Island for the last five years, that is to say, from the date when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "up the circumstances of an air attack on Britain, because all this densely populated island is exposed. Such an attack could take place only if we were the victims of unprovoked aggression, because we are not going to commit an unprovoked aggression on anyone. If we are the victims of unprovoked aggression we are under the Covenant of the League of Nations, and short-sighted are those who mock it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "on should be told what are our commitments in Europe and elsewhere. There has been a lot of talk about the immorality of recognising the conquest of Abyssinia. Nearly half the members of the League of Nations have recognised it. France says that if it is part of a general settlement, it will be recognised. So that it is not a matter of morals; it is a matter of what suits at the particular moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "erted that in the new initiative there is some change of policy. Very few Members opposite have seemed willing to refer to the Amendment, but it is on the Order Paper. We have observed from the efforts of the Opposition in the country that they are trying to persuade the country that there has been a striking change of policy. It is suggested that the Government have abandoned collective security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Where are they to-night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "37; col. 2226, Vol. 320.] Does that indicate a change? How can the Opposition now accuse the Government of suddenly abandoning a policy which, in their own opinion, the Government were never pursuing? That quotation reveals the hollowness of the manner in which the Opposition are endeavouring to make party capital out of the situation I observed where the Opposition Liberals were on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": " will be able to put this question again perhaps on the Air Estimates. Suffice it to say at the moment that the vast majority of the squadrons are fully equipped. Some no doubt are not fully equipped at the present moment, but that is not the fault of the Government. It may be inherent in the difficulty of obtaining some of the equipment, which is not all of it easy to obtain from the contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-07", "file": "debates1938-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "9361b2a3dce9683a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is a member of the Advisory Committee which my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport has set up to advise upon schemes, and I believe the question the right hon. Gentleman asks me has been under discussion lately, and I am not aware what decision has been arrived at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-07a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1781.4", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I thought the hon. Member for Stretford was given free leave to state his case. I am bound to say that he and I are almost perennial flowers which blossom every time Palestine is discussed. As I am a shareholder of Crossley Brothers, I wish he would not put his case so forcibly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1781.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan Jones", "preceding_text": "In view of the limited purpose for which the money is asked, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD BILL (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": " main reasons for supporting the Amendment to reject the Bill. I could not in any circumstances vote for another Amendment on the Paper, and I should certainly vote against the Bill if that Amendment were carried and embodied in the Bill in any way. I think that those who work for the London Passenger Transport Board have a right to free choice as to whether they will join the Territorials or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD BILL (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Captain A. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. Evans", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to follow the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Parker) in his general condemnation of the London Passenger Transport Board. My only regret in that direction is that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Hackney (Mr. H. Morrison) was not here to listen to the opinion expressed by one of his followers of his own little child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD BILL (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I should like to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD BILL (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I said that no encouragement should be given to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD BILL (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "I beg to move: \"That the Debate be now adjourned.\" I think this will get us out of the real difficulty in which many of us at present feel ourselves to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-08", "file": "debates1938-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "23c4ffc83c2c4ca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD BILL (by Order).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": " we adjourn the Debate, we can have a Division later on, if no agreement is come to, without any further Debate whatever. At 7.30, on some day selected, the House could divide on the Second Reading. On the other hand, we could hope that, if the Debate is adjourned, time would be given to the board to see how strong is the feeling in this House, not that we want the least pressure put upon anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-08a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "In order to get the position quite clear, I take it that it is the pleasure of the Committee to discuss all these three Votes together, with the necesary result that, after the first one has been disposed of, the next two will be put without further discussion. Is that generally approved by the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "ary expenses in connection with the withdrawal of volunteers, it will in fact be a contribution to take away from the Government those few thousands of men who are genuine volunteers in the international brigade. Everybody, including the supporter of General Franco, who has just been placed on the Government Front Bench, as a gesture to the friends of Franco, no doubt under instructions from Rome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1970.3", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": ", it has been effective against the Spanish Government but never effective against the rebels. One cannot but come to the conclusion on examining, as I would like to do if I had more time, every action of the Non-Intervention Committee, that this Government which has played so large a part in the direction of the Committee, has been activated by the desire for the defeat of the Spanish Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1973.2", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir. S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "have employed a staff at the Foreign Office to have anything to do with it. This is obviously some sort of liaison staff, and the work of the Non-Intervention Committee is such that we ought not to have a liaison staff. It is not worth it. We ought to dissociate ourselves from anything so dishonest in foreign affairs and in international policy because it has been utilised throughout for one side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1987.10", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Postmaster-General (Major Tryon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of our people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Postmaster-General (Major Tryon)", "preceding_text": "it was not included in the original Estimates, because at that time it was not part of the policy of the Government. The sum is only a small one, because the service only began this year. I think it ought to be a source of some satisfaction to us all in this country that we are the first country in the world to have a public television service by which our people can get television in their homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.1987.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.2005.3", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The trading estates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "h the whole people will be contributing, and we are entitled to ask that as soon as it is possible—we know that the experimental stage should be conducted in London—the television service shall be made available for the people all over the country. I notice the Minister of Labour in his place. I should like the B.B.C. if it were possible, to televise the condition in which some of our people live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.2005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.2005.3", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " country on the earth. I wish to offer support to the sentiments that have been so well expressed by the right hon. Member for South Hackney. We have a tremendous responsibility, and we must use it, not in order to add to the poison and hatred in Europe, but, speaking from England to the people of Germany and Italy, who are denied opportunities of learning what is happening in their own countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.2005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-09", "file": "debates1938-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "76999e02bd90640e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.2071.5", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "o disaster and there would not have been this necessity to repatriate them to an extent so greatly in excess of what was budgeted for nearly 12 months ago. When one bears in mind the accounts which appear from time to time in reputable journals about the conditions in British ships—as to our being content with the second bests and as to the extent to which they lag behind those of our competitors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-09a.2071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2096.2", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Would the Parliamentary Secretary remind these education authorities of the words of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board, who says that to expect an under-nourished child to derive benefit from physical exercises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "nts for cooking, bearing in mind that food is a factor of imponderable importance in the health and contentment of us all. In connection with this subject the heart, and I hope the palate, of the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Mr. G. Griffiths) will be softened by the knowledge that the ration of butter which was introduced at home last year by my predecessor will be issued at stations abroad as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2151.1", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "sure peace. There is one way in which you can avoid the disaster of war. It was the star of hope from 1914 to 1918. There should be pooled security among the nations to maintain law in the world. Statesmen of this country proclaimed that continually during the War. For nearly 20 years they have proclaimed it, and yet there are people in this House who actually laugh at the idea of pooled security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2168.1", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "cal reserve it is essential that it should be on the other side of the zone of danger so as not to have the zone of danger between us and the areas in which it is likely to be required. No one can doubt that the main areas of stress in the near future, in which a small expeditionary force may be required, lie east of Suez, and I include Egypt and Palestine in the general definition \"east of Suez.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2219.1", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Cruddas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Cruddas", "preceding_text": "I did not know that he had refused to publish that report, but I take it that he is going to publish it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2228.1", "colnum": "2228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "ent as he has done in the Army Council and in other respects, might consider a change in that direction also. I understand that the elimination of the old kit-bag and the introduction of a new form of suit-case is being considered. The old form of kit-bag is absolutely out of date; it is humiliating to soldiers to have to carry it about, and they ought to be provided with suit-cases. Then we find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2228.1", "colnum": "2228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "n as they begin to wear these boots, the officers insist that they should be polished, and then men have to spend weeks in rubbing off the grease and bringing the boots to a perfect polish. That is a legacy of the old days, and it ought to be eliminated as soon as possible. A few weeks ago my wife said to me, \"A young couple came here to see you, and I have asked them to come back in the morning.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2228.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-10", "file": "debates1938-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "768deaf6054b6ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2248.0", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "they are too lively, too energetic, there is too much spirit in them; and, with recruitment of young Communists, the officer class would soon be sent about their business. I demand that the rank and file in the Army shall retain the rights of citizenship. Otherwise, how is it possible for them to retain that intelligent interest in the nation's affairs which is essential in any democratic country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-10a.2247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-11", "file": "debates1938-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a35fbc0f07c127c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-11a.2318.3", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Partial compensation is paid!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ng, or at any other time, the speech which he has made to-day against this Bill and his general attitude towards workmen's compensation. It is time the House faced some very fundamental problems concerning workmen's compensation. In my opinion, the flaw in workmen's compensation in this country is that compensation is not paid for loss of life or for loss of limb, but for loss of earning capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-11a.2318.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-11", "file": "debates1938-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a35fbc0f07c127c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-11a.2336.3", "colnum": "2336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Anderson", "preceding_text": "That is a maximum up to half the wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-11a.2336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this non-political?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "e said that international tension was relaxed, and that there was an increased feeling of security in Europe. That speech was made only five weeks ago. Then he received the Italian assurances that they had accepted the British Government's formula for withdrawing Italian troops from Spain. So he threw his Foreign Secretary to the wolves. Now Herr Hitler marches into Austria and the Italian armies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And with the French Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " Aberdeen referred was the failure to save Abyssinia, and he referred to his opposition to the half-hearted policy of sanctions. We on these benches would certainly agree with him in that; the failure was entirely due to the fact that the policy of sanctions was half-hearted. But again the responsibility for that halfhearted policy rests, not with Members on these benches, but with the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "do not know whether he thinks that a Spain, possibly under the dominance of Communism, would be more helpful to this country than a Spain under the influence of Italy and Germany. Personally, I think that both these perils are equally grave, but I am an Englishman, and I desire to see Franco win—because I believe there is a danger of Christianity being completely wiped out in a country like Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "ow morning that General Franco will win the civil war, and if he does how unwise it is to make enmity with a future Spain, both sides of which, in my opinion, desire the friendship of this country more than any other country in the world. If at the conclusion there was an attempt to dominate Spain, I for one would be absolutely prepared to go to any lengths in order to say that Spain must be free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": " what war is, and he is a statesman also and is not likely to plunge his countrymen into great dangers and difficulties. Could he have altered the events of two days ago? Is there any honest man who believes that Germany would have been deflected from her purpose because the Foreign Secretary had remained in office? If that is so, is it not a little unfair to make a small party point of that kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.87.5", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Press statements about himself. I recognise that if the Prime Minister of this country were to try to deny all the Press statements made about himself, he would not have any time to govern the country. But there is one statement which is being made in very responsible newspapers to which I wish to draw his attention. I refer to the \"Manchester Guardian,\" the \"News-Chronicle\" and one or two others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.87.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tell that to the \"Manchester Guardian.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": "The French Ambassador did see my Noble Friend the Foreign Secretary on Saturday at the Foreign Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have they done in Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rs, pounding, pounding, pounding night and day in Germany, and said that it was a menace to the world; but the only remedy he could suggest was that we should start the hammers pounding, pounding, pounding here, and, after they had pounded long enough, they would perhaps drown the sound of the pounding there. But the piling up of armaments is not going to provide any solution. Conscription is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member consider for one moment that everything he sees on the tape is accurate? I am not denying the possibility, but I must say that I was sincerely hoping such a thing would not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "has taken place in Austria. To-day I am not so sure. One of the constructive suggestions made this afternoon was that of a definite alliance between the Little Entente, France, Czechoslovakia and ourselves. But let it not be forgotten that should hostilities break out between Czechoslovakia and Germany, a quarter if not one-third of the Czechoslovakian Army would at once desert to the German flag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "urselves. But let it not be forgotten that should hostilities break out between Czechoslovakia and Germany, a quarter if not one-third of the Czechoslovakian Army would at once desert to the German flag. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Yes they will, and that will be due entirely to the fact that for the last 20 years the Czechs have treated like dogs the German-speaking minority who were placed under them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Stalin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "is preparing attacks which we can hardly foresee, and certainly he is not going to wait until the League of Nations or some other assembly meets. He is a ruthless, cruel man in his own way, as indeed the leaders of nearly every capitalist State in the past have been, and he is no different, as I see it. I could go on to the ruthless cruelty of Britain in her treatment of subject races in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House has listened to those remarks with the warmest approval and with the greatest pleasure. I must, however, point out that when I was thinking of countries who are friendly to us I was not thinking of the Dominions, because I always assume that they are friendly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-14", "file": "debates1938-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7407dac0f4378c72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS (AUSTRIA).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " facing to-day. I want the House to realise from a very brief sketch the causal connection between the different events which have marked, during the National Government's two periods of office, the retreat from principle in support of the League. From the moment when we failed to take effective action in support of the League Covenant over Manchuria, the stage was set for the next piece of drift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-14a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Sueter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send them to Stalin!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Sueter", "preceding_text": " found that one of the spokes of the landing wheel of one machine had a message tied round it hoping that this machine would land in Germany. That was one of the American machines. That question of sabotage wants looking into, and I would ask the Under-Secretary whether we could not have very severe penalties, and if necessary legislation, and the nature of those penalties put up in the factories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say 'polluted'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "logy of the country. The hon. Member for Mossley (Mr. Hopkinson) spoke rather picturesquely about his sailing exploits on Southampton Water and said that he and his friends were reaching a stage where they no longer cared to sail in Southampton Water because those waters were now polluted by the steam-craft of the aircraft manufacturers. That is only expressing what a great many other people feel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "Assheton), all of them speak with knowledge and experience of flying and of the machines in which they fly. It is not a little remarkable that with one exception—that of the hon. Baronet the Member for Berwick-on-Tweed, who belongs to the party opposite—each of them has spoken with appreciation of the efficiency of the Ministry and of the services of my Noble Friend the Secretary of State for Air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "if the Government, in reply to every request made for an inquiry, are to reply that they do not believe it is necessary, no mismanagement will ever be made the subject of inquiry; I reply to that by saying that if the Opposition were to have every request granted that they made for an inquiry, whenever they chose to make an allegation of incompetence, we should never be doing anything else at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Well, they are not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "r be doing anything else at all. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"] I thought that would give satisfaction to hon. Gentlemen opposite, but it is a perfectly good statement in reply. They know as well as I do that if any Government were to yield to an Opposition whenever a request were made for an inquiry, they would not be a Government worthy of the name they held or of the office they occupied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Cadman Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "they held or of the office they occupied. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Well, they are not!\"] If hon. Members opposite do not wish to pay much attention to this part of my argument, I nevertheless commend it to hon. Members in other parts of the House, who may be able to give it more impartial consideration. I should like to commend this to hon. Gentlemen opposite: What sort of inquiry do they suggest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": " reply to the Report of the Cadman Committee, the Government showed a ready willingness to accept the criticisms and to make amendments in response to them; and I believe that that is one reason why there has been in all parts of the House a general recognition of the fact that the Cadman Report has done good work, and that the Government are to be congratulated upon having accepted so much of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "ct, the machines in question were only available for squadrons in July, 1937—four months late—but the subsequent promise, made in March, 1936, is the one we are now in course of implementing by the production that is going on on a large scale at the present moment. Those are the machines that we promised would be up-to-date machines, and, make no mistake about it, they will be up-to-date machines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "his country now. As far as blind flying is concerned, the instruments are being produced in this country. So far as fog landing instruments are concerned, they are not actually in production now but they will be in a few months. They are being obtained from other countries. I hope no one will suggest that there is anything improper in obtaining equipment of which we are short from other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.360.5", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the figure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "y were first-line units. The answer is that they will be dealt with in exactly the same way as any other first-line units in the Royal Air Force. As to flying hours, my hon. Friend who spoke last has given a satisfactory answer. The fact is that the cost per flying hour is nothing like the figure of £60, which somebody suggested. I have some calculations which show that that is a fantastic figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.360.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is the chairman!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "No, as I have not a quotation by me. The hon. Gentleman is a member of the Public Accounts Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "ny of those quarters are not so comfortable as we should like them to be and as they will be made. The personnel of the Royal Air Force have shown great patience in putting up with conditions which are almost inevitable in the circumstances of this great expansion. My hon. Friend the Member for Mossley made a statement which he asked me to correct; he suggested that the food was not fit for swine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-15", "file": "debates1938-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "651f645a02ea2224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Priority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "He was explaining accidents, if you like, by stating the facts. In the nature of the case the comparatively inexperienced pilots have to begin at some time or other to fly these fast and powerful machines. What he was stating was not a criticism but a fact in explanation of accidents. I know there are other points which I have left untouched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-15a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.388.7", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "In view of the obvious fact that the Non-intervention Agreement is being violated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.388.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister considered any question of action in view of this continued breach, and may I recall to his mind the statement which he made when he talked in this House of his conversations with Italy that any further activities changing the military situation in Spain would necessarily affect the continuance of those conversations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.413.9", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CZECHOSLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Surely on a matter of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.413.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CZECHOSLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, may I point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": " Minister who has devoted himself more completely and with a more single mind to the duties placed upon him in a great office than has my Noble Friend. Far from censuring him, I feel that we ought to pay him a tribute for the very remarkable results that have been achieved during his administration. I think my Noble Friend has, perhaps, suffered from the fact that he is not here to defend himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead)", "preceding_text": "l considerations were involved. It is true that there is a question regarding the services to Ireland, and I think any one will agree that, in the case of what is not purely an internal service within this country but one between this country and Ireland, it is perhaps reasonable that there should be considerations which would not operate in the case of a line merely operating within this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.486.5", "colnum": "486", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "rters which are not at all friendly to us on this side of the House. I read in the \"Evening Standard\" that many even of those who are opposed to British intervention in Spanish affairs are recognising in the present crisis a situation unfavourable to Britain and detrimental to her national interests. So says Lord Beaverbrook, I think that the \"Daily Mirror\" belongs to Lord Rothermere, does it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.486.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.489.0", "colnum": "489", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " leading article in that paper to-day, headed: Now for a Real Foreign Policy. It is worth reading to the House. While Herr von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, was cajoling his friends in English 'upper class' society, while Frau von Ribbentrop was giving the last of her pretty parties, Hitler was advancing upon Austria. 'Keep the English chattering while I act. Then laugh at them!'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ut of the narrow limits within the terms of the Motion. What we have to deal with in connection with this Motion is the grave menace—to use the words of the Motion—to British interests arising out of the armed intervention in Spain by certain foreign Powers. From what does this menace arise? Apparently, the right hon. Gentleman thinks that it is something which has grown up suddenly, in the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " point of victory. There have been successive disappointments, first on one side and then on the other for quite a long time. I ask myself, supposing it be true that that which suddenly seems to have altered the situation in favour of General Franco's forces, does presage what I may call a complete victory, can it be said that that is due to the accession of fresh forces and munitions to his side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.503.5", "colnum": "503", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "Even supposing this paper is denied by the Spanish Government it is, I submit, rash and wrong for us to make our deductions from newspaper articles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.503.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "r situation. We are the marked down victims. These are only the manoeuvrings of troops to get them into position. That is all that is happening up till now. When I came into politics it was no part of my intention, and it has never been part of my effort, to maintain the British Empire. I have never at any time approached my electors with a promise that I was going to safeguard the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "terials have, of course, been imported in very large quantities. There have undoubtedly been large quantities of Italian tanks and aeroplanes, and German tanks and aeroplanes and guns. But on the Government side, only two days ago the Government's own communique said that there were 60 Government aeroplanes fighting 30 on Franco's side. Where did they get them? They did not make them in Barcelona.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.521.7", "colnum": "521", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "preceding_text": " if we approach the matter not with political feelings, but from the strategic point of view, such differences as exist—and they are very wide differences in the political field—between both sides of the House on this Spanish question might be narrowed. We might find a bridge. We might find between the Imperial interests on this side of the House and the democratic interests on that side a bridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.521.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And his reply!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "in the last three weeks has been proved. If the Prime Minister has no information about it, I am sorry, but I am bound to say that in my view, and in the view of responsible people in all quarters of the House, there has been within the last three weeks an intensification of Fascist attacks in Spain. If the Prime Minister does not know anything about it, perhaps he will read to us the French Note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "ive the same definition of their own alternative policy as they would have to do if they held the responsibility of government. At the same time, in order to see where we are, we must examine what this alternative policy is. I was interested to hear the right hon. Gentleman just now when he finished his speech say that the Opposition had never asked that we should go into Spain. Is that really so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman just now when he finished his speech say that the Opposition had never asked that we should go into Spain. Is that really so? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] That was a rather half-hearted answer, I think. I have certainly understood that there were sincere and devoted men whose firm opinion was that the right course for this Government to adopt was to intervene in this Spanish quarrel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.530.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": " was that the right course for this Government to adopt was to intervene in this Spanish quarrel. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I merely ask the House, and I ask my hon. Friends to note that now, on 16th March of this year, we have it from the Opposition that none of them has ever sought to suggest that we should intervene and go into Spain. It is a complete change from the position which again and again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.532.4", "colnum": "532", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "—to rely on the judgment of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.532.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.532.6", "colnum": "532", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.532.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I accept the right hon. Gentleman's statement of the position of his party, but I repeat that I am perfectly prepared to leave to the judgment of the country what that policy is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.533.4", "colnum": "533", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman will not differ from me when I say that his view is, and he is perfectly entitled to put it, that this country should supply one side in Spain with arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.533.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " on this very point. It is not true that all members of the League were equally desirous to help one side in the civil war. There was a difference of opinion. If we had adopted any other policy, we should, I think in the judgment of all fair-minded people, greatly have increased the danger not only of our being involved in war in Spain, but of enlarging the area of that conflict throughout Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Volunteers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "involved in war in Spain, but of enlarging the area of that conflict throughout Europe. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] I will tell the hon. Member why. I think the view which is put forward in the Motion is a rather one-sided account of the matter. Certain Powers, Italy and Germany, are mentioned, and they are said to have supplied troops in Spain. There are troops there also from other foreign nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": ", of a French Note which he alleged had just been despatched and which we had either replied to or had not replied to—I am not sure which. The general implication of what he said was that there had been addressed to us a Note from the French Government asking or proposing that we should take some action. That is what he meant. I would ask him this question. He is professing knowledge of this Note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "r-Secretary of State for Air made a very great complaint that there was any export of arms from this country; he pointed out that we needed more and more of these weapons. If I am not mistaken—I shall be glad to be corrected if I am wrong, but I have not the quotation before me—I think I am right in having read in the \"Daily Herald\" this morning that Mr. Ward, of the Amalgamated Engineering Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he will state if there have been representations within the last two days made by the French Government to His Majesty's Government—whether by Note or not I am not concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-16", "file": "debates1938-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a0536612d80b33b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "I expressly dissociated myself from my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-16a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-17", "file": "debates1938-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "520498cc0f11539a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "of the Government, especially in the last three years, the British Navy has to face to-day in its task of organising the protection of these shores and the safe convoying of its Mercantile Marine, a series of new and potential enemy bases for the operation both of surface and submarine craft against British interests which ought never to have been allowed to be developed? I say at once that Spain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-17", "file": "debates1938-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "520498cc0f11539a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "en there is the fortification of some other islands; which are being provided with very heavy armaments, much more than we think of putting in minor naval bases in the Red Sea. All of these constitute a process which, I submit to the House, requires the unceasing vigilance of the British Admiralty and of the British nation. I have a sort of feeling that we are being netted in in various direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-17", "file": "debates1938-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "520498cc0f11539a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "preceding_text": "I cannot question the right hon. Gentleman's assertion, but a statement to that effect by my right hon. Friend the Member for Epping was not contradicted in the House at the time. However, I will not dwell on the subject. I do not want to make trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-17", "file": "debates1938-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "520498cc0f11539a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "eply regret that I was ever a party to reducing the British Navy. That was because I believed in the League of Nations, but the more I see of the world, the more I realise that collective action is a pious hope. I pray to God that we are not going to start a war for the sake of collective action when we are the only people who can collect and the only country in the League of Nations ready to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-17", "file": "debates1938-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "520498cc0f11539a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Marsden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have no friends now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Marsden", "preceding_text": "t by the two next strongest Powers, we built one ship of equal strength. To-day, we do not know who our enemies may be. At one time we did not know who our friends were. So long as the present Government continue their sane and sensible policy there is little chance of our going to war, but if the party opposite could give vent to what they have in mind, we should have no friends, but all enemies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-17", "file": "debates1938-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "520498cc0f11539a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Marsden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Marsden", "preceding_text": "read the reason he gave for his resignation, and that is that the party opposite are a menace to the peace of the world. Why do we want a strong Navy? We do not know who our enemies might be, and we want a Navy by which we can defend ourselves. I agree with the Noble Lady. We need a strong Navy to defend ourselves, independent of such assistance as we might or might not get from any other sources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-17a.688.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-21", "file": "debates1938-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b3cf23118836b56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.823.3", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of Atholl", "preceding_text": "ent have received from the French Government a formidable list of aeroplanes of these types which have been employed in insurgent quarters; and may I also ask my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister how the civilian population of Barcelona and other towns can be protected from the air raids which he views, naturally, with such horror, if the Spanish Government are not allowed to buy chaser planes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.823.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-21", "file": "debates1938-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b3cf23118836b56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is not Barcelona a military objective in view of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.826.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-21", "file": "debates1938-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b3cf23118836b56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.838.6", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CZECHOSLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.838.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-21", "file": "debates1938-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b3cf23118836b56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.840.4", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CZECHOSLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not in the Cabinet.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. V. Adams", "preceding_text": "Am I right in concluding that what you have just ruled does not infringe the rule of collective Cabinet responsibility?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-21", "file": "debates1938-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b3cf23118836b56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "flying. I hope you will never get drunk. I commend the courage of the Air-Marshal for saying that. It is not so much the actual consumption, as the tendency in some quarters to hold it up as an example of manliness, to glorify it as a habit without which one is not a real man, or something of that sort. I should like it to be a little less fashionable to be able to carry a large quantity of drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.875.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-21", "file": "debates1938-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b3cf23118836b56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINISTER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Henderson", "preceding_text": "rted in the newspapers of our own country and also received additional publicity by reason of the fact that certain material parts of the speech were broadcast over the British Broadcasting system. I wish to base my comments upon the report which was published on Saturday in the \"Times.\" In fairness to the Minister, I ought to read to the House the contents of the report, according to the \"Times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.950.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-21", "file": "debates1938-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "6b3cf23118836b56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHOSLOVAKIA (MINISTER'S SPEECH).", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "ologise, not least to those Under-Secretaries whose honourable office I have brought to-day into great public discussion, but also and in particular to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. I have told him that, as he naturally knows, I was not attempting to speak for the Government as a whole. I cannot speak for the Government as a whole. I do not know the policy at this moment of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-21a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-22", "file": "debates1938-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "47ff96cdcbd22afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCANTILE MARINE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "And does it not mean that some of those regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-22", "file": "debates1938-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "47ff96cdcbd22afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "AUSTRIAN REFUGEES IMMIGRATION AND NATURALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "preceding_text": "se they claim or prove to be Austrians, regardless of these considerations, think of the difficulty after their landing, after their spreading amongst the population, of the police department, the safety department of this country, which has to see that our own people are protected against those who might quite easily slip in—drug traffickers, white slave traffickers, people with criminal records.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-22", "file": "debates1938-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "47ff96cdcbd22afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1055.2", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Grigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"AT WHAT AGE? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Grigg", "preceding_text": "lieve to be vital. The State m this matter should be generous. When dealing with picked boys, it should give them their education free. These boys coming at a very early age, and picked for their all-round qualities, should enter the Service when they reach the appropriate age without any sense of inferiority, from whatever stratum they came. They would be boys picked from the whole of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-22", "file": "debates1938-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "47ff96cdcbd22afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blenheim!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "e. I differ from the hon. and gallant Member for Altrincham (Sir E. Grigg) in thinking that the defensive is not the proper role of the British Army, All the great victories of the British Army have been won in what were really defensive actions. Cressy, Agincourt, Waterloo, and most of the victories of the ancestor of the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) were really defensive actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-22", "file": "debates1938-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "47ff96cdcbd22afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "hen the next question you are entitled to ask, is: When you now introduce a scheme like this can you stand up and say that the total emoluments of married officers under our scheme compare favourably with the total emoluments in the Air Force or in the Army? On that I produce this evidence: that every naval officer, of course, thinks that every Army officer and every Air Force officer is overpaid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-22a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-23", "file": "debates1938-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b77b3fd1d6bb3e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1219.5", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ll over the country and the minds of economists who have been spending a good deal of time in studying it. In the Debate on the King's Speech on 27th October, 1937, hon. Members opposite were, as usual, a little light in their manner of dealing with these things, as though they were matters for levity. In my speech in that Debate, I said: The fundamentals of our economic life remain what they were", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-23", "file": "debates1938-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b77b3fd1d6bb3e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "ing asked to plan. On 14th February, 1938, there were estimated to be in work, excluding agricultural workers, insured persons, between the ages of 16 and 64, to the number of 11,324,000. There were estimated to be unemployed 1,810,000, and this number includes 1,062,000 adult males who were registered as wholly unemployed. The total number of persons registered as temporarily stopped was 335,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-23", "file": "debates1938-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b77b3fd1d6bb3e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "y in that particular part of the country. The remedy for that particular problem lies elsewhere. Indeed, those who are running a double campaign on the one hand, for planning for more prosperity, and on the other hand a demand for low prices, are making incompatible demands. Any such demands are frivolous demands, because things which are fundamentally incompatible must be fundamentally frivolous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-23", "file": "debates1938-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b77b3fd1d6bb3e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "try and Members of the House with such forecasts as can reasonably be made. The right hon. Gentleman quoted one passage from the report but not the other. The economic advice given by the Committee is so balanced that it is illusory to quote a part only. The right hon. Gentleman was in error in talking about the report being the first to advocate the putting aside of a large sum by way of reserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-23", "file": "debates1938-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b77b3fd1d6bb3e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "put a gloss on it which cannot be sustained. Some of the 868,000 insured persons who were in work when we took the last count may be out of work next time, while some of those on the insured register who were then out of work may be in work next time. I am using precisely comparable figures, not ignoring the fact that the insured population is generally larger than those in work at any given time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-23", "file": "debates1938-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b77b3fd1d6bb3e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "on, there has been a large reduction in unemployment, from 143,000 to 95,000. This has, unfortunately, resulted from persons leaving the industry for other kinds of work. Cotton has suffered considerable contraction, the insured population having fallen from 518,000 to 408,000. Unemployment has improved from 26 to 23 per cent. but the numbers in employment are smaller than they were six years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-23", "file": "debates1938-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "b77b3fd1d6bb3e70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY (DOMINIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": " undertake. Nor must other nations expect that the League will provide that security which it was once hoped it would provide.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd February, 1938; col. 228, Vol. 332.] That is a nice look-out for some European States which have been looking to the League for that security. He goes on: I believe that if the League would throw off shams and pretences, which everyone sees through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-23a.1337.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMAMENTS PROGRAMME (TRADE UNION CO-OPERATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister be good enough to bear in mind that he is not likely to obtain the whole-hearted co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1367.7", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMAMENTS PROGRAMME (TRADE UNION CO-OPERATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "In putting this question, I mean it quite seriously. On this question of the co-operation of the trades unions in regard to foreign policy, will the right hon. Gentleman be good enough to bear in mind the necessity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1367.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "obligation which might mean war but, if you did not, there was a great probability that in the end you might drift and be pulled into it.\" The Prime Minister has merely left us and the world in a 1914 situation. We believe that there is nothing quite so dangerous as a policy of weakness, drift and uncertainty. The Prime Minister has given no certainty to this country or any appearance of strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Britain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister said that it was better to try to settle the political difficulties before we dealt with the economic difficulties. He has not been very successful with the political difficulties. Perhaps he had better turn and try to deal with the economic difficulties. One of the outstanding factors in the world situation is widespread poverty in great countries, like Poland, Italy and Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " Therefore, I say that one indispensable way—it is not, of course, the complete policy of constructive peace which I want the Government to pursue—one indispensable way of averting war is to make it clear beforehand to Germany that if, in our opinion, Czechoslovakia is the victim of unprovoked aggression—and we, of course, must retain our freedom of decision as to whether aggression is unprovoked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not let the House know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "When I sit down I will hand the hon. and gallant Gentleman the cutting from the \"Times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what we have done!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "t me quote the views of the Conservative leaders. Lord Derby said: We have steadily kept in view the fact that our occupation was temporary and provisional only, and that our object must be to put the Egyptian administration into such a position that, guarded and guaranteed from external interference,— it is not guarded and guaranteed from Bolshevism in this case— it should be able to stand alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "I have the quotation. Let me make clear to the right hon. Gentleman his own party's programme. The British Labour movement affirms its uncompromising opposition to any agreement with either Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. That was published in the Press on the 24th February.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": " on bickering and jangling with a 110,000,000 people? If so what armaments will be wanted? I want hon. Members opposite to look at realities. If they are going to make enemies of 70,000,000 Germans and 40,000,000 Italians, I do not know what is going to happen. Dictators come and go, but peoples remain. Therefore, I ask the Labour party not to treat 110,000,000 people as if they were plague spots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": "ression shoulder to shoulder with other nations, the world would know where we stood. Certainly, the world does not know today any more than it did yesterday where the Government stand, because the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister has reserved to the Government, in all cases except, I assume, where we are bound by treaty, discretion to decide whether we shall or shall not resist aggression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Particularly this Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": "at is not a warlike policy, but a policy which gives the greatest likelihood of peace. It is a policy which, among other things, is directed, I believe, to bring peace-loving nations such as the United States of America to our help. I was told the other day that the American people always trust the British people, but never a British Government. I think that there is a great deal of truth in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "I understood that that was the main thesis of hon. and right hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "by Lord Beaconsfield to be one—as in the case of guaranteeing the integrity of France. There are certain absolutely vital British interests—I need not enumerate them—which we shall always defend. So far as commitments in Central Europe are concerned, if I may paraphrase Oliver Cromwell, the great hero of Mr. Isaac Foot, the hon. Member's father, I would say, \"Trust in God and keep your paper dry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "orking-class people more than anything that has happened in the last 20 years. The Government have come to our people and are asking them to make sacrifices, but our people remember that the Home Secretary described the struggle of the Spanish people for freedom as a faction fight, and that Members of the party on the other side have described Franco as a Christian gentleman, gentle and courteous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1485.1", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ssary to enable this country to carry out its obligations under the Covenant of the League. There are two ways of dealing with aggression—by permitting the aggressor to do what he wants or by resisting the aggressor. There may be a third method of making it unnecessary for the aggression to take place. Both political and economic appeasement throughout Europe is the most vital question of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ation in the Reich; because that invasion had thrown the world into an international crisis and everybody believed that a new statement of British foreign policy was required. I had a feeling in the Debate 10 days ago that many Members in many different quarters of the House had come to think that we were in that crisis because we had abandoned the policy of collective security through the League.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "rld. I submit that that is a realistic picture, which is fraught with the risk of a general conflict, and that it cannot be carried through very far without a European war. What is the policy of the Government as offered this afternoon to meet that danger? I note in the first place that the Prime Minister's language about the League of Nations was different from that which he used a fortnight ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "that our frontier is the Rhine involves the conclusion that we cannot have Germany on the northern coasts of France and Belgium, that it is our vital national strategic business to keep them out, and that therefore we shall fight for that and we will not fight in other causes—in Balkan quarrels for example. Therefore, we limit our commitments to what we know we will and can and ought to carry out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-24", "file": "debates1938-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5cddecdde44b5753", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND REARMAMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "talian steamship, the \"Antonio Piga-fetta,\" which is alleged to have unloaded war material consisting of 14 tanks and 12 chaser aeroplanes at Algeciras. On that point we have information, and this is it. There is no Italian ship of the name given. There are several Italian ships in which the name \"Antonio\" or \"Antonia\" occurs, but none of them was at Algeciras or anywhere about at the time stated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-24a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-25", "file": "debates1938-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a847a62194af9ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-25a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS, 1935 AND 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hat the Committee should give back £180,000 a year in reduction of contributions, having regard to the low scale of benefit paid to agricultural workers. A sum of £40,000 of the available surplus is to be used for increased benefit but £180,000 is to go to the Treasury in reduction of contribution. Have the representatives of the Agricultural Workers Union asked for that reduction of contribution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-25a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-25", "file": "debates1938-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a847a62194af9ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-25a.1578.3", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS, 1935 AND 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " each child should be raised to 3s. Under the Order which we are now making a similar family of four will get 32s. a week. In the meantime, what has happened to the cost of living? At the time when Mr. Shaw introduced his Bill the index figure of the cost of living was 178. It is now 156. If we convert the figures to a comparable basis, the 27s. which the Labour party in 1924 thought was adequate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-25a.1578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-25", "file": "debates1938-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "a847a62194af9ca0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-25a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS, 1935 AND 1936.