{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that owing to that unfortunate phrase \"unmarried wife\" many soldiers put down the unmarried wife to receive the allowance, although an order has been made upon them by the court to pay an allowance to their wives; and is it not true that the War Office has made things so obscure that these women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.12.4", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand from the answer of the hon. and gallant Gentleman that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.12.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.16.2", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "preceding_text": "I put down three Questions to the hon. Member, and he has answered two of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.16.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " questions in the interests of their constituents. We, therefore, are not prepared to swing in behind a Press campaign. But I think we had a right to get from the right hon. Member and from the Prime Minister with rather more precision the reasons for the resignation. The right hon. Member rather hinted that it was due to his reforms on the lines of democracy being unpalatable in certain quarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": " has certainly shown immense capacity, immense initiative and resource, and a good deal of strength of character, and I am hoping that those great qualities may still be available to the State in future. I do not attempt to detain the House with any further reference to my right hon. Friend. He has given his own explanation. I think the Prime Minister, too, has given a perfectly clear explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "deal of strength of character, and I am hoping that those great qualities may still be available to the State in future. I do not attempt to detain the House with any further reference to my right hon. Friend. He has given his own explanation. I think the Prime Minister, too, has given a perfectly clear explanation. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"] To my mind, the Prime Minister was most frank with the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.69.3", "colnum": "69", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "Members who may have had a word with their closest friends in their constituencies. What has been the effect of the action which we have been discussing to-day? The attitude of the Prime Minister may be correct, according to constitutional theory. It may be correct to say, \"I am the Prime Minister. I choose my Ministers, and you are not concerned. You need not know, and I do not have to tell you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.69.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "y have dropped from 4,000,000 to 3,000,000. If that is so, why not tell us the truth? We can face up to it. We are strong enough and are not frightened, but do let us know the facts. Undoubtedly, there has not been sufficient food for the pigs. I will give one instance in my own county. There is a small old-fashioned cooperative society that has been in existence for something like 70 or 8o years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like a Communist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ister's followers, his \"yes-men,\" crowded on the benches behind him, have sat there expressing in their faces the utmost depression. The one man who was, comparatively speaking, successful in his job has been dismissed by the Prime Minister. Of course, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will never be a failure. He can always change, he can always adapt himself to any particular situation that arises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Ribbentrop.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "uling class of Finland mobilised the two armies, the Government army and the private army. If that is not provocation when it is proposed to open discussions for a mutual assistance pact, I should like to know what is. The leaders of the Soviet Union reported other provocations. Do I believe them? Yes, I do believe them. Those who want to stand in with Mannerheim and the bankers and the landlords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ion when it is proposed to open discussions for a mutual assistance pact, I should like to know what is. The leaders of the Soviet Union reported other provocations. Do I believe them? Yes, I do believe them. Those who want to stand in with Mannerheim and the bankers and the landlords—[An HON. MEMBER: \"And Ribbentrop.\"] I hold the same view of Ribbentrop that I have already expressed to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-16", "file": "debates1940-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "9bdfd901cd66354e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.100.7", "colnum": "100", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Which war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "If we are able to bring about the end of the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-16a.100.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-18", "file": "debates1940-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba4dbe3ad6b8594a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-18a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "SERVICE DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "preceding_text": "Possibly in that same letter the hon. Member will find it stated that if the needs of the parent become more difficult they can then apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-18a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-23", "file": "debates1940-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "077b339fdddbd45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.363.7", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "Assuming that the supply position warranted it, would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the second walking-out dress issued to Highland regiments should invariably be the kilt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.363.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-23", "file": "debates1940-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "077b339fdddbd45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.473.8", "colnum": "473", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the black-out? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "oyes but in the case of the buses it is particularly dangerous for this reason. The London Passenger Transport Board has recently made changes, and as an illustration of these I give the case of a journey which was normally a 59-minute journey—when I say normally I mean taking the figures which existed before the war—and has now as a war measure been reduced to 55 minutes in the course of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.473.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-23", "file": "debates1940-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "077b339fdddbd45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "If my hon. and gallant Friend will allow me, I think it will be better if I make my speech. There will be a reply at the end of the Debate, either by my right hon. Friend the Minister for Home Security, or my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport according to how the Debate goes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-23", "file": "debates1940-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "077b339fdddbd45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "so many of us belong, should be on its honour to observe this 20-mile-an-hour speed limit in built-up areas during the black-out. The second argument is that the reduced speed limit has the advantage that there is more time for motor driver and pedestrian to avoid an impending collision; and even when a collision does take place the force of the impact will be more than proportionately diminished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-23", "file": "debates1940-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "077b339fdddbd45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.492.2", "colnum": "492", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is its virtue?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": " I was informed by a high official of the London Passenger Transport Board that they have found in some circumstances that the only way to persuade the public to use certain passages as entrances is to label them \"Exit only.\" Anybody who has tried, as a conscientious Minister of Transport should, to walk on the left, even if he is a fairly substantial body, knows that it is a difficult proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-23", "file": "debates1940-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "077b339fdddbd45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "ve devoted a great deal of thought to it, because I know that while the Minister of Transport cannot exactly be held responsible for road accidents, he is, at any rate, answerable to this House of Commons that every reasonable measure is taken that will reduce them. I do not pretend that what I have been able to say to the House to-night represents a conclusive and permanent answer to the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-23", "file": "debates1940-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "077b339fdddbd45e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "ROAD ACCIDENTS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"0h!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "inds of lamps, must have driven along a built-up area night after night and have said to himself, \"At what speed do I feel sure that I could pull up within two yards, if necessary?\" That is a simple experiment which can be proved by everybody who is doubtful about this matter. I have tried it on roads with which I am completely familiar and on which I have driven—I hate to think how long-20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-23a.525.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-01-24", "file": "debates1940-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef1c8a4bd2cb42ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-24a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND STEAM VEHICLES (EXCISE DUTIES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter on which I can give instructions to the Committee, but if hon. Members accept the proposal, which seems to be reasonable, we might have a fairly wide discussion now and a short discussion later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-24a.651.