{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.63.3", "colnum": "63", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "n when the Non-intervention Plan came into operation. It has not come into operation, and when we ask why it has not come into operation we are told that it is because General Franco will not accept it. Apparently, General Franco has a veto on the whole proceedings of the Non-Intervention Committee. The Government of Spain has no such veto. The Government of Spain has withdrawn all the volunteers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.63.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.74.5", "colnum": "74", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Franco's side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pect of the question and I turn now to the general question of Government policy in Spain. Intervention in Spain had taken place before the setting up of the Non-Intervention Committee and I think perhaps that is a fact which is sometimes forgotten by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite when they are speaking of events which have happened or are happening in Spain. Intervention had taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.74.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.76.5", "colnum": "76", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to supplies from other countries, we cannot control those, and it must be for other Governments to decide their own action and their own policy in the light of the circumstances which prevail. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition appears to accuse me of some sort of inconsistency, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.76.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.76.7", "colnum": "76", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No; I never said that, and I never meant it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.76.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "leman, but I confess that it is a more difficult one to answer. Every Government of every country in the world may choose to take sides on one or other of the different ideological notions, and we cannot prevent them, but what really the right hon. Gentleman's statement amounts to is this. He says, \"I do not believe these assurances that have been given to you by Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "Yes. It was 8th January, 1938, but it was not an official statement from General Franco. It was a report from the Havas Agency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.89.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.91.0", "colnum": "91", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " does not belong to the Non-Intervention Committee and is not bound by the Non-Intervention Agreement. Does the right hon. Gentleman really compare that scale of intervention with the scale which is undertaken not by private individuals selling in the open market to the Spanish Government but by the official Governments of Germany and Italy, which are represented on the Non-Intervention Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "the British—and the German Government in particular—is this: that the German Nazis have faith but they have no conscience, and that we have conscience but that we have little faith. There is some truth in that. Let us have faith in the things which we believe. Let us have faith in our traditions of statesmanship. Do not let us always be belittling our record for example in colonial administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.99.5", "colnum": "99", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": " the three other Italian divisions. If he is informed at all about military forces in Spain, he must know that the Littorio is the only Italian division in Spain. He must know that the three Arrow divisions are 96 per cent. Spanish. Although it is true that one or two officers in the High Command are Italians, the fact is that only 4 per cent. of the men, in these legionary divisions are Italians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.99.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "in any country but their own. I am grateful to hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway for their unusual toleration in allowing me to offer these few re- marks, but I suppose that it will not be long before the whole of this question will be settled, and then the facts will emerge. The right hon. Gentleman told us once again to-day that all the foreign volunteers had been withdrawn from Republican Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ould not be introduced into this subject. There is profound disagreement between the two sides of the House on this subject, whatever we may think about domestic issues. We on our side do not believe that the Prime Minister has brought us peace. We believe that his policy of appeasement, in so far as we can understand it, will cost this country and the world a tremendous amount of money and blood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.116.3", "colnum": "116", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "Minister had saved Signor Mussolini from the fate that all democrats hoped would soon befall him; and he went on to state that he was not ashamed to say that he wanted to see the destruction of dictatorships in Europe. What would the right hon. Gentleman have said if responsible statesmen in Italy or Germany had said that they wanted to see the destruction of the democratic system in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member gets his information. He is evidently credulous. I am not nearly so credulous. We know that a good many people have been butchered in cold blood, but we have a good idea how many were butchered in cold blood by the so-called Spanish Government. There was a list of people each with a red cross against his name, who would have been done away with if Franco had not come to their rescue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you call it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": " list of people each with a red cross against his name, who would have been done away with if Franco had not come to their rescue. [ Interruption .] That can be proved. I was talking to a priest a few days ago and he told me that his name had been marked with a red cross and that he would have been killed if he had not been able to get away, or if Franco had not started what you call a revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were certain two years ago!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "are still in that part of Spain it cannot be said that there are none of the International Brigade fighting for the Spanish Government. I am told that a lot of passports have been lost and that a number of new citizens have turned up in Spain, though I cannot vouch for that with the certainty that I feel about many of the other things I have said. We are quite certain that this war is nearly over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Another rebellion!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "ot vouch for that with the certainty that I feel about many of the other things I have said. We are quite certain that this war is nearly over. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You were certain two years ago!\"] Yes, and I was right and other people were wrong. I am quite certain it is only a question of a very short time. I think Easter will probably see the whole thing over. What is going to happen them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "What about all the good things we buy from Spain, and the money we have invested in Spain? I am certain that from Franco we shall get a far fairer deal in getting some sort of payment for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not suit the Jews.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "totalitarian States. To some hon. Members, the term is like a red rag to a bull, but surely the principal totalitarian State is Russia. I believe that if it had not been for Communism you would not have had Nazism or Fascism. It is the wicked father or mother of both. It is none of my business how Russia is run, or how Germany and Italy are run. People generally get the Government that suits them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "ed and had to go into a hospital there, and being Scottish she insisted upon paying the doctor. The doctor said that he did not want any payment, but at last the doctor said, \"Oh well, there you are. Open that when you get home.\" Inside the letter were the words, \"It is only part payment of the debt of gratitude the whole of the German people owe to Mr. Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of England.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Solar plexus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "d States of America. I believe that it can be done and that it needs only a few clever and tactful arguments to be put before the people of the United States to show them how it would benefit them. I have been at a loss to find a word to match the word \"axis.\" Somebody has suggested Trans-Atlantic \"accord\"—not a bad word—but there is another word which fits it best of all. It is the word \"plexus.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To the hon. Member for Jarrow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Government in Spain, and I am not ashamed of my position. I do not pretend to be impartial, and I am not at all sure that the Government's impartiality is unspotted. The Prime Minister quoted the refusal by the Government of the grant of belligerent rights to Franco as evidence of the Government's impartiality. I was against, and my party was against, the granting of belligerent rights to a rebel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was in the \"Daily Herald!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " their publicly declared word. With Austria gone, with Czechoslovakia dismembered and now the puppet State of Hitler, with Spain bleeding and suffering, the Prime Minister believes that appeasement—these are his very words—steadily increases. Then, one may ask, why this intensification of rearmament? Why this boosting of the Royal Air Force the day before Hitler speaks? Accidental, it may be said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the Labour Front Bench!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "evelopment of the Air Force of Britain, and on an appropriate occasion we may say something about that, but now I am only just wondering why, with this belief in peace, the right hon. Gentleman, or somebody on his behalf, should have loosed this great story 24 hours before Hitler was to make a speech about which the Government appeared to be \"jittery.\" Where are the potential war-makers in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-01-31", "file": "debates1939-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "67143f55979b712d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Behind you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "osed this great story 24 hours before Hitler was to make a speech about which the Government appeared to be \"jittery.\" Where are the potential war-makers in Europe? [HON. MEMBERS: \"On the Labour Front Bench!\"] Hon. Members opposite may think this is amusing. I hope they will get amusement out of it. I still put the question, to which we require an answer, Where are the war-makers in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-01-31a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-01", "file": "debates1939-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d16c24ea795cc3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Cox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trevor Cox", "preceding_text": "oadened. The 1929 Local Government Act broadened the area of chargeability for public assistance purposes. The original area was the parish; then came the union of parishes and now, since 1930, the area is the county or county borough. Some of the areas may be too small, but is the next logical step to make the ratepayers of Cheshire, for example, pay for the relief of persons living in Glamorgan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-01", "file": "debates1939-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d16c24ea795cc3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "iend who opposed the Motion mentioned the cases of extravagance a few years ago when local authorities were entrusted with making transitional payments to men who had ceased to be entitled to insurance benefit. The funds for these payments were found by the Exchequer, and the local authorities paid them on behalf of the Government. There is no doubt that there was gross extravagance in some cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-01", "file": "debates1939-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d16c24ea795cc3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "CONDITION OF AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "the division which is represented by my hon. Friend who has moved the Amendment that cheap barley is essential, I want to apply the same principle to his part of the country as I do to the agricultural labourer, and say that the urban populations ought not to have cheap food at the expense of the agricultural labourer, nor should his division have cheap barley at the expense of the barley growers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-01", "file": "debates1939-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d16c24ea795cc3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "CONDITION OF AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "hat is the Farmers' Marketing Supply Company at Wisbech, whose managing director comes from the great milling firm of Spillers. I thought the producers would have known better than to have a managing director from one of the great milling firms to preside over them and educate them into making potato flour, when, as a matter of fact, he does not want any such manufacture from the surplus potatoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-01", "file": "debates1939-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d16c24ea795cc3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "CONDITION OF AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Major Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Major Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith)", "preceding_text": "ure. No one recognised better than my predecessor how much remains to be done. I know that he had plans and hopes for this current Session. As has often been said, agriculture has to make a contribution to defence, and I believe that agriculture has made a great contribution to defence by allowing my right hon. Friend to go to a Ministry which will be closely concerned with the problem of defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-01", "file": "debates1939-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "d16c24ea795cc3b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "CONDITION OF AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the consumers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "preceding_text": "the future. The Government have made good progress with their review and they expect to meet the National Farmers' Union to discuss their proposals next week. The invitation went out to them because they had, in fact, submitted definite proposals, but before we have completed the review I hope to have the advice both of those who represent landowners and those who represent the workers' interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-01a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They meet at eleven.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "as been set up, and, although they are not meeting at this moment, hon. Members will find that, when those Committees are in full work, the presence of about 200 Members is required here in the morning. I remember that on one morning, when there were four Standing Committees sitting and also Private Bill Committees, I went round and counted quite that number of Members who were here at 12 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "preceding_text": "especially criticising him in view of his great legal ability. In listening to the hon. Member for Sowerby, I could not help regretting that he had not had a little legal training himself, because if he had, I think it would have conduced to clearer thinking on his part. The gist of his argument was that the urgent need for a scheme exists. But this scheme would come into force only in ten years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I understood that a Member would have to have ten years' service in the House after the passing of the Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.450.7", "colnum": "450", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": " those whom he may leave behind. Alas, we know too well that there are hundreds of thousands of people in this country who, owing to present economic conditions, cannot do that. Nobody blames them for their inability; one can only blame the system. But for those Members who have been so fortunate as to draw, for 10 years, £600 a year, for work which does not take up all their time, half-time work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.450.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.450.7", "colnum": "450", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": " world. I doubt very much whether the carrying through of this scheme would add to the dignity of the House of Commons. It is true to say, as the Prime Minister said, that in effect there will be no charge upon the public funds, but the cry will go out that this House of Commons, having already had their salaries increased by 50 per cent., have now voted themselves, in addition, a pensions scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.450.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it in Argyllshire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "system of medieval times, when the constituencies paid their Members of Parliament. People were very reluctant to go to London; it was a long journey, and there was the danger of highwaymen, and so on. I have known of only one instance in my Parliamentary time where a Member of Parliament was paid a comparatively handsome salary by his own constituencies, and I am not going to tell where that was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "PENSIONS FOR MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "just under 60 years of age. Suppose he finds that if he survives one more election he will be sure of his pension. Do not hon. Members think that it will be very difficult in those circumstances to oppose such a man in a constituency? Should I want to fight an election, if I were told that my opponent was in great difficulties and had only to be elected once more in order to qualify for a pension?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "LIMITATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "t affects local authorities. The very unanimity of the legal profession to-night has made me rather suspicious. The hon. and learned Member opposite referred to the limitation of six months as an infamous provision. As one who has had 20 years' experience of administration on a local authority, I have never known any infamous conduct on the part of a local authority in connection?with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "LIMITATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of common sense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "I think that charge is entirely over-stated. I served for some years on the Sheffield Transport Committee and I know of no case where a claim has been turned down owing to the expiration of the period of limitation. I am not a member of the legal fraternity and I am speaking merely from the point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.510.3", "colnum": "510", "heading": "LIMITATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "in those debates on common employment were lawyers, in all parts of the House, and I think he will find they were not quite unanimously in favour of its abolition, but that so close were they to unanimity in that sense that the one or two who took a different view were only the exceptions, who proved the general rule. I think that even on workmen's compensation they have been largely in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-02", "file": "debates1939-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "0fe4595e21d0593f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "BLIND PERSONS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, Yes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "And others. The case has nothing to do, as has been suggested, with the Blind Persons Act of last year. A pledge was given during the passage of that Act by my right hon. Friend, who is now the Secretary of State for Air, that no blind persons would suffer as a consequence of that Act, and, as far as we know, no blind person has suffered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-02a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-06", "file": "debates1939-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "46c3d726bfa48535", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-06a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CURRENCY AND BANK NOTES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who gets the halfpenny?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": " to be got in this way: Standard gold consists of eleven-twelfths of fine gold and one-twelfth of alloy. The figure of 85s. is the figure for an ounce of fine gold, and consequently the figure of £3 17s. 10½d. has to be submitted to a further arithmetical operation and have one-eleventh added to it, and by that means you arrive at a figure which is, I think, just one halfpenny short of 85s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-06a.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-07", "file": "debates1939-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "86c64b5cc6f2b5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I do not believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Only the \"Times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-07", "file": "debates1939-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "86c64b5cc6f2b5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Only the \"Times.\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"I do not believe it.\"] I believe the despatches, but I do not believe the leaders. It is a State of which someone said: It is a State built up on a basis of high ideals, a free democracy based on Christian ideals. That was by the Archbishop of Canterbury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.788.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-07", "file": "debates1939-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "86c64b5cc6f2b5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aspirin.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " can take with them. Recently the Germans took a large quantity of cement—the consumption of which is very great in Germany—from Czecho-Slovakia, and that was done on a clearing arrangement. Instead of sending their cement abroad, and receiving free currency, which might have been at the disposal of these emigrants, all that they got was a clearing, whatever that may mean, of some impossible kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-07", "file": "debates1939-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "86c64b5cc6f2b5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.836.3", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " reconstruct the life of a small democracy with a loan of £8,000,000? That is what it amounts to, the rest of the money being for refugees. I wonder what you could do even to start building up the life of a small democracy on that sum. The Financial Secretary to the Treasury, who has had some experience of industry, will no doubt develop that point when he later speaks on behalf of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-07", "file": "debates1939-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "86c64b5cc6f2b5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Tasker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No; you would listen to the Whips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Tasker", "preceding_text": "s loaned to Austria was a gift to Austria. As to raising a loan of £8,000,000 to pay back £16,000,000, I observe that the percentage to be paid on the £6,000,000 is 1 per cent., but the £8,000,000 must be made more productive in income than that before it will be over-subscribed. I agree with the last speaker that if this Bill were to go to a Division, I should have to vote against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-07", "file": "debates1939-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "86c64b5cc6f2b5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "POST OFFICE (WESTERN HIGH LANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOT LAND MAIL CONTRACT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": " needs to be more liberal provision all round. You need to improve the houses, and when you have improved the houses you want more inhabitants also. It was a great advance when the people got the telephones in. But not nearly enough has been done. It will take a generation and immense sums of money to undo the enormous wrongs of the last 200 years since the Act of Union and the Battle of Culloden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-07a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-08", "file": "debates1939-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f12450022f2cc7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-08a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "LONDON RATING (SITE VALUES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "May I put one final point to you, Sir?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-08a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-08", "file": "debates1939-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f12450022f2cc7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-08a.1001.3", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "INSHORE FISHERMEN.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do they not organise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "t the tragedies of the mines—and they are tragedies—but the miners are not braver than the fishermen. In a mine there is always the same climate, but when a man goes to sea, he does not know what is coming. The tragedy of the inshore fishermen is that they are individualists and unorganised. If they had been organised, as the miners are, the Government would have done something for them years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-08a.1001.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-08", "file": "debates1939-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f12450022f2cc7ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-08a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in the Dominions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "preceding_text": "all the circumstances, unreasonable. Then comes the next period, when men have a more or less prolonged absence. From the period of four weeks, for the next eight weeks, I should like to see the compensation brought up to 66⅔ per cent., which is the Continental average that has been in force for years in all those countries which are most actively competing with us in international markets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-08a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": " is of no use to describe, as the Mover of the Bill did just now, the hardships of consumers and the difficulties to housewives, without saying at all what will be the effect of this Bill upon industry, and without, apparently, realising that the Bill will provide no solution at all for the difficulties of the housewife. I believe that the majority of our shopkeepers and traders are honest people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "I think there is a misconception in the mind of the right hon. Gentleman. The legislation that the present Government have passed since 1931 has been passed in an endeavour to improve the price to the producer, whereas hon. Members opposite are trying to fix prices with a view to reducing them in order to assist the consumer—a completely different point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is wrong\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "l raise a violent protest against this Bill, which I may inform him provides for the inclusion of two statutory women instead of one. The basic objection to the Bill is that it endeavours to set up a false standard of values. The party opposite have moved from one standard of values to another. Many years ago they accepted the ordinary Marxian definition that a thing was worth what it cost to make", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will you be here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "preceding_text": "e which might reasonably be drawn from his statement, that the Socialist party mean no harm. I should have thought that his party would have been the first to realise what dangerous people the Socialists really are, and I am only afraid that after the next General Election—and I think it will be a pity—the Liberal Bench on the opposite side of the House will be even less crowded than it is to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "Mr. Maxwell Fyfe rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ere the small shopkeeper and his difficulties— will be brought up to a tribunal before which he will probably be unable to afford to be represented, where no charge is levelled against him, and where he will be subjected to a roving prosecution and to an examination of his methods of making up his books. Do hon. Gentlemen opposite think that we should lend ourselves to an inquisition of that kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Non-sense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fyfe", "preceding_text": "at means, but we had to wait until my hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Donner) stirred it up with the hon. Gentleman who moved the Second Reading of the Bill. It is to be a scientific analysis of the food content or worth content of the commodity. The unfortunate small tradesmen of cur northern towns are to be crowded out with his stock by having to keep a number of scientific analyses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " thing is political activity, of which this Bill is an expression, and another thing is to make sure that the Co-operative society as such is represented in Parliament, as it is. The right hon. Gentleman is the most distinguished representative, and, I think, a very good one from their point of view. But he must not be cross because the significance of his representation has attention drawn to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-10", "file": "debates1939-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "445b798da6048343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1330.5", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "CONSUMERS' COUNCIL BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chestnuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "nt the scarcity inflicting undue hardship on the community. Therefore, we had a Food Ministry to regulate prices. It bought vast quantities of sugar, for example, on such unfavourable terms, as the State always does, that the price of sugar had to be put up unduly to the consumer. They put up the prices of other things by their lack of wisdom. A case in point was their action in regard to rabbits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-10a.1330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1347.2", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that there are nearly half a million refugees on French soil and that they are directly due to the Government's policy of non-intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1347.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1445.5", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Prohibition of certain advertisements.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Adams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And hard cash\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Adams", "preceding_text": "As one who has been interested in public health questions for a long time, I look upon this Clause as extremely valuable. It is well known that there have been very widely spread advertisements professing to treat, and in some cases to cure, this terrible disease. I think the result of the passing of this Bill into law will undoubtedly be a saving of many lives", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1445.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Provisions for giving effect to scheduled agreements.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Warwick and Leamington had suggested that 10th October was the last day on which certain people to whom he had been alluding in this connection could get out, and the Prime Minister, interrupting him, said: 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/1939-02-13a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1481.3", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I see no reason in the world why, if a respectable citizen comes to me with a statement, I should be compelled to put her on oath before I believe her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1481.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1485.2", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cossacks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. and gallant Member will agree that although I said nothing for the police I said nothing against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1486.2", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Your friends are!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "We are not at the moment in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that I do not regard it in that way. One has to take all these things in the way in which they strike one, and decide the question of order and not try to be a judge of what is or is not in good taste in debate. I certainly did not regard the remark about the friends of hon. Members as being one which clearly and definitely identified anyone with those particular individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1496.5", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "preceding_text": "vice. They were told that if they formed on Tower Hill they would be allowed to march as far as the Victoria Embankment. I saw that march. They marched to Victoria Embankment where, on the advice of the police, as they got to the Temple they quietly dispersed and made their way to Central Hall, Westminster, where they held an orderly meeting. Why did not this demonstration follow the same tactics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1496.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "f their duties under the Sessional Order which requires the police to keep clear the passages leading to the House, and under the general law which prohibits the assembly of more than 50 persons in the streets within one mile of the Houses of Parliament while Parliament is sitting, it was the clear duty of the police to clear Parliament Square and the police therefore began to shepherd the crowds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1514.2", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ntleman and the Under-Secretary we are quite prepared that this should be the preliminary stage; and if as a result he thinks some public inquiry ought to be held we know that he will say that a public inquiry should be held. It is clear that the right hon. Gentleman should get the first-hand evidence and not have it investigated by somebody else, unless that is somebody who is outside the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-13", "file": "debates1939-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ce70e3cdb46dc183", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, WESTMINSTER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It wasn't organised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "stakenly applauding the Prime Minister and the National Government, are allowed to gather in front of the House of Commons; but working-class people who are prepared to take a stand against the Prime Minister and the National Government are classified as \"Red\" and that is sufficient to warrant any kind of treatment. Why did not they drive the crowd away when they were cheering the Prime Minister?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-13a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-14", "file": "debates1939-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "9ae81606fe6edb4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-14a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "BACON INDUSTRY (AMEND MENT) [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I do not need to keep the Committee more than a moment or two, because under the procedure now in operation, by which the Second Reading of a Bill is taken first and the Financial Resolution follows it, I am afraid that we have even less power than we had before to get any effective Amendment introduced into the Financial Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-14a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-14", "file": "debates1939-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "9ae81606fe6edb4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-14a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "asked yesterday with regard to the optants, and the relevance of that is that this money is voted for the optants. We learned yesterday that the largest and most desperately situated section of the optants, namely, the Germans and non-Nazi Germans, are not eligible at all. This was brought about under the control of a Commission on which we had our own representative, and was done by an agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-14a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-15", "file": "debates1939-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b857dc0106e1767d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "DISUSED BURIAL GROUNDS ACT, 1884 (Amendment).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "preceding_text": "n remote parts of the country the Act has been actually ignored. The Bill which I seek permission to bring in proposes to permit any church, or chapel, or other place of worship to build or enlarge a vestry, parish room or chambers, purely for the use of the church, by Order in Council, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Health, with the following provisions, that if any bones are disturbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-15", "file": "debates1939-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b857dc0106e1767d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1735.0", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "LONDON RATING (SITE VALUES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman will take the trouble to examine the financial statement presented to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last April, he will find therein Parliamentary grants to the tune of about £168,000,000 to the local authorities. That sum is obtained from the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom, to which all landowners contribute according to the system of taxation imposed upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-15", "file": "debates1939-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b857dc0106e1767d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "EDUCATION FOR COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ock. I shall return to him later. I would like first, however, to say one or two words in defence of one person whom the hon. Gentleman put in the dock; that is the late Mr. Conrad. I do not think that \"Lord Jim\" is unsuitable reading for boys of 16. Of course, if you talk to boys of 16 about psychological rehabilitation the boys of 16 will be bored, and so, I think, would men of sense of any age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-15", "file": "debates1939-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "b857dc0106e1767d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "EDUCATION FOR COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "at 12, having learnt the three R's, and I commenced to work; and after the 18 years during which I have sat in the House of Commons I have to make a confession. When hon. and right hon. Gentlemen speak I envy them their knowledge and information, and above all the neat way in which they get hold of the right word and put it in the right place, which I cannot do myself because of lack of education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-15a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1945.2", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Higher.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ll these things are taking place there are great forces working in our economic system. According to a Memorandum of the Royal Economic Society, the increase in physical output per operative in this country from 1930 to 1935, that is five years, was 27 per cent. for all industries. The greatest increase was in the engineering trade, where the output per operative employed increased by 57 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1945.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1953.1", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "oduce statistics, for it is quite clear that, although there is no difference in the country or in the House about the gravity of some sides of this problem, the problem cannot be stated in the terms in which the right hon. Gentleman stated it. To take one sentence only, he referred to \"a standing army of 2,000,000.\" Only statistics will show that that statement has no relevance to the real issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1956.3", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is 2,000,000 out of work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "But it is not a standing army of 2,000,000, neither is it 2,000,000 \"decaying in idleness.\" The 2,000,000 fall into four groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1957.3", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the trouble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rejudice; then we had to build up a series of training centres, and then we had to get the instructors. Finally we had to get the confidence of the unemployed men and the only way you could get that, was by proving to them that you could do what you said you would do, namely, train them efficiently up to the standard required and then, when no one could guarantee them jobs, see that they got Jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1957.3", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "d to the Government training centres let me give the House the facts. I do not think they have been given in recent years. For the whole period, from the beginning of the scheme in 1925 up to the end of December last the total number admitted to training was 109,426. Of that number 81,893 completed the course and of the latter number, 73,172 or 89 per cent. found work or were placed in employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vast?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "big general centres and we have now five local training centres, We have just agreed to set up a local training centre in Liverpool and there are demands from Manchester and the Lancashire area about which we are in the final stages of making a decision. The House may take it that this regular, definite, constructive training work is work which has had a vast effect upon this core of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1963.4", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House will allow me to make my speech in my own way. I will try, as I usually do, to deal with the issues raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1963.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1964.1", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does it mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Am I to understand that an hon. Gentleman opposite called another Member a \"blatherskite\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1964.8", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " effort is made to bring before those who have been a long time out of work the advantages of training. I am glad to say that hon. Members in more than one part of the House have recently been giving great help in recruiting young men who have little prospects in their own areas to take training, which, of course, involves their going to jobs away from their homes. Let me turn to the wider issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1964.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has burned his boats since then!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "er the Minister of Labour to his more enlightened days. He fought an election in 1929 on the issue of providing work for the unemployed; I would remind him that when he did so unemployment stood at 1,300,000, and that to-day the number is 2,000,000, or slightly over that figure. We urged, and he joined us in urging, the Government of that day to proceed with schemes for the relief of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait till the General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "sult of bringing that sort of thing in is that, instead of concentrating upon practical issues, you all get into a controversy as to whether the remedy is the Socialist one, the Conservative one or the Liberal one. I am aware that the sentence was put in probably for internal reasons, and I do not think that is any concern of this House; certainly it is not of great concern to the country outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1977.3", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " that human ingenuity is unable to save these older men from eating their hearts out in idleness until they die. I plead for periods of local work to be made possible, in the Special Areas particularly, definitely for men over a certain age who have been many months out of work. I know the policy of the party opposite. I know that hon. Members opposite will say that there should be pensions at 60.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1991.1", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What terms?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " build the camps if you ask that a certain number of these young unemployed should work on them. Perhaps all the camps cannot be so constructed, but we have to face the problem of the deterioration that is taking place, and it is not unreasonable to propose either that some of these camps should be built by this labour or that the contractors should be asked to offer terms to a certain proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1991.1", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "n anything that we have been able to achieve so far. I should like to say one word on the educational aspect of this unemployment problem. I wonder whether the time has not come for us to re-examine the question of making some use of the Fisher Act of 1918. Except for three cities, that Act was never actually put into force. The only part of the country where it still has any application is Rugby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.1991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2004.0", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "pitalism. On the contrary, I envisage it as a first sign of a new society. Our failure at the moment is how to use and how to appreciate unemployment. Reference has been made to the fact that there is a shortage of labour in some countries, into which labour has to be imported. I say we ought to be thankful for and pride ourselves on the fact that we have this immense reserve on which we can rely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which we do not want.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "ation. Dr. Harby also summarises the contents of a great many letters addressed to him by men who had passed through these camps, and those also are interesting. This is the kind of thing summarised: an increase in confidence; improvement of personality; feeling of independence; feeling of self-reliance; and so on \"It is all on those lines. I think the House will agree that that is an experirnent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2021.1", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "ary in any sense. But I do not think Defence should be excluded from the forms of national work which the youths in these camps should be permitted to undertake if they choose to do so. If there were youths prepared to volunteer for Territorial training they might be permitted, up to a number approved by the War Office, to do training in that form. The general purpose of the camps is not military.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2046.3", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "p—that, in fact, their unemployment rose to higher figures than they had known in the original great slump; and it is interesting to note that, in comparison with the depths of the depression which the United States suffered at the beginning of last year, the recession in this country, as hon. Members opposite will agree, has not compared in severity or extent with the depression of 1929–31", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2046.3", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": " and it is interesting to note that, in comparison with the depths of the depression which the United States suffered at the beginning of last year, the recession in this country, as hon. Members opposite will agree, has not compared in severity or extent with the depression of 1929–31 [ Interruption .] It was, I think, in consequence of three deflationary factors all happening to coincide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2046.3", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ith the support of the majority of the industry, we shall introduce this Bill and ask Parliament to pass it. I want to make quite plain why we have adopted that attitude. There has been no question of our trying to shelve our responsibility, and leaving the decision to the industry and not to the Government. This is an enabling Bill. The Bill itself, when passed into law, does practically nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-16", "file": "debates1939-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "b90ff1221d120224", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Free Trade!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "e expenditure on our rearmament, though it may put people in work in one place, does have the effect of putting people out of work in another. Undoubtedly one of the major causes has been the rise caused by the rearmament programme which has put our costs out of line with continental costs. If you can do something for shipping, then shipbuilding automatically in course of time will come right too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-16a.2051.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-20", "file": "debates1939-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dc7decd435ebe38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.5.2", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "Is it the policy of the Government that the Republicans should make an unconditional surrender?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.5.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-20", "file": "debates1939-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dc7decd435ebe38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. Member: \"The General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "swing of expenditure. It is not as if we had seen the height of our expenditure and can see our way in the future. For the last three years there has been an increase each year of about £130,000,000 but in the midst of this steady increase, and with more to come, the amount of money to be spent on armaments out of revenue has actually decreased by £44,000,000. What justification is there for that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-20", "file": "debates1939-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dc7decd435ebe38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "ANHON. MEMBER: \"We have got friends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "s Committee and before the country that in the critical situation which exists in Europe the most effective defence measure that could be taken for the people of this country would be to get rid of this appalling and pro-Fascist Government. If you got rid of this Government it would not be necessary to put forward such a resolution as this because instead of borrowing money you would make friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-20", "file": "debates1939-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dc7decd435ebe38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Euan Wallace)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Euan Wallace)", "preceding_text": " country will share the satisfaction so eloquently expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) in this Measure. During the Debate a great many questions have been discussed, ranging over a very wide field, including not only finance but the co-ordination of defence, strategy and, so far as the Chair has from time to time, perhaps inadvertently, permitted, foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-20", "file": "debates1939-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "7dc7decd435ebe38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "contract or where a firm is only partially employed on Government work. I think that stands to reason. It is obvious that profits, merely expressed as a percentage on the nominal capital of a company, are in no way a reliable indication of whether that firm is securing excessive profits either on its business as a whole or on that part of its business which happens to consist of Government orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-20a.164.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You destroyed it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": ", there was no mention of either collective security or the League of Nations, and that seemed to me to indicate that the party opposite had, at any rate, come to a realisation of the fact that it was of no use in present circumstances to appeal to the League of Nations to obtain collective security for us, but that we had to trust to other means of maintaining peace and keeping this country safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.227.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Did you say that about his predecessor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ampled and which in my judgment makes it peculiarly fitting that he should now be entrusted with the work of Co-ordination of Defence. I believe that every one will feel an added sense of security in the knowledge that we have a man with his particular gifts and his particular knowledge installed now in the very heart of our defence system, and able to give us the benefit of his special knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Have a try.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ith great sincerity, which I think appealed strongly to all those who heard it. He begged us not to allow people to slip down this slope like Gadarene swine, and suggested that the leaders of nations ought here and now to call a conference to consider whether the time had not come to agree upon disarmament. If I could believe that such a conference would produce an effective result at this moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir; I think that those who went to the conference at Munich went there with the intention of making that conference succeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e have to be a little further advanced in confidence before the time for such a conference has arrived. Perhaps it would not be a bad thing if we ourselves were to show a little more confidence, and not to allow ourselves to believe every tale that comes to us about the aggressive intentions of others. I am not sure that hon. Members realise how this attitude of suspicion is parallelled elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "not argument, or rights, or justice to minorities at Munich; it was the threat of force. And what are we piling up these armaments for now, if peace cannot be brought about by force? He tells us they are to preserve peace. The right hon. Gentleman had better think again before he puts that kind of stuff across this House. But I am not intending to be led to-day into a discussion of foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "y throughout the country, because people believe that the Prime Minister in his policy throughout has sacrificed moral principles of the utmost importance. It does not mean a demand that we should go to war. It is a demand that he should be on the side of freedom and democracy, and the feeling in the country is that the Prime Minister is always on the side of aggression and wrong and dictatorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ciples of the utmost importance. It does not mean a demand that we should go to war. It is a demand that he should be on the side of freedom and democracy, and the feeling in the country is that the Prime Minister is always on the side of aggression and wrong and dictatorship. [ Interruption. ] It is no good hon. Members deceiving themselves. There are thousands of people, especially young people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "or the purpose of making a controversial speech, but rather to touch upon some of the broader and completely non-party aspects which are presented by this Debate upon the loan. But I must say that I think my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister tried not only the Opposition but others as well rather high by the tone of his remarks about the failure of the League of Nations and collective security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": " had had a Labour Government during the time the National Government has been in office we should have been involved first of all in a war with Japan, secondly in a war with Italy, thirdly in a European war over Spain and, fourthly in another European war over Czechoslovakia. That may be a very nice party political speech to make to a gathering of one's friends in Harrogate, but it does no credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ial crisis. I must say that it is a little hard, in such circumstances, for us to sit here and be lectured by the Prime Minister. I submit that it would not be unfair to say, having regard to the things that I have been reciting, which I believe to be facts, that we have been brought to this position by the moral cowardice of the Government at a time when they ought to have stood for the Covenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is the other alternative?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "f thing that the Prime Minister is saying in the country. What he really says in the country—he never says it quite in that way in this House—is that there were really last year two alternatives. One was to follow the basis of appeasement and try to maintain peace in that way, and the other was to regard war as inevitable and follow it accordingly. I deny that those were the only two alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "In all the long reply which has been given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:''Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "In all the long reply which has been given—[ Interruption ]— the right hon. Gentleman has made no reference to the profiteering to which attention was drawn by my right hon. Friend the Member for Hillsborough (Mr. Alexander).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": " long reply which has been given—[ Interruption ]— the right hon. Gentleman has made no reference to the profiteering to which attention was drawn by my right hon. Friend the Member for Hillsborough (Mr. Alexander). [Hon. Members:''Divide!\"] There is one thing that is more amazing even than that, and that is that, the greater the majority in the House, the greater the intolerance they show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-21", "file": "debates1939-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "0d94933d98c29686", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "ember for Hillsborough (Mr. Alexander). [Hon. Members:''Divide!\"] There is one thing that is more amazing even than that, and that is that, the greater the majority in the House, the greater the intolerance they show. [Hon. Members: \"Divide!\"] I have been sitting through this Debate all day, and have failed to hear any reference to that subject in the speech which has just been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-21a.344.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "preceding_text": "f the members. The Ministry has only a very vague idea of what the societies are doing, except in regard to their finances. The provision as regards dental benefit is most unsatisfactory. The Minister will, perhaps, say that the cure for dental trouble is not the services of the dentist but larger supplies of milk. But the wealthier classes are just as badly off as the poor in the matter of teeth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.419.5", "colnum": "419", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the cost of armaments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "preceding_text": "al services to the highest pitch that we can bear, in season and out of season, in bad as well as in good years, but I would ask them to make their calculations on facts obtained from their own expert office, which is exceedingly efficient, and always to consider what the effects of their proposals will be upon our manufacturing costs before they commit themselves, in the warmness of their hearts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Hitchin (Sir A. Wilson) is not in his place because he has made many researches into these questions and written many books. But having watched him for this last six months I would warn him of the things which some of us are thinking about him. We are beginning to think that instead of being the research worker that we all thought he was, he is becoming a kind of Government hack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "made many researches into these questions and written many books. But having watched him for this last six months I would warn him of the things which some of us are thinking about him. We are beginning to think that instead of being the research worker that we all thought he was, he is becoming a kind of Government hack. [HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"] I would warn him that for a man of his standing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "t, to state the attitude of the Government in regard to old age pensions. I can only reply that I have nothing to add to the statements that have already been made by Members of the Government on this question or to the Resolution that was passed by the House last November. Hard and moving cases have been put to the House this afternoon, but I would say that, after all, there is public assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.463.5", "colnum": "463", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And mining.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": " that would cause as little hardship as possible to both sides, and they should have power also to allocate new industries to places where labour was available—or at least to make satisfactory arrangements for the transfer of the labour to the factories. Younger men must be trained and drafted into the more modern and progressive industries such as motor, civil electrical and aviation engineering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.463.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "M. Kingsley Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "M. Kingsley Griffith", "preceding_text": "d I am certain that a really comprehensive grasp of the needs of the safety preparations against air raids will and must lead, if it is undertaken in a sufficiently courageous spirit, to a very great deal of employment, employment of a mixed character, employment in the iron and steel trades, in concrete and other trades, and also to a great deal of unskilled labour in the actual preparatory work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir George Davies", "preceding_text": "0,000 people who are not in work. I have no brief for Mr. Hitler or for the system in Germany, but when he came into power he said that one of the things he was going to do was to do away with unemployment, and he has done so to such an extent that he is now importing labour from a neighbouring country into the industries of Germany. The question of how he has done it is for the moment immaterial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.517.3", "colnum": "517", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I ask what the position is now in view of the Amendment having been carried? May I draw the attention of the Chief Patronage Secretary to the fact that the Government have been defeated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " do what we can to get those 277,000 men back to agriculture. The Socialists have not taken up the same position. Their candidate for the Ripon Division has said that his way of dealing with agricultural problems is to give the farmer a blow under the chin and then throw cold water upon him. I do not know whether the Socialists in the Ripon Division believe that that will ever remedy unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-22", "file": "debates1939-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "c27979f6d9a74404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " Ripon Division has said that his way of dealing with agricultural problems is to give the farmer a blow under the chin and then throw cold water upon him. I do not know whether the Socialists in the Ripon Division believe that that will ever remedy unemployment—[ Interruption. ] It is unfortunate that the Socialists, in bringing forward their Amendment to deal with unemployment, should entirely —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-22a.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-23", "file": "debates1939-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5db33a9ae0dc965b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.693.6", "colnum": "693", "heading": "BOARD OF TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ethical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "lanation tendered by the hon. Member as to the importance of considering representation put forward, as I understand it, in a purely academic sense by the Federation of British Industries and considered in an equally academic sense by the Government. These matters, we understand, were conducted on a very high and abstract plane with no reference to balance sheets, tariffs or anything of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.693.