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "der to enable them to enter the insurance field, for example, the privilege in favour of ten instead of 30 contributions in the two years, but once they have entered the insurance field through this well deserved and entirely proper privilege, it is only right that if they are seasonal workers they should be treated as such. With regard to the various points raised by the hon. Member for Goebbels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-25a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Day", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Day", "preceding_text": "an market, but with our limited knowledge of production it is impossible for us to crash into that market. British producers do not bring all the people concerned in the production of films over here. The mistake they make is that they do not bring in the persons who are particularly useful in the organisation and the production of films. If you go to Hollywood—and I have been there several times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1711.1", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "The President of the Board of Trade took upon himself the role of prophet. He was quite certain, he was prepared to bet large sums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1729.0", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Everard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Englishman! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Everard", "preceding_text": "idy is given for the training of people who come from the Dominions. It is only given in the case of people who are \"substantially resident in this country.\" I think that is the phrase used. Most people would agree that the training of a man from Australia or New Zealand is just as well worth the £25 subsidy as the training of a Britisher and that the man will be just as valuable as the Britisher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "r caused any damage to a passenger whom he carried. Whatever there may have been in the past—there may have been something or there may have been nothing at all—I think that in the interests of the country and of general harmony after this inquiry, the services of such a man should be retained. I appeal to my hon. and gallant Friend to do what he can to consider the possibility of taking him back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1763.4", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is no answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": "roplane construction firm, Sir Charles does not occupy any such position. That is where his independence lies. I think his appointment is recognised to be satisfactory, not merely from the point of view of the industry but from the point of view of the Government and because one gets that combination of fortunate circumstances there is no reason why those other points should necessarily be raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1769.5", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1769.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1770.8", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I cannot give way any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1770.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1773.5", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": "There is no question of the line not being considered fairly. I gather that what the Noble Lord is really anxious is that I should give an assurance that it will get the subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "preceding_text": "olution in flying. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Wallasey (Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon) told the House the other night that he learnt his flying in a balloon, and how 30 years ago the sport of ballooning gave way to the aeroplane. I cannot help feeling that the aeroplane as we know it may be on the road to obsolescence in five years' time, and that we shall be up in the stratosphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-28", "file": "debates1938-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "2eccfa1ec89d728e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1798.1", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"NO. A lot of Members want to speak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I suggest that possibly the House will now be willing to come to a decision; I think that is the general wish of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-28a.1798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-29", "file": "debates1938-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "128bf3ea3d9e3244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman the Secretary of State ought to go to His Majesty's Cabinet and lay down terms and conditions for the future government of Scotland, and if they are not accepted he and his friends ought to walk from the Front Bench. We have all been in this business; we have all had a share of responsibility. But the fact of the matter is that profiteering is being permitted in the building industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-29", "file": "debates1938-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "128bf3ea3d9e3244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1917.3", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AGRICULTURAL POPULATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": " new house in place of an existing bad building, and I take it that the right hon. Gentleman will insist that in every case the private landlord is only to get a lump sum down, to a maximum of, say, £200. Then the landlord, to the extent of that £200, will have had his property added to in value, and in that case he will be the owner of the property, and he will charge the farmer something for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-29", "file": "debates1938-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "128bf3ea3d9e3244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (AGRICULTURAL POPULATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "which it has been used in an abominable manner by farmers in certain parts of our country. The agricultural labourers, particularly those in organisations, are very much against it. In regard to the hypothetical sums which have been mentioned as payments by way of assistance we are told that they may be £160, or £180 or £200 or indeed one-half the cost of the house—I suppose whichever is the most.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-29", "file": "debates1938-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "128bf3ea3d9e3244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "I should hardly think so. I think it would be somewhat difficult to withdraw it, but I will certainly consider whether that is the true interpretation of the Clause,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-29", "file": "debates1938-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "128bf3ea3d9e3244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1960.1", "colnum": "1960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "tion of prejudice because a person has not seen fit to make any admission. Nor do I see how it is going to make the Crown authorities careless in preparing or presenting their case. The hon. Member for Dumbartonshire (Mr. Cassells) has mentioned a case that he had in which two days were wasted, and I think the hon. and learned Member for North Edinburgh (Mr. Erskine Hill) had a similar experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-29a.1960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-30", "file": "debates1938-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a6ba57b6199cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "I hope the Government will not accept this new Clause. It is a little surprising that although it has been drafted by two Welsh Members they have been so careless in the drafting that they have left out their own country. I have always understood that the word \"England\" included Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-30", "file": "debates1938-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a6ba57b6199cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2050.1", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or no profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " with that aspect of the matter. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan), who is familiar with the sinking of coal mines, knows that the sinking and development of a great modem pit may take five years, and perhaps involve the expenditure of £1,000,000. For the first two or three years of work, the returns are moderate and then for a period of anything from 10 to 40 years there are high profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-30", "file": "debates1938-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a6ba57b6199cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2073.1", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "of this occasion to bring our complaints and grievances before the House of Commons. The city which I represent has sent several deputations to the Secretary for Mines. Since our last Debate the Lord Mayor has led a deputation to him on this question. I do not know what went on at that interview, but after the way in which the North Staffordshire area entertained the Secretary for Mines last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-30", "file": "debates1938-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a6ba57b6199cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2102.1", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "easonably have been expected to agree. I have never known words of that kind in an Act of Parliament. I know what a reasonable man might be expected to do but what a person \"might reasonably be expected to agree to,\" I have not any idea at all. I do not think that any court would ever decide such a point, and this is a matter which, presumably, would have to be decided by the courts in every case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-30", "file": "debates1938-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "7a6ba57b6199cfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2129.1", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ch employs him—that is the other alternative. He is to be nominated by the Commission but is to remain the servant of the undertaking which employs him. It is an impossible position for anyone to be nominated by an outside body and be the servant of another undertaking, which might not like the man and might say that he has not the proper qualification. Yet it is proposed to put him in by Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-30a.2129.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-31", "file": "debates1938-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f0b582f57d41785b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2168.8", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I addressed a meeting in the same hall last Sunday night, and that there were no plain-clothes policemen there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2168.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-31", "file": "debates1938-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f0b582f57d41785b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2186.1", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "If I took any such foolish suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-03-31", "file": "debates1938-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f0b582f57d41785b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2186.2", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "If I took any such foolish suggestion—[ Interruption ]—I should not be acting in the interests of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-31", "file": "debates1938-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f0b582f57d41785b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2210.3", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ent to Provisional Order machinery for the purpose of determining whether the amalgamation of mining undertakings should be applied. I hope that that will satisfy the hon. Member, but if it does not, no doubt he will deal with it in due course. What is the consequence likely to be if the Amendment of the right hon. Gentleman is accepted? It will be, first of all, to make amalgamations less likely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-31", "file": "debates1938-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f0b582f57d41785b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2230.2", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "y under which people are forced to do things which they are unwilling to do, for some reason which nobody can explain. I do not like compulsory amalgamation and I am not much impressed by voluntary amalgamation. It is not as if those great enterprises which have been amalgamated are, in the main, very successful. The railways were compulsorily amalgamated and they have been in rather a mess since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-03-31", "file": "debates1938-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "f0b582f57d41785b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2234.3", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For different reasons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "hink the hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) said that he had never been briefed by the Mining Association. When the hon. Member for Sea-ham asks what chance the local authorities would have of briefing equally good counsel, he knows very well that, in practice, before the Select Committee, the local authority and the Mining Association would be on the same side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-03-31a.2234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-01", "file": "debates1938-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "59f362adf2f00b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2300.1", "colnum": "2300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not been here!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "I always rather dislike to hear hon. Members opposite talking about recruiting, even on a specific Amendment like this, because one should always feel that the Army is a fine career for a young man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-01", "file": "debates1938-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "59f362adf2f00b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2304.1", "colnum": "2304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": " own homes, and have enlisted. We are told that because a parent should come and say, \"Do give me back my boy,\" without any further inquiry we should hand the boy back to the condition of affairs from which he has escaped. That is a proposal to which I am not prepared to assent. I should have expected the argument in favour of this Clause to be that the Army is a bad place, that it is like prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-01", "file": "debates1938-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "59f362adf2f00b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2306.2", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": ", whether on his parents' request or on his own. That is the present practice. A man is discharged unconditionally and at once if he is shown to be under 17 years of age. I do not know whether I rightly interpret the expressions upon the faces of hon. Members opposite. Some of them, I should say, would prefer that the matter should be dealt with upon those lines, quite openly. If that be the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-01", "file": "debates1938-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "59f362adf2f00b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2306.2", "colnum": "2306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We never said that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": ". Members opposite. Some of them, I should say, would prefer that the matter should be dealt with upon those lines, quite openly. If that be the view—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Well, if that is not the view, and if anyone is going to get up and say that a man between the ages 17 and 18 should be forthwith discharged upon the ground that the Army is not a suitable and proper profession for a man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-01", "file": "debates1938-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "59f362adf2f00b1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2338.1", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "swer. The imports from the Empire last year amounted to only 35 cwts. out of 6,000 cwts. total imports, and these goods from the Empire come in duty free. The annual home production of handkerchiefs last year was between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 dozen which weighed somewhere between 7,000 and 10,000 cwts. That compares with the figures of imports from Japan of 2,181,000 dozen, weighing 5,768 cwts.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-01a.2338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "integrity and its political independence against external aggression. On a previous occasion, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer taunted me with having suggested that we should intervene in the Spanish War. My words, as recorded in the OFFICIAL REPORT, do not bear that interpretation, but I would remind this House—and I am sorry that the First Lord of the Admiralty is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " what it believes to be good and what it believes to be bad; and I believe that if…it stood aside and allowed it to be thought that there was no difference between one faction and another faction in Russia, it would be doomed …to sterility ….I do not believe that a policy of no intervention is possible. ''— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th November, 1919; cols. 1582–83, Vol. 120.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Give them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "an with no information, of course. would not be able to say whether I was right or wrong I can give particulars of the number of new aeroplanes—bombers and chasers—which have gone into Spain since the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) resigned his office as Foreign Secretary. I can prove this to my own satisfaction and, I think, to that of all reasonable people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who wrote it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "res his desire to finish off Spain in order to be free for other matters. Hitler and Mussolini have squared Stoyadinovitch so that Yugoslavia will observe a benevolent neutrality, whatever happens in Spain and Austria. Hitler is reported to have obtained a free hand in Austria from Mussolini in exchange for agreeing with his going ahead on his Spanish adventure. That letter was written in January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "e, and are ready at any time to agree to an international arrangement which will effectively prevent and render impossible all attempts to interfere from outside in the affairs of another State. In the same speech, 21st May, 1935, not three years ago, Herr Hitler said: Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria nor to conclude an Anschluss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: The Comintern.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "oes he desire to see financial and Fascist interests destroy the Popular Front Government in France, so as to make it easier for him to get his Four-Power arrangement? If so, the right hon. Gentleman is playing with fire. Suppose he got his arrangement. Against whom would it be directed? Who would be the common foe? Four-Power arrangements are not arranged in a vacuum. Who would be the common foe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ght postpone the dreadful day, but he would have done so at the price of sacrificing other nations, whom he has no right to sacrifice, and to whom his obligations to the League ought to help him to defend. I am sorry that the situation should have developed as it has. I do not believe that Great Britain has ever been so humiliated since the seventeenth century, when Van Tromp sailed up the Thames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Marks and Spencers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": ". Members to interrupt, but they might talk to Londoners and they would realise what it means for a foreign Power to come up the Thames and, so to speak, \"cock a snoop\" at the City of London. I submit that the right hon. Gentleman's policy is not the way to peace. His conversations do not get this country and the world out of the morass into which it has sunk. Peace cannot be bought at Woolworths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Co-ops?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "d realise what it means for a foreign Power to come up the Thames and, so to speak, \"cock a snoop\" at the City of London. I submit that the right hon. Gentleman's policy is not the way to peace. His conversations do not get this country and the world out of the morass into which it has sunk. Peace cannot be bought at Woolworths. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Marks and Spencers.\"] No, or at Marks and Spencers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " the morass into which it has sunk. Peace cannot be bought at Woolworths. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Marks and Spencers.\"] No, or at Marks and Spencers. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Co-ops?\"] It might be bought for a time by paying moneylenders excessive rates of interest. Peace can always be bought at the price of liberty and submission. But liberty still means something to the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "d settled. We believe that in that way moral authority would again be asserted, and the aggressor would know the fate which would befall him should he again transgress. We would rather have a peace conference before a war than have one after the next war. Then we should be compelled to have it; better have it now than then. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made a constructive proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": " been able to draw, the policy of His Majesty's Government, as stated, has won the general approval of the whole country; and not only this country, but I may say practically the whole world, with the possible exception of Russia. Therefore, I am not disposed to think that an appeal to the country upon this issue is one which is likely to justify the Opposition's contention that it should be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.53.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "1935.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Which election pledges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.56.6", "colnum": "56", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—that it can fulfil its purpose, that it can be an effective instrument for the prevention of war and the establishment of settled peace in the world, and we shall do our best, as we said at the time, to increase the efficiency of the League until it is capable of performing its functions. It cannot perform those functions to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.56.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " has been a change or there has not been a change. To-day he declared there had been a change. He said that the League of Nations is no longer the keystone of the Government's policy. I see the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Lipson) shaking his head. He said the League of Nations was no longer the keystone of the Government's policy, because it is not in a position to be so at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ns of his life until the autumn of 1931. The foreign policy that has been pursued for the last 20 years has given the Hitler Movement all the encouragement it needed, and the Government are now proposing to placate him for fear he should behave like the wild animal that Europe knows him to be. Six or seven years ago, when the right hon. Gentleman was a junior Minister in the Labour Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "r liberty by a small community of people on the one side against two of the mightiest military countries in the world on the other, we are to be left in doubt on which side the sympathies of this nation and Empire lie. What does the man in the street say with regard to Austria? He says that the rape of Austria was made inevitable by the Prime Minister's speech only a few days before it took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Italy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "dward Grey in this House on 3rd August, 1914. If you want to know why this country went into the War you have to examine the declarations made before it happened, not the phrases that unwise people subsequently invented. And therefore that part of the hon. Member's speech had no particular bearing. Now I come to a subject to which he devoted a good deal of attention. Who intervened first in Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Made by the Moors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " made before it happened, not the phrases that unwise people subsequently invented. And therefore that part of the hon. Member's speech had no particular bearing. Now I come to a subject to which he devoted a good deal of attention. Who intervened first in Spain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Italy.\"] Let us see. Who won the great battle for the defence of Madrid? The International Legion. Who beat that attack?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "re Spanish subjects associated with Spaniards, and the International Legion defeated them and prevented possibly the termination of the war at the end of three months. The International Legion was a force drawn from a great many countries of the world, including this country— because at that time we had not put into force the Foreign Enlistment Act. That was the first material act of intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "s the first material act of intervention. [ Interruption. ] I am not surprised that hon. Members are getting cross. We have listened impatiently for two years to the most dishonest propaganda in international affairs I have ever known. Who was the Foreign Ambassador who for the first five or six months of the war was virtually a member of the Spanish Government and Cabinet? The Russian Ambassador.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "terruption. ] It is perfectly true. I know that the Noble Lady the Member for Perth and Kinross (Duchess of Atholl) does not like it. She has been going round the country—I do not know why—in complete defiance of all her ancient principles. She used to tell stories about Russia. It is true. It was gloried in. Hon. Members and Noble Ladies must not get cross if some of us say these things in reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "er ancient principles. She used to tell stories about Russia. It is true. It was gloried in. Hon. Members and Noble Ladies must not get cross if some of us say these things in reply. [ Interruption. ] I must ask hon. Members not to interrupt. I have only five minutes. I want to sit down by 20 minutes to 10; I want to keep my contract. Who will be most unpopular when the civil war in Spain is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " ever fought. In 1932 the Labour party wanted us to go to war with Japan. I well remember that I was fighting a by-election at Croydon when the crisis was at its height, and I know exactly what was the literature which was put out by my opponents. It came from the party headquarters. I know the speeches that were made. The policy that was advocated meant war with Japan, without the faintest doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "he Prime Minister in the direction of producing a policy which would lead to national unity in regard to foreign affairs, the Prime Minister went away and gestated for about rip days, and then produced no policy. There was not the slightest change. The right hon. Gentleman said that the Government were not going to change their attitude with regard to Spain and that non-intervention was to remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " of Europe which might be a very helpful buffer in times of difficulty. If I had had more time, I should have liked to have gone more deeply into some of these things, but I have promised the right hon. Gentleman that he should have time to reply. The suggestion, which was made again by the Prime Minister to-day, that the party on these benches has no effective alternative policy is simply untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "pposite, in the most friendly spirit, that they have said that sort of thing before. I remember on 15th September, 1931, when the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) was speaking from that Box on behalf of the party opposite. The hon. Member was speaking just after the first National Government had introduced a Budget under which every income in the country was going to suffer reductions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "tion we will go to the country confident that the alternative proposals that we shall put up will be preferred by the electors to the proposals put before us in these Budget Resolutions and in the Economy Bill ''—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th September, 1931; col. 795, vol. 256.] When the trumpet sounded hon. Members went to the country, and suffered a defeat so crushing that they have not yet recovered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ipswich!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": "ualification many of the details of the policy pursued by this Government with regard to the Abyssinian question. Once more, we were told, we had forfeited the confidence of the country. I would point out again that the electors of this country have had opportunities in many constituencies of pronouncing upon the policy of this Government since the event which hon. Members most severely criticise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The\" Yorkshire Post!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "—in almost every provincial paper of any importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not Eden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": " our Ambassador engages in negotiations in Rome, and not secret diplomacy when the right hon. Gentleman engages in conversations with Ministers in Rome. I say in all honesty that I believe that if hon. Members and right hon. Members opposite were on these benches to-day they would be pursuing very much the same sort of policy with regard to negotiations which His Majesty's Government are pursuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-04", "file": "debates1938-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "5df6ea2a030cdfd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "clair) suggested that the Dominions are opposed to this policy. I am not going to weary the House—I could not, in the time left, if I wanted to—with many of the quotations which could be made showing how this Government is supported in the Dominions. I will simply content myself with one quotation from one Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of South Africa. Speaking four or five weeks ago he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-04a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-05", "file": "debates1938-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "23d533c89bf117f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shorn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary for Mines (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "fairs this Session. Coal has gone a little better. This is the fifteenth day on the Bill, and as there is no Motion down for its rejection, I take it that if it has not the actual good will of all hon. Members, it has, at any rate, their benevolent neutrality. We have been engaged on this problem since early November. I think we can say that the Bill came in like a lion and is going out as a lamb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-05", "file": "debates1938-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "23d533c89bf117f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "preceding_text": "een called in, to get rid of that difficulty. There are one or two points to which I should like to draw attention from the same independent attitude with which I view this matter. The first is that in all this long sequence of misunderstandings, disputes and upheavals in this great industry we find it difficult to know with which side we have the least patience—the mineowners or the mine workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-05", "file": "debates1938-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "23d533c89bf117f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Coal and power.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "n claims were made which I thought to be absurd on behalf of com- pulsory amalgamations. I think they were mostly made by the party to which the hon. Member for South Bradford (Mr. Holdsworth) belongs. Compulsory amalgamations, we were told, would solve all the problems of the industry. You had only to have sufficient of them—the blessed word then was integration—and everything would be all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-05", "file": "debates1938-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "23d533c89bf117f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ting accident. If I may presume to offer some advice to him it would be that in future he should stick to hunting Ministers instead of foxes. He would find it much less arduous and much safer. He accused me of being a Socialist under the cover of a Conservative. I do not know whether to call that a sheep in wolf's clothing or a wolf in sheep's clothing, but I am as much an anti-Socialist as he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-05", "file": "debates1938-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "23d533c89bf117f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": " analyse or to fight it is simply to lump together all the things you do not happen to like and call them Socialism. I try to see what Socialism means to a Socialist. To-night I could not go through the reasons why I reject that solution. I regard the chief enemy of Socialism as being the inventor—the man who is always keeping industry dynamic while Socialism is the structure of a static industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-05a.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRINIDAD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is praedial larceny? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "With regard to the last part of the hon. Member's supplementary question, I have given my answer to-day. With regard to the other part, I would point out that there is praedial larceny and praedial larceny, and sentences of this kind are never given unless it is a case of malicious damage, and then not for a first offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Owen Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Owen Evans", "preceding_text": "ons of men will grasp that opportunity. We have heard to-day that the plight of the railway companies is bad in August, but the plight of the people who use the railways is much worse. I saw in a newspaper that the four main line railway companies usually carry 23,000,000 more passengers in August than in May. There are holiday resorts in my constituency, which has one of the finest bits of coast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I shall not keep the House very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS:\" Oh.-", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I shall not keep the House very long. [ Laughter. ] That is a firm promise. This Amendment raises what is almost essentially a woman's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "poken of holidays with families, and everybody knows that the people who most need a holiday are the working mothers. I believe that the time will come when we shall see that the best way to give a working mother a holiday is to give her a holiday away from the children. At present that is usually impossible. A working mother should have a holiday completely away from her husband and her children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "idays. In many ways the fashion is already broken. Many people want their holidays in June, but cannot get them because they have families. It will be easier for the Government to set the fashion, but I would ask them not to be too late about it. If we get more holidays with pay there is going to be the most appalling congestion. I come from a part of the country where we get a good many visitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALEDONIAN POWER BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: It is a question of marketing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "That again is a mistake, with which I shall deal in a moment. By itself it is uneconomic, but, if you take the question of distribution and the averaging of costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALEDONIAN POWER BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": ", by his Department— that, in similar conditions as regards rainfall and under the regulated flow from the power stations provided for in the Bill, the average depth of water passing over the Weir will be 18 feet 8½ inches. That is to say, under this Bill, one inch more water will pass over than passed over in the driest year since 1915. That is the calculation by the Ministry of Transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.445.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.469.6", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALEDONIAN POWER BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: British Oxygen.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman might listen to what I have to say in reply. I said that the Scottish Power Company paid 8 per cent. and the Caledonian Power Company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.469.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALEDONIAN POWER BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Marquess of Clydesdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Marquess of Clydesdale", "preceding_text": "tland, which might cause embarrassment not only in Scotland but in this very House. The Highlands of Scotland are undoubtedly a depressed area. There is a higher percentage of unemployment in the Highlands of Scotland than in the Special Areas. It is true that the population of the Highlands is not as great as that of the depressed areas, but the reason is that the Highlands have been depopulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.472.3", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALEDONIAN POWER BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Ellis", "preceding_text": "I would like to bring the House back to essential points. One is the location of industry, and the other is national necessity. As far as the claims of districts go, great as the needs of the Highlands may be from the point of view of Scotland, there are districts in England and Wales which need assistance far more than the Highlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-06", "file": "debates1938-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "190608359db3c200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CALEDONIAN POWER BILL. (By Order.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": ", carrying this enormous burden of responsibility for the Defence of the country, in what all hon. Members know is a time of danger, if the House gave him this Bill it would help to relieve that anxious burden of his responsibility. Surely, there is no hon. Member who, realising what that burden of responsibility is for National Defence, can deny to the Minister that relief for which he is asking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-06a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-07", "file": "debates1938-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "a881c5db38695115", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-07a.509.4", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (PLEBISCITE VOTE, GREAT BRITAIN).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "Did not the same thing happen in America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-07a.509.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-07", "file": "debates1938-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "a881c5db38695115", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-07a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rotten.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "nk of the splendid condition in which fresh fruit is brought from Tasmania and South Africa, and of the magnificent condition of New Zealand lamb as served on the tables in this country, absolutely as good as it would be in New Zealand. It seems tragic that fish which has been caught for perhaps a fortnight or three weeks should arrive in this country in a condition which can only be described as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-07a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-08", "file": "debates1938-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "1337ef074c6bcb70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-08a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "fication of the words following line 5 on page 6, which refer in terms to the invention disclosed in the documents. I think he is entitled to expect us to consider that point during the Committee stage. For these reasons, recognising that we shall perhaps have to give close attention to one or two of these points, but that no attack in principle has been made on the various provisions of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-08a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-11", "file": "debates1938-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "6ea512df6f834947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-11a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "at they want at a reasonable cost, but there is an eleventh commandant which has come into existence—\"Thou shalt not give people what they want at a price which they can afford to pay.\" The National Government are continually taking away this kind of freedom, the freedom which to my mind has built up this country. Clause 40 is the most remarkable Clause of all. It is the introduction of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-11a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-11", "file": "debates1938-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "6ea512df6f834947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-11a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "given in 62 pages of legislation in order that we may cat bacon a few mornings of the week. The board may do advertising and control the form of the transport which takes the little pigs to market. If I were to say all this on a public platform, people would think that I was John Tilley making a stump speech; but those are the powers in the Bill. The Bill is another step towards the Fascist State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-11a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-11", "file": "debates1938-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "6ea512df6f834947", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-11a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": "n. Member for West Perth (Duchess of Atholl) asked a question about this on 6th April, and we have been inquiring into the question. The Noble Lady also said this ship arrived at Seville—I think she probably meant Cadiz—with 250 Italian aviators. The difficulty about that ship was that on this date, according to our information, it arrived on the 26th at Marseilles, which is a long way from Cadiz.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-11a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-12", "file": "debates1938-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "cae9243ddbf1a9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-12a.996.5", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "The proposal is to remit a fee. By the remission of the fee the burden falling upon the local authority will be increased, and the net effect ultimately will be that to a fractional extent the rates will be increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-12a.996.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-12", "file": "debates1938-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "cae9243ddbf1a9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-12a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "order to make his position secure, suggested to the builder that where formerly there were only four shelves he should put in six. Those six shelves were three feet in length, 11 inches wide by one inch thick. The price was 1s. and the necessary labour amounted to 3s. The owner of the property, having instructed the builder to do that, claimed from the tenant an additional 8 per cent. on the rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-12a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-12", "file": "debates1938-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "cae9243ddbf1a9c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-12a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Groom-Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Groom-Johnson", "preceding_text": "asses of the community should be on the local authorities, but what would hon. Members opposite say if, on a particular day, it turned out that those people who were ardent housing reformers happen to be engaged on a housing conference somewhere and are not present at the meeting of the local authority, but on the following day they are present, and on the following day you get a different result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-12a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-13", "file": "debates1938-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "81d2e08c87a89687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "preceding_text": "uit England and Wales, and therefore, it takes a different line. It was with that argument that I was dealing, but I do not pursue it. I thought it was a point, and I just mention it in the words of the great philosopher, Immanuel Kant: Act so that you can universalise the law of your maximum \"— Which means, If your date is not suitable for Scotland, then it will have to be removed for the others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-13", "file": "debates1938-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "81d2e08c87a89687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(Miscellaneous Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "As I am informed, the practice with some local authorities is that, in order to get the compounding allowance, the payment must be made by the landlord before it is due.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-13", "file": "debates1938-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "81d2e08c87a89687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(Miscellaneous Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "lteration of the law which will involve a general recalculation of rents of houses within the compounding limits, but we consider it the lesser of two evils, and we accordingly recommend that the necessary statutory amendment should be made\"—— as we are making it. That is the position. For those reasons, although in some cases the tenant will no longer get the benefit of an inequitable advantage —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-13", "file": "debates1938-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "81d2e08c87a89687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "SECOND SCHEDULE.—(Minor and Consequential Amendments.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The gifts that the Government bring on this occasion do not seem to evoke a generous response. Ten per cent. was considered the figure which represented the extra wear and tear the landlord suffered through having two families instead of one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-13a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-26", "file": "debates1938-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "69894f35fad1fe92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-26a.66.2", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEA DUTY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why do you do it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ropose to raise the duty on all tea, Empire and foreign, by 2d. per pound. This will maintain intact the existing margin of preference of 2d. per pound and it is estimated that the extra yield this year will be £2,750,000, and in a full year £3,250,000. I well understand that even an extra halfpenny per week is a material and appreciable addition to the expenses of those with the smallest incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-26a.66.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-26", "file": "debates1938-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "69894f35fad1fe92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-26a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCREASE OF CUSTOMS DUTY ON HYDROCARBON OILS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "hat armaments in themselves were not sufficient, and that there must also be an active policy such as he said the Government were pursuing with very good results. So, the Government are pursuing a policy of pacification in Europe, with very good results. What is the first result? According to the Chancellor, the first result is the British-Italian pact. Is that a measure of pacification in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-26a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-27", "file": "debates1938-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "706fd4982a0144cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "untry.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th April, 1936; cols. 44–45, Vol. 335] As I have the honour to be chairman of the Income Tax Payer's Society, I thought it only right to draw the attention of the Committee to this testimonial to the action of the Income Tax payers of this country, and to the fact that, where they feel that there is a national emergency of any kind, they rush in to pay their tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-27", "file": "debates1938-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "706fd4982a0144cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " he is, let it be liable to tax.\" I was very glad to hear the hon. Gentleman the Member for South Kensington say that his society disapproves of this sort of thing, because I may have been doing the society a wrong. I spent part of my Easter Recess in reading a couple of textbooks on tax evasion —one being called \"Tax Avoidance\" and the other \"The Avoidance of Income Tax, Surtax and Death Duties.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-27", "file": "debates1938-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "706fd4982a0144cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "as been no diminution. There has been an actual increase, while the proportion is the same now as 10 years ago. I am not prepared to believe that this decrease in income, actual and proportional, and the increase in actual capital and the maintenance of the proportion are both correct. There is something wrong somewhere, and the only possible explanation is that there has been wide Surtax evasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-27", "file": "debates1938-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "706fd4982a0144cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "preceding_text": "ed in the maintenance of an inflexible price level in certain manufactured goods. The second point I suggest is that to maintain and increase national production we have to maintain the right volume of money—neither too much for inflation, nor too little for contraction. It is a difficult task but we shall have to try it. I do not believe in the national banks advocated by hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-27", "file": "debates1938-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "706fd4982a0144cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "rday very strongly of Charles Dickens' \"Christmas Carol,\" in which Ebenezer Scrooge was confronted by the ghost of Jacob Marley. Ebenezer Scrooge sat in his counting-house turning over the leaves of his ledger when Marley appeared. It was the Marley of 1931, our Foreign Secretary of 1931, which was appearing to the Chancellor. The right hon. Gentleman said of the League of Nations, \"It is humbug.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-27a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.325.6", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the fourth Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "been dislodged from the Foreign Office, at the Home Office neglecting and delaying air-raid precautions; and, Act 3, when dislodged from the Home Office in one of the periodical readjustments made in the composite Government which still holds a majority in this House but not, I believe, in the country, at the Treasury reaping in the third act what he had sown or failed to sow in the previous acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.325.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "t is admitted that in terms of money a lot of revenue is lost through the methods of tax evasion which the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained in his statement. My right hon. Friend the Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. PethickLawrence), in his able and interesting speech yesterday, quoted a passage from the \"Times\" in which it said that Surtax has now become a purely voluntary payment by the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "f direct taxation, part of your scheme to ensure an increased yield should be to raise the scale of Surtax on the higher incomes and to raise the scale and to develop the scope of the Death Duties. We do not understand why the Chancellor of the Exchequer has passed by these two excellent devices for making rich men pay their footing, either before or after death, in the country of their adoption.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Owen", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman understood the question which my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland asked me, he would know that my hon. Friend was trying to catch me out. I took the question in the spirit in which it was put. I know perfectly well what my hon. Friend wanted me to say, so that there might be an opportunity of attacking the party to which I belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "answer the hon. Member in a short speech on the Budget Resolutions, but if he will turn to the Bible he will find a lot of sound economics. Moses started it. He laid down the principle of the jubilee year, which was not a bad principle. Every 50 years you scratch out and begin again. There is a good deal to be said for that policy, on a long-term view. Indeed, while I do not advocate repudiation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "sson from the experiments tried, in those countries, by well-meaning statesmen. They have put into operation theories which do not work out in practice. The first example I want to take is at home. I listened last night to the broadcast of the Leader of the Opposition. He referred again to the crisis of 1931. I hesitate to say anything to which the Chairman might take objection, or the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "y, recoverable by law, of the people of this country, that is the finest security in the world and is one reason, even though there were no other, why a balanced Budget is of vital importance to this country. As an example of what might have happened if the Government had not introduced a sound, orthodox Budget, and as a warning to this country, I want to refer to the Marxist experiment in France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Who were they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "Yes, a good one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"We had MacDonald.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "in 1931. We had it in the broadcast by the Leader of the Opposition last night. It is true that in 1931 the Labour Government were not borrowing neces- sarily in actual figures all that is being borrowed now, and it is true that they met with a much worse fate than the National Government are likely to meet. Why? There is one thing that hon. Members always leave out in their account of their woes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: There is none now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "Whatever was the virtue or the object of those borrowings, they were of this character: they were borrowings without method or limit, that is to say, without any defined limit. There was no sum which they were authorised to borrow, and there was no arrangement for repaying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-04-28", "file": "debates1938-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "fabdbb2bbea86b72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thanks to Hitler! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "931 destroyed confidence. Not only would the foreigner not leave his money here; he would not even lend it to us in our extremity. What is happening on the other hand now, borrowing or no borrowing, increase in taxation or no increase in taxation, is that the credit of the country stands higher than it has stood almost in our whole history. We are able to borrow at a cheaper rate than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-04-28a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ciated with this Agreement in respect of the Sudan, and the Agreement is to cover the period between the date of signature of the main Agreement and the completion of the negotiations dealing with the specific East African matters which are referred to in the Protocol. This Agreement will provide, therefore, for co-operation between the two countries in preventing the evasion of anti-slavery laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.544.3", "colnum": "544", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: And Mateotti.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " what has happened to hope that we have taken only the first step towards a healthier and saner state of things in Europe. I believe that for Italy and ourselves this Agreement marks the beginning of a new Era. In former days we had a close friendship with the old Italy, the Italy which, with our warm approval and sympathy, won her independence and her unity under Cavour and Mazzini and Garibald1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.546.4", "colnum": "546", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "e names of such great champions of freedom as Mazzini and Garibaldi—having taken those names in vain—went on at once to applaud the new Italy. He praised the Mussolini regime. We must take it, therefore, that the Leader of the Conservative party in this country admires the Mussolini regime with all its tyranny, with all its suppression of political opinion, with all its murders and assassinations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Government of Spain, and has been involved in attacks upon the ships of British nationals and others. Those of us who listened last night to the radio must have heard an indignant message sent by a British captain protesting against the position, that after this Agreement had been approved by the Government, Italian and German aircraft were actually damaging British shipping and British interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "e discussed it; you could have made terms. But you did not do it. You then came to the Rhineland. What did you do there? Hitler marched his troops into the Rhineland. He said, \"Oh, they have taken no action at all about the other thing, and therefore I will go on.\" What did you do then? You, said, \"We cannot allow it.\" And you looked sternly—\" Stop it,\" you said. We said more than that—\" Go back.