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-24", "file": "debates1940-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ef1c8a4bd2cb42ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-24a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOP HOURS.", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peake)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peake)", "preceding_text": "ort time of two hours. The right hon. Gentleman who has just spoken would not, I am sure, charge me with any discourtesy, seeing that he himself was not in the House when the Home Secretary made his very full statement earlier on. Hon. Gentle- men opposite were well satisfied with that statement; the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies), who initiated the Debate, has, in fact, gone home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-24a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-25", "file": "debates1940-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bae424f3461ac0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And from this side too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "s on his farm. I believe that specialisation has been and will remain more efficient and that the only way to proceed is by securing wider co-operation and a bigger effort from the agricultural community in order to improve their position. It is no good crying over spilt milk. The difficulty with regard to feeding-stuffs could have been avoided if many suggestions made from this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-25", "file": "debates1940-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bae424f3461ac0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he going to get the money from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "ossible for him to control the price of seed oats. This is necessary as is shown by the fact, which I am sure my right hon. Friend knows, that oats seed which, in ordinary circumstances, cost about 15s., to-day cost 35s. or 40s. You cannot get the farmer to pay that amount. The sum of 35s. or 40s. an acre is a good deal, especially if he is not certain of receiving a decent price at the end of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-25", "file": "debates1940-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bae424f3461ac0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "preceding_text": "is morning expressed the opinion that he liked the larger pieces better because he thought they were better for the particular purpose he had in view, the breaking up of the ground. The material consists of all the contents of every household dustbin that will go through a three-quarter-inch mesh. I think I have taken up more time than one who knows very little about agriculture is entitled to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-25", "file": "debates1940-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bae424f3461ac0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "nd up to the rascally manoeuvres of the milling combine?\" He said there was nothing to inquire into. What is happening now? A short while ago I was asking the Minister of Food what strange events are happening at Godstone. We may well ask. I do not wish to say anything unkind to-night, but I will just remind the right hon. Gentleman that we all want to know very much what is happening at Godstone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-25", "file": "debates1940-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bae424f3461ac0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "No. I say, definitely not, but in the two or three cases quoted politics have entered into the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.928.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-01-25", "file": "debates1940-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bae424f3461ac0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Germination.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Morgan", "preceding_text": "What is the practical difference between feeding oats and seed oats in emergency conditions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-25", "file": "debates1940-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bae424f3461ac0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because of the shipping space\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "urely that is going the wrong way about it. Yesterday I gave an order to a merchant, for a quantity for which I paid £37 in October. The same order was repeated, but now I have to pay £55 for it—not because the world has not any feeding-stuffs but because the Treasury has said that we can bring in only a certain quantity and that there is to be an artificial cut in the amount that may be imported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-25a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I should exclude payment to injured persons for the first month or so, and should pay thereafter on a rising scale. Acute hardship begins after the first month or the first three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beechman", "preceding_text": "in favour of the man; in England, the judges have been equally divided. I think it is time that that exhibition of judicial tact or impartial delicacy should be resolved by this House in favour of the working man. It has even been solemnly debated by judges whether a man who has lost an eye in a certain employment can yet find suitable employment in that same trade where he may lose the other eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "he conclusion that the purpose to which the hon. Member's Amendment is directed would be suitably served by an all-round percentage increase in rates of benefit. That was the remedy adopted in entirely different circumstances in 1917. I say nothing about the means test at all. Quite clearly, there are many cases under the existing scheme which cannot fairly be described as cases of acute hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "uer, because workmen's compensation is one of those pieces of social legislation which are a charge upon industry. I maintain that industry ought to maintain its own injured, and it could do so by a slight adjustment of the insurance premiums. I used to regard the Home Secretary as a good stonewaller, almost as good in his Department as Don Bradman, but tonight he has shown himself to be very weak", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: A means test.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "but tonight he has shown himself to be very weak [ Interruption ]. He did not make a century to-night; he went out almost for a \"duck.\" He spoke about not wanting to introduce new principles into workmen's compensation, but then began to talk about accepting something which appears for the first time in the history of workmen's compensation—his references to cases of hardship. What does that mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "What does the hon. Member mean by \"at once \"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All three of them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "In a speech to which we listened some time ago the Home Secretary said he was not sure whether my right hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood), in the speech he made, had doubted the good faith of the Government. I will commence by saying that I will impeach the good faith of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "spoke—82 of them from the pit where I worked—who are suffering a living death from silicosis. Does the Home Secretary realise what he is doing? I am not asking him offensively, but as one with some industrial experience. Have we not a means test Government? There was first the means test for the unemployed, then for the old, and, worst of all, adding insult to injury, a means test for the injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "se that it is not for the Government at this stage to deal with the structure or principles upon which the workmen's compensation system is based. I am perfectly ready to accept the view of the hon. Gentleman upon that issue. The Government are concerned with a very much more limited problem. It is perfectly obvious that there are some cases of special hardship in regard to workmen's compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I will look at the Appendix and will communicate with the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-01-30", "file": "debates1940-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "77add148803362de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "Certainly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-30a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-31", "file": "debates1940-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "953660c58e895454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-31a.1207.3", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (FINANCING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "om the financiers or from the firm, it does not matter which, an enormous proportion of such profits as might accrue as a result of Government contracts, even going so far on one or two occasions—it may be he had no justification for this—as to stress the fact that he wanted that large proportion of the spoils because there were certain legitimate interests of the Ministry which he had to satisfy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-31a.1207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-31", "file": "debates1940-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "953660c58e895454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-31a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (FINANCING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in the War Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "I quite agree. The answer is that the re-vetting was in my own Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-31a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-01-31", "file": "debates1940-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "953660c58e895454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-31a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (FINANCING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said 'early December.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "I have already said—I think it was mid-December. I have not the date before me now; I am speaking from memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-01-31a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-01", "file": "debates1940-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b53d2dc5ecd1c67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1396.4", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "ECONOMIC ORGANISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were selling it to Germany.