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-23", "file": "debates1939-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5db33a9ae0dc965b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "MERCANTILE MARINE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman, we find that the increase in the Estimate is due in part—I do not know whether it is a large part—to the need for assisting British sailors in Spanish ports. That shows the use of the Committee of Supply; we find out something, at any rate. The second point to which I desire to draw attention is far worse, namely, the jocular tone in which the hon. Gentleman refers to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-23", "file": "debates1939-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5db33a9ae0dc965b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "MERCANTILE MARINE SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "is that these British seamen, on their lawful occasions, were bombed by pirates, and the Government will not lift a finger to aid them; and when we come to vote a sum, as we have to do under the Act of 1906, to help them, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade is pleased to say he supposes that the attractions of the Spanish ports are so great that they have not returned to their ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-23", "file": "debates1939-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5db33a9ae0dc965b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister would not cash in by having a General Election. Well, he did not cash in in that way. How did he do it? I have here a letter sent out by the Prime Minister from No. 10, Downing Street, on 15th October, 1938, a few days after the Munich Agreement. It is addressed to the treasurer of the Conservative party. It reads: My dead Marchwood——\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.728.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-23", "file": "debates1939-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5db33a9ae0dc965b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am telling the right hon. Gentleman where he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-23", "file": "debates1939-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5db33a9ae0dc965b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may challenge them, but he seems rather in the position of Ajax defying the lightning. My information is that the issue was not at a pound, but 53s. Of course, I was not there, but let me pass on to other considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-23", "file": "debates1939-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5db33a9ae0dc965b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.761.2", "colnum": "761", "heading": "DEFENCE LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "An hon. Member accused me of having shares in various companies which I have not got at all. Am I not entitled to protest? He is accusing everybody of corruption on this side. I do not wish to delay the proceedings, but to say I have no shares whatever in armament firms. I hope the hon. Gentleman will withdraw that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-23a.761.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.798.5", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "these two exceptions it has never passed legislation attempting to regulate statutorily the hours of adults. That is not mere chance. It is a recognition of the great difficulties. Let us take the one outstanding case in which the hours of adults were regulated by Act of Parliament—the coal miners. What was the result? I say without the slightest hesitation that the result was the dispute of 1926—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.798.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.798.5", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "!\"] Certainly, and the solution was an amendment of the Act. That remains in operation to-day, and the party opposite have not attempted to alter it although there were two years during which they might have done it. It was that disaster which produced the Special Areas, and the prolonged disputes created the conditions which have reduced employment in coal mining by nearly 400,000 persons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.798.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "On the ground that there is no hope from your own party? Well, that is a frank admission that the only conceivable hope is from this side of the House. I did not know that the Popular Front was so completely broken, but where are all the hon. and right hon. Members who represent the co-operative societies? They are all missing to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "In actual practice most of them do about an extra 15 minutes a day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.804.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Not 40 per cent. A section of the large stores are doing it. The co-operative societies are doing it with a certain amount of overtime, which is paid for after 15 minutes. The first 15 minutes of overtime the employés work for nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.805.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw; it is an insult.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie", "preceding_text": "I have been charged with many things but never with that kind of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hardie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hardie", "preceding_text": "This is a question of whether the health of the shop assistants should come before the preservation of the goods that are sold. It is only a question of value. I contend that if it is necessary to keep a shop cold so as to preserve the provisions, the worker in the store should have shorter hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "I must confess that if there had been a Division upon this Bill at five minutes past 11 this morning I should almost certainly have voted in favour of it. It is a Bill with a human appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "n of how the Bill is going to work and what good or otherwise it is going to do. I was hoping for some wise advice from the hon. Member for Westhoughton, but I notice that he and a large number of other Members in his party seem to have lost some of their sprightliness. There does not seem to be that drive, that freedom of thought and opinion which we are accustomed to expect from British workmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Haslam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Haslam", "preceding_text": " of seaside resorts in Acts of Parliament dealing with shops, notably in the Shops Act, 1912, by reason of their special circumstances. I say without hesitation, that, if shopkeepers were compelled by law not to employ their assistants for more than 48 hours per week in seaside resorts, it would cause great confusion. There was often a great rush of people entering the shops at 6 o'clock at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-24", "file": "debates1939-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c0e6e1b3df421b3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t. Businesses of all kinds are far too much tied up with red-tape at the present time. I believe that the ordinary shopkeeper is willing for conditions to continue as they are. There is no demand for this Bill. I have not received a single request to vote for it. If there had been proper organisation concerning the need for supporting such a Bill, I should have received many thousands of requests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-24a.866.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-27", "file": "debates1939-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b7e738aa997c6b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.874.4", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Order! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "You should be impeached as a traitor to Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.874.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-27", "file": "debates1939-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b7e738aa997c6b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Did not the report of the Commission in January give the answer to that question by showing that the International Brigade on being dismissed was immobilised and placed under constant supervision and that effective measures were taken at the frontier to prevent the re-entry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-27", "file": "debates1939-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b7e738aa997c6b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tell me whether his rather frivolous attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-27", "file": "debates1939-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b7e738aa997c6b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "e, can be borne; but it makes an enormous difference if it is borne by a united people. The Opposition Amendment contains some criticisms, and it is quite right that it should. I suppose that we may have a repetition of the modest claim that, if only the management of affairs in this country had been in their cool, firm hands for the last seven years, none of this burden would have fallen upon us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-27", "file": "debates1939-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b7e738aa997c6b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": " specification, and far too many small orders, and I hope that my right hon. Friend will look into that point, particularly with regard to the War Office. That is one item of speed. I want him to think of the skilled workman as a child playing a piano. At first it makes an awful noise, and then improves very slowly, making a great many mistakes, until it becomes more efficient and used to the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-27", "file": "debates1939-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b7e738aa997c6b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossley", "preceding_text": "yal supporter of the Government, and I should like them to set their own lead, and they have a chance now. I am glad that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is looking ahead in finance and in introducing this Bill. I hope that I shall not be considered as having made a pessimistic speech. The huge octopus of rearmament is at last beginning to grasp its problems, and gradually it is getting under way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-27", "file": "debates1939-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "b7e738aa997c6b92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE LOANS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "ttling. The right hon. Gentleman said: When we reflect that what we are now considering is the effort of this country alone, without taking any account of the contribution that could be made, if need arose, by the great Dominions or by our allies and friends outside the British Empire, we may feel, to quote our own Shakespeare, 'Come the three corners of the world in arms And we shall shock them.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-27a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "fort is always made to try and put the responsibility on to the other Government. This seems to have been a device to allow M. Daladier to speak first. I say that that is a trick, but a trick which was trumped by the French Prime Minister, because he revealed that he was doing it on the advice and pressure of this Government. Now let me turn to the question which is raised here of the recognition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "it be right to give recognition to the government of General Franco and to withdraw recognition from the government of Republican Spain when it was wrong merely to give belligerent rights? I would like the right hon. Gentleman to tell me exactly what has happened between 31st January and the present time to change his opinion. It is not a question of whether there has been a conquest of Catalonia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "n actively to-day. The Italian troops are just as prominent in these territories. Giving belligerent rights is giving rights to two sides in a quarrel, but recognition of one side and the removal of recognition from the other goes much further than the giving of belligerent rights. It is saying what has not been said before, that although there is a friendly Government which is still in existence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s which the right hon. Gentleman did not think it necessary to quote. Nevertheless, I think they are germane. He said: According to the information at our disposal England would be disposed to grant recognition as from next week. Does not that clearly mean a simple and straightforward explanation of what the right hon. Gentleman sought to describe as a deliberate misleading of the House by myself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " their jurisdiction. I am sorry to say that, in spite of General Franco's success in extending his power and authority, the actions of his supporters have been very different and that the most terrible atrocities are now being committed by airmen under his orders. There have been two speeches by ladies whose names are given, and the Duke of Atholl has written to the newspapers saying he has heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1135.5", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "s, and that there were very few casualties except in a few places where resistance was still being kept up. Very shortly, I suggest, all this is going to be ancient history. What object is there in the right hon. Gentleman once more awaking our fears by suggesting that there are German aerodromes all along the French frontier, directed against the cities of France? Why stir up these world hatreds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1135.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "use, it may be a few months hence, or a year or two, when the hon. and gallant Member, patriot as he is, has to stand up and say: \"I am sorry to see that the policy which I advocated in Spain has resulted in the breaking of the vital communications of the British Empire.\" I hope that the day will come when that speech will most certainly be made. I am certain that that speech will have to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "d that the Prime Minister, with the influence he has with Signor Mussolini, might have used that influence now in the interests of clemency. Again I say that that speech does him little credit. If ever there was an ungrateful speech in return for what was done by the Prime Minister at Munich it was that speech this afternoon. I believe that any member of the public sitting up there in the Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "t to touch them on the right side, just to get a slogan for them, and they will provide the money. They do it with the very best of intentions, believing that it is in a good cause, simply because they are carried away by the arguments that are put before them. I admit that propaganda from the other side has not been anything like as good, but one finds out that in the long run truth will triumph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It was justified.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "Spain. I am quite certain it will lead to peace being made, and a lasting peace. I am sorry the Leader of the Opposition is not here, because I am going to criticise his attitude. I had the feeling all the time he was speaking that he knew he had been barking up the wrong tree and that he wanted to change his objective, and that, for that reason, he wanted to make a dead set at the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Stewart Sandeman", "preceding_text": "Some people would believe and say anything. They cannot all be noblemen who are fighting for Franco. His supporters are the working people of Spain, and there are fewer police in his territory than there used to be, according to what we hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1190.2", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Russia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ne and recognising another. The Prime Minister is in a great hurry to recognise Franco, but it is not because there is a justification for it in the situation in Spain. Do hon. Members want to know the Prime Minister's real reason for his hurry to recognise Franco? It is not the situation in Spain, but the situation in Italy and in Germany that is responsible for the hurried recognition of Franco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1190.3", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ime Minister of this country is deliberately betraying this country. All our friends are being destroyed. Basic democracy is expressed in the role of the trade unions, the co-operative movement and the working-class organisation. In Czecho-Slovakia we had great friends in the trade union movement, the co-operative movement and the progressive parties. In Austria and in Spain the same things apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'What a hope!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ement in this country—they are all against recognition. Yesterday I made an interjection that the Prime Minister should be impeached, not for being a traitor to Spain or other countries, but for being a traitor to this country. I maintain that. I hope that before long the people of this country will be aroused to such wrath and strength that this unspeakable Government will be swept out of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ould be recognised. That is one way; and it is probably what happened. I do not know, I was not there. There is another way in which it might have been done, and the Prime Minister is capable of it. He may have said to the Cabinet: \"I am not going to tell you what my state of mind is about recognising General Franco.\" After all, the Prime Minister has not too much respect for the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " a constitutional and lawful Government, which merely wished to exercise its ordinary rights of purchasing arms from any country and any firm that would sell them to it. The Government placed an embargo on the sending of arms to the lawful, constitutional Government of Spain. Soon afterwards, they placed an embargo against citizens of this country, animated by a great ideal of liberty and freedom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rights of the British Commonwealth and to emphasise the principle that Britain rules the waves. But these ships were sunk by the reactionary General Franco, they were sunk by the aeroplanes of Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler, and as they are particular class friends of the Government, the Government did nothing. Moreover, were not these ships and British sailors taking food—possibly other things?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Vindictive action was used against the Duchess of Atholl by the promotion of trouble in her constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oppenheim!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "eman the Prime Minister went into the field of international law. I will be perfectly honest about it. I have made no profound study of international law, and I do not believe the Prime Minister has either, so that we both start from scratch. The only difference between us is that he has the Foreign Office behind him and I have not. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the writings of Oppenheimer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "In order, as I think the right hon. Gentleman said, to evade a Debate upon the subject. However, if I misunderstood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\" and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman understands that the important point is that a Prime Minister, when asked a question, should tell the truth to this House. That is the simple issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1210.6", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "rnment against whom they revolted? Some of these countries appear in the list of recognised Governments two or three times over in the course of the 20 years, and in 1930, when a Labour Government was in power, no fewer than four such recognitions took place, notwithstanding the fact that the people who revolted had, of course, broken their oaths of loyalty and allegiance, and were in fact rebels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member need not be in any fear of that. I reserve that for the members of his party. Let me ask hon. Gentlemen and right hon. Gentlemen opposite this question: What are you to do when a Government has been fighting a hopeless war against rebels, when the contest has really come to an end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "AN HON.MEMBER: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "of the law to the facts that you have obtained. I cannot help thinking that hon. Gentlemen opposite have allowed their sympathies to distort their view of the facts. They say that the war is not hopeless, or do they say that? Do they really say that the position of the forces of the former Government in Spain to-day is that they could carry on a successful war against the forces of General Franco?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1213.1", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "s could be forced upon General Franco except by force of arms unless he was prepared to accept them. What hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite are really asking is for some form of assurance from General Franco, but when they get assurances they are not content with them. When my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister read an assurance from General Franco it was received with ridicule and mockery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-02-28", "file": "debates1939-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "257381318520e751", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Inskip", "preceding_text": "pause, to point out that in the opinion of Senor Azana as far as I had gone the war was irretrievably lost to the Republic. When the war is irretrievably lost for the Republic, do hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite stand for the proposition that this country must continue to recognise the Republic as the Government of Spain which has effective contact with the population? That is the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-02-28a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-01", "file": "debates1939-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fcb52609ea089acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1248.4", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Major-General Sir Alfred Knox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General Sir Alfred Knox", "preceding_text": "Is it not the fact——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1248.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-01", "file": "debates1939-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fcb52609ea089acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1287.10", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "the Committee generally gives its assent I would suggest that in the discussion on the first Vote which I have read the Debate should range over all the three Votes which are on the Paper. It will be understood that in that event, after the first Vote has been decided by the Committee, the other two will be decided without further discussion. Does the Committee generally assent to that suggestion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1287.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-01", "file": "debates1939-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fcb52609ea089acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "That is a special problem, but if the right hon. Gentleman looks at what I have said previously he will realise that large tenements will have to be dealt with under the splinter and blast-proof policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-01", "file": "debates1939-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fcb52609ea089acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"Not in Valencia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " Barcelona is very special. It is a specially planned city with enormous streets and wide open spaces. It happens to be on a sub-soil which is of a very peculiar character, which can be cut into in all directions and dug into deeply without requiring special forms of strutting and protection. These conditions are not repeated anywhere else in the country in Spain and certainly not in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-01", "file": "debates1939-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fcb52609ea089acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman, but it is very important indeed that a mistaken impression should not get abroad. Let me make the position clear. The steel shelter is not put forward as an adequate expedient except where the circumstances are such that it can be used in the manner stated. Other expedients are suggested for the cases to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-01", "file": "debates1939-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "fcb52609ea089acf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1404.3", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "em out after a very difficult analysis in a succinct form, and I think they will give the Committee an idea of the position. The applications received for the different services through the Ministry of Labour have been 218,000. The number of applications for the Army have been 62,000, of which not more than 10,000 have come through the Ministry of Labour channel. The figure for the Army is 62,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-01a.1404.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-02", "file": "debates1939-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "39b66de02fe8d934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1507.0", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "king out their schemes. I have here a list of those officers. I do not know whether the Committee would be interested to hear their names. They are: Sector A: Sir Girling Ball, F.R.C.S., and C. A. Joll, Esq., F.R.C.S. Sector B: Norman Lake, Esq., F.R.C.S., and W. J. Pearson, Esq., D.S.O., M.C., F.R.C.P. Sector C: E. Rock Carling, Esq., F.R.C.S., and C. H. S. Frankau, Esq., C.B.E., D.S.O., F.R.C.S.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-02", "file": "debates1939-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "39b66de02fe8d934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1546.3", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Latham", "cue_text": "An HON. Member: \"Would you like it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Latham", "preceding_text": "No, I would not. I would pay them and I would give them training free, which would cost a lot of money, but they would get training. It would be a jolly good life for them and they would be much better off than they are at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-02", "file": "debates1939-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "39b66de02fe8d934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1591.5", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. Member: \"What about the Tower?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "s once to Blackpool. I should like to go a little further. We must not have the war when Blackpool has its illuminations. If there was a war during the illuminations, the bombs would not drop anywhere else but on Blackpool, because the illuminations would show where Blackpool was. Then the war must not come at Christmas, because at Christmas time Blackpool is almost as full as at any other season.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-02", "file": "debates1939-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "39b66de02fe8d934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1613.3", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "on, and refrigerator space. Bacon is not a suitable article for storage at all. With regard to refrigerator space, while it may be true that there is some diminution in public refrigerator space, it is the custom now, more than it was a few years ago, for individual householders to keep their own perishables, and my information is that the total of refrigerator space is greater than it was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-02", "file": "debates1939-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "39b66de02fe8d934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1615.4", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "cting vulnerable points are being taken. Obviously the most important public utilities in which the Committee will be interested are railways and roads, and I want to devote the remainder of my time to giving some idea of the steps that have been taken to keep the iron backbone of the country available for the tremendous strain to which it will be subjected immediately there is an outbreak of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1615.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-02", "file": "debates1939-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "39b66de02fe8d934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1615.4", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "se outside. I have obtained a very satisfactory response to the arrangements that we have desired to make for bringing this great industry into a proper perspective in connection with the nation's requirements. I express my indebtedness to all the members of the different committees, and in particular to the operators, who are showing such a fine sense of responsibility in responding to this call.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1615.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-02", "file": "debates1939-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "39b66de02fe8d934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1621.2", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "00 to the square mile, bombing is more likely to do damage than where there are only 200to the square mile. That is true, but you may have within a square mile a substantial population, and because the whole of the square mile is included in a particular local government area, it will not be included in the evacuable areas. The hon. Member for Oxford University (Sir A. Salter) mentioned Wimbledon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-02a.1621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-03", "file": "debates1939-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dd5cffe395f4e83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-03a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Annesley Somerville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Annesley Somerville", "preceding_text": "nd convincingly the advantages that this Bill will confer both on the supplier and the consumer, and the hon. and gallant Member for Blackburn (Captain Elliston) also referred to some of its advantages. The hon. Member for North Tottenham spoke of the very important question of waste. That is a matter which becomes very important in years of drought. Recently, there has been a series of dry years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-03a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-03", "file": "debates1939-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dd5cffe395f4e83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-03a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: \"You know your friends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "preceding_text": "hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Epsom has said. The hon. Member for Cheltenham (Mr. Lipson) went still further, and said that the consumer is really coming into his own. While, however, I agree that the Bill is a good Bill, I cannot think that all this is being done merely with an eye to the consumer coming into his own. It is a long time since we have seen the consumer coming into his own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-03a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-03", "file": "debates1939-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "dd5cffe395f4e83d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-03a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wise", "preceding_text": "r the Bill. If I thought there was any opportunity of raising sufficient support I should divide the House against the Bill, because I feel very strongly that we ought to scrutinise with some care the benefits which we hand out to these monopolies. The ancient task of this House is to look askance at vested interests, and not to rush out with open arms to give them more and more vested interests.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-03a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-06", "file": "debates1939-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "8d428ec78e885721", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1755.8", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE (CONTRACTS, PROFIT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "But, Mr. Deputy- Speaker, may I say, with great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1755.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-06", "file": "debates1939-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "8d428ec78e885721", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1802.4", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "PRISONS, ENGLAND AND WALES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " Borstal at Aylesbury? I do not know the reason for this change of location, and perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will tell us. We are proposing to deal here with a group of people who, we understand, are persons to whom the right hon. Gentleman referred in what, I think, must be regarded as one of his most famous speeches. He delivered at Geneva some time ago another speech which made him famous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-06", "file": "debates1939-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "8d428ec78e885721", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1845.5", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "REVENUE BUILDINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "gs. That means to say, if I am right—and the right hon. Gentleman will correct me if I am wrong—that until this Estimate was presented and this authority of Parliament was obtained, he had not any Parliamentary authority for protecting his servants in the Post Office and Telegraph buildings. Am I right in supposing that that is the fact? If so it is certainly a most remarkable dereliction of duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1845.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-06", "file": "debates1939-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "8d428ec78e885721", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1857.2", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "CLASS V.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They lived overtime.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has put the whole matter in a word. I was wondering whether I might go on to explain the whole thing in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-06", "file": "debates1939-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "8d428ec78e885721", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF BURMA ACT,1935.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is the value in sterling? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead", "preceding_text": "payments. The Application Committee have now presented their final report, which deals, as I have just explained, with the 45 years annuity. Under that, the indebtedness of Burma to India at that date was 50 crores, 79 lakhs, 81,000 rupees, which had been reduced, by provisional payments during the years 1937–38 and 1938–39, to 49 crores, 72 lakhs, 86,558 rupees, on 31st March, 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-06a.1876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.1985.1", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Poor little Sweden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "their assistance. I should like to ask when this increase from £10,000 to £80,000 was made, and why it was made. I suggest it was made for two reasons, the first being that the Government were ashamed because the United States Government offered to make a contribution of corn in kind to the value of £100,000, and the Government of Sweden—poor little Sweden—offered to make a money grant of £75,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.1985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2059.3", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "uss it at great length. I want to submit to the right hon. Gentleman that this is a transaction that ought to be defended with far more reasons than he adduced last night. Here we have the country's real estate in a foreign country being disposed of in this way, and it is not much better than confiscation for this very valuable house, with its historic associations, to be disposed of for this sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2060.4", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "I do, Sir. I was not sure whether you were calling me or not. I beg to second the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2060.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2064.3", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They could not get a tenant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "ues, but the complaint which is being made from this side is that every canon of sale and purchase was flouted when this building was sold at the most unfavourable moment in 100 years. Surely it must have been recognised by the British Government that at that time values were at their nadir in Vienna, and if they had merely let the building at a rental for a period of two, three, ten or 20 years——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2064.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2064.5", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "two years ago I was passing a building in Queen Victoria Street and somebody said to me, \"If you will come in to see a little property being sold here you will find that it is an interesting transaction.\" I was told that it was the sale of a small farm situated at Cockfosters, in the north of London and that just after the War it was worth about £5,000. So I went in to watch the sale of this farm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2064.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2077.2", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give us an example.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "he Welsh people have a culture that is apart from English culture. They have a language of their own. They have a literature of their own. They have an educational system of their own—a National Museum, a National College and Universities of their own. It may interest hon. Members to know that the Welsh have a language which, for the purposes of expression, is very much more forcible than English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "the percentage drops to something like 30, and if it is left till the third stage the percentage drops to something like 10. If this Amendment is carried, you will allow any Tom, Dick or Harry in the country to try his nostrums, almost certainly, in this vital first stage. It is no comfort to say that, the herbalist's cure having failed—and the herbalists, of course, have no qualifications at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-07", "file": "debates1939-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "a583f6d95d278bbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "you will allow any Tom, Dick or Harry in the country to try his nostrums, almost certainly, in this vital first stage. It is no comfort to say that, the herbalist's cure having failed—and the herbalists, of course, have no qualifications at all—[ Interruption. ] Rubbish. I beg pardon; the hon. Member is misinformed. Anybody, with no qualifications at all, can start in a little shop as a herbalist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-07a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-08", "file": "debates1939-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d87ae0a6f6096b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2161.7", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Dennis Herbert)", "preceding_text": "hat on Defence Votes it has always been the practice to have a general discussion on Vote A in Committee, but, provided there has not been a general Debate in the Committee, then if the House so desired there was no objection to such a general Debate on the Report stage. That Debate, as was pointed out, would be subject to the Rules governing Debate on Report. Is that the view of the House to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2161.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-08", "file": "debates1939-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d87ae0a6f6096b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2239.1", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "greatest temptation to war which exists at the present time. More than any other capital in Europe, we have all our eggs in one basket in the City of London, to an extent which no other capital city in Europe has. The fact that that is so encourages those in the entourage of the dictators to put forward the theory that this country can be brought to its knees by means of a knockout blow on London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-08", "file": "debates1939-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d87ae0a6f6096b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " do not mean the number of quartermasters who get commissions. I recollect that I was told that there had been 70 commissions from the ranks and that 62 had gone to quartermasters. The real effective recruitment from the ranks was therefore 8. The Secretary of State gave us no figures to-day, and I shall be glad to know what commissions have been granted from the ranks exclusive of quartermasters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-08", "file": "debates1939-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d87ae0a6f6096b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2291.3", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " heavy smoke-screen. Hon. Members opposite are sitting there ready to swallow anything that is served up from the Government benches, no matter what it has to do with reality. When the Minister talks about placing our outposts on a war footing, let us ask what a war footing means in the new situation. The Minister has contemplated a war footing in relation to the previously existing peace footing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-08", "file": "debates1939-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d87ae0a6f6096b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2291.3", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "let us ask what a war footing means in the new situation. The Minister has contemplated a war footing in relation to the previously existing peace footing. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but they are prepared to listen to, and to swallow, anything that the Minister says. There was a peace footing in those outposts, and in relation to that peace footing there was a formula for a war footing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-08", "file": "debates1939-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d87ae0a6f6096b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2291.3", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "uld never get a recruit; and when I hear what is going on now I am more than ever convinced that that is so. A war footing in Malta in 1914, when Italy was our ally, is an entirely different thing from a war footing in Malta when Italy is a potential enemy and has her agents inside Malta. It is a mere formula, but, with Italy as a potential enemy, I do not care how many divisions we have in Malta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-08a.2291.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-09", "file": "debates1939-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd713a6f969b02ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2338.5", "colnum": "2338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WOMEN POLICE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell me what attributes a woman losses on marriage which make her unfitted for this work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-09", "file": "debates1939-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd713a6f969b02ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2467.1", "colnum": "2467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Moore-Brabazon", "preceding_text": "y of State tried to give us some information on the basis of a comparison of our present output with some typical figure in the past—I think the figure for May, 1936; but, as no one knows what the output was at that time, it really is of little use telling us what the percentage is now, because it means nothing at all. I cannot help reminding my right hon. Friend that 50 times nothing is still 50—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-09", "file": "debates1939-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd713a6f969b02ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2472.1", "colnum": "2472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": " necessarily engage more the attention of the critics of the Government than those who are supporting the Government; that is, the system of control of the profits of the armament manufacturers. I have noticed that the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Air considers that he had done a great thing by fixing a proportionate profit of 6 per cent, upon turnover for the air manufacturers,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-09", "file": "debates1939-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd713a6f969b02ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2474.1", "colnum": "2474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "ight (Captain P. Macdonald) asked a witness this: It is obviously in the interests of the producers to get the initial cost up as high as possible on the original model? The witness replied: \"Yes.\" So you frequently find these target prices fixed without any regard to the real cost. I am not in the least impressed by the fact that Sir William McLintock was going to draw up a new form of agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-09", "file": "debates1939-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd713a6f969b02ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2492.1", "colnum": "2492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " with it. Whether they will be adequate steps remains to be seen. While those relatively enormous profits are being made, the men engaged in the production of aircraft are not getting the return that they ought to be getting. There ought to be no one earning less than 25 per cent. The National Agreement states that prices must be fixed to enable men of average ability to earn at least 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-09a.2492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-10", "file": "debates1939-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "abda0a2ed313ca49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2530.1", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " of local administration. The hon. Member for Central Bradford paid a tribute to that system in his speech. We are undoubtedly very grateful to those public-spirited men and women of all parties and opinions who give their time to serving on the local authorities. It is common knowledge that there is increasing difficulty in getting candidates of the highest qualification to serve on those bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-10", "file": "debates1939-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "abda0a2ed313ca49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2563.1", "colnum": "2563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "o be coming forward rapidly from the Benches opposite in support of the Bill. The hon. and gallant Member for South-East Leeds (Major Milner) said the Bill was permissive and not compulsive; if it is permissive and nobody wants it, what is the good of having the Bill at all and wasting the time of the House on it? Hon. Members on the other side have not supported the Bill in a wholehearted manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-10", "file": "debates1939-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "abda0a2ed313ca49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2576.1", "colnum": "2576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "There are two cases where power was given. Cardiff and Birkenhead sought and obtained these powers, but neither has used them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-10", "file": "debates1939-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "abda0a2ed313ca49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2578.1", "colnum": "2578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES ENABLING) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": " it unnecessarily. The party opposite are unable to keep up with the pace of our times. They are unable to move with the spirit of the age. The difficulty is that they say: \"What we said in the '90's we say now, and no hon and learned Member for East Bristol is going to stop us from saying it.\" This Bill represents the Socialism of 30 years ago. Here it is. \"The Common Sense of Municipal Trading.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-10a.2578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman now of opinion that the undue haste shown by the Government in recognising General Franco—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.15.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.42.9", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "No", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor of the Exchequer aware that his Parliamentary Private Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.42.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.80.6", "colnum": "80", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "chiding. I remember that I used to vote against my party when it was the Government, and I confess that, looking back over the years, I did not do myself much good by voting against them. I confess that in these days of strong party machines, when the party machine, indeed, seems to be all-powerful, it would appear that Members must more or less move with the particular party to which they belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.80.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And it remains friendly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Northern Ireland remains in the United Kingdom, but if you have a Colony—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "and hundreds of thousands of jobs are available, they are ending and beginning every day of the working year, and the very fact that the machinery of the exchanges fills nearly 3,000,000 in the course of the year shows that to discuss the total registered figure is to evade the real problem. I am the last man to desire to evade the real problem, whether it is one section of the problem or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the fat years\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "er to the Bill which is at present before the House, but the Committee will see that the list I have given is not the end. It has been done as a constructive effort to make Unemployment Insurance not only sound but possessing a balance in hand against any bad days that may come. The hon. Member for Stockton-on-Tees (Mr. E. Smith) asked me what about the means test for those who are out of benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have changed their jobs!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Brown", "preceding_text": "y consider what the effects of prolonged unemployment are, both on individuals and on families, they really cannot be satisfied with the existing state of things. I could give specific instances of what I mean, but time does not allow it. Let us confront the naked facts. The Government have been in office—not exactly the same individuals, but the same Government in effect—for the last seven years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will allow me to proceed on my own lines I think I shall proceed better. There is this situation which must be handled. Unless some definite steps are taken, the comparative figure of unemployment in the totalitarian countries and the democracies will become a subject of criticism amongst the workers of the world. There is in Germany no unemployment at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what rates of pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": " a subject of criticism amongst the workers of the world. There is in Germany no unemployment at all. [ Interruption .]After all it is a situation that does not exist in other countries, and it needs examination. I do not agree with the way that a number of the German people are employed, but, at any rate, they have not only got no unemployment, but they are asking other countries to send workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "amme planned out beforehand. The programme that we have pursued in this country since the War has been far too spasmodic. There never has been steady driving and planning ahead, with something definite and positive in front of us. And the responsibility for that is not confined to any single party; everybody must take his share. We know that there are many things that are obsolete in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "ncrease in unemployment. Surely, that is primarily due to the fact that traders have lost confidence in being able to carry on their business, owing to the uncertainty that prevails. I charge two or three important newspapers, such as the \"Daily Herald,\" the \"News Chronicle\" and the \"Manchester Guardian,\" which, through the scares in their columns, have caused thousands of people to be unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-13", "file": "debates1939-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "22950409112d48f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "REVENUE DEPARIMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''Time!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "n. It is easy for Socialists to criticise. I think it was Mr. Dooley who said: Mr. Hennessy, not being an author I am a great critic I have heard no real constructive suggestion from hon. Members opposite except what they call Socialism, which if they would examine it closely they would find is no solution. They can see it in operation to-day in Germany with all its horror and its loss of liberty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-13a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-14", "file": "debates1939-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "d898aa17c0f19862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-14a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman do something to expedite a decision in regard to this matter, especially in view of the fact that it is not fair on some Ministers, and particularly those who depend more on the good will of the Press than on their own abilities for their reputation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-14a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-14", "file": "debates1939-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "d898aa17c0f19862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-14a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "ARMY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Labour party voted against you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "rguments made no difference. It was pointed out at the time that the forces behind the administration were perfectly ready to deny the Territorial Army the weapons which it needed at that time, and to stand by while there was that neglect. When I used these arguments—in vain—a few Members said, \"Hear, hear!\" but the great bulk of the supporters of the Government merely gaped, and went away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-14a.250.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.384.5", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Neither had the \"Stangate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The \"Stangrove\" had no wireless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "o every Member of the House. As I sat listening to the Prime Minister's speech, I heard the cheers, the dutiful cheers, that came from hon. Members opposite. There is a number of hon. Members who cheer some utterances of the Prime Minister, but what man in this House, in the privacy of his own home, will find any consolation in what happened yesterday? It was a day of humiliation and shame for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "ke of Herr Hitler and his armed forces. In May, 1938, Czecho-Slovakia was threatened with a similar course of action. That was delayed because the Czechs dared to stand and fight and die in defence of their liberties. It was not then known by Herr Hitler that the allies of the Czechs, those who had promised to stand by the Czechs years ago, would desert their promises of alliance and co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Others do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "ur concurrence, with our part responsibility, and not without it, Russia, France and ourselves were expected to help to maintain the peace of Europe and to defend small nations against aggression, under the Covenant of the League of Nations. We did not take that step. In September, the menace grew more direct. The Prime Minister had occasion to go to Berchtesgaden. I do not know why he went there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "irs I criticised the Prime Minister for deliberately postponing Debates in this House until they could have no further influence on the course of events. Having done so, I should like now to express my own gratitude, a gratitude which I am sure is shared by other hon. Members, to the Leader of the House for having arranged at the first possible opportunity to take this Debate on the new situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "not the time for oratory; it is the time for plain speaking, and for speaking, as I say, from the heart. The people of this country are ready to-day, as they were in 1914, without compulsion; but they are not ready, and we are not ready, to follow blindly Members of the Government who have led us to this impasse. We want a change in the leadership, and I believe that hon. Members opposite do also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Nathan", "preceding_text": "ity of the Leader of the House and one or two of his sup porters on the Government Front Bench. If we were clear in that direction, it might be that the path to unity would be made easier. One of the things in the statement of the Prime Minister to-day that occasioned me a great deal of surprise was the fact that he informed us that he had no information except that which came from the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.472.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.483.5", "colnum": "483", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the speech was not made at Birmingham, but in London. I was present and heard it, and what the Prime Minister described as midsummer madness was not the League of Nations but the suggestion that in the then state of the Abyssinian war we should intensify sanctions against Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.483.10", "colnum": "483", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption'", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "he attitude of many hon. Members opposite to see that they regard the Fascist power as being run by people who somehow stand for their own class, who know how to keep their own working class in order. Their attitude during the Spanish conflict has been that General Franco is their sort of man. He belongs to the same class; he sends his son to the right school. The difficulty about the Red menace —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.483.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.483.10", "colnum": "483", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "r own class, who know how to keep their own working class in order. Their attitude during the Spanish conflict has been that General Franco is their sort of man. He belongs to the same class; he sends his son to the right school. The difficulty about the Red menace —[ Interruption' ] — I am not surprised that hon. Members laugh—is that when hon. Members opposite talk of the Red menace, and see it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.483.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "ogether, there again many of us on this side will have to do violence to our opinions because we shall have to bring into that orbit Soviet Russia. I am not prepared to regard Soviet Russia as a freedom-loving nation, but we cannot do without her now. She ought to be brought in. I should like to ask why we have not had staff talks long ago. It ought to have been done. After all, you have a nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "preceding_text": "pared to march into Eastern Europe, and it is in a logical continuation of that policy that we stand here to-night and say that this country should not now be at war to defend the remaining fragments of Czecho-Slovakia from being absorbed into the German Reich. In point of fact, after the Munich Agreement, the new Czecho-Slovak state was a puppet state of Germany. That was recognised by everybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donner", "preceding_text": "ever may be our opinions to-day, let us at any rate cherish no illusions about the facts. We are close enough to them, and they are perfectly easy to ascertain. Let us therefore cherish no illusions as to the nature of the facts which face us. No one, surely, with any knowledge of Czecho-Slovakia as it was can bear out or substantiate such an assertion as that of the Member for Central Wandsworth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Acland", "preceding_text": "sought for and given and there was cooperation, too late. To-day, however, Schuschnigg and the workers look out on the world from inside concentration camps. Have we to wait until this country is in precisely the same position before we can get unity here? Everybody here knows that within one day of the outbreak of war, if there were a war there would be a Cabinet including Members of all parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With honour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " can stand up at that Box and still say that that policy was right. I can understand that six months ago he believed it was right, and that, believing it was right, he felt, whatever opposition it excited, that it was his duty to attempt to carry it out. But how a man could come back from Munich, announcing to the enthusiastic crowd which assembled to meet him that he had found peace for our time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "o recently. Germany believed— I do not say she was correct— that Czecho-Slovakia was there at her back door like a kind of French policeman to keep her in subjection. I do not believe that any State consisting of warring and discordant nations such as those which exist in Czecho-Slovakia could ever remain a successful entity. It collapsed, as it was bound to collapse; and it collapsed from within.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " Friends at the time to separate himself from the front to which he had previously been attached. No, the responsibility rests in an exceptional degree upon the Prime Minister himself. It is his personal policy, which he has pursued in conflict with much of the best advice available for him, which has broken down. It is his personal judgment which has been weighed in the balance and found wanting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put in Cripps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " When we hear talk about leadership and about reformations of this and that kind—and many alternative reformations are now being floated by the promoters of such political ventures—it appears to me that one necessary preliminary condition of any reformation which can be supported by any large body of thoughtful and alert-minded citizens, is that the Prime Minister should disappear from his office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ed citizens, is that the Prime Minister should disappear from his office. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Put in Cripps.\"] I wonder which would do the better. That would be an interesting matter for debate on another occasion. For my own part I should never be interested in any proposals of any kind for such reformations until we first had the prospect of a different Prime Minister and a different foreign policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you believe it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "t after the Munich Conference, when the Prime Minister had signed the documents and gone away, high German personages conferred together with great self-satisfaction. One of the highest—not the Fuhrer himself, but one very near the throne—said, \"This simple old gentleman has here to-day signed the death warrant of the British Empire, but has left the date open for us to fill it in when we choose.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " have marched: It is a territory in which Germany is vitally interested and which for over a thousand years belonged to the German Reich. We must now secure the basis for a new fundamental settlement which will do justice to a thousand years of history. In other words, he is now invoking historical causes to justify his brutal invasion of that once free and happy model democracy in Central Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "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": " language, or the emphasis with which they pronounce their words. As a matter of fact, anybody who is really familiar with the Prime Minister's thought on this matter, and his expression of it, could see very well the deep feeling in what my right hon. Friend said in his speech. Ministers cannot exercise the freedom and vehemence of language which others may allow themselves. They are responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "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": "alth, on what he says, and that every phrase he employs may have a meaning and importance quite different from that of the language used by other hon. Members. I said that there will be general agreement that the extinction of Czecho-Slovakia is a terrible event, a wholly indefensible event, and that the method by which it is being brought about is the very opposite of that contemplated at Munich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.545.