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " Canal. The next year there were over 6,000,000 tons, and the following year there were nearly 6,500,000—all paying dues, and 44 per cent. of those dues coming to us. We were making money out of war materials to crush the independence of these poor people we had undertaken to protect. Mussolini's money was jingling in the pockets of the right hon. Gentleman when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": "mbers in all parts of the House have at times disliked and disapproved of certain speeches and actions on the part of the Italian Government and articles which have appeared in the Italian Press, but personally I have never felt there was any real deep-seated enmity between the Italian people and ourselves. But there is no doubt that gradually the people of Italy were being poisoned by propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.635.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": "We have listened to a long Debate on the Italian Agreement. It has become perfectly clear to all who have listened to the Debate that on the opposite side of the House we have perplexity and muddle, and on this side leadership and decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-02", "file": "debates1938-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "0a5776d327ed2c7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": " all the flowers of pamphleteering slang. We have, instead of the doubtful morality of the prince which was used by the Leader of the Opposition, resort to the slang used by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Hackney. He said that instead of Platonic ethics we have the ethics of double-crossing, and in his reference to the signature of the Agreement he says that this was \"done at Rome.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-02a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-03", "file": "debates1938-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "1249972c9a64baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Lobby? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "uld not run the risk of completely destroying this, as yet, young industry. It may be urged that the industry is making good profits, and that the protection it enjoys is now too much. I do not know, but there should be some measure of protection, and it seems to me reasonable that the duty they have to bear should be half the duty on the imported product. I ask hon. Members to support me in this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-03", "file": "debates1938-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "1249972c9a64baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.745.2", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "ome measure of protection, and it seems to me reasonable that the duty they have to bear should be half the duty on the imported product. I ask hon. Members to support me in this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Lobby? \"] It is suggested that we shall run away. If, as the result of the Debate, I find some Members are prepared to go in for the cheap martyrdom of being beaten, we shall not go into the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-03", "file": "debates1938-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "1249972c9a64baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "000,000 to that industry. Therefore, it should be borne in mind that one cannot compare it strictly with those other two very hard-hit industries which are not assisted in the same way. I repeat that all that has been said in the Debate will be carefully considered, but my right hon. Friend must have regard to a tendency which might in certain circumstances lead to a loss of revenue of £7,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-03", "file": "debates1938-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "1249972c9a64baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ' Why do you do it? '", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": " red, because I intend to use it in the by-election at Barnsley. The Chancellor knows something about elections in Barnsley, because at the last election he had a pretty warm time there. This was the astounding thing which was said by the Chancellor: I well understand that even an extra halfpenny per week is a material and an appreciable addition to the expenses of those with the smallest incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-03", "file": "debates1938-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "1249972c9a64baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " he is in. He recognises the parlous condition of the poorest of the poor. As the Mover and Seconder of the Amendment said, he is very concerned about their plight, but he puts an extra tax upon them. He says that they have a right to pay and will take a pride in helping to pay for rearmament. Are they not already paying for armaments? What are all these increased prices but payment for armaments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-03", "file": "debates1938-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "1249972c9a64baa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": " would also like to say that I have heard other hon. and right hon. Members in this House discussing the benefits of direct as against indirect taxation. I do not propose to argue the matter now, except to say that I am an unrepentant believer in direct taxation and no other taxation. I believe that once we got that, we should have got the real test of whether people like or did not like taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-03a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-04", "file": "debates1938-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "546721af3743ea47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-04a.865.5", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ormsby-Gore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman uses the word \"pool.\" Of course, the firms participating in the agreement deny that there is a pool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-04a.865.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-05", "file": "debates1938-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd8697b5e1a0747b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREE MENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It sounds like sanctions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "greement. But it has been a sad story. We lost more than £4,000,000 worth of coal orders during the four years from 1932 to 1935. We have been paying from the Treasury, to maintain the Land Purchase Fund, an average of £2,750,000 a year. We have been throttling industry and trade with Ireland in the interests of national prejudice and a mistaken national pride on the part of Members of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-05", "file": "debates1938-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd8697b5e1a0747b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREE MENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": ".\" We have been listening to the Prime Minister and the hon. Member above the Gangway and the hon. Member for Down (Sir D. Reid) and I hoped that I should hear an adjective corresponding to the word \"Eire.\" I do not know whether I should be in order if I said \"Eirish.\" I will leave it at that. We must remember, when we think of the situation in 1932, that bitterness was engendered by that dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-05", "file": "debates1938-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd8697b5e1a0747b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREE MENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "tate for the Dominions by his perseverence, courtesy, tact and ability has played a considerable part in bringing the matter to a successful conclusion. As to the observations which fell from the hon. Gentleman the Member for Down, whom we listen to with respect in this House, I do not, and cannot, express any opinion as to whether this Treaty is likely to bring the union of Ireland nearer or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-05", "file": "debates1938-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd8697b5e1a0747b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREE MENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "s described at that time as the one bright spot in the world. Undoubtedly, we enjoyed the friendship and comradeship of the Irish nation at that time, and undoubtedly it was signified in the most formal manner by all their representatives, but that did not prevent the dark forces of the Irish underworld from trying to strike us in the back in the most critical and dangerous period of the struggle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-05", "file": "debates1938-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd8697b5e1a0747b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREE MENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "preceding_text": "in many respects, we are paying dearly for the stupidity of the Government. They are the most wasteful and extravagant Government we have had since the War. Hardly any people have paid their debts to us; but let it be our own unemployed, and there is a different position arising. In 1931 the Labour Government were hounded from office because they desired to buy bread and butter for our own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-05", "file": "debates1938-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd8697b5e1a0747b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREE MENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "efore us in these negotiations was not that we should stay in the ports with the continuing good will of the Irish people. The alternatives were, in the first place that we should continue to occupy them with the resentment and hostility of the Irish people, or that we should come out of them and create conditions where friendship between the Irish people and the people of this country would grow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-05", "file": "debates1938-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "bd8697b5e1a0747b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREE MENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "uing good will of the Irish people. The alternatives were, in the first place that we should continue to occupy them with the resentment and hostility of the Irish people, or that we should come out of them and create conditions where friendship between the Irish people and the people of this country would grow. [ Interruption .] Again, if the hon. Baronet would not interrupt, I am coming to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-05a.1176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-09", "file": "debates1938-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "88d30c120fcd4b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ear, after a little over II years of the Housing (Rural Workers) Act, is over £4,000,000. That has been devoted to cockering up and lengthening the life of something like 47,000 dwellings, each grant being, as I understand it, in respect of a single dwelling. It was left to the National Government in 1931 to kill a Rural Housing Act which had only been put on the Statute Book in July of that year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-09", "file": "debates1938-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "88d30c120fcd4b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sir John Eller-man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "hat for various reasons agricultural landlords are no longer able to carry out their responsibility in housing and in equipping their farms. No one can deny that fact, nor can anyone deny that there are a great many small landlords. I find it very hard to justify the giving of grants to landlords with considerable means. Under the Act as it stands Lord Nuffield could apply for a grant, and get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-09", "file": "debates1938-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "88d30c120fcd4b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": " respect, but we know that the supply of building labour in the villages is limited. The housing machinery of rural district councils is really rusting, and there is neither rapid building nor extensive building, but according to the logic of hon. Members opposite we still ought not to pass such Measures as this, and the inferior houses, if they are at all habitable, ought to be allowed to remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-09", "file": "debates1938-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "88d30c120fcd4b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedderburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedderburn", "preceding_text": "o explain that in view of the Report, no promise to give assistance should be made until a statement has been submitted to the Department showing the number of rooms in the dwelling before and after the execution of the works proposed and the extent to which the dwelling will be brought up to modern requirements. We then go on to refer to certain sanitary conveniences which we regard as essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-09", "file": "debates1938-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "88d30c120fcd4b90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paid magistrates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": " the question of the repeated adjournments, particularly in London, of cases which come before petty sessional courts. I remember a case not very long ago which involved no less than five adjourned hearings. Counsel had to be briefed, and it seemed very unfair to the litigants that they should be brought to the court and that the case should be adjourned for the convenience of the lay magistrates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-09a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-10", "file": "debates1938-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "1aaf4db06a49efec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-10a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (CONFIRMATION OF AGREEMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Is that friendly? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "cism, and the encouragement of every disloyal element in the country. I could say much more, but I do not want to prolong the Debate. If there should be any hope on anybody's part that this Bill is a step towards putting Ulster under the control of any Dublin Parliament, I can assure hon. Members and those in other places, that our determination to preserve our liberties will stop at no sacrifice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-10a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-11", "file": "debates1938-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "17269db47c758368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1617.3", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE WAGES (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " different from that of the road haulage industry proper. In general, C licence holders are employers engaged not in the road haulage industry itself, but in one of the industries and trades of the country, for example, in engineering, shipbuilding, iron and steel, gas, and building industries, in the distributive trade, and in such trades as dyeing, laundering, aerated water and scores of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1617.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-11", "file": "debates1938-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "17269db47c758368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1623.3", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE WAGES (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " always bring something which looks like evidence to say that he did not know anything about it. For the most part lorry drivers are careful drivers on the roads, far more careful than the owner driver, and I understand more careful than the owner woman-driver. Last year one lorry driver was killed per week in an accident, and nearly 70 lorry' drivers were injured, that is to say, nearly 10 a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-11", "file": "debates1938-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "17269db47c758368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1658.6", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (DAMAGE BY DROUGHT).", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "the conditions under which the farmer has to produce had been employed in the production of ships, aeroplanes and guns. The Government, when they contract with those industries, always agree, as an essential part of the contract, that they shall finance production as it goes along. The farmer seems to be the only person in the community who has to finish his production before he gets money for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1658.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-11", "file": "debates1938-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "17269db47c758368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1668.3", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (DAMAGE BY DROUGHT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"It will rain. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "the Minister of Agriculture by the National Farmers' Union, and I hope that he will give the House to-night a more satisfactory reply than he gave to them. It was reported to me that all that the Minister was able to tell them was, \"I am watching the position.\" If he goes on watching long enough either the bottom will fall out of the market or the drought will cease, so that something will happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-11a.1668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1763.4", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"With proper equipment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Does this mean the provision by that time of modern up-to-date aircraft?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1763.7", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I can assure my right hon. Friend that we have, but I am not going to be led into any particular figures, and I hope the Committee will be satisfied with my assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1763.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "il. I must start by making what I hope will not be regarded as a provocative remark by saying that I am somewhat astonished at the sweeping generalisations which have been made without first applying the first principles of criticism, which seem to me to be whether the sources of information can know the true facts, and whether any of them have motives for making allegations which are not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1781.3", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I compliment my hon. Friend upon a very novel and excellent method of calling attention to this matter, a striking method of securing publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1781.7", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "No harm was done even if the hon. Member did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1781.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1782.2", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "irements had been met it was impossible to order more of this type, and workmen trained in construction of the type which is purely wooden could not be utilised on metal machines at the same factory. The new scheme has made it possible for us to place a further substantial order for the type of aeroplane employing both wooden and metal construction and, as I have said, that firm is fully employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1782.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1783.2", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "I thought the Government were the friend of the small firm.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ft constructor in the ordinary sense of the term. One of them, for example, is a small motor works, with one tiny shop. I have examined this matter very carefully and I assert that not one of the other firms mentioned by the hon. Member would be quite capable of aircraft construction. Some of them are being given sub-contracts. I will give an example, and read out the particulars to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1783.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1784.2", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "No. I have already denied that. I have already said that the principal aircraft firms capable of producing aircraft were now, on the whole, employed to capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.0", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Noble Lord—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am not in the position to make an announcement on that point. The hon. Member will realise that the number of wood aeroplanes required to-day is comparatively small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.3", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "were experimenting with certain new types of wood-metal construction of this kind. Speaking generally, 90 per cent. of our requirements are in metal aeroplanes. I have already explained that point. In regard to the particular firms which the hon. Member has in mind I would say that if there is need for further wood aeroplanes, they will be given consideration. The last point that I wish to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.3", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They used to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "d to answer a great many questions. The last question is: \"Why are there no engineers in the Air Ministry? In effect, that is a criticism that the Air Council have no engineers. That is a complete misconception of the position, and is responsible for a great quantity of ill-judged or misjudged criticism. I cannot emphasise too strongly that the Air Ministry do not design or manufacture aeroplanes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1787.0", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It would not be a disadvantage.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "er's knowledge. The industry fully admits the value of the help of the Air Ministry. I understand there is a contention that it is absurd for you to order aeroplanes if you are not an engineer. That seems to be as bad as saying that anybody interested in the industry of house building should himself have a knowledge of the technical details of construction and should be an architect, and so forth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1787.3", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not your fault! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "unt to anything of the sort and that was not the argument which I used. The point has been explained on several occasions to the hon. Member and he is evidently not convinced. I cannot hope to convince one individual; all I can hope to do is to convince this Committee and the House of Commons. I should like to say a few words in conclusion. I apologise to the Committee for the length of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "You cannot compare like with unlike. In some countries there is an attempt to make sudden demands in the shape of complete control of capital and labour, and the sacrifice of individual liberty and standards of life, such as would have been thought to be impossible in any country before 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "d whether our technical superiority was being maintained. He got no reply to that question. I notice that he often does not get replies. They would have had to say that the technical superiority of this Force was not being maintained. The result was that when the time for expansion came there was nothing ready, there were no plans, no prototypes— only out-of-date 'planes and out-of-date equipment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us another.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ho told us that we did not need armaments. We were told not to worry. I do not know whether the Prime Minister was a sharer of Lord Baldwin's knowledge. It was he and his Government, on Lord Baldwin's admission, who were not going to tell the country this, and they must take responsibility. The Members on this side have always been prepared to support proper fighting services with a proper policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1812.0", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"War conditions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "t Gentleman has entirely missed the point of my argument. I did not say that we could not work under war conditions. In the very interesting speech which he is making, although it is slightly critical of the Air Ministry, I ask him to address his mind to this point. I challenge anybody to deny the statement that one cannot compare conditions in this country with conditions in a totalitarian State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends on the attitude of the Government! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick", "preceding_text": "tion. It occurred to me, while listening to this Debate, that newspapers like the \"Angriff \"and the \"Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung \"will carry very long quotations to-morrow from the Debate, and that those quotations will afford very lively satisfaction to a large circle of readers. That brings me to a second point. Almost everything will depend, in my view, on the attitude of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "n. During the Estimates Debate a number of questions were asked which my hon. and gallant Friend undertook would be answered on this occasion, on the subject of accommodation for airmen. It was suggested that not sufficient is being done in regard to recreational facilities for airmen or for their feeding and accommodation generally. The Committee will agree that this is a very important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1873.3", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ndeed frequently, to mistakes made by the Air Ministry. What has happened is that estimates have been made by the aircraft industry after they have received orders, there has been no question of modifications, which they have not been able to fulfil. There, again, that is a common experience of industry. By the general sense of the whole House the country for years pursued a policy of disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "some cases the estimates of the aircraft industry have not been fulfilled we should trust them to-day. I will give a frank answer. Because the industry is better organised to-day than it was, and there is closer relationship between the industry and the Ministry. I hope that satisfies the right hon. Gentleman. Plans have been made and are in successful operation to simplify the system of ordering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " organised to-day than it was, and there is closer relationship between the industry and the Ministry. I hope that satisfies the right hon. Gentleman. Plans have been made and are in successful operation to simplify the system of ordering. [ Interruption. ] I do not in the least object to interruptions but I want to make this quite clear. These are questions in which the whole world is interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " to my opinions, but I suggest to some of them that in a Debate of this moment I am entitled to be allowed to put my arguments to the Committee. This is a matter that is being watched outside this country and the impression given to some foreign observers would not be that hon. Members are blaming me or the Air Ministry, but are objecting to some features in this new scheme. My last point is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-12", "file": "debates1938-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8a892a7a6f898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1938 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Acland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Acland", "preceding_text": "Barcelona. The British flag is held there in lower esteem than the flag of Panama. That is something the British Government are proud of. There is here a prima facie case for an explanation from the Government for this widely different treatment, and the answer we get is \"Trust the Government.\" This is the Government which, acting contrary to our advice, has brought the world to its present state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-12a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-13", "file": "debates1938-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b61fcb08d6f4a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1896.1", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "rs on that occasion. We were successful, as we had been before a Select Committee for some considerable time, in obtaining various concessions in respect of the framing of that Bill. Speaking for myself, and quite a number of others who have strenuously opposed this Bill at each stage, I want it to be understood that we take no exception whatever to the setting up of a standard for the profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-13", "file": "debates1938-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b61fcb08d6f4a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about your own profession? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "e that, in addition to the points raised by the last speaker, the Bill restricts others in an extraordinary way and, as I see it, confines the vested interests already given to one society of architects, reaffirming to them rights which nobody else is allowed to have, and it may well be that it will deny that equality of opportunity which the House would like to see in so many other circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-13", "file": "debates1938-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b61fcb08d6f4a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1903.1", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARCHITECTS REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": "ghs (Sir T. Moore) has followed the usual practice of indulging in a little romance. Let me just point one or two misstatements he has made—no doubt innocently, but very ignorantly. I do not say that offensively. I cannot be expected to take quite the same view of architecture as my hon. and gallant Friend. He says that all the best architects belonged to the Royal Institute of British Architects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-13", "file": "debates1938-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b61fcb08d6f4a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (HOURS OF WORK) BILL (changed from. \"BAKE HOUSES BILL \").", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It must have been a long one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "he House, and the present Bill will, I am certain, receive that assent in a few minutes. This is an example of good friendly team work, and illustrates the pleasant personal relationship which exists between hon. Members of opposite political thought. In the course of the first day's proceedings of the Standing Committee I made, I think, the longest speech I have ever made in a Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-13", "file": "debates1938-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b61fcb08d6f4a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (HOURS OF WORK) BILL (changed from. \"BAKE HOUSES BILL \").", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ield). It must be to many of us a source of great personal satisfaction that the hon. Member for Wednesbury has been successful in getting a Bill of this kind on to the Statute Book. Further, although it is perhaps a somewhat unusual course for anyone in my position to take, I should like to congratulate my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour on the work he has done in regard to trade boards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-13", "file": "debates1938-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b61fcb08d6f4a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (HOURS OF WORK) BILL (changed from. \"BAKE HOUSES BILL \").", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " a somewhat unusual course for anyone in my position to take, I should like to congratulate my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour on the work he has done in regard to trade boards. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Wednesbury nods his head, in spite of the dissent of the right hon. Gentleman on the Front Bench opposite. The trade board is one of the crucial points in this whole question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-13", "file": "debates1938-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b61fcb08d6f4a19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1940.2", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (HOURS OF WORK) BILL (changed from. \"BAKE HOUSES BILL \").", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Haslam", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Haslam", "preceding_text": "I wish to add my congratulations to the promoters of this Bill upon their common sense in agreeing with their opponents to make some sort of headway on this question. As one who has been interested in this subject for many years I feel that they have been very wise in meeting their opponents and accepting half a loaf, which is better than no bread", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-13a.1940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "antage of the Act, which will be the net effect in the next four years? The right hon. Gentleman's estimate—and this is purely problematical—is that 35,000 rural cottages will be put into a somewhat better condition than they are in now. At what cost? I suggest that this Government which has a sort of taste for economy in social affairs and which killed the Housing (Rural Authorities) Act in 1931—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.65.5", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "the Act in 1931, which I admitted in this House. He drew attention to what I had said about the situation in Scotland, but I had intended to draw attention to it myself. His strongest case was Scotland, and he asks now for five years when a majority of the Scottish Housing Advisory Council have asked for only two years and have said they hope this cursed piece of legislation will end at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.65.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU will not be the tenant then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "per on. They want the wallpaper to hold the house together. The houses are frequently very bad. Old cottages are very much more solid although, of course, they are much more out of date and require repair which is very often expensive; but when it is done you get a much better result. I am living in a cottage that has been standing for over 200 years, and will no doubt stand for another 200 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.79.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "Sir K. Wood rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.112.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.112.5", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is all in the air.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "In which capacity is the right hon. Gentleman addressing the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "There is a slight difference there. I have not a copy of the Herring Industry Bill in front of me and I must speak from recollection, but I think the hon. Member said that the authorities would have to be satisfied that but for the grant there would not be a new boat provided. That is not quite the same as the position in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "h all its great advantages in the width of its services, can hardly be described as a rural housing authority. In the county that I know best these matters are not published. The agricultural committee considers the application originally, and only the county agricultural officer knows the names of the applicants. In order that there shall be no prejudice, the applicant is referred to by initials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "d very careful consideration. A relevant point of interest is that in Jedburgh all of the 26 unsatisfactory houses were done before \"— that is to say, they had had two goes at it— and all the 4o satisfactory houses during the regime of the present senior sanitary officers. ' What does all this mean? It means that the county council in some areas, packed with representatives of the landlord class —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-16", "file": "debates1938-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "33134281c140710d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I feel that we are under a difficulty to-day, because we have had a phantom Minister. It has been very difficult. The new Minister sits on that bench and frowns upon me at this moment, and, having collective responsibility in the Cabinet, he must know all about this Bill. While Cabinet crises come and go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-16a.180.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "t only 29 per cent. of those engaged were in fact placed through those Exchanges, and that there were 71 per cent. who were privately engaged otherwise than through the Exchanges. That shows the vast turnover of engagements each year. Undoubtedly, however, there has been in many districts a real shortage of labour of some kinds, in particular of engineering and building labour. It has always been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.272.4", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At 14? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "y human problem, because it means taking children, or little more than children, away from their parents, away from home, and placing them in another district. The hon. Member for Chester-le-Street spoke with considerable feeling, with which I have every sympathy, on that point. I am not sure, however, that as a rule it does any harm to a young person to go out into the world and fend for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.272.4", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "ly done the most practical social service was the Unemployment Act, 1934. I believe it has been administered with the utmost wisdom and enthusiasm and discretion by the Minister of Labour, and I cannot associate myself with the criticism the hon. Member has made of the Board. The Ministry of Labour has broken the backs of most Ministers, but this particular Minister has broken the back of his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Adult rate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ot from my own constituency but from small neighbouring towns. In a little place called Church there are 1,200 weavers. The standard number of looms is four, but only 20 per cent. of them have four looms fully working; 60 per cent. have only three looms working and the remaining 20 per cent. have only two or one working. The average wage, with four looms working, is between 30s. and 33s. per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who wants them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "t. of them had all four looms working, while 55 per cent. had three looms working, and 30 per cent. had only two looms or one loom working. That meant that they were earning 16s. or less, subject to deductions, for a 48-hour week. Remember Lancashire is not a Special Area. It has none of those much-vaunted advantages which are supposed to be enjoyed by South Wales and Durham and parts of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "iginal, that his constituents have often heard it before and will frequently hear it in future, and not only his constituents but the constituents of nearly all hon. Members opposite, because the real trouble is that they have only one speech which they present with variations on a great many occasions. It is one of the sad things in this life that you do not solve a problem by inventing a phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady is not unaware, the county which I happen to represent has not been too unsympathetic towards the constituency which she represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.341.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e think with the precise scale which my right hon. Friend brings before us, because we all know in our hearts that with our system of unemployment assistance, together with the additional help that people may claim, if the need arises, from the Unemployment Assistance Board, not primarily in respect of unemployment, but for other things, nobody in this country really suffers grave hardship to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.345.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.348.6", "colnum": "348", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very funny.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "les we have almost as high a percentage of unemployment as we had two or three years ago. In Anglesey, represented by the hon. Lady (Miss Lloyd George), the average percentage of unemployment is 37, in Glamorgan it is 29, and in one area in my own division, according to the Unemployment Index—I do not know where they get the 9 per cent.—it is suggested that they have 109 per cent. of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.348.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-17", "file": "debates1938-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "353e1840699a222f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e continued. The House as a whole will note that and will put it into the scales against a good deal of general denunciation. The hon. Member for Chester-le-Street put the issue as between Part I and Part II of the Act very squarely, and I desire to meet the issue squarely. To me the most remarkable thing in the last four years is this. The Radicals of the Left, whether below the Gangway or above—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-17a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-18", "file": "debates1938-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "11702ba77a2b69fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-18a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "They are sound financially, and efficient, their pilots are highly qualified, and their equipment is modern. In at least one case a regular service has been operated for four or five years. I would like the Under-Secretary when he replies to let me know whether it is not the fact that a very good case could be made out for subsidising such a company. I am of course referring to West Coast Airways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-18a.456.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-18", "file": "debates1938-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "11702ba77a2b69fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-18a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "e to make a constructive proposal regarding internal air communications. I would ask the Under-Secretary —we are glad to see him here for the first time occupying a very honourable place on the Front Bench—whether he is quite satisfied that there is no interference with the air services by the railway companies. Will he say whether the Manchester airways service is interfered with by the railways?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-18a.461.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-18", "file": "debates1938-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "11702ba77a2b69fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-18a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": " Association, and that proper notice was given to the pilots. In two cases recommendations were made favourable to the pilots, in one case that the pilot should be reinstated, and in the other that he should get further employment—that, for instance, if a new joint service of British Airways and Imperial Airways were formed from London to Paris, he should be considered eligible for an appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-18a.484.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-19", "file": "debates1938-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "c210c725ca892a1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the hon. Member arguing now or just telling us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to give way to the hon. Member. The comments so far from the other side have been such as to show that they have not much to say. I am giving hon. Members a statement of what happened. I am not arguing the case. I am telling them exactly what they would have seen if they had been there. 1 only want to add this: The Conservative party has used the League of Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-19", "file": "debates1938-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "c210c725ca892a1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": " most sincerely that she is not one who considers it any part of her business to try and understand the position of the Government. I will do my best to state it, and if there be hon. Gentlemen opposite who feel that at present they do not under stand it, that will be the more reason for asking for their attention. It seems to me that in the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Leith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-19", "file": "debates1938-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "c210c725ca892a1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " phrase that she did not know in whose pay these gentlemen might be. It is the fact, acknowledged and admitted by all serious students, that, rightly or wrongly, the result of this Agreement has been not merely to reduce the tension but to produce a situation which has been welcomed far beyond the bounds of Italy or this country. On all hands it is recognised as being a contribution towards peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-19", "file": "debates1938-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "c210c725ca892a1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ribution towards peace. [ Interruption. ] I make, as in duty and in candour bound, an exception in favour of His Majesty's Opposition. They stand almost alone in Europe. They are prepared to denounce and condemn this Agreement, not stating merely that they have their anxieties, which would be a legitimate point of view, but rushing in to condemn it as a wild or a foolish or an immoral transaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-19", "file": "debates1938-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "c210c725ca892a1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "say that every State in the League should decide for itself according to its own judgment, what it should properly do? The result was that in the discussion that was unquestionably the prevailing view. The action, therefore, which we may now take is action which we are justified to take because, in common with every other member of the League, that position has been laid down by the League itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-19", "file": "debates1938-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "c210c725ca892a1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "nd again: What do you mean by a settlement?—a very familiar line of cross-examination. All that I have to say about that is that the Prime Minister himself was asked to define the circumstances which would constitute a settlement, and he said, very naturally, that he must decline to attempt a definition of that sort on the ground that the situation was not sufficiently clear to make this possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-19", "file": "debates1938-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "c210c725ca892a1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PATENTS, ETC. (INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "As far as the information at our disposal goes, there has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-19a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-20", "file": "debates1938-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0e47457a09a56b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-20a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVIDENCE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "preceding_text": "I do not object to the Bill because it has come from another place, as I imagine that it is possible for a good Bill to come from another place, but the Attorney-General does not seem to have met one of the arguments made by the hon. and learned Member for Spens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-20a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-20", "file": "debates1938-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0e47457a09a56b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-20a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about British seamen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "Humanity, I should think, like charity, might very well begin at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-20a.797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-20", "file": "debates1938-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "0e47457a09a56b1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-20a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Tasker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the rest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Tasker", "preceding_text": "gation should be entered into unless it be collective and equally shared by all countries represented in the League of Nations. It is well to recollect that great nations like the United States of America, Japan and Germany are not Members. Then there is one short paragraph of two lines: I am unwilling to support sanctions which involve the loss of a single British life of any man, woman or child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-20a.814.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAMAICA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "nd the Air Force receive allowances on marriage irrespective of where they serve and at all times, whereas in the case of the naval officer, if he is appointed to a shore appointment where there are no official quarters, he gets neither marriage allowance nor children's allowance, and he is worse off, therefore, than the officer in the Army or the Air Force; and may I ask whether he will get out —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.850.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": "The statement that the right hon. Gentleman made was based on one instance only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "eby certain men may earn their livelihood, and I do not see how the hon. Gentleman can argue that this is not a clear parallel to the powers in the Herring Bill. The hon. Gentleman said that it will not be the landowner, but the tenant, who will get all the benefit. Why, the hon. Gentleman knows that at the end of 20 years, the landed property owner will be able to do what he likes with his house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Gunston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Gunston", "preceding_text": "going to vote against this Bill because in certain cases, in Scotland especially, to vote against it might mean depriving certain individuals of improved housing. According to the report of the committee the effect of a Clause like this would be to deprive many tenants of improved housing. Therefore I ask hon. Members opposite to forget about the landlords for a moment and to think of the tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.902.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You will start another discussion.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it would be courteous, after a Debate which has lasted for some time and in which various expressions of opinion have been made, that I should say a few words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.926.3", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "It is a good thing that legislation containing such compulsory conditions should be placed on the Statute Book. It would be a thousand pities if, eventually, all the week-enders lived in the beautiful cottages, and the rural inhabitants in the ugly ones. You cannot enjoy the countryside unless, in the beautiful surroundings, there are people living who have lived there since the beginning of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (RURAL WORKERS) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "eration is an adequate and efficient water supply. Only when we have water supplies and drainage systems will it be possible to supply even existing houses with the ordinary conveniences of modern life. Until that is done, vast numbers of the present generation of our people will be compelled to pass their lives without sanitary conveniences such as are enjoyed even by the Kaffirs in their kraals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.974.9", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell the hon. Lady, because I have not asked and I do not know. There comes a time when the domestic affairs of a company have to be ruled by the company's directors who are responsible for the administration of that company, even when you have on that company's hoard two Government directors of whom we can ask questions and to whom we can refer matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.974.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-23", "file": "debates1938-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb65a1980685c8ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Evans", "preceding_text": "I should not say that the Under-Secretary suggested to the Committee, in actual terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-23a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS (AMENDMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "that he had been the recipient of an unauthorised disclosure by a person holding office under His Majesty, he might the next day be approached by a superintendent of police holding a copy of the OFFICIAL REPORT and be required to state the source from which he obtained his information. If he refused, he would have committed an offence and would be liable to imprisonment for a maximum of two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ell at once, with the result that the favourable conditions in Lancashire have largely disappeared. This year exports have declined in yarns by 22 per cent. and in piece goods by 25 per cent., while unemployment has gone up from something under 10 per cent. to about 25 per cent. Lancashire and Yorkshire have been hit by two things. They have been hit by the fall as regards their own raw materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "preceding_text": " dyers, printers and finishers, but that since 1909, when we had the trade we had not unemployment insur- ance, which is all very admirable. All kinds of burdens have been placed upon the competitive power of the industry in the open markets of the world. Rates are at least double what they were 20 years ago. We are now paying for baths, wash-houses, public parks and social amenities of all kinds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not in a bad way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "preceding_text": "per cent., over the period of 10 years. I would ask hon. Members to look at recent legislation. We passed a Spindles Act. One of the first results of it was a levy on the industry which was estimated to yield £500,000 a year, or 2½ per cent. on £20,000,000 of capital engaged in the cotton trade. The levy is on the back of the competing power of our industry in the open markets of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "preceding_text": "There is no need to be precise. Weight for weight the broad-flanged beam is stronger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Granville Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Granville Gibson", "preceding_text": "from Germany and all of these goods coming from foreign countries are keeping our men out of work. Take Poland, for instance. There are subsidies on all kinds of goods from Poland: even on bacon, which is a primary product. Some of these subsidies go as high as 60 or 70 per cent. Take Hungary. In my industry, which is connected with leather, when any goods are exported from Hungary to this country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perhaps in Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nairne Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "tatement of her case for Dundee, but she made one mistake in saying that she and her fellow-Member in the representation of Dundee knew all about this matter. The fact is that from 1898 to 1927 I was working in the jute trade, and I knew it pretty well, and I know it to-day. I might add, for the information of hon. Members above the Gangway, that I have not a penny to-day in either jute or cotton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board fo Trade (Mr. Cross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did the population not increase also?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board fo Trade (Mr. Cross)", "preceding_text": "ding the increase of production which has taken place during the eight years from 1929 to 1937, and he pointed out that, comparing the figures of unemployment between those two years, the number of unemployed in 1937 was above the figure of 1929. The fact is very simply explained. The increase in production was accompanied by an increase in the number of people at work, which went up by 1,250,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-24", "file": "debates1938-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "31769129762d7c03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board fo Trade (Mr. Cross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the speech again to-morrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board fo Trade (Mr. Cross)", "preceding_text": "s, the number of unemployed in 1937 was above the figure of 1929. The fact is very simply explained. The increase in production was accompanied by an increase in the number of people at work, which went up by 1,250,000. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Did the population not increase also?\"] What I have stated explains the increase in production very simply, and the hon. Gentleman did not appear to realise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-24a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-25", "file": "debates1938-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a649db13b186e820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1199.7", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAMAICA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the Minister's statement, in which he said he would give full support to the Governor in the use of punitive methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1199.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-25", "file": "debates1938-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a649db13b186e820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1258.5", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "AIR DEFENCES.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eese. The Bulldog squadron which was formed long after the War in 1929 had a top speed of 163 miles an hour; the first squadron of Gauntlets which was formed in 1935 had a top speed of 230 miles an hour; but now we are well over speeds of 300 miles an hour, and the Spitfire, to which I think the hon. Member alluded, is, I am informed, the fastest fighter in service squadrons anywhere in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-25", "file": "debates1938-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a649db13b186e820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "AIR DEFENCES.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " first-line strength is only one of many factors which have to be taken into account. I very much deprecate the picking out of any particular country for continual comparison in considering our air affairs. I think it is unnecessary, because we have to work on general principles, and I very much prefer a general statement, which cannot then be taken as being in any way a challenge to anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-25", "file": "debates1938-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a649db13b186e820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "AIR DEFENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "it. Every time we are seen to make a big new move forward there is a wave of confidence which goes through all the small countries and the peace-loving countries of the world. Supposing it were said to-morrow that we have set up a ministry of supply and are making provision for turning industry over to munitions, do you not think that that would at once create a feeling of confidence and security?