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " or have ever had. He has done a magnificent job, but he is one of the gentlemen who got this Government to refuse the suggestions of those of us who wanted them to keep our blast furnaces going, on the grounds that we might want pig iron some day. We were told that there was plenty of pig iron and steel. Now we are asking America to ship quantities of iron and steel across that treacherous ocean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-01", "file": "debates1940-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b53d2dc5ecd1c67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1396.4", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "ECONOMIC ORGANISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "iving us vocal support. What is vocal support going to do to help us to win the war? At least one right hon. Member of this House is in America—The Prime Minister should call him home, or put him in a detention camp—going round telling the Americans what they ought to do, and he is doing this country more harm than perhaps he can imagine. Why should this country tell America what they ought to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-01", "file": "debates1940-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b53d2dc5ecd1c67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "ECONOMIC ORGANISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "preceding_text": "ticular individuals in the country. Every man desires that the burden that he is asked to support should be asked in something like the same measure of his neighbour but, if he knows, or thinks he knows, that the wheel of chance may bring higher wages to his neighbour, and perhaps greater hardship to another neighbour who is in similar circumstances, he feels dispirited, resentful and disgruntled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-01", "file": "debates1940-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b53d2dc5ecd1c67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "ECONOMIC ORGANISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "preceding_text": "wn no special skill. It is the accumulation of incidents of this character, which can be multiplied thousands of times, that is adding an impetus to the situation which is beginning to develop of demands for higher wages in most basic industries. If I am right—I doubt if there is any difference of opinion on the matter—our great need is a policy to carry out the principle of equality of sacrifice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-01", "file": "debates1940-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "6b53d2dc5ecd1c67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "ECONOMIC ORGANISATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "If we are going to examine all the past misdeeds of the Government, we shall never be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-01a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-06", "file": "debates1940-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "54065dbcb6a43f4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Colvill)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Colvill)", "preceding_text": " boards excepting in the Fens. They keep the smaller watercourses in good order, their work covering every type of watercourse from the main river up to and including farm ditches. In the absence of a drainage board the county councils are responsible for the kind of work which such a board would be expected to undertake. Drainage boards have always suffered, like many of us, from a lack of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-06", "file": "debates1940-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "54065dbcb6a43f4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Whatever may be the excuse, if there are large areas of land which can be brought back into cultivation only when the land is drained, why should not the Bill cover the land if it has not been drained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-06", "file": "debates1940-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "54065dbcb6a43f4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "is Bill, the Government are not taking powers, in the case of default by a catchment board in any part of the country? Cases will be quoted in the course of the Debate where the catchment boards, although in existence, have done little or nothing since 1930, and if they would not do anything on their own behalf during that period, I cannot see them acting on behalf of the War Executive Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-06", "file": "debates1940-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "54065dbcb6a43f4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.113.3", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who took it from them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "heir assistance. They do not want to break up a good deal of the land which they are loyally breaking up. They ought not to be losers by the transaction. If you do not give them the money, they cannot borrow it. The farmers have infinitely less reserve capital than in 1914. One man who knew the farmers in the North very well told me that they had not a quarter of the capital that they had in 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-06", "file": "debates1940-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "54065dbcb6a43f4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.124.4", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "preceding_text": "r to plough up 250,000 acres, but there are not 250,000 acres ploughed up and paid for at this time. In the Explanatory and Financial Memorandum to the Bill, there is the statement: Including the sum of £500,000 estimated to be payable under the principal Act. That money is not yet exhausted, the £500,000 have not yet been paid; there are hundreds of farmers waiting for that money to come to hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-06", "file": "debates1940-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "54065dbcb6a43f4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.124.4", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "preceding_text": "of their six-year land. The problem from the point of view of the Government is to get back into cultivation land that has only just gone out of cultivation, land that is more amenable to this ploughing drive than land of the sort to which they have already committed themselves in the ploughing-up campaign. I was relieved to hear that the money is to be forthcoming. That being so, why in the world", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-06a.124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-07", "file": "debates1940-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3353d5596fb948b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-07a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not Honolulu?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "vernment if we had to rely on the neutral summaries telegraphed from abroad. I would suggest that if it does not add too much to the expense, we might move some of our summary writers, and those who understand the points on which we might be interested, to Switzerland, where they would get the newspapers at least a day sooner and could telegraph reports which would reach this country more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-07a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-07", "file": "debates1940-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3353d5596fb948b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-07a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " private- organisation at Cambridge, and that last cost the country nothing. Here we are at the start of a war which will be an economic war more than anything else, and we are starting a Department of a semi-public character. I would sooner it were of an entirely public character. The country ought to know the names of the people who are working at Chatham House and the salaries they are getting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-07a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-07", "file": "debates1940-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "3353d5596fb948b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-07a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "preceding_text": "I do not understand why the arbitrary figure of £50 is adopted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-07a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-08", "file": "debates1940-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2d9c4a101d0d530c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.377.5", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker, it is not the same point. I am asking the Minister to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-08", "file": "debates1940-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2d9c4a101d0d530c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "FOOD PRICES (GOVERNMENT CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "Yes, I could, but I was really afraid that I was being too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-08", "file": "debates1940-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2d9c4a101d0d530c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "FOOD PRICES (GOVERNMENT CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making too sweeping a statement, because the artificial depreciation of sterling will be just as much subsidising exports not in the sense of a technical breach of the agreement but in the spirit of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-08", "file": "debates1940-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2d9c4a101d0d530c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "FOOD PRICES (GOVERNMENT CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Wages are less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "cause there is not a fragment of truth in the belief that to grant family allowances would injure the struggle for higher wages, a struggle which cannot go on during war-time. I challenge anyone to produce any evidence that in any country which has had experience of this system they believe it has had that effect. In France, in Belgium, in New South Wales, in the mining industry throughout Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-08", "file": "debates1940-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "2d9c4a101d0d530c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "FOOD PRICES (GOVERNMENT CONTROL).", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Talk to those people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "ngle individual who has only himself to sup port and, on the other hand, the family as a collective unit of man, wife, and children. At the present time these have no more share in the wealth of the community than has the single individual. I am not making any accusation but merely a plea and a request that organised labour should no longer continue to ignore this question and this problem, which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-08a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"13 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "from the canal interests as to the action which they think should be taken to secure the greater use of canal transport in time of war. The last thing dealt with in the Motion is the question of coastwise shipping. It is by no means easy to determine precisely what comes within that description, because the term \"coasting tramp\" covers ships engaged both in the coasting and near-Continental trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"There is no profit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "ap.\"This is a very shifting sand on which to build a substantial argument. The value of railway stock must always be the capitalised value of what it can earn. That being the case, it must always be the best indication of the position. I have heard railway companies addressed with every form of malediction and abuse, except that I have never heard applied to a railway company the term \"profiteer.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "d on work of a nature that is not in accordance with the scheme would, of a necessity, prejudice supplementary issue. In all circumstances sub-district managers should be in close contact with the local goods agent and this official should be made to realise that by co-operation with the sub-district manager\"— that is, of the railways— it is within his province to materially assist in saving fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "re is the query, \"Do you mind waiting?