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.552.3", "colnum": "552", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That would mean war.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman challenges me, I am sorry he cannot remember my speech better, because he was present during the whole of it. What I said was that we ought to have summoned France and Russia to join us in supporting Czecho-Slovakia against unprovoked aggression, and that we ought to have entered into staff conversations with the Governments of these countries and of other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-15", "file": "debates1939-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "382f0daab3204f16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-15a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-16", "file": "debates1939-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "b9215771a3a8ea41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-16a.780.2", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGES, ETC., OF OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND ROYAL MARINES, AND CIVILIANS EMPLOYED ON FLEET SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "of the whole principle. Therefore, I could not accept the suggestion that, in addition to receiving the marriage allowance, the officer should keep his lodging allowance. The complaint never came from the officers when on shore. The real hardship for the officers was that when they were at sea they had nothing for the maintenance of their wives and children at home. That is where the shoe pinches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-16a.780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-17", "file": "debates1939-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d323e4c30d579fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIDING ESTABLISHMENTS (REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "preceding_text": "son like the Police witness who was quoted in the Press a few days ago as having said, \"It was very early in the morning, and I noticed that the horse had not got its shoes on yet.\" We sent a man who was at the top of his profession, one of the best known men in the country, and he has given a report which shows that 50 percent. of the schools are good, but that in his opinion 25 per cent are bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-17", "file": "debates1939-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d323e4c30d579fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIDING ESTABLISHMENTS (REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or at any time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Williams", "preceding_text": "ntradict a word of the letters which he read. So my hon. and gallant Friend built up his case carefully and steadily. Then he went on to a position in which I could not understand him so well. Apparently for some reason or other the present law is difficult to carry out. The great difficulty is that it is not possible to get into these establishments early in the morning in order to inspect them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-17", "file": "debates1939-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d323e4c30d579fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIDING ESTABLISHMENTS (REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "e Bill on their work. We are in general agreement except for the hon. Member for West Walthamstow (Mr. McEntee), that, while we want to do away with the cruel or bad riding school, we do not want to interfere with the very healthy exercise which the riding of horses provides for people of differing means. Riding is not only the privilege of the rich, but the enjoyment of people of all occupations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-17", "file": "debates1939-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "d323e4c30d579fee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.830.5", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIDING ESTABLISHMENTS (REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ould be considered. I notice that this definition, perhaps rather surprisingly, includes the stallion. Personally, I should have thought there was not so much need for that provision. Those who let out a stallion for hire take their own risk, and anybody who rides a stallion for hire would no doubt be perfectly equipped to do so, and would not need any protection from this Bill after a short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-17a.830.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-20", "file": "debates1939-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "39e0224a2c970657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The paravane.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Sir Murray Sueter", "preceding_text": "looking for the submarines, whereas the little airship could hover, go to windward, and drift back. I should like to know whether the Admiralty are doing anything or whether they have been in consultation with the Air Ministry in regard to the question of introducing airships again. This question should certainly be looked into very carefully, because they were of such great value in the last War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-20", "file": "debates1939-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "39e0224a2c970657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "Be that as it may, I do not think it affects my argument. I am sure that the \"Deutschland\" is not as heavily defended against anti-aircraft attack as our modern battleships, and I was talking about modern battleships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-20", "file": "debates1939-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "39e0224a2c970657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "NAVY SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You may speak with the leave of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "I am not entitled to speak again. I have spoken once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-20", "file": "debates1939-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "39e0224a2c970657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "CHINA (CURRENCY STABILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "It goes on to state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-20", "file": "debates1939-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "39e0224a2c970657", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CHINA (CURRENCY STABILISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "Obviously anything that increases or promotes trade between the two countries may make it easier for the Chinese Government to fulfil their obligations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-20a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-21", "file": "debates1939-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "f800789c6f96e043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1137.8", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1939 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "are of the danger of the mines without suffering any nervous reaction. I do not think they will. I am glad that the commission has been able to speak so strongly on the question of training and safety organisation, and so very definitely on the question of help—first-aid organisation. I have never seen much first-aid organisation in the mines in which I worked. It has been almost entirely ignored.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1137.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-21", "file": "debates1939-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "f800789c6f96e043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1939 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ate in the mines and the risk of death in the mines which the miner runs. It would be fairer to say that the risk of fatal accident in the mines is approximately the same as the risk of fatal accident in the merchant shipping service. It is also fair to put the point before the House that the risk of death in the mines is probably a smaller risk than the risk of death on the roads of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-21", "file": "debates1939-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "f800789c6f96e043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1939 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " bring forward his own arithmetic, and perhaps he will alow me to do mine. On the railways there is an annual toll of death from accidents which is very considerable. We regard our railway system as the safest and best in the world, and I have not the slightest doubt that it is, but I do not suppose that hon. Members opposite know how many men were killed on the railways of this country last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-21", "file": "debates1939-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "f800789c6f96e043", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1939 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "ose fundamental errors which were made from 1910 onwards in depriving the unions of their real functions and of the real benefits which they conferred upon their members. I think it is fair to say that prior to 1910 the trade unions of this country were beginning to perform their duties in a most admirable way. Generations of trade union leaders had grown up, employers were becoming more civilised", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-21a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-22", "file": "debates1939-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b55044c2871c7139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1258.9", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"The Daily Worker?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "What about British newspaper representatives who are now in Czecho-Slovakia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1258.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-22", "file": "debates1939-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b55044c2871c7139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1314.3", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (RESTRICTIONS ON BANKING ACCOUNTS,) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "er left funds in Czecho-Slovakia or invested funds in Czecho-Slovakia, relying upon the assurances of the British Government and the other Governments signatory to the Munich Pact. This is a point well worth making. There are a number of British investors, and other investors, who, after the Munich Pact, regarded Czecho-Slovakia in some respects one of the safest places in which to put their money", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-22", "file": "debates1939-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b55044c2871c7139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SERVICE, WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More shame to them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "id not go beyond the facts when she said that other parts of the United Kingdom show similar problems. The report on Rural Housing in Scotland certainly drew widespread attention, particularly among Scottish Members, to conditions there, and the hon. Lady herself, sitting as she does on my Housing Committee, knows that the housing conditions in rural England are in many ways highly unsatisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-22", "file": "debates1939-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b55044c2871c7139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SERVICE, WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Better wages!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "riculture, and the poverty of the agricultural worker, the low rate of agricultural wages, and the low state of nutrition in the rural areas are things which are not always recognised. You talk about people flocking from the countryside into the town, but they do not do that from original sin, but because they get more to eat there, because they get better houses and a more enjoyable kind of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-22", "file": "debates1939-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b55044c2871c7139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SERVICE, WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " into relation with one another, and that the segregation which is one of the great factors in the checking of tuberculosis is thoroughly and efficiently carried out. That is a matter for those who, like the hon. Member, are the leaders of their people in their own areas; it certainly cannot be enjoined upon the people by legislation passed by this House. The report refers to the defensive attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-22", "file": "debates1939-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b55044c2871c7139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SERVICE, WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "m made a detailed investigation. One hundred and forty-two houses were built in 1938 in that county, and in the borough of Welshpool orders were confirmed for the demolition of 131 houses, and 100 new houses were erected. In the borough of Llanidloes orders were confirmed for the demolition of 53 houses, and 30 new houses were erected. In Llanfyllin, 16 new houses were erected, and in Machynlleth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-22", "file": "debates1939-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "b55044c2871c7139", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS SERVICE, WALES AND MONMOUTHSHIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "folk lore and the old home lore is gone. I have been brought up in the country, and I remember the days when people did cook at home. I do not say that there is no cooking going on anywhere in the country, or in Wales, but in large districts in England such as parts of Yorkshire, the old days of home-cooking are gone and the day of the peripatetic grocer has come in. The old stockpot is not there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-22a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-23", "file": "debates1939-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd9cb73f9a7e1d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "NUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "re untouched by anything. They come under no health authority of any sort. Our problem is how to prevent malnutrition among these children. I am certain that a great many people do not understand what malnutrition is. It is not hunger and it is not starvation. It is merely a lack of proper food, mainly in childhood. It comes partly from ignorance but mainly from poverty. We have to face that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-23", "file": "debates1939-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd9cb73f9a7e1d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "NUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " is rather terrible to think that as a nation we spend three times as much on intoxicating drink as on education, five times as much as on old-age pensions, three and a-half times as much as on bread, and nearly three times as much as on milk. The average expenditure on drink per head of the population is £512s. 9d. and we spend £119s. per head on milk. As to what we spend on gambling—my goodness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-23", "file": "debates1939-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd9cb73f9a7e1d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "NUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolute nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": " children should be given an annual holiday in those camps which we have probably got to form for air-raid precautions, if for no other reason; and that cooking and dietetic values should be better taught in our schools. It may be said that every one could understand good cooking if they only had the money to spend on food, but English women are in the main exceedingly ignorant concerning cookery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-23", "file": "debates1939-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd9cb73f9a7e1d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "NUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "od, but English women are in the main exceedingly ignorant concerning cookery—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolute nonsense!\"] It is no good saying it is absolute nonsense. We have many national virtues, but we have many national failings, and a real knowledge of cookery and the best methods of utilising every portion of our joints and of our own food products is not one of the virtues of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-23", "file": "debates1939-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd9cb73f9a7e1d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "NUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend on the Front Bench referred in particular to the British Medical Association standard. That standard has often been misunderstood. It arose because the Ministry of Health produced a standard of what they thought was necessary to spend on food to give a minimum standard of nutrition. The British Medical Association, representing the medical profession in the country, did not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-23", "file": "debates1939-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "bd9cb73f9a7e1d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "NUTRITION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "e are class standards in the matter of health. There is an elementary standard for the children in elementary schools. I loathe the term \"elementary education,\" though it is still employed by the Board. It means the smallest possible amount of education which is just sufficient to make the children of working-class men and women educated enough to serve as humbly as possible the people above them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-23a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-24", "file": "debates1939-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "27f7d172f93e0d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1612.4", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Powers of Treasury.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "tee which we are now giving, but will have only a limited right to investigate the accounts of this exchange fund which may involve the taxpayer in a loss of£5,000,000. The right hon. Gentleman knows that in the case of the British Exchange Equalisation Fund, which is for the purpose of keeping the British£sterling on a level keel, this House has full control through the Public Accounts Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-24", "file": "debates1939-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "27f7d172f93e0d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "WHEAT (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": " War, and in the other aspect of his service to the Government all the time handing out largess to a particular section of the community who can generally be relied upon to be firm supporters of a Conservative or a Conservative Coalition Government. That is what has led to the situation in which we are paying out in one form or another to the agricultural industry something like£40,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-24", "file": "debates1939-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "27f7d172f93e0d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "WHEAT (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "a year. [ Interruption, ] I shall be glad when we go into Committee to argue that in detail, and I do not think I shall have much difficulty in proving the figures. We shall have great difficulty in finding any other industry which is being treated in that way, or any evidence that the expenditure of that subsidy to agriculture is really finding its way into the pockets of the agricultural worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-24", "file": "debates1939-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "27f7d172f93e0d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "WHEAT (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "preceding_text": "ain 4 per cent. of other matter and still be regarded as commercial wheat. That is the gist of what the sub-section says in legal form. It says that, up to the limit of 4 per cent. of extraneous matter—a few grains of other cereals, for example—the wheat and extraneous matter shall be regarded as the \"wheaten content\" The use of the figure \"four ninety-sixths\" is merely another way of saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-24a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLITICAL BROADCASTS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where was the B.B.C. on 7th May?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Where was the Liberal party on Friday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1732.4", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A very real one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I will not pursue the right hon. Gentleman's rather pink herring at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1732.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "Mr. H. G. Williams rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": " have been unsurpassed. You need only look at the representation in this House to test their loyalty. The cotton workers who, in spite of all that has happened during the past few years, have been humble enough to imagine that by consistently voting Conservative they were raising their hopes of entry into the millennium for Lancashire, must have been sadly disillusioned during the past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1783.1", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And still are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, and the financial crisis which developed, as the hon. Member will suggest, as a consequence of that experience led them to the position in which their hopes were to be centred in the return of our hon. Friend. They came back. Still they were trusted by the cotton operatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1794.3", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why upstairs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "preceding_text": "te for it, and when it came to the merchanting section—those poor people who have to deal with the product —there was a killing majority against it. As I say, however, that does not affect the merits of the Bill. I had been asked to move the rejection of the Bill, but as the President of the Board of Trade intimated that he intended to give time upstairs in which it could be properly investigated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Fildes", "preceding_text": "d not get a shilling back for them. He takes all this responsibility, and I would ask the Government not to divorce the interests of the merchant from those of the cotton trade. It is vital that we carry the good will of the merchant, because in the supplying of his needs— and I am talking of the export trade entirely—if you treat him too roughly, he has other sources of supply to which he can go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-27", "file": "debates1939-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "72584d8f36e8ad3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1818.2", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "It is not in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-27a.1818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-28", "file": "debates1939-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "19923664eb39b2da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-28a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS, 1935 TO 1938.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "ent are going to save annually about £130,000 or £140,000. In other words, while they are reducing contributions to the agricultural labourers Unemployment Insurance Fund, and while they are supposed to be giving the unemployed agricultural workers increases of benefit, the Government are actually saving for the Treasury as much as they are giving to the agricultural workers in increased benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-28a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-03-29", "file": "debates1939-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "c78922ee3c96938a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-29a.2015.7", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "preceding_text": "Before the Prime Minister replies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-29a.2015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-31", "file": "debates1939-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5dcf3593f993c342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2418.1", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rces to prevent us going to war, and I suggest to the Prime Minister that if he wants to give real service to the country in such a critical and dangerous position he will give the opportunity and give the responsibility to some one who all along has believed in the principle of collective security to organise a government that will pursue with the utmost speed a policy that will save us from war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-31", "file": "debates1939-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5dcf3593f993c342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I understand the policy of the Labour movement—and I have been a member of the Labour movement all my life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-31", "file": "debates1939-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5dcf3593f993c342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2418.3", "colnum": "2418", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " that of the hon. Member. The serious and important thing is that Members on this side of the House have continuously asserted that with collective security peace could be saved. The Prime Minister's policy has collapsed. Now he has led the country to the brink of war and I suggest the time has come when this Government—[HON. MEM BERS: \"Sit down!\"] If Members on this side had stood with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-03-31", "file": "debates1939-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "5dcf3593f993c342", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2419.3", "colnum": "2419", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ll mean, and I can assure the right hon. Gentleman and the House that, if the Debate takes place on Monday, we shall have some critical remarks to make about the right hon. Gentleman and his policy, which I believe has led up to the position in which we are at the moment; and I can assure hon. Members that, just as we on these Benches have fought for our country in the past, and would do so again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-03-31a.2419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2454.11", "colnum": "2454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BASQUE CHILDREN (REPATRIATION).", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that one of the great difficulties of the committee responsible for the Basque children in endeavouring to arrange their return to their parents is that they have so endeared themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2454.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2475.3", "colnum": "2475", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " events of recent weeks, is aching for settled peace and the establishment of law and order—there was no moment more propitious than now for Britain to take a strong lead. Briefly, because I realise that there are many people who would wish to speak to-day, I say that the Three-Power Pact must not be a repetition of the Czecho-Slovakian tragedy. We led Czechoslovakia to believe that we would help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2506.1", "colnum": "2506", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ould make it quite clear to him that you can do it. Then he will not attack. Is it clear? If war occurred to-morrow, you could not send a single battalion to Poland. Let us speak quite frankly. France could not. She would be confronted with fortifications which are infinitely more formidable than the Hindenburg line, which took us four years to break through, with casualties running into millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2508.1", "colnum": "2508", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "st suit him; it will give him his opportunity, when France is engaged with Germany. It is quite true that in 1915 Italy abandoned the Triple Alliance, but do not forget two facts about that. The Triple Alliance definitely excluded war with Britain. In the second place, tremendous territorial expansions were promised to Italy by France and by Britain. We did not break our promise; we gave Jubaland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2515.1", "colnum": "2515", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "e House back to that fact. I ask hon. Members to remember this. I have said it here before and I repeat it now. From 1914 to 1918 we took part in the same kind of struggle as that which has been visualised in the speeches today, and the Allied Powers won. Yet to-day, 20 years after, while the wounded men are still in our midst we are working ourselves up into the belief that war can settle things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2535.1", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "t to follow the discussion and the plan of action of that great figure the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George). Everyone in this House respects him so much for what he was, and is so often puzzled by what he is. If his speech meant anything it was to warn every small nation in Europe to have nothing to do with the alliance which this Government have concluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2535.1", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ll nation in Europe to have nothing to do with the alliance which this Government have concluded. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Well, I will put it this way: if I were the prime minister of a small European State I would read the right hon. Gentleman's speech as saying, \"Do not come in on any account until you have got Russia\"—the right hon. Gentleman's great secret. That is a fair estimate of the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2535.1", "colnum": "2535", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The white feather.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "t to make. I wish the Government would consider one aspect of National Service. I fail to understand the arguments of those who are against conscription. The Government would be wise, if we are to have voluntary service and not conscription—and I should be glad if the responsible Minister would put this point to the Government—to give a medal or a ribbon to the volunteers to wear on their clothes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2537.1", "colnum": "2537", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He has never been away from it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "er \"Both.\" We must encourage those who volunteer and we must discourage and shame those who do not. It may sound cruel and going back to the white feather game of 1914, but it would be a very good thing. AH shades of opinion in this House and the country—I would like to think that that included even the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps), who has come back to the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2557.1", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "preceding_text": "r of the League to take some action which it ought to have taken. Is it suggested that other members of the League wished to go further in action against Italy at that time? Everyone knows that we supplied the motive force at Geneva. We supplied the chief motive force which drove on the League to go even as far as it went, and to do even as much as it did against Italy and in defence of Abyssinia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2561.1", "colnum": "2561", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "preceding_text": "Perfectly, but its meaning was there made clear. What excites my protest is the indiscriminate use of this phrase without explanation of its precise meaning. I am thankful that since the Prime Minister came to hold his high office we as a people have shaken ourselves free from the use of these mischievously ambiguous phrases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2569.3", "colnum": "2569", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "r else with the deliberate intention to deceive the public—and I myself, knowing the Foreign Office, inclined towards the former alternative. Now we have the same thing again—a similar article with a similar tendency; another Slav victim to be sacrificed on the altar of Printing House Square: Poles to-day, Czechs yesterday. These traitors of Printing House Square, this residue of the Cliveden set—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2569.3", "colnum": "2569", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "hey are compelled to do mischief. I ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer bluntly, who is responsible for this? If the Government have investigated, what is the result of their investigation? I can imagine only four alternative sources. First, the Foreign Office; second, No. 10, Downing Street: the Prime Minister's entourage—is it possible that Sir Horace Wilson, on instructions, gave this guidance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2579.1", "colnum": "2579", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e guarantee came into operation. I ask for that reassurance. Herr Hitler and the controlled German Press have spoken much about encirclement. Hon. Members in all parts of the House have made reference to that matter, and I also will venture to make specific reference to it. Who is encircled in Europe to-day? Who has been encircled and strangled recently? Czechoslovakia was encircled and strangled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ely plain before the House now, if only for purposes of record. It is the contrast between the situation as it was six months ago and the situation as it is to-day, because it happens to be almost exactly six months to a day. I have been much impressed during the Debate to observe how the House of Commons, I think generally, realises that there is no inconsistency in the Prime Minister's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-03", "file": "debates1939-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "78731e41157917d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2583.1", "colnum": "2583", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "sistency in the Prime Minister's position. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] My right hon. Friend is quite sufficiently straightforward to come here and say so, if he repented of what he had done. There is, in fact, a development but nothing which can really be called inconsistency, and he is entitled to say in a phrase of his distinguished father's, that it is not he, but the circumstances that have changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-03a.2583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-04", "file": "debates1939-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "deb7505a33276530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-04a.2647.1", "colnum": "2647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about outdoor signs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "glare from blast furnaces, coke ovens and processes involving the exposure from time to time of quantities of molten metal. The glare resulting in such cases is visible from the air at very great distances and its distinctive characteristics, we are told, make it an unmistakable guide for an airman. Therefore, it is essential that provision should be made for obscuring or extinguishing such glare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-04a.2647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-04", "file": "debates1939-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "deb7505a33276530", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-04a.2654.1", "colnum": "2654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " That seems to be a pretty mean state of affairs. If volunteers come along for air-raid precautions work and are injured in the course of their duty, it is common decency that, as far as medical treatment is concerned, and in the case of limited means and loss of wages, we should see them through I hope that the Clause will be looked at from that point of view before we get to the Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-04a.2654.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-04-05", "file": "debates1939-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "6069ebdbd7bfb25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2773.1", "colnum": "2773", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "use in July, 1938, about the defence of Gibraltar, the Prime Minister stated that the whole question of the strategical position of Gibraltar and its defence was under review by the Committee of Imperial Defence, and that no further action was necessary; and that a month or two later, at the time of the crisis, the Governor of Gibraltar said that there were only two anti-aircraft guns on the Rock?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-05", "file": "debates1939-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "6069ebdbd7bfb25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2778.2", "colnum": "2778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "It seems to be a very small matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-05", "file": "debates1939-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "6069ebdbd7bfb25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2923.1", "colnum": "2923", "heading": "Table IV.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are doing so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " earlier Debate that the motive power behind the new instrument which is being forged in this Bill would need to be increased. We shall do all we can to increase the vigour and energy with which these preparations are being pursued. But the matter does not rest solely with the central Government. We must look to local authorities to apply themselves with the necessary vigour to their preparations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-05", "file": "debates1939-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "6069ebdbd7bfb25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2923.1", "colnum": "2923", "heading": "Table IV.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Waiting for guidance\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " matter does not rest solely with the central Government. We must look to local authorities to apply themselves with the necessary vigour to their preparations. [Hon. Members: \"They are doing so.\"] I do not say that by way of complaint. Very often, when there is a hitch or when there are delays, and complaint is made of the central Government, sometimes the blame should be laid on other shoulders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-05", "file": "debates1939-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "6069ebdbd7bfb25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2926.7", "colnum": "2926", "heading": "Table IV.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "o a final decision of policy on the matter of these more heavily-protected shelters. Very considerable technical investigation was necessary as a preliminary to the formulation of a final policy. Hon. Members who have spoken about deep shelters have spoken as if there was some definite entity which could be identified at once by anyone speaking about a deep shelter or a strongly-protected shelter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2926.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-05", "file": "debates1939-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "6069ebdbd7bfb25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2939.3", "colnum": "2939", "heading": "Table IV.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Or Bournemouth\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Poole", "preceding_text": " hostilities and wholly unprepared, not having made the necessary provision because they have not felt like putting that added burden upon their people? Why should the industrial Midlands, for instance, be called upon, in defence of their civil population, because some men are compelled to live there, to bear a heavier burden than those who are fortunate enough to live in Aberystwith or Blackpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-05", "file": "debates1939-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "6069ebdbd7bfb25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2950.1", "colnum": "2950", "heading": "Table IV.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": " its empty benches. Two of our own Members are sitting on the Liberal benches to preserve the decency and the reputation of the Liberal party. I can imagine that in a state of emergency there would be no safer place than the House of Commons. Members are so seldom here that you would be able to have the accommodation of this House and utilise it for a proper purpose in the interests of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-05a.2950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-06", "file": "debates1939-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "907d07ff25e4b8a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-06a.3121.1", "colnum": "3121", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Bartlett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"San Marino.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Bartlett", "preceding_text": " arrive at a moment of great national crisis and then ask the people to accept compulsory National Service. I think it is better to face up to that issue before the crisis arrives, and I do not think it is fair to ask the people to make that great change in their whole national make-up. I believe the only States which have not got some form of compulsory national service are Luxembourg and Monaco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-06a.3121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.5.3", "colnum": "5", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "owever discouraging the outlook may seem at this moment. The events of which we have complained in the past, and those which we condemn to-day, cannot have failed to stir the minds and consciences of all peoples, whether within or without the countries most concerned, and surely, if slowly, they are working towards a common recognition of a common danger. Let us, therefore, not put patience aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.5.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " of Russia. If you refer in terms like those to a great country whose friendship you need, you must not be surprised if it is not ready to jump to your aid. The Russians know perfectly well that there are a great many people in this country who have been saying and writing in the newspapers what a good thing it would be if Germany would go East and if there were trouble between Russia and Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are helping it, are you not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "e someone stated them. It is time the Government realised that it is that atmosphere, which has been developed in the relations between Russia and this country, which they must make every effort now to dissipate. We need the friendship of Russia and it is going to call for a great deal of effort on behalf of this Government and the leaders of public opinion in this country to secure it for us now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "ic and territorial conditions that may lead to war.\" I know that Herr Hitler is an extremely difficult person, I know that Signor Mussolini is a very elusive person, but I know that those two men understand as clearly as anyone in this House what another war, a colossal war, will mean to them. No one up to the present has flung down the challenge to them in that way, \"Come let us reason together.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "fferences and hatreds. Therefore, I think the assurance of the Prime Minister can be taken to mean exactly what it says—that every effort is being made by the Government at the present time to find agreement between those nations that are prepared to band themselves together to resist aggression. I believe that the policy of the Government is perfectly right; I believe it has been right all along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "ecause we are making our position more and more risky by every move we take. Before the Debate, I had a telegram from six of the leading doctors of North Staffordshire. They are not politicians, but just ordinary men I know who are working at the Infirmary. The telegram reads: Demand anti-aggression pact, including Russia, also strengthening of Cabinet by inclusion of discarded patriotic Ministers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.87.2", "colnum": "87", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " our hearts that it is only the moral forces of the world that are going to save the world, and I, for one, hope that this country is going to take the moral initiative in trying to bring to its senses a world that seems to be going mad. The hon. Member for Oxford spoke about antipathy to the Front Bench opposite. We folks here, like even the dictator countries, get the Government that we deserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.87.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Conscription\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Evans", "preceding_text": "I share the view that in time of national emergency the whole resources of the nation should be organised and mobilised in the service of the nation. On the question of the organisation of wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ocialists and Liberals who have fooled themselves, I will be prepared to eat my hat. I hope the Prime Minister has not lately been suffering from severe indigestion. What is to us a little discouraging is to find, during these years when we have been in Opposition and the Prime Minister and his colleagues in power, how continually our appreciations of the international situation have been correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ten right than he has been. We said he was being fooled by Signor Mussolini, and to-day it is difficult for him to deny that that is what has happened. But, just as he believes that a year ago in entering into the Anglo-Italian Agreement he was right, so also he believes that a little more than six months ago, when he entered into the agreement at Munich with the other dictator, he was right then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-13", "file": "debates1939-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "f08b6eeb66af38a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "back within ten days, in view of the very grave events that have occurred, and we are able to announce to-day, in agreement with the French Government, the arrangements made in regard to Greece and Rumania— not many people would expect that we could in so short a time have carried it so far. The Government certainly is not open to the reproach that it has been dawdling or hesitating in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-13a.133.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read them out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "No doubt the evening papers will be able to get them in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.156.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.175.6", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAZI ORGANISATIONS AND PROPAGANDA, ENGLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there are Members of this House associated with these Nazis in their propaganda?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " and fail to recognise that young people to-day will often loyally adhere to principles, the reasonableness of which has been proved, while they are goaded into rebellion by prohibitions for which they can see no good reason, and which suggest merely a too tyrannical authority That is a maxim which might well be adopted not only in schools and hospitals, but sometimes in political parties as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " \"I will take steps to see that it is rectified.\" But usually when trouble occurs in the institution of which a woman is head, one of the junior staff is immediately produced as the appropriate victim. If there is a lady at the head—I am speaking from a very wide municipal experience— and if the lady is slightly over 50 years of age, the victim is usually the best-looking young woman on the staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.317.4", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "been made both on the employment and on the unemployment side? I want to say, in the first place, that I think the majority of the House will not agree with the Amendment as it is drafted, because we are asked to make this inquiry realising that existing economic conditions have produced a permanent army of unemployed. I certainly could not institute an inquiry or formulate a policy on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.317.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cotton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nt. in the years 1923–38. In many sections of the industry mechanisation and rationalisation have been widely extended. Moreover, it is noteworthy that one result of the great increase in the manufacture of electrical appliances for sweeping and cleaning has been an increase of employment in the brush and broom industry. It may be said: These are all new industries; what about the old ones?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With what result?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " J. Griffiths), there was no general case of disadvantage to elderly men throughout the country, though it is true that in Durham and South Wales and in the mining districts their case is harder perhaps than in any other trade. But I took what administrative steps were possible through the machinery of the Ministry of Labour and called the attention of \"employers to the case of men of 45 and over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-18", "file": "debates1939-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "ab947cdd44f78614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "of older men in various areas got jobs. Not only that, but a number of local committees have made inquiries and investigations and made special application to employers on behalf of individual elderly men But I find it difficult to deal with some hon. Members opposite because they always want to assume that there is a general policy which will apply everywhere to everyone. There is no such policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-18a.327.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-19", "file": "debates1939-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3343f17e3df688b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-19a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They often do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "Certainly. Let us consider exactly what is the scope of it. It is rather a difficult Clause. The idea was this: That there may be circumstances in which it is important to guard against the danger of a society and a builder operating in league with one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-19a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-19", "file": "debates1939-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3343f17e3df688b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-19a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "would like to see a Clause in the Bill to the effect that as regards building society accounts, it should be made clear in each annual report how much of their funds are collateral securities and how much actual investments. I think that rise to £127,000,000 from £9,000,000 is not accounted for only by investments. A considerable amount of the annual increase, we believe, is collateral securities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-19a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-20", "file": "debates1939-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "750756eb56cbff7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The sites are not selected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ed that point. Two-thirds of England and Wales is under planning already and, as these camps are by hypothesis to be between 20 and 40 miles from large towns, I think I can give the Committee the assurance that there is practically no land adjacent to them which is not covered by town and country planning control. Does not that go far to meet the point which the Committee wish to have safeguarded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-20", "file": "debates1939-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "750756eb56cbff7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "s relevant to the subject before the Committee. In the first place, the ground is covered by the Town and Country Planning Acts. Secondly, we are agreed that in the Bill the companies have all the necessary power to purchase sites of ade- quate size and to go further and purchase sites necessary for recreational purposes. Is there anything further that the Committee would desire of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-20", "file": "debates1939-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "750756eb56cbff7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.616.12", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Robinson", "preceding_text": "be, to introduce this subsidised competition without again coming to the House of Commons and asking permission to do so for a specific purpose. There has been a certain amount of confusion, the President of the Board of Education, a member of the Cabinet, speaking in another place, has said that he would like to see these camps used for purposes far beyond those which are visualised in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.616.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-20", "file": "debates1939-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "750756eb56cbff7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": ", a statutory limitation preventing them from using the camp. I fully agree with what my hon. Friends have said with regard to the fact that these camps ought to be available only for those who really need them. There are two safeguards against abuse and against these camps seriously competing with the holiday resorts. These camps are, after all, likely to be of a pretty rough-and-ready character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-20", "file": "debates1939-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "750756eb56cbff7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "ught to be available only for those who really need them. There are two safeguards against abuse and against these camps seriously competing with the holiday resorts. These camps are, after all, likely to be of a pretty rough-and-ready character. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If we were offered a fortnight in one of these camps or a fortnight at Blackpool, I believe that most of us would choose Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.624.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-04-20", "file": "debates1939-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "750756eb56cbff7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Robinson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends and I appreciate very much such assurances as were given by the Parliamentary Secretary. We wish they had gone further, and we hope that in whatever future action he may take, he will not be influenced by the Socialist arguments of some of the hon. Members who have spoken. In the circumstances I beg to ask leave to withdraw my Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-20a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-21", "file": "debates1939-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "2cc262c0dad170a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-21a.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACCESS TO MOUNTAINS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ikers and ramblers. We let people bathe in certain parts and in other parts we explain politely to them that they had better not bathe there because of fishing or because the water supply of some neighbouring village is affected. It is important for us to keep the purity of our streams. I am not casting aspersions on bathers, but it is better that such streams should not be used as bathing places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-21a.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-24", "file": "debates1939-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "7fa08fe18e326a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.779.4", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there is a very strong feeling on this matter among many of his own supporters, who are committed to some plan for the conscription of wealth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-24", "file": "debates1939-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "7fa08fe18e326a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.779.4", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there is a very strong feeling on this matter among many of his own supporters, who are committed to some plan for the conscription of wealth? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"] Is he aware that some of his supporters in this House have committed themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-24", "file": "debates1939-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "7fa08fe18e326a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.805.5", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "bout it. The matter has been brought to my attention by various people, not only by one group but by numbers of people, and very naturally I have been most seriously perturbed about it myself, as I am a medical man and take a special interest in that side of air-raid precautions. I willingly pay the tribute to the Lord Privy Seal that to some extent the organisation now is much better than it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.805.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-24", "file": "debates1939-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "7fa08fe18e326a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And hang if necessary \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for North Islington (Dr. Guest) has served a useful purpose by raising this issue at this stage. I take it that the Government's policy is to concentrate, as far as practicable, authority, power and responsibility—particularly responsibility—in relation to Civil Defence, in the hands of the Lord Privy Seal. He is the officer responsible, whom we shall make responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.810.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-04-24", "file": "debates1939-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "7fa08fe18e326a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.889.4", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Is it the pleasure of the Committee that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-24", "file": "debates1939-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "7fa08fe18e326a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": " Minister has spoken of the different meanings of vulnerability as applied to evacuation and to the possibility of factories being in a dangerous position. This is a matter on which very clear thinking is required. If in this Bill there is to be a new kind of English in which the word \"vulnerable\" is used in different senses as applied to different subjects, we shall get into very great confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-24a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-25", "file": "debates1939-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a92f99a442bbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ney which we can still, in these difficult times, spend on social services is very remarkable. I want to make one constructive suggestion and to reinforce a plea that I made in this House a year ago. I want the Government, if they possibly can, to set up a committee of inquiry or a commission to inquire into the whole working of local government. I am sure that there we can economise a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-25", "file": "debates1939-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a92f99a442bbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Samuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Samuel", "preceding_text": " policy been successful in the way it was adopted in the United States, I believe upon the advice of an English economist? Of course not. By no manner of means. Our opponents have often adopted an old war cry, which we have heard several times this afternoon and shall undoubtedly hear again in the next few days, namely, that the foreign policy of the Government has made this expenditure necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-25", "file": "debates1939-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a92f99a442bbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Allen", "preceding_text": " that there was to be no increase in the Tea Duty, but the one thing that I regret in connection with the whole business is the increase in the cost of a pipe of tobacco to the old people. I do not know what the big tobacco companies will do. They distribute to their shareholders vast sums of money which have been provided to a large extent by the poor fellows who smoke the humble pipe of tobacco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-25", "file": "debates1939-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a92f99a442bbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": " the Liberal Opposition said he would take it upon himself to stop the motor trade, if necessary, altogether. I would not think of doing that. Income Tax has to be raised, and one cannot pay Income Tax until one makes income or profits. How to keep the finances of the country going if there is no income and no profit is a mystery to me. I can call \"spirits from the vasty deep,\" but will they come?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-25", "file": "debates1939-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "c7a92f99a442bbfd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How would they get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "behalf of these old people, and I suggest to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he should give this matter his most earnest consideration. Thousands of old people, who receive only the pittance of the old age pension, have to go on public relief, and are therefore receiving money from public funds. Why cannot the Government pay them in one payment instead of in two payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-25a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You could change the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "or two. But let me for a moment pause to point out what would be the position if the pledge were to be interpreted as I understand the Leader of the Opposition interpreted it, and if the Government held the view which I have just described. It would mean that we could not take a measure which we believed to be necessary for the safety of the country unless, first of all, we had a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "conscription of wealth in a capitalist and class society like our own, would have been a most convincing gesture. It would have had the advantage of giving a reassurance from the very quarter from which it is needed, because foreign workers have no doubt at all about where British workers stand in resisting aggression, and they have no doubt at all about the British workers' devotion to democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "r nations. I have made one alternative proposal, and I could make others, but I do not wish to delay the House. But I am afraid that, for reasons which I will give later, foreign nations will fail to be impressed by the proposals of His Majesty's Government. The second reason given by the Prime Minister in his statement yesterday, and repeated by him to-day, is that the voluntary system is unjust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Chancellor?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "embers of that Government before the War and at the election preceding it. I certainly declaimed against it with the utmost vigour. When, however, the crisis of the War was reached and it was found to be absolutely necessary to have conscription, hardly any of the Ministers found the slightest difficulty in voting for it. Nor did Parliament find the slightest difficulty in prolonging its own life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Spain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "pposition said, for nearly three years. We have been losing this war. We have had three disastrous campaigns and the battles, the actions of the war, have gone against not only us but against the principles of law and freedom, against the interests of the peaceful and progressive democracies. Those battles already make a long catalogue—the Rhineland Abyssinia, Austria, Munich, Prague, and Albania.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " badly; I should like to know whose fault that is. It is just a week ago yesterday that I was approached by the Lord Lieutenant of my county who had got all the deputy-lieutenants together to start recruiting. They could not start because they had not got the correct papers. We are holding our first recruiting meeting next Sunday, but you have already damned recruiting by bringing in this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I wish you were right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1382.5", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " these benches much more would be if there had been some beginning of staff talks with the Russian fighting forces and if this were part of a concerted plan. In that case we should have a really good argument to use for bringing in conscription. We have no argument except the French Press. Weighing one thing against another, I think the placating of the French Conservative Press is a small matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1382.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1383.3", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "urkey. Hitherto, our agreements with those countries have been purely unilateral; we have pledged ourselves to defend them, and they have made no offer to defend us. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) has said that, if Gibraltar were attacked, France would immediately declare war. Probably France would. But I have grave doubts whether, if we were attacked, Poland would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1383.3", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not unilateral with Poland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "and, or Bulgaria, or Rumania, or any of these countries will spring to arms if we alone are attacked. Here was a magnificent opportunity for us to say: \"We will adopt conscription in England, we will abolish our age-old habit of voluntary service, on one condition—to get from you a pledge that you will help us,\" instead of the unilateral pacts that we have with those countries at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I would say during the last three months. Prior to that, the Government were wholly on the other side, and all for what is called appeasement. We had unity for a short time, but that unity has been sacrificed, and I am ashamed to say I think it has been sacrificed with great pleasure by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only if it comes to war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "try that they wish to give? On this question of conscription of wealth I might remind the hon. Member opposite that a Motion in my name dealing with this subject is still on the Order Paper, and the Motion we are discussing to-day has been taken from that, without acknowledgment, in a somewhat amplified form by the Government. I certainly agree wholeheartedly with the view that if it comes to war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "re available for the purpose of clearing away debris and being able to extricate people who may be beneath it, for the purpose of shoring up and protecting houses and repairing them. All this has been done in a voluntary way with a desire to help the Government and the country in the situation which might arise as the result of war. That is a matter of great importance. Is that all now jettisoned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "e to extricate people who may be beneath it, for the purpose of shoring up and protecting houses and repairing them. All this has been done in a voluntary way with a desire to help the Government and the country in the situation which might arise as the result of war. That is a matter of great importance. Is that all now jettisoned? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Is the voluntary system to be thrown aside?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": " with a desire to help the Government and the country in the situation which might arise as the result of war. That is a matter of great importance. Is that all now jettisoned? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Is the voluntary system to be thrown aside? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Further, is the appeal to reason on behalf of the nation for the sacrifice, which has been met so enthusiastically, no longer of avail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "n which might arise as the result of war. That is a matter of great importance. Is that all now jettisoned? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Is the voluntary system to be thrown aside? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Further, is the appeal to reason on behalf of the nation for the sacrifice, which has been met so enthusiastically, no longer of avail? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] You are cutting right across this arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has just come in. I said before he came that I also go to France and also meet Frenchmen. I went to France during the first six months of the War and I talked to Frenchmen and Frenchwomen during that time. I never heard a word during that period about this matter. To have it all thrown out now in order to make an argument for conscription is rather mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": ", but I have taken a great interest in the subject for many years. When a young man, as a Volunteer first of all and then a Territorial, I spent a considerable part of my time also in attendance at Militia training. The old Militia recruits did six months training and thereafter came up for three weeks or a month a year in the subsequent three years. In those days they were the real down and outs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Gentleman is trying to persuade the people of this country that it is all right this time. Let me say, quite frankly, that we do not believe that this new proposal of the Government's means national security. The Prime Minister has bounded about clutching at one straw after another. He clutched at appeasement. Appeasement is a word that is not popular now on that side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-27", "file": "debates1939-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b693fcaf9d30f05a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ortly. The British Labour movement, which has been shabbily treated in this situation, which has made its offers and done its best, and on which this country must rely in the last resort, stands by its policy. We are not going to sacrifice a limited measure of freedom here at the dictates of the totalitarian States. We, who perhaps know the masses of this country better than hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-27a.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-04-28", "file": "debates1939-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "95af3c35a8769c05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-28a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARITIES (FUEL ALLOTMENTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I shall carry all my hon. Friends on these Benches with me in what I have to say. I do not want to dwell upon the merits of the Bill, but I wish that somebody would tell us how on earth it comes about that the word \"fuel\" is used to describe a patch of land. I always thought that the word \"fuel\" meant something that could be burned. Now I understand that a fuel allotment means land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-04-28a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1486.7", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Are those statements correct?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1486.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1518.2", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "of crisis. Huge incomes are still being received by a small number, in business, at the Bar and in other professions, and also by the idle receipt of unearned income in enormous sums. Huge profits are still being made by armament manufacturers and others. Huge fortunes are still being accumulated and transferred on the deaths of their owners after comparatively small deductions by way of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1518.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1567.3", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The capital levy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "That may be true, but it is significant that the subject was subsequently dropped. I was one of the unsuccessful in the 1922 election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ertain we should win. I do not blame them for attempting to exploit the present situation. It is suggested that great war fortunes are going to be made, and everyone would resent that, but at the moment hon. Gentlemen opposite are banking on what they believe to be a very easy wicket. Later on they will find it a very sticky one. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has produced a well-balanced Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ituation. It is suggested that great war fortunes are going to be made, and everyone would resent that, but at the moment hon. Gentlemen opposite are banking on what they believe to be a very easy wicket. Later on they will find it a very sticky one. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has produced a well-balanced Budget. [ Laughter. ] I mean balanced in the sense of its general economic distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1579.0", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "I referred to the speech made by the Leader of the Liberal Opposition. I thought I made that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1579.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You are short-sighted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "When I see the people I am talking to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-01", "file": "debates1939-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "2fd6b302e8c818ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Hillsborough seemed to assume that he was going to hear from me some orotund denunciation of the whole conception, but it is desirable, before we get to closer grips with any such proposal, to reflect upon one or two important propositions. First of all, anything which is named, or misnamed, a capital levy has a natural attraction for hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-01a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1686.5", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH SHIPS (FOREIGN PURCHASES).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Morgan", "preceding_text": "Can we have an assurance that the Lord President of the Council is not involved in any such transactions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1686.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "preceding_text": "House for having acted without checking my information correctly, although that information proceeded from what seemed to me to be one of the most authoritative and experienced sources in the House. I further express a personal apology to the Clerk of the Parliaments for having suggested erroneously that he had departed from the practice and precedent of his predecessors in that manner, and I beg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT (PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert", "preceding_text": "rliaments is entitled to conceive himself as being under a double sense of injustice, because I am informed by the Clerk of the Crown that the Clerk of the Parliaments has departed in one particular from the previous practice of his predecessors, but that that departure, far from reducing the courtesies due to the Commons, has in fact increased them. I will quote what the Clerk of the Crown wrote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ed by the taxes on articles of general consumption. Of course that statement is a grotesque fallacy. It entirely depends on how many rich people there are. If there were only 10 rich people in this country and if everybody else of the 40,000,000 was very poor, then naturally the taxation of the poorer people would produce much more money than the taxation of the very limited number of rich people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Chancellor of the Exchequer. One of my hon. Friends said that it would be a good thing if the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer would try to live for a week on 10s. I think it would be better if, instead of going away to some of the country houses at the week-ends, he would spend a week-end with an old age pensioner—I will get him fixed up—or with a widow who has a large family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1770.3", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Can you give us the ratios?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "xpayer, about whom we have been talking all the afternoon, than it was in the bad years of the depression. It would be difficult for anyone making a survey of the general situation to say that the country is in a worse position to-day than it was in the years 1932–33 and 1933–34, but I repeat that the proportion this year is more favourable than it was then for the indirect taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1829.3", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "s able to cater to such an extent for the small man, we have in this House the repression of the small man and disdainful references to the small man that he is to get off the road and make way for the high-powered cars. This has been the kind of talk in this House to-night— after all, if it clears the little man off the road and makes way for the man with the high-powered car, so much the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1829.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-02", "file": "debates1939-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d36e0ee71f423948", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1832.3", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Sometimes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "for as persons who must have a car, and by means of the car are enabled to carry on their business. There is, however, this point. Although I do not profess to be specially instructed on the matter, I feel sure that in a case where such a car in the possession of a commercial traveller is used entirely for his business, the expenses of that car are an expense deductable for purposes of Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-02a.1832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-03", "file": "debates1939-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "37e2a6a2a89e2a86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CAMPS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "m of evacuation before we realise the needs of school children. For 30 years demands have been made for school camps and open-air education. I have been to the Board of Education on more than one occasion to plead for the opportunity to set up an open-air school, and time and time again we have been turned down, and it has been said that there was no money. Now that there is money to burn, I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-03", "file": "debates1939-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "37e2a6a2a89e2a86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1975.1", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIMITATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is often done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Silverman) was one in which a person had a perfectly good cause of action, but, instead of going to a solicitor, went to a member of the council, and asked that member to intervene for him, and that councillor actually conducted negotiations with the town clerk. I submit that that is most improper procedure and that we should not defend it or justify it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-03", "file": "debates1939-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "37e2a6a2a89e2a86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1986.1", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIMITATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "he public authority, but I am entitled to ask that the people who sent him to the public authority should receive some consideration also. I am keeping in mind both the public authority and the people who send me to express their difficulties on the Floor of this House. I try to keep that in view, and that is why my Socialism is sometimes more prominent than that of hon. Members above the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-03", "file": "debates1939-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "37e2a6a2a89e2a86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1999.3", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIMITATION BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the London Passenger Transport Board?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": "Member for Brightside spoke about the multiplicity of departments in a local authority, and said that for that reason the local authority is entitled to special protection. But the railways have a multiplicity of departments; Imperial Chemical Industries and the Yorkshire Electric Power Company, a great public utility corporation employing many thousands of men, have a multiplicity of departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-03a.1999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2099.7", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "itary training should in this matter be treated exactly the same. There is equality of service, and we feel that it is equally essential that there should be equality of treatment. Therefore, during the initial period of six months during which they will be undergoing their training they will receive is. per day, without any addition for rank or trade. That is will not be subject to any stoppages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2099.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2103.3", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o distract our attention or to impair the efficiency of this country at this time. Therefore, we have decided that this Bill shall not be extended to Northern Ireland, and we propose to amend Clause 15 in Committee accordingly. We are convinced that that spirit which animated Lord Craigavon in making that communication to us will be found to provide from Northern Ireland no smaller a contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2103.3", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "decided that this Bill shall not be extended to Northern Ireland, and we propose to amend Clause 15 in Committee accordingly. We are convinced that that spirit which animated Lord Craigavon in making that communication to us will be found to provide from Northern Ireland no smaller a contribution—[ Interruption. ] To stimulate and to give scope to the loyalism of Northern Ireland, we have decided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2111.1", "colnum": "2111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "ial Army must depend upon those who have lately left school, upon the young men of 18 and over, who join up. If this Bill becomes permanent, what will their attitude be? Why should any young man of 18 volunteer for the Territorials knowing that when he is 20 he will be a conscript, and that for four years after he will be compelled to be in the Territorials unless he goes into the Special Reserve?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2130.2", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. I refrained from interrupting the right hon. Member during his speech, and I want to raise the point now. During the course of his speech the right hon. Gentleman linked up the Government of the Southern Irish with: certain outrages that were taking place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "un away from then-commitments, then we urge them to stand by those commitments, and if it pays them to stand by the commitments, we stand with them; so that at all times the British Labour party abandon their traditional position of independence and place their spiritual, moral and physical resources behind the Government. What now happens? The Government bring in a Measure for compulsory service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2134.1", "colnum": "2134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "o a position that is still weaker, and at last we are having this final indignity of conscription thrust upon our people. No one on the opposite side of the House seriously suggests that Hitler is going to be frightened by the compulsory training of 200,000 boys between 20 and 21 years of age. No one seriously believes that informed public opinion abroad is impressed by conscription of that scope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2187.6", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "rn? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn? On the Clyde we have given of our very best. We have produced the finest ships in the world, without conscription; we have defeated the French in regaining the Blue Rib and of the Atlantic, without conscription; we have built the finest warships in the world, without conscription; we have produced the finest men, without conscription.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2187.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2190.1", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": " War has never benefited the workers, and never will. If we are forced into war it will not be a war to benefit the working class; it will be a war in which we join, if we do join, because of the political solidarity which is inherent in the build of the people of this country, and not because we are out to benefit ourselves. I cannot say the same of hon. Members on the opposite side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2199.1", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You will not get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "luntary system would give us all we want; but other hon. Members said that what we were doing in this Bill was abolishing the voluntary system. That is not so. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister pointed out that this is a supplement to the voluntary system; and, indeed, the vast bulk of the service which the nation needs now will, after this Bill becomes law, be provided on a voluntary basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2203.1", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Do I understand that the right hon. Gentleman would call them up for six months? His argument means that he would put an extra burden on those who have already done their share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2203.1", "colnum": "2203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " on those who have already done their share. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) is always desirous that other people should listen to what he has to say, but I do not find him so eager to listen to points which he does not like. I have been challenged to make a reply, and I am making a reply, and the fact is that it is rather uncomfortable for hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-05-04", "file": "debates1939-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "9be8f9891728f8d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2204.3", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY TRAINING BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "o make a public announcement by posters, Press and wireless instructing men between 20 and 21 to attend the nearest office of the Ministry of Labour for registration. We have given most careful thought to this question and have reached the conclusion that, on the whole, in most places Employment Exchanges are the most convenient places for the purpose. They are well known and well equipped for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-05-04a.2204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-05", "file": "debates1939-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4650e3eb6a8eb068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is in the Lloyd George Fund.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, I am sure, sees that that is a question which neither I nor anybody else could answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.38.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-05", "file": "debates1939-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4650e3eb6a8eb068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the mining industry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s a general one, and is especially marked over a wide range of industries and businesses —building, public works contracting, the iron and steel trade, tinplate— those concerned with the problem of West Wales will welcome this— engineering, shipbuilding, metal goods manufacture, textile, tailoring, dock and harbour services, distributive trades, hotel and boarding houses. All these show increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-05", "file": "debates1939-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4650e3eb6a8eb068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "at if he could get assistance from some other Government Departments he would be only too willing to help in placing those men in employment. What somewhat surprised me was that he should emphasise the fact that we were going to give Geneva the benefit of our experience, because I cannot really agree that the steps we have taken in this country have been as effective as we had hoped they might be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-05", "file": "debates1939-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4650e3eb6a8eb068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "same old thing; there has been a variation in the language, but they have lamented that the patient has not been getting on to his feet, and a thousand and one consolations, pious or otherwise, have been uttered. But really nothing new has been said, for the simple reason that there is nothing new to say. Nor have I anything very new to say, but I think my remarks will be pertinent to the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-05", "file": "debates1939-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "4650e3eb6a8eb068", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is the office boy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "ployment. In my opinion, the persons who ought to be there are the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the President of the Board of Trade. As I see the matter the Minister of Labour is there as an auditor, to give statistics on trade and unemployment. He has nothing to do with the partners, so to speak, and he has no part in settling the policy of the firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-05a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "mmittee, but I think he will agree that we came as near discussing it as was possible without putting t down directly on the Paper. There is one thing that I appreciate about the right hon. Gentleman's speech. He has at last made a very straight statement, which I hope is final on the matter for the future, that there is no comparison between the State fund and the methods of the old trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.260.4", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I said there would be a period of some weeks during which the regulations would be available for Members of the House, between the time when they appear and when they come into operation. I also referred to the normal procedure of the 20 days period allowed for a Prayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " particular point. He gave an answer that was typical of his frame of mind when he said, \"It is all right; so long as I am here, you need not have any fear.\" I ask the Minister and the House to remember that I have previously said that this Bill was going to do rather serious things. We had regulations laid before us once before. It is nonsense to say that the House can influence such regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.261.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ill not be able to do so because the two holidays are not to be regarded as linking-up days. I say that this House of Commons should have the final say in this matter. The Minister of Labour puts up the Parliamentary Secretary, who talks for 20 minutes and says nothing. I guarantee that now he has sat down he does not know what he said. Indeed, the further he went on the bigger mess he made of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "heir best interests. Here we are in a situation where something which is of the most vital interest to these men and women is to be decided outside and quite apart from the House of Commons. It is an unbelievable situation. If hon. Members will read the newspapers they will see that Hitler has made a speech, and they will also see that the Parliamentary Secretary was and is associated with Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " was and is associated with Hitler. [ Interruption. ] That has to be taken into account. A man cannot divest himself of his mode of thought or the interest with which he is concerned, and the fact remains that we are faced with the situation that on all questions which affect many thousands of families in this country the Minister of Labour has a Parliamentary Secretary who is a notorious Fascist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rs go to any constituency and read the Election literature that was issued and the reports of the speeches that were made. I do not suppose that there were half a dozen hon. Members opposite who did not at that Election agree that the operation of the means test was far too harsh and that something would have to be done to ease it; but the regulations were there, and hon. Members could do nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rried as they often are in this country, especially by regulations regarding unemployment. I remember an experience that I once had in a Welsh village. I was going to a house there, and in going down the street, I noticed women standing at the doors of several houses. I had a portfolio under my arm as I walked down the street, and suddenly realised that the women had disappeared from the doorways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "There is a matter that I should like to put to you, Sir. I am not sure whether it is a point of Order, but the Minister referred to questions put from the Chair and votes of the House on these regulations in a contemptuous way as Parliamentary performances. I think it is worth while that attention should be called to that, especially in view of the well-known outlook of the Minister in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "ed into this matter and read all the evidence, I am certain that the working arrangement does give practical justice and that the long series of considered opinions given by Commissions that it is the best one are right. In 1934, after a great deal of eloquence, I would remind the House that only 20 hon. Members supported a similar Clause to that which has been moved by the hon. Member for Dundee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: '' Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "le, who will talk to them about the regulations, and we as individuals can go to them, and they will report to the Minister. He will prepare a draft, and we who come from the constituencies and who have from our constituents the proper views as to the holiday period in the districts can do nothing. It is true that we can present a Prayer, but I would ask the Minister, When was a Prayer successful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing the difficulties of the problem, and the strength of feeling, I myself proposed an Amendment in Committee so that the Bill, as regards the part about which feeling is expressed, does not become operative until 18th January. I desired, as Minister, to have time to consult all those who have been expressing views about it, and they are many. Nearly all of them have come from the mining industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not take half an hour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "I want to speak briefly on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-06", "file": "debates1939-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "55c7e2a1a7cc4961", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "preceding_text": " maintaining or increasing the acreage under wheat in preference to other forms of agriculture. What has been the main effect of the subsidy? It has been to raise wheat acreage from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 acres. That means that you have actually directed your subsidy not at the million but at the half-million acres of wheat which you have raised. You could have kept in cultivation 1,000,000 acres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-06a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And those who sent them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I tended to lead Members astray, but I felt that it was not only appropriate but proper that the Secretary of State should take this opportunity of expressing our deep appreciation of the work of Lord Hailey and his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And they are quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member had listened carefully to what I have said, he would have realised that one of the difficulties that we are up against in Africa is the view which many African natives hold with regard to cattle, and their reluctance to include meat in their diet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why waste time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "riends and I tried to find out what all these private Bills really meant, and in a number of instances we have, by negotiation, caused the deletion of undesirable Clauses; and it has been very rare when a Bill has been opposed on the Floor of this House. Certainly it has been very rare when we have opposed a Bill on Third Reading. I do not propose to oppose this Bill in the true sense of the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are a hard case\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "ses, offices, or other buildings or to adapt or alter existing buildings. I cannot find that the lending of the ratepayers' money for private industrial enterprise is subject to any approval of the Minister or anybody else except the corporation. The supporters of the Bill try to justify the Measure on the ground that Jarrow is a special case. I do not deny for a moment that Jarrow is a hard case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "al corporations' Bills knows, how difficult it is to resist the extension of the application of a new principle once it has been recognised and applied in any one case. From my own experience I can easily see a flood of other corporation Bills coming along if this one passes, all of them seeking these powers, on grounds that would be difficult to dispose of once the principle had been established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "se if such powers were not exercised in the most careful and businesslike way, the financial burdens already placed on Jarrow might well be enormously increased, and its position at the end might be even worse than it is to-day. I have approached this matter from an economic rather than a political point of view, but I am bound to say that I have no particular faith in Socialist municipal trading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4", "colnum": "500", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": " and its position at the end might be even worse than it is to-day. I have approached this matter from an economic rather than a political point of view, but I am bound to say that I have no particular faith in Socialist municipal trading. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I say that in all sincerity. I have no faith whatever in Socialist municipal trading, and this Bill will give enormous new potentialities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.517.10", "colnum": "517", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Minister of Health is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ple of the Gold Coast would hire a man with a bell to run after the Secretary of State and remind him of the plight of the Colony and of the necessity for him to develop a sense of proportion. The Secretary of State's report reminds me of the chatter of a self-conscious Lady Bountiful. He is a sort of adult \"Alice in Wonderland\" babbling about the globe. I wish the Secretary of State were present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.517.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-07", "file": "debates1939-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6852c7225b944145", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has plenty of gas!\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the right machine for running the Colonial Empire? In the second place, has that machine got enough oil and petrol to make it work full speed ahead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-07a.558.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is absent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter that I can go into at the moment. The question has not been reached, and the hon. Member who put it down is responsible in the usual way for what it contains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Burgin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Burgin)", "preceding_text": "lise to the full the Royal Ordnance Factories, in particular Woolwich Arsenal, the mother of all armament construction, and Enfield, the home of all small arms, and to create up and down the country in strategic spots increased Royal Ordnance Factory potential. That is objective No. 1. Objective No. 2 has been to revive, strengthen, sustain, and utilise to the full the professional armament firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.643.3", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Burgin)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister Without Portfolio (Mr. Burgin)", "preceding_text": "nt to make it clear to industry that I do not intend to interfere with firms carrying on export business unless and until it is absolutely essential to do so for the purpose of securing immediately some article required for the public service. We must retain a sense of proportion, and I want to give industry that measure of assurance. I would now ask the House, which has been very patient with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "erred to what, if this Bill passes, will, until it is repealed, be the permanent law of the land. People always do war some injustice. One should give even the Devil his due, and it is, I believe, a heresy fatal to salvation to suppose that even the Devil is all bad. Hon. Members and others are frequently less than just to war. One of the virtues of war is that when it is over you know it is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "year as he did himself. I find that in 1934 the sales of the Co-operative Wholesale Society were £82,000,000. After providing for the depreciation, obsolescence, etc., the surplus profit shown was £1,473,000, or nearly 18 per cent. In 1938, the sales were increased from £82,000,000 to early £120,000,000, that is about 50 per cent., but the profit had increased to £2,799,000, or nearly 100 percent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.692.9", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "I will check the figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.692.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stafford Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stafford Cripps", "preceding_text": "ted to consider the case of what I might call free general storage. It has considered storage for a particular article, and if there is an excess of that available means can be taken to utilise it. But take things like railway warehouses, which would not come under the Clause at all, because the railway would not be a person storing or having control of any article required for the public service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stafford Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stafford Cripps", "preceding_text": ", \"Deliver 10 motors first to the Admiralty\"— absolutely none. If you read the words that follow, he has power to see that any work in connection with those articles or works shall be given priority over all other work,… He can say, \"You have to deliver the 50 motors first,\" but he cannot say, \"You have to deliver 10 first.\" He cannot put the Admiralty before the Air Force or the War Offie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.715.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why do you not give them?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "If I were a Minister sitting on that Front Bench, I could with the greatest ease, on the information given, trace the firms referred to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.762.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERROGATION OF MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's Motion cannot be before the House now for Debate if it is objected to. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman moved the Motion to adjourn before I had fully collected the voices objecting to the Motion on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-08", "file": "debates1939-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1c6f364a54b630da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.772.0", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERROGATION OF MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "o the Motion on the Order Paper. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"] Will the hon. Member be good enough to give me a chance of stating the case? It is true that the right hon. and gallant Member moved the Adjournment of the House, but I have not put that question. The position at the moment is that I called the Motion on the Order Paper in the name of the hon. Member and that Motion has now been objected to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-08a.772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.972.6", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Or Cardiff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s, be attractive to enemy bombers, other considerations arise, and I wish to put to the right hon. Gentleman the case of dock areas, not only in London but in other parts of the country, notably on the East and North-East coasts and in Scotland. For that matter we must not exclude places on the western coast, such as Liverpool, from the category of areas which may be in danger from enemy aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.972.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\"Lord Hailey was chairman of both bodies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I think it is of some interest and importance that such a body should have come independently to similar conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "rmined which are the most vulnerable areas, we know where the likely special targets are, we know what the congestion of the population is, and we know the nature of the housing conditions, and in that way we can compare one area with another. At any rate, the conference found no difficulty in laying down that principle. Those who have doubts as to its validity really ought to study this document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: '' Was there no truth in it when he said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I am not responsible for what my predecessor said. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "egree of danger that will exist in that area will not warrant that type of protection.\" But I think that many hon. Members opposite were under a misapprehension as to what my right hon. Friend said. I gathered quite clearly from him that he is not opposed to highly protected shelters as such. What he is opposed to is placing these shelters in areas where the degree of danger does not warrant them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr, Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr, Guest", "preceding_text": "nment. I am not talking about foreign policy but of policy in the protection of the civil population as a whole. That involves the use of evacuation and of air-raid shelters as means of protection. I should say with regard to Finsbury that that area could not be adequately protected, even by deep shelters, and that what it really requires is that Finsbury should be evacuated on a very large scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1062.5", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Northern Ireland got out of the Military Training Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "on ourselves, but they are imposed from here, and we pay every penny as much taxation as anybody else does. Are we to be denied even the elementary right of being protected at the nation's cost? A little while ago we had from the so-called Socialists opposite the amazing contention that in a crisis the State could call upon the assistance of only those of its citizens who felt inclined to give it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1062.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "We did not want to. We appointed him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-12", "file": "debates1939-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fe64c34f990091bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Ross", "preceding_text": "erruption. ] The hon. Member must\"take it\" if he finds that he is wrong. He was appointed by the Northern Ireland Government, he served them well and faithfully and now he has returned after 17 years as the head of his Department. So I hope we shall hear no more on those lines. In any case, I think it was nice of you, Sir Dennis, to allow the hon. Member to stray so far from the matters before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-12a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-06-13", "file": "debates1939-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d74295f715790529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1103.8", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How do we know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It was perfectly orderly, but I understood that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had no responsibility in the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1103.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-06-13", "file": "debates1939-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d74295f715790529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No, Thursday.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "If I had known that the question was to be relegated to the Home Secretary, I should have put it down for to-morrow, because that is his day for answering questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1112.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-13", "file": "debates1939-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d74295f715790529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W, S. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The lawyers would not object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W, S. Morrison", "preceding_text": " for South Shields is one of purely a declaratory nature. Its omission, as his Amendment suggests, would, in reality, make no difference to the legal position of the parties as defined in the rest of the Clause, but it would leave these parties perhaps in some doubt as to their position, and force them to have recourse to lawyers, and may be to the courts, in order to find out the actual position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-13", "file": "debates1939-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d74295f715790529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the date of the letter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "widely as possible of draft regulations. I think it would be premature for us now to pass a mandatory Motion that the regulations must be made within three months. I have here letters from the County Councils Association, the Rural District Councils Association and the Urban District Councils Association, in which they all say they will be pleased to consult with the Ministry over the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-13", "file": "debates1939-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d74295f715790529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1254.5", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "t in those cases in which they are better. I am making the point that this is an alternative which covers the whole field. It is to avoid the possibility of double entitlement and the rest of it, that this Sub-section is placed in the Clause. Instead of a variety of schemes there will be a general compensation scheme covering everybody in this category. I hope I have made it clear to hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1254.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-13", "file": "debates1939-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d74295f715790529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "edent for this. The answer, of course, is that we are dealing here for the first time with people training for Civil Defence, and in these cases the Government are going to frame the compensation scheme. It is really analogous to what happens in the fighting services. In the fighting services I understand that the common law rights to which the hon. and learned Gentleman refers are not maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-13", "file": "debates1939-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "d74295f715790529", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (Re-committed) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "he Territorials and services of that kind which one can think of. This is different from what one might call an ordinary job in civil life. In this case we are concerned with an injury suffered by a man who is being trained for voluntary service and in that respect it is analogous to the position in the fighting services. I am glad that it is admitted that the scheme proposed is a generous scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-13a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-14", "file": "debates1939-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "afcfeb439d67d512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-14a.1457.5", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SPAIN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Then why refer to it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "name of which appeared to be \"The Friends of Nationalist Spain.\" It happens that he belongs to the City of Birmingham, but I suppose that is pure chance. What is interesting about the communication is that he sends me a document which is a denunciation of the Spanish Republican Government and its actions. It is far too long for me to quote, and, in any case, it is not specially new or interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-14a.1457.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-15", "file": "debates1939-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5258ccd2cbbb08e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1626.5", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\" No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "e import. I am sorry that the right hon. and gallant Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) is going out, because there was something I wanted to say to him. I have never contended that a subsidy went to the farmer. I know he will listen to me after that, because he and his friends have all said that that was so. It does not go to the fanner; it goes through the farmer to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1626.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-15", "file": "debates1939-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5258ccd2cbbb08e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " him, but we do not like his policy. The very manner in which he explained it makes us more than ever suspicious of the conditions under which his appointment commenced. I am very anxious to put it in that way because we like him, but we are gravely suspicious of the time and circumstances of his appointment and of the policy which will thereafter follow. It was a piece of trade union syndicalism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-15", "file": "debates1939-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5258ccd2cbbb08e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I shall be glad to tell the hon. and gallant Gentleman. The last full return for the year 1937 summarises the whole position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-15", "file": "debates1939-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5258ccd2cbbb08e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "We have always associated with the granting of subsidy from public funds a proper share in the national control of the industry being assisted, and if hon. Members will look at the Debates relating to the various subsidies they will find that we have made such statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-15", "file": "debates1939-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "5258ccd2cbbb08e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1668.0", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "cessary assistance to give confidence to farming in Scotland, I do not think that even with that machinery we could have hoped for better times for the farm workers. But with that machinery and this assistance, we can hope for better times for them. Also the Government have passed recently two Acts relating to rural housing in Scotland, while there are Acts on the Statute Book already for England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-15a.1668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Major Tryon", "cue_text": "Interruption. '", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tryon", "preceding_text": "istening to a dissertation in favour of Socialism coming from Moscow. With these sets you can get absolute freedom for the subscriber to listen to anything. With the relays, while there are disadvantages because of the limitation of programmes, it would be a great advantage, that in time of war the central organisation should be able to communicate to our people warnings, encouragements, and news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ng to qualify for the position of prosecuting counsel at the Old Bailey, but I do not regard myself as being in the dock. There is a tremendous difference between coming here in a purely representative capacity, in a case such as that to which he has drawn attention and the position which is constantly occupied by many hon. Members on the other side in regard to shipping, in regard to agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1720.0", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has no financial interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman answer my question whether a trade union official who is interested in the subject-matter of a Debate, should be debarred from taking part?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "pe, will be useful information to this Committee. Hon. Members have suggested that it is not in Order for any Member to intervene in a Debate in which he is in any way financially interested, but only yesterday there was a debate on agriculture, and no one can suggest that there were not very many Members in this House who were directly interested one way or another in the result of that Debate. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "in connection with the Post Office. He gave an illus- tration, by way of getting a dig at the Post Office, of delay in respect to the installation of a telephone service. I could quote innumerable similar instances where people have been anxious to get an installation of electricity from private companies, and it took far more time to obtain it than to get a telephone installed by the Post Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1760.1", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "o obtain it than to get a telephone installed by the Post Office. [ Interruption .] I am speaking now. I am not giving way. The hon. Member speaks about the overbearing hand of the Treasury. We are not responsible for that. The Government can do much to alter that, and if the Postmaster-General is prepared to put up a fight with the Treasury, he can probably get that control considerably modified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Major Tryon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A communal feeling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tryon", "preceding_text": "d I wish also to thank the right hon. Gentleman who moved the Amendment for his very kind reference to the Assistant Postmaster General, which we must appreciate. I should also like to say how much I welcome the very-valuable help that I am sure my hon. Friend will give to me, and I would add that all of us who have served in the Post Office have a fellow-feeling of pride in that great Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1773.4", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Has not the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, in his last statement, admitted the point made by hon. Members on this side? He said that when the companies were to wind-up in three years' time, there was no development and the shares went down. In giving them another 10 years, has he not given them, not a monopoly, but a very valuable service which would otherwise belong to the State?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In office\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "sm versus private enterprise are involved, the fact that when the Labour Government were in power, they did not put into force the principles of Socialism. Surely, it must be obvious even to the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, especially after the long training he has had at the Post Office, that it is impossible to Socialise everything in a year or two. A Socialist Government has been in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member cannot have been in the Committee during the full statement which I made in connection with this company. If he reads the OFFICIAL REPORT, he will see that this company pays 10 per cent. upon the paid-up share capital and the reserves which have been reinvested in the company. The bonus to which reference was made was money which had not been paid out in dividends —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.4", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": " because the Post Office have not got the administrative or technical staff, or is it because the companies have persuaded him that they alone have the staff necessary to undertake this enterprise? Would the Postmaster-General be good enought to clarify that point? If the Postmaster-General raised that matter with a view to confusing the issue then I say he was not being honest with the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.4", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "od enought to clarify that point? If the Postmaster-General raised that matter with a view to confusing the issue then I say he was not being honest with the Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You were not here.\"] I have been in the Committee at various times throughout the day, and while I have not heard the whole of the discussion, I know that there has been a great deal of repetition on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-16", "file": "debates1939-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ff032ec7ba0436a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.4", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE DEPARTMENTS ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "nk that it is because of the popularity of the Government that we are not in power, they are blinding themselves to the real issues, because I can assure them that when certain other issues which tend to confuse the public mind are out of the way, there will be a tremendous swing over of public opinion, and none know it better than hon. Members opposite who are sharing the benefits of this system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-16a.1775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-19", "file": "debates1939-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d9d0a765138fa4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1847.4", "colnum": "1847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why cannot you think that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "gway might be tempted to take the line that they did take. Of course it is very comprehensible from their point of view, because we all realise that probably within a period of some six months the hon. Members above the Gangway will be transferred from the places which they now occupy and will be sitting on the benches opposite and will have a desire to occupy as many offices as they possibly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1847.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-19", "file": "debates1939-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d9d0a765138fa4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "the largest industrial city of the country, Birmingham, I say, without any fear of contradiction, that the million people in industrial Birmingham would be wholly against any such conception of the responsibilities of the Ministry of Supply so far as they are concerned. What is it possible to do, if one reads into this Amendment? Is it not the beginning of the complete Nazi organisation of labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-19", "file": "debates1939-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d9d0a765138fa4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I shall take note of your advice, Colonel Clifton Brown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-19", "file": "debates1939-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d9d0a765138fa4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "on. Member who said \"Hear, hear,\" has not been in the Committee for many minutes, and certainly, I shall not take any notice of his \"Hear hear.\" Too much of that kind of thing takes place in the Committee. The hon. Member has not been here the whole day, but has been outside attending to ether business functions, and then he comes in and says, \"Hear, hear\" when we are trying to carry out our duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-19", "file": "debates1939-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "d9d0a765138fa4da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "n which I am not absolutely certain, but I will give the Committee this assurance, that between now and Report I will work out the framework of possibilities under the Clause, and will give the House a series of illustrations showing the different types of cases which would be possible under the Clause. As I conceive it still, the Government do not take an interest in the ownership of the article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-19a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2080.7", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "he interested parties, or the employers, the other interested party. Let us let the Minister appoint one-half of the panel and let some association of manufacturers, the Asociated Chambers of Commerce or the Federation of British Industries, act as nominators on behalf of the contracting firm. Then we would have a panel which everybody would trust, with a chairman appointed by an impartial person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2080.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2085.2", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "if I have misunderstood the hon. Member perhaps he will correct me. What I thought the hon. Member said was, assuming that out of this panel of arbitrators a particular arbitrator is appointed because you think he is the right man for the dispute, and when it is decided you are dissatisfied would you in a precisely similar set of circumstances choose the same arbitrator? I should have thought not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2085.3", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "If the Minister has already selected the whole of the panel he has in fact selected the people who please him and who may not necessarily please the heads of industry or indeed the workers in the industry which may be involved in a dispute. I would like to see a quite impartial panel set up with members of the legal profession and particularly with a member of the Trade Union Council on the panel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2090.5", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the Minister to reconsider the statement he made, which I think was most unfortunate. He was asked the question whether, supposing that an arbitrator gave a decision against him and another case arose which involved very similar circumstances, the fact that the arbitrator had given a decision against him would induce him to appoint another arbitrator on the next occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2090.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2090.5", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": "ven a decision against him would induce him to appoint another arbitrator on the next occasion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think we had better clear up this matter. As I understood the hon. Member for Colchester (Mr. O. Lewis), his question was as follows. Suppose that an arbitrator gave a decision against the Minister, and suppose that another case arose in which similar circumstances were involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2090.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2091.3", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "ere was no assurance that you would appoint the same arbitrator again merely because the same point was in dispute. What I have been trying to say throughout is that you appoint a wide panel and you pick the right man for a particular case. There is no assurance that, because an arbitrator handles a dispute on a particular occasion, the same arbitrator will handle another dispute of the same kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2091.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2091.3", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "dispute of the same kind. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members can look up the Official Report when it appears. I was under the impression that the hon. Member for Colchester (Mr. O. Lewis) asked me expressly whether, if an arbitrator decided a particular case and decided in a way contrary to what the Minister had expected, the Minister would, in a similar case, appoint the same arbitrator? I said \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2091.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2092.3", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. J. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. J. Williams", "preceding_text": "Bill has been initiated for the purpose of setting up an effective Ministry of Supply, the representatives of certain interests are endeavouring to obtain representation for those interests in connection with decisions which may have to be taken from time to time. I hope the Committee will accept the view put forward by the Minister. He is prepared to reconsider the matter before the Report stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2095.3", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "h to mislead the Committee. The suggestion of allowing the panel to appoint a chairman or deputy-chairman and of leaving it to the chairman or deputy-chairman to select members from the penal for each case of arbitration, was made in order to see whether it met with general acceptance. I think the result which is desired by the majority of the Committee- will be achieved by adhering to the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2098.2", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "I am asked whether my offer stands or whether it has been withdrawn. The offer was, as I say, made in order to see whether it met with general acceptance. I do not think it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2098.