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-25", "file": "debates1938-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a649db13b186e820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "AIR DEFENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " one thing is essential— to be stronger than Germany in the air. If this Debate closes and we remain in the position of hoping that in 1940 we may have half the aeroplanes that Germany has then, and that we may be able to produce one-half the number per week that Germany turns out, if that is the best the Government can do, it is not a committee of inquiry that they ought to face, but impeachment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-25", "file": "debates1938-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a649db13b186e820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1315.3", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "AIR DEFENCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member is putting forward a plausible proposal to the Prime Minister in connection with the States in Europe. Will he ask the Colonial Secretary to put forward the same suggestion to the Governor of Jamaica— that he should say to the poor people of Jamaica—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-25a.1315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ntry has to shoulder. I am making the statement as undeniable, that behind the facade of complacent, pharisaical humbug on the part of the Government, the real financial figures in relation to the British Exchequer to-day reveal a state of financial crisis beyond all doubt much more serious and much more devastating in the burdens that the country is being asked to meet, than was the case in 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " that that is not all, for it is in spite of the Government having enormously increased existing taxation both upon the direct and indirect taxpayers; and I challenge the Chancellor to deny either of those main propositions. Apart from a purely verbal statement that they alone are the people who ought to have confidence placed in them, there they stand holding the reins of office, a dying Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1433.0", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": ". I asked one man what his conditions were, and he said \"A six-day week with five days of nine hours each, and my pay docket is 39s. 3d.\" That is the marvellous effect of a National Government. These are the people who, the Chancellor of the Exchequer says, are proud to pay 2d. on every four ounces of tea which they consume in order to back up the lack of control of profiteering by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "wealth from that source, no one would have been as bold as him in making proposals to the House in that respect. I feel that, however inadequately I have painted the picture this afternoon, we are at any rate justified in moving our Amendment. I repeat that the financial crisis which has arisen so largely from the failure of the Government's policy is far greater than the financial crisis in 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "s — Behind the false facade of prosperity made by rearmament activity, Britain's true economic position is desperate. The remedies must be drastic. What is the disease we have to cure? These are its symptoms: (1) A lack of economic and commercial confidence in Britain itself …. (2) A lack of political confidence … (3) A general lack of confidence, felt abroad, in Britain's stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radford", "preceding_text": "it is made from indigenous materials, refers not only to coal but equally to home-grown vegetables? In his reply my right hon. Friend stated that the Government were following the advice of the Falmouth Committee. The Falmouth Committee recommended that there should be no differentiation between petrols made by an process, from indigenous materials. Are not homegrown potatoes indigenous materials?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": " must be of advantage if you are making an industry so successful that you are able to extend the advantage to the shareholders, as the right hon. Gentleman and those who take that line of argument are inclined to forget. I think I am right in saying—and were the hon. Member for Oxford University (Sir A. Salter) here at present he would probably bear me out because he, like myself is an economist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "will probably agree with me. We want to stop profiteering, but none of us will deny a reasonable profit on every article of armament which is required. You may say that the industry which is producing Zoo aeroplanes ought not to be allowed to make great profits, but if it is producing 2,000 aeroplanes we are always ready to see a reasonable profit on everything they turn out. Surely that is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "p profiteering, but none of us will deny a reasonable profit on every article of armament which is required. You may say that the industry which is producing Zoo aeroplanes ought not to be allowed to make great profits, but if it is producing 2,000 aeroplanes we are always ready to see a reasonable profit on everything they turn out. Surely that is right. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No !\"] That is efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.3", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "Certainly, I would, but I would say that I was going to get speed in my production. If the profit upon the single article is not excessive I do not mind how much profit the industry makes. I might give the homely example of Messrs. Coats. I have not followed the fortunes of that firm lately, but I think they have made very great profits and that they have been rather an asset to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "haps were fortunate enough to have motor cars, and that they might pay in the form of additional taxation upon motor spirit. Then I visualised him as coming to a higher stratum of society—I must confess I am not an authority on class distinctions—where the people were fortunate enough to pay Income Tax. I state openly in this House that I have never been fortunate enough to have to pay Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "ise, I have a very grave fear, knowing the past his- tory of this Government, that there will be an attack on our social services and the standard of living. I trust that my fears are unfounded; but, should they be borne out, we on this side will very definitely resist any encroachment on our social services or on the general standard of living. We are not going to tolerate any repetition of 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1479.7", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "It is a system under which you produce what you want and enjoy it. How you pay for it no one knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1479.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1489.2", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "do that without buying less from someone or else discharging one of their unfortunate servants towards whom they feel a sense of responsibility? I think this general proposition of trying to put every additional burden that arises on the shoulders of the Super-tax payers is advanced without fully thinking out the problem. I can hardly expect hon. Members opposite to take such a suggestion from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "educe this income so that no Surtax payer received an income in excess of £2,000 a year, you would obtain only a further revenue of £96,000,000, less whatever was spent each year by that class of taxpayer in paying for Death Duties out of income. That, too, is only on the assumption that the enormously increased taxation would not discourage those who earned large incomes from continuing to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Shame! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "each year by that class of taxpayer in paying for Death Duties out of income. That, too, is only on the assumption that the enormously increased taxation would not discourage those who earned large incomes from continuing to do so. [ Laughter. ] That idea may not be quite so silly as it sounds. Let us take the example of a rich professional man. He might not be tempted to work himself to the bone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1500.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are they falling?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ave to face it. An even more disquieting symptom of the present economic situation is the fall in world commodity prices. They have always been a barometer. I am not talking now of retail prices or the cost of living, but basic commodity prices for wheat, metals, and so on. If commodity prices fall below a certain point, primary producers can no longer make a living; therefore we lose our markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " German friend of mine said the other day, \"What we cannot understand in my country is the spectacle of the great United States of America and the British Empire, with all the gold, all the raw material, all the commodities, all the wealth of the world in their hands, going into something like a depression while we, with nothing, or very little, are able to maintain our people in full employment.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Our relative position in regard to other countries might have been even stronger if we had adopted the right policy earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ples to take the place of those which are gone. They are to go on and on with borrowing, they are to go up and up with the National Debt and higher and higher with tariffs and subsidies. When we say that they are doing on a larger scale what they blamed us for doing in 1931, their answer is: \"Ah, but we have the confidence of the country. You lost the confidence of the country and we have got it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-26", "file": "debates1938-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "30d9fdbba27efa9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1555.3", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERRING INDUSTRY [Money].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "e and are told we are out of Order. It does not matter how bad and how dangerous is a proposal brought forward by the Government the Members behind them go into the Lobby as they are told. Here and there someone may get up and say a word or two to give the impression that he is free, but not a man dare stay out. With an automatic majority how is it possible to carry on the business of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-26a.1555.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-27", "file": "debates1938-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c11b31d90a6ae689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1580.2", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE WAGES (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not now!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "ognising the trade union of the theatrical and cinema employés. A certain other union, thinking that these people ought to belong to them, proclaimed a strike and sought to intervene regarding the terms of employment of a number of people who did not belong to their union, because they thought it a good opportunity to bring them in. There is a good deal of poaching in the trade union world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-27", "file": "debates1938-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c11b31d90a6ae689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE WAGES (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "aint to an organisation of which he is not a member, I can visualise a case in which the organisation might raise the issue, without any knowledge on the part of the individual concerned, for the purpose of prejudicing the individual on the ground that he had declined to join the union that made the application. It is all very well hon. Members saying that trades unions do not sometimes bully men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-27", "file": "debates1938-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c11b31d90a6ae689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1597.6", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE WAGES (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "It may be only a matter of drafting, but it is important, because people will have to spend a great deal of money in administering the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1597.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-27", "file": "debates1938-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c11b31d90a6ae689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1607.14", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE WAGES (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "I should like to know who will be left in if this Amendment is accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1607.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-27", "file": "debates1938-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "c11b31d90a6ae689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1617.7", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE WAGES (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "he first expression of a popular front we have seen, because it is the hon. Member for Rotherhithe (Mr. Benjamin Smith) and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour who have run things this morning. The only occasion when Amendments have been accepted has been when one or other of them nodded his head; and the rest of us have only endorsed what they have done. I would like to congratulate them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-27a.1617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1626.7", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I would like the Minister to answer what Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1626.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": "Are not these objections the same as those of the Spanish Government to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1632.5", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Major Whiteley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Whiteley", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that it was the master of this ship, the \"Stanhope\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1632.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1671.3", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Euan Wallace)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is their value?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Euan Wallace)", "preceding_text": " that the Government should extend the life of the licence granted to Cable and Wireless Limited, from 1953 to 1963, and it will then remain in force unless definite action is taken by the Government of the day. On the other side 2,600,000 £1 shares out of the existing issued capital of £30,000,000 are to be transferred to His Majesty's Government, carrying dividend as from 1st March of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1671.3", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Euan Wallace)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the current market price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Euan Wallace)", "preceding_text": "53 to 1963, and it will then remain in force unless definite action is taken by the Government of the day. On the other side 2,600,000 £1 shares out of the existing issued capital of £30,000,000 are to be transferred to His Majesty's Government, carrying dividend as from 1st March of this year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is their value?\"] The value is £1 nominal, but they may be worth a great deal more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1704.3", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Member will agree that it is in safe hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1783.3", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is our foreign policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "ealth as well. It is essential that all schemes for National Defence, whether they be conscription or anything else, should have the backing of a public opinion which believes in the Government's foreign policy. But public opinion does not believe in the Government's foreign policy at the present time. I quite agree that public opinion believes in what the Government did the week-end before last —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1785.3", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that I raised the matter. There was another statement at which, I hope, the right hon. Gentleman will look in the morning. I called the attention of the hon. and gallant Member for South Cardiff to it at the time it was made. It was that in the event of difficulties the military would then be in control. I am sure he never intended that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1786.2", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " of the different parties in the Government have proceeded to a point when the Chancellor who resigned a most important position in 1914 is now preparing to resign, or what he is preparing to do in the light of the Government's present plans. That, however, is merely a personal matter. What is important to note is the Government's intention, that when the moment comes, they will have conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1786.2", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " What is important to note is the Government's intention, that when the moment comes, they will have conscription. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course!\"] Of course, \"say hon. Members. But everyone said that in peace time the Government would never introduce conscription.\" In circumstances of emergency, ' we are told now, they intend to do so and obviously they would not wait for the outbreak of hostilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s a democratic procedure because before conscription could be introduced the permission of the House of Commons would be necessary. Everyone who experienced what occurred at the outbreak of the War knows how much democracy enters into circumstances of that kind. As I am attempting to reply to the hon. Member for Mossley, I hope he will try to achieve an unusual degree of Courtesy and listen to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " large expeditionary forces abroad. What sort of war has the right hon. Gentleman in mind? Conscription will not be necessary for mobilising the Air Force or the Navy. It can be contemplated only for the purpose of a much larger Army. If that be the case, we ought to know what sort of war the right hon. Gentleman has in mind. Who is the enemy? What is the strategical background of these proposals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " ought to know what sort of war the right hon. Gentleman has in mind. Who is the enemy? What is the strategical background of these proposals? [ Laughter .] Hon. Members may laugh, but the Government are supposed to be engaged in providing plans for a possible contingency. They now say that conscription may be necessary. Do hon. Members deny that it will be necessary only for a much enlarged Army?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-30", "file": "debates1938-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "106bdaf9266e40e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1792.4", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SERVICE ENROLMENT(CO-ORDINATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I certainly withdraw the word \"unfortunate\" and say that it is fortunate that the right hon. Gentleman has put us in possession of plans which certainly will have to be discussed. He made no secret about there being plans for conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-30a.1792.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1879.3", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are in Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "I can speak again on the question of the Clause standing part only with the consent of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "are bad: The men work in the airship hangar at Karachi, which in the summer becomes unbearably hot—it is of course of metal construction and ill-ventilated. The floor is bare earth, covered with dust•The dust fills the air, and the men soaked in perspiration and covered with dust are working under very uncomfortable conditions. I do not want to take up much time, or I could read it in full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1905.5", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "I am glad that His Majesty's Government are spending £1,500,000 in order, at any rate, to see that there shall be safe landing of aeroplanes which might fly under civil auspices in this country. I am glad to think that these aeroplanes, when they fly in the empyrean blue will be able to land safely without sacrifice of life and limb. I have no fear that the Government will waste this money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1919.4", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "Might I just say a few words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1919.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1925.3", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "preceding_text": " a directors' trade union or a real trade union. Such a thing as a ballot of that kind ought never to have been suggested. I would have expected the Minister and hon. Gentlemen opposite to have stood up for the right of these men to combine, without holding any such ballot, with the prospect of the ballot going against them. Some of us have seen ballots taken before and we know how they are taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1925.3", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "preceding_text": "s. When the question of the right of combination is at stake, we are prepared to fight against anything which endangers that right. The Prime Minister said earlier to-day that he hoped to get this Bill, and the Herring Industry Bill, and some other Orders at to-day's sitting. I would be prepared to keep this Committee sitting until to-morrow morning at breakfact time if necessary on this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1925.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1932.1", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "d to deny it to them. This ballot is something that has been conceived by the company. They know that they have to give way a little; the Cadman Committee reported that there must be some kind of collective organisation; and they are trying to palm the workmen off with this company union. I hope that these pilots, who are building up this great new service, will refuse to be parties to the ballot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1932.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1936.0", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "hem. This ballot is something that has been conceived by the company. They know that they have to give way a little; the Cadman Committee reported that there must be some kind of collective organisation; and they are trying to palm the workmen off with this company union. I hope that these pilots, who are building up this great new service, will refuse to be parties to the ballot—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Does anyone believe that it will be a secret ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1956.1", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Impossible.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " present when the coal companies' affairs are gone into. When some of their results have been got out by accountants they would very much object to others seeing those results. The hon. Gentleman's mentality is such that he believes that the employer has a right to supervise everything that the employé does. We want arrangements to be made by which neither party has the right to be present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "whom the people of this country have to depend for air defence? They are cringing before this company, are afraid of this company. How is it possible for them to carry on the great business of air expansion which has been entrusted to them when they take up such an attitude before this company? I ask the Minister—please, I ask you—to get up at that Box and withdraw the statement against these men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "atement against these men. [ Interruption. ] Instead of hon. Members shouting at me possibly you, Captain Bourne, would be shouting at me if I were to use the language I should like to use towards the Government. I am entitled to ask that the Minister should get up and make a complete withdrawal. Once again I say that at the beginning he got up and said that there was nothing against these pilots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1975.1", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "plement of destruction I would hit him hard. There should be an open charge. It is one of the fundamental features of British law, of British justice, one of the fundamental rights accorded by Magna Charta. How would any hon. Member of this House like to have a conviction recorded against him without knowing the charge or without any opportunity of refuting it? I say that I demand of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Stalin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "acked him too if it had rested with me, but if you could find him a job, as a butler or an airman or something, it might get me out of some of the awkward questions which are to be raised on 31st May—and 1st June.\" There has been nothing like it since the Government's friend Herr Hitler, on 30th June, 1934, had some 1,700 people shot and one Mr. Schmidt was shot in mistake for another Mr. Schmidt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Stalin does not even do that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "othing like it since the Government's friend Herr Hitler, on 30th June, 1934, had some 1,700 people shot and one Mr. Schmidt was shot in mistake for another Mr. Schmidt. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Stalin?\"] No, Herr Hitler did not shoot M. Stalin. Herr Hitler bears some resemblance in this matter to the Secretary of State. He sent an officer of considerable distinction to apologise to the widow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "take for another Mr. Schmidt. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Stalin?\"] No, Herr Hitler did not shoot M. Stalin. Herr Hitler bears some resemblance in this matter to the Secretary of State. He sent an officer of considerable distinction to apologise to the widow. [An HON. MEMBER: Stalin does not even do that.\"] There are a good many authorities on Russia in the House; and a lot of nonsense they talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about Stalin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "M. Stalin. Herr Hitler bears some resemblance in this matter to the Secretary of State. He sent an officer of considerable distinction to apologise to the widow. [An HON. MEMBER: Stalin does not even do that.\"] There are a good many authorities on Russia in the House; and a lot of nonsense they talk. [ Interruption. ] I am unable to describe that interruption as nonsense because I did not hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-05-31", "file": "debates1938-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "4bb418205de91bb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1983.1", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR NAVIGATION (FINANCIALL PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "tic people who can look at matters from the Conservative point of view. There was a time when these people thought it could be left to Conservative Ministers and patriotic people generally to look after their interests, but many of them are finding that they are not so well protected, and are not doing as well, as the docker, the railwayman, and the transport worker. I warn the Minister of Health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-05-31a.1983.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-06-01", "file": "debates1938-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "e69f89b0b52d6a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Are they publicly or privately owned?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "preceding_text": "? As far as Holborn is concerned, it has shown that for the people who might at any given time be in the streets and the people who live in Holborn whose houses for one reason or another are not adaptable to air-raid precautions, there is ample shelter accommodation in basements and cellars if certain preparations are made to make them more proof against the blast and splinters of high explosives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2079.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-01", "file": "debates1938-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "e69f89b0b52d6a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2093.1", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would have to take the mothers also.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "atives that we were discussing. In a plan for evacuation, should we begin with the evacuation of the children? I think most hon. Members would hold the view that, whoever might or might not be evacuated from London or the great centres of population, we should do our utmost, not only on the grounds of physical safety, but on the grounds of peace of mind, to get the children out of the danger zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-01", "file": "debates1938-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "e69f89b0b52d6a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2096.1", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ary, if I may be permitted to say so, within the limits of the authority, the staff, and the resources, and, above all, within the limits of the decisions which he was given, has shown unremitting zeal and industry, and has produced remarkable results. I think, too, if I may say so, that the Home Secretary has begun to show in the last six months a little belated energy about air-raid precautions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-01", "file": "debates1938-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "e69f89b0b52d6a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2152.3", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-01", "file": "debates1938-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "e69f89b0b52d6a7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2199.1", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": " have to leave the Minister five minutes to comment on what I am saying, and I regret that I am not able to give way to the hon. Member opposite. I have but a very short time in which to give a few facts; I have not the time to touch upon the tragic matter of the crews. Had I had longer, I should have been glad to take hon. Members opposite through a long catalogue of researches at Somerset House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-01a.2199.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-02", "file": "debates1938-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "a464363044b80784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-02a.2390.1", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": " of tariffs as a permanent policy in a fast-changing and fast-moving world and the need for national ownership of some of our major industries, and co-operation between States for import and export regulation of major commodities. We have had six years' experience. I know that many hon. Members opposite would say that the figures show that tariffs have proved a godsend to industry in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-02a.2390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-02", "file": "debates1938-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "a464363044b80784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-02a.2390.1", "colnum": "2390", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "3 men are now unemployed more than were unemployed several months ago. That being the case, the Government come along to the House and say: \"What we want to do, in effect, is to stabilise the available supplies of a certain raw material so that we can stabilise the price of that material and stabilise the profits of those who produce it.\" In other words, the tariff policy the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-02a.2390.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-03", "file": "debates1938-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b505d554121630bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-03a.2490.3", "colnum": "2490", "heading": "ECONOMIC APPEASEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "It is rather difficult for me, an ordinary average man, to follow the three speakers who have gone before me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-03a.2490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-03", "file": "debates1938-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b505d554121630bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-03a.2490.3", "colnum": "2490", "heading": "ECONOMIC APPEASEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "nd months the political aspects of the problem have come right on top, and the economic aspects have been shoved into the background. I think that was a disgraceful quotation from the \"Times\" which my right hon. Friend the Member for Bow and Bromley gave, in which they said that the van Zeeland Report was away on the shelves, with the dust collecting on it. When the leading organ of the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-03a.2490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-03", "file": "debates1938-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "b505d554121630bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-03a.2500.1", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "ECONOMIC APPEASEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "e is being used to widen the area of agreement and therefore to create that atmosphere in which, along with the economic steps we have been taking, further implementation can be given to such important reports as that of M. van Zeeland. The House will remember that on several occasions we have attempted to widen the circle of agreement, but that we have met with opposition from the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-03a.2500.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-14", "file": "debates1938-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "35eb4baea5003c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-14a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "nd to see how those programmes can be advanced. With regard to the West Indies, there is nothing that I would add to my statement. I was asked one or two questions by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for South Cardiff (Captain A. Evans), who wanted to know when there would be an announcement about the new Governor. I believe that the announcement will appear in to-morrow morning's newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-14a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-14", "file": "debates1938-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "35eb4baea5003c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-14a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "will appear in to-morrow morning's newspapers. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not here?\"] When hon. Members read the name they will know that the man who has been appointed the present Governor of Fiji is well known as one of the best Governors in the service. He is a comparatively young man, in his early 50's, and I am certain that he will be an excellent choice for this very difficult and important post.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-14a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-15", "file": "debates1938-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c0c7759a8156b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "stry itself to conduct the investigation. It should inquire into such matters as the share of trade coming to British ships, the inter-Imperial routes of trade, questions of National Defence, foreign subsidies and relative costs. It will be found that there is not one cure for the position, but a dozen cures, and I would say incidentally that the one cure that cannot be adopted is Nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.322.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-15", "file": "debates1938-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c0c7759a8156b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.334.3", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "er they are doing their duty by the electors, who elected them to carry out a successful tariff policy. You should either demonstrate that you believe in your tariff policy or abandon it; either make it effective or depart from it entirely. These are points which I wish to bring to the attention of the President of the Board of Trade before the final reply is given from the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-15", "file": "debates1938-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c0c7759a8156b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "maintain our merchant fleet and keep ships running was not because of any failure or weakness of private enterprise or the Capitalist system. Given fair trading conditions, the British Mercantile Marine was then, and still is, quite able to look after itself. If the whole merchant navy had been owned by the State, precisely the same difficulties would have arisen as arose under private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-15", "file": "debates1938-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c0c7759a8156b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "gn nations which are determined to increase their mercantile marines irrespective of the welfare of the shipping industry of this country. It is the action of foreign Governments which is tending to destroy the British Mercantile Marine, and it is the responsibility of the Government to defend it. I have complete confidence in the President of the Board of Trade and in the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-15", "file": "debates1938-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c0c7759a8156b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": " rather than tariffs. He would not even exclude industrial quotas when he was challenged by the President of the Board of Trade, or prohibitions, although they fall under M. van Zeeland's special ban in his report which the right hon. Gentleman so warmly supported. He said that he wanted more security, more stability, for industry. I want more security and stability for those employed in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-15a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-16", "file": "debates1938-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "78c5a7b6b5c3cfdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.396.5", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not read the observations to which the right hon. Gentleman refers. I do not think there can be any difficulty in the inhabitants of these places finding refuge. I have read that there are numerous caves in the vicinity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.396.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-16", "file": "debates1938-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "78c5a7b6b5c3cfdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.447.3", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Provisions with respect to the Herring Industry Advisory Council.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "mber for East Aberdeen has said to his—that if the Russians value our friendship and value trade with this country, they ought to be prepared, under these agreements, to buy Scottish herring and British manufactured goods. I want all the trade and good will with Russia that we can obtain, but Russia for her part must make the task of her friends in this country easy by taking our Scottish herring,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-16", "file": "debates1938-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "78c5a7b6b5c3cfdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES RESERVES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "e, of course, to bear the cost, because for the safety of the country we must store the food, but I do ask that the Government should not go into the markets themselves. Let them use the powers under Subsection (1). If they say to traders, \"We want you to help us to increase the food supplies stored in the country,\" it may be necessary to give them say, 3 per cent. on the money that is lying idle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-16", "file": "debates1938-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "78c5a7b6b5c3cfdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ESSENTIAL COMMODITIES RESERVES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "While thanking the President of the Board of Trade for his reply, I should like to say, if I may, with respect, that I think I have won a great victory in having got him to say that he will use the powers of Sub-section (1) as far as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-16a.521.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-17", "file": "debates1938-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4bc4042a5e93a1e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "cles using the roads was some 35 per cent. less than to-day. More serious however than the smaller total expenditure is the decline in new construction and major road improvements in recent years. Expenditure on these amounted to over £22,000,000 in 1932\"— That was despite the economies of the National Government and was the persistent overflow of the energetic activities of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-17", "file": "debates1938-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4bc4042a5e93a1e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "e there are on the roads 3,000,000 motor vehicles, including the slowly disappearing motor cycle, of which 2,000,000 are private motor cars. We are turning out cars at the rate of 500,000 a year. In sorting out the cause of accidents the Ministry has made a statement that only 1.2 per cent. are due to road conditions. Every pedestrian and every unprejudiced observer will agree with that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-17", "file": "debates1938-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4bc4042a5e93a1e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "ing not yet 10 years ago. Fourthly, no road vehicle should be built capable of a speed of more than 20 or at most 25 miles an hour. If that were done the cost and running charges could be greatly simplified and reduced. Fifthly, all licences should depend on a guarantee of abstension from alcohol on the part of the recipient. Sixthly, all motor offences should be tried by non-motoring magistrates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-17", "file": "debates1938-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "4bc4042a5e93a1e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Battleships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ure by the London County Council, that they had other expenses which they had to put first. I suggest to the Committee that there are other expenses which we ought to put before road expenditure at the present time, There is the expense of the development of our Defences. I am alarmed by this large increase in road expenditure at a time when we ought to be devoting every penny we have to building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-17a.646.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.677.8", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman must understand from what I said in my reply that all representations on the subject of aircraft forming part of General Franco's forces should, in our view, be addressed to the Burgos authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.677.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Civil Service\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "of a university education, which I think can be got extra-murally and in a hundred different ways, but when the public funds are paying for full-time courses, I say that there is no terrific virtue in a university education in vacuo. Most of the people who go to the universities go for the specific purpose of becoming teachers, doctors, of entering the church, or entering a variety of professions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "e is showing in education. I only wish that he had authority to do at once what he knows is right. If that were so we would see a great jump forward in respect of many of the things for which we all care. What I liked about his speech was that he did not try to make out that the Board were doing more than they really are. He indicated that there were not as many nursery schools as there should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "nows is right. If that were so we would see a great jump forward in respect of many of the things for which we all care. What I liked about his speech was that he did not try to make out that the Board were doing more than they really are. He indicated that there were not as many nursery schools as there should be. [ Interruption. ] Will hon. Members be quiet. The other day I just muddled through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " had passionate speeches about Basque children, but here are necessitous children under our own eyes. I am much more concerned about them than I am about the people of Spain or the Basque children, not that I do not want to do justice to them. I am afraid that some people get excited about Spain and the children from Spain, and there is a danger that they may become callous about our own children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.776.5", "colnum": "776", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": " visits to many parts of the country. I would like to congratulate him on his lyrical speech. Indeed, it took me far away from some of the realities of our educational system. It was a beautiful picture. There was immense progress and great satisfaction, but if you look at the realities of the English educational system to-day one is hound to be struck by the fact that it is a class-ridden system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.776.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Annesley Somerville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Annesley Somerville", "preceding_text": "under the National Government, that system is doing rather more for those that have not than his hon. Friends did when they were in office. This afternoon we have had presented to us an Estimate for education which is the largest, but for one, in the history of education. Do not these £51,000,000 come, for the most part, out of the pockets of those that have for the benefit of those that have not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.851.13", "colnum": "851", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "hem. However, Whitehall does not feel at liberty to disclose the nature of the disagreement over America, since Washington is preserving silence, too. All that can be said is that Mr. Chamberlain, as well as Captain Eden, has a high opinion of American friendship and co-operation. The difference, it is implied, was one of method rather than principle, and history will vindicate the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.851.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.851.13", "colnum": "851", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": " time, as we well know, two views on foreign policy in this country and in the House, one associated with the Prime Minister and one with the late Foreign Secretary. They are widely different, each commanding substantial and considerable support in the country and considerable support in the Conservative party. In order that we and the country may be able to make up our minds as to which is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.851.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\" \"What interview?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way because the time is exceedingly limited. In view of the clearly authoritative nature of this interview—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.854.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-06-20", "file": "debates1938-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "cf79ce4f26bb0d14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.855.4", "colnum": "855", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Quite wrong.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that the Prime Minister is trying to evade the issue. The information which the journalist got was that the difference was over America. Is that true or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-20a.855.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "een made by Spanish Government aeroplanes upon ships carrying aid to General Franco. I could not help wondering what would have been the attitude of the Labour party in those circumstances. I am thinking how they would have dwelt on the portentous profits which were being made by the people who owned those ships. Would they not have said that people who take these risks must look after themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Franco would be done for.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the bombing of open towns and villages, and later against the bombing of British ships, especially where, as it seemed to us, the bombing of those ships was deliberate. There is nothing easier than for hon. Members opposite to bring up all sorts of suggestions and say that you have only to adopt this or that and the whole thing would stop. If they were on this side of the House instead of on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are you going to do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does me less than justice. I have said distinctly more than once that there were a number of cases in which it appears to us plain that the attack on the British ship was a deliberate attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y case that the attack was deliberate, and it is possible that in some cases it was not; but it still remains that in many cases it was deliberate. As I have pointed out, we do not admit the right of General Franco to bomb our ships, whether deliberately or by accident, and if we do not take stronger measures than protests at this present time it is because, having the responsibility that we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The lives of British sailors.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ill remains that in many cases it was deliberate. As I have pointed out, we do not admit the right of General Franco to bomb our ships, whether deliberately or by accident, and if we do not take stronger measures than protests at this present time it is because, having the responsibility that we have—[ Interruption. ]—and believing that our policy of non-intervention is of greater importance than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ised working classes of France, was determined that French obligations to Czechoslovakia in the hour of danger should be fulfilled. The French are convinced that nothing but the firmness shown then did save peace. It was saved first by the firm, wise, conciliatory policy of democratic Czechoslovakia; it was saved secondly by the firmness of France; and the Prime Minister certainly played his part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "at there is anybody here, upon whatever side of the Committee he may sit, who does not believe that one of the most important things to seek, if world peace is to be assured, is friendship and co-operation between the United States of America and the British Empire. I would ask Members of this House whether a speech such as that to which we have just listened, full of innuendo and mischief making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": " to resume good relations with them. It is not the slightest good trying ceaselessly to turn up what has happened in the past. We must deal with matters as they exist to-day, not as we think they ought to exist, nor as they existed in the past. Since the conversations were initiated by the Prime Minister with the Italian Government, that Government have honestly tried to fulfil their undertakings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "h matters as they exist to-day, not as we think they ought to exist, nor as they existed in the past. Since the conversations were initiated by the Prime Minister with the Italian Government, that Government have honestly tried to fulfil their undertakings. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Hon. Members opposite may take a different view. Whether we like it or not, Abyssinia is now part of the Italian Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "nts. I am not suggesting that the ships are carrying contraband; if they do so, they do it at their own risk and they must take what comes to them, but I would remind the Committee that ships doing even legitimate trade with Spain are making vast profits. There is no doubt about that. Many of those ships have only been British for a very short time. They came under the British flag for protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Barclay-Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Barclay-Harvey", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, I was unable to hear the interruption of the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "nd myself against any charge of bias. There are, I know, some people on the other side of the Committee who want General Franco to lose in the present war in Spain. I believe there are a few people on this side who want General Franco to win. I do not believe that anybody even on the other side really believes that the principal object of His Majesty's Government is that General Franco should win.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"War with whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Evans", "preceding_text": ". Many of my own constituents have unfortunately lost their lives. But if the demand of the Opposition which has been made across the Floor of this Chamber to-day, both by the Socialist party and by the Liberal party, were put into operation, it would not be a question of 20 Mercantile Marine seamen losing their lives, but in all probability the horrors of war would be visited on the whole nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1000.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1001.4", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Evans", "preceding_text": "ain circumstances in the world of which you are just as well aware as we are; His Majesty's Government have the responsibility of dealing with that situation, and we do not want any act by any section in this country to embarrass the Government in their desire to bring about a peaceful end to the dispute.\" If we are only realists, and realise that any policy of intervention will involve us in war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1001.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "ned and her sailors were injured. Immediately there was a bombardment of the most ruthless character, and now we know that the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs approves of that kind of policy. With the whole world at this moment in such a volcanic condition, I cannot help thinking that his speech is the worst service that has ever been paid to the cause of peace. But let the country note.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": " about our prestige or anything else if Germany or Italy is likely to declare war upon us and shift their scene of action, having conquered Spain, as they imagine? I think something should be said about the neglect somewhere in the political life of Europe that has allowed these people to acquire so much arrogance and power. Italy and Germany want Franco to win. Whom do the Government want to win?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Portugal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": "f a reality than it is at the present time, and to work this international plan not in a one-sided way, as the right hon. Gentleman tried to make out, but fairly on all sides. Surely, that is an achievement. It has always surprised me that in the great difficulties of this International Committee we should have been confronted throughout by the opposition of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "sappointments I am glad to be able to report this amount of progress. The right hon. Member for Caithness (Sir A. Sinclair) raised the question of the unfortunate sad death of the British observing officer on board the \"Brisbane\" and asked whether it had been reported to the Non-Intervention Committee. At this morning's meeting the chairman expressed their deep regret at the death of this officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who killed him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " glad to be able to report this amount of progress. The right hon. Member for Caithness (Sir A. Sinclair) raised the question of the unfortunate sad death of the British observing officer on board the \"Brisbane\" and asked whether it had been reported to the Non-Intervention Committee. At this morning's meeting the chairman expressed their deep regret at the death of this officer. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ith the heroic remedies proposed by the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs who said he would bomb the aerodromes in the Balearic Isles; he would destroy them, and stand up to Mussolini at last. I should like to ask whether in the words of the statement in that article there is any substantial body of opinion in the country who would stand behind the right hon. Gentleman in any such proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " interests of German economy.\" I have taken special care to inform the Committee of the action on which we have decided in the matter. To conclude this Debate I think I can safely say that all who interest themselves in foreign policy regard themselves as realists. Hon. Members opposite regard themselves as realists because they say that they will save democracy by intervening in the Spanish War.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1046.5", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "I remember that there is a definite provision made, by which the parochial church council is to be notified; if the parochial church council does not exist, then the church wardens have to be notified, and their approval and their opinion—I think that is included in the Measure. I say it to-day, but I cannot tell you exactly where it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1046.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-21", "file": "debates1938-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "00b70d0fe93cfb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1046.7", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938. CLASS II.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "It is in Clause 12 which provides that the powers conferred by this Measure should be exercised in relation to any benefice, and that where there is no parochial church council, as I have said, notice shall be given to the church wardens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-21a.1046.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-22", "file": "debates1938-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7e28dbce85d05a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "ese hydrocarbon oils, which raised the tax from 6d. to 8d., did so with very great regret, and he reminded us that in 1928 my right hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill), when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and inaugurated this tax for a particular purpose, also did so with regret. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer authorises me to say that he is following in their footsteps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-22", "file": "debates1938-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7e28dbce85d05a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "If people like to have ships going from Marseilles to Valencia, and if those ships were formerly Greek and, after signing a few papers, shoved up the British flag, that does not have a great deal of bearing on this subject of motor alcohol. It is always terrible to become obsessed with one subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1166.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-22", "file": "debates1938-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7e28dbce85d05a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"See it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I must ask for your protection, Captain Bourne. The hon. Member quotes statements which he alleges I made when I have made no statements of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-22", "file": "debates1938-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7e28dbce85d05a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radford", "preceding_text": "he blending of alcohol, but were due to the relative price levels in the markets of the world and the retail price here, plus freights, which might go up or down. It is grossly untrue and unfair to make these statements and charges which hon. Members have made, based, in some cases, on inadequate briefing. Hon. Members from the Opposition Liberal Benches have been peculiarly active in this regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-22", "file": "debates1938-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "7e28dbce85d05a37", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "r. Churchill), for raiding the Insurance Fund. My, how you have departed from those Liberal days. When I listen to you, you are now raiding the last penny from the poorest of the poor. I could understand the late Chancellor of the Exchequer introducing a proposal like this. To me, he always looks as cold as the fish for which he fishes, but I cannot understand you, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-22a.1211.