\" I, as a potential passenger, say that I do mind waiting when other forms of transport are being pushed out of existence for the railways to be overloaded, so that they cannot give me the service that they exist to give. I have had a note handed to me to say that the deputation which the Minister is receiving does not relate to the Road-Rail Joint Memorandum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "f transport are being pushed out of existence for the railways to be overloaded, so that they cannot give me the service that they exist to give. I have had a note handed to me to say that the deputation which the Minister is receiving does not relate to the Road-Rail Joint Memorandum. [ Interruption .] I hope we shall; I hope that the Minister will see more clearly before this Debate is finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holds worth", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holds worth", "preceding_text": "h is given by this particular agreement. I was struck by the very little that was said about the second part of the Motion by the right hon. Member for South Hackney. We were not told how this unification was going to work. We were not told what would be the basis of compensation, if any, except that we were threatened that if the Labour party had to do it it would be on the lowest basis possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "a new doctrine to me that you should say to any particular form of industry, \"For three years we know that trading was bad, that you were not able to earn a sufficient remuneration. We are now going to call upon you to fulfil extra services, to put every energy you possess into this work for the nation, but on no account shall you be paid an extra penny for these services.\" That is a new doctrine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "preceding_text": " certain areas which was proving financially very sound. Whether or not we should have achieved the standard revenue, I cannot say, but at the end of the first half of last year we began to build up hopes that we would reach it—for the first time, I admit. That is only of importance to this extent, that the standard revenue was not such a hopelessly unattainable thing as the hon. Member indicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.698.5", "colnum": "698", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "sight of men like Mr. Bevin. I think I have read as much as he has written about the co-ordination of road and rail. What puzzles me is the line of demarcation between the different unions. There are the Transport Workers' Union, the Locomotive Drivers' and Firemen's Union, the National Union of Railwaymen, and the Railway Clerks' Union. As far as I know, there is no union of railway shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-13", "file": "debates1940-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "88c47173edc8b384", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "TRANSPORT.", "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": "d thing if all other industries could be kept as low as this. Again I repeat, this is an odd Debate. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Hackney said that the Government in a matter of this kind should be moved solely in the public interest. I do not know why he says that, because he knows perfectly well that really there is no other motive than the public interest behind this agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-13a.719.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-14", "file": "debates1940-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "bd57e7afce2bb518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And in the boroughs of Poplar and Westminster.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that there is also a severe shortage in the Borough of Hackney and will he look into it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-14", "file": "debates1940-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "bd57e7afce2bb518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He will get off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "t to be filled up. Why have all these limitations been introduced? The right hon. Gentleman has had to take up his brief owing to the absence of the leading counsel through unfortunate ill-health; therefore, one must make great allowances. He has to defend a very bad Bill. He had what is known at the Bar as a docker, a brief handed out by the judge at the last moment to defend someone in the dock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-14", "file": "debates1940-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "bd57e7afce2bb518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.884.1", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Docker's!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has likened me to a barrister who has received a docker's brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-14", "file": "debates1940-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "bd57e7afce2bb518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Immediate need.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsbotham", "preceding_text": "icultural purposes, is dependent for its fertility on arterial drainage. Of this total 2,892,000 acres are situate in existing drainage areas, while the balance of 1,470,000 acres is outside any drainage district. So far they describe the geographical situation: The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has stated, moreover, that at least 1,755,000 acres of land are in immediate need of drainage\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-14", "file": "debates1940-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "bd57e7afce2bb518", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.908.5", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colville", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And land drainage.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colville", "preceding_text": "It may be well to remind the Committee that we are dealing with an emergency Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-14a.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-15", "file": "debates1940-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "25bf024a605241fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-15a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": " under this scheme. I apprehend that they are to have to pay back a fair sum for the use of the machinery or the services given them by the agricultural committees and, in addition, probably a sum in respect of interest on the capital sums which will have to be provided for the agricultural committees to buy the tractors, machinery and so forth which the agricultural committee is in possession of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-15a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-15", "file": "debates1940-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "25bf024a605241fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-15a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (POSTPONEMENT OF VALUATIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"1606.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ide of the House. A fundamental wrong in our rating system is the fact that it depends so largely on the taxation of improvements. I see that even the lateness of the hour does not drive my hon. Friend the Member for Burslem (Mr. MacLaren) from his post; he may elaborate that point at greater length. I am quite sure that, for the reasons I have given, a basis that depends on the structure of 1601—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-15a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The investigation of title to pensions will continue as at present, but the cost of, and all responsibility for, supplementary pensions will be taken over by the Assistance Board", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I will mention a good local authority, which I am sure will appeal to the hon. Member. I will give him the capital of the Empire, which has a Labour majority sitting on its council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why not £5,000,000?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "additional help. It may well be that there are many old age pensioners who are enduring privation rather than go upon the rates, and it is this further class that the proposals will bring in. The present cost to the local authorities is of the order of £5,250,000 a year, and the proposals in Part II of the Bill will benefit them, and through them the rates, to the extent of over £4,000,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is he going to give his full time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I was saying that we have obtained the services of Dr. Mallon, of Toynbee Hall, as a new member of the of the Board administering this legislation of the board administering this legislation that a very real safeguard against harshness or unsympathetic conduct is to be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1210.3", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Do you know the salary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "He is not an extra member. There has been a vacancy for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "ybody to go on public assistance. But what would that mean? We have been told by the hon. Member for Aberdare that the Glamorgan County Council are increasing the pension by 7s 9d. a week, for single men. But what would be the cost of a general scheme of that kind to the Exchequer? Neither hon. Members on that side nor hon. Members on this side would be able to foot the bill, even in normal times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "tance Board, the income of every person in the household has to be subject to inquisition, I can realise that in ever so many cases they will not do it. I think of households consisting of father, mother, and two daughters. The daughters are simply not having someone going to their office to inquire whether they are earning £2 15s. or £3 5s. a week as stated to the officer of the Assistance Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"New Zealand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I rise to congratulate the Government upon the introduction of this Bill. Hon. Members opposite have been criticising the Bill, but I would ask them, What other country in the world to-day is there, engaged in a grim struggle, facing such a grave emergency and such a colossal expenditure as this country, that would bring in a Bill of this kind to ameliorate the conditions of its people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "y and particularly in Scotland for many years. We have been bombarded with appeals from county councils, and other authorities in Scotland for relief from what was to them the intolerable burden of assisting old age pensioners. Hon. Members opposite have repeatedly echoed that appeal and properly so. Why do they not recognise that by this Bill a great step is about to be taken to meet that appeal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "him and to whom he has to unfold all his private affairs. That is a considerable strain on a proud people. It seems to me that it will make a profound difference to that old age pensioner if when he requires supplementation of his pension, he has to go to an official of a board stationed outside his town altogether and is not required to give away his private affairs to his friends and neighbours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And still will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "n having the supplementary pension, once made, paid thereafter through the Post Office. At present, the old age pensioner has to see the local public assistance officials perhaps many times. There is constant examination. The pensioner knows that the public assistance people are watching more or less all the time, and that he is always subject to what has been called the stigma of these inquiries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Surely it is better to have it once rather than many times. If the statement made recently by the Chancellor of the Exchequer means anything it means that the examination having been made once, then for all practical purposes the matter is settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Or suggested them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not say that any Minister used these words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not say that any Minister used these words. [An Hon. Member: \"Or suggested them.