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2098.5", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": " like the constitution of this panel, for the reasons which I have already given to the Committee, I am prepared to accept the offer as I understood the Minister to make it. I think my right hon. Friend owes it to the Committee to make plain whether he does or does not stand by that offer. 1 certainly understood his offer plainly, and I thought it met with acceptance on all sides of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2098.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2142.4", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE —(Power to require report of independent auditor.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is an engineer too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member had better leave it to the engineers themselves to decide whether they are getting on well or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2142.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-20", "file": "debates1939-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "0f6c1d955a69d2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "IMPORT DUTIES (IMPORT DUTIES ACT, 1932).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "some length in 1935 how this position had to be met from the point of view of the Empire producer. What is the situation now? As far as I could gather from the Parliamentary Secretary, the Imperial Smelting Corporation is the only body concerned in home production to any extent, and whatever help is to be brought to the smelting industry is to be brought to one company or association of companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-20a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2296.5", "colnum": "2296", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. There are some of us who want to hear the Minister expound this matter. May I, on behalf of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2297.1", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think there might be such power if different words were used; but, as the words stand, I do not think there is such power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2299.4", "colnum": "2299", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They were not intentionally letting them lapse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I give this for what it is worth, but I remember that, as far back as 1923, when I took an interest in the Industrial Assurance Act of that year, we were sometimes told of men taking out policies for a fortnight, and then letting them lapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2372.1", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It may be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "vide up the various people who will be enrolled for service. You will have the militiaman employed by the local authority who will not have his salary made up to the amount normally paid to him by the local authority. Alongside of him is a Reservist working for the same local authority who will have his wage made up by the local authority to what he would normally receive from the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2377.3", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "l, and he made us discuss whether we would have the guillotine in the time allowed for the guillotine in connection with the Bill. That procedure was, I submit, without precedent. After the guillotine, the next thing that happened was that we began to question the Minister of Labour. I suppose he is now at Geneva. I hear that he has been distributing some of his unsolicited testimonials at Geneva—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2384.1", "colnum": "2384", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "oning difficulties, and we bring them forward in all good faith and ask questions about them, and we are told that they are being investigated. It is a thoroughly unsatisfactory way of clearing up hardships, if hardships exist. The right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister has come forward voluntarily and said, \"I must ask you to pass these Regulations, and we will amend them, because they are bad.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2391.1", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption. .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "That is another point, on which I shall say a word. The point I am making here is that very adequate protection is given to the man who is doing his service. It is for the court to decide what is his position, in relation, not only to the period during which he is on service, but for a period afterwards. I described it as being for all time, but, of course, it must be a reasonable period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2397.3", "colnum": "2397", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "If he comes straight into an insured occupation he will be covered by virtue of that occupation. Nobody would assert that he would be any worse off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2398.6", "colnum": "2398", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I agree that the hon. Member put his question respectfully, and I have endeavoured to answer it respectfully. It is always possible to put a case in a form which harrows the feelings. The hon. Member said that the man has a horse and cart, and also a: widowed mother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2398.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2399.0", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I have. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Gorton said that Lord Chancellors are exalted personages who never make any direct statement. For instance, they would have said of the right hon. Gentleman's speech that it was not without humour, rather than that it was with humour. Not being a Lord Chancellor, I have given a direct answer of \"No.\" It appears to be unclear to the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-21", "file": "debates1939-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "e634f262c865b374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2405.1", "colnum": "2405", "heading": "MILITARY TRAINING ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "If an allotment is made, it is taken into account as being part of the sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-21a.2405.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-22", "file": "debates1939-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d7970c1ccb5ecda5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2432.5", "colnum": "2432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MILITARY TRAINING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "In pre-War days, I knew a Devonshire soldier with only one eye, who was an expert Bisley shot, and who came well within the first half-dozen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-22", "file": "debates1939-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d7970c1ccb5ecda5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2501.1", "colnum": "2501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ons to say what we think is best for the nation, and I say now—and I think most hon. Members will agree with me—that the rate at which we are consuming tobacco is in many ways a menace to the country, so I hope my right hon. Friend will not listen to appeals on this subject—this passionate plea for the poor man's pipe. I think that sometimes people in public life have gone astray by smoking pipes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2501.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-22", "file": "debates1939-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d7970c1ccb5ecda5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2594.10", "colnum": "2594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "n preparations. From the point of view of health I emphasise that the proper course is for the Minister to tackle this question and set up an independent body and to ban any article which does not come within their approval. I want to make this clear. There has been a very widespread agitation with regard to this matter and it has clearly been engineered by the professional associations concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2594.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-22", "file": "debates1939-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d7970c1ccb5ecda5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2595.4", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " wanted just to make clear the line on which that body have conducted their campaign. I want also to say that there is a very strong movement in this direction because the pharmacists themselves want to retain the duty. The lesson that we learn from the speech of the hon. Member for Hitchin is that they want to retain the duty because it brings an immediate protection to the particular profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-22", "file": "debates1939-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d7970c1ccb5ecda5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2596.0", "colnum": "2596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Not for ' we '?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "concerned about the other aspect of the matter if they could get the fiscal imposition of the duty maintained. The real remedy in the interests of public health is nothing of the kind. What you want to do is to get the prevention of sale altogether of the quack remedy which has not a proper formula and which is liable to be harmful. As far as I am concerned, and I speak for myself on this matter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2596.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-22", "file": "debates1939-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d7970c1ccb5ecda5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2602.5", "colnum": "2602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ommittee when I ask it to observe what is the situation, therefore, in which the authorities are placed. On the one hand, this is not the time for me to lose any taxes that I can get, and on the other hand, I have, in the case of this duty, overwhelming evidence that the amount which it produces is out of pro portion to the trouble it causes. It does not, in fact, protect the public health at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-22a.2602.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-26", "file": "debates1939-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b4e48e4dac77efe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-26a.103.4", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smiles", "preceding_text": "reat injustice is done in this country, such a howl always goes up from the Press and the people that eventually the injustice is cured. That is the whole test and justification for democracy. The right hon. Gentleman spoke about Government factories, but I think he would admit that, if the Government get any factories into their hands, they are generally not as well run as those of private firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-26a.103.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "BANK OF ENGLAND (COMPULSORY CONSULTATION).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "gland did not do anything that is open to criticism, and if the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Bank of England had consulted on the matter it would not necessarily have affected the transaction in the slightest degree. A foreign person— I regard the Bank for International Settlements for this purpose as a foreign person — had an account in London and presented a cheque to the Bank of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "BANK OF ENGLAND (COMPULSORY CONSULTATION).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has not the faintest conception of the consequences of his action if it is carried to a logical conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "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": " not true at all. If anyone will take a pencil and paper and, from his experience, write down how much he spends on petrol, on tyres, on oil, on driver's licence, the provision of a garage, and also a reasonable amount for depreciation, he will find that if he adds these items together the horse-power tax is not really the controlling factor which determines whether or not he will run a motor car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "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": "ful addition for some people, represents a very small percentage of the cost. The hon. Member asked me whether it was not a fact that some time ago the Prime Minister reduced the tax from 20s. to 15s. He did, and that was done in the hope that it would materially encourage the export of high-powered cars, but anybody who looks at the figures will see that that has been a disappointing expectation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "e said that the horse-power tax was not a big factor in the calculation of a man who was trying to decide whether or not he should buy a car. I think that is true. If the man was considering whether he would buy a car he would have to consider the cost of running it, the cost of petrol, insurance, and so forth, and I do not suppose the horse-power tax would enter very largely into the calculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burke", "preceding_text": " taxation. I think that every hon. Member must have had numerous communications from people in the motor trade in his constituency, all of them disagreeing entirely with that statement, and I think the Chancellor must also remember that when the increase in tax was announced, there was a very great slump in the price of motor shares. Hon. Members on this side are not concerned about motor shares —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "and how to use it than they did on the last occasion. Some hon. Member has pointed out that the Chancellor has already made two concessions. Why did he make them? Simply because he had to meet efficient organisation by the people in the film trade and the producers of patent medicines who were able to bring sufficient pressure on hon. Members to persuade them that they really meant what they said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I would rather wait and see when hon. Members vote what sort of pressure has been brought to bear. The fact remains that this section of the community is not sufficiently vocal, owing to lack of organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "t, when the scurry and flurry of this thing has blown over, it is really going to have that sort of result on purchasers of large cars. What the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Bellenger) said, speaking of his own experience, which I thought was very fair, was that, while we must consider whether this is just the truth about it, it is a thing, generally speaking, which can be borne by the motorist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "My impression is rather different. I think if you were to go there you would find that the percentage of high-powered cars is very considerably larger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-27", "file": "debates1939-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "e5bdf8dad5f2e839", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.316.0", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "g my duty if I did so. I hope and believe that when the flurry of this business has to some extent died down, we shall find that the concrete effects of this change are not anything like as great as has been prophesied. It is noteworthy that although in the month of April the production of cars went down, in the month of May, after I made my announcement on 26th April, the production of cars rose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-27a.316.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "ho have incorporated their estates be allowed to add other forms of investment and hold parts of the income of that investment in reserve? I am not prepared to agree that reserves should be built up out of agricultural rents and profits which shall not attract tax. With regard to income which comes simply and solely as a result of investment, I see no reason why that income should not attract tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "In spite of the eloquent appeal addressed to the Attorney-General by his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Spens), I hope he will not weaken on this point. I am just as keen as any hon. Member to protect the rights of an individual if he be an honest individual and is attempting honestly to carry out the intentions of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is dead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " we cannot help it. In recent times some very wicked tax dodgers have arisen and it is impossible for the Board of Inland Revenue to pit their ingenuity against these people.\" That is a perfectly absurd argument. I will read a sentence or two from a gentleman who was himself not such a good lawyer as the Attorney-General, but was, nevertheless, a very eminent statesman. I am referring to Mr. Pitt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And they are still with us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "t in a moment like the present, in a contest so awfully interesting to every individual and to the nation, there have been men base enough to avail themselves of the general modifications which were intended to relieve those who might have been called upon to contribute beyond their means, to avoid that fair assessment which corresponded with their circumstances. Since then, 135 years have passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I had intended to say something on the point that has been raised by my hon. Friend, but before doing so, I should like to comment upon this generosity of the Government, which seems to be in contemplation of the early approach of the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "Yesterday we spent many desperate hours in struggling to get concessions with regard to motor cars used for commercial and other purposes, and the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer firmly resisted. I am glad that on this occasion, unlike yesterday, we have present the Minister of Transport. If he had been here yesterday, we might have been more successful in our efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "e of assessability will do all they can to postpone payments in order to ensure that in a particular year they will not come within the limit of £200,000. That is only one aspect of the matter, and I mention it only in view of the remarks made by the hon. and gallant Member for Erdington. The second aspect of evasion to which I should like to draw attention is the question of subsidiary companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-28", "file": "debates1939-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "9c28d65afc10a51d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Steel\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "ntioned in this Subsection and for that reason cannot equitably be brought within the scope of the provisions thereof. I will give the Committee one or two examples to show the meaning attached to this proviso. The sort of subject matter which will be treated as not equitably being included in armament contracts will be food, coal, perhaps paper, perhaps unwrought ores, and materials of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-28a.583.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-30", "file": "debates1939-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d6382b503d2a1aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "that we can challenge the totalitarian States on the fact that the democratic system in infinitely superior to any system that they can put forward, but there is no doubt that on the one point of unemployment democracy shows itself to be weak. It is up to us, particularly those in the great and grand party which has now got charge of the government of this country, to prove that democracy is best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-30", "file": "debates1939-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d6382b503d2a1aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " possible for hon. Members to check these figures, because they are presented in full each month in the Ministry of Labour Gazette. We regularly give the analysis and the period during which the men have been out of work. Therefore, when the hon. Member for Llanelly talks about the unwanted 1,500,000 unemployed, he is not giving the true picture. It is a distortion of the facts and of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.876.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-06-30", "file": "debates1939-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d6382b503d2a1aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "thin our power to influence them to go to areas where such industries have not been based and where they would be new. Some hon. Members who call for bold and imaginative treatment ask what is to be the effect in the areas that they represent, some of them fairly prosperous areas, because directly we begin to do this we have the other side of the policy brought up, sometimes in terms of criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-30", "file": "debates1939-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d6382b503d2a1aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the establishment of industries, directly we get the factories built and get them occupied by people who are running industries, it is quite a common occurrence to find, the moment the industry is established, complaints coming in from other areas—some even from hon. Members here who never cease exhorting the Minister of Labour to exercise boldness and imagination and to strike out on a new line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-06-30", "file": "debates1939-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "d6382b503d2a1aba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hether we were endeavouring to find the most suitable men for the job. The answer is, \"Certainly.\" He also asked whether I had taken the opportunity of consulting the individual managers at the employment exchanges. Again the answer is, \"Certainly,\" because, as a matter of fact, I did make a tour of our Ministry of Labour areas and brought the problem to the notice of all the members of the staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-06-30a.884.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-03", "file": "debates1939-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "186746877141e6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-03a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " much that my right hon. Friend may be able to reconsider the matter. Perhaps on another occasion we shall be able to get a little further with it, and possibly in easier times he will not worry so much with the question of principle but give me what I want, and what I am sure the whole Committee would desire, if it were possible to have it. In the circumstances, I ask leave to withdraw my Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-03a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-03", "file": "debates1939-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "186746877141e6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-03a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I do not want to delay the Committee for more than a moment or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-03a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-03", "file": "debates1939-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "186746877141e6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-03a.1064.3", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They need not join.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ll mean?\" The inspector said: \"If you make any money, out of every 20s. you make I take 5s. 6d. from you.\"The man said: \"I see; but suppose I lose 20s., do you give me 5s. 6d?\" The inspector said: \"No.\" So then the man said: \"Well, I won't join.\" That story illustrates what is behind this Amendment. Remember that under the Ministry of Supply Act these activities are going to be forced upon people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-03a.1064.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-04", "file": "debates1939-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa754b176031446d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "You know that that is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-04", "file": "debates1939-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa754b176031446d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "England private enterprise had built 74,000 houses for letting to the working class, whereas in Scotland the number was just over 1,000. I have made inquiries, and find that, although the number built for letting has risen, it is still under 1,500. That is a negligible quantity. There are one or two other points I wish to put, but, like some other hon. Members, I am in danger of exceeding my time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-04", "file": "debates1939-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa754b176031446d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the House of Commons?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "y and show you people who are living in hellish conditions. You are asking these folk to defend the British Empire. They say to me, \"Do you want us to go and fight for these conditions?\" I say certainly not. It would be a good thing if Germany would come over here and drop a bomb on Burnside in Dumbarton and blow it to smithereens if we could only get the women and children out of the place first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-04", "file": "debates1939-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa754b176031446d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "not. It would be a good thing if Germany would come over here and drop a bomb on Burnside in Dumbarton and blow it to smithereens if we could only get the women and children out of the place first. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the House of Commons?\"] I do not want the House of Commons blown up; I think it is very essential. The British House of Commons is one of the best institutions in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-04", "file": "debates1939-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa754b176031446d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "st, with regard to the eloquent plea that was made by my hon. Friend the Member for Perth (Mr. Hunter) as to the growing scandal, as I would call it, of the lack of suitable housing accommodation for young married couples and those who wish soon to get married. I feel a little diffident in embarking on this subject, because I might myself be charged with remissness so far as marriage is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-04", "file": "debates1939-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa754b176031446d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1244.3", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "eems to be on the part of many Members an implied criticism of the Labour majority in the Glasgow town council. The bad housing conditions in that vast city are simply a monument to past mismanagement. I believe that those in charge of affairs in Glasgow are as eager as anyone in this House can be to get rid of those bad housing conditions, which are such a disgrace to the second city in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-04a.1244.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1280.7", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I ask you for your Ruling, Mr. Speaker? I put down a question which I subsequently withdrew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1280.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1280.8", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You were ashamed of it.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1280.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Or a cheap one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "£15,000,000. The descriptions of the larger of these schemes, that is, those costing more than £100,000, are set out in Part II of Appendix III of the Estimates. Of course, I am still referring to trunk roads. An aspect of this work which I should like to mention for a moment or two is the acquisition of the land necessary for these schemes. Land acquisition in this country is not a rapid process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "It would seem…that many pedestrians are unwilling to sacrifice any of their rights to the common cause of safety.…There is much thoughtless conduct amongst cyclists which is responsible for many accidents. There you have the key-note to all the recommendations which follow in this report. They go on to make them. They recommend that no cycling under 10 years of age should be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "Will road fatalities have been prevented by these—what the seven Lords think are improvements? Of course not. It is along the highways that death most commonly occurs in its worst form. The winding village street may entail a few bumps, but no deaths. The seven Lords envisage the complete disappearance of all speed limits, and that traffic on the roads will have become faster than on the railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "ys. [ Laughter ] If that appears amusing, I recommend hon. Members to read advertisements which appear in the motoring journals as to the capacity of up-to-date motor cars on a free highway. They are commonly advertised to do 100 miles an hour, and up to now no trains are doing that. Fewer pedestrians will be killed, because they will not be there to be killed; the motorists will kill one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1426.2", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "hings, but let the people who like to live in lonely dignified solitude go to the great wide open spaces, like Africa and Vancouver and elsewhere in Canada. They have no right to keep our poor people crowded in towns in those beastly tenements and flats, keeping them out of a goodly heritage, which is to go out to the country, to work in the country and live on their own portion of God's own land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-05", "file": "debates1939-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0d6b3d7c370522a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Again?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hudson", "preceding_text": " Ministry of Transport if the local authorities are not now proceeding with their schemes. These are all ones which are up to them. They submitted the schemes, we have approved the grants, and it is up to them now to proceed with them as quickly as they can. I was also asked whether the schemes would be ready should unemployment, unfortunately, be with us again within the next three or four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-05a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONVICTION, SUNDERLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I have had six babies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1478.3", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONVICTION, SUNDERLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shut up !", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "You never had to steal from a gas meter to get something to eat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Smith", "preceding_text": "t, because we believe we have arrived at a period of development within the present social system when that reorganisation must take place, when increased efficiency must be brought about in order that we may hold our own in the world's markets and improve our export trade. But when the mills are closed down what will happen? If two mills close down the directors will be automatically compensated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1573.2", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are supposed to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "But we are discussing the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ill cause all concerned to constitute the committee. We are giving to the President of the Board of Trade a big stick which he may or may not find necessary to use, but both sides have made concessions and for the first time they have seen eye to eye. That is, I hope, an indication that what has really been a stupid quarrel between two industries is coming to an end. It is a policy of appeasement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1649.7", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "duction and for depreciation on his particular type of plant, then, allowing exactly the same ratio for depreciation, if he can prove that his cost of production is lower than the average cost of production of the group selected under Part I, he is allowed to revise his price below the minimum price by the amount by which his cost of production is below the average cost of production under Part I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1649.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1666.5", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "I think it was wrong of the Parliamentary Secretary to confuse the interests of the operatives with all the other interests in this industry. However the interests of the 13 representatives of the employers may be distinguished from one another they have one common interest, that of being opposed to the operatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-06", "file": "debates1939-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a709c6040144e665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1668.7", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is nothing in it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "put the industry under the control of 15 persons, three of them independent gentlemen. Certainly, they will not be working-class representatives, especially if this Government appoints them. There are nine persons representing the employers' side. That will be 12. There will be three representatives from working-class organisations. An hon. Member shakes his head, but he does so more in ignorance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-06a.1668.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-07", "file": "debates1939-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "99c8cdc1a98b1271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-07a.1716.0", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK INDUSTRY (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": ". I dislike these subsidies. I think they are most objectionable. If agriculture were treated as the iron and steel industries have been treated there would be no need for subsidies. If agriculture had been treated even as the coal industry has been, there would be no need for subsidies. But, unfortunately, these other industries seem to have had the ear of the Government, and agriculture has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-07a.1716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-10", "file": "debates1939-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "4571dbfa5bd0d938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-10a.1784.6", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-FRENCH-RUSSIAN CONVERSATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider sending the right hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) to Moscow on behalf of His Majesty's Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-10a.1784.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-10", "file": "debates1939-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "4571dbfa5bd0d938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-10a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "y organisation has only a limited amount of directional brains and a limited amount of energy, and if in the distant future the time ever does come when the State will manufacture aircraft, I do not believe an operational corporation would be the right instrument for doing that, but rather I believe that their energy should be directed to the main purpose for which the corporation is being set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-10a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-10", "file": "debates1939-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "4571dbfa5bd0d938", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-10a.1958.3", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ill affect five-and six-storey flats in densely populated areas where it is quite impossible for the local authorities to provide any sort of communal shelter at all. The only way of providing shelter for these people is within the curtilage of the building itself.I suggest that that is what should be done, but it is impossible for the local authority to do it within the curtilage of the building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-10a.1958.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2052.1", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his answer will give very great dissatisfaction; and that the question I have put down has given rise to new hope; and will he give an assurance that the question of increased old age pensions is under his active consideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2052.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2052.7", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SAVINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which people?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is not that result due to the fact that people have greater faith than they had in 1931?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2052.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2052.9", "colnum": "2052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SAVINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the other side?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "If I put a question down about the other side of the picture, will theright hon. Gentleman give the facts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2052.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2122.1", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. and gallant Gentleman has given us a very fair explanation. What I understand is that in some previous Act the words he proposed to include were not there at first, and later were put in. Therefore, he wants to have both the original words and these subsequent words included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2163.1", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "planation to the House, and then to argue it later. I was asked what would the Air Ministry have power to make. I will begin by saying that it is not simple to state with any degree of precision what manufacturing powers are possessed by Government Departments at the present time. I know of no limit, in the case of the Air Ministry, to manufacture anything required for the aircraft of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2165.7", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "rudely and blatantly passed from a desire to restrict the sphere of production for use and to extend the sphere of production for profit. Therefore, it raises, in the clearest possible way, the conflict of view between my hon. Friend and those forces which stand on guard behind the right hon. Gentleman, carefully watching lest his foot should slip even an inch or two in the direction of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2165.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2169.1", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the hon. Gentleman the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) describe this Amendment as reactionary, but I believe that the stable from which it came was that of the Federation of British Industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " has not had opportunities of studying Woolwich Arsenal or Portsmouth Dockyard. I remember when I was in the office of the Ordnance Store Department having a special course at Woolwich in the autumn of 1918, and part of the instruction which we were having took us into the Arsenal. I was frankly horrified at the inefficiency and idleness which I saw at a most critical time in our national history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2171.1", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " am going to put forward is that a ship of war built in a Royal Dockyard costs 10 per cent. more than a similar ship built by private enterprise, although the costs include a profit to the company. If you really want to waste public money you will get these munitions of war produced in Government establishments. I notice that there are not many cheers among hon. Members opposite at that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2171.4", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "for War made guns or anything else at Woolwich Arsenal, and I came to the conclusion that the present position was a product of the institution which we call the Royal Prerogative. It had been done from the time of Henry VIII, they had always done it, and nobody had stopped the Crown from doing it. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite are as familiar with this institution as they think they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2172.1", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a good advertisement!'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "osite ever studied this problem without prejudice, my approach would be a little different. I have no direct interest, so far as I am aware, in the production of munitions, except that I happen to be associated with one company which I think has put some device for burning coal in boilers which ultimately will produce steap, which in due course will have something to do with the filling of shells.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2173.5", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did not keep you there long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear that the hon. Gentleman, who had not previously much experience of that kind of administration, thought that it was very good. When I went into a Department of State—and it was quite a good one—I was not so impressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2173.5", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would like to be taken on again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to hear that the hon. Gentleman, who had not previously much experience of that kind of administration, thought that it was very good. When I went into a Department of State—and it was quite a good one—I was not so impressed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"They did not keep you there long.\"] It was not my fault. I was not sacked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2173.5", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is your Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "inary commercial undertaking and ask them a question about a job with which they are familiar, I expect to get an answer by return of post or a day later. All the hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite write many letters to Departments of State. How long is it before they get an answer? They get an acknowledgment by return of post, but when do they get a real answer? In a fortnight or three weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2186.1", "colnum": "2186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anything that I said would carry with it that impression at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2189.4", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "ndment.\" With the consent of the House I think it will be convenient that the whole of the remaining Lords Amendments, which deal with the one point of arbitration, should be discussed together. I am in the hands of the House, but those Amendments carry out the undertaking which I gave to this House during the passage of the Bill through Committee, and it would be convenient to take them together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-11", "file": "debates1939-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "79864bb687374536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2198.1", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TERRITORIAL FORCE (APPLICANT, GLASGOW).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " was some story told about groups being formed and carrying on subversive activities. That is utter nonsense and rubbish. There is nothing subversive in carrying on activities and work in defence of the people and democracy. I have here a letter which I received the other day from a lad who has been called up. He is an exceptionally sensible lad, although he does not belong to the Communist party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-11a.2198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-12", "file": "debates1939-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "36def17ddb29055a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-12a.2242.3", "colnum": "2242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD DEFENCE PLANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "When I put down this question it was transferred to this particular Department. I hardly thought that that was right and proper on an important question like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-12a.2242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-12", "file": "debates1939-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "36def17ddb29055a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-12a.2315.1", "colnum": "2315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILK INDUSTRY (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only seriously affected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Heilgers", "preceding_text": " to be one of the accredited producers myself I should say a few words in reply to the hon. Gentleman the Member for Don Valley (Mr. T. Williams). I would point out to him that it is not only a matter of buildings, but, as the Minister said, of a very rigorous inspection of all the cows four times a year. Any cow that is seriously affected with tuberculosis is bound to be spotted by the inspector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-12a.2315.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-12", "file": "debates1939-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "36def17ddb29055a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-12a.2359.2", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHEAT (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed. Lords Amendments agreed to.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Clifton Brown)", "preceding_text": "Will it be for the convenience of the House to take the Amendments en bloc?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-12a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-14", "file": "debates1939-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a203f81a82f9c804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-14a.2615.1", "colnum": "2615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE GUARANTEES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ters, \"Eat more Fish,\" \"Eat more Fruit,\" \"Wear more Cotton,\" and so on. I would like a little more of all of these things, but I have not got the cash, and I am hoping that the Minister for Overseas Trade, or the Minister of Labour, or the Minister of the appropriate department, will come to me one of these days and say, \"Do not worry about that, old fellow; we will give you the necessary credit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-14a.2615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-14", "file": "debates1939-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a203f81a82f9c804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-14a.2617.5", "colnum": "2617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE GUARANTEES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. What I intended to say was entirely along the lines of this Bill. Various speakers have said that we wanted more Balkan tobacco. I cannot express any opinion on that, because I do not smoke any sort of tobacco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-14a.2617.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-17", "file": "debates1939-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3d94a75b47b2bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR RISKS INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am thinking of houses, for example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-17", "file": "debates1939-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3d94a75b47b2bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR RISKS INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "at we are dealing with here is the trans-shipment of goods over the side from vessels— which often takes place in the Port of London— into barges, lighters, or, sometimes, small coasters. It is a remarkable fact that while the ship from which the trans-shipment occurs is to be protected and the goods are to be protected, the lighters and barges into which the goods are to be trans-shipped are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-17", "file": "debates1939-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3d94a75b47b2bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR RISKS INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cross", "preceding_text": "y the Government. It was something of a contrast to what my right hon. Friend said, that the scheme must be one which people would honestly believe could be carried out, and that it would be dangerous and dishonest to assure people that in certain events they would get certain payments unless we were reasonably certain that they would in fact get the payments, and that met with universal applause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-17", "file": "debates1939-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3d94a75b47b2bad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR RISKS INSURANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cross", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Only on the farm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cross", "preceding_text": "I have never questioned that it was an important point. As I said, we must redraft this to exclude agricultural produce and livestock while it is on the farm, and to make separate provision for goods coming under those headings in so far as they are so situated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-17a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-18", "file": "debates1939-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "675dd983190c5149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "preceding_text": "they cannot ask farm workers to pay more than 3s. a week because of the wages that they know the workers are getting. What about education? Any school mistress will tell you that the child who is holding up the educational standard of the village— not always, but often— and is marked out by his or her condition, is the farm worker's child, who is subnormal in physical condition and even in status.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-18", "file": "debates1939-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "675dd983190c5149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.232.4", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "man's charter, this rich man's subsidy Clause proposed by the hon. Member for Normanton. It would mean that the rich farmer— the gentleman farmer— would be able to pay this wage of 40s. a week, but the man who would be hit would be the small man, who to-day is struggling against adversity and who has not the large amount of subsidy that is gained by the richer man. That is the first great anomaly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-18", "file": "debates1939-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "675dd983190c5149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.232.4", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That would be helping the small man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "awn, all family farms would be drawing the subsidy, and having no wage bill at all. In some cases, I know, the farmers' sons get an allowance of 10s. a week. It is surely not fair to bring forward a Clause which would enable family farms to receive a subsidy, when they have no addition to their costs of production, while those who employ labour have to raise wages by an average of 4s. 9.d. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-18", "file": "debates1939-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "675dd983190c5149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.235.4", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I withdraw any suggestion that the hon. Member would maliciously alter anything he has said. But if there has been a slip or a mishearing it has always been the practice to change the report. I think all Members do go and see their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-18", "file": "debates1939-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "675dd983190c5149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "preceding_text": "hat a fair price will be paid for malting barley. We have running through this policy various efficiency measures. I know that there is criticism that these measures come along slowly, but probably no- other party which might come into power would be able to get on with these efficiency measures any more quickly. We have the question of the abattoirs, which is now in the last stage of negotiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-18", "file": "debates1939-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "675dd983190c5149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "sure that he has successfully piloted through. I maintain, whatever the hon. Member opposite may say, that if you are going to subsidise one form of cereal crops it is only fair to subsidise all. For the last four, five or six years I have seen subsidised wheat from England sold in the markets of my own constituency in unfair competition with oats, which is the only cereal crop in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-18", "file": "debates1939-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "675dd983190c5149", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.346.3", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "Why subsidise us in coming here? He was an exceedingly good farmer. I never knew a better. He was a knowledgeable man. During the last five years he sent me his balance sheets, which I have in my locker, showing that he was losing money. He gave up farming three years before his death, and he had been losing money year after year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-18a.346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.439.9", "colnum": "439", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY).", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are ways and means of dealing with matters of that kind, if not dealt with before. In considering the condition of the Parliamentary programme I have had in mind what I think to be the desire of hon. Members in all parts of the House, namely, to avoid, if possible, sitting over August Bank Holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.439.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.441.7", "colnum": "441", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ights are being filched from us to-day by the Motion which we are now debating. The Motion has, moreover, this deeper significance. The infringement of those ancient rights of the Opposition to its limited opportunities for discussion means a sacrifice of that liberty of expression which is the very foundation of our democratic system. I have no doubt that Herr Goebbels will make the most of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.441.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " for a foreign policy which on that side of the House has been scrapped and can never be rehabilitated. The King's Speech itself referred specifically to only two major measures— first, the Criminal Justice Bill, and secondly, Measures dealing with agriculture. One of these latter was produced, namely, the Milk Bill. It had to be withdrawn most ignominiously, and the Government had to think again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.443.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY).", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"Miserable sinners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "t like to quote the Book of Common Prayer, but there is a passage in it which I will begin and which I will leave other hon. Members to finish: We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. I will not conclude it, but it seems applicable to the work of the Government in the present Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "ield against attack the only effective help which the Government can give to shipping is a subsidy. A subsidy has many very obvious objections. I am certain that no Chancellor of the Exchequer likes to give a subsidy. I am certain tint the; proposal is disliked by the President of the Board of Trade, and I can assure hon. Members that a subsidy is whole-heartedly disliked by the shipping industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A show ship.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "I am glad to think that there has been a noticeable improvement in this respect. I took advantage recently of an opportunity that offered to inspect the conditions of all classes of employes on board the \"Mauretania.\" It is an exceptional case, but in conversation with those who were going to sea in her everyone informed me that the accommodation was better than anything they had ever seen before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": " complete unity on the question that it is necessary that Government assistance should be given to the shipbuilding and shipping industry. The Bill itself is a recognition of the fact that the shipping industry is of vital national importance to our imperial security, and also a recognition that the state of the industry is such to-day that it cannot continue unless it receives Government support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH SHIPPING (ASSISTANCE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "n it would have been much easier to deal with the problem. It is well known that the shipping industry, particularly in the Far East between Japan and India and in the Baltic and in the Pacific, has been taken from our ships. We all realise that for imperial security we must have British shipping, and we cannot have these ships in time of war unless we have them in time of peace. My point is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.560.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Albery", "preceding_text": "In order to comply with the suggestion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine Hill", "preceding_text": "est is sometimes necessary, but where it is, as in the case of the unemployment assistance schemes, something ought to be done to find out what the liabilities are, to ease the test. The test in the present case will operate with the greatest hardship. In a particular case where the Fund is able to pay and the Trustees are anxious to give, you may find that the terms of the Bill will prevent them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.577.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine Hill", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Chancellor of the Exchequer has said about the proper time for deciding on this being on the First Schedule, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.587.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The CHAIRMAN declared that the \"Ayes\" had it and proceeded to call the next Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.604.5", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Debag him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "n characterised as foolish, unserious and reckless. Anybody who listened to the speech of the hon. Member who moved the Amendment knows that he is none of those things, and much the most foolish thing we have had so far is the speech just delivered. No doubt the hon. Member was affected by the result of the recent match at Lords, and perhaps thought that he was once again back in his schooldays. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.604.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.604.5", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "of the House to the best of our ability. I must say that I was very deeply disappointed with the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and from a rather different angle from that which has been expressed so far. As I see it, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by not accepting this Amendment, is making the division between the front Bench and the back Benches very much deeper than it is already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.604.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ons on the one hand are trying to obtain a little synthetic virtue by adopting a course which does not cast any burden on the taxpayer, while on the other hand we are putting the trustees in the position that if they make enormous profits on their investments they are not to be taxed merely because it is a House of Commons arrangement. I want to appeal to the spirit of comradeship that exists here", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " which does not cast any burden on the taxpayer, while on the other hand we are putting the trustees in the position that if they make enormous profits on their investments they are not to be taxed merely because it is a House of Commons arrangement. I want to appeal to the spirit of comradeship that exists here [ Interruption.' ] An hon. Member for one of the Nottingham divisions says \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "You are an expert", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.623.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Well, he is either mouthing or breathing the word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "h to put through a Bill containing a Clause such as this, which would pledge Members of all parties to give pensions to Members of other parties. I am not making a party point on this, but there is one point which has not been mentioned by anybody. I am very surprised that no lady Member of the House has raised it. I cannot see any lady Member actually on the Floor of the House at the present time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.638.4", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Fox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Fox", "preceding_text": "he Chancellor of the Exchequer. Another mistake is that Members of the Government in another House are not also to make a contribution. There has been a lot of muddled thinking through the Debate. At midnight we had the Chancellor telling us that every Member should pay the same amount into the Fund. At four o'clock we have the Chancellor telling us that the Members ought to pay different amounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.638.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Colfox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wednesday's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Colfox", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to hon. Members opposite for their very kind welcome. I look upon this Clause 1 as the worst Clause in an extremely bad Bill. It contains a very great number of points which are extremely questionable, but at this late period on Tuesday's sitting —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Colfox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Colfox", "preceding_text": "bodied in Clause 1, differs so radically from the finance of the corresponding scheme in France? Under our scheme, as contained in the Bill, every Member of Parliament is to be required to pay £ 12 annually, and then, after ten years minimum qualifying period and at a minimum age of 60, a very limited number of people, subject to a rigid means test, will be entitled to receive an exiguous pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.641.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "This is entirely irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.653.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I suggest that is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "May I venture to suggest that, the Committee having adequately debated this Bill for the time being, and as we are all getting tired —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "May I venture to suggest that, the Committee having adequately debated this Bill for the time being, and as we are all getting tired — [ Interruption. ] I quite agree with the hon. Members opposite that they are not tired, because they have done no work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Fox", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has woken up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Fox", "preceding_text": "hich says that trustees may accept any property given, devised, or bequeathed by any person to the Fund, but that they shall, as soon as may be, realise any such property other than money or securities, and they are authorised to invest the assets in the Fund. What would be the position if someone left some houses or real property to the Fund, with a special request that it should not be realised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.669.4", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " should be provided for Members of Parliament and not only is the proposal a novel one but it is being forced through this House in the greatest possible hurry. I think the Government Chief Whip will go down to history as the man who at the time of the greatest national emergency could find no better use to make of the Government time than to bring forward a Bill to provide pensions for ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.669.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-19", "file": "debates1939-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "a91530aab5f6a104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.671.3", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "After the explanation of the right hon. Gentleman I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-19a.671.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that 178 men who were supposed to be carpenters were imported from Southern Ireland, to do work in connection with this camp? According to my information many of them were not carpenters at all and local men of excellent character, who are anxious to get employment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DRUGS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I must protest", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.796.4", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And their blood.