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1343.2", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " are killed are nothing, but we must keep to the policy of non-intervention. Are the ships to be given permits for these guns? Will the Government supply them? Will the Secretary of State for War, out of his abundance, supply these anti-aircraft guns at a price? If not, where are they to come from? It seems to me to be an utterly irresponsible suggestion, thrown out with no consideration whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer that one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " cover himself by vague general statements like that. We have a right to know what he is apprehending. I have shown that, on the Prime Minister's own admission, all we have against us is General Franco. Does the Prime Minister mean that if we took perfectly legitimate steps to bring pressure to bear upon General Franco for his piratical attacks upon British ships, some other Power would attack us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1348.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "That is perfectly wrong. The policy of non-intervention was accepted by the Labour movement until it was shown that it was absolutely one-sided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1352.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e in principle between the case of these men who were engaged in those operations on one side or the other, and those who are running these harbours, except that in the one case it was done out of high principle only and in the other was done for profit. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite protest very loudly when I say that action is demanded which might very easily lead this country into war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Well, reprisals. I do not distinguish between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1359.3", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—and we have, of course, reserved our right to compensation. But, on the other hand, General Franco has in the most emphatic terms denied to us that he ever had any intention of deliberately attacking British ships, and that such action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1361.5", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "e said that we should be back where we are now. But let me ask the Government—and this is the opportunity to ask it, because in five weeks the Recess will begin—what will happen if, when Sir Robert Hodgson has come back and these protests have been made, General Franco refuses to give satisfaction? Then, certainly, in reprisal we should sink one warship for every attack which General Franco makes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1361.5", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": " let me ask the Government—and this is the opportunity to ask it, because in five weeks the Recess will begin—what will happen if, when Sir Robert Hodgson has come back and these protests have been made, General Franco refuses to give satisfaction? Then, certainly, in reprisal we should sink one warship for every attack which General Franco makes. [ Interruption. ] I deny that that would mean war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": "only this afternoon but on previous occasions. This is a case, the very nature of which, unfortunately, is to generate heat. No one, I presume, supposes that indignation against these attacks on vessels flying our flag is confined to any one party or any one section of British opinion. The matter is, in fact, even more galling to those of us who sit on this side of the House, than to anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What limits?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": " entitled to all the protection which they can possibly want or which we can give them. The question then narrows itself down to what happens in territorial waters. Let us see what steps can be taken. In the first place, it may well be that the time will come when we shall have to defend them wherever they are. There are, after all, limits to the long-suffering of a great nation under provocation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": "ships in running supplies to the beleaguered garrison which is now Government Spain.\" We would in fact, from that moment, be involved ourselves in the war, and I do not believe that this country intends or desires to be so involved. Moreover, we do not know all the facts. It is a question which has yet to be made clear whether these aeroplanes may not be Government aeroplanes with disguised signs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "one of us that he was staking his political reputation and his future on carrying out that agreement. In order to do that he has to bring about a settlement in Spain. He knows that no settlement will be accepted which does not involve a Franco win, and therefore he wants a Franco win. I hope the widows and orphans of everyone of the 60 men killed will realise that they were sacrified on the altar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did not do it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "ative than the Government's policy, you are, by attacking that policy, risking the welfare of the country as a whole. His one idea was a blockade, the same form of policy that was advocated on these benches only about two years ago, but instead of cutting off oil for aeroplanes, they wanted to cut the Suez Canal and make sure of war at a time when we were even less prepared than we are at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "tish Government were to adopt a policy which could be recognised by all the democracies of the world as having perhaps struck a finishing blow at the resistance of the Spanish Republic, which resistance is inspired, not only by their zeal for their cause, but by the probability of very cruel punishment if they are defeated. I must address myself to the question which is asked, \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Call your own side to order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ay tribute to the services rendered, in war and in peace, by the Mercantile Marine in building up the security and prosperity of this country; and the circumstances which now surround this particular trade call for those eulogies being given some practical effect in the policy of the country. It does not matter when you are pleading for British seamen—the only matter with which they are concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "I think that I should possibly reply a little more fully to the hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) who, as I pointed out a short time ago, for some reason or other, has singled me out for special attack, saying, I think, that I was smiling while he was pleading for the lives of British seamen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "not realise that the hon. Member representing a seaport town possibly has some special responsibility, but it is possible, I can assure the hon. Member, to ruin a case by over statement. I would remind the hon. Member, because we must be frank on this occasion, that these seamen who are sailing to Spain would not be denied unemployment pay if they refused to go on a ship sailing to Spanish waters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "I have only five minutes, so I cannot go into details, but I would like briefly to refer to the representations advanced by the right hon. Gentleman who spoke first in this Debate. He spoke with great heat and great enthusiasm, but in the end he practically left us where we were. It was suggested by various hon. Members, particularly by him, that we might bomb General Franco's aerodromes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "ld like briefly to refer to the representations advanced by the right hon. Gentleman who spoke first in this Debate. He spoke with great heat and great enthusiasm, but in the end he practically left us where we were. It was suggested by various hon. Members, particularly by him, that we might bomb General Franco's aerodromes. [HON. MEMBERS: No.\"] Well, he agreed with the suggestion made elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-23", "file": "debates1938-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "2a751c85dff40b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "BOMBING OF BRITISH SHIPS.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": "In the time at my disposal it will be possible for me to deal only with the main points which have been raised in the course of this Debate. I am certain of one thing, that after the very clear and explicit statement of the Prime Minister this afternoon, it will not be necessary for me to cover the same ground as he did. Indeed I would be unable to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-23a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-24", "file": "debates1938-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c6959d57484617d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Worse off!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "mployment Assistance Board to carry out its duties so long as that bar remains or nothing else is done. It is not a sufficient answer, and it would be a most deplorable thing to say—I have heard it said by way of palliation for this horrible state of affairs—that a very large percentage of the people who are actually in employment are no better off and their children little or no better nourished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-24", "file": "debates1938-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c6959d57484617d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": " That is partly because the contemplation of those conditions is so exceedingly painful. I have noticed that invariably in the course of elections one goes to the committee rooms and finds canvassers who say, \"I have been to such and such a house, and I did not know that such conditions existed in this country.\" You can find these places within 10 minutes' taxi drive of this Palace of Westminster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-24", "file": "debates1938-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c6959d57484617d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Five minutes' walk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "s is so exceedingly painful. I have noticed that invariably in the course of elections one goes to the committee rooms and finds canvassers who say, \"I have been to such and such a house, and I did not know that such conditions existed in this country.\" You can find these places within 10 minutes' taxi drive of this Palace of Westminster. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Five minutes.\"] Five minutes if you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-24", "file": "debates1938-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c6959d57484617d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "he Ministry of Labour have done, and I am glad to note that there are signs that Lancashire is moving towards a return to its old prosperity. I am glad that over 2,000 new reconditioned or extended factories have been established in Lancashire through the operations of the Lancashire Development Association aided by the Government's policy of making foreign firms come to England and set up works.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-24", "file": "debates1938-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c6959d57484617d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1491.3", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) knows that I always welcome an opportunity. I was sorry two years ago when I did not get a day at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1491.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-24", "file": "debates1938-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "2c6959d57484617d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1492.5", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ht that is thrown by the inquiries on a great problem of human need. I ask the hon. Member to believe me when I say that the Board are not concerned to pry into these people's affairs; they are doing these things in pursuance of the duty placed upon them by Sub-section (2) of Section (2) of Section 35 of the Act of 1934, to provide for the well-being of those to whose needs they have to minister.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-24a.1492.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-27", "file": "debates1938-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2f2ccdaf6272ae4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1512.5", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I be permitted to say that this was an official statement from a Government official?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-27", "file": "debates1938-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2f2ccdaf6272ae4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1584.1", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "ut in Clauses that are unintelligible. We have in the Committee some of the most able minds, which are accustomed to legislation dealing with taxation. Yet any hon. Member who has sat through the proceedings to-day must have been struck by the fact that one hon. Member after another, from the Attorney-General downwards, has repeated that he was unable to understand the Clause before the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-27", "file": "debates1938-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2f2ccdaf6272ae4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " piece of paper. A cheque for a million pounds is only a piece of paper, but nobody can suggest that because a cheque is only a piece of paper there is no obligation to pay Income Tax. If a man receives a foreign cheque what he does is to sell it through his bank, just as a foreign bond is sold through a stockbroker. Suppose a foreign government paid 100,000 francs to a bank here for distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-27", "file": "debates1938-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "2f2ccdaf6272ae4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Amendment as respects duties on motor cars, musical instruments, clocks, films, etc.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ave had to be a full justification for it and all the reasons for the proposed alteration. When this matter comes before us from the Import Duties Advisory Committee, if it ever does—and suspicion seems to have now been generated in strange and diverse quarters, and I shall soon be getting suspicious about it myself if I find people both to the right and the left of me entertaining this suspicion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-27a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-28", "file": "debates1938-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e891286397db325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1723.9", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "Are these shipowners who sent out ships for the purpose of private gain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1723.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-28", "file": "debates1938-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e891286397db325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1836.7", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Albery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Albery", "preceding_text": "tance of this Clause would present very great advantages. If the taxpayer is able, in a time of comparative prosperity, when quotations in the City are high, to sell a portion of his securities with a view to making arrangements for the eventual payment of Estate Duty, and put them into the kind of certificates suggested in this Clause, he will have conferred upon himself a considerable advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1836.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-28", "file": "debates1938-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e891286397db325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": ", if this Clause were passed, in time to come we might see a rise in the price of sugar in this country. Then we should see the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) come down and reduce the House to tears, saying that the price of sugar to housewives in this country had gone up. Having been to the West Indies very recently I realise that you cannot have your cake and eat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-28", "file": "debates1938-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "e891286397db325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1867.7", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Sir William Brass", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Sir William Brass", "preceding_text": " on Income Tax lines. Certain individuals were exempted from it because they were not expected to pay it in the same way as Income Tax. In its original form, this tax was on increased profits due to Government expenditure on the rearmament programme; that form was dropped, because the incidence of that tax was not fair, or was considered not fair, and as a result, the flat-rate tax was introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-28a.1867.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-29", "file": "debates1938-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "05019ac4df86b706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-29a.2013.2", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ot kill the pig where it is fed but take it to an approved slaughter-house. They do not skin the pig after it is killed but cut it up in slices, and the English housewife would think there was something wrong if she did not find a rind of skin with her bacon on the plate in the morning. The English, therefore, when buying their bacon pay for the skin, and they have no leather industry as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-29a.2013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-29", "file": "debates1938-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "05019ac4df86b706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-29a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON INDUSTRY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "Apparently the hon. Member for Lincoln (Mr. Liddall) represents the small employer here and is asking this House at this moment and at this late hour to pass an Amendment in order to get round the Fair Wages Clause. From the observations which he made that he wants to prevent employers from paying wages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-29a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2173.1", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "isclosed at all to the House, they can plead that the public safety requires a matter to be kept secret. The Official Secrets Act was devised to protect the national defences and ought not to be used to shield Ministers who may have neglected the national defences. It ought not to be used to shield Ministers who have strong personal interests in concealing the truth about matters from the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2187.1", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "preceding_text": " of what the right hon. Gentleman said, this is not fundamentally a House of Commons issue. It is an issue in which a great Service, among other things, is interested, as well as the House of Commons. He talked about spies, and said no one would deny that the Government should be enabled to defeat spies. It will be necessary soon for no foreign nation to pay one single spy to come to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2187.2", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "preceding_text": " and I hope nothing will be done to hinder it in future. We have also to face the factors that there is an Official Secrets Act and that there are Members of Parliament. Supposing the Official Secrets Act did not apply to information given to hon. Members. What would then be the situation? All Civil Servants, all officers in the Army, would then be immune from prosecution if they gave information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "preceding_text": "suming—I am not arguing as a lawyer; I am arguing from the commonsense point of view —that if this House decides that its hon. Members are to be allowed to be given information by civil servants and officers, and that hon. Members do not give their names away when secret information is given, that it means that civil servants or officers in the Forces will be at liberty to give secret infoimation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\" \"Play the game.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "preceding_text": " because I think that is only incidental. I think he will agree with me that the secret information came to him because he was a Member of Parliament and not a second-lieutenant in an artillery battery. The two matters are quite distinct. I do not know what he does in his unit as a gunner officer. If he were in my unit, under my command, in my company, he would still be drilling with the recruits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "preceding_text": "f the Territorial Army. There are several courses open. We can exclude Territorial officers from being Members of the House of Commons, or we can exclude Members of the House of Commons from being Territorial officers in the future, as a result of this Select Committee. I very much hope that no such decision will be arrived at, and that the point will not even be discussed by the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0", "colnum": "2188", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Macnamara", "preceding_text": "r position before in this House and the Territorial Army hopes they will continue to do so. I hope that the Government will put as their view, and that the Select Committee will decide, that hon. Members have no privileges which will excuse them from divulging the names of those who give to them information which they have taken on oath not to give to anyone. That would solve all the difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2194.1", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e between the Crown in Parliament and the Crown in Council; and the Crown in Council controls the armed forces of the Crown. We have heard much—perhaps too much—of the dangers to which Parliament might be subjected by the Executive. We have to consider, also, the dangers to which the country and Parliament might be subjected if the Executive felt that they were being unduly hampered by Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2225.3", "colnum": "2225", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not said a word.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "e is an opportunity to shy some bricks at the Government.\" When the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillsborough (Mr. Alexander) was First Lord of the Admiralty there.vas no Minister whom I can remember during the years I have been in this House, who was more anxious to safeguard the interest of the State. But now he regards the incident as an opportunity of making an attack on the Government,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2234.1", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "not be fastened down, as it were. I cannot believe that anybody will deny that in this situation, with the full authority of the leader of the Executive Government, through the channel of the Secretary of State for War, the Attorney-General, who ought to have been in a completely judicial position, was sent to the hon. Member for Norwood to put, as he said, the legal position before him. What for?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2237.11", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "e more, before he begins to receive any profit; and all that time the State is putting its hands into the till and grabbing 15 to 20 per cent. on the basic prices. Is there a single industry in the world where the same thing would be done or suffered? But that is not the end of the story. Two months go by; perhaps a little bit of profit begins to appear; then there is a heat wave, or a Coronation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2237.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2237.11", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": " indeed, to be logical, upon the cinema, is that it is a tax upon the things of the mind, and no civilised State puts taxes upon the things of the mind. We should not think of putting a tax upon newspapers, though in the days when my right hon. Friend the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) was young they did. It was only about 1850 or 1860 that there ceased to be taxes on newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2237.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-06-30", "file": "debates1938-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "cf356e8712012bbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2247.1", "colnum": "2247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Lobby?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "ere should be placed upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer an obligation to introduce the tax in a remodelled form when he introduces his next Budget. It is because the Amendment proposes such a remodelling of the entertainment tax that I, personally, find myself able to support it, and I hope that many Members of this Committee will also be able to find themselves in a position to support it also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-06-30a.2247.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-04", "file": "debates1938-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "97cd81ffc36d1dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-04a.13.2", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA AND JAPAN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Are not these interests there for the purpose of making profits.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-04a.13.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-05", "file": "debates1938-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "3bffac3085a341d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.273.4", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.-(Repeal of certain enactments requiring owners and occupiers to defray expenses of fire brigades.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "A. Sinclair) quoted the De-rating Act as a reason why the insurance offices, or those people who are insuring, should continue to make a contribution. I was astonished to hear him make a claim of that kind. As he will remember, the Derating Act paid full compensation to the local authorities for the loss of their rates upon industrial premises and in addition to that, made a lump sum contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.273.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-05", "file": "debates1938-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "3bffac3085a341d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.318.9", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Enactments repealed.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read the Third time.\" The House will not expect an elaborate statement from me at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.318.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-05", "file": "debates1938-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "3bffac3085a341d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "But the directors of the company or the Government cannot be blamed for that. If people will be foolish enough to gamble on a chance of that kind they must take the consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-05", "file": "debates1938-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "3bffac3085a341d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.338.0", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " and the hon. Member for West Willesden on the subject of private enterprise versus State control. I agree with the hon. Member for West Willesden that the Post Office is an efficient service, but if I could quote to the House not the profits only which the Post Office made but the losses which were made in the past and the years in which they were made a very different picture would be presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-05a.338.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-06", "file": "debates1938-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e48a50c747be1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-06a.489.5", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " the application will not be the same as it is in the Bill, the present occasion shall not be regarded as a precedent for doing wrong in another case. I shall not deny some of the arguments used by the President of the Board of Trade that the Amendment would ill fit his Bill. It is a good Amendment, but it will not fit the Bill; therefore, the Bill is bad. That is one of the proofs that it is bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-06a.489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-06", "file": "debates1938-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e48a50c747be1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-06a.489.5", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We must laugh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "as it is in the Bill, the present occasion shall not be regarded as a precedent for doing wrong in another case. I shall not deny some of the arguments used by the President of the Board of Trade that the Amendment would ill fit his Bill. It is a good Amendment, but it will not fit the Bill; therefore, the Bill is bad. That is one of the proofs that it is bad. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-06a.489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-06", "file": "debates1938-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e48a50c747be1a3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-06a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have tried to understand the speech of the hon. and learned Gentleman for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) and I hope that it is not through lack of intelligence that I have not succeeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-06a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "preceding_text": "esist this Instruction. If the House will permit me, I will deal straight away with the points raised by the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton). I am amazed to see the interpretation he has put upon the ordinary legal procedure of negotiating an agreement. He has used the term \"gentleman's agreement\" on several occasions and he states that an agreement was come to. My instructions are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.694.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.694.2", "colnum": "694", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Instructions.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Reginald Clarry", "preceding_text": "ction. If the House will permit me, I will deal straight away with the points raised by the hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton). I am amazed to see the interpretation he has put upon the ordinary legal procedure of negotiating an agreement. He has used the term \"gentleman's agreement\" on several occasions and he states that an agreement was come to. My instructions are—[ Interruption ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.694.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give us the facts.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "preceding_text": "eement, between legal persons, in which certain Amendments as described by my hon. Friend were put in in different coloured inks. The last ink put in was the green ink, which was not acceptable to the promoters. There has never been, in fact, any agreement. I was not accusing my hon. Friend of any wilful inaccuracy but of his interpretation of what has taken place. I think I have disposed of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.694.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "preceding_text": "I do not know what other facts hon. Gentlemen want. Here is a document that has passed between us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "preceding_text": "I do not know what other facts hon. Gentlemen want. Here is a document that has passed between us. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] What, this lot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Clarry", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is not suggesting that they should pay a rent to the highway authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.702.5", "colnum": "702", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member made a statement which was a reflection on the hon. Member for Newport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.763.6", "colnum": "763", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "n making provision for the appointment of persons who have had experience in the management of land, because 70 or 80 per cent. of them are thoroughly reactionary and conservative in their outlook and therefore good representatives of those who put forward this Amendment in another place. When the Patronage Secretary has finished his customary habit of interrupting we can get on with the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-07", "file": "debates1938-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4eb929e0ff849d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "ppointment of an independent person, being a member of the legal profession, and definitely restricting the chairmanship to that particular profession. While the legal profession has many faults, and while there are many black sheep in it who fail to give us proper interpretations of certain Clauses in the Bill, generally speaking, I recognise that the legal profession is an honourable profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-07a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-08", "file": "debates1938-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a7c533724dd24f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-08a.829.3", "colnum": "829", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Barrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Barrie", "preceding_text": "ut they would be just like wheat or any other commodity, at the disposal of the Government in the event of any difficulty. The hon. Member for Cardigan (Mr. O. Evans) raised the question of the quarters of the crews. So far as shipowners are concerned, we make no defence in that matter. If quarters are bad, they ought to be made good. In the merchant vessels, things are much better than they were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-08a.829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-08", "file": "debates1938-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a7c533724dd24f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-08a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Marsden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Marsden", "preceding_text": "hese subjects. The hon. Member for Southampton said that he brought to our notice the fact—which, of course, we knew—that there was a ministry of shipping during the last War. I think he advocated a ministry of shipping now. I cannot be quite so sure about a ministry of shipping, because it may need a powerful Cabinet leader who might make himself too powerful. They might want to alter everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-08a.861.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "preceding_text": "n. Member that he is not interested in the manner that I described; naturally I do that. I have no desire to be offensive to any Members of the House; it is not my nature. I wish to say that I would rather be good friends with each one of them, and with the hon. Member for Newport (Sir R. Clarry) than have their enmity. I repeat that the statement I made was made in perfect good faith at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.930.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.931.3", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "preceding_text": "It was a tar company, which has something to do with gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.931.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "By whom?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " the Military Court, it appears to us that the summons to the hon. Member for Norwood might well appear to be an attempt to induce the hon. Member to give certain information at a time when the House was proposing to set up a Select Commitee to consider, among other things, the propriety of the hon. Member being asked to give such information. It says that a breach of Privilege has been committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.955.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We understand from your Ruling that we are not competent to discuss the responsibility of the Secretary of State for War because he was not responsible for what the Military Court of Inquiry did. If that be the case, such a Ruling would apply equally to the Debate on the report of the Select Committee, and I submit that if your Ruling is sound on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will say suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "This is very important, because we were told that the Attorney-General has not alleged anything of the kind. The House is entitled to know who alleged that the hon. Member for Norwood (Mr. Sandys) was guilty of an offence under the Official Secrets Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "is, that the Minister has no responsibility for the action of the Court of Inquiry. That is the second reason why we cannot discuss this to-day. Will that second reason be invoked when the report of the Select Committee is be fore the House, be- cause if it is, then neither on that nor on this occasion shall we have an opportunity of discussing the responsibility of the Secretary of State for War?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Evans", "preceding_text": "y of giving evidence before this military Court of Inquiry, in the absence of any precedents or rules. If the military authorities, in their discretion, had refused to give that right to my hon. Friend, the Members of the Opposition would have been the first people in this House to get up and say that the War Office were military dictators denying to my hon. Friend a right which he ought to enjoy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "ews have been expressed in the Debate as to whether in the circumstances it was right to hold the Court of Inquiry there and then. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Hackney (Mr. H. Morrison) took the view that, circumstances being what they were because of things that arose here in the House, it would have been much better not to set up the Court of Inquiry until all that was finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1009.7", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I only tried to remind the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1009.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I am convinced that my previous statement was right. I do not believe that the House of Commons as a whole would countenance putting forward words in a Committee Report of this sort exonerating the very body against which the complaint was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-11", "file": "debates1938-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "02430da58e4d6d17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1037.5", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "hon. Members know, at present those who pay Income Tax on earned income are allowed to make a deduction of one-fifth before they pay the tax. The object of the new Clause is to enable that deduction to be increased to one-fourth. In order to put the arguments for the Clause, I will work it out in an ordinary case. I think the best case to take is that of a doctor, who is earning, say, £600 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-11a.1037.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1106.6", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "In view of the danger of uncontrolled sale, will the Minister consider the prohibition of the sale of gas masks without Government approval?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"In what way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "ession has been asked for. I have for years had my name down to Amendments seeking such a concession, and I sincerely compliment the right hon. Gentleman on having put this Clause into the Finance Bill. I cannot understand why the Amendment should have been moved. Unquestionably, the concession is of advantage to the employers and unquestionably it is a tremendous advantage to the employés.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is your point of Order?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": " door on the \"Aye\" side is locked first much more frequently than the door on the other side. I do not wish to lay emphasis on that point, but to say that I came down directly from the Committee room upstairs in conjunction with other hon. Members, but owing to the crowd in the doorway to the House I was unable to get through and was prevented from going into the Lobby because the door was locked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "May I point out that if that procedure be adopted it will place some of us at a definite disadvantage. We may desire to oppose this Amendment and to support later Amendments. A Member could hardly make a speech supporting one Amendment and opposing another in the same discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that for a moment. The onus will surely be upon the pursuer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "preceding_text": "ke no suggestion that they were absolutely unanimous; we know that they were not; but we are dealing with the Bill as it now stands, and I say that it has the approval, not only of the committee, but of the Church of Scotland, or at least a very large majority of that Church. In the next place, I would refer to my own Church. At a recent Assembly this very question of insanity was brought forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1234.3", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ber for Stirling and Falkirk (Mr. Westwood) gave an example which I am bound to say did not entirely impress me. He read a cutting from a newspaper giving the case of a man whose wife had been in an institution for seven years and the man himself expressed the opinion that he might be eligible for divorce under the new Act, but I do not think that an example like that carries us very much further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "es is to look round for help from the brother of his wife, or his own brother, or his own sister. If he is lucky then he has got a solution of his difficulties. Otherwise, he has no solution to his problem, because his children have to be fed, clothed and reared. He has to get in a woman to look after them. They are living in a room and kitchen. Gossip will marry them; gossip will scandalise them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1247.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "ably insane\" and then proceed by a subsequent Clause to define what shall and shall not be deemed by the court to be \"incurable insanity.\" If this Amendment be carried, the Courts in Scotland, beyond a doubt, will draw this conclusion—that the mere fact that a person has been continuously confined in an institution, as an insane person, for five years is not enough to establish incurable insanity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE AND NULLITY OF MARRIAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "n institution, as an insane person, for five years is not enough to establish incurable insanity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"] I observe from the applause of the hon. Lady the senior Member for Dundee (Miss Horsbrugh), and those besides her, that they are evidently supporting the Amendment in the belief that, by so doing, they will achieve a reversal of the decision which the House has just given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1258.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-12", "file": "debates1938-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "98129f5e0c5e0a0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1280.18", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITLE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made and Question proposed, \"That the Bill be now read the Third time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-12a.1280.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-13", "file": "debates1938-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "db29f9eecfdc02bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "at. He said that if you spend it on corn, altogether it would last five weeks; if you spend it on wheat, sugar and whale oil, it will only last for two. The Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence is able to assure us that, if the worst comes to the worst, he can give us a fortnight's ration of sugared blubber. I think that he could perhaps afford to pass on his ration to some of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-13", "file": "debates1938-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "db29f9eecfdc02bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "rices, stable and remunerative prices, and increase the demand for home-grown food in this country, then people will go back to the land of their own accord, and you will not have to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds in subsidising them to do so. I believe that the Government should concentrate at present on stimulating the demand for home-grown agricultural produce rather than by spending on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-13", "file": "debates1938-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "db29f9eecfdc02bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1471.3", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": "ype to be found in this country and can only engage in the work of electrical or mechanical engineering, provided that everybody else is kept away from it. I hope the Minister will tell us that he has not merely a regard for the pockets of the people, who think of little else, except their own pockets, but that he will also take some account of the workpeople so that they shall be adequately paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-13", "file": "debates1938-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "db29f9eecfdc02bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cross", "preceding_text": "ember for Rochdale (Mr. Kelly) asked me for the names of the firms that would make these lamps. They are three firms in Birmingham—Lucas, Miller, and Hill. He also said something about the Import Duties Advisory Committee not being concerned with the wages which will be paid in this industry at the time when the duty is put on. It is no part of the function of the Import Duties Advisory Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-13a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-14", "file": "debates1938-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1723e4a59aa8d6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1525.3", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Monday.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "d see whether there are any precedents on which I could form a judgment. I think the House will be willing to grant me time before I give a Ruling on so important a matter. I should be prepared to give it to-morrow, or, perhaps better still, on Monday, when I should have further time for consideration. I should be prepared to give a considered decision on this matter either to-morrow or on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1525.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-14", "file": "debates1938-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1723e4a59aa8d6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What encouragement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s able to present a remarkable report. The recommendations of the committee fall under three main heads—those proposals requiring immediate legislation, those requiring legislation at a later date, and those not requiring legislation at all. The two main recommendations which do not require legislation relate to the encouragement by the Ministry of Labour of voluntary agreements for paid holidays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-14", "file": "debates1938-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1723e4a59aa8d6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1562.3", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "mer holidays give ordinary folk the one fine and gracious opportunity to rest and be quiet if they so desire. Mrs. Poyser may have left descendants, but they must be few to-day who would say with her: I'd sooner ha' brewing day and washing day together than one o' these pleasurin' days. There's no work so tiring as dangling about an' starin', and not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next, —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1562.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-14", "file": "debates1938-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1723e4a59aa8d6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And three others!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s a human right and as a reasonable thing, and we think that the Government ought to have made up its mind and to have done the job properly. But this is a Government that loves to pass its problems on to committees, and, having constituted a committee with what is known as an impartial chairman, of considerable experience in this class of work, and divided the rest between employers and employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-14", "file": "debates1938-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1723e4a59aa8d6bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (AMENDMENT) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not go to the Isle of Wight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for East Bristol. The circuit town of the hon. and learned Gentleman is Winchester, and the judge never goes to Southampton or Portsmouth. Litigants have to bring their witnesses to Winchester. I would not deprive Winchester of its assizes, but why a judge should not go to Portsmouth or Southampton I do not know. It would not take long. A car would take him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-14a.1664.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. Member in the circumstances detailed in the Report of the Committee of Privileges. It does not really make any difference so far as the House is concerned who summoned him; the breach of Privilege has been established, whoever summoned him. As the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Caithness and Sutherland has reminded us, this matter is still under the consideration of the Select Committee——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1811.5", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I understand your answer was that we could not debate it. In view of the Prime Minister's statement, is what he said any longer a reply? The Prime Minister made this statement and it is a debatable statement and not an answer to the question that we had debated it enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1811.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1811.6", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "s what he said any longer a reply? The Prime Minister made this statement and it is a debatable statement and not an answer to the question that we had debated it enough. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"] That may be, but it is a debatable statement and is not an answer to the question. I would like to ask you whether, in view of that you would reverse your Ruling and allow the matter to be debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1855.5", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I am getting on very well. You need not worry about me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1855.7", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ost of the Labour Members had never read it, much less intended to put it into operation. So they cannot blame it all on to being a Government without power, as they say. The truth is that they had not a programme that would work. If they came into office to-day they would have to work under the capitalist system, as the Government are doing. They know perfectly well they do not want to change it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1855.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1855.7", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not talk nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " be the capitalist system, you may have to give up your freedom. You may have to do what they do in Russia, Germany and Italy. I say with Patrick Henry, \"Give me liberty or give me death.\" I would rather be \"on the dole\" in a free country than with a paid job in a totalitarian country. Most people \"on the dole\" in this country are better off than the people who are in work in a totalitarian State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1855.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1856.4", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ecause we have an appalling problem of malnutrition. The Minister of Health might propose labour camps. No, do not jump up and shout, because I have said that. I believe that the people of this country would rather see their boys and girls who cannot get jobs under the sort of system which the right hon. Member for Bow and Bromley (Mr. Lansbury) speaks about, than have them idle and doing nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1856.4", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ly difficult time. There has been a lot of talk about the family means test. I know there are dreadful hardships, but there is nothing that breaks up a family more than for the young people to be without work, because their parents soon lose control of them. They are difficult enough to manage even when they have got a job. We must do something. We cannot afford to let our young people stand idle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " unemployables. It is a different problem, but it is a tragic problem. As I have said, I hope that the Government will realise that many people feel there ought to be more co-ordination among the different Departments. I hope that the right hon. Member for Bow and Bromley will push on with what he believes in, because he has got courage and he has given his life to this question of the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "y will push on with what he believes in, because he has got courage and he has given his life to this question of the unemployed. [ Interruption. ] They only talk about family allowances. They are frightened of the trade unions, who do not want them. The whole policy of Christian legislation and Socialism is that the strong should help the weak, and that is one of the features of family allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ould not live a week with only millionaires. It is all a farce unless you face the facts. You are not going to change the system; none of you want to change it. We ought to be frank and fearless, and not frightened of whether people say we are Fascists or Communists. We ought to see whether we cannot do something drastic for these young people who cannot get work and some of whom will not take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1867.3", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": " and particularly in the Debate last Friday week, are concerned that, while the reply of the Minister was principally devoted to dealing with such questions as the hon. Member has just raised, the major problem, that is to say, the problem of unemployment, is always deferred to another time. I hope that on this occasion at least my right hon. Friend will find the time and the opportunity to deal——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will not be for long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "tter shape of the matter. I suggest that an unprejudiced examination of the facts must indicate that, whatever may be the shortcomings of the present Government on unemployment and the treatment of the unemployed, they have done something immeasurably greater than any of their predecessors. The number of unemployed is much less than it was when hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1928.1", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "e figures over the whole field of wage rates returned to the Minister of Labour show that there have been net increases amounting to £1,800,000 per week. That is a fact on the other side of this Debate which deserves to go into the records as a proof that the collective machinery which is so large and valuable a part of our industrial structure has been working with celerity over this large range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1928.1", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "rity over this large range—[ Interruption. ] All those who understand the meaning of trade unionism and organised labour know that with the occasional assistance of the impartial Ministry of Labour that machinery has become more and more effective to the good of the worker as the years have gone on. The Ministry of Labour have done, and will go on doing, all that they can to continue that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1933.3", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "is new development. It has had, of course, a particularly heavy effect in certain areas and especially the mining areas and others. With regard to the question of the older men, with which the right hon. Member for Bow and Bromley and others have been much concerned, as I myself have, there again there is a very grave problem. It is not true to generalise and say that the older men are not wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1933.3", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "y that the older men are not wanted. [ Interruption. ] One hon. Member did generalise in that way; if the OFFICIAL REPORT iS searched, the record will be found. It is not so; it is not true as a broad generalisation. What is true is that the opportunities and chances for elderly men differ in varying areas and in varying industries, and, indeed, there are some industries which welcome elderly men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1933.3", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "alisation. What is true is that the opportunities and chances for elderly men differ in varying areas and in varying industries, and, indeed, there are some industries which welcome elderly men. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which.\"] There is more than one industry. For instance, if you go down to the docks, in certain places you will find that some of the very best dockers are elderly men; and, more than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1935.1", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With elderly men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows that I cannot answer that question, but I can point out that the question to be asked is not that question. The House wants to know, not only the numbers who go out of the list, but what is the movement, and whether the pool is a stagnant one, whether it is getting less, or whether it is being refilled. That is the real issue: Is it being refilled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-18", "file": "debates1938-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "037c9355ddb65baa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about relief in kind?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing. Indeed, there are quite a number of Members who, in the Debates we have had in this period of years, have welcomed the action of the Board, and no one can wonder at it, for at least a third of the speeches to-day have been focussed on the issue of the relation of relief to need, raised by the analysis made by the Board itself of the sample cases which it sets out in its most admirable report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-18a.1939.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2024.1", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where did it come from?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I want my right hon. Friend to state quite clearly that he does not suggest that I knew, any more than he did, where the summons came from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2024.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2024.3", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where did it come from?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "All I knew was that I received a summons and that is what I said to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2024.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2024.6", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "From whom?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I did not know. I received a summons, and I said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2024.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2025.1", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The question as to whether the person who sent the summons to my hon. Friend was acting on behalf of the Court, or was the Court, does not seem to be very material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2025.