\"] On the contrary. If hon. Members will look at the Chancellor's statement of 23rd January they will find that he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Somerville", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Somerville", "preceding_text": "ance. I have heard for many years the same cry against the means test, but, after all, the means test is founded on common sense. You will find it in every walk of life. Trade unions use the means test principle. Hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to have very short memories. The means test was initiated by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood) when he was Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1275.5", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "sistance. What we do is to say to our officers, \"There is a certain scale laid down, which is the minimum; and anyone who claims that that minimum is not enough can come before a review committee, consisting of a few people, who will investigate the special circumstances of the case, and who can increase it.\" Public assistance is being administered, in many cases, more humanely than it was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1275.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1275.5", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "e laid down, which is the minimum; and anyone who claims that that minimum is not enough can come before a review committee, consisting of a few people, who will investigate the special circumstances of the case, and who can increase it.\" Public assistance is being administered, in many cases, more humanely than it was before. [ Interruption .] That is since Labour has got a seat on public bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1275.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "ive him testimony from Gateshead to show that the benefit is not imaginary. In order to be fair to the House and to myself I should say, first, that I have here a copy of a resolution passed by the public assistance committee in Gateshead. I need not tell hon. Members opposite that there is a Socialist majority on that body. It happens that I come from the strongest Labour constituency in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "ncy in England. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] That is what Mr. Ernest Bevin told me in 1931. He told me that he was to have been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Government that was supposed to come into office after that Election and that he had been made a certain kind of fool, because he was told that if he would contest the strongest Labour constituency in England he would have a safe seat for life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-20", "file": "debates1940-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "2c23ac9c5f4d0ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1306.3", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The increase here applies only to the contributory old age pensioner. Nobody will be entitled either to a pension at 65 or to a supplementary pension unless he is a contributor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-20a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1334.0", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And still are\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain)", "preceding_text": "do, when we have overcome that shortage, is to try to take such measures that it will not be likely to occur again. As to the third Question which the right hon. Gentleman put to me, I appreciate very keenly the hardships which have, unfortunately, been inflicted upon the domestic consumer, and I know that, in many cases, they must have suffered very much, especially in the extremely hard weather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The King's Ministers\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank my Noble Friend for her care for me, but I have every confidence in my Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Yes, but was not this action taken on pressure by the French Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he recognises the fact that both the Question and the answer are based on the fallacy that if the Government had taken over the manufacture of armaments that would have closed down all facilities for the private manufacture of armaments and that the course of events shows that the rate of production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbrugh)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Not much support.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbrugh)", "preceding_text": "almost led to leave out of our calculations how much each one of us honestly thinks can be done at this time. Hon. Members have congratulated us on this side that we have at any rate been able to take a step forward. We have produced a Bill some parts of which at any rate are approved by everyone in the House. As I stand here to take part in a Debate at this Box for the first time, I am supported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1402.1", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbrugh)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbrugh)", "preceding_text": "estly thinks can be done at this time. Hon. Members have congratulated us on this side that we have at any rate been able to take a step forward. We have produced a Bill some parts of which at any rate are approved by everyone in the House. As I stand here to take part in a Debate at this Box for the first time, I am supported—[An Hon. Member: \"Not much support.\"] The support is very great for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "r part in financing the flat rate increase provided it were reasonably generous, say, of the magnitude of 5s. a week. The workers, in other words, were willing, but neither of the other two parties were willing.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 20th February, 1940; col. 1298, Vol. 357.] I do not think that the workers would be willing to pay an extra contribution unless they were going to have an extra pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "There is a difference between saying to a person, \"If you go out of industry you will get £1 a week,\" and saying, \"If you stay in industry you will not even get 10s.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1417.0", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "anything good in the Bill, or would hon. Members opposite rather see it scrapped? I have listened to speech after speech from the benches opposite, and have not heard a single word in favour of the Bill. Therefore, I hope hon. Members opposite will answer that question. Secondly, if hon. Members opposite say that they are in favour of Part I of the Bill, would they prefer to have Part II scrapped?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"For the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "r and have carried a resolution against it. Another resolution has been sent tome from Bolton, which is represented by two Conservative Members, where they had a petition signed by 47,000 people protesting vigorously against the Bill. I want to know whether the Conservative Members will be candid enough to tell us where the constituencies are in which resolutions have been passed against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1442.2", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "y had a Trades Union Congress Conference in 1930 which demanded old age pensions of £1 at 60, and at another conference a few months later a similar resolution was again adopted. We know how the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood) blushed when an appeal was made to his generous heart to support this scheme. He was then holding the responsible office of Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1442.2", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "t entirely without completely revising the 1908 and 1924 Acts, for it is the first function of this income test to define the class of persons who so receive old age pensions by excluding from the provisions of the Act all those whose private means are sufficient for a reasonable standard of comfort in their old age. I accept that; I think it is a very sensible principle. But that is a means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Meller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Meller", "preceding_text": " the borders of London with over 100,000 constituents, and I have not had one letter from any of them. I have been in that constituency now for 17 years; I have fought five elections there, and the people are not afraid to send their complaints to me. The only letter I have received is from the South Wales Old Age Pensioners Association, and there is not a word in that letter about the means test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "n has centred very largely on the means test, and a good old chestnut was thrown on the Floor of the House again last night, probably in order to mislead hon. Members who have not been in the House since it was previously used. This is a question to which I must refer: The means test was initiated by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wake-field (Mr. Greenwood) when he was Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS 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": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood), has addressed the House with his customary vigour and eloquence, but I am bound to say that, listening to him with attention, it appeared to me that he was wholly on the defensive, and was particularly concerned to defend his own record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon)", "preceding_text": "calling upon us to reform the system on the date that the Prime Minister first promised an investigation. I see that the right hon. Gentleman, in a speech which was in many respects most moderate, twice over made this express point, that it would be a vast improvement, almost an unhoped-for improvement, if the whole of this burden which at present rests on the local authorities was so transferred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-21", "file": "debates1940-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d06d17b503648aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "I wanted to ascertain from the Assistance Board what in fact would happen if they applied their existing scales. I am not as familiar with the details as I dare say some hon. Mem- bers are. Information I have, official information, on the very point is enough for me to say that the merit of the Government's plan is that it does provide flexibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-21a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-22", "file": "debates1940-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b67bb5e8b9f734fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman who said he was not spiritually-minded. It is nothing to boast about. In this war we are not only fighting for ourselves, but for civilisation and the things that matter, and you cannot afford to let young men say of others, \"They are choosing their own time and have no Christian principles.