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " from a practical point of view. I have no intention of wasting the time of the Committee by attempts at rhetoric for which I do not possess the ability. The simple fact is that, in regard to Palestine, we carried out a dual swindle. In the first place, we promised Palestine to the Arabs and in return we got their blood. Secondly, we promised Palestine to the Jews and in return we got their money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.796.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "seas, and that in particular we are bent upon barring the door of Palestine to them. That is not true. The very reverse is the truth of the White Paper policy. It is quite true that we disagree with people who hold a certain view— and so does the hon. Member opposite disagree with them. There are certain people who seem to think that Palestine can provide the solution of the whole refugee problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who thinks so?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": " Palestine to them. That is not true. The very reverse is the truth of the White Paper policy. It is quite true that we disagree with people who hold a certain view— and so does the hon. Member opposite disagree with them. There are certain people who seem to think that Palestine can provide the solution of the whole refugee problem. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] It has been suggested over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "o be put forward against it. One of the things that we have in mind is the effect upon immigration if the policy were not to be put into effect straight away. What would happen in regard to immigration if we did postpone the putting into operation of the White Paper policy? If we had not been practising the White Paper policy we should have been continuing the policy which immediately preceded it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "l to our sentiment, and I do not deny that the majority of the illegal immigrants are refugees from Central Europe. Those refugees are going in illegally and they are keeping out other refugees who might have gone in legally. But there are other motives in this traffic. I am not going into all of them. I do not want to stir unnecessary passions on this matter, because we feel very deeply about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.808.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.813.8", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What do you mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I must apologise now to the Committee if I gave that impression. It was an unfortunate remark which was made to my hon. Friend beside me in a voice louder than I intended. The intention attributed to my remark by hon. Members opposite was not what I intended at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.813.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.814.3", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is no man's land.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "from Poland and Rumania, many of them Jews who have lived there for years past. An hon. Member wanted to know what the figures were. Let me tell him. Something like 40 per cent, of the immigrants going into Palestine illegally are not from any part of Greater Germany, but are from Poland or Rumania. Hon. Members may ask, if these people are coming from Poland or Rumania, why are they not deported?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin", "preceding_text": "s little book \"A Socialist in Palestine,\" by J. Ramsay MacDonald. If he has, he must be shocked at the difference between his own approach to this problem and the approach which his father had. Here is one sentence which sums up very admirably the answer to all these suggestions that you can put the Jews into Canada or British Guiana or any other place. To the Jew, that is the most arrant rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.875.0", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A quibble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. MacDonald", "preceding_text": ". But may I point out that the White Paper of 1922 says nothing of the sort? It says: This immigration cannot be so great in volume as to exceed whatever may be the economic capacity of the country at the time to absorb new arrivals. It says that immigration must not exceed that, but there is no prohibition whatever against immigration falling below the absorptive economic capacity of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-20", "file": "debates1939-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "d28c4e989d70fbbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: The Royal Commission said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Palestine to the Jews and to the Arabs. The hon. Member opposite said that the proper view was that the promise to the Jews was paramount, that our paramount obligation was to establish the Jewish National Home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-20a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-21", "file": "debates1939-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "be60ab8895b8f071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Entwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Entwistle", "preceding_text": "young persons under 16 to 44. That was contained in Section 71 (2). But an essential condition of the Amendment was that, if certain conditions were fulfilled as regards the class or description of factory, there should be an extension of the 44 hours to 48. Those conditions were very carefully laid down, and the Amendment was accepted only on those conditions being incorporated in the exceptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-21", "file": "debates1939-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "be60ab8895b8f071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "preceding_text": "Apart from young persons who were already engaged at the date of the regulations coming into force the exemption which was recommended by the committee of inquiry and which is now contained in these regulations applied only to young persons of 15. Exemption is not granted to young persons of 14 unless they are actually in employment at the time the regulations come into force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-21", "file": "debates1939-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "be60ab8895b8f071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.920.4", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "preceding_text": "he processes on which young persons are employed in the cotton industry are not injurious to their health. Furthermore, there is the third condition. I have been trying to deal with the three conditions but have been interrupted in the process. The second condition is that it is not injurious to health that these young persons should be so employed. The third condition, and it is an important one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.920.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-21", "file": "debates1939-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "be60ab8895b8f071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Your boss is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "had no juvenile employment problem at all. I appeal to hon. Members, and I appeal above all to the young men. I know their hearts are in the right place, and I hope they will start a rebellion. It would be a very good thing for the Government if you had a quiet little rebellion. You need not tell the papers about it, but you could go to the Government and say that you are young at heart, and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-21", "file": "debates1939-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "be60ab8895b8f071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And granted\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "all the morning, and I must confess that I have not yet understood what the complaint is. Employers have, within their rights, made representations to us under Section 71. Does my hon. Friend say that those representations should have been passed straight into the waste paper basket on receipt at the Home Office, or should they have been, as they have been, carefully sifted, checked, and examined?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-21a.977.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.995.9", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman's answer not mean that the Government have now definitely taken the side of Japan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.995.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister regard it as desirable that a member of the Government, although not in the Cabinet, should engage in conversations of this kind, important as they are, at this crucial time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "utside, but at the moment they are almost as irrelevant as Northern Ireland. The right hon. Gentleman says, \"I am not going to take any risks at this stage. I have just told the House that I must have this legislation at once, because a war might break out, and in those circumstances I am not going to take any risk, and I shall find myself, like the young lady in the story, very easily satisfied.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "I hope not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1111.3", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I have some sympathy with myself because it always seems to me that the person who winds up from this Box, on a Bill which all parties have expressed their intention of not dividing against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1111.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is reasonable that I should be pressed, or that my right hon. Friend should be pressed, on those points now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "y sums due. I also note that no sums may be recoverable either by the society or by any other person, and it might well be that a sanction of that kind would operate in a direction quite contrary to those the hon. Member intends. With regard to the point about the charge usually made by a building society for inspection of documents, I am at the moment unable to ascertain what the usual charge is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-24", "file": "debates1939-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ceb4cceb15c1428a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says \"Invariably,\" but I qualify that with the word \"almost.\" At any rate, from my experience, I can say that I have always had to pay a fee if I wanted to have the title deeds produced in the circumstances with which we are dealing here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-24a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1241.8", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH (PREPARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Most satisfactory.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is not this tit-for-tat particularly opportune?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1241.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "That interruption is, if I may say so, rather irrelevant. If the programme of the Socialist party is described accurately by the hon. Gentleman, why is it that when the Socialist party had been bitterly opposing subsidies, particularly the sugar-beet subsidy, they kept those subsidies on when they came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1329.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1353.4", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS (RE-COMMITTED) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "preceding_text": "I wish to withdraw my Amendment also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "preceding_text": "I invite an explanation from the promoter of the Amendment or from the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to how the Amendment would operate in the event of somebody not a Member leaving a legacy to the Fund. I understand that the trustees would have no power to accept the legacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ment. Under the Amendment, trustees could disregard a claim based on mental infirmity, or on the ground that a person was incapable of earning his living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1386.3", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMBERS FUND BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hambro", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hambro", "preceding_text": "pensions; nor did I hear the criticism that we are using public money in order to give ourselves pensions. What I heard was criticism of the fact that, in the times in which we are now living, we have spent time which is most precious to the country in voting ourselves pensions. Hon. Members must remember that we have now taken up in hours what would practically be four days of Parliamentary time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY SERVICES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson", "preceding_text": "rea. I trust I am making myself clear; I am speaking under very great disability. When I raised the question of the balloon barrage system in the Glasgow area, I was assured that progress was being made and that the contract had been established. I hope the Minister can refute the information which I have received from a very reliable source, the representative of a national newspaper in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-25", "file": "debates1939-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "91498b9db2f3ad06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1428.4", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHARITABLE COLLECTIONS (REGULATION) BILL (changed to \"HOUSE TO HOUSE COLLECTIONS BILL\").'", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Does the House agree to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-25a.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-26", "file": "debates1939-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3cf4ee61f525e950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You would be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "Suppose the Secretary of State is convinced that an order should be made in the interests of the security of the State, and suppose the judge for some reason or other refuses that order. The Secretary of State cannot make the order, and subsequently the man blows up the Houses of Parliament. Who is responsible then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-26", "file": "debates1939-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3cf4ee61f525e950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": ", I hope we shall not have any element of judicial procedure spatchcocked into this Clause. It seems to me to be most unfair to the judiciary to use them in a matter which is necessarily for the executive. The business of Government is to govern. The Home Secretary has to stand up as his predecessors—Socialists Liberals and Conservatives —have stood up, and to take the responsibility of governing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-26", "file": "debates1939-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3cf4ee61f525e950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": "p as his predecessors—Socialists Liberals and Conservatives —have stood up, and to take the responsibility of governing. [ Interruption. ] The fact that the Home Secretary advises the Sovereign as to the commutation of the death penalty is an example of the great responsibility he exercises, and we have no reason whatever to be ashamed of it —the responsibility of revising the sentences of judges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-26", "file": "debates1939-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3cf4ee61f525e950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The situation was just as serious in 1885 as it is now. It was a Liberal Government that passed Measures compared with which the present common-sense Bill is mild—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-26", "file": "debates1939-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3cf4ee61f525e950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "e thing running through them. Quite frankly, I would much prefer that the Home Secretary should take whatever course he thinks proper and take the responsibility attaching to it. The Home Secretary may make a serious mistake, but it is just as possible that a serious mistake may be made by a judge. There is, however, this difference, that if the judge makes a serious mistake nobody can remove him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-26", "file": "debates1939-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3cf4ee61f525e950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "ciple involved and see whether there is not some way in which it might be incorporated in his own Amendment. The right hon. Gentlemen have led the Committee to assume that nobody is to be dealt with under this Bill unless he is, in fact, taking part in a conspiracy. I would like them to face fairly and squarely the fact that some people will be dealt with under this Bill who are entirely innocent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-26", "file": "debates1939-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3cf4ee61f525e950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "t in the Incitement to Disaffection Bill, because it was I who drafted the Amendment that was carried. I would like now to suggest that the Government should compromise on this matter, and that instead of the reference being to one justice of the peace, it should be to two justices of the peace. That would make the position correspond to what would be the case in Scotland, where it is the sheriff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-26a.1592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-28", "file": "debates1939-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "72ff539f0fa163c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-28a.1864.5", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "f security, it is necessary that we should be able to detain them pending further inquiries, to give the Secretary of State an opportunity of knowing whether or not a deportation order should be made. I will be very frank with the House. I will go further and say that I have been told that if we had had these powers two days ago it is very likely that we might have forestalled one or other of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-28a.1864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.1992.7", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": " to-night with all the strength at my command, so that nobody may misunderstand it. Earler in the same speech he had said: We know that if international law and order is to be preserved we must be prepared to fight in its defence. The accredited leaders of both the Opposition parties, in language equally plain, clear and downright, have endorsed that speech. The Prime Minister has not yet done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.1992.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.1992.7", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"From where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "account of those negotiations ought to have been given to the House of Commons a long time ago. While negotiations are in progress there is sometimes and at some stages an advantage in giving full publicity to the case of each side. There is often and at many stages an advantage in secrecy. But these negotiations are neither in secret nor in public, but in a twilight of inspired newspaper comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.1992.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2005.4", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "nitely long duration. We think that at this time it would be proper we shall develop this argument on Wednesday, and I merely mention it now in passing—that the House should keep in much more constant touch with Ministers and with the international situation. My hon. Friends do not trust the Government—why should we use ambiguous words? —we do not trust the Government either to do the right thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2005.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2006.1", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " in detail of the successive steps in these negotiations. He was, of course, perfectly right. It is never necessary to do more, if one desires to see how the thing is going on, than to read over the weekend say three Sunday newspapers and three morning papers on Monday morning, and you have the whole thing. Therefore, I make no apology for asking the Prime Minister to make it plain whether or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2010.1", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "d out and discomfited their Fascists. Those people have been badly beaten in the recent election. There are Socialist Ministers in a Coalition Government, and I believe the desire of Finland to be neutral is genuine and perfectly sincere and above suspicion, And there is no German minority. I except Finland from anything I am now saying. But when you come to the smaller States, Estonia and Latvia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2038.1", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "preceding_text": "nd could be stopped to-morrow by agreement. To control the Press in France, the French Government have already taken the strongest powers and could in a moment turn the tap in any direction that they desired; I seriously suggest that the time has come for us here to consider whether we should not take steps to enable the Press to exercise voluntary control over itself or, at least, its head-lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2038.1", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ts head-lines. [Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] We should do so without the smallest hesitation at the outbreak of war. Is it not better, when a war of a sort has been already in progress for the past two years, ourselves to confer or exercise such powers as would enable us at least to be able to reach an agreement for a few months to control the shameful excesses in the Press on both sides of the North Sea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2038.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2076.2", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows that if we had imposed sanctions at that time on Italy we were the only nation that was prepared to go the whole way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2077.1", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who made the treaty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "e world is organised economically to-day, it cannot afford to have one or two large bankrupt and distressed nations within its economy. Somehow we have to get them into the family and help them on to their feet. After 1918, Germany and Austria were wrongly kept in a state of economic misery, and it is that fact which I think has largely resulted in the difficulties from which we are now suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-07-31", "file": "debates1939-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f4aba8a75dffbee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2086.1", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS VII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Griffith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Griffith", "preceding_text": "indeed be a sorry thing if, whilst we are summoning our young men to resist the threats of a totalitarian State abroad, we installed one here at home. Supposing that at any moment of anxiety every voice of criticism must be hushed. The Prime Minister said what seemed to me a very serious thing when he said of the two speeches which preceded his own that they were doing an ill service to the cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-07-31a.2086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-01", "file": "debates1939-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "beecdc56b6dce61f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-01a.2176.0", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "etary for Scotland aware that it is quite impossible for us to follow up the lengthy statement which he has made? As far as I am able to judges—I have given the best part of my life to this question—I am entirely disappointed with this small crumb which he has given to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It in no way meets the subject to talk about £30,000 when we have been asking for millions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-01a.2176.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-01", "file": "debates1939-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "beecdc56b6dce61f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-01a.2229.4", "colnum": "2229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "children, and being met by someone who claims that he has taken the house and paid for it, and can produce the receipt. It is all very well for the Ministry to think that you can push him out, or push someone in; but if you envisage yourself with these children at your heels you will realise that that is not a very satisfactory prospect. I understand that a re-survey of the position is being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-01a.2229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-01", "file": "debates1939-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "beecdc56b6dce61f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-01a.2273.1", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliots", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliots", "preceding_text": "ere seeking powers to supplement their present water supply. I think he will agree, on reflection, that a town which quite properly seeks to supplement its present water supply is still a town to which, in the stress of an emergency, evacuees might very properly be sent. For, after all, we know that the consumption of water does not rise proportionately to the increase of the population of a town—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-01a.2273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2427.1", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "persed. I think I can speak for Members outside my party when I enter a most emphatic protest against the decision of the Government. The Government are complacent. The Prime Minister's complacency is not shared by my hon. Friends, nor indeed, I imagine, is it shared by hon. Members on the Liberal Benches below the Gangway, nor by a proportion of the Members who sit on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2433.1", "colnum": "2433", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "could then have saved peace and saved Czecho-Slovakia. I have mentioned Danzig and the continued mobilisation of the German Army. Then there is Poland. There have been difficulties over this loan for Poland. I hope the Prime Minister will not retort to me that merely by mentioning them I am raising suspicion and hinting that the Government do not want to assist Poland. That is not what I am doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1", "colnum": "2438", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why adjourn for three weeks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " ask the House to come back on frequent occasions during the interval. Then it would have been for the Opposition to say, \"Of course it is very serious, but if the Prime Minister demands it on a policy on which we are agreed, it will be our duty to comply with his request.\" How would it be if we came back in three weeks' time, before the end of August so that we could all be in complete agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1", "colnum": "2438", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Let us go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " serious, but if the Prime Minister demands it on a policy on which we are agreed, it will be our duty to comply with his request.\" How would it be if we came back in three weeks' time, before the end of August so that we could all be in complete agreement? [An Hon. Member: \"Why adjourn for three weeks?\"] I should think it would be a pretty safe thing to adjourn for a fortnight or three weeks now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1", "colnum": "2438", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " [An Hon. Member: \"Let us go on.\"] Surely we are not going to ask that we should stay here night and day, or that we should never come back. That is far too narrow a dilemma. Lord Balfour used to say that this is a singularly ill-contrived world, but it is not so ill-contrived as that. I would like to endorse the argument that it will not be so easy to recall Parliament once it has been dispersed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1", "colnum": "2438", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "t may well hamper the delicate negotiations which at the last moment might be in progress. I should think that it would be a matter of foresight and prudent convenience to have had a day at the end of August up your sleeve when there would be no crisis. If the date were the 22nd or 25th August, or whatever it might be, then, if all is well, very few people need come. The Ministers need not attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1", "colnum": "2438", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "hich at the last moment might be in progress. I should think that it would be a matter of foresight and prudent convenience to have had a day at the end of August up your sleeve when there would be no crisis. If the date were the 22nd or 25th August, or whatever it might be, then, if all is well, very few people need come. The Ministers need not attend. [ Interruption. ] Certainly, if all is well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2446.6", "colnum": "2446", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "happen? Some right hon. Gentlemen will make speeches of interminable length. I once referred to right hon. Gentlemen who treated the House as a place where they bow in, blow off and blow out, and they do not always honour us by listening to what we may say subsequently. So far as the Leader of Liberal party is concerned, he will be much happier in the House of Tongue than in the House of \"tongues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2446.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3", "colnum": "2448", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker determines when the right hon. Gentleman is called, but the right hon. Gentleman himself, unless he is guilty of tedious repetition, determines when he sits down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3", "colnum": "2448", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ing me to get on with it. In a rather extensive experience of addressing meetings attended by those who vote for hon. Members opposite, I always notice that when I am told to get on with it, I am saying something that they do not like. Therefore, hon. Members opposite have not quite grown out of their early training. They resent criticism although they are very fond of flinging it at other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3", "colnum": "2448", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "rs opposite have not quite grown out of their early training. They resent criticism although they are very fond of flinging it at other people. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell),who is a fairly fierce critic, ought not to get too cross. We are approaching the holidays, when a certain spirit of good will should prevail even in his rather caustic mind. I really do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3", "colnum": "2448", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You are trying to get there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "they might decide what they are voting about. If they cannot determine what they want, it is difficult for me to decide what I shall do about it. It is a good idea to have a measure of unanimity about that sort of thing. What is behind this proposal? Is it that we should meet on 21st August? Not in the least. It arises out of the anger of certain people because they do not sit on that Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2458.1", "colnum": "2458", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "I can give a very simple answer to the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan). He need only show his constituents the speeches made by Members of his own Front Bench. Those speeches always amount to this, that you cannot trust the Prime Minister because he may let down some foreign country and thereby prevent the people of this country from going to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2458.1", "colnum": "2458", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "ticisms of the Prime Minister on this ground—this man went to Munich, this man betrayed Czecho-Slovakia, this man cannot be trusted because he will betray our allies everywhere in Europe. Therefore, the danger, as far as it is a danger, from the point of view of hon. Members opposite, is that if we trust the Prime Minister, it may well be that there may not be war, and some of them would like war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2458.1", "colnum": "2458", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "Debates are taking place in the House? There are a good many back-bench Members who stay on in the House all through the Session, and it does seem a little hard that those who are most anxious to bring the Session into operation again are those who, when the House is in Session, are so often absent. Before coming to the House this afternoon, I looked at the Division Lobby records for this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2460.3", "colnum": "2460", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"After Berchtesgaden.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "oad, would simply mark a very nice milestone for any step they wanted to take in Europe to be taken at some period just after the House had risen, after meeting automatically during the Recess. It is laid down, and it has been stated by the Prime Minister, that, in the event of any real crisis arising, the House must be gathered together, as last year the House was gathered together before Munich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2479.1", "colnum": "2479", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "The OFFICIAL REPORT to-morrow will prove whether I am cor-rest. I do not recall the hon. Member saying that Members could go to their constituencies and explain the armaments policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2479.1", "colnum": "2479", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "The OFFICIAL REPORT to-morrow will prove whether I am cor-rest. I do not recall the hon. Member saying that Members could go to their constituencies and explain the armaments policy. [Hon. Members: \"Yes, he did.\"] He did nothing of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2479.1", "colnum": "2479", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": " policy. Therefore the hon. Member and other Government supporters are entirely wrong in saying that we are now in such a state of preparation that we can go on holiday and leave the affairs of State to the Cabinet. He also added at the end of his speech in a very emphatic voice—I know that many hon. Members may repeat this—that we should also say, \"Thank God that we have our Prime Minister here.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2484.1", "colnum": "2484", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "for two months. Yes, for two months with qualifications—with the provision that, if during those two months the public interest required that 'the House should meet again, the House would be called together. They may say,\" But who knows that you will call the House together? \"Once again we come back to the question: Do you trust the judgment and good faith of the Prime Minister and his colleagues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2489.4", "colnum": "2489", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it down again. I put it to the House that the Amendment of the right hon. Gentleman opposite is inconsistent with its avowed purpose, that it has no logical foundation, and that, on account of the reasons which he has given to the House for adopting it, namely, that it is moved because of the distrust of the party opposite with the Government in general, and with the Prime Minister in particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2489.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2489.6", "colnum": "2489", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "enuine appeals that were being made to the Prime Minister to meet us as a House of Commons, I deliberately abstained from making that speech, because I did not want to do anything to exacerbate feeling. I felt that some little thing I said might make it more difficult for the Prime Minister to respond to what I believe is a very widespread feeling in this House. I am going to make that speech now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2489.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2493.1", "colnum": "2493", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "ould like to say a few words as a backbencher of the Prime Minister's own party. It seemed to me, listening tonight, that there was a difference of view put forward by those who spoke from the Opposition side and those who spoke from this side, and perhaps the Prime Minister was quite justified in saying that many of the speeches made by the Opposition showed that Members lacked confidence in him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2493.1", "colnum": "2493", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "ority of us in this House are going down to our constituencies to make speeches. A fantastic and ludicrous impression, as everybody on both sides of the House, with perhaps one exception, knows, exists in this country that the Prime Minister has ideas of dictatorship. It is a ludicrous impression and everybody here on both sides of the House knows it is ludicrous, but it does exist in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2494.3", "colnum": "2494", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartland", "preceding_text": "institution. Personally I cannot see why he could not come down and say, \"We will decide to meet on 21st August, or on a certain date, and if, after consulting with the Opposition Leaders, we are all agreed that there is no reason to meet, then do not let Parliament meet.\" Everybody would accept that. We are in the situation that within a month we may be going to fight, and we may be going to die.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2508.3", "colnum": "2508", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What North? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "her have to trust the managing director or not trust him, and I would not have intervened in the Debate were it not for the fact that all the people who are easily discontented with the Government, but who are supposed to be supporters of the Government, seem to have spoken against the Prime Minister during the last hour or two. I am certain that, speaking for the North, supporting the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2511.1", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "parties. With the greatest respect to my right hon. Friends on the Government Front Bench, I do not think they understand the real feelings of their own Members upon this matter. I believe that if they were to interview their own Members individually, they would find, as indeed this Debate shows, that the great majority of us on this side would like the Prime Minister to have made some concession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2513.1", "colnum": "2513", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into the question of the Munich Agreement. I voted for it with some difficulty, but questions of confidence in the Prime Minister or personal issues of any kind have for me nothing to do with the matter now under discussion. They do not seem to me to apply at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-02", "file": "debates1939-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "7d64bf9c336b36d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2517.1", "colnum": "2517", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubert Beaumont", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Divide\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubert Beaumont", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-02a.2517.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2622.1", "colnum": "2622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the Board quite recently insisted on the separation of boys and girls in the last built senior central school in Lowestoft? Is he further aware that the whole question of the cost of separate schools was discussed at a meeting of the local authority, the East Suffolk County Council, at which I was present and that the arguments in favour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2622.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2623.7", "colnum": "2623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RATES (EQUALISATION).", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Which authorities?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is he also aware that some of those local authorities are grossly extravagant and that they want extravagant subsidising?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2623.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2692.1", "colnum": "2692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "d economists call it, not in any theoretical sense but in a very practical sense, and when that situation arises I have no doubt whatever that a good many of the statements that I have made during the last four years in this House, and which have been passed over lightly or mocked at, will be brought home to the nation, when we find that we have jobs waiting for men who are not there to take them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2695.4", "colnum": "2695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "oyed in July and the reduction since January, 1939, is 65,892.In Scotland the insured population last July was 1,637,940, the number of unemployed at the last count 190,516, and the reduction since January, 98,187. In Wales the insured population was 684,300, the number of unemployed in July, 106,329, and the reduction since January, 1939, 67,370. I think those figures are worth putting on record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2695.4", "colnum": "2695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ers have not seen these before; they are quite fresh. While unemployment remained largely concentrated in the Northern group of divisions and Wales, these areas still made very considerable strides in the reduction of their unemployment. With regard to industries, the facts are also very interesting. This is important, because the suggestion is made that the improvement is all due to defence work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2698.1", "colnum": "2698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "figure for April, 1937. This analysis of unemployment goes some way to furnish an explanation to those who ask why the annual average has only once in 18 years fallen below the 10 per cent. level. The junior Member for Oxford University (Sir A. Salter) knows that at the moment many orthodox economists take the view that when Defence work comes to an end it will leave behind it severe unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2703.2", "colnum": "2703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "r in any direct and simple way. Strictly speaking, there is no demand for labour in general and no supply of labour in general; instead, there is a great variety of demands for specific kinds of labour in specific places, which is a very different thing. These demands must be met by a great variety of supplies of labour. Each industry has its own particular need. Each man is a separate individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2706.0", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "sion, and I feel sure that whatever alternatives hon. Members might have in their minds, they would not be able to arrive at a scheme, in peace time at any rate, where the problem of able-bodied relief could be dealt with apart from some test of need. This problem is 200 years old, and it is a most difficult problem. I think the solution we arrived at 3½ years ago has worked satisfactorily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2706.0", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What does that mean? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "the point of view of public finance but also from the point of view of industry and labour and replacement of equipment. Thirdly, I think that hon. Members opposite are not doing justice to themselves or to the country or to the problem, when they assume that if you stop a great Defence programme, you will necessarily have great unemployment, without allowing for other forces which may be at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2706.0", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Absurd.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "y be at work. [Hon. Members: \"What does that mean? \"] It means this. The late Arthur Henderson spent a great part of his later days in labouring for disarmament. He would not have done that if he had thought that once we arrived at the period when there was no need to make any exertions for Defence all over the world, we would also get a period of intensified poverty and distress and unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2706.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2723.0", "colnum": "2723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Members", "cue_text": "For how long, in the American example?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De Chair", "preceding_text": "es on work of national importance. The contrast with what was done in America is very interesting because there, £384,000,000 was spent up to last year. That is only double the sum which I have just mentioned, but work was found in the civilian conservation camps for 2,242,000 young men compared with the spending of £190,000,000 by the Labour Government, which found work for only some 120,000 men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2732.3", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "as interested to hear the figures he gave. I also looked out some figures yesterday and found that in 1933 the percentage of hard core unemployed was 25 per cent. of the total. I find to-day that it is 23 per cent. of the total. It rather strikes me that it is one of those problems that are practically insoluble. There are considerable difficulties. There are the people who do not want employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2739.1", "colnum": "2739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "ers on the other side have condemned the Government for that increase. Why should they not be generous and give credit to the Government when there is so great a decrease in unemployment? If the last Labour Government could have produced figures during their regime such as have been produced to-day, they would still be in office. Nobody blames the Labour Government for the world situation in 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2740.1", "colnum": "2740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "hance of obtaining constant work to other districts. A number of young men left my division and found work in Birmingham and other places. That meant that my division was being denuded of its youth, and in order to provide work for the young men, over 300 workers were turned off for no other reason than that they were 65 years of age. All that they had to look forward to was an inadequate pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2754.1", "colnum": "2754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is all the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "preceding_text": "heir sons, and sons having to keep their fathers. Take the case of the father who is keeping his son. Matters may come to a breaking point between them and the son leaves the home. He does not go very far away, because he generally finds some neighbour who is prepared to take him in. There is nothing for him because the right hon. Gentleman's Department or rather the Unemployment Assistance Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2769.1", "colnum": "2769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Government have done a mighty thing for the coal industry, too. The introduction of the selling schemes has put millions of money into the coal industry, and the result has been a greater rise in the reward of the miner, as well as in the prosperity of the industry, than at any period of our modern history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2791.1", "colnum": "2791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Yes, but more people have come along and taken then places and taken fresh jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-03", "file": "debates1939-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a807e5e4592630e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2794.2", "colnum": "2794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ornament? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ed that they discriminated against older men. Certainly, of the men taken on in the United States in 1937 in work only 8.4 per cent. were over 40,instead of 33 per cent. if the rate of turnover had been the same in all age groups. I was interested to read something lately in the Press about the hon. Member for East Woolwich (Mr. Hicks) and the union of which he is an ornament on this very subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-03a.2794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-04", "file": "debates1939-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af9726cf7abb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2819.0", "colnum": "2819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-FRENCH-RUSSIAN CONVERSATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "But may I ask —.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-04", "file": "debates1939-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af9726cf7abb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2819.0", "colnum": "2819", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-FRENCH-RUSSIAN CONVERSATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "But may I ask —.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I think there is a point which you will admit, Mr. Speaker —.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-04", "file": "debates1939-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af9726cf7abb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2908.0", "colnum": "2908", "heading": "REFUGEES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. MacDonaid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. MacDonaid", "preceding_text": "l narrative is to be congratulated on the clearness and accuracy of his statement. He showed there quite conclusively why it is that we are faced with this situation to-day. There were two things. First, there was the iniquitous condition of the land laws. In 1886 an effort was made to put these right, and another effort was made in 1911. Both these efforts were excellent, but they were niggardly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-04", "file": "debates1939-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "9af9726cf7abb056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2911.1", "colnum": "2911", "heading": "REFUGEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the bracken?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macquisten", "preceding_text": "he land was not always used for sheep. It was used for the rearing of black cattle, as you will find if you read Dr. Johnson's \"Tour of the Hebrides.\" There were innumerable cattle in the Highlands in those days, and, if the rearing of cattle could be carried on there now, they could supply enough \"baby beef\" to keep the towns of Scotland going in a much better way than by buying meat from abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-04a.2911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "get very far perhaps for a week, but our minds would be turned from thinking how we can destroy the world to thinking how we can pre serve the world.\" I know I shall be told that I do not understand Herr Hitler and Colonel Beck and Signor Mussolini. It happens that I know their prototypes in this country. Men and women everywhere are much the same, and statesmen are much the same in all countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lansbury", "preceding_text": "lonel Beck and Signor Mussolini. It happens that I know their prototypes in this country. Men and women everywhere are much the same, and statesmen are much the same in all countries. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I may be allowed to express that opinion after having met all of them. I have that advantage, that I have seen them all face to face and talked to them, or rather they talked to me face to face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. A. Robinson", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Am I right in assuming that the only two persons who have met Hen-Hitler are Mr. Lansbury and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Yes, but he then said that we will try it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " is going to be of great extent and long duration, and the thing that angers me more than anything else, from the point of view of my particular political philosophy, is the fact that these years that are just now opening up to us could be the greatest years for human elevation with which humanity has ever been presented. I have to record my opposition to the Prime Minister's mandate to go to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I will come to that in a moment. Last year we had Munich; the betrayal of Czecho-Slovakia and the democracies of Europe. How much easier it would have been last year if the policy of this side had been adopted and a stand had been made against aggression before the bastions had fallen. The whole of these events have represented a period of the most gross and glaring double crossing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ed, Holborn Democrats. The idea is good: it means the closest possible association with Russia. We have to face what may become an absolute catastrophe for the people of this country and the people of Europe. We will not hesitate to take our stand at any time against Fascist aggression no matter what the consequences may be. We make no attempt to hide ourselves behind meaningless pacifist phrases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about Ribbentrop's column?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "last year that Germany was invincible, and that if we did not submit it would mean war immediately. This Non-Aggression Pact not only shows the importance of the Soviet Union in this situation, but it strikes a terrific blow against the activities of the fifth column in this and other countries. Learn that lesson, suppress for good the activities of the \"fifth column,\" and let us get a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": " invented for the convenience and for the safety of the British Empire it was the formula of collective security. It was a formula which it was up to us above all to maintain, and to pay the premiums. However high those premiums they are less than the cost of the war we are likely to face. Time after time we have had the Prime Minister doing— what? I say, putting the narrow interests of his class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I was about to examine the realism of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "tuency, the colliers, steelworkers and railwaymen, should offer their bodies as a deterrent to German aggression. There is one man over there whom you could offer—offer him. Let the Conservative party, if it wants to convince us that it is in earnest, call a Carlton Club meeting, and get rid of the Prime Minister. He is the man upon whom Hitler relies; he is the man responsible for this situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-24", "file": "debates1939-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "eb9ec07ef7faa62f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "CLAUSE 11 — (Duration of Act.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "m satisfied that if anything happened in my industry this Act would be used. Why does the right hon. Gentleman want the Act to continue for a further 12 months when its usefulness on the Statute Book has gone? Not only the Home Secretary but the Prime Minister does not like the Bill. They say to us: \"We do not like it, but let it be for 12 months although the period of its usefulness has expired.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-24a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-29", "file": "debates1939-08-29a.xml", "sha256": "5aecdf2a2519ca25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-29a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Name it!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": ", President Roosevelt's appeal to Poland and to Germany. To that appeal there was magnificent response by Poland, showing every sincerity in their desire to avoid the worst and to come to a solution of their difficulties by peaceful means. Herr Hitler has not replied. On his shoulders lies the responsibility for the making of war. No nation in Europe— no nation in Europe— will make war except one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-29a.116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-08-29", "file": "debates1939-08-29a.xml", "sha256": "5aecdf2a2519ca25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-29a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " country who understands the feeling that has been aroused, I am the man. I have never been allowed to forget it wherever I have gone. But it is not personal feelings that should determine our course of action now, and, therefore, I say that it would be a desirable thing for this Parliament to send a message to other Parliaments, including the all Soviet Parliament, which is at present in session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-08-29a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-01", "file": "debates1939-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "96251faa4d0baca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-01a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "GERMAN ATTACK ON POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gas? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": " von Ribbentrop. Once again he expressed to him what, indeed, the Polish Government had already said publicly, that they were willing to negotiate with Germany about their disputes on an equal basis. What was the reply of the German Government? The reply was that without another word the German troops crossed the Polish frontier this morning at dawn and are since reported to be bombing open towns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-01a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-01", "file": "debates1939-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "96251faa4d0baca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-01a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "GERMAN ATTACK ON POLAND.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Time limit? \".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "ccordingly to inform your Excellency that unless the German Government are prepared to give His Majesty's Government satisfactory assurances that the German Government have suspended all aggressive action against Poland and are prepared promptly to withdraw their forces from Polish territory, His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will without hesitation fulfil their obligations to Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-01a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-01", "file": "debates1939-09-01a.xml", "sha256": "96251faa4d0baca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-01a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORGES (CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"With pay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "rm our duties as adequately as we are able both in the Army and\" in this House, but we cannot do that unless some arrangement is made by which we can get adequate leave to attend our constituency and this House and to do the other jobs that we ought to do. It will be helpful if my right hon. Friend can assure us that adequate leave will in fact be granted in order that we may perform those duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-01a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-02", "file": "debates1939-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "5b1f43b243fa8cea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "nge in the principle, and, therefore, I have to inti- mate my opposition to this Measure. I am not quite clear about the procedure that the House proposes to adopt: whether the House is going to take all these First Reading Notices of Motion and then to take the Second Readings, or whether it is proposed to proceed with the Second Reading of this Bill immediately after the First Reading is passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-02", "file": "debates1939-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "5b1f43b243fa8cea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cheer up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " so myself because, after all, inter arma silent leges when war is on we cannot tie ourselves closely to high principles and sincerely held doctrines. I would say to right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Bench who are now engaged seeing this country through a long war which we must win, that there is another thing upon which they may reflect. This war is likely to last a long time, it may be a decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-02", "file": "debates1939-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "5b1f43b243fa8cea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES).", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Hore-Belisha)", "preceding_text": "vations which have fallen from hon. Members. We have selected the range of ages between 18 and 41 as representing the most vigorous manhood of the nation, but it does not in the least follow from the fact that we have begun at the age of 18 for the purposes of the Bill, that we intend to call up that class as the initial class. I think that matter can be safely left in the hands of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-02", "file": "debates1939-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "5b1f43b243fa8cea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "GERMANY AND POLAND, ITALIAN PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Definite\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "n — and I would never dream of doing so at this time, but if, as the right hon. Gentleman has told us, deeply though I regret it, we must wait upon our Allies, I should have preferred the Prime Minister to have been able to say to-night definitely, \"It is either peace or war.\" To-morrow we meet at 12. I hope the Prime Minister then — well, he must be in a position to make some further statement. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-02", "file": "debates1939-09-02a.xml", "sha256": "5b1f43b243fa8cea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "GERMANY AND POLAND, ITALIAN PROPOSALS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Postponed for a few months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " Millions of ordinary working folk will get neither honour nor anything else out of a general European war, and if the bombs can be stopped tomorrow in Poland — the Prime Minister's condition, as I understand it — and if they can be prevented from raining over the other cities of Europe, then it will be one of the greatest achievements that the world has even seen. The horror of a world-wide war —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-02a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-03", "file": "debates1939-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6d55cdd3c0a9512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "WAR WITH GERMANY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "d, that they intended to maintain neutrality but to hold a part of the Polish army in order to aid Hitler, or, third, that, along with Germany, they intended eventually to assist in the tearing apart of Poland for their own aims and their own use. If there have been any doubts in the mind of Hitler in going to war, the Soviet Government have the criminal responsibility of dissipating those views —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-03", "file": "debates1939-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6d55cdd3c0a9512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "WAR WITH GERMANY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ting peace for the peoples of the world. In taking that stand I want to declare here with the utmost confidence, from experience and from knowledge that I will not come into conflict with the policy of my working class comrades of the Soviet Union. It is not the times to discuss the character of the negotiations which have gone on, but it is necessary that I should make such a declaration as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-03", "file": "debates1939-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6d55cdd3c0a9512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"If possible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "y be compelled to send them out of the country, because of those circumstances which may arise; but can we have this assurance, that in the event of its being necessary to call up men between 18 and 20, and in the event of its being necessary to send any of those classes abroad, he will, so far as the latter consideration is concerned, come to the House, explain the circumstances and ask theHouse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-03", "file": "debates1939-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6d55cdd3c0a9512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I deny your Ruling, Sir Dennis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-03", "file": "debates1939-09-03a.xml", "sha256": "f6d55cdd3c0a9512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.329.6", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "oaching the Debate in this spirit. We want to come to an agreement, to understand each other, and if the Secretary of State deliberately tries to evade the point it will be difficult to do so. The point I am putting is not whether married men are or are not going to be called up, but whether there is going to be any differentiation in calling up men according to the number of dependants they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-03a.329.