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2028.0", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ilitary Court who were literally, at that time, as innocent as a babe unborn. Against the injustice of this decision which we have taken, a protest has been made, the source of which has not been revealed to us, and that has been sufficient for you, Sir, to say conclusively, that no blame of any kind rests upon the Military Court. Now, Mr. Speaker, this is a very unfortunate catenation of events——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2041.3", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "PRIVILEGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "he rights of the public Press freely to censure and criticise public policy. It is improper that it should be suggested that, in pursuing truth and trying to establish where the truth lies, Members of the House of Commons are weary of the pursuit. It is likely that the matter will not be considered in the Recess and that the Select Committee will not report before we adjourn for the Summer Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2059.1", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Joseph Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph Lamb", "preceding_text": "y else that it should not be permissive, because when an order is made by a trade board or an agricultural wages committee it becomes compulsory. This emphasises the difficulty of making general conditions apply to all industries. While the best of the agriculturists try to do what they can for their men, it is essential that they should have men to look after their stock for the whole seven days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2059.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2063.1", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At least.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "Government have no quarrel with that statement, particularly because of the words that follow it in that paragraph, and because of the words in paragraph 143. We are confident that in this Clause we have interpreted the intention of the Committee. It was an agreed and unanimous report and we believe that it was agreed and unanimous on the basis of granting one full working week's holiday with pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2077.3", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "to the general position, my experience of the countryside goes to show that unless the agricultural labourer is given decent holidays in the near future, the difficulty which farmers now experience in getting good skilled men will become worse. It is high time that the agricultural labourer received that status and that dignity to which he is entitled as the great producer of food in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2093.1", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Louis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Louis Smith", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-19", "file": "debates1938-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "1981b5778fac2a26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2110.1", "colnum": "2110", "heading": "HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I was pleased indeed to hear the Minister say that in his mind it was clear that the rate for holidays with pay should not be less than the rate paid when a man was in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-19a.2110.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-20", "file": "debates1938-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "56be2d16a9cccb6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2179.5", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST INDIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Evans", "preceding_text": "May I take the opportunity of congratulating my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-20", "file": "debates1938-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "56be2d16a9cccb6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2278.1", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "Scotland ought not to make him less efficient as a bricklayer or less willing, when given a proper standard of wages, to do a proper day's work. Certainly I think that, in regard to brick houses, there ought to be some inquiry into the difference between the costs in England and in Scotland. It may be that this is the reason why some of the local authorities are very chary about promoting schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-20", "file": "debates1938-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "56be2d16a9cccb6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2316.1", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "s were running very low. The commission refused those powers and in my opinion—I was a member of the commission—they were justified in doing so, because the evidence so strongly brought out the fact that when the Talla scheme was originally undertaken, it was not a temporary measure, but was undertaken with regard to what might be a larger desire in future on the part of the citizens of Edinburgh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-20", "file": "debates1938-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "56be2d16a9cccb6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2372.3", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " a good deal of support. There are two other matters only on which I want to support the request for information which has already been made. First of all, in respect of Vote 3, in which large additional sums are required for technical and warlike stores and supplies and miscellaneous materials. The increase in the Estimates under this head is roughly somewhere between £11,000,000 and £12,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-20a.2372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-22", "file": "debates1938-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "139abc8dbcff77f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2620.0", "colnum": "2620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE I.—(Appointment of legally quali fied chairman and deputy chairman of quarter sessions.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of voluntary service. One of the finest features of the public life of this country is the way in which individuals are prepared to give of their service and of their ability and time to the public cause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-22", "file": "debates1938-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "139abc8dbcff77f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2620.0", "colnum": "2620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE I.—(Appointment of legally quali fied chairman and deputy chairman of quarter sessions.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "res of the public life of this country is the way in which individuals are prepared to give of their service and of their ability and time to the public cause—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"]—and I think it ought not to be laid down by Parliament that it is of necessity that these people should be paid for their services. Therefore, because this Amendment would compel a great many courts to do something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-22", "file": "debates1938-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "139abc8dbcff77f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2655.1", "colnum": "2655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOLIDAYS WITH PAY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "ts commissions of inquiry, with all the printers' ink that has been spent upon it, means this and nothing else, if economics have any meaning at all—that the whole of the cost is cast back on to the consumers of commodities, and they will pay for it. Another thing I want the workers to note is this: We have been told that certain factories have agreed already to the principle of holidays with pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-22", "file": "debates1938-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "139abc8dbcff77f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2666.6", "colnum": "2666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Conditions of Employment.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We shall press it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "We feel very strongly on this point, and if time permitted we should have pressed the Amendment to a division. I do not know what my hon. Friends think about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2666.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-22", "file": "debates1938-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "139abc8dbcff77f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2673.7", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Hours Of employment of young persons under sixteen employed in shops.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "preceding_text": "[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th July, 1938; col. 2149, Vol. 338.] There is no suggestion in this Amendment or in the speech that I made the other night that the National Federation of Retail Newsagents wants to send boys out on the streets to sell newspapers. All that we ask is that these boys, after they have left school, from 14 years of age and upwards, shall be permitted to deliver ordered newspapers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2673.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-22", "file": "debates1938-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "139abc8dbcff77f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2673.7", "colnum": "2673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Hours Of employment of young persons under sixteen employed in shops.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "preceding_text": "at we ask is that these boys, after they have left school, from 14 years of age and upwards, shall be permitted to deliver ordered newspapers.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"At what time?\"] From seven to eight in the morning, on six days a week. I would ask hon. Members to remember what they are doing when they are going to deprive these young men from adding a few shillings every week to the family exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-22a.2673.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-25", "file": "debates1938-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bc2ff6f5e5805b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-25a.2829.10", "colnum": "2829", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "three children; on 16th July he went to the colliery office and picked up 4s. 6d., and on 23rd July he went to the colliery office and picked up 13s. 5d.; in other words, for three weeks from the colliery office he received £1 to maintain himself, his wife, and three children, and that is what the mining industry has done for lots of miners in various parts of the coal-mining areas of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-25a.2829.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-25", "file": "debates1938-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bc2ff6f5e5805b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-25a.2840.0", "colnum": "2840", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "What does that phrase mean about having had experience in a really responsible capacity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-25a.2840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-25", "file": "debates1938-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bc2ff6f5e5805b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-25a.2867.3", "colnum": "2867", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "n in this matter. The men who were still out of work on 22nd July will now not be disqualified from the receipt of benefit. Hon. Members will realise that this does not affect the position as between 30th June and 22nd July, that is a matter for the Umpire, and I hope and believe that his decision will be given speedily. I am conscious that what I have said may not altogether satisfy hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-25a.2867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-26", "file": "debates1938-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "52b0a9187904f05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2954.1", "colnum": "2954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They kept full faith with us in the reduction of their troops in Libya, in the cessation of anti-British propaganda, and in collaboration on the Non-Intervention Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-26", "file": "debates1938-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "52b0a9187904f05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2979.1", "colnum": "2979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "preceding_text": "are far from satisfied that this order of priority is accepted by the Government. Speaking on the bombing of ships in Spain, they said: Not so much in defence of British interests as in defence of law, we hold that the Government should take effective action to check these outrages and should face considerable risks with that object. Nor should the Government entirely ignore the Council of Action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-26", "file": "debates1938-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "52b0a9187904f05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2988.2", "colnum": "2988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mexico.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "ant to make three observations. In the first place I am extremely glad to hear that Sir Robert Hodgson is going back. It is a very dangerous precedent for a representative to be absent. A pregnant example was the absence of the British Ambassador from Constantinople during the summer of 1914, and I cannot help thinking that British interests will be better served when Sir Robert Hodgson goes back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-26", "file": "debates1938-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "52b0a9187904f05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2989.1", "colnum": "2989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "a war, because it is useless to say to-day that food, oil, and coal are any less contraband than the instruments of war themselves or any less vital to the waging of a war. After all, civilisation is not centred in Spain. Savagery may be. I am quite convinced that the whole country is behind the Government in attempting, and continuing for two years their effort, to isolate the war from spreading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-26", "file": "debates1938-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "52b0a9187904f05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2997.1", "colnum": "2997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "preceding_text": "cacy of peaceful solution in practice. I do not think it matters in the present situation what the instrument is which produces the peaceful solution, but it is vital that the peaceful solution should be produced, that the minds of the nations should be habituated to that course, and that they should see the efficacy of a peaceful solution in practice. We have had examples of standing firm before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.2997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-26", "file": "debates1938-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "52b0a9187904f05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.3021.5", "colnum": "3021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "site, would they subscribe their personal fortunes to such a loan, or do they expect the Government to do it out of the taxpayers' money? If they are prepared to subscribe their own personal fortunes, there is nothing to prevent them from lending their personal fortunes to the Chinese Government now. What would they have us do in Spain? The official Opposition is frankly interventionist ventionist", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-26a.3021.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-27", "file": "debates1938-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "04444ef507cd99b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3093.8", "colnum": "3093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paling", "preceding_text": "If a judge makes such comments as were made in this case which were clearly unfounded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3093.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-07-27", "file": "debates1938-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "04444ef507cd99b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3100.5", "colnum": "3100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "If it will be possible by 1940 to carry 40 passengers to Berlin, will it also be possible to carry 40 bombs to Berlin?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-27", "file": "debates1938-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "04444ef507cd99b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3145.3", "colnum": "3145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OFFICE ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Board of Education.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ed societies, or to fend for themselves. My last point is with regard to factory inspection. I am very sorry that the Home Office, and some other Government Departments, cannot see their way to provide Parliament with a copy of the report of their work during the previous year before we adjourn for the Summer Recess. I understand the same complaint was made in connection with the Mines Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-27", "file": "debates1938-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "04444ef507cd99b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3145.3", "colnum": "3145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OFFICE ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Ministry of Health.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "tory inspection. I am very sorry that the Home Office, and some other Government Departments, cannot see their way to provide Parliament with a copy of the report of their work during the previous year before we adjourn for the Summer Recess. I understand the same complaint was made in connection with the Mines Department. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Board of Education.\"] And the Board of Education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-27", "file": "debates1938-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "04444ef507cd99b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3206.1", "colnum": "3206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OFFICE ADMINISTRATION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "gratulate him on the great work he has done since he has been in his present office. All who heard his speech to-day were grateful to him for what he is doing in connection with the prisons. I was very pleased to hear it stated for the first time that our prisons are old. They are. Some of them are centuries old. It was a great joy to me to hear that the first new prison is to be a women's prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-27a.3206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-07-29", "file": "debates1938-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "b0b3209083a85095", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-29a.3577.1", "colnum": "3577", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Duchess of Atholl", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who did find the money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Duchess of Atholl", "preceding_text": "ent, having ready to fight for them more men than they had arms to give them, should take such very drastic measures in regard to six foreigners who had deserted them. And as I find that the statement that the young man had received money to go to Spain from what the hon. and gallant Member thought was this committee is not correct, I must say that I do not regard him as a very creditable witness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-07-29a.3577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-09-28", "file": "debates1938-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "f849c0e4f57ecd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ast of his territorial ambitions in Europe and that he had no wish to include in the Reich people of other races than Germans. In the second place he said, again very earnestly, that he wanted to be friends with England and that if only this Sudeten question could be got out of the way in peace he would gladly resume conversations. It is true he said, \"There is one awkward question, the Colonies.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.5.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-09-28", "file": "debates1938-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "f849c0e4f57ecd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "bitions in Europe and that he had no wish to include in the Reich people of other races than Germans. In the second place he said, again very earnestly, that he wanted to be friends with England and that if only this Sudeten question could be got out of the way in peace he would gladly resume conversations. It is true he said, \"There is one awkward question, the Colonies.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Spain.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.5.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-09-28", "file": "debates1938-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "f849c0e4f57ecd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Thank God for the Prime Minister!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "esture of being willing to work with us for peace in Europe. That is not all. I have something further to say to the House yet. I have now been informed by Herr Hitler that he invites me to meet him at Munich to-morrow morning. He has also invited Signor Mussolini and M. Daladier. Signor Mussolini has accepted and I have no doubt M. Daladier will also accept. I need not say what my answer will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.5.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-09-28", "file": "debates1938-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "f849c0e4f57ecd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.28.0", "colnum": "28", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "No one desires peace more than I and my party, but it must be a peace based upon freedom and democracy and not upon the cutting up and destruction of a small State. I want to say that the policy of the National Government has led to this crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-09-28a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Secret.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "preceding_text": "ognised the great service that the Prime Minister had performed in obtaining very material changes in them which would result in great benefit and a great lessening of the sufferings of the people of Czechoslovakia. Then he brought home also from Munich something more than the terms to which we had agreed. At the last moment, at the farewell meeting, he signed with the Fuhrer, a joint declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d that Germany will also undertake to give a guarantee on the question of Polish and Hungarian minorities being settled. Finally, there is a declaration by the Four Powers that if the problems of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia are not settled within three months by agreement between the respective Governments, another meeting of the Four Powers will be held to consider them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f four great Powers can find it possible to agree on a way of carrying out a difficult and delicate operation by discussion instead of by force of arms, and thereby they have averted a catastrophe which would have ended civilisation as we have known it. The relief that our escape from this great peril of war has, I think, everywhere been mingled in this country with a profound feeling of sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Takes twice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ain, the Czechoslovak Government has not as yet addressed any similar request to any other Government. It is evident that the terms and conditions of a guaranteed loan and the question of what Governments would participate in it, may raise matters which could not be decided immediately; but evidently this is one of those cases where the old proverb applies, that \"He who gives quickly gives twice.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "loyÉs when they are demobilised. I know that, although the crisis has passed, they will feel proud that they are employing men upon whom the State can rely if a crisis should return. While we must renew our determination to fill up the deficiencies that yet remain in our armaments and in our defensive precautions, so that we may be ready to defend ourselves and make our diplomacy effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "r the War, because the problem of Germans in Czechoslovakia succeeded that of the Czechs in German Austria, just as the problem of Germans In the Tyrol succeeded that of the Italians in Trieste, and short of a drastic and entire reshuffling of these populations there is no possible solution to the problem of minorities in Europe except toleration. The Peace Treaties created many more difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "rime Minister took the unconventional step of going over himself to see Herr Hitler in order that he might know just where this country stood, there was little attempt at any criticism. But when he came back he did not come back as a negotiator. A negotiator considers both sides, but the Prime Minister considered only one side. He merely drew out a scheme which he thought would please Herr Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "itler in order that he might know just where this country stood, there was little attempt at any criticism. But when he came back he did not come back as a negotiator. A negotiator considers both sides, but the Prime Minister considered only one side. He merely drew out a scheme which he thought would please Herr Hitler. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not think I am being unfair to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "from Berchtesgaden. All his efforts to save peace—and we all recognise the efforts he has made—do not alter the fact that on the main question, he had already completely given way to the force of Herr Hitler's demands and, therefore, although we have a war averted, we have the recognition that the will of an armed dictator is supreme in the world. I am not putting all the blame on this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that, if I understood my right hon. Friend correctly, he has not fully understood. There is no insistence that persons who wish to opt out of the territory must get out by 10th October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "have piled up our armaments and brought them to the last pitch of perfection the next settlement will be any better than the last. To me it is amazing that men who are in responsible positions do not face up to this fact. The Prime Minister will come in, and has come in, for a very great deal of criticism from friends and foes because he took the unorthodox method of going straight to Herr Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Enjoying?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": "cause if they feared Germany they would not have criticised the Government's expenditure on armaments and voted against the defence forces of this country for years past. If they feared Germany they would stand accused of criminal negligence. It is not, however, that they fear Germany but that they hate dictators. They do not like the form of government which the German people are to-day enjoying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": " defence forces of this country for years past. If they feared Germany they would stand accused of criminal negligence. It is not, however, that they fear Germany but that they hate dictators. They do not like the form of government which the German people are to-day enjoying. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Enjoying?\"] At any rate, it is not for hon. Gentlemen opposite to discuss the domestic affairs of Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "hearts. The reason the Prime Minister was successful at Munich was because he went with peace in his heart and not war and threats. Hon. Members opposite doubt the sincerity of the leaders of the Italian and German Governments. We are all agreed that there was a case for the Sudeten Germans, but it was not until Germany was strong enough to stand up for them that their grievances were attended to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.117.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reunion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": ", pressed their victory much further than would have been done in a cooler atmosphere. I do not go back to those days nearly 20 years ago, but to events of more recent times. I say with all deliberation that, when once Germany rearmed and became powerful, and when once the Anschluss took place, the strategic frontier of the republic was turned. The Sudeten Germans looked to reunion with the Reich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-03", "file": "debates1938-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "6d5dd556f2e40975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.160.4", "colnum": "160", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "e of our precautions until we have had an opportunity of testing in actual practice the strength of the conclusions we have reached. Side by side, therefore, with the persistent following of this policy of peace we shall continue our preparations to keep ourselves, and to make ourselves, strong. I believe that we may find that, contrary to the forebodings of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-03a.160.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am certain that the psychology of that is all wrong. We have never troubled to cultivate the German people. In their speeches and negotiations our Ministers have forgotten that behind the dictators there were 70,000,000 or more of German people who were as anxious for the peace of the world as were the British people, and who could have been talked to as the dictators were talking to our people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "guage, discretion in negotiation; I do not disagree with that at all; but I say, and I will prove presently from the Prime Minister's own words, that you have mistaken your psychology in handling Herr Hitler, and you have mistaken your psychology in handling Signor Mussolini as well—the result of all this is that British prestige and British influence have been lessened in the world and in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "betray the Czechs or, if you like, that we had to. Say, if you like, that you were sorry, but there was nothing else to do; but the Czechs were betrayed. The fact that yesterday the Prime Minister came to the House with a proposal for a loan to Czechoslovakia and an immediate credit of £10,000,000 is, perhaps, the most conclusive evidence that the Government feel some dishonour and some discredit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "r pride that every German gau shares not only in the German joy but also in the German duties, and if necessary in all our sacrifices. The nation was ready to draw the sword for you. Listen to this—this within a few days of there being no more territorial ambitions, no more trouble: You will be just as ready, if at any time or anywhere German land or German people are threatened, to stand by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.186.4", "colnum": "186", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "e could foretell whether mobilisation would not immediately be followed by invasion. It was in these circumstances that we met less than a week ago. Perhaps when we think of the ravages that a bombing aeroplane can bring about we might have a word of appreciation for the inventor of the civil aeroplane, without which the events of the Thursday and Friday of last week-end would never have occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.186.4", "colnum": "186", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wonderful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "ever have occurred. [ Interruption. ] It is easier to put an argument in a continuous way if one may be allowed to do so. I was about to point out that a number of us who were at Heston on the morning of the 27th and saw the Prime Minister enter his aeroplane, were notified on the tape before we reached our Ministries that the 'plane had already crossed the North Sea and was over German territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In concentration camps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "en whom I met again and again from 1922 to 1931, when they were struggling to build a democratic peaceful republic in Germany, with little help from the peoples of the rest of the world. Those fellows who are crushed now, were the finest Socialists in the world, the best-educated Socialists in the world, the most sincere, and convinced and trained Socialists in the world, and they are still there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "pe also that, if he persists in carrying on the usual technique, they will take steps to arrange for, not exactly counter propaganda, but for information of an objective and truthful kind, so that the truth can be broadcast to the voters in those areas on the authority of this country and that they will have some chance, at any rate, of realising the issues upon which they are called upon to vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": " my mind. I cannot change it. I must go on,\" what can they do but give way? The prospects of that international body functioning with any kind of justice are remote in the extreme. May I ask this question about the guarantee? Is that guarantee in operation now? I should be glad if whoever is going to reply will specifically address himself to that point; if not I shall get up and ask him to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rejoin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": " and finally we had the examination of the problem by Lord Runciman and his decision that the continuance of these districts in Czechoslovakia was impossible. Again, it is idle to say that this state of mind was induced from outside. Once that state of mind existed, once those people were determined, however that determination was inspired, that they wished to rejoin the rest of the German people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Gibson", "preceding_text": "very same suggestion in his speech yesterday. I made another suggestion, and keep in mind the people of Greenock have deep religious convictions. I said that a Labour Government would have sent a Macedonian cry to the United States of America to lift Europe out of the abyss of war. At 1 a.m. on the Monday morning, three hours after I had spoken, President Roosevelt had sent his message—his prayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Gibson", "preceding_text": "ion, and keep in mind the people of Greenock have deep religious convictions. I said that a Labour Government would have sent a Macedonian cry to the United States of America to lift Europe out of the abyss of war. At 1 a.m. on the Monday morning, three hours after I had spoken, President Roosevelt had sent his message—his prayer. [ Interruption. ] Do hon. Members think it is merely a coincidence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the tools of Stalin?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " Sudeten Germans migrated to Sudetenland. It is true that they kept their own language and customs, just as the French in Quebec have done, but the migration took place centuries ago. It is not centuries ago, however, since the head of the Cliveden set left Germany, and I want to know how it is that the Prime Minister is associated with this gang, who are notorious as tools of Herr von Ribbentrop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I desire to tell you, Mr. Speaker, what you may not know of yourself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "ill see that it is so—we have had, except for about 20 minutes from the hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore), nothing but speeches from the other side of the House, and now, Mr. Speaker, you have called upon another speaker from the Labour benches. I was told that I was to speak on the last occasion by the Deputy-Speaker. I was told that after sitting all day yesterday and to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "wn sanctions when early in June of 1936 he made a speech on Midsummer madness, which committed his Cabinet although he was not Prime Minister. In 1936 the Labour movement in this country gave them the opportunity, against criticism of many of their own side, of non-intervention in Spain. If the National Government had played the game they would have had support from Labour on their foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence (Sir Thomas Inskip)", "preceding_text": "force and compulsion? That is, of course, the policy of the encirclement of Germany, in which some people find a considerable satisfaction but which I believe I am right in saying was the policy underlying the Treaty of Versailles as originally conceived, a policy which I am bound to say I thought hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have always repudiated when they spoke about a dictated peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.299.7", "colnum": "299", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "e. The trouble of minorities would still be there. We should either have to have a dictated peace, in which, we should, in folly and madness, recreate Czechoslovakia, or we should have to have peace by negotiation. The question which I respectfully wish to ask the House is this: If it is to be peace by negotiation after a war, why in Heaven's name should not we have the negotiation before the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.299.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "whether they were reasonable or unreasonable, the point is that the time being short, and negotiations being almost the last hope of preserving peace, it would have been the act of a lunatic to refuse the reality for something which was very much of the shadow. I have been asked what I can say about the so-called—I say \"so-called\" because I do not know the circumstances—Czech prisoners in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-04", "file": "debates1938-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "813bdfb943f65843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Censorship?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": " be able to make their influence exerted and be able to use it in the most effective way. So far as civilian arrangements were concerned, I could give many examples of preparation, but I do not want to tire the House; of arrangements, for instance, that have been made for a matter that caused a great deal of trouble in 1914, a complete system of censorship. The organisation is ready and the staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-04a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.337.2", "colnum": "337", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "s the greatest lesson of all, is that the masses of people in every country are equally horrified at the prospect of war. The Prime Minister's popularity in Germany is not due to any feeling among Germans that the Fuhrer was gaining territory or achieving his purpose: it was due to the gratitude which ordinary people in that country felt for the Prime Minister who was striving for peace in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is peace.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "t now that Herr Hitler had gained in this particular leap forward in substance all he set out to gain. The utmost my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been able to secure by all his immense exertions, by all the great efforts and mobilisation which took place in this country, and by all the anguish and strain through which we have passed in this country, the utmost he has been able to gain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ionate and rarely permitted vent in the joyous manifestations with which the Prime Minister was acclaimed in Munich. All these forces, added to the other deterrents which combinations of Powers, great and small, ready to stand firm upon the front of law and for the ordered remedy of grievances, would have formed, might well have been effective. Of course you cannot say for certain that they would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "treatment and the misfortunes which have overcome the Czechoslovakian Republic. They have not ended here. At any moment there may be a hitch in the programme. At any moment there may be an order for Herr Goebbels to start again his propaganda of calumny and lies; at any moment an incident may be provoked, and now that the fortress line is given away what is there to stop the will of the conqueror?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "s an enormous popular movement in Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which looked to the Western democracies and loathed the idea of having this arbitrary rule of the totalitarian system thrust upon them, and hoped that a stand would be made. All that has gone by the board. We are talking about countries which are a long way off and of which, as the Prime Minister might say, we know nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Poland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "s not in my mind. It was the two special dictators. The second school of thought in this country I think can roughly be described as saying, \"We realise that the dictatorial form of Government has now existed in a great many countries for many years, starting with Russia, Turkey, Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Germany and Greece, and I suppose we can say the system is being built up in other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "I did not say anybody used those words, but they represent the idea that has been expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.396.5", "colnum": "396", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "will be kept or not, and also to wait and ascertain whether the agreement made at Munich will be carried out in the letter and spirit in which it was made or whether critics will be able to say again that Herr Hitler has broken his word. Putting the matter on the very lowest basis, from our point of view, shall we be worse off if we find that Herr Hitler breaks his word six months or a year hence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.396.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "they are right and I am wrong, let them try it out; and I will, at any rate, retire from my seat and test it on this issue if any one of them will do ditto—and I know who will get back. It will be myself. We have heard a great deal about the man in the street in this rather desultory Debate of the last three days, and I can tell you again what the man in the street really thinks about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "y have usually asked three plain straightforward questions. The first is, \"What is Czechoslovakia?\" and I have told them that it is a polyglot population created—or, I would rather say, made up—of five different races; and as an elementary illustration, I say \"Look at this hand of mine: there are the Germans, there the Czechs, there the Slovaks, there the Hungarians, and there the Poles and Jews.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "there the Poles and Jews.\" [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members will listen they will be informed. I say, \"It is as plain as my hand. These five different races, with five different languages and five different religions, how could they possibly, racially, culturally, from any point of view, knit together in 20 years?\" This is exactly what my old, lifelong friend, Arthur Henderson, said would happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-05", "file": "debates1938-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "410f962aa2dafb00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "time predicted it precisely, and if anybody will look at the recent publication of Mr. Lloyd George on what happened at Versailles he will see that Mr. Lloyd George was so concerned about this patchwork arrangement which was called a nation that he sent General Smuts to make inquiries, and General Smuts was so concerned that he reported to Mr. Lloyd George, then the Prime Minister of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-05a.418.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-10-06", "file": "debates1938-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "f89b4a7e48a9c538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.462.11", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CZECHOSLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "Are the Government going to do anything to secure the personal safety of ex-President Benes, and do they bear in mind the fate of Dr. Schuschnigg?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.462.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-10-06", "file": "debates1938-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "f89b4a7e48a9c538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.463.6", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CZECHOSLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How do you know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the impression made upon the Czech Government themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-06", "file": "debates1938-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "f89b4a7e48a9c538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not war!''", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "I think of some of the mothers who are taking their children along crowded roads, which they have been given very little time to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-06", "file": "debates1938-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "f89b4a7e48a9c538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": " would give financial aid, and that Rumania would stand aside and let the Russian army pass through. I doubted it, and I said \"In theory all that looks very well, but I have grave doubts.\" I may be pardoned, too, for saying this to the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher). I remember when he took part in a meeting in Glasgow during the Great War, and welcomed Russia's desertion of the Allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-10-06", "file": "debates1938-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "f89b4a7e48a9c538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICY OF HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rsonally are worthless, that they have sinister designs and that they are bent upon the domination of Europe and the gradual destruction of democracies. Of course, on that hypothesis, war has got to come, and that is the view—a perfectly intelligible view—of a certain number of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen in this House. I am not sure that it is not the view of some Members of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-10-06a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to the right hon. Gentleman in what I said then", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.74.5", "colnum": "74", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ay down certain general outlines, leaving to an International Commission the task of filling in details. The right hon. Gentleman criticises the International Commission in the carrying out of that task. I say again that though we may not like the solution I would ask the right hon. Gentleman not to forget what the alternative was, and if he was not prepared to accept the alternative use of force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.74.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ied by Japan. Therefore, when the right hon. Gentleman appears to contemplate a future in which Japan will have the monopoly of Chinese trade, and we shall be excluded from it altogether, I say that that is flying in the face of the facts. It is quite certain that, when the war is over and the reconstruction of China begins, she cannot possibly be reconstructed without some help from this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "een so two-faced that it might have been drafted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. But suppose that theory is wrong and that the Prime Minister regrets what has happened. His action can then only be explained by knowledge which he had that we were too weak to win or not powerful enough to deter. Whose fault is that? For three years the Government have been pouring out our treasure on rearmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "an then only be explained by knowledge which he had that we were too weak to win or not powerful enough to deter. Whose fault is that? For three years the Government have been pouring out our treasure on rearmament. [ Interruption. ] As there are only two Members of the Cabinet present I wonder if I might have the attention of both of them. In our policy there is absolutely nothing to show for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "lutely nothing to show for it. [ Interruption. ] Does anyone deny that, although we have spent so much on rearmament in the last three years, during that period matters in the international sphere have steadily deteriorated? We were not even able to call the bluff of the most evil Government in Europe although that Government had been successfully isolated by the mobilisation of the British Fleet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ied to some of his own remarks. I was astonished this afternoon at the line taken by the Prime Minister on one or two matters, and in particular surprised to find that he resented the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that Munich was a defeat, because I well recall that after Berchtesgaden, which we were given to understand represented something worse than Munich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "preceding_text": "tories with purely Czech majorities. They have made that waist still smaller so that they can separate Bohemia and Slovakia whenever they choose. I am sorry to say this, but it is evident that the British representative on the Berlin Commission has been singularly unsuccessful in preventing Czechoslovakia from being carved up. If he protested at it, no rumour of that has reached the outside world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "preceding_text": "enever they choose. I am sorry to say this, but it is evident that the British representative on the Berlin Commission has been singularly unsuccessful in preventing Czechoslovakia from being carved up. If he protested at it, no rumour of that has reached the outside world. [ Interruption. ] I am very glad to hear it. We all know what M. Daladier, the Prime Minister of France, said on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-01", "file": "debates1938-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9aa10b60ef792663", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Holdsworth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "hich I invite attention. An appeal has been made in the course of the Debate by more than one hon. Member for national unity. As I understand it, national unity is a corollary of another National Government, but we have had a National Government for the past seven years, or is it really a National Government? Why are there these appeals for another National Government? What is wrong with this one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-01a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Spain?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "n different language, by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition when he asked whether we must always wait for subjects of difference between nations to give rise to threats of war before we considered them ripe for peaceful discussion and negotiation. Since we made an Agreement with Italy on 16th April last, I am glad to think that there are no differences between our two countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ent of the Spanish qustion.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th July 1938; col. 2965, Vol. 338.] Since then a great deal has happened. Already, even at that date, all the Powers represented on the Non-Intervention Committee, including Italy, of course, had accepted the British plan for the withdrawal of volunteers, and if that plan is not in operation to-day, it cannot be said that that is the fault of Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have done it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "owers represented on the Non-Intervention Committee, including Italy, of course, had accepted the British plan for the withdrawal of volunteers, and if that plan is not in operation to-day, it cannot be said that that is the fault of Italy. [ Interruption. ] It cannot properly be said. Again, since then the Spanish Government have announced their intention of withdrawing the International Brigade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " the age.\" It is a term which might well be applied to his successor. The right hon. Gentleman has been able to do what nobody else has ever been able to do, what \"all the King's horses and all the King's men\" have never been able to do; he has been able to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Twice within recent weeks has he saved Mussolini from the fate that all democrats hope will soon befall him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "affairs? The right hon. Gentleman said that there were 352 Italian and German machines actually used by General Franco's airmen in this offensive. How many Russian and French machines has General Franco brought down in the last nine months? Is it greatly to his discredit? The right hon. Gentleman knows that he has brought down 700 aeroplanes that were made in those countries. Everybody knows that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about our shipping?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "re some hon. Gentlemen who want to take on at the same time all countries with whom they disagree. There was one country with whom we never ought to have had this serious quarrel, and that was the Italian nation. The sooner we can settle down and be friends again in that old traditional friendship the better it will be. They have never affected our direct interests in the acts which have occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For whom do you speak?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "he voice of the Front Government Bench. How far do the people of this country sympathise with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) or the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Bournemouth (Sir H. Croft). But whatever doubt there may be about Conservative opinion in this country, there is not the slightest doubt about Liberal opinion or about Labour opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "parties, the Liberal and Labour parties, and a large section of the Conservative party are getting day by day more anxious at the drifting of Government policy. It is impossible to ignore the fact that this feeling is not confined to one party, and that in the Conservative ranks too you have this increasing anxiety. Only a month ago we saved our skins for a time by the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "re anxious at the drifting of Government policy. It is impossible to ignore the fact that this feeling is not confined to one party, and that in the Conservative ranks too you have this increasing anxiety. Only a month ago we saved our skins for a time by the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia. [An HON MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"] Now we are going to save our skins at the expense of the Spanish people—for a time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.243.5", "colnum": "243", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "Yes, and what a mess he made of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": " along West Africa. All our shipping has to go by Spain or by the Canary Islands, where it diverges either to South America or round the Cape. There are three vital points, namely, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, and the Cape Verde Islands. These are important strategic points and we are going to allow them to get into the control of the people in Spain who have always been hostile to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "an aerodromes. As far as I can see the net result of all this is that we are going to establish two Fascist countries, Italy and Germany, on the southern frontier of the only ally we have left in Europe, namely, France, and the only guarantee which France has is a gentle assurance from the Prime Minister that he believes Signor Mussolini. If he does, then he is the only man in this world who does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Graham", "preceding_text": "I know that it is not strictly a Communist Government—labels are always unfair—and I will say an extreme Left Government. It is a well-known fact that it is, in point of fact, largely directed from Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": " done and divide the machines and bombs dropped into flying days and flying hours, he will find that I have presented a picture which represents a fairer presentation of the fact. He must not confuse machine flights with machines, as he is doing. Naturally—and hon. Members opposite will not disagree—a propagandist summary published in Rome is in the form to glorify the action of their legionaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "I have presented a picture which represents a fairer presentation of the fact. He must not confuse machine flights with machines, as he is doing. Naturally—and hon. Members opposite will not disagree—a propagandist summary published in Rome is in the form to glorify the action of their legionaries—[ Laughter ]—Yes that is what it was—and presents in the most favourable aspect these Italian airmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "here only a few months, and I sometimes forget to use the third person. The point I am trying to make is that as late as the end of July, I had information that 10,000 fresh Italian reinforcements had been sent to Spain. We are told in the House to-day that we are going to ratify this Agreement because 10,000 men are being withdrawn, the same number as was sent fresh from Italy at the end of July—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did she attack Abyssinia at all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "preceding_text": "rs of the League adopted the policy which is compendiously described by the word \"sanctions.\" The adoption of sanctions completely changed the whole direction of Italian policy. It turned it into a completely new channel. It threw Italy into the arms of Germany. I sometimes wonder whether our people realise what bitter memories have been implanted in the minds of the Italian people by that policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-02", "file": "debates1938-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "fbaf0695c2f5ad4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "ANGLO-ITALIAN AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After withdrawal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "the Government Bench were by his typical sincerity in this matter, but I am bound to say that his definition is not the definition which the Prime Minister has in mind. The Prime Minister's definition was made on 26th July when he said that if His Majesty's Government thought that Spain had ceased to be a menace to the peace of Europe, we should regard that as a settlement of the Spanish question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-02a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " need repeatedly to the attention of the Home Office, but no action was taken until the crisis, when, upon an urgent request, the Home Office offered us—we were glad to have them—3,000 steel helmets if the fire brigade would collect them. We collected them with pleasure, but when we went to collect the 3,000 steel helmets only 2,000 were available. I am sorry to weary the House with these details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And deciding wrongly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "ke the crisis. As regards shelters there is no connected policy. As to sirens, we have been trying to find out about them this afternoon. Let the right hon. Gentleman correct me if I am wrong, but my information is that the sirens were not available. They are something like the aeroplanes; the Department spent such a long time in deciding what is the right type of siren to produce the proper note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " regarding the crisis. I do not know anything about them; I have not seen them; but some of my people in the Metropolitan borough councils for which I am not responsible, tell me that the town clerk had sealed orders. As I say, I have not seen them, but the town clerk was not to open them until the crisis began. A bright idea! Really, it was a bright idea, if it were so. Correct me if it be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " but they were a varied collection, and the smart cockney Londoners are describing them as \"Hore-Belisha's War Museum.\" The Territorials were in the same position as the fire brigade. They volunteered and turned out at considerable sacrifice. They not only had not guns, but they had not the necessary ancillary equipment. I heard of one case where they had the ancillary equipment, but not the guns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.436.3", "colnum": "436", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the part of the nation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "ry remarkable fact that in peace time and on a voluntary basis we had enlisted more than 1,000,000 men and women. The greater part of these recruits have been recruited during the last six months, and if that fact is taken into account, the recruitment in peace time compares favourably with the recruitment of the Kitchener Army during a period of 12 months. That is a very considerable achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.441.3", "colnum": "441", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"France.