\" I say that those people should be made to do jobs, and \"darned\" disagreeable jobs, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-22", "file": "debates1940-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b67bb5e8b9f734fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Sorensen", "preceding_text": "r work as conscientiously as the objectors themselves would desire. It is equally true, however, that there have been strange discrepancies and disparities in the decisions of tribunals. The Minister has had his attention drawn to the fact that, apparently, it is assumed that there are more genuine conscientious objectors in the Bristol area than in London. It does not seem to say much for London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-22", "file": "debates1940-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b67bb5e8b9f734fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Control.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have not suggested what form action should take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-22", "file": "debates1940-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b67bb5e8b9f734fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1676.3", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And fair wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Dorman-Smith", "preceding_text": "r any given time, but on the extra amount of food which is produced. If one goes to any gathering of farmers and talks to them about credit, nine out of ten will say the same thing. That is, \"It is not extra Government credit that we want. Give us fair prices for our produce, and then we will get all the credit we want.\" I agree, and we are determined that fair prices will be the order of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-22a.1676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Member: \"Ice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "I think we may reasonably congratulate the hon. Lady on the charming way in which she explained this Money Resolution. I noticed, however, that she skated over very thin ice very well indeed. She avoided all that was contentious in the Resolution, and perhaps she will, therefore, forgive me if I bring her down to earth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " her friends stand up here and say: \"See what we do in spite of the emergency. We provide this additional sum of money in spite of the vast sums which we are spending on the war.\" Let me tell them that the old people are asking this question, and I will ask it too: If it is difficult to find this money during a war, how comes it about that it is easy to find £6,000,000 or £7,000,000 a day for war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1746.3", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "A Hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that it was capable of being bought at all. What I intended to say was that the hon. Gentleman was echoing what had been said on the Front Bench. He himself may be there one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "iving them a lower rate if you give a flat-rate increase of 5s., while you will retain both the means test of the Board and the means test of the public assistance committee. The old people will be run to death going round in a circle among the offices trying to get a livelihood. Therefore I am against this talk of the 5s. flat-rate increase; but if you say a 10s. flat-rate increase I am with you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "n a deputation to me and carried the results of the conference to my room. He seems to have forgotten the terms of the resolution which he came then to carry. They were: That this conference is of opinion that the Acts relating to old age pensions should be amended so as to provide for the payment of adequate pensions and thus ensure that the recipients need not have recourse to public assistance\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ion which he came then to carry. They were: That this conference is of opinion that the Acts relating to old age pensions should be amended so as to provide for the payment of adequate pensions and thus ensure that the recipients need not have recourse to public assistance\"[ Interruption .] Yes, and I say to-night that we are asking the Committee to pass the Financial Resolution to carry that out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "e: That this conference is of opinion that the Acts relating to old age pensions should be amended so as to provide for the payment of adequate pensions and thus ensure that the recipients need not have recourse to public assistance\"[ Interruption .] Yes, and I say to-night that we are asking the Committee to pass the Financial Resolution to carry that out. [HON.MEMBERS: \"No!\"] Oh, yes, and which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "That is a very different thing from incorporating them in a Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1854.3", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "We have to deal with the broad outline of the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-26", "file": "debates1940-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "372052a013e5b8db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1855.1", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS [MONEY].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What are the rules?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I said the present rules of the Unemployment Assistance Board, which we hope to be able to improve upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-26a.1855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-27", "file": "debates1940-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "120cc38c2f8df239", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-27a.1889.5", "colnum": "1889", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that this is causing resentment, and the hon. Gentleman's statement is quite untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-27a.1889.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-28", "file": "debates1940-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "4031d62735945011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2126.1", "colnum": "2126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "It was my intention to allow everyone who wished to do so to speak. I have no desire whatever to avoid the argument and Debate which will be necessary if we are to bring the Bill through Committee with the assent of all Members instead of one or other section feeling that they have been voted down by a majority which has not fully appreciated the arguments that they have put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-28", "file": "debates1940-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "4031d62735945011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2127.0", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " show from the hon. Member's own speech that he is in error in that. He advanced the argument that the contributions should be lower, saying at the same time that he himself was opposed to any contributory scheme at all, and subsequently arguing that the contributions were all paid by the workers anyhow, so that it did not really matter whether they were found on one side of industry or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-28", "file": "debates1940-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "4031d62735945011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2127.0", "colnum": "2127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ertain people. How much more so in the case of women?\" The Committee can dispose of that argument, because time and again during the Second Reading Debate on all sides of the House it was said, \"We welcome Part I of the Bill.\" Can we take it, first of all, that the Committee is agreed that it is a good thing that the pension should be paid and that it should be paid at a lower age than at present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-28", "file": "debates1940-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "4031d62735945011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2130.3", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I think we find ourselves in a little difficulty if we go back again to the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-28", "file": "debates1940-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "4031d62735945011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2133.3", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " change is justifiable and why should one set of women have to pay 3d. and another set—through their husbands—have to pay 2d.? The answer is that the first set of women are getting the benefit of a pension at 60 and the other set get the pension at 62 plus. An increased contribution has, therefore, been charged for an increased benefit, and I think the whole Committee will agree that that is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-28", "file": "debates1940-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "4031d62735945011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2169.4", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Whom have you asked?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "reasons for believing that she will be no worse off during the actual period of sickness. I think that if a woman were asked whether she thought she would be better off with a pension of 10s. for life from the age of 60, or with no pension, but with sickness and disablement benefits, there is no doubt that she would prefer the pension. I have asked them over and over again which they would prefer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-28", "file": "debates1940-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "4031d62735945011", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2190.1", "colnum": "2190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"By the courts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "ubject of debate in this House whether \"may\" or \"shall\" shall be used. In innumerable cases, and more especially in the Section of the Unemployment Insurance Act which deals with these schemes, the word \"may\" has been used. If you now start varying it, and putting in the word \"shall,\" you rather throw a doubt on what has always been understood about the meaning of the word \"may\" in these Sections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-28a.2190.