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-04", "file": "debates1939-09-04a.xml", "sha256": "56502307563e820a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-04a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL REGISTRATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "his Bill is before the House to-day. For two years he has urged the setting up of a national register. On a great many occasions I have tried to find out from him and from others what would be the purpose of such a register, but I have never yet discovered. This is not an occasion for resisting Measures proposed by the Government; we can only sign on the dotted line, for debate is a waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-04a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-05", "file": "debates1939-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "c10b47406c3cdec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-05a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIR-RAID WARNINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " at one point in London was mistaken for a warning signal. A siren was sounded and persons controlling signals round about were left in doubt as to whether they might themselves have made a mistake. The result was that over a considerable period warning signals were given. When the mistake was discovered a well-meant but unfortunate attempt to correct the mischief simply exaggerated the confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-05a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-05", "file": "debates1939-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "c10b47406c3cdec3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-05a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "e there is ample evidence forthcoming that we are all in this task. Nevertheless, we on these Benches must put forward our views, and I hope that we shall continue to do so and that there will be a greater response from the other side of the House than there has been hitherto. It seems to me that often when we have spoken our words have appeared to fall on deaf ears on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-05a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-07", "file": "debates1939-09-07a.xml", "sha256": "a27c3e2c64f7fec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-07a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WARNING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Are we to take it for granted that this is the Ministry which was responsible for the information broadcast concerning the air-raid warning yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-07a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-13", "file": "debates1939-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "529874e81b7c196b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-13a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "I fully appreciate that, and I hope the House will agree that I have done my best in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-13a.624.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-09-13", "file": "debates1939-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "529874e81b7c196b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-13a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL LIABILITIES.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Some are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware not only that the liability will still remain but that many persons, because of their public service, are facing virtual bankruptcy and that landlords are not displaying the public spirit to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman referred?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-13a.650.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-13", "file": "debates1939-09-13a.xml", "sha256": "529874e81b7c196b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-13a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "THE WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " has yet made, except that of the right ton. Member for Epping to the Admiralty. Lord Macmillan was once in the Labour Government, and he has the complete confidence of everybody who knew him in those days and have known him ever since. I do not think that anyone who has not started a new Department has any conception of the enormous difficulties. I went over the Ministry of Information yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-13a.695.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.763.3", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, they are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "They are trying it on now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.763.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will read my speech I think he will see the answer is quite clearly given there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's Department sent the men. I give this as a standing illustration of the ineptitude of the Ministry of Labour in spite of the advice of the London district office of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers. I hope it will not be repeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.794.4", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e truly described that part of his speech as a debating point . I think the House may be assured, after the discussions we have had, and with the machinery that is being set up, that this Bill cannot be, as the hon. Member for Camlachie described it, a Bill for industrial conscription. It has no relation whatever to industrial conscription. If it had I should not be here moving the second Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.794.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.802.6", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede:", "preceding_text": "ceptical of the ability to carry through what was called in the early days by the Ministries \"the mixed bag proposal.\" It is very difficult—and I say this in the presence of the Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) and my hon. Friend the Member for Jarrow (Miss Wilkinson) —on occasion to persuade two women to carry on their domestic duties in the same room.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.802.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.802.6", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede:", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"8s. 6d.!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede:", "preceding_text": "een evacuated into the larger empty houses, on the hostel principle, or into the camps. There are problems of finance also. There is an extraordinary financial problem in the fact that if a mother has a child of school age with her the householder gets 3s. in respect of that child, but if the child goes next door and ceases to be a child in charge of the mother, the householder gets half a guinea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.802.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.802.6", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede:", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For the first child \"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede:", "preceding_text": "n extraordinary financial problem in the fact that if a mother has a child of school age with her the householder gets 3s. in respect of that child, but if the child goes next door and ceases to be a child in charge of the mother, the householder gets half a guinea. [Hon. Members: \"8s. 6d.!\"] I am endeavouring to give the official information as far as I have it, and I believe it is half a guinea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.802.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "tion authority that he had been informed that it was contemplated that in the permanent arrangement there would be 70 in that hall. I think it shows a shocking state of mind for anybody to conceive that there should be 70 people in such a hall, which has only two lavatories With regard to the Inverary case, I want to say that the people generally were kind and anxious to be as helpful as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "ay to the child. I believe that this parsimony on the part of the Government is one feature of the scheme which has made it ever so much less successful than it might have been. Many of the people are coming back, and I believe that much of the trouble that has occurred has arisen from the fact that a lot of the children had not got the things they should have when going to stay in a strange home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "d not give them the things they should have had. A lot of the trouble that has arisen is due to the fact that the Government was not prepared to spend the necessary money to see that the children were properly provided for. I believe the scheme would have been ever so much more successful if the Government had provided those things. There has been a lot of comment on the condition of the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "vacuees. We are all very much alike, and, if people take others into their homes, it creates discomfort for them and it means that they are showing a spirit of generosity. It may be said that they are being paid, but it is not a profitable speculation for the people in the reception areas. They are not wanting it on that basis. They have done it out of a sense of responsibility and duty to others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "It is a terrible shame, this kind of thing, hurling things across in innuendoes. If the hon. Member is going to quote from a man, let us have the name of the man, and let us know who the children are. Do not let us have innuendoes flung across. You are taking the fathers to fight, yet you come here and make the most villainous, slanderous statements against their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "te from a man, let us have the name of the man, and let us know who the children are. Do not let us have innuendoes flung across. You are taking the fathers to fight, yet you come here and make the most villainous, slanderous statements against their children. [Hon. Members: \"Order.\"] I do not care about your \"Order.\" I am not going to have my children slandered, and you will have to listen to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.817.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.821.6", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Read it\"; and \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Owen", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member like me to read the document?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-14", "file": "debates1939-09-14a.xml", "sha256": "2392cc63a1f54386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "An hon. Member on the other side of the House made a certain statement about Glasgow children and their conditions. In this Debate I do not wish to attack or to criticise anybody in the country districts which have taken children in, but I resent remarks from any hon. Member in this House about Glasgow children, made without differentiation, as though all those children were verminous and unclean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-14a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-20", "file": "debates1939-09-20a.xml", "sha256": "2e082f605df35e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-20a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is it not a complete travesty of anything in the name of liberty and democracy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-20a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-21", "file": "debates1939-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f91edfd7d1719b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-21a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They have done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ements in their hands and their reserves and supplies behind them. I am satisfied that this idea, which broke down in the last war, will break down now. I could take hon. Members to, not scores, but hundreds of shops in the engineering and allied industries where the managers and the charge hands could devise ways and means of doing things which the civil servant would say were utterly impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-21a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-21", "file": "debates1939-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f91edfd7d1719b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-21a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And exchange.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "manufactured articles. Where is the only buyer of this raw material who can afford to pay cash and goods in return? There is only this country. Why, then, should the Minister of Supply anticipate a rise in prices? With proper management and control there should be no rise in prices in this country. With proper management and control there should be a fall, subject only to the question of freights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-21a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-21", "file": "debates1939-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "8f91edfd7d1719b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-21a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "preceding_text": "here is gambling on the prospects of an enormous profit, and certain stocks are mounting sky high. I hope we have a sound organisation in America dealing with whatever purchases we have to make there. We have the almost unanimous sympathy of America and some very good work should be put in to see that we do not have to pay too much. The Minister said he was only purchasing for certain Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-21a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-26", "file": "debates1939-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "80eca7ab6b872cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-26a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the statement that the cost of living is rising rapidly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-26a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-26", "file": "debates1939-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "80eca7ab6b872cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-26a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": ", \"We can get work in a Government factory starting at £ 3 10s. a week, and rising to £ 6.\" What is my answer to the agricultural labourer, a most highly skilled man, who deserves every penny he gets, when stable boys, totally inexperienced in factory work, ask their \"employer to sack them because they can go into a Government factory and get twice as much money as a skilled agricultural labourer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-26a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-26", "file": "debates1939-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "80eca7ab6b872cbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-26a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ve at the same time what are called all the luxuries of ordinary times. That is the policy. You are bound to interfere, however much one regrets that there should be interference, but if any hon. Member has a criticism against the operation of the scheme, let him honestly pose to himself this question first: Would I, in order to ease up this particular difficulty, abandon control of the commodity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-26a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-27", "file": "debates1939-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "e76bbbfb7b4a14c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1361.5", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR BUDGET.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And life \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "dly handled, then our power to carry the war through to a victorious conclusion is very gravely weakened and the damage that may be done to our national life after the war is won, may be irreparable. As I have said, nothing, of course, can prevent war waged on the frightful scale of destructiveness which modern war involves from being the most potent instrument for the destruction of human wealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-27", "file": "debates1939-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "e76bbbfb7b4a14c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1368.2", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which year? '", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "This is just a comparison between the assessment already made for this year, which in practice is based on his last year's earnings, and the figure which is shown to the authorities to be the appropriate figure for this year", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-27", "file": "debates1939-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "e76bbbfb7b4a14c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is very kind of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "Yes, you stay as you are if you like. If the hon. Member takes advantage of my offer, which I think is a very good one, he must not mind if I ask to examine how things stood with him a year ago. Of course I should not charge the new standard rate in respect of the old period. Each year will carry its own appropriate rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-09-27", "file": "debates1939-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "e76bbbfb7b4a14c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1372.4", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER, SPIRITS AND WINE DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Thirteen shillings.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "36 gallons, which is equivalent to an added Id. a pint. This increased beer duty is estimated to produce £11,000,000 more this year and £27,000,000 more in a full year. Next, the duty on spirits will be increased by 10s. per proof gallon in the basic duty. I may perhaps make it more intelligible if I say that, from inquiries which I have made, I believe that a bottle of whisky now costs 12s. 6d. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-27", "file": "debates1939-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "e76bbbfb7b4a14c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR COSTS AND ECONOMY.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In the various public Departments, and in local authority administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1375.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-09-27", "file": "debates1939-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "e76bbbfb7b4a14c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS AND EXCISE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member did not follow what I said. I said that the last Resolution will be read from the Chair but not put to the Committee to be voted upon. It will be left open as a subject for discussion, and discussions can take place on all the Resolutions which have been formally passed. I take it that the course which I have indicated will be agreeable to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-27", "file": "debates1939-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "e76bbbfb7b4a14c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"I would risk it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "mbers and possibly people outside this House sometimes forget that a man is only rich—the term \"rich\" was introduced by the hon. Baronet who has just spoken—if his income exceeds his commitments. It may well be that a man with a very large income is not as well off as the man with a very small income, because his commitments may be much bigger than the commitments of the man with the small income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-27a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-28", "file": "debates1939-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd97b6cc79f21647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-28a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must realise that the conditions are very different from what they where. It is not possible in present circumstances to maintain quite the same standard as before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-28a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-28", "file": "debates1939-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd97b6cc79f21647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-28a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "ving, and you begin by taxing this most important commodity. Think of the number of things containing sugar that the worker and his family consumeit would be difficult to think of many things that they consume that do not contain sugar. Tea, coffee, cocoaI know there are some miserable people who attempt to drink one or all of these stimulants — if they are to be called stimulant — swithout sugar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-28a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-28", "file": "debates1939-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "fd97b6cc79f21647", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-28a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "ute special inquiries into those Departments, or sections of Departments, where there is a case for investigation and I am hoping to call in the help of qualified and experienced men of business, acting in conjunction with officials of the Treasury and representatives of the Department concerned. An investigation of this sort has already been set on foot with regard to the Ministry of Information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-28a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-29", "file": "debates1939-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "53b8856b1108d659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-29a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Land Values.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " and above what I may call taxes on drinks and smokes, then I am sorry I cannot agree. I have put this Budget together with the best effort I could, in order to try to distribute these undoubtedly very serious burdens over the whole population. I have done that as well as I could. There is, of course, a limit to human ingenuity, and I wish somebody could show me in this matter how to do it better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-29a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-29", "file": "debates1939-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "53b8856b1108d659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-29a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "preceding_text": "e other forms of manufacture, let us consider the question of confectionery in which a very large amount of sugar is used. Confectionery is very largely used even by the poorest children and the poorest people. The one thing on which the medical profession have been united more than on anything else in trying to save the health of the people is, as we all know, in the effort to save their teeth. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-29a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-09-29", "file": "debates1939-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "53b8856b1108d659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-29a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "preceding_text": "ave been seeing to what extent they can extend the dental services and have regretted that these services have not yet shown how to prevent cavities. What is clear is the enormous damage that is done to children by confectionery. It is known very clearly all along the line that it is the constant sucking of sweets and leaving the residue in and around the roots of the teeth that is so detrimental.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-09-29a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-02", "file": "debates1939-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "12f60ebb97e4cadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "an just as well combine, without any disastrous shrinkage of the revenue, this new impost with the existing Income Tax and Surtax, as we can combine the Death Duties with them. It is, of course, true—and I make the concession at once—that if a man gradually pays over certain sums and realises some part of his capital in order to do so he has less capital from which his income is derived next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1680.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-02", "file": "debates1939-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "12f60ebb97e4cadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " have to go very much further along the road of increasing taxation upon the large incomes and the large estates which, when all this taxation has been paid, will still remain. Any hon. Member who looks doubtful about it has only to take up the tables which have been issued and consider what will be left to the people near the top of the scale when they have paid all that the Chancellor is asking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-02", "file": "debates1939-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "12f60ebb97e4cadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And thrift goes with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e of power in Europe, and in many countries great social revolutions will come—whether to this country or not I do not know. The idea that a small fraction of the community here can go on after the war, as before, monopolising the greatest part of the ownership of the wealth of this land— that idea has got to go. It certainly has to go. if there is to be any reality in the talk of a united nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-02", "file": "debates1939-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "12f60ebb97e4cadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must realise that we are attempting to discuss a serious proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-02", "file": "debates1939-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "12f60ebb97e4cadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must realise that we are attempting to discuss a serious proposal. [ Laughter. ] If that is the attitude of hon. Members opposite, I would beg them seriously to reconsider it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-02", "file": "debates1939-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "12f60ebb97e4cadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1696.1", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "other field than he found in wincing at the prospect of a 1 per cent, levy on aggregations of wealth. What is remarkable about a 2 per cent. levy is not what happens as a result of it, but what does not happen as a result of it. If you take £100,000, with a 2 per cent. levy, at the end of 50 years it would still be £30,000. If you take it over 100 years there would still be more than £10,000 left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-02", "file": "debates1939-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "12f60ebb97e4cadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is an exaggeration\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I cannot help thinking that the Financial Secretary will make a good deal better Cabinet Minister than most of those we might have on that bench, and certainly it is desirable that he, as representing the watchdog of the Treasury, should convey to the rest of the Cabinet something of what every Member of this House is thinking, that the money we are voting in this Budget is being thrown away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-02a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1806.3", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that the road is level, but that it is surrounded by great, high mountains, where not only are there very severe climatic conditions, but several times there have been landslides?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ning, and neither of us in that position. Let us take time. I would also urge upon the Prime Minister, quite earnestly, the suggestion made by my right hon. Friend that our discussion should be in secret Session. After all, here you have the representatives of the people. Nobody outside would say that we are trying to keep information from them more than they would say it in regard to the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1877.1", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "preceding_text": "gested that it was desirable that we should hold a secret Session, and, secondly, if I understood him correctly, that we should give every due consideration to any proposals for peace which might now be put forward. I must confess that I am sorry that the Prime Minister turned down the first suggestion, and, so far as I could understand, turned it down for ever, the suggestion of a secret Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1877.1", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"So will yours\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duff Cooper", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs himself this afternoon. With all the respect which I owe to one of his high standing in the country, I must say that I deeply deplore and regret that speech. His is a name which is better known throughout Europe and throughout the world perhaps than that of any other Member sitting in this House to-day. His words will be reported, and they will be misrepresented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What proposals? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "el beyond this country, that I should say emphatically that I am the last man to propose that we should agree to a surrender. That is a totally different proposition. But I would consider, and I think the House ought to consider, at any rate, whether there should be a conference of the nations, which would include the United States of America as well as the others, to consider all these proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member allow me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1882.6", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: '' Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "I am afraid of nothing in life. I may be guilty of shortcomings, but not of fear, and I speak here with the confidence that I shall not be misunderstood. I should like to see peace this minute in Europe. Who wants to go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1882.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " having the courage, at 76 years of age, to take a hostile line in this House of Commons. I say frankly that there are masses of people—at least large masses of people—who are thinking as he is thinking, and if we have a democratic House of Commons then, instead of his being abused, instead of taunts being flung across the Floor, surely at 76 he is to be congratulated on putting his point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "ent in this war. I am an ordinary man in this House. I try, as all Members try, to represent my division, and I meet my constituents week in and week out, and frankly I say to the Prime Minister that I cannot find this great unanimous desire for the war. Frankly speaking, I find the reverse. And I want to say this, that in 1914 I never saw anything like the hostility to the war that I find to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1887.0", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "gers themselves march out. You are going down to my Division, where people are living in single apartments on an income which does not provide for body or soul, and young warmongers sit in this House of Commons with what are, to those other people, fabulous incomes. These young men shout for war while they themselves stay snugly at home not intending to go if they can avoid it in any possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1887.0", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "They have stayed, of course. I say frankly that, as I see this matter, it is one of millions of men arrayed behind concrete blocks against other millions of men. You say: \"We cannot negotiate with Hitler.\" With whom can you negotiate? Suppose he is shot to-morrow, and is dead; is there any guarantee that the next man is any better than Hitler? Suppose it is Ribbentrop; will you negotiate with him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1887.0", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "nt to go. I do not believe that the Prime Minister can do it unless he has considerable backing in the country. You talk about fighting Hitler as the representative of the German people. Either make up your mind that you are going on to smash and smash, without any result at the end, or start and negotiate now. It is said to me: \"You cannot trust Hitler,\" but the Russian Government trusted Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": " take? The hon. Member for Gower said whether it was a year, or two years, or three years, he was prepared to go on. We are in for another Thirty Years War if you are to remove Hitler. I say that frankly. I think Britain and France to-day are in the greatest jam they were ever in, in their lives. I do not say it with glee. Do not misunderstand me. But I do not believe that they can defeat Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-03", "file": "debates1939-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "daf7d00eb1eb5c12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1913.5", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": " tell the House what happened. I hope we shall have a White Paper so that we can discover what happened in our negotiations with Russia, and I suspect that those folk who are criticising me now will have little to say. I rose to lament the fact that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) should talk as he did to-night, that we should go cap in hand to Hitler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-03a.1913.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-04", "file": "debates1939-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "cad4ecf349bc3f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-04a.1946.9", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What salary does he get?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that only last week the Royal Institute of International Affairs issued a document signed by this gentleman and does he not think that, as a step towards economy, he might dispense with his half-time services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-04a.1946.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-04", "file": "debates1939-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "cad4ecf349bc3f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-04a.2017.3", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Correct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "dinary shares, a 5 percent. dividend. I will assume that there is somebody, X, who has £100 in ordinary shares in the company. If there were no such thing as Income Tax no doubt that ordinary shareholder would get £5, but he would not have got £5, even in days when there was a 5s. 6d. Income Tax. His dividend warrant was actually made out for £5 less five times 5s. 6d., which I think is £1 7s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-04a.2017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-05", "file": "debates1939-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aac1882222bdfd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-05a.2141.0", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I hope the Committee will have considered it convenient and will pardon me for having allowed the Chancellor of the Exchequer to go on making a speech of which probably nine-tenths was out of order. I think the Chancellor discussed nine Clauses and one Schedule on the Question before the Committee that one Clause stand part. I think it will be equally convenient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-05a.2141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-05", "file": "debates1939-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aac1882222bdfd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-05a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ot know to what extent shopkeepers will be drawn in. I have the privilege of sharing a grocer with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. If it were not for the Chancellor and myself and a few otherswho have not evacuated their families I am afraid he would be in a distressful condition. No doubt in the constituency of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ashford grocers are doing exceedingly well;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-05a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-05", "file": "debates1939-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "5aac1882222bdfd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-05a.2164.3", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And vice versa?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " the comparison of profits, and in this respect we have remedied some of the anomalies connected with banks. The other point is a different and a difficult one. As it stands at present, I should not myself have any doubt that, when a bank realises its investments—not when its investments fall in value, but when it realises them—the actual loss on realisation is a loss which is set against profits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-05a.2164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-09", "file": "debates1939-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "7342e5d51e399344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-09a.2.5", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALLIES' WAR AIMS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is a very strong and growing demand in the country for a more specific statement of war aims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-09a.2.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-09", "file": "debates1939-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "7342e5d51e399344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-09a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (EMERGENCY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "lity are crushed when discipline is administered with an iron hand. There is apparently a certain amount of adversity in relation to the evacuation of the children, but there is also a glorious opportunity of divorcing them from the horrible circumstances in which they have lived. I was delighted to hear the Minister say that some of the children will not go back to the areas from which they came—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-09a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very slowly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "What I think is true is that there has not been an increase in unemployment in pits that are working coal for home consumption. Actually what has taken place is that the demand for coal is so good that the coal output is rising and unemployed miners are being absorbed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.184.0", "colnum": "184", "heading": "WAR IN THE AIR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ective co-operation has now been achieved and worked out? The second question that I would like to put to him is this, particularly having regard to the magnificent promise of added contributions from the Dominions: Can he now assure the House that the time is not far distant when Britain will have recovered her air supremacy over Germany, which should never have been jeopardised and thrown away —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.214.4", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e appreciate that fact. There have been varying opinions expressed in this House. The hon. Gentleman the Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby), who speaks frequently on financial matters, expressed the opinion that this tax would be the most productive of all the taxes in this Finance Bill. He hazarded the opinion that excess profits were going to be made, and attempted to justify excess profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "t they can easily be exaggerated. I thought that the hon. Members for East Birkenhead and Chippenham came very near to that vice of exaggeration—if I may so call it. I do not wish to incite the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to any unnecessary and adventurous raids, but I want to say that we could stand even heavier burdens than are contained in this Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.244.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "EDUCATION (EMERGENCY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I take it that the right hon. Member wishes this Amendment and his consequential Amendment to be discussed together? I think that would be for the convenience of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "EDUCATION (EMERGENCY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " is not, I think, the best method of procedure. I do not wish to be pedantic in the middle of a war on procedure, but that is the view of the Board and I should be very sorry at this stage, when most of us are in agreement that we want to raise the school-leaving age in the best possible way, to see a Division over a purely suspensory Bill. Therefore, I appeal to Members on all sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "EDUCATION (EMERGENCY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "I want to be clear as to the purpose of the Amendment. Its purpose would be to bring this matter before the House again, but not to allow for a modification; in other words, it would allow a negative, it would allow discussion, but it would not allow modification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "EDUCATION (EMERGENCY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " Act and has nothing to do with exemptions. The effect of carrying the Amendment would be that any Government in office at the end of the war—and if one thing is certain, it is that it will not be the present Government—would be in a position to draft an Order that would bring back all the six Clauses or any of them. Suppose the Government at that time was a better Government than the present one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.264.0", "colnum": "264", "heading": "EDUCATION (EMERGENCY) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "on these lines. We want to obtain agreement on these matters and not to have divisions. I suggest that we should adjourn the Debate now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "COAL RATIONING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Wayland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Wayland", "preceding_text": " conceive of any excuse which the Ministry can make as a solution of the puzzle which they have put to the people. When hon. Members opposite speak of miners being unemployed and tell us that only 75 per cent. of the coal raised last year has been permitted to be raised, it seems most extraordinary to me. I might call it by a much stronger term which, perhaps, would not be permitted in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "COAL RATIONING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why reduce output?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "position if those stocks really had been dissipated, and if we were then faced with a really considerable shortage of coal. Would not hon. Members opposite rise in this House, and in the interests of the public ask why we had been so improvident as to allow stocks to be dissipated in that way so that when the time of difficulty came there was no re -serve to meet the essential needs of the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-10", "file": "debates1939-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "a191fc3796892b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH (PREPARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "preceding_text": "—to know exactly how he proposes that the Bill should be operated. I presume that his wealth, like other wealth, is represented in stocks and shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-10a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLISH AND CZECHO-SLOVAKIAN GOVERNMENTS (RECOGNITION).", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Are we not just as much involved to the late Government of Czecho-Slovakia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.309.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.338.10", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman understand that it was only yesterday that this distinction was drawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.338.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ed the Fleet to decorate heroes of 'a certain northern sea triumph.' But were we to be told the heroes' names or shown their pictures? Not likely. At 3.40 yesterday afternoon the Admiralty denies the whole story. Ten minutes later the Ministry cancels the Admiralty's denial. Ten minutes later again follows another message releasing the denial or cancelling the release; it is difficult to say which", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "So far as there are questions of policy, that is to say, either the issuing or censoring of news, he will be responsible to the various Departments. So far as it is a question of accounting and carrying him on a particular Vote, there is at the present time a discussion going on as to which of the Departments should carry him on their Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.393.6", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "mmittee, and in the same way, of their own volition, the board agreed that their powers during war-time should be delegated to the chairman and vice-chairman. There was nothing more in it than that. It was simply a matter of efficiency, to avoid delay, and if the right hon. Gentleman wants any further information on the subject no doubt the chairman and the board of the B.B.C. will give it to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.393.6", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "ject no doubt the chairman and the board of the B.B.C. will give it to him. [ Interruption. ] All I can say is that this was the suggestion of the board themselves. There was no difference of opinion about it and it was on their own volition that this arrangement was made. The right hon. Gentleman implied that the absence of these five members of the board had had a bad effect upon the programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.393.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": " London from Germany some time ago some people pro- moting an art school, and I now see that this art school is placing its men in key positions in Government offices. More than that, they are trying to control the artists and printing firms, so that those who do not come in with them shall not be able to get any Government work. I will say no more about that now, but I am compelled to mention it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The passage has been re- moved\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I would say only this one thing to the hon. Member who has just spoken, that the suggestion that we should bombard the German people with quotations from \"Mein Kampf\" is so abyssmally stupid that he should stand a good chance of a job with the Ministry of Information. It must be remembered that 900,000 copies of \"Mein Kampf\" are distributed yearly in Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She has just finished.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "omen. I am absolutely amazed when I read in the OFFICIAL REPORT the list of the headquarters staff of the Ministry of Information and find that out of 91 members there are only 22 women. I am not approaching this simply as a feminist, but whoever recruited this Ministry is sadly lacking in judgment. The House at this moment is almost empty because a woman, a most brilliant artist, is on the radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": " no longer. Each had a staff, and each had a salary of about £1,000 a year. Why was it necessary to wait for Lord Camrose to come in to put an end to that waste of money? Is it correct that before those gentlemen were dismissed by Lord Camrose some of them tendered their resignations on the ground that there was nothing for them to do, and that it was a gross waste of public money to keep them on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-11", "file": "debates1939-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "2641f9c327b0538b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND BROADCASTING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "ght other people might be better able to fill. But I hope that hon. Members will not think that the appointments were made from any motive which this House would not regard as sound. I believe that the people concerned were picked because they had had the kind of experience required. Where those appointments are wrong is very largely because the very nature of the qualities required for the posts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-11a.480.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that some of the evacuated women are asking for things that they never could get at home and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.499.2", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that some of the evacuated women are asking for things that they never could get at home and—[ Interruption. ] Cannot I finish my supplementary question? [ [nterruption. ] On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker, can I not finish my supplementary question, because it will give a very bad impression if I do not. Many of these mothers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.499.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "May I ask this further question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "Their governments certainly are; and you have, in a realistic world, to deal with the governments which are in office at a particular time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "I say that there are certain arguments which can be adduced to show that that would be of some disadvantage to Germany. But it would not be difficult to impress the small countries in the Balkans with the view that, after all, we are not awfully particular whether they are Bolshevik, if they are not Nazi.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "t those guarantees are to be, and put them forward as our contribution to saving the world, if possible, from war? If they are not accepted by others then, in the eyes of our own people and of the world, we shall at least have done our utmost in that direction. The fact that we do not expect them to be accepted does not, in my view, relieve us from the onus of making perfectly clear what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Abyssinia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " and old age pensioners, and colonial government, we should begin with first things first. I imagine that in the present situation which has arisen, and which has been forced upon Europe by the series of aggressions of the last two or three years, the first conditions we should have to lay down, if we lay down any detailed conditions, would be the liberation of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": " Is it not a fact that, under the guarantee, this country was called upon to come to the help of Poland if the Polish Government called upon our Government to assist them in the event of aggression? Is it not also the case that the Polish Government did call upon us to assist them in the case of the aggression from Germany, but that, strictly speaking, there was no call from the Polish Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.596.6", "colnum": "596", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "tleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) said that from 1914 to 1918. Well, we got the victory in 1918 and yesterday the Secretary of State for War said in this House: How strange it is that twice in a generation men should take this journey and that sons should be treading again upon the soil made sacred by their fathers.\"—OFFICIAL REPORT, nth October, 1939; col. 349, Vol. 352.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.596.6", "colnum": "596", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Remove Hitler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "did not tell us what those acts were to be. If the Germans were to set up an independent Poland in part of the country which they have overrun, would that be considered an action on their part that would be necessary for peace? What would be the guarantees? I cannot think what guarantees you can get for peace that will prevent these crises every six months, such as we have had during recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": " part. A great deal has been said of the mistakes made at Versailles and of the tragedy of the attitude of the Versailles Treaty. All that, I admit, but far less has been said of one mistake which was made previous to the Treaty of Versailles, and which has been frequently acknowledged, and that is the fact that before we finished the war we should have been very well advised to march into Berlin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-12", "file": "debates1939-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "5b9717d59d3e2d31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "ly turned down. The people in the country are asking for peace, millions of them, and the Government are making a great mistake if they think they have the unanimous opinion of the people behind them. Hon. Members know that they are getting letters by the hundreds, especially from the mothers of this country, asking that something should be done to stop things before the fearful carnage commences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-12a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL ELECTIONS AND REGISTER OF ELECTORS (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": " matters which are of very keen interest to local councils. Is it intended that magistrates should retain office as a result of this Measure, even when the term of their normal office is due to expire? I expect not. A provost or bailie of any council may find his term of office automatically ending this November, and I take it that this Bill does not mean that he automatically continues in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.731.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL ELECTIONS AND REGISTER OF ELECTORS (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "se be new legislation, and in that legislation we can make what provision we please for a new register being prepared before a new election is conducted, and it is obvious that something on similar lines to what was done at the end of the last war will have to be done again. Some provision will no doubt have to be made for those who are serving in His Majesty's Forces to take part in the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.752.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.758.6", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL ELECTIONS AND REGISTER OF ELECTORS (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.758.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foots", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foots", "preceding_text": " attempt has been made. It happened in the last war as early as November, 1914. There was a document which, in its machinery Clauses, was not open to nearly so many objections as this, but this House set up a Select Committee in order to go into the whole question of the Royal Warrant covering matters of this kind. Is there any reason why the same procedure should not be followed on this occasion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " as my right hon. Friend announced that the increase was at that time for soldiers of 26 years of age and upwards, from every quarter of the House came a demand, not that he should alter the rates or the allowances for children, but that he should reduce the age from 26 to 20. Hon. Members appeared to consider the rates desirable in themselves. Indeed the hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Bellenger)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "n the past to increase the scale of pay for serving soldiers. He has shown courage and foresight in that respect, and I appeal to him to tackle the question of the married soldiers under 26 in the same enlightened manner as that in which he has dealt with the scales of pay and other conditions of the serving soldier who may not be married.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th March, 1939; col. 264, Vol. 345.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that the way to run a war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " made, being such persons who are in distress as a result of circumstances caused by the war. If, as the result of these circumstances, there was some distress in a home which might in ordinary circumstances have made a person think she ought to go to the Poor Law she could go to the Unemployment Assistance Board to get temporary relief and therefore the cost would not fall on the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.788.3", "colnum": "788", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not doing it at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "these circumstances, there was some distress in a home which might in ordinary circumstances have made a person think she ought to go to the Poor Law she could go to the Unemployment Assistance Board to get temporary relief and therefore the cost would not fall on the local authority. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that the way to run a war?\"] I do not understand the hon. Gentleman's remark. It is doing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.792.8", "colnum": "792", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " wife than was before. At no time during the Great War was the wife's allowance greater than 12s. 6d. On this occasion the balance, if you like, has been tilted. The wife may start by getting more, and the fifth, sixth or subsequent children may get less. Taking the average family, not the abnormal one—when we get into the range of the sixth or seventh children we are getting to the abnormal case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.792.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Divisions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "ook at the scales put down for partial disablement cases in the present Royal Warrant I find that that young man would be getting a pension of only 19s. 6d. a week. If the War Office can pay 30s. a week in 1935 to a partial disablement case, why, in present circumstances, should they be able to pay only 19s. 6d.? I will fight this particular question of the Royal Warrant with all the power I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "erred to have had a full day's debate on my own Department and the Warrant issued from that Department, and I would have much preferred to have been able to deal with the many questions that I know would have been raised; but actually, two-thirds of the Debate have been devoted to the question of allowances to soldiers' families. That matter has been replied to by my right hon. and gallant Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "e to hear hon. Members' criticisms of the Royal Warrants and the scales of allowances for disability pensions and for those who are left behind when unfortunately any of our men pass over. There is nothing like having a full and clear statement of the case so that we know where we are. I have been rather surprised to find out how little criticism has been levelled against the Royal Warrant itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There would be no pension left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "gard to the present cost of living-… Of course, if the cost of living should rise to a material extent during the war, the position could be reconsidered. There is no doubt about it that that will have to be reconsidered. Under the Royal Warrant of 1919 a reduction could be made in the pensions of recipients if the cost of living dropped by five points but that was never put into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "tober, 1939; cols. 511 and 512, Vol. 352.] That is exactly my answer to the point about the children's allowances stopping instead of continuing for all the members of the family. I am going into the matter as quickly as possible, and I hope to be able to report to the House the decision at which I arrive with the permission, of course, of the Cabinet and, I hope, with the consent of the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the major ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": ". Members who will not be able to serve. I suggest that the Chief Whips of the Labour and Liberal Oppositions should select whom they think are suit- able men to serve on the committee, and I shall be pleased to accept them as helpers and advisers in this matter. I feel that if I have the Advisory Committee sitting we can get down to those minor points which have been mentioned during this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "went into that Department with a prejudiced mind. It was not quite as prejudiced as the hon. Member's, but it was prejudiced, and I say, as far as my staff are concerned, that they are doing their level best, of course according to the regulations they have to work under, and no one will deny that they have given the man the benefit of the doubt in every case—at any rate every case that I know of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.832.4", "colnum": "832", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Paragraph 5\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "Seeing that there are selected Members from all parts of the House, I think the hon. Lady can rest assured that these and many other points will be borne in mind. Let us get down to something real. I challenge the hon. Member for Dundee, or any other Member, to produce a long and complicated document like the Royal Warrant and not find in it some little thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.832.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-17", "file": "debates1939-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "5ed983ff61452611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.836.4", "colnum": "836", "heading": "WAR PENSIONS AND DEPENDANT ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "pensions. It is all a question of administration. From my short experience at the Department and my long experience of dealing with the Department, I prefer to have sympathetic administration rather than a lot of hide-bound rules and regulations. I am surprised that the hon. Member has been able to pick only four things out of the Warrant to which he can object, and we are going to deal with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-17a.836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-18", "file": "debates1939-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "bab120432a7b0c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "Was that unnecessary employment at the cost of the Food Department, or was this a case of one of the 999 people who were to be paid for under the new Department—the Ministry of Information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-18", "file": "debates1939-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "bab120432a7b0c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.873.5", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether, in view of the supreme importance of this Department, as shown in the last war, he really thinks, whatever the character of that kindly old gentleman, superannuated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.873.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-18", "file": "debates1939-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "bab120432a7b0c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the allowances?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot give a specific undertaking to the right hon. Gentleman but I certainly appreciate that the House would wish to have somebody in a responsible position present during Debates when important matters are under discussion. We shall, of course, try to arrange as far as possible for that to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.880.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-18", "file": "debates1939-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "bab120432a7b0c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "ECONOMIC CO-ORDINATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Bank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Archibald Sinclair", "preceding_text": "y ought to have skilled economists to help them to acquire and collate the necessary information. The appointment of Lord Stamp in particular, is, we would all agree, an admirable one, but how can he adequately serve both the London Midland and Scottish Railway and His Majesty's Government and incidentally a number of other organisations to which the hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell) referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-18", "file": "debates1939-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "bab120432a7b0c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "ECONOMIC CO-ORDINATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And finances.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "in the limits of the economic system he was pledged not to upset was to provide work for them on something that did not require an international, foreign market. The only thing that satisfied that condition was armaments, and he got them employed upon his armaments. He got his armaments mounting and mounting, with our tacit consent and approval and very largely with raw materials that we supplied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-18a.983.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, in spite of that, a large number of these small classes which were held in premises, now being used every night of the week for purposes which are more dangerous, are being held up and destroyed because the local authorities are not allowed to send teachers; and that to withdraw teachers from the children in these centres where they are much better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1013.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1045.4", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALIENS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members should bear in mind that questions are not transferred from one Minister to another at the whim of the Ministers, but entirely because the Department to which a question has been transferred is considered to be the proper one to deal with that question. Hon. Members in such cases are always notified —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1045.