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "e with trying to shift my responsibilities on to my right hon. Friend the Lord Privy Seal. I come now to the question of evacuation. The right hon. Gentleman criticised us for delay. Let me say to him that evacuation is not so easy an affair as he seemed to suggest and let me also say to the House that as far as I know no other country in the world has worked out an effective scheme of evacuation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "It was secret for this reason. We thought at the end of the summer every local authority was so fully engaged with its normal air-raid precautions activities that it was unnecessary to bring this new subject to their attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "was just that I thought he was straying unwittingly from facts. He referred to me as a Tory. He said it had shocked him to find that a civil servant whom he had known in the past had blossomed out—this is not the expression he used, but that is I have no doubt what he meant—as a Tory. I stood for Parliament as a supporter of the National Government and of the principles of the National Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "ate the tacit support of the party which he leaves out of account when he describes himself as a Member of the National Government. I believe it is the first time that we have had a member of the Cabinet, who presumably takes the whip from the Tory Prime Minister, declining to accept Tory principles. In his election campaign he had two Conservative Cabinet Ministers to assist him, and no one else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Major Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: He is lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Dower", "preceding_text": " him what his job was and he told me \"I am an electrician. I am employed by a chain of cinemas and am responsible for the maintenance of all the electrical equipment in those cinemas.\" I said, \"Come along, you are just the fellow I want.\" He is now the electrical-mechanist staff-sergeant, and all repairs are done in about two minutes. In his civilian job he is probably getting £500 or £600 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "and in a form suitable for use. Is that true, and, if so, why? The line of division between the Air Ministry and the War Office is in a sense arbitrary; arrangements have been made that the one should be on one side and the other on the other; but I have had some disturbing information. I have not got it by any more elaborate method than by going about the country listening to what people tell me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ure in particular upon the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for War, upon the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence for not having co-ordinated their activities to better purpose, and, above all, upon the Prime Minister for having let the whole thing slide owing to his pre-occupation with meeting foreign potentates rather than spending more of his time on the Defences of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "preceding_text": "tion. I did this not after the crisis, but well before the crisis. I asked them to criticise anything which it might occur to them to criticise in our organisation and to be quite relentless in doing so, sparing neither persons nor the organisation itself. They expressed the highest opinion of the organisation existing at the War Office, and said that virtually nothing could be done to improve it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "the reason for this—the failure of the firm that was making them to deliver them. This defect has been remedied. Some predictors were out of order. They are delicate instruments and we have suffered from lack of experienced personnel for their maintenance. It takes time to train such personnel, and we are taking such steps as we can to do so. Electric storage batteries were in some cases run down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-03", "file": "debates1938-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "072083f801251c8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "AIR-RAID DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "and particularly fuze keys. Most units improvised satisfactory expedients. Some stores were found to be deficient and steps are being taken to send to section commanders a simple aide memoire of what they should have ready for an emergency. Two types of ammunition are in use, and it is essential that each gun station has the equipment appropriate to its ammunition. In some cases this was not done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-03a.526.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-08", "file": "debates1938-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d292a40079e7cc8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "epresentative government, and this is about the only country which has really had representative government for any considerable time. We never had representative government in Scotland in the old days. We were governed by despotic kings and great lords and we did not argue matters out—we fought them out with each other. The Irish indulged in secret societies and we all know what the Welshmen did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-08", "file": "debates1938-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d292a40079e7cc8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They always were!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "elief and a lot of them refused to take it, but just as some Members of Parliament who refused to take their salaries when the payment of Members was first introduced afterwards fell from grace and accepted it, they did not persist in their refusal. There is one thing which the recent crisis has brought about. Hon. Members opposite are now all enthusiastic supporters of the defence of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-08", "file": "debates1938-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d292a40079e7cc8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " not objecting to what he said; I wish he had said more. I agree with what Mr. Eady, the civil servant, said, and I shall use it when I go to Doncaster next Monday, and also the stuff of the hon. Member for Gateshead. I shall tell them what he has said in this House and that he has condemned the Government up hill and down dale. I then come to the speech of the hon. and gallant Member for Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-08", "file": "debates1938-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "d292a40079e7cc8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "hat we should say nothing about what is going on in Germany. I hope that those who represent the democratic forces in this country will not be taken in by that sort of campaign, conducted by Goebbels and company; and that when Hitler makes these speeches, directed against particular individuals in this country, they will let him know in very strong and effective language what they think about him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-08a.113.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-09", "file": "debates1938-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2faf525f0a93beda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " and limb, but also in terms of standards of life. It is because they are awakening to the dangers of the present Government that they are turning from them, as is visible from the by-election results, to the saner and much more hopeful policy we are putting before them—not a policy of war, but a real policy of constructive peace. People do not fancy their country as do the noble Lady and her set—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-09", "file": "debates1938-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2faf525f0a93beda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Supposing these Sudeten German refugees are Communists, would it not be safer to send them to Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-09", "file": "debates1938-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2faf525f0a93beda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Tibet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "lways been a complete surrender to the dictators, and a complete surrender to the dictators for their extremest demands. Take China. We have surrendered there far more than Japan ever demanded when she began her new Chinese policy—far more, and we have no protest, no policy. The news last night was that the Japanese armies had announced their intention to march right up to the boundaries of Burma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-09", "file": "debates1938-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2faf525f0a93beda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Executions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "here are 180,000,000 in Russia. Anyone who reads the very interesting volume published by Lord Londonderry of his interview with Herr Hitler in 1936 will find there the Führer's opinion of the Russian Army. He said that it was the strongest Army in the world, technically perfect, with the strongest tank force and the strongest air force. That was two years ago. What has happened since then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.169.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-09", "file": "debates1938-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2faf525f0a93beda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leader of the Youth Movement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " one might often see in this country, but marvellously organised, was given by well drilled girls. I was entirely satisfied with that spectacle which could have been given in this country without the slightest criticism. At the end of the afternoon's performance a gentleman who, I believe, is the Reichs führer for Sport Baldur von Schirach—at any rate he is the leader in Germany for sports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-09", "file": "debates1938-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "2faf525f0a93beda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "efinite relation to the armaments of foreign Governments. If so, will the Government tell us what standard they propose to adopt. In previous White Papers on Defence which have been published we have bean told that in aeroplanes we must have at least a standard equal to that of the strongest Power on the Continent. Is that to be our policy? Are we to produce as many aeroplanes as Germany produces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-09a.201.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-10", "file": "debates1938-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "73d9e1c8bac1ded8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-10a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": " to Article 9 of the Agreement, for in that article The Government of Eire undertake to admit free of customs duty, except as provided in the fourth paragraph of this article, goods of the classes or kinds specified in Schedule IV produced in the United Kingdom. Schedule IV includes fish of practically all classes. In violation of that article, there is a complete prohibition of the trade in fish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-10a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-10", "file": "debates1938-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "73d9e1c8bac1ded8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-10a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " the House. I did not notice that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Eden) was very loud in his praises of Munich and what had flowed from it when he addressed the House this evening, and there will be, I am sure, among the supporters of the Government in the country, very many searchings of heart as to what Munich means now and what it may mean in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-10a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-10", "file": "debates1938-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "73d9e1c8bac1ded8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-10a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "d that list of 370 Members; it has never been published, but by the kindness of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George), I have been supplied with a copy, and I warn any hon. Members who are sufficiently interested in what I am saying as to wish to interrupt me, not to do so, in case I should mark them down as one of those responsible for this state of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-10a.419.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-14", "file": "debates1938-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "05abdcaedc53c741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "It has been said in more than one part of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-14", "file": "debates1938-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "05abdcaedc53c741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Adamson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Adamson", "preceding_text": "nt of the social services. On 8th November the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister said: With regard to social services, it is not to he expected that we can at one and the same time embark upon the enormous armament programme, the full cost of which we are not yet in a position to estimate, and vast projects of social improvements which would lay on the taxpayers fresh and impossible burdens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-14", "file": "debates1938-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "05abdcaedc53c741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "y, he talks about the Government of the day as if it had been only tinkering with this and that, but when he gets up to tell the House what is or what is not sound theology, I think he will find it harder to get unity about that than about finance or the central direction of industry. Having listened to him in many Debates, I am sure he will not mind my saying that to him in a perfectly frank way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-14", "file": "debates1938-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "05abdcaedc53c741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We shall have more to say about them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": " friends who itch after centralised control might be, although they make out paper cases. Let me go further. In addition to those ideas of centralised control, there has been a wonderful series of speeches, but very few about the social services. I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health must have been interested to see how the Debate on the whole switched off the social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-14", "file": "debates1938-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "05abdcaedc53c741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Not much is said about the means test nowadays, but if my hon. Friend the Member for Spennymoor (Mr. Batey) wants me to say a word about it I will do so. Indeed, I will say two words about it. The first is this, that the means test is working much more satisfactorily than either hon. Members opposite or any Member of this House anticipated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-14", "file": "debates1938-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "05abdcaedc53c741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "there is another side to the question and that there is a good deal of virility in the Government's response to their criticism, then they are not happy either. With regard to nutrition I would say just this one thing. It has been most interesting to see how statements made by eminent scientists are taken out of their context and given without the reservations which those scientists put upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-14", "file": "debates1938-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "05abdcaedc53c741", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why have we not got the results yet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "een the popular enthusiasm behind it that we have had help from Members of all parties, in all areas, in connection with every exchange, with the result that perhaps in a year from now we shall know more about how the housewives of this country spend their money, on a basis scientifically and statistically accurate, than not merely this land has ever had, but any other country in the world either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-14a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "an society would permanently continue to bear. If trusts and combines can set up organisations to fix their profits there is no reason why the nation should not provide a similar organisation in the interest of food producers, food consumers and the State. The job can be done if we are willing to do it. The farmer should ask not for price insurance schemes, which apparently mean a duty on imports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Ruggles-Brise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Ruggles-Brise", "preceding_text": " richest food consuming market in the world at our very door, and yet the producers of food are finding the greatest difficulty in making a living, and that is not only the case to-day, but it has been the case for a very long period. We have in this country a standard of living which is higher than that of any other country in the world, with he possible exception of the United States of America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ened at last is what we from these Benches have always declared would happen: it has been discovered that protection as a method of assisting agriculture is a failure. It is not that prices are especially low in England. After all, the producers overseas who are supplying this market are in many cases enjoying a standard of living as high as, if not higher than, that enjoyed by the producers here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Roberts", "preceding_text": "g agriculture is a failure. It is not that prices are especially low in England. After all, the producers overseas who are supplying this market are in many cases enjoying a standard of living as high as, if not higher than, that enjoyed by the producers here. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] My information is that in New Zealand the standard of life is very much higher in the country districts than here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ficult problem of those soils only fitted for cereal growing. East Anglia is predominantly such. Liberal Nationals have a special responsibility for this, for from its broad acres we send back seven Members of Parliament to support the National Government. I am not quite clear whether East Anglia is important because it grows cereals or because it sends back Liberal National Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "rown land tenants in Regent Street have been squeezed to an unlimited extent. That is an example of Government ownership. Government ownership extracts the last farthing from the tenant. My hon. Friend said that he would give fair compensation. The land problem has entirely changed. The large landowners have gone. The large country house has been shut up. Whether that is good or bad, it is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman will tell us something about them when he speaks. The hon. Member for Don Valley did not complain of subsidies. That comes very close home, because the coal industry is receiving the largest subsidy of any industry in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sheep!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hat criticism is frequently heard and I should like to examine what it means. By a comprehensive policy you may mean a policy which, in fact, comprehends all the various items in the agricultural budget. That is the meaning which I attach to it, and if that meaning is attached to it I think there is practically no important branch of the agricultural industry for which something has not been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not got any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": ". Surely, while it is possible for such disasters as this to occur, and for such serious losses to be suffered by farmers, they cannot be expected to have sufficient confidence to continue their farming in the way that they should, to spend the money which is necessary in order to farm their land properly, and, most important of all, to employ the labour which is really necessary for good farming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "us, at 11 o'clock to-night, when we go into the Lobby. It will not be enough for them to remain neutral. The issues to-night are nourishment, housing, sunlight, health and the better distribution of wealth in this country, and the need for a real effort to abolish poverty and the evils which poverty produce. I want to see those hon. Members stand up to what they have said by coming into the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Samuel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It might be a better Speech if it were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Samuel", "preceding_text": " including building and every other public activity. In formulating their Amendment, our Socialist friends, in their haste to find a peg on which to hang their complaints about His Majesty's advisers, have forgotten that those advisers advise His Majesty on what they propose to do during the coming Session, and not during the coming century. The Gracious Speech is not a Socialist election address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-15", "file": "debates1938-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c023e277788085ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "nt. is to be paid upon that inflated capital, and approximately, therefore, if I apply it to the year 1935, they will pay out £365 on every £100 which was originally held. In other words, a rate of distribution in 1938 of 365 per cent. on the capital of 1935. How any Government can justify calling upon workers for sacrifices in the face of this I do not know. I could go on and quote other figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-15a.824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-16", "file": "debates1938-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "eef49635f8a2076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.910.3", "colnum": "910", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a nice place in which to die.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": " London Midland and Scottish track to go to the North. Motor transport could go with perfect safety at 100 miles an hour, because they would be comparatively straight routes. One speaker has said that there is no such thing as perfect safety. I hold that there is no such thing as perfect safety anywhere. There is no such thing as perfect safety in bed. Far more people die there than anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-16", "file": "debates1938-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "eef49635f8a2076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because we do not get many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": " blood of the people whose lives have been sacrificed, because safe roads have not been provided. They are responsible for these people who have been massacred. It is far worse than bombing in a long war, and because it happens here and there, and in individual cases, it does not shock the people in the way that they are shocked if a railway accident occurs and a large number of people are killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-16", "file": "debates1938-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "eef49635f8a2076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "DEATH PENALTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": "hose are matters of practical detail which can be, as indeed they have been, remedied. The black flag is no longer hoisted, the date of the execution is kept secret from the other prisoners, and two witnesses informed us, whilst admitting the naturally unpleasant and distasteful nature of their duty, that the effects of any execution upon themselves and the prison population were purely temporary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-16", "file": "debates1938-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "eef49635f8a2076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "DEATH PENALTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There will be, after you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": "white state or an agricultural state with an urban state. You must take like with like. When you consider the information available you must remember that the Home Office say that in those States which have abolished the death penalty the homicidal rate is higher than in the others. I sum up. I am sorry to have taken so much time but I understood there was not a great rush to speak on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-16", "file": "debates1938-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "eef49635f8a2076d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "DEATH PENALTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "preceding_text": "I do not remember that particular incident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-16a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-17", "file": "debates1938-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "50317eda7e27021b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1090.1", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Seely", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Seely", "preceding_text": "hough it is obvious that their demands in wartime would be different, the value of a Ministry of Supply to the Admiralty then would be immense; but it does not follow that it would be decided to upset the whole Admiralty principle because a Ministry of Supply was brought in to deal with these two very important new arms, the air and anti-aircraft defence. Both have failed under present conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-17", "file": "debates1938-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "50317eda7e27021b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Major Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Owen", "preceding_text": "erience. In the opening months of the War, as most of us remember, the Service Departments landed us in much the same kind of muddle and failure as we have discovered to our horror to exist to-day. There were only two Services then, but they nearly succeeded in losing the War through failure to organise the production of munitions. Fortunately, there was a Liberal Government in power at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-17", "file": "debates1938-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "50317eda7e27021b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rkable system? Second, has it succeeded and is it succeeding? Third, whatever may be the difficulties in private Members making constructive proposals, we must consider what improvements are possible. Let me take the first of these issues—is the present system succeeding? Undoubtedly much of the preliminary work has been done. Very large sums are being earned and will be earned by the contractors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-17", "file": "debates1938-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "50317eda7e27021b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " for Epping said that we ought to have ordered thousands of guns long ago. Perhaps he is right, but that is not the business of a Ministry of Supply. It is the Government who have to decide what guns are to be ordered. If there has been a mistake it is not the mistake of not having a Ministry of Supply; it has been the mistake of not realising soon enough the necessity for some of those armaments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-17a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-18", "file": "debates1938-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0350d813501fe1ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is no longer a widow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "g to the Bill, even if she re-marries. I can find nothing in the Bill to stop that. It may be said by Hon. Gentlemen opposite that there is no reason why her present husband should shoulder the burden of the employer of her former husband, but surely the question of dependent need arises in this case. A widow who re-marries is no longer dependent upon the provisions made through her first husband.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-18", "file": "debates1938-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0350d813501fe1ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is not a widow then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": " provisions made through her first husband. [HON. MEMBERS: \"She is no longer a widow.\"] I say that a woman who re-marries is no longer dependent upon the provision made by her first husband. In fact, if it were continued, and if she were to receive for the rest of her life 30s. a week, I suggest that that would be attaching an attractive profit to a widow to the detriment of a good many spinsters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-18", "file": "debates1938-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0350d813501fe1ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "hat that would be attaching an attractive profit to a widow to the detriment of a good many spinsters. [HON. MEMBERS: \"She is not a widow then.\"] I do not know whether I have made myself clear or not. Let me try again. A young, childless woman unfortunately loses her husband, and she is entitled to a minimum of 30s. per week, which, according to the Bill, she will receive for the rest of her life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-18", "file": "debates1938-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0350d813501fe1ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1300.3", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Whiteley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Whiteley", "preceding_text": "mprehensive. To-day we are condemned for bringing in a Measure which is not sufficiently comprehensive. How can we do right? As a matter of fact I have come to the conclusion that if we bring in any Measure that is to assist the working classes in this country, those on the opposite benches seem to think that it is a very serious matter and is going to make inroads into their particular interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-18a.1300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-21", "file": "debates1938-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "15d3fccb9e322e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-21a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF FRAUD (INVESTMENTS) BILL.", "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": " time after time we find instances where these people have parted with their life's savings in circumstances which would make the smallest child, one would have thought, clutch more closely to its pocket money. Although it may be a case of protecting the foolish from their folly, the House cannot, and in past years has shown that it will not, sit and look on indifferently while these things go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-21a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-21", "file": "debates1938-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "15d3fccb9e322e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-21a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACIAL, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL MINORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no chance of that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Surely the right hon. and gallant Gentleman knows my political philosophy perfectly well—that while I do not share the general enthusiasm for work, I am always delighted to let anyone who wants to go ahead. I believe that any one of the great countries of Europe could accommodate all the 500,000. I believe that Scotland could accommodate 500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-21a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-21", "file": "debates1938-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "15d3fccb9e322e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-21a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACIAL, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL MINORITIES.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "preceding_text": " the territory is the same. There is, however, another block of territory that we contemplate. In any case, there were special features connected with the Assyrians that made it difficult for them to settle in British Guiana. For instance, it was necessary to settle them all at once. I am told that many of them, owing to years of exile, had got out of touch with agricultural and pastoral pursuits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-21a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1527.5", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "In view of those facts, is it not most misleading that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) should state, as he did in this House last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1527.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1527.9", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is true. I have never been reluctant to give information. When any responsible person has asked me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1527.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1606.1", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Train", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not make more accommodation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Train", "preceding_text": "is sound and it has a sound roof. This has been advocated for many years by people who have studied the problem. I should like the Government to bring in a comprehensive measure which will embrace reconditioning by whomsoever done—local authority or private enterprise—under proper regulations. Reconditioning is only a help towards giving people decent houses to live in for the next 25 or 30 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1633.2", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "osis sanitorium to these surroundings; what chance has he got?\" What answer was there, except that we must push on and get these new houses at the very earliest possible moment? The point at which hon. Members opposite and I part company is on the question of private enterprise, in this matter of reconditioning. I believe in private enterprise, and I am not going to apologise for be-lieving in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the percentage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "would get, I think it was, £44 from the State, or £60, under the new provisions we have been badly taken in, because now we shall be asked to receive a State contribution of £88, but in place of a rate contribution of £4 10s. we shall be asked to provide £44; in other words. while the State contribution is to be increased, I think it is by £36, the rate contribution is to be increased by £39 l0s.,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ct that gave rise to acute controversy and held the House up for three days some months ago. The House ought to be adjourned in order to give the two sides an opportunity of discussing the matter and coming to some compromise on it, because we are deeply suspicious that we are being tricked and that the Chair is once more being used as an instrument to prevent the House from discussing the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "he continued degradation of the Scottish people in the distressed areas. If the right hon. Gentleman examines carefully his own replies to Questions put by me regarding unemployment and loss of trade in Scotland, and the increasing poverty in those areas, I think he will be far from satisfied, and it may help to remove that complacent, smug countenance for which he is so well known in this House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-22", "file": "debates1938-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "2077352338cb81e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1710.5", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "n October, 1935, in the coal trade the unemployed registered numbered 37,049. Eleven months after, in September, 1936, the number had fallen to 24,488. A year after that, in September, 1937, the number had fallen to 13,429. Even now, with the regrettable closing of pits, in October, 1938—the last figures which are available—the total in the coal trade is 20,127, as against 37,049 three years ago.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-22a.1710.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Conant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Conant", "preceding_text": "5,000,000 at present, will rise to £147,000,000 in 40 years. The Exchequer share will rise very steeply from £65,000,000 to £113,000,000. That rise is automatic, without any increase in benefit rates or any other alterations in the present scheme. We are engaged now upon a great national effort to expand our defences, and we are pursuing that course with the approval, in principle, of all parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Conant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about population?.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Conant", "preceding_text": "000. It includes not only age benefits but unemployment benefits and provision for invalids, for orphans, for miners, for health services, medical services and war pensions. The scales in many cases are higher than those payable in this country. The cost of £15,000,000, of which £8,500,000 is from contributions, is somewhat less than one-sixth of what we are spending on the pensions service alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "rvices are costing some £222,000,000 a year. Of that we are spending £95,000,000 on pension schemes. Have we any right to come to the House and say that we must increase the pensions schemes without saying one word as to whether or not, at the same time, it will be desirable to increase the other social services? We cannot take one-quarter of the cost of the whole and say that we must increase it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": " benefits of which they will not get for 40 years, and we have no right to ask people for increased contributions unless we are certain they can get the benefit when the 40 years have elapsed. Do we realise that every 10 years our population is decreasing by, roughly, 2,000,000 people, but at the same time, every 10 years, the number of people over 65 years of age is increasing by about 2,000,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have not read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "tributions unless we are certain they can get the benefit when the 40 years have elapsed. Do we realise that every 10 years our population is decreasing by, roughly, 2,000,000 people, but at the same time, every 10 years, the number of people over 65 years of age is increasing by about 2,000,000? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Do hon. Members know what is put forward in the Labour party's pension pamphlet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "e that every 10 years our population is decreasing by, roughly, 2,000,000 people, but at the same time, every 10 years, the number of people over 65 years of age is increasing by about 2,000,000? [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Do hon. Members know what is put forward in the Labour party's pension pamphlet? [An HON. MEMBER: \"You have not read it.\"] I have read it very carefully and I will read what it says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS indicated dissent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan", "preceding_text": " no anomalies. I must confess that if it were possible to remove some of the anomalies I should be delighted to support the Government in doing so, in spite of the financial stringency. Hon. Members have already mentioned one anomaly, that of the man who receives a pension at 65 years of age and who may be put out of work. He does not have to be put out of work, but sometimes that is what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1830.0", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": "s committee for 15 years, have been endeavouring to get His Majesty's Government to look into. We are asked in the Amendment whether we can afford it. I say without hesitation that we can afford it. I wish to goodness that people in this House showed the same activity and the same enthusiasm to increase old age pensions by 5o per cent. as they did to increase their own remuneration by 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "ard, in order that the House before they vote may see what that means in terms of money. I am not suggesting for one moment that the Mover and the Seconder of the Motion are espousing the 1934 Labour plan of £1 a week at 60, because that plan was very definitely and specifically rejected in the later Labour plan which I believe is sometimes rather irreverently referred to as the \"Teddy Bear\" Plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course they have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "l surprised at the picture which he drew, and I was still more surprised when I listened to the hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring. He said many strange things. He seemed to imagine that over here we thought that prosperity had come to the Special Areas. I have never heard anybody make such a claim. The hon Member also said that the Government has absolutely refused to face their responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": " make such a claim. The hon Member also said that the Government has absolutely refused to face their responsibilities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course they have.\"] I am glad that I am not misquoting him. He said: \"Do something for us!\" Anybody listening to this Debate who did not know the circumstances would imagine that the Government had done nothing at all in the course of the last few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1872.6", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "the Special Area work which has been done in recent years. That is what I have to say about the present position. I think that hon. Members and I will find ourselves in greater agreement when we talk about what is wanted in the future. Let us make plain to the Government that we are all dissatisfied with the plight of the Special Areas now and that we all want things to be done a good deal better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1872.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-23", "file": "debates1938-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "e853f287d7673bea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "DISTRESSED AREAS.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Lennox-Boyd)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Lennox-Boyd)", "preceding_text": "y men who had been called back to work a return to unemployment. Although some people may be becoming complacent from having lived on public assistance, the vast majority of the people now out of work desperately desire work, I am convinced—manual work. It has been said that every man, rich or poor, should, once in his life, be a manual labourer, in order that he might learn what manual labour is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-23a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-24", "file": "debates1938-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f8728068b36e4bd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, heart!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "r dealing with this matter and that that policy is discussion—well, it is a little beyond the limit even for this Government to tell us that. The right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster appears to dissent, but I am within the recollection of the House. What the right hon. Gentleman in effect said was, \"We must have a policy for the next stage, and we are going to discuss it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-24", "file": "debates1938-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f8728068b36e4bd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "orth defending. That has been so, no doubt, mainly because of ambiguities of policy, and, incidentally, I thought there was a curious instance of the right hon. Gentleman's lack of humour in twitting His Majesty's Government upon tergiversations and hesitations in the matter of foreign policy. I thought that joke might have come from anywhere better than from Members on the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-24", "file": "debates1938-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f8728068b36e4bd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2053.3", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " affect the working class of this country, who would do anything to save these victims and who would not be inspired by the Fascist Press and the Fascist party with anti-Semitism in order to salve their consciences. All this anti-Semitism comes from the Fascist movement in this country, and unfortunately this Fascist movement has a large hold on the Government Front Bench. Does anybody doubt that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-24", "file": "debates1938-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f8728068b36e4bd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2055.3", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "preceding_text": "that they are brave and courageous and will make good soldiers. Indeed, we know they will make good soldiers, but for all that we must have some consideration for the Arabs who live in Palestine. I know that it is the popular thing nowadays to belittle everything that has ever been done by any Fascist country, but I might remind the House of the settlement of the Italian colonists lately in Libya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2055.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-24", "file": "debates1938-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "f8728068b36e4bd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2073.1", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cazalet", "preceding_text": ". Owing to recent events there is no doubt that a large amount of Arab property and industries have been destroyed not by the Jews, but by the Arabs themselves—Arab terrorists, and I believe that the only chance that these Arabs have themselves of restoring some measure of prosperity to their own vineyards, citrus groves and factories is through the increase of Jewish capital and Jewish influence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-24a.2073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-25", "file": "debates1938-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "771d888dcd0dfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-25a.2125.1", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (COAL MINE REFUSE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "because he takes a very strong line in defence of the amenities of the countryside, I have heard him make many speeches on the subject, urging that something should be done. Had he been with us to-day we might have had his help in trying to get this Bill a Second Reading. Last night I went to the Library, after listening to a good many speeches in the House. I went upstairs to have a little breeze", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-25a.2125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-25", "file": "debates1938-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "771d888dcd0dfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-25a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (COAL MINE REFUSE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": " let the trucks run down, which they would do by the law of gravitation, as one can see when one is passing Peterborough and notes the scientific methods they have at the clay pits there. I lose patience when I think of our lack of common sense in this matter, and feel that we are the stupidest nation that God ever made. It takes a couple of generations for a new idea to penetrate in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-25a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-25", "file": "debates1938-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "771d888dcd0dfb99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-25a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC HEALTH (COAL MINE REFUSE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "preceding_text": " I do not mean hon. Members on this side of the House. Obviously, a nuisance may be almost anything under the sun, according to the individual who applies the word. With regard to this Bill, it is difficult to say what might, in certain circumstances, be prejudicial to health. Even good things, such as tobacco, food, drink, may be prejudicial to health, and exercise, in one way or another, may be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-25a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.37.8", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman make it clear that his answers are not intended to show that there is any lag in the recruitment of personnel as compared with the provision of equipment, and, in particular, that the provision of fire equipment lags far behind the number of volunteers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.37.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": " in which I shall occupy the time of the Committee I should like to put forward one or two suggestions which may be wrong but which may, nevertheless, I hope, assist the Committee and my right hon. Friend towards some solution of the problem. As the hon. Member who opened the Debate said, we now have this figure of 1,800,000 unemployed firmly fixed in our minds, and it is being generally accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.71.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.74.0", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Training for what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "way. In my opinion, we can hope to solve the problem of unemployment only if those vested interests are prepared to give and to take. It is the business of government, in a complicated matter of this sort, to bring those two sides together to make a joint contribution. I believe that we ought to ask labour to accept the principle of compulsory training for young men. I do not believe you can hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "A HON. MEMBER: \"They are not Special Areas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "were a perfect world you and I would not be in the House of Commons. We would be outside enjoying it. But I do say that what has been accomplished even in Sunderland in those years is wonderful, and I am afraid that that work is not recognised as it ought to be. Slums have in a great measure been cleared, and new houses have gone up in their place. Then I also went to Darlington and Middlesbrough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go to Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "e in a great measure been cleared, and new houses have gone up in their place. Then I also went to Darlington and Middlesbrough. [A HON. MEMBER: \"They are not Special Areas.\"] I am speaking about the whole of the North as compared with what it was five years ago, and I say that the whole place looks quite different to me. It is all very well for the Opposition to say that things are getting worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ddlesbrough. [A HON. MEMBER: \"They are not Special Areas.\"] I am speaking about the whole of the North as compared with what it was five years ago, and I say that the whole place looks quite different to me. It is all very well for the Opposition to say that things are getting worse. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Go to Wales.\"] I have been there, too, and it is much better in Wales than it was five years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ernment is doing better than any other Government in the world at this moment. Of course you could do better if this were a totalitarian State, and I warn hon. Members opposite that, if we get a Popular Front, that is what we may have. That is what does happen with Popular Fronts. Give me supreme power to say to people where they are to work, and how they are to work, and what they are to work at—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.106.5", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "r and happier and better for the people in these areas. Therefore, I hope that the Government will not cut down any of these schemes. I say to hon. Members opposite who criticise the Government: What is your plan? I have never heard of a fool-proof plan from them for dealing with this situation. We had of course \"Labour and the Nation,\" but I think many hon. Members opposite have not even read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.106.5", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not foul your own nest!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ive the go per cent. grant, particularly to the open-air nursery schools. It has had a magical effect, not only on the children but on the mothers. It is the one bright spot, and it is having a tremendous success. The Government get a certain amount of criticism from some of the bright young things who sit around me. Well, have they got a plan? No, they have just a pious hope, like the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": " us on this side share some of the uneasiness which has been expressed by hon. Members opposite. I heard, however, one note of criticism of the Minister of Labour this afternoon which I hardly thougt was fair. One hon. Member opposite accused my right hon. Friend of not playing his proper part in obtaining a reduction of hours of labour, and, in that way, an easing of the condition of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "t areas like Tyneside into a higher state of efficiency. They are the old areas which have suffered most. We have been pleading with the Government for a long time to give us a better crossing across the Tyne. It is absurd that between the great areas of Northumberland and Durham there is nothing between Newcastle and the sea. A tremendous lot might be done by a tunnel under the Tyne at Newcastle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-28", "file": "debates1938-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "fb70d12bb46f091a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he country desire one thing above all with regard to defence, and that is, as quickly as may be, to get the equipment we want. That is the over-riding consideration. There is no doubt whatever that in this particular case that that was the over-riding consideration, and the answer is that we wanted to get certain results and we are going the way to get them. I am sure the House will approve of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-28a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-29", "file": "debates1938-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "b13503aa06121463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have almost finished the description of the Bill, but there is one further chapter of which I must say something before I sit down—and I hope that the House will forgive me if I am taking up too much of its time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-29", "file": "debates1938-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "b13503aa06121463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "d to them. There are certain very grave consequences which flow from these very long confinements, particularly in the case of comparatively young people. As the House will realise, those who are subject to corrective training are under 30, and those subjected to preventive detention may be only a little over 30. The first class is comparatively young, and the second is still in the prime of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-29", "file": "debates1938-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "b13503aa06121463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "preceding_text": "that.\" Legally he was correct. When he had completed his sentence, he would have purged his offence, but it would surely have been a good thing for him to have it enjoined upon him that he should make some reparation. I believe that is one out of a great many instances where it would be for the benefit of the prisoner and for the benefit of society if restitution could be attached to the sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-29", "file": "debates1938-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "b13503aa06121463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "I do not know about that, and the hon. and gallant Member does not know either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-29", "file": "debates1938-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "b13503aa06121463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " how far they can bring in that particular point. There is one other matter I would like to mention. I do not myself feel—and here I speak for myself only, although I have found in talking to colleagues on this side of the House who sit on benches of magistrates that they share my views—that magistrates in courts of summary jurisdiction ought to be given the power to send young persons to Borstal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-29", "file": "debates1938-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "b13503aa06121463", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is expensive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "preceding_text": "Criminal Appeal, though there are very few cases in which Borstal sentences have been interfered with by the Court of Criminal Appeal. So you have, at any rate, this safeguard if there is any apprehension of abuse by magistrates—perhaps \"abuse\" is the wrong word, and I will say of the imposition of sentences in cases where they are not appropriate, you have the right of appeal to quarter sessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-29a.368.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-30", "file": "debates1938-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e4ae5c3b73ba813d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "In these matters where there is a grave issue at stake it is usual for a Government that means business to demand an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.395.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-11-30", "file": "debates1938-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e4ae5c3b73ba813d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.423.6", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the employment position, but I think both the other statements are untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.423.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-30", "file": "debates1938-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e4ae5c3b73ba813d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT OF EXPORT TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ised in such a way as to compete with others. Even those who were in theory out and out protectionists always said that one of the reasons why they wanted a tariff was in order to have something with which to bargain when it came to negotiating with others. I do not think that they have used that bargaining power very well during the seven years that they have provided themselves with that weapon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-11-30", "file": "debates1938-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e4ae5c3b73ba813d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "MEDICAL SERVICES IN CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "night, but he may give the answers to them at a later date. I think that all Governments in the main base their preparations for war on the basis of the last war, but every war is different from a previous war. The strategists themselves do not seem to be able to tell us exactly what will happen in the next war, if we are unfortunate enough to have a war. They are like the economists; they differ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-11-30a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-01", "file": "debates1938-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3e2aed8992116fcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-01a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Thomson", "preceding_text": "England is either \"Guilty\" or \"Not Guilty,\" in Scotland, there are three verdicts of \"Guilty,\" \"Not Guilty,\" and \"Not Proven.