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2240.2", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell me, for my own personal information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2304.1", "colnum": "2304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e how the officials are going to do it without being regarded as the enemies and not the friends of the households into which they go. If the right hon. Gentleman has the future welfare of the Unemployment Assistance Board in mind, he ought not to impose these additional duties on the officers of the Board unless he is able to convince the Committee, which I am sure he has not yet been able to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2308.2", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "arisen and I do not want to raise it. I do not find in my personal investigations the difficulty that the hon. Member gave us as at all representative of Scotland. I have just come back from two considerable conferences with old age pensioners in Fife, and I can claim to speak for some hundreds of people whom I met. When these people that I talked to understood, as far as I was able to explain it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2312.1", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " they are going to give a grant, or that the applicant is someone with £100, which would be outside the Act, and the committee say they will give a grant. The committee could not do it, because the Excise officer would say, \"I am appealing on this to the central authority.\" Who is the central authority? I put this to the party proposing the Amendment, because under the Amendment that they propose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2317.2", "colnum": "2317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what we want to do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Maryhill must not constantly interrupt. The hon. Member for Gorbals has, I say, addressed arguments to the Committee which were not on the narrow lines of party. We are discussing a matter of the very greatest importance to many hundreds of thousands of old people, and it is desirable that it should be decided on its merits and not in the heat and passion of party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2318.1", "colnum": "2318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": ". Naturally, the broad general principle would have to be decided, and regulations drafted by the Board and laid before the House with the consent of the Minister. I suggest that that machinery will be not only more expeditious, but more fair and practical, than that in the 1936 Act, which was for dealing with 70,000 cases per annum, of which only 5 per cent. come to appeal on the ground of means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2319.1", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " the Committee of needs which were quite outside the statutory determination, which is all that the pensions committees have power to make. The case was given of a pensioner aged 72, bed-ridden, with a daughter of 49, who looks after her; rent 13s. 4d. The Board might need to give her, in addition to her 10s. pension, say, 23s. 6d. in summer and 25s. 6d. in winter, and that is a totally different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.0", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Let me say again that the hon. Gentleman has totally misconceived the argument which I am laying before the Committee. What I am saying is completely the opposite of the conclusions which he advances. I am saying that the body which has to determine the varying needs of the pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.4", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "No, the need is not determined by the means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.4", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "No, the need is not determined by the means. [ Interruption .] Everybody in the Committee will see that the needs are not determined by the means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.6", "colnum": "2321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "No. It is the needs of the applicant that stand between us. I have put what I consider to be a valid argument, and I think it should now be possible for the Committee to reach a decision upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2321.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2359.1", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colville", "preceding_text": ". George Hall), because he says that he regards this Clause as the kernel of the Bill. We do so too, because we believe it contains provisions for directing assistance to the places where it is most required. I know that the hon. Member and his friends feel strongly about this point, but he must also realise that in present circumstances the Bill must be regarded against the background of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2361.1", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colville", "preceding_text": " committees. Speaking generally, they have done their best to handle fairly and well the matters that have come before them. I am not speaking without knowledge, because I have met deputation after deputation from public assistance committees and I know that they have done their best. There are many old people who do not go to the public assistance committee and who will come under our provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2367.3", "colnum": "2367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "f the Committee by repeating the same points. I would merely ask my right hon. Friend for one or two assurances. I have said already that I think this Bill ought to be supported, and I believe that when it is understood it will be supported; but it will be supported by the mass of those simple people who are old age pensioners only if there are certain safeguards made abundantly clear in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be out of Order, and, therefore, I will gladly postpone raising that matter. There are certain things called \"disregards.\" If this scheme is to be successful, these disregards have to be somewhat generous. It is no use this scheme penalising thrift; if it does, then it is a bad scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2372.3", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "preceding_text": "You are not applying it to the 10s., but what we have argued for all along is an increase on the 10s., and you are putting it on the increase on that amount, which means the same thing. That is what the National Government said at the General Election they would not do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2372.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2372.4", "colnum": "2372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "preceding_text": " upon this, but it is crystal clear to me. The manifesto goes on to say: The question is not whether there should be a means test but what that test should be. They might have said on whom the test should be, but they did not put in those words. They go on to say: This matter is now under close examination but in any scheme great importance will be attached to maintaining the unity of family life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2389.5", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Army.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "not be to the serried ranks that are not in the Chamber, to those outside who are awaiting the Division bell in order to troop into the Lobby in support of the Government, on a case they have not heard and cannot defend. My appeal would be made to those who stay away. The Government's vote throughout these Divisions has been less than half of what they might have mustered. Where is the other half?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2391.3", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " We have been told, time after time, from that Box that this is not a party question. Therefore, the Government could not complain if these 200-odd Tory Members, who cannot vote for them because they believe them to be wrong, voted for us because they believe us to be right. Those Members would suffer no political consequences in doing so. Why do they not do it? I have only one other thing to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2391.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2393.1", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Morgan", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that there are other alternatives?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2393.2", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " pension, there may be granted to him a supplementary pension. That is what we are considering now, and hon. Members on the other side have suggested that the Clause should not be part of the Bill. The alternative to that is that the supplementation should still be given at the expense of the rates and under a means test which would be infinitely more stringent than the one to be put in force now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2393.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2393.4", "colnum": "2393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Maryhill (Mr. Davidson) is in error in suggesting that there are other issues before the Committee. I do not wish any Member of the Committee to shirk his or her responsibility when the Division bells ring and we go into the Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2393.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2394.2", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There would be no Bill.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "rocedure, knows that when you come to the Committee stage of a Bill you are dealing with it after it has passed its Second Reading and got its Financial Resolution. You are not dealing with an abstract position but with concrete facts. These are that supplementation shall be granted if Clause 8 is passed, and with the corollary that that supplementation cannot be granted if the Clause is rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2394.11", "colnum": "2394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Member to allow me to develop my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2394.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2395.3", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "We are discussing whether the supplementation should be changed from a local to a national charge. As every hon. Member knows; the practice differs very greatly between one local authority and another. I am extremely anxious not to be provocative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2398.1", "colnum": "2398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Minister, for the second time to-night in my hearing, has made a most unconvincing speech. I am sorry also that he should have made a statement which I think he may regret, to the effect that on this issue we on this side are voting against a supplementation of pensions. That is not true. We are voting for an all-round increase in the flat rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2398.