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1095.3", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL ELECTIONS AND REGISTER OF ELECTORS (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Terence O'Connor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Terence O'Connor)", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend pointed out the circumstances in great detail. He referred to the difficulties of conducting elections in the black-out, the dangers that would ensue from the attendance of people at election meetings, and so forth. By a majority which was the largest I have ever known in my Parliamentary experience, in that it consisted of several votes to none, the House approved that policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1095.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "e interests the Co-operative Society does not make a profit; it returns it to the consumer. It is very essential that we should remind hon. Members of that fact. I hope that the President of the Board of Trade will consider that from the point of view of the record which exists. I would ask him to get a little book published by a very Left Wing organisation called \"The Labour Research Department.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Profiteering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": " Members of that fact. I hope that the President of the Board of Trade will consider that from the point of view of the record which exists. I would ask him to get a little book published by a very Left Wing organisation called \"The Labour Research Department.\"[ Interruption. ]The President of the Board of Trade asks whether he would have to pay for it? I do not see why he should not; it costs 3d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cotton?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "he effect of the Bill on percentages, I would point out that on 16th September this year a very reputable journal gave a list of the following articles which have increased in wholesale price since the war—hosiery, 24 per cent.; furniture, 20 to 25 per cent.; furnishing fabrics, 20 per cent., cane chairs and baskets, 15 per cent.; cheap electric fires, 35 per cent.; and handkerchiefs, 18 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "is in the Bill a provision to prevent that very doubtful practice which consists in the shopkeeper telling a woman customer that she can get 2 lbs. of sugar provided she buys 10 lbs. of flour, a bar of soap, and so on. But I thought that a provision dealing with that existed already, because last week, in the town of Hyde, a person was fined £5, and ordered to pay costs, for doing that very thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-19", "file": "debates1939-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "3e5d2829a23f31c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To luxuries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "Certainly, and we have complete power to extend, as the necessity arises, to other articles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-19a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1198.6", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and gallant Gentleman say why the Government have taken no steps to control the most important of all commodities— money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1198.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "PERSONAL INJURIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As usual\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "The extraordinary thing about this Debate is its striking similarity to the Debate which took place last week. With one exception to-day this Government scheme has met with nothing but criticism and opposition. The only support has come from the hon. Member for St. Albans (Sir F. Fremantle)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "PERSONAL INJURIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "at a very serious condition of affairs arises. There may be a Division after this Debate is over —I do not know; that may depend to some extent on what the Minister says in reply. How are we going to divide? Are we going to divide on normal party lines? Are the Whips to be on? Are we to have Divisions in which we, on this side, will be the permanent victims of the artificial majority on that side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "PERSONAL INJURIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "preceding_text": "am going to show that I have taken that into account in dealing with this Order. I believe that I had the finest mother in the world and that my wife is the finest lady in the world. She is the chancellor of the exchequer of our household. I hope she gets that message before I arrive home at the week-end. We are all proud of our wives, of course. May I make a few general remarks about this scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1317.0", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "PERSONAL INJURIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "hat the Prime Minister, in answer to a question, said that as far as pensions were concerned the Minister would go very carefully into the matter. Realising, as my hon. Friend said, that we have so many different scales, there has been an inter-departmental committee set up. The various Departments have these scales to deal with, with the assistance, of course, of a representative of the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "PERSONAL INJURIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many are there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Debate because it has enabled me to sense the feeling of Members who represent the people in the country, and has given me some idea what they consider are the features in the scheme that ought to be amended. With that promise I hope that I shall satisfy the hon. Lady and that she will withdraw the Motion, if only for the sake of those who are receiving compensation under the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "BOFORS GUN-MOUNTINGS (CONTRACT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "he displeasure of the Nuffield organisation. They have been contractors on a very large scale; they have put up one of the largest armament factories in the country, from which this nation is deriving immense benefit. They are, in short, a first-class firm, with first-class costing capacity, and with a first-class record, and they have carried out that record in the deliveries that they have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1347.3", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "BOFORS GUN-MOUNTINGS (CONTRACT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": " more of these guns. I have no doubt that it is entirely wrong for a main contractor, like the Nuffield Company, to allow a subcontractor to quote an impossible price. It will only mean disappointment. The whole assembly line will come to an end because that particulae sub-contractor could not deliver on the day. In point of fact what has happened? Contractor A has delivered; contractor B has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "BOFORS GUN-MOUNTINGS (CONTRACT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Markham", "preceding_text": "I prefer not to give the place for obvious reasons, but I ask whether the Minister can give us the comparative cost of this equipment as it is made in the State factories under expert supervision and say whether the price compares favourably or unfavourably with the Nuffield Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "BOFORS GUN-MOUNTINGS (CONTRACT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "stablished fact—established by the Minister himself. The Minister has established that what my hon. Friend said was precisely the fact. He wants to eliminate a certain part of my hon. Friend's statement about the telephone conversation, but that is all. He admits that the difference between the first specification and the other specification was not sufficient to account for the increase in price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-24", "file": "debates1939-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c52d73890dbb8c9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1360.7", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "BOFORS GUN-MOUNTINGS (CONTRACT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "lainly as he can that the people who quoted £120 were just robbing the Government? Is not that the logical conclusion, as logical as that of the Minister? It is all very well for the Minister to sit there and defend these people. It may be that these people were honest in asking £220 and that this man was just a fool. He may be a fool for all we know, but he comes out as a consistent fool, anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-24a.1360.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-25", "file": "debates1939-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "34b339167c41c59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1384.9", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "I can only say that these are powers which have been accepted in this country by, I think, the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1384.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-25", "file": "debates1939-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "34b339167c41c59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1444.3", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "CLAUSE 2—(Price-regulated goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "This Clause empowers the Board of Trade to say to what articles the Bill shall apply. Is the President of the Board of Trade willing to give an assurance that, in the first instance, he will make the list of goods as short as possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-25", "file": "debates1939-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "34b339167c41c59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "CLAUSE 2—(Price-regulated goods.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "he scope of the Bill is to say something which I think I should be justified in describing as nonsense. My hon. Friend the Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams) has some knowledge of the range and variety of goods sold in dry goods stores, for instance, all of them things that enter into the ordinary life of the ordinary citizen. That is not the case with pig-iron, scrap, steel, or even pulp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-25", "file": "debates1939-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "34b339167c41c59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1477.4", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Penalty for selling at more than permitted price.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Of the court of summary jurisdiction arriving at the amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-25", "file": "debates1939-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "34b339167c41c59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1477.5", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Penalty for selling at more than permitted price.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "he question that the court has to decide is whether such an increase is, in fact, excessive. If the court is to decide that, it must take into account the evidence given by the trader, who says, \"I have increased the price over and above the basic price, because of A, B, C, D and E.\" A, B, C, D and E have to be proved to the satisfaction of the court before a conviction can lie against the trader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1477.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-25", "file": "debates1939-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "34b339167c41c59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "CLAUSE 7.—(Penalty for selling at more than permitted price.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "e will be no chance of escaping just retribution. That is the real sanction behind the Bill. What is being held in reserve is that, if the drastic power to punish him proves insufficient on two occasions, on the third there should be a sanction, which is almost unknown to the law, that, with the approval and under the direction of the Attorney-General, he may be driven out of business altogether.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-25", "file": "debates1939-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "34b339167c41c59b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1499.5", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "CLAUSE 8.—(Enforcement by price-regulation committees.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker) suggested that if you wanted to get a woman representing a working-class organisation, the trades and labour council was the only organisation to consult. That is a suggestion that you should have on this committee a woman who belongs to the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-25a.1499.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-26", "file": "debates1939-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "21cd32d639a8c3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1571.10", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for his reply, and knowing the tremendous job that he has undertaken, might I be permitted to ask whether it is not possible, if evidence is supplied to him, for him to close down under the Defence of the Realm Act these establishments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1571.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-26", "file": "debates1939-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "21cd32d639a8c3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Wolmer", "preceding_text": "The point is what the minority believes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-26", "file": "debates1939-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "21cd32d639a8c3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1672.2", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the Noble Lord is wilfully misrepresenting my argument or has not been able to appreciate it; it is one or the other. What I said was that, as a condition of majority rule, you must have democracy. There is no democracy in Poland or in Germany, but, even a free democracy in Poland or a free democracy in Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-26", "file": "debates1939-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "21cd32d639a8c3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "pprehensive and suspicious. You will not infrequently hear this kind of remark: \"What is happening now has a very strange resemblance to what happened with regard to the Irish question in 1914. The Irish were asked to suspend their demand for full Home Rule until the war was over. Then when the war was over, we remember what happened. Immediate steps were taken to make Home Rule an impossibility.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-26", "file": "debates1939-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "21cd32d639a8c3fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1700.3", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "That has always been the attitude taken up by Imperialists who want to hold on to other people. I am positive that, if India were given her freedom, in the shortest possible time the Indian people would be organised to ensure that nobody else marched in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-26a.1700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1728.9", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alarm\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I am most anxious to do that. I was not aware of the indignation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1728.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1728.9", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I am most anxious to do that. I was not aware of the indignation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Alarm\"]—but, as the London Scottish seems to contain an undue number of Englishmen, steps will be taken to withdraw the Englishmen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1728.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOME TAX.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To-morrow!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "As improvements have not yet manifested themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "COTTON INDUSTRY (REORGANISATION) (POSTPONEMENT) BILL. [Lords.]", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": " me their impressions about what is to be done. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Willesden, East (Captain Hammersley), who speaks with such great authority on this subject, has made a short but, to my mind, extremely interesting speech. As regards the question of why the Act has to be postponed, and Heaven knows I, who had to sit more regularly through all those meetings than anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1814.3", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "preceding_text": "That may be so; but I think I am right in saying that the hon. and learned Gentleman went on to say that, although that might be the normal case, these civil actions could be brought by anybody whether the matter had been referred to an area committee or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1814.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1854.0", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I am tring to explain the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1860.0", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Made to whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can throw some light on this question. It is not for me to say whether it is technically a document or not, but the so-called document from which I was quoting was a record, made for the purpose of greater accuracy, of a statement made by Mr. Norman Birkett.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1860.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1864.1", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ntern her that we should have had had she not been married to a British subject a few days before the outbreak of the war. The Secretary of State would not have the power to exercise what is known as preventive arrest. These are drastic powers, but I would point out that they are powers which the House knew that it was entrusting to the Secretary of State when it passed the Act without a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1866.5", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What disturbances?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "is of great value to the executive in the process of restoring order. If you have in any part of the country serious disturbances, from which this country has been fortunately very free in recent years, disturbances which might impose a very heavy tax on the police and other authorities responsible for the maintenance of order, the imposition of a curfew temporarily might be of considerable value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1866.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1868.9", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman reads a regulation he might read it correctly. It reads: If any person attempts or does any act calculated or likely to cause mutiny, sedition or disaffection among any of His Majesty's Forces or any of the Forces of any of His Majesty's allies, or among the civil population. the word \"disaffection\" in that connection is limited by the words \"mutiny\" and \"sedition\" which go before it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1868.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1868.9", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "t correctly. It reads: If any person attempts or does any act calculated or likely to cause mutiny, sedition or disaffection among any of His Majesty's Forces or any of the Forces of any of His Majesty's allies, or among the civil population. the word \"disaffection\" in that connection is limited by the words \"mutiny\" and \"sedition\" which go before it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"] The word \"disaffection\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1868.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "scious propagandists. Let me give an illustration of the sort of thing which is going on. A certain organisation has issued a memorandum of advice to its followers who may wish to appear before the tribunal for conscientious objectors, endeavouring to show its members how they can take advantage of provisions under the law which relate to persons who have conscientious objection or pacifist views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1873.3", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give us the name.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "What is this society? We ought to know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make it a little longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "n in front of them. I am not going into the various detailed points so ably raised by the hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Foot), but I can see that if I pursue the normal course of my political life as I have pursued it for 30 odd years, decently, cleanly, honestly and, as I believe, in the best interests of the population of this country, the House will miss my presence by about the end of next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We want you here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "normal course of my political life as I have pursued it for 30 odd years, decently, cleanly, honestly and, as I believe, in the best interests of the population of this country, the House will miss my presence by about the end of next week. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Make it a little longer.\"] You see, that is the evil of this legislation. An hon. Member opposite seems to think my liberty is at his disposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ase antiwar, but the man who writes the antiwar article is liable to arrest under these regulations, and the newspaper which has given space to his view is also liable, and there is nothing but the good will of the right hon. Gentleman to safeguard them, because we have still got to be satisfied that this House has the right to raise questions on the subject to a responsible Minister of the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It may be a woman.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "How does the motorist know? The hon. and gallant Gentleman probably knows the difference between a soldier on duty and a soldier off duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "closed to-night we ought to have some promise that the decision of the advisory com- mittee will be taken. There will be no point if no notice is to be taken of their decision. Another point which arises is the extreme power which seems to reside in the Secretary of State as to where a man should be detained and the conditions he should have during detention. It seems to me almost a Gestapo power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "pped but charged with an offence. During the last war I listened to the speeches of a gentleman who subsequently became Prime Minister, and I listened to the speeches of members of the Union of Democratic Control—some of those members now sit on the benches opposite, and have very different views. Freedom was given for those speeches to be made. Is that same sort of freedom to? be given this time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-10-31", "file": "debates1939-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "60ad8ff9803d42a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "PRICES OF GOODS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Guest", "preceding_text": "last war, we had experience in connection with signalling apparatus on the coast of Scotland. All those matters are of vital importance from the point of view of the protection of the country. I beg hon. Members not to think of annulling these regulations, which are for the safety of the country and for the protection of the Realm. There is no question of using the regulations against individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-10-31a.1888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1911.2", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend consider that this award, an incentive which is not given to members of the other Services, is unnecessary and undesirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1911.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1939.3", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Glass?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " already stated, if there are serious air raids the schools will be closed, but it is important to have them opened as soon as possible. Difficulties about materials exist, and they are serious, but we are contemplating in evacuation areas a lighter form of protection, which will give reasonable protection against splinters and shrapnel, such as the bricking up of windows and the use of corridors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1971.2", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are increased.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "In fact, I doubt whether he really thinks out the Budget for more than one or two years ahead. We must regard the matter in the light of the financial circumstances of the country; we freely acknowledge that. Since that Debate to which I have referred the country has been plunged into war. The promised investigation has been abandoned, but the sufferings and the hardships of the old people remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman has quite followed my argument. The point is that the ages which are principally and directly concerned with producing wealth will, in a number of years, be a smaller proportion, and the number of persons above 65 to be maintained will be a larger proportion. The two tendencies are going in the opposite way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "er than they are. I think that any serious person looking at this position must agree that it is a serious one—all the more so when we are in the midst of financing a war like the present one. It may be of assistance to the House if I now indicate the cost of various improvements that have been suggested from time to time. I am having the figures rechecked and may be they will be slightly altered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2008.1", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "of the fund out of which they are to be paid. Once fixed the pensions must be paid year after year. Furthermore, investigation must find out how the revenue is to be found from a smaller number of taxpayers. In 1980 our present population of 41,000,000 will have fallen to 30,000,000, but in 60 years from now —in the lifetime of our children now living—the population will have fallen to 20,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2046.3", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "ry, our allies and our hope of victory in this war; and certainly it would be the greatest catastrophe to our hope, under the Prime Minister's wise and sane guidance, of ever securing a humane and just peace afterwards. For those two reasons, as to the Tightness of which I am absolutely convinced, I shall endeavour to show my complete sympathy with and support of both the Motion and the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2046.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2050.1", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "000, although that number obviously would be very much reduced owing to the numbers who would not be in any particular difficulty—to be issued with a coupon entitling them to go to their grocer and get 5s. worth of food per week. I would follow through that suggestion with the further suggestion that the grocer should then go to the bank and get, in exchange for each coupon, 5s. worth of War Loan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2059.3", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I did not say that he had. I was considering what the offer meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2060.1", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "nt which seems worthy of consideration. He suggested that the people who needed an increased pension most were the retired old people and the idle old people. Those of 65 years of age and upwards who are in work and drawing good wages do not need an increased pension, because they are receiving wages. Suppose that the House were to agree that there should be an increased of 2s. 6d. in the pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": " workpeople. Everybody, surely, knows what is meant when I say that the inquiry shall be resumed and shall be resumed immediately and pressed forward with every possible expedition. The hon. Member opposite, in a humorous passage, said he almost thought that it would take me more than three years to deal with the matter. At least, let it be said to my credit that it shall not take as long as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-01", "file": "debates1939-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "f14a87544e084061", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2067.1", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I will reply very gladly to the question which the right hon. Gentleman has put, and I will reply to it, as I must do, by dividing the subject into two parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-01a.2067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-02", "file": "debates1939-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2824f63f61e65ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2077.9", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will not expect me to answer that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2077.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-02", "file": "debates1939-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2824f63f61e65ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2100.8", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Surely it is a part of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2100.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-02", "file": "debates1939-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2824f63f61e65ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2170.1", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE AND EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": ", all competing for everything and very often offering better prices for accommodation. There is one satisfactory feature—I am going to quote once more from my headmaster—which will be encouraging to some of the agricultural Members. He writes: The children now talk about harvests, trees, game-birds, angling. They can spot partridges, pheasants, hares and rabbits, and all the common British birds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-02", "file": "debates1939-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2824f63f61e65ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2258.1", "colnum": "2258", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE AND EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or injury on duty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the general basis of that scheme, which would apply universally, within the limits I have mentioned, in the event of war, would be the compensation to be provided for the private soldier. That certainly was the genesis of that Order and the basis of the scheme of compensation provided for in the Order. That does not cover the question of sick pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-02a.2258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-07", "file": "debates1939-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "96aaad93eca7f850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-07a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "NATIONAL LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "gure, but I take it; and 1 per cent. on that amount means £12,500,000 and 2 per cent. £25,000,000. By adding 1 per cent. you put upon the taxpayer an additional burden of £12,500,000, and it is not fair that this tremendous burden should be put on the backs of poor people, because it has to be repaid. There is one thing which I admire about this country; we do try to honour our debts and pay them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-07a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-07", "file": "debates1939-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "96aaad93eca7f850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-07a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "NATIONAL LOANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nelson.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "f paying for it. As I say, when the last war began in 1914 the National Debt stood at £600,000,000. That largely represented debt remaining from the borrowings during the period of the Napoleonic Wars. Having paid £3,000,000,000 or £4,000,000,000 in interest, we still had the bulk of those borrowings to pay when we entered on a new war. When I pass Trafalgar Square and see the statute of Napoleon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-07a.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "THE WAR AT SEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty minutes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "arine was fired at the \"Royal Oak\" it was thought that some form of explosive combustion had taken place on board the vessel, and an examination followed which occupied a certain period of time. It did not seem to be apparent to anyone that there was the possibility of an attack by a submarine. Then I saw where it stated that after 40 minutes had elapsed two torpedoes were fired it the battleship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "THE WAR AT SEA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ether. We all know that that is true. The loss of the \"Courageous\" caused more than 600 casualties, and now we have this report of the loss of the \"Royal Oak\" with 812 officers and men. They have been the victims of U-boat attack, but the people of this country should know that Germany has these U-boats because of the policy of this very Government which the First Lord of the Admiralty represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "tructions would be given for the ration books to be issued. I received mine on Monday of this week, and the date of issue is given as 12th October. Of course, they were all ready to ration on the 12th October. All the books had been prepared in the local authorities' offices. The view, the preparation, the knowledge, of the Minister of Food were just overridden by the cold feet of the War Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Minus what have been sunk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "inued at the present rate. The House may have heard what I said in reply to the First Lord's statement just now, when he had to say frankly that, in spite of the great activity and the fine conduct of His Majesty's Navy and the Royal Air Force and in spite of the submarines that have been sunk, we have to prepare for the possibility of 100 U-boats being available to the enemy in January next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Certainly. The sales were round about the 615 cwts. referred to in the datum period. The Minister has made the announcement—not the cooperative society itself, but the Minister—that if they would not buy more than 1 lb. per head it would be all right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that happening?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " putting imported meat into storage. I recognise that imported meat is being specially used for the Armed Forces, and it is very convenient to use, especially for the Forces abroad, but if you are bound to that allocation of 20 per cent. what does it mean? It means that if you are to keep up normal consumption of meat you will have an inroad into your livestock such as has never been contemplated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is another question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Really, it is so difficult to listen to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ument to sustain the proposition in his Motion. One part of my Amendment is directed to controverting what he suggests in his Motion, which he did not attempt to sustain in his speech. I am not entirely surprised that he did not deal with the whole subject of the Motion. What, after all, was his speech? As far as I could make out, it was primarily a big advertisement for the co-operative movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Everybody did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "preceding_text": "that some of it, very likely, is due to other factors, which can be, and ought to be, rectified. I remember that when I went into the Army, as a boy, one of the first jobs I had was to look after a camp. Things were very different then from what they are now, and the men were complaining that they had not enough food. In order to provide them with luxuries I sold the swill from the camp every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"You are making a virtue of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "preceding_text": "r that when I went into the Army, as a boy, one of the first jobs I had was to look after a camp. Things were very different then from what they are now, and the men were complaining that they had not enough food. In order to provide them with luxuries I sold the swill from the camp every day. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Everybody did.\"] I have since realised that many other people have done the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-08", "file": "debates1939-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "4f5fc3309d2f6b89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS [7th November.]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "ut at least the institution of control was certain to put many difficulties in the way of an adequate distribution of existing supplies. Another thing is that, with the Government policy of dispersion and evacuation which has been carried out during the last two or three months, I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that at least 2,000,000 people are living in homes where they do not belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-08a.348.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-14", "file": "debates1939-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a9a0c97be0113eb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-14a.521.4", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But are there any?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I do not think there should be any man in the British Army without a greatcoat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-14a.521.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-11-14", "file": "debates1939-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a9a0c97be0113eb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-14a.543.8", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Are not these people paid a full week's wage irrespective of the sittings of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-14a.543.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-14", "file": "debates1939-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a9a0c97be0113eb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-14a.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "MINISTRY OF SHIPPING.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ed me. It is clear that the conditions of war, the delays arising from convoy have lessened the ability of our merchant fleets to carry out without great interruption the work which we desire them to perform, but I am in the position to say, after discussions with the First Lord, that I think we shall be able to hasten many of the convoys, and that being so there should be considerable advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-14a.679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-15", "file": "debates1939-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc51d0b4aa590731", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-15a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "OUTSTANDING MEASURES EMERGENCY POWERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "ional unity. What a maginficent thing it would be if those who are in favour of flogging and who were a minority upon the Committee could have upon this occasion sacrificed their personal views for the sake of securing that national unity of which we so often speak. No doubt, they have been threatened and warned that any continuation of their opposition would jeopardise their chances of promotion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-15a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-16", "file": "debates1939-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "48b3d7cb2b452a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-16a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Kenneth Lindsay)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Kenneth Lindsay)", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman in his opening remarks referred to the Board being \"elbowed out.\" There is an element of truth in that, and the right hon. Gentleman knows that it was the same when he was at the Board of Education; in fact, I think there was a little more of it when he was there. But the fact remains that appearances would indicate that this House is not overwhelmingly interested in education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-16a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-21", "file": "debates1939-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4fd5accd0b29db7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I think that all those circumstances are covered. If a woman has been deserted by her husband and is living with the soldier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-21", "file": "debates1939-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4fd5accd0b29db7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1088.7", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How well?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "the maximum provision for the education of the children should be made, together with the maximum provision of shelter based on Home Office standards. As regards the evacuation scheme, I am almost afraid to refer to it as a social experiment, although I have heard those words used about it time and again. It certainly has been a social upheaval, and I think it has, in the main, worked fairly well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1088.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-21", "file": "debates1939-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4fd5accd0b29db7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "preceding_text": "No. It may be better now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-21", "file": "debates1939-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4fd5accd0b29db7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND EVACUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "I am sure that this Debate will have been useful in connection with the general question of evacuation and the problems that have arisen from evacuation. It seems to me that we are depending almost entirely for the initiation of Debates on Scottish problems upon the few fleeting visits we have from the hon. Member on the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-21a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-22", "file": "debates1939-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "11ee3fbefc1a6831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-22a.1282.4", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "LAND WARFARE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "offices and staffs have left London, and I understand that some of them have found almost permanent places outside. But surely it is not the intention of the Government to have a Royal Commission sitting for something like two years to gather up information from the whole of the Departments or from specially skilled people. I believe they are going to publish a report and then do nothing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-22a.1282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-22", "file": "debates1939-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "11ee3fbefc1a6831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-22a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "LAND WARFARE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Adams", "preceding_text": " this Debate. There is no doubt that the Government themselves have deliberately accentuated the unemployment in the country. The sudden shutting-down of housing, of school building, of public works, of important schemes such as sewerage works, which are an imperative necessity in certain areas, has added substantially to our unemployment problem. The building trade has become a stagnant industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-22a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-28", "file": "debates1939-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c32499932450a14b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-28a.61.3", "colnum": "61", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will look back to 1914, and if he had been here and knew the experience of those who were members of the Union of Democratic Control, he would know what I mean by broad unanimity in contrast to the very bitter feelings of 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-28a.61.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-28", "file": "debates1939-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c32499932450a14b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-28a.88.2", "colnum": "88", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "o clear out of Germany, but the monopoly capitalists of this country will support their brothers in Germany. If we are to support the working class in Germany, we have to clear out the monopoly class here. We have to work for the end of the war, for the end of the causes of the war and for the end of capitalism. Let us get a new world in reality, a new world of Socialism and put an end to poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-28a.88.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-29", "file": "debates1939-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3be0afffe948024f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-29a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": " we are to have a lot of private Bills. That is a very real difficulty. I venture to put forward what, I think, is another objection to this Amendment: that is, that there are a large number of our fellow-Members who are away from this House, and there are other Members on Service who come here from time to time with considerable difficulty—far more difficulty than the ordinary Member experiences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-29a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-29", "file": "debates1939-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3be0afffe948024f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-29a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "nt time not to take away the whole of the private Member's rights, but to leave some initiative in the hands of private Members. If there were agreement on all sides so that that initiative might be enabled to take place we might pass some Act such as the Acts mentioned by the hon. Member for Dundee (Mr. Foot). I put forward that suggestion, although I am perfectly ready to support the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-29a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-29", "file": "debates1939-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3be0afffe948024f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-29a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "erwhelming antipathy which we all have for Nazi policy. When I hear people say, \"So-and-so could not work with so-and-so,\" I think that is childishly out of perspective. The attitude taken up sometimes by the Opposition is not altogether justified by the funk and fumbling which is so very noticeable among three or four of the senior older and staler politicians who still decorate the Front Bench —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-29a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-30", "file": "debates1939-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "74f2433fb55244b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.291.6", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "row choice, they would no doubt choose the Hapsburgs, but in a wider choice I believe they would prefer neither, but would choose a free and democratic Austria. My contention is that they should be given the opportunity to choose when the time comes, but meanwhile no official cloak should be thrown over this unofficial agitation for the restoration of a dynasty which has been in hiding since 1919.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.291.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-11-30", "file": "debates1939-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "74f2433fb55244b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is \"H.M.G.\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Butler)", "preceding_text": " mind of His Majesty's Government: in particular, we recognise the special position of Greece. Any opportunity we can take of developing and improving our trade with that area will, I am sure, be taken. I know that the matter is at present under active consideration. The hon. Gentleman referred to the Balkan area. The only remark on this subject I would let fall to-day is that H.M.G. have learned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-30", "file": "debates1939-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "74f2433fb55244b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fourteen points.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": " acted upon the request of the Opposition and sought now to define in greater detail our peace aims. The hon. Member referred with regret to the disappearence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the last war. I assume that the kind of principles which the Opposition would like the Government to lay down would be those, for example, that were laid down as the 13 points by President Wilson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-11-30", "file": "debates1939-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "74f2433fb55244b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": "It created a most deplorable impression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-11-30a.381.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that officers are still informing soldiers that they have no knowledge of this regulation and that there are women in this country whose husbands have been in the Army since August who have not yet had their first military payment, does not the Minister think that it is a reflection on the organisation and a bloody disgrace to the whole Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.421.6", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "preceding_text": "I want an answer. In my constituency I know of women with eight and nine children who have had no payment yet from the Government. I want justice for these women, these wives of our soldiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.421.6", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "preceding_text": "ent yet from the Government. I want justice for these women, these wives of our soldiers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"] You cannot say \"Order\" to hungry women and children. This week-end, in my constituency, I have seen women who have had to go to the pawn shop to pawn their things in order to get food for their children, and their husbands have been in the Army since the beginning of September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Moscow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Have the Government sent any protest to the Government in Berlin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " that taxation has never caught up with the increasing wealth of the rich. The rich have always grown richer, and what guarantee has the Chancellor given us that even this war will not be used in order to make the rich richer? In any case, there is no justification at all for allowing this appalling poverty to continue, and there is no justification for allowing this unfair distribution of wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Samuel", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Samuel", "preceding_text": "ared us their usual flatulent regrets and generalities, and spared us a repetition of their usual political nebulosities, instead of merely embroidering them upon a new background. They have constantly jeered that the last war was a war to end war, yet they want to advertise the present conflict as a war to end every sort of economic, political and international evil. They harry the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.589.1", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": " always will work again. That is not true. This system of ours worked for 150 years only, and it worked in these 150 years because in these years something very special was happening which cannot be repeated. Between 1770 and 1920 we built all the industrial towns of the world from nothing. The industrial towns of the world did not exist in 1770, not one of them, and we had built them all by 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-05", "file": "debates1939-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "e720f3fe89d4eca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "untary system and municipalise the whole of our hospital system. They would not get the support—and rightly they would not get it—of the people. I will tell the House why. The suggestion of the hon. Member for West Fulham was that under such a system the doctors would be delighted to have a definite income, definite hours of work, and definite holidays. If that were so, then God help the patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-05a.591.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-12-06", "file": "debates1939-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "54fb52df0bef2c86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY (DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCES).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We all have them.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member has any particular cases to bring to notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-06", "file": "debates1939-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "54fb52df0bef2c86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "the younger men to a larger extent than at present? In his broadcast speech the other night, the Minister of Labour suggested the calling up of men group by group, those of 21 years of age, those of 22, those of 23, simply going on from one year to the next. Why have the calling up in that way? Why not alternate it, and, if you must call up those of 22 years, why not then go to a higher age limit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-06", "file": "debates1939-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "54fb52df0bef2c86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Little", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Little", "preceding_text": "tious criticism. It is a time for co-operation. I may not look at matters along the lines of some hon. Friends even on this side of the House, and I want to put my own viewpoint before the House. The patriarch Job was once snowed under with advice. The Government have been snowed under with advice during the past week. In Job's case Elihu intervened and said, \"I have yet to speak on God's behalf.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-06", "file": "debates1939-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "54fb52df0bef2c86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "ticisms in our actual conduct of the war. It was apparently only right to listen to suggestions or to give heed to criticisms when they came from the benches opposite. As I listened to the right hon. Gentleman, I felt sure that he thought there was one easy remedy for all these ills, and that was to substitute himself and his hon. Friends on the benches opposite for those who occupy these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-06", "file": "debates1939-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "54fb52df0bef2c86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "urse of war and, as a result of war, in the actual operation of government. In the course of the last war the Council of Industry was set up; there was no Ministry of Health and no Ministry of Labour. It is hard to believe that the Minister of Labour, whose genial presence is rarely absent from this bench, was then engaged on an even more contentious occupation. Nor had we a Trades Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-06a.755.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is another question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind what is very much more important than that—the complaints that are beginning to be made that the health of the people is suffering?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.804.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Ramsay", "preceding_text": "This is a specific question; that is to say, whether witnesses are allowed or whether the evidence was only hearsay or written report. Will the right hon. Gentleman listen to the question if I read it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SENTENCE (MR. J. M. KAMMELARD).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that this particular Fascist was sentenced for making a statement that he considered the First Lord of the Admiralty should be despatched as soon as possible, and that that view is not greatly dissimilar from the view, I believe, held by the Prime Minister until recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.807.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "And a discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.825.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I do not quite understand the right hon. Gentleman's reply. I understood, when the point was put to him, that the Government had come to the conclusion that there should be a Secret Sitting. I concluded from that that on a Vote, if there were a Vote, the Government, having taken that line, would naturally see that the House did get a Secret Sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " properly by the authority charged with conserving supplies for the Service Departments. He looks at the matter, and rightly so, only from one angle. He must not take any risks. It must be some supreme authority that can take the necessary risk. That brings me to what I might call the diagnosis of the cause of the trouble, as made by a number of competent authorities, inside and outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.876.5", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horabin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horabin", "preceding_text": "down inquiries every day of the present war. Why are they doing it? Because, I suggest, of the Government's ineptitude. Government action is destroying our export ťrade at a moment when it is not only vital to maintain exports, but it is even more vital ťo increase them. In the first place, I believe that the Government do not fully understand the way in which the export trade works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.876.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horabin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horabin", "preceding_text": "port merchant to-day cannot quote any price at all, and the reason for that is not far to seek. One of the Ministry of Supply controls, inaugurated at a very early stage of the war was the principle \"that prices are subject to the price ruling on the date of delivery,\" and that example has been copied for many other commodities including even the textile trade, which, I believe, is not controlled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lord Haw-Haw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ut of interest—it was not until the spring of 1916 that our exports got as close to the figures in the comparable month of the last year of peace-time as we have in November of this year. It was not until 1916 that we got back to the level in comparison with the peace-time month that we have now reached in November. That is in a month when, every night, if we listen to the wireless we are told by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way to the hon. Gentleman. There is no necessity to give way to him because I know exactly what he is going to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-07", "file": "debates1939-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "49c1dd060dd830c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "utside. Certain trades are flooded with Government contracts, and they have no need to think of the export trade or to press for an increase of exports to America, north or south. With Government orders rolling in, why should they? I believe that to be the real reason for the fall in exports after the beginning of the war. They believe it is a duty to scrap a foreign order and fill an English one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-07a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1026.8", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAVAL AND MILITARY PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Why are these people under observation by the means test authorities all the time? All the time they are in the homes of the soldiers, and it is abominable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1026.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Then we share that experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "nces, to the discretionary power with regard to rentals, and so on, I would say that I do not know of any system of relief anywhere in the world which will compare with the system which we apply to our able-bodied unemployed. That is not to say that I am saying the last word that will be reached in this matter. It has been said that I was tender hearted at one time, but that I am now hard hearted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady knows that she will lead me into a controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "Major Procter rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "e once and for all, but whatever sum we fix for old age pensions must be continued year after year and must be added to the budgets, not only of this Government but of future governments, which may include at some distant period of time, a government composed of hon. Members opposite. Therefore, there is nothing unreasonable in those of us who have been pressing this matter of increased pensions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "I understood the hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) was going to speak. On the Adjournment the speech of the Minister usually winds up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "ed that Motion—supporters of the Government as well as Ministers voted for it—and as a result the inquiries have been pursued. That is the position to-day. Some hon. Members take the line in this Debate that this is one of the simplest of all matters and that you have only to have the necessary good will and just think of the right number and the whole thing can be done in the twinkling of an eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "t not recollect, as the Chancellor pointed out on that occasion, that there is a very large number of old age pensioners in work and receiving good wages. They receive their pensions, to which they are entitled by reason of the fact that they have been contributors for the requisite period. For all I know there may be an hon. Member sitting opposite me at this moment who draws the old age pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-12", "file": "debates1939-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "d830582a734a6f48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "OLD AGE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ur responsibilities if we did not press the Government for a definite pronouncement on this question of old age pensions. So far, we have not had a definite pronouncement from the Government Front Bench that they want an increase in old age pensions. Do they or do they not agree that an increase in old age pensions is desirable, necessary, and urgent? If they would say that, it would be something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-12a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-13", "file": "debates1939-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "9a083883f2c764a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-13a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Samuel", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Haw-Haw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Samuel", "preceding_text": "Is there any truth in the suggestion that the German broadcaster known as Lord Hee-Haw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-13a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-14", "file": "debates1939-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4c490ff08d6b73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-14a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "MILK PRICES AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. W. S. Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ation confronted the Board and the Government with the removal into distant and unfamiliar places of the Board's best customers, namely, the children, and advance arrangements were made, in co-operation with the Board, for securing that where these children went there would be supplies of milk for them. I am bound to say that that work which was done by the Milk Marketing Board was very well done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-14a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1939-12-14", "file": "debates1939-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4c490ff08d6b73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-14a.1360.5", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "MILK PRICES AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Then we are perfectly clear now that although the Milk Marketing board have made out a case for an increase of 3.2d. per gallon—the right hon. Gentleman has conceded them 30 points out of the 32 they asked for—he is going to give them not 3d. per gallon but 3d. plus 2½d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-14a.1360.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1939-12-14", "file": "debates1939-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "a4c490ff08d6b73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-14a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "MILK PRICES AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about fruit?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "preceding_text": "As I said, I want to make a full announcement about this matter later on. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not tie me down to this matter at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1939-12-14a.1391.1"}