\" That has always appeared to me to be the most ridiculous verdict that could be given. It is neither one thing nor the other. I would like to know whether this Bill can be made the occasion to bring in an Amendment making the law of Scotland in line with the law in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-01a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-01", "file": "debates1938-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3e2aed8992116fcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-01a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "l who was really a very bad girl indeed. She had lost an eye in earlier years and she was very much upset about it. Indeed it seemed to have taken the spirit out of her altogether, until at last some sensible person came along and gave her an artificial eye which she called a \"beautiful blue eye.\" It is the fact that from that moment a radical improvement came over the whole behaviour of the girl.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-01a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-02", "file": "debates1938-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f49cf47075de01ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-02a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACCESS TO MOUNTAINS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "preceding_text": "p a good show in the shooting line, but under the Bill they might find themselves at any moment having their birds driven away and the next-door keeper getting all the credit for their work. It would be pretty hard on a keeper if there were many rights of way over his ground because such rights of way are very often lover's lanes. The keeper would find the whole of his beat made into lover's lane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-02a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-02", "file": "debates1938-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f49cf47075de01ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-02a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACCESS TO MOUNTAINS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Grouse moors.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "preceding_text": "f way are very often lover's lanes. The keeper would find the whole of his beat made into lover's lane. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] The hon. Member who interrupted has evidently never met a keeper. Further scorn was poured by the hon. and gallant Member upon shooting, but that is a pretty big industry. In my part of the world it forms a very considerable part of the activities of the population.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-02a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-02", "file": "debates1938-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f49cf47075de01ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-02a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACCESS TO MOUNTAINS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The penalty of being famous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "preceding_text": "ely to be not £2 but £200? Are we to take it that if the Bill passes every one who feels so disposed can enter any land, sit down and stop any shoot that may be going on? I can see the most frightful difficulties arising if any one is allowed to go all over grouse moors. Think of the embarrassment there would be to our Prime Minister. He would be pursued all over the grouse moors by photographers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-02a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-05", "file": "debates1938-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "55df27117c8aaed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anstruther-Gray", "cue_text": "the hon. Member for Norwood", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "l. But I am not prepared to say that a situation might not come in a matter of this sort when threats or letters of that kind might not be entirely justified. Let me say a word or two about the letter itself. If hon. Members will look at paragraph 1596, they will see that the Attorney-General, who was giving his evidence, was asked what he thought of the letter, and he replied: As I understand, he", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-05", "file": "debates1938-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "55df27117c8aaed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.941.2", "colnum": "941", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "I am much indebted to my right hon. Friend for his invention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-05", "file": "debates1938-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "55df27117c8aaed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I have, so far as I know, uttered only three or four inoffensive sentences. I have not got any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-05", "file": "debates1938-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "55df27117c8aaed2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "-General's evidence that the Secretary of State for War was willing to see Mr. Sandys on the subject-matter of his letter; and was anxious that Mr. Sandys should not think that any discourtesy was intended towards him; and that the Attorney-General informed the Secretary of State that he, as Attorney-General, thought that he, and not the Secretary of State, was the proper person to see Mr. Sandys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-05a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-06", "file": "debates1938-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "8ed9f50e2c7e89e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "NATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir John Anderson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir John Anderson)", "preceding_text": "for each county borough, and then later we shall proceed with the establishment of other committees in the larger centres other than county boroughs. For the county committees it is proposed to invite the Lord Lieutenant to act as president, with a deputy, who might be the chairman of the county council. In some cases it might be possible to enlist the services of the chairman of quarter sessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-06", "file": "debates1938-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "8ed9f50e2c7e89e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "NATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir John Anderson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir John Anderson)", "preceding_text": "y and the magistracy will be of great value. In the case of the county boroughs the lord mayor or mayor may be invited to act as chairman. There will be representatives, as in the last War, of the various service units concerned, such as the Territorial Association, and there will be representatives of the local authority and the local employment committees. Labour, of course, will be represented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-06", "file": "debates1938-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "8ed9f50e2c7e89e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "NATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kelly", "preceding_text": " that he will read his speech, because throughout the whole of the time he was speaking we heard of one thing only. He spoke of the resources of the country, not in material and machinery but in men. He referred to the fact that we must have the compulsory registration of the men because there was not enough public interest in this country for people to undertake the work that the nation requires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-06", "file": "debates1938-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "8ed9f50e2c7e89e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "NATIONAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1931?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "from the lines of policy which were being pursued in 1931. Now, in the House and in the country, when we are in this position, there is this constant appeal, always to hon. Members on this side of the House, to show some unity with the Government in this terrible time. The Government had one chance after another of uniting the people of this country, and they deliberately threw away those chances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-06a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "What about the Arab High Committee members? Will they be represented?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1172.10", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "is a matter which concerns my constituency? The hon. Gentleman is aware that a shipbreaking firm occupies a section of that dockyard at present. In that part of the yard all the great ships of the German fleet have been broken up. What I want to ask is whether that shipbreaking firm is to receive notice to cease operations in the yard; and, arising out of that, if the answer is in the affirmative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1172.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "e annexed, but they have been annexed, and sometimes in a very cruel manner. But we cannot live in the past. We have to face the facts of to-day. Mr. Pirow, in a statement made after visiting Europe, said that everybody in Europe wanted peace, including ourselves, but that no one was willing to make a real contribution to peace, that is, to make any sacrifices. What he exactly meant I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "I think it was just before he died. The hon. Member wants the date, but I cannot give him the date; but it is a very well known statement from the late nobleman. I do not agree altogether with either of the Amendments which are on the Paper, except that I would not voluntarily surrender any territory anywhere to Germany or any Fascist Power at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "onsent of the inhabitants; but the second part of the Motion goes on to foreshadow a wholesale redistribution, a transfer from the absolute control of this House and of this Government to at any rate the partial control of some international organisation. I can see no word here about the consent of the inhabitants being required, or even about the wishes of the inhabitants being considered at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Obviously it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "If the first part of the Motion is meant to cover the second part as well, I agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ur Colonial Empire, mandated or protected, what has been said with regard to Nigeria, namely, that His Majesty's Government had no intention of transferring. If he had said that the whole matter would have been satisfactorily disposed of. I only hope that it may still be possible for the Government in the near future to make that simple and unambiguous statement and put the whole question at rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "COLONIAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "e been satisfactorily disposed of. I only hope that it may still be possible for the Government in the near future to make that simple and unambiguous statement and put the whole question at rest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I should like to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether it is not possible for him to say for the whole of our Colonial Empire what he has already very rightly said about Nigeria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "There you get a perfectly clear and open case of political censorship by the Government of the day in the interests of the foreign policy that they were pursuing, and it was a foreign policy which was detested by probably half the nation. It is not as if you were dealing with a case where you had national unity and 95 per cent. of the people thinking one thing. That would have been very different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stanley Reed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stanley Reed", "preceding_text": "kport and Hull cases was a mistake, and the amplest assurances have been given in this House that those mistakes will not be repeated. The assurances given by the Secretary of State have confirmed the guarantee that no action shall be taken under that Act without his personal sanction. That assurance, confirmed by the Attorney-General, was all that any honest and bona fide journalist could expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "preceding_text": "mmunity and seeking to profit from abuse of the law. The hon. Member for Wolverhampton East went a step further, and made a statement which I must challenge. He made the statement that, if the London \"Times\" had thought that a particular article did not express the views of the Prime Minister of the day, it would not have published it. There is no representative of the London \"Times\" in this House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At the moment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "preceding_text": "rhampton East went a step further, and made a statement which I must challenge. He made the statement that, if the London \"Times\" had thought that a particular article did not express the views of the Prime Minister of the day, it would not have published it. There is no representative of the London \"Times\" in this House [ Interruption ]—I see no representative of the London \"Times\" in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "d not make any charges, but with those of his innuendoes that were a little bit more definite than most of the other ones. I will begin with some of his innuendoes about the films and the Press. I will not disguise from the House that at one moment I was inclined to think that they really did not need an answer, but that it would probably be more convenient to the House that we should ignore them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fetch him in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "ation for the suggestion that we wish to suppress the expression of opinion that does not support the Government's view, and I challenge any hon. Member, as I challenged the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton in the course of his speech, to bring any definite evidence to refute the statement I have just made. Let me now pass to some of the cases mentioned by the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1305.0", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "tively few short hours. It was brought to the notice of the Foreign Office that this film waas being exhibited and that these speeches were being made. I ask any impartial Members who were in the House tonight, when the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton read extracts from those speeches, whether they were not the kind of speeches which would have inflamed the atmosphere at that particular moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1305.6", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": " But he did make it plain—and I believe it was the right course, and that any hon. Member here would take the same course—that to produce a film depicting scenes of the Indian Mutiny would be undesirable at this time, when we are just embarking upon a new chapter in the constitutional development of India, and when we want to get rid of the differences which there have been between us in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1305.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1305.6", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "CENSORSHIP AND RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or produced.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "y?\"] Well, I think everyone wants to see the new Constitution in India a success. The chairman of the Board of Film Censors heard what my right hon. Friend said on the subject. He discussed the question with the promoters of the film, and the promoters of the film, so I understand, took the same view. They have no grievance in the matter at all and the film, I am glad to say, will not be exhibited", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1305.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-07", "file": "debates1938-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "b68af2206c7187ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the seamen!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "utstanding cases about which the hon. Member asked. There are now 14 foreign ships detained in which there is a private British interest. The House will realise that there is some difficulty in the British Government knowing, at any rate ahead, what particular private interest there may be in certain of these ships. It may be an interest solely in the insurance, or in the charter, or in the cargo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-07a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-08", "file": "debates1938-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "42fc19eaaa08007e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-08a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Finish it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Chapman", "preceding_text": "ions and great pride and a craftsmanship unequalled in the world. I decline to believe that Glasgow cannot carry out a tremendous campaign to show how this scourge of bad housing can be swept away. When we have our housing as it ought to be I feel that we shall then be justified in that toast which we hear so often in Scotland and which I rather hesitate to pronounce: Here's tae us; wha's like us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-08a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-08", "file": "debates1938-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "42fc19eaaa08007e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-08a.1434.4", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Edwards", "preceding_text": "t on very well with them, but when we meet them as an organised body we find that they are hard, unsympathetic and even callous. You get nothing out of them except by force, either Parliamentary force, a strike, or the threat of a strike. I have never known anything to come from the mineowners, except by forcing them. Therefore, it is a pleasure to me to give a vote to compel them to do something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-08a.1434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-08", "file": "debates1938-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "42fc19eaaa08007e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-08a.1479.1", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "MINING INDUSTRY (WELFARE FUND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is as it should be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e to thank hon. Members several of whom have made kind remarks both about the staff of my Department and about the Miners' Welfare Committee. The hon. Member for Bedwellty said he remembered 4o years ago someone going to Germany to see what was being done there in the way of baths, and it may interest hon. Members to know that now people come from all over the world to see what we have been doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-08a.1479.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-09", "file": "debates1938-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "9c73ff54953e7106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-09a.1486.2", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BARLEY GROWERS (AGRICULTURE ACT SUBSIDY).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "preceding_text": " 1937, but have qualified for assistance under the Wheat Act, have to renounce their right under the Wheat Act if they want to qualify under the emergency provisions, because in Norfolk a great number of those who are in the worst plight as regards barley are also wheat growers on an almost equal scale, and, as he knows, advance payments have already been made of 13s. 6d. a quarter for wheat, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-09a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-09", "file": "debates1938-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "9c73ff54953e7106", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-09a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARITIES (FUEL ALLOTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": " the Bill, for I realise that my hon. and gallant Friend has a very just cause. Moreover, he is among those who are continually helping progress in this country and in other places. We have been reminded by the hon. Member for South Shields that we must look after the rights of property. Personally I think that the rights of humanity come before the rights of property, and that is where we differ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-09a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-12", "file": "debates1938-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6ea5ec98fb975cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-12a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANCER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "g to pass an Act of Parliament but quite another thing to get it implemented. Acts of Parliament in relation to health, as in relation to everything else, are just instruments which can be utilised if the community are disposed and willing. Somebody asked me the other day—and I cite this as a parallel—why he did not get justice in the courts of law. My reply was, \"You are too poor to get justice.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-12a.1740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-12", "file": "debates1938-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6ea5ec98fb975cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-12a.1764.0", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANCER [MONEY.]", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ty, particularly with new services. There was a sound principle, which was followed in reference to education, but unfortunately was departed from when some ingenious civil servant invented that horrible formula relating to the factor of weighted population, which I am sure few hon. Members can understand. What we say is that no authority in any part of the country shall get less than so per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-12a.1764.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1789.8", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": "In view of this large number and the fact that many of the dependants of these soldiers are now a charge upon the public assistance authorities, will not the Minister consider lowering the age at which these men will go on to the married pay roll?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1789.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1789.10", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say how many of the wives of these married soldiers are in receipt of public assistance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1789.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1806.9", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPANIES ACT (1929) AMENDMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": " principle that leaflets and pamphlets tending to influence and shape public opinion shall be traceable to their source, and if that principle applies to leaflets and pamphlets, how much more should it apply to our big daily newspapers and news agencies. Influencing public opinion cannot be done more effectually than by carefully editing the news, by selection, distortion, concealment or emphasis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1806.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1806.9", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPANIES ACT (1929) AMENDMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": "e 50 shares. Only one big block—over 10 per cent. of the whole issue of capital-is held by a company which calls itself the Press Association Share Purchase Company, which has a capital of only £100 with only seven £1 shares issued. There is one other agency, the Central News, which has an issue of 1,000 £20 shares or £20,000 capital, and 788 of these 1,000 shares are held in the names of two men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1806.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1806.9", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPANIES ACT (1929) AMENDMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": " whom they represent. Of those shares, 592 were bought from New York in December last year and 200 were bought from another person in New York on the same date. Again, without making any charges, I suggest to this House that these people who are only represented in the shareholding have the control. No matter who the directors may be, they have to do what they are told by those who have the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1806.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "tion such as that which will be occupied by the new Permanent Secretary. Such an official becomes to a great extent the keeper of the conscience of the person who is nominally in charge of the Department. This new Permanent Secretary will build himself more firmly into the administration than the Secretary of State could hope to do, because before very long he will be transferred to another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REORGANISATION OF OFFICES (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. T. M. Cooper)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: And the Forestry Commission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. T. M. Cooper)", "preceding_text": "s, including that of the hon. Member for Stirling and Falkirk (Mr. Westwood), reference was made to the absence from the Bill of any provision for the absorption within the orbit of the Scottish Office of the functions in Scotland discharged by such ministries as the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Transport. If my memory serves me rightly these were the two Departments specially mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1936.1", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "The regulations that we are discussing are the corollary of the increase in the length of time of the licence. The estimates made when the legislation was passed through the House were a shot in the dark. Nobody knew the allocation as between A, B and C licences, and the amount payable for the C licence is relatively small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1936.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1944.1", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": ". Member quoted. If the employers would get together for the purpose of working the Act and better still, for the purpose of working the agreements which have been arrived at between them and my union and other trade unions, the costs of administration would fall, so that there could be a reduction in the cost of licences. Can anybody imagine that when you came to the House representing interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-13", "file": "debates1938-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "333490b45684b44a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD AND RAIL TRAFFIC ACT, 1933.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"And records.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I think nearly all of us would agree with the plea put forward by the hon. Member for Rotherhithe (Mr. B. Smith) for the strict enforcement of these parts of the Road Traffic Act of 1930 and the Road and Rail Traffic Act of 1933 which apply to drivers' hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-13a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2019.1", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "LAND NATIONALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "nce the War 109 years' purchase. When they buy land for housing they have had to pay on an average 126 years' purchase of the value at which the land is shown for Income Tax purposes. I will give three instances. In Camberwell, for land with a rateable value of £42, they had to pay £8,000, or 190 years' purchase. In Wandsworth, for land rated at £14, they had to pay £9,450, or 675 years' purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2026.1", "colnum": "2026", "heading": "LAND NATIONALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "acre under cultivation for oats and barley, and those are the two branches of the agricultural industry which are suffering most at the present time. The success of barley growing depends to some extent upon the consumption of beer, and if the right hon. Gentleman and his friends started to nationalise all round, and did destroy the credit of the country, as they tried to do between 1929 and 1931—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2034.7", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "LAND NATIONALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Member's policy to be that which the Communist party profess throughout the world, if he is a member of the Communist International. I understand that it lays down a policy for confiscating land. If there is some new policy I am quite ready to read what the hon. Member has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2034.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2035.3", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "LAND NATIONALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that they wanted confiscation but were asking for compensation. He said, \"The whole blessed thing is a matter of expediency.\" We cannot really have a great party in the State led by political expediency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2046.1", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "LAND NATIONALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "Land required for smallholdings has been very dear and difficult to get. The price has been very high. Whenever land is acquired for smallholdings or allotments, we find the price is very high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2063.3", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "LAND NATIONALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Tryon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Post Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tryon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member cannot get away with the statement that unless the land belonged to the State, the French peasants could not be expected to fight for their country. I never heard such rubbish in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2068.2", "colnum": "2068", "heading": "LAND NATIONALISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Tryon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tryon", "preceding_text": "Then I am sorry that the right hon. Member for South Hackney (Mr. H. Morrison) is publicly removed from any connection with the Labour party, because he is quoted as saying at a Labour party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2068.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2117.1", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "SAFETY IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "s and with not so much regard for profits. The Navy has been compared with the mines. The difference between the Navy and the mines is just that. The boys of to-day are the sons of men who in times past have been lauded and applauded and then discarded, and now 400 per 1,000 of their sons are being maimed and killed, and the owners ask why the boys are not going into the pits. The reason is there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-14", "file": "debates1938-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "2f285e29e591df3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2119.1", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "SAFETY IN MINES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ould really be more consonant with the dignity of the House to await the Report and see exactly what the Royal Commission recommend. If they do not recommend going as far as some people would like, there is nothing to prevent our going further. If they go too far, it may be that some people will take objection to that. I do not know. But I suggest that we should wait and see what they have to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-14a.2119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-15", "file": "debates1938-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "de6d97d165e3d310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are dividends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "many to-day we have a somewhat different situation. Private pro is allowed in the home trade and in the export trade, but there is control over it. Only up to a certain point are profits permitted. The ordinary shareholder is like a sleeping partner, and the State is the managing director. Not the whole of the production in Germany is permitted for profit. There is a definite control over profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-15", "file": "debates1938-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "de6d97d165e3d310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2263.1", "colnum": "2263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "and transfer it to this central European country. Secondly, the hon. Member for Stoke (Mr. E. Smith) spoke about the desire of Turkey to sell tobacco to this country. I entirely support what he said and, so far as our examination goes, it would seem that there would not he any great difficulty in introducing into the ordinary Virginia cigarette a little Turkish tobacco, which would not be noticed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-15", "file": "debates1938-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "de6d97d165e3d310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2264.1", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pilkington", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pilkington", "preceding_text": "r the Conservative Government, the total volume of trade equalled £3,312,000,000, and that apex was succeeded by those disastrous years in which the Socialist Government were in power, and they left the policy that was represented by Mr. Baldwin's slogan of \"Safety First\" and pursued a policy of overspending with the collapse of credit and the withdrawal of foreign capital which inevitably ensued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-15", "file": "debates1938-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "de6d97d165e3d310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2286.4", "colnum": "2286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "in Great Britain. I know that it cannot be done by the right hon. Gentleman because he would have to abandon his own social economic system in order to do it. That is the difficulty. One million seven hundred and fifty thousand people in Great Britain have by their idleness to pay the price for the orthodox economy of the Conservative party, and that is why this House has to listen to the rubbish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-15", "file": "debates1938-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "de6d97d165e3d310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2308.2", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "he least provocative and least controversial form possible and he refrained, actuated solely by those motives, from naming any specific countries, confining himself to suggesting that these credits should not be used for countries which were violating international law or whose interests appeared at the moment to be hostile to ours. I will follow his example. I, too, do not want to name any names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-15", "file": "debates1938-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "de6d97d165e3d310", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2339.1", "colnum": "2339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ocal people who are fully seized of local conditions should be brought to bear upon the matter, we have in existence advisory committees whose recommendations form the basis of these rent adjustments. It is perfectly true to say that the regulations contain no precise rules as to the adjustment or such rents, and that this discretion is as much a part of these regulations as the scales themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-15a.2339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-16", "file": "debates1938-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe6283554e192d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2417.1", "colnum": "2417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADOPTION OF CHILDREN (REGU-LATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "r. Viant) mentioned in his excellent speech that when he was sitting on some tribunal the other day there was a young woman who wanted a child to be adopted by somebody in the North of England, and when he said the words \"North of England,\" I felt that there was some scorn in his voice. Let me tell him frankly that I would prefer a child being adopted in the North of England rather than in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-16", "file": "debates1938-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe6283554e192d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2428.3", "colnum": "2428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRACEPTIVES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wayland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wayland", "preceding_text": "Only under certain conditions. I think the House will find that I am correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-16", "file": "debates1938-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe6283554e192d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2432.0", "colnum": "2432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRACEPTIVES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "preceding_text": ", in fact, somewhere or other, 36 shops dealing only with contraceptives. I, therefore, wrote to the hon. Member and he, with very great kindness, replied that from memory he thought that the district concerned was round about the Charing Cross Road. I wanted to make sure of that, because Charing Cross Road is well known to hon. Members and most of us go up and down it on one occasion or another.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-16", "file": "debates1938-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "2fbe6283554e192d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2435.1", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTRACEPTIVES (REGULATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "preceding_text": " would not be able to get at it. I think that might have been considered before sweeping away altogether things which, if they are used for the proper purpose, may be the least embarrassing and the least harmful method of purchasing these objects. Now we come to the subject of advertisements in Clause 6, which does raise some difficulties for the legitimate clinics. If a clinic is receiving money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-16a.2435.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2451.4", "colnum": "2451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallecher", "preceding_text": "What are you going to give Mussolini? You are going to give him something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2451.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2454.8", "colnum": "2454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain A. Graham", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the entirely peaceful town of Cabra, which contains no military objectives whatever, was bombed by Republican aircraft?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2454.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "should best be safeguarded. My case to-day is that it has not been safeguarded by its temporary guardians and that they have failed to keep safe this little nest of ours; that they have exposed it to new winds and storms and to greater dangers from the outer world than for a long period of our history. That in essence is our case. In 1931 they took it over safe and secure from a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "y by reason of the relative strength of our armaments over those of Germany and other Powers and partly by reason of the strength of the League of Nations, which then had prestige and authority, but that to-day the situation is quite other; that those who have been the guardians of the nest for those seven years have destroyed its security, neglected its defences and alienated many of its friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "xample, the speech of the Secretary of State for the Dominions, who speaking at the Constitutional Club on 14th December said, as reported in \"Daily Telegraph\": There are those who think that even in our lifetime we shall see the great edifice of the Empire crumble to pieces. I sometimes wonder if, before I leave the Dominions Office, I shall not find that the people who prophesied that are right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "omic means? I turn to Europe. It is not my intention this afternoon to examine closely the Munich Agreement as such, although I have some observations to offer upon what has happened since that agreement was come to. There was a four-day Debate upon the Munich Agreement, and I think it did credit to this House and did honour to democracy. It left the Government with much the worst of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was not before!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e Munich, merely commenting, in passing, on the fact that the declaration signed at Munich by the Prime Minister and Herr Hitler looks as though it were not going to give us that peace in our time which the Prime Minister promised on his return from the Continent. The so-called Munich settlement has unsettled all Europe. To-day there is no frontier which can be regarded as reasonably safe—not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " abuse, of a great number of persons in this country who have been named and a larger number who have not been named. Every obstacle appears to have been inserted by Dr. Goebbels and certain other persons holding high position in Germany in the way of that friendship between the British and the German peoples which my hon. Friends and I desire no less than does any other hon. Member in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2520.3", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ern warfare. The hon. Member addressed to me a question—one of a great many—about the pledges given us by the Italian Government, which, he declared, had been broken, and which, in his view, rendered it inappropriate that the forthcoming visit to Rome by the Foreign Secretary and myself should take place. These charges against the Italian Government are, to the best of my belief, not well founded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2521.1", "colnum": "2521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Tell the truth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, it is not necessary because it is not relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2521.10", "colnum": "2521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has put a construction upon these words which they do not bear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2521.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2542.3", "colnum": "2542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ated by both the hon. Member and the right hon. Member who have so far spoken from the Opposition side—that rather than make that Agreement there ought to have been a war. It is a criticism which has been expressly repudiated from the opposite benches, but perhaps hon. Members will forgive me for saying that it is particularly prevalent among the representatives of organised labour in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2547.1", "colnum": "2547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They never left Southend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "nd Signor Mussolini. No sooner had he and M. Daladier turned their backs than they tore it to pieces and went on with their job, getting exactly what they wanted. The British Legion, some of the picked survivors of the Great War, were to go to Germany by agreement with Herr Hitler, to occupy territories where there was to be a plebiscite. After they had landed on the Continent they were sent back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2547.1", "colnum": "2547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "to pieces and went on with their job, getting exactly what they wanted. The British Legion, some of the picked survivors of the Great War, were to go to Germany by agreement with Herr Hitler, to occupy territories where there was to be a plebiscite. After they had landed on the Continent they were sent back. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They never left Southend.\"] I beg pardon, after they had left their homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2547.1", "colnum": "2547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "tly what they wanted. The British Legion, some of the picked survivors of the Great War, were to go to Germany by agreement with Herr Hitler, to occupy territories where there was to be a plebiscite. After they had landed on the Continent they were sent back. [HON. MEMBERS: \"They never left Southend.\"] I beg pardon, after they had left their homes. [ Laughter .] I do not think it is a joke at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They volunteered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "They were invited by the Government to occupy those territories and after they had been brought out in great pomp and circumstance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "entleman has not escaped. I was amazed to see in a speech of Herr Hitler's a reference to: Umbrella-carrying statesmen of the past, who, thank God, are extinct in Germany. I think it is rather insulting from a man who has treated you as a friend and whom you have treated in the same way—whom you trusted in a perfectly candid, straightforward and courteous manner, going out of your way to meet him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "province after another; but, at the same time, there was something in it, and I can understand M. Daladier's point of view. They both ran away as hard as they could from their obligations, but our Prime Minister, in spite of his more advanced years, kept well ahead; and M. Daladier said: \"See him, the British Prime Minister, running faster and farther than even I. What a magnificent old sprinter.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ill in advocacy; but skill in advocacy very often means skill in avoiding disagreeable questions. I ask him specifically two or three questions. He can refuse to answer them, but as a Member of this House I ask him, and many people would like to have the answers. To begin with, where do we stand about non-intervention in Spain? The 10,000 men of the Foreign Legion on the republican side have gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2549.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2557.4", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "With the support of the Tories.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will bear in mind that after the Peace Conference began all these things were done, but will he tell the House that between the actual time of the Armistice and the beginning of the Peace Conference there was no blockade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2558.2", "colnum": "2558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did he do after Berchtesgaden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": " earlier in this year grant autonomy to the Sudetens before he was forced to do so. If Dr. Benes had given the autonomy pledge in 1919 or 1920 things would have been different. Does the right hon. Gentleman suggest that we could have maintained peace by telling Dr. Benes in the spring, \"If you do not give autonomy to the Sudeten Germans you cannot count on us if you get into trouble with Germany\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2558.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2574.1", "colnum": "2574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": "Before any other previous conference that has taken place has the agenda been given to this Mouse?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2574.2", "colnum": "2574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "bounds of moderation is for the Prime Minister to go to Mussolini instead of Mussolini coming to the Prime Minister. The uneasiness of which I have spoken is, I am sure, shared by many hon. Members on the benches opposite, even though they may not confess to it by their votes to-night. Their tradition of loyalty to individuals rather than to principles may cause them to strangle their consciences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2576.1", "colnum": "2576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "It is a very worthy loyalty, the old-school-tie loyalty; you must not sneak on the monitor, and that sort of thing, but I hope that hon. Members will not strangle their consciences with their old school tie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2576.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2578.2", "colnum": "2578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "I must apologise for having to rise again. In point of fact, I was a strong supporter of the policy of the then Foreign Secretary, who was very much in favour of intervention to enforce our Treaty obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2578.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2578.4", "colnum": "2578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": " year the Foreign Secretary said that we should not be uninterested in the fate of Czechoslovakia but declined in advance to commit this country to specific action, no responsible voice was raised against him. The line we followed till the beginning of September has been one which, broadly speaking, has the consent and concurrence, so far as Central Europe is concerned, of both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2609.1", "colnum": "2609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "sness which ought not to exist considering the power which this Government has possessed. You cannot escape your responsibility, Mr. Prime Minister, by asking what the Opposition would have done, although we should be very pleased to tell you. The Prime Minister will have to face in the country real responsibility for the share of this country in the general deterioration in the foreign situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2611.1", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ina and over 1,500,000 casualties have occurred. You get so accustomed to listening on the wireless to accounts of what is happening in this and other fields that you switch it off, anything to keep it away from your ears and your conscience, and you forget that you have a large measure of responsibility for allowing these things to continue—I do not say the sole responsibility. Look at Abyssinia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2621.3", "colnum": "2621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before!\" and \"After!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I would answer the right hon. Gentleman straight off, but I have not the dates immediately in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2622.1", "colnum": "2622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What were you at one time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " able to understand with what conscience anybody could call upon us to run the risk of what might be a terrible war, and treat it as though it were a righteous war, to prevent a correction of frontiers which in itself was just, and which our own independent observer had recommended should be made. Quite true, as the right hon. Gentleman said to those Nonconformist ministers a few weeks afterwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2623.1", "colnum": "2623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "d of the Reichsbank, and for many years has been an acquaintance and friend of the Governor of the Bank of England. As a matter of fact, except that I had for some 20 minutes an interview with him of an entirely personal character, in which no Government business and no financial business of any sort was discussed, that is all the information I can give to the House about the visit of Dr. Schacht.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-19", "file": "debates1938-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "b36766541043e205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2633.1", "colnum": "2633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT OFFALS.", "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": "d consider introducing legislation to ensure that all wheat imported into this country should be imported whole to ensure that all the flour was milled in this country. The answer I gave was that I could not accept either of his suggestions. The reasons are these. The first reason is one with which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Gorton (Mr. Wedgwood Benn) will be in the fullest agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-19a.2633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2715.1", "colnum": "2715", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Girl Guides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady the Member for Jarrow (Miss Wilkinson), who is accustomed to organising men and women, will understand that readily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2715.3", "colnum": "2715", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " years. That means an increasing demand on industry and labour, industrial capacity, industrial skill, industrial good will. I am glad today to see indications that the nation is to have that good will, as it knew it would have. There are very responsible people who speak with authority for labour and who are speaking with no uncertain voice on the matter, and the House is glad to hear that voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2725.7", "colnum": "2725", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not a point of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "The Minister, referring to the hon. Member who asked him about a man who desired to join the fighting forces apart from remaining in a necessary place, replied that that man would be advised or directed by a local advisory committee. May I ask the Minister the composition of this local advisory committee and who has agreed to its formation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2725.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2727.1", "colnum": "2727", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not the House of Commons\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "They have not. What has been done is that we have made our preliminary preparations, looking ahead for a provisional draft. The House will have noticed that I have used the word \"provisional.\" We have invited the Confederation of Employers on the one hand and the Trades Union Council on the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2742.2", "colnum": "2742", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I am afraid that he would not come within the Lord Privy Seal's definition of a \"person of standing.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2760.2", "colnum": "2760", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "mobilised for waging it successfully. But does anyone suggest that we shall have reached that situation in Britain? We are placing part of this job under the Ministry of Labour, with a Parliamentary Secretary who, just after he was appointed, declared himself a supporter of General Franco. The Ministry of Labour's Employment Exchanges are going to be the centres where the recruiting is to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2772.4", "colnum": "2772", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": "The Government already have that information. Hon. Members opposite talk about the conscription of wealth, but wealth is already conscripted at the present moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2772.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2810.1", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "eged to have the opportunity of saying a few words for my party at the end of the Debate, so far as our side was concerned, I was more concerned about what I should leave out than about what there was to say. I am certain that there is ample material for quite a long discussion and that many other Members have points of view which could be given to the House, and given with considerable advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2810.1", "colnum": "2810", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "rnment were to make a proper survey and a real examination of the wealth and resources and the industry of the country, and to say that they must be utilised to the full for the nation, every person in the country would stand behind them. But if while asking labour to do its part you are, side by side with that, getting big change-overs on the Stock Exchange where millions are being made in a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-20", "file": "debates1938-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "80a2257c1e7efb97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2825.5", "colnum": "2825", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was inclined to criticise the representation of local authorities as being inadequate. It has to be borne in mind that, in the matter of voluntary service, local authorities are the recruiting authorities, and therefore we must not give undue representation to the local authorities as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-20a.2825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-21", "file": "debates1938-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5db8e02f0cf0a49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.2984.10", "colnum": "2984", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "nsport as we know it to-day. Since the War there have been only four years when there has not been legislation adverse to road transport. There are 220 Acts and Orders in existence adversely affecting road transport. The rail came before road transport, and my belief is that if road transport as we know it to-day had come before the railway, probably rail transport would never have been developed,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.2984.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-21", "file": "debates1938-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5db8e02f0cf0a49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.3019.0", "colnum": "3019", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "be obliged to restrict somewhat the very interesting Debate we have been having. But I am given to understand that the Mover of this Motion does not oppose the Amendment, and it might be in the interests of the Debate generally, if the Amendment is carried, that the House should proceed in that case to continue the Debate on the original Motion. If hon. Members agree, I will put that to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.3018.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1938-12-21", "file": "debates1938-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5db8e02f0cf0a49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.3038.7", "colnum": "3038", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "s reported the employment of 150,000 more people than they do now. Though it is true that ultimately the old soldiers do die, it is also true that the young soldiers coming forward used to look for employment on the railway companies but cannot do so to-day because the railways are so highly organised that they have ceased to be prosperous. I am inclined to say that there are some merits in chaos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.3038.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-21", "file": "debates1938-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5db8e02f0cf0a49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.3038.9", "colnum": "3038", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "nter it. It is no use hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite denouncing Fascism. What is Fascism? It is merely the corporate State, or some long word like that, in which every industry is regulated, in which entrance to any industry is denied to those who are not already in it. Why is it that hon. Members opposite are always denouncing Fascism as a theory and ceaselessly advocating it in practice?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-21a.3038.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-22", "file": "debates1938-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "681897ce0a628a09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-22a.3175.0", "colnum": "3175", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "tleman's answers have always reminded me of Sam Weller in \"Pickwick Papers,\" who, when he was dissatisfied with the result of a famous piece of litigation, described it by saying, \"Why wasn't there an alibi?\" The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour is never at a loss for an alibi. On the first occasion on which I raised the matter, he said that he would be out of order if he dealt with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-22a.3175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1938-12-22", "file": "debates1938-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "681897ce0a628a09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-22a.3184.1", "colnum": "3184", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "his problem four years ago and the situation to-day. Lots of things have happened. There has rarely been a better feeling for the wellbeing and comfort of the people in terms of relief than in the last four years. I know there are hon. Members in this House who do not think the relief high enough. The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne pointed out that it is higher than wages in parts of Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1938-12-22a.3184.1"}