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-02-29", "file": "debates1940-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "ea2fde13ab7305c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2401.1", "colnum": "2401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS'PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-02-29a.2401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-01", "file": "debates1940-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "420ca6a4593103fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-01a.2483.1", "colnum": "2483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON INDUSTRY BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Entwistle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Entwistle", "preceding_text": " in order to assist its export trade, it should not, on that ground, be deprived of any share of any general assistance given to industry as a whole. There is only another word. The Bill is apparently all that is to be passed in regard to the cotton trade during the war. The Cotton Industry (Re-organisation) Act has been put on the shelf, and some hon. Members are no doubt very pleased about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-01a.2483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-04", "file": "debates1940-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca89887202db9e08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Am I to understand that it is with the general assent of the Committee that the course proposed from the Chair should be followed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-04", "file": "debates1940-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca89887202db9e08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Am I to understand that it is with the general assent of the Committee that the course proposed from the Chair should be followed? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If hon. Members say \"No,\" I cannot do it. I will ask hon. Members again whether there is any objection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-04", "file": "debates1940-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca89887202db9e08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.73.8", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I think not. What we are doing now is to deal with the sums which are to be disregarded, either in the case of an individual or of a family, and to be considered as not existing at all. \"Well,\" hon. Members say, \"this is not a high enough sum.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.73.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-04", "file": "debates1940-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca89887202db9e08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "k on schemes of social reform which will make a great improvement in the position of all the citizens. That, I think, is conceded on all sides, and was conceded by Members on the other side when they considered the actual scales of flat-rate increase which might be granted. It was stated that a flat-rate increase on the full Labour party pension plan was not practical politics at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-04", "file": "debates1940-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca89887202db9e08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "e. I will choose, let us say, the figure which is disregarded in connection with National Health Insurance benefits. There we have a precedent and one on which we have worked successfully; that is to say, I suggest that we should disregard the first 7s. 6d. That would enable us to disregard completely the normal pension of the seamen's fund which was mentioned by the hon. Member for South Shields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-04", "file": "debates1940-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "ca89887202db9e08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Another mistake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "that you, Sir Dennis, will put first the Question that 5s. should stand part of the Clause. Everybody is agreed that the Minister made a mistake in suggesting \"5s.,\" and presumably \"5s.\"will be unanimously voted out of the Bill. I understand then that the Chair will put the Question that 7s. 6d. should be there inserted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-04a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "Am I to understand that the Minister considers that this building, which has a cement floor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": ". Member mentioned. I cannot give any exact description, because every authority is dealing with it differently. That is inevitable in this country. In Southampton, Manchester, and Liverpool I can think of four different methods of local education authorities helping voluntary bodies. We have to forego the camps and swimming baths which were to have come with the National Fitness Councils' grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " is this infinite variety, because you will never get a regimented movement in this country, that what I am concerned with is to turn this no man's land between 14 and 20 into a more fertile area where there will be vigorous and sensitive citizens in the making. If we get across that conception we can face up to the challenge of this period. I could say more about the work of the youth committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBEr: \"In November.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "ld have done. In the last Debate that we had on this matter it was actually the fault of this House that things in the education world had not happened as they should have done. Ever since that Debate there has been no excuse for the Board of Education in not taking a strong line. I remember the Debate very well; I did not speak in it myself, but I sat here and listened, and I was most interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It will fall down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "arly-completed schools not been completed? The hon. Member for Neath (Sir W. Jenkins) knows of a school in my division which, I believe, wants a little more timber and the expenditure of a few thousand pounds to complete. Neither the timber nor the money is to be found. That school is to remain empty as long as the war lasts. If it is a long war, there this school will be, uncompleted, at the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not think it is worth it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "preceding_text": "May I put this to the Committee? If it is a fact that the article in the \"Times'' is incorrect, why is it that nobody has taken the trouble to contradict it in the \"Times\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said there was no instruction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. W. Smith", "preceding_text": "A very short time of the day is taken for religious instruction and always at the beginning of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "is a good deal of indoctrination carried in the great public schools to-day and, as chairman of the Private Schools Departmental Committee, I had to inquire what these experiments were that it was alleged could not flourish in the State schools. We could not find any great experiment which had been originated in this century which had been started in any school other than a State-supported school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-05", "file": "debates1940-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2ff928bd5b85ccb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And if the medical officer does not turn up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "s and the provision of school meals have been discontinued, as some newspapers and some speeches we have heard would seem to indicate. It is not true. The position is that you have to build the medical service round an institution—that is, the school—unless you change the whole form of it. If the school is not being used, if it is not possible for the children to attend, or if some do not turn up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-05a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.411.9", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "things that the Jews dreamed for centuries of a national home. It was to permit, them to escape that we made the Mandate. These regulations are open, as the whole White Paper policy is open, to grave objections on moral grounds. During the last war, the Jews were very strong, and had great influence in many lands. We desired their help. It was to get that help that we made the Balfour Declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.411.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "many. Then why disturb that situation by introducing this controversial legislation? Hon. Members assert that this will upset the comparative harmony which has been established. My reply is that if we had not introduced these Land Regulations, that harmony would certainly have been disturbed before long; that these Regulations are essential if, over a long period, this harmony is to be maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why forced?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": " time indeed. What would have been happening in Palestine in the meantime? The draft of these Regulations would have been published; everybody would have known where the boundaries were to be. There would have been forced sales of land, and there might well have been such resentment at these forced sales of land on the part of the Arab population in general that they might have tried to stop them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "That will be said and what will be the answer? Is there any other part of the British Empire where legislation such as this exists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "Yes, I remember that. If I have under-stated the case, I apologise. I would remind the House of this undoubted fact, that during the operations the Arab world was under the impression that if Palestine was liberated, they would continue to live a free life there undisturbed. That is not putting it too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "preceding_text": "If I were convinced of that, there is no one who would be more delighted than myself, because it would open the way to my right hon. Friend not to impose these restrictions. But the point I was going to make was that no one who has studied the facts or who is acquainted with the people responsible for administration in Palestine can say that that case has not been established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "preceding_text": "d. That letter was answered by Lord Passfield—and I would not ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman, because I think these things are best kept confidential, whether his advice was or was not sought—but the fact remains that the answer repudiated the suggestion, and the Government, of which the right hon. and learned Gentleman was then a member, did not refer the White Paper to the Hague Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-06", "file": "debates1940-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5e26c08f382c7a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PALESTINE.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "allant Member also referred to the improvement in Palestine since the White Paper was issued. It is common ground that since war broke out there has been co-operation and a better feeling in Palestine, but those who have followed events in that country accept what the Colonial Secretary said that the improvement in Palestine started from the issue of the White Paper and its approval by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-06a.519.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-03-07", "file": "debates1940-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "5928c4192d334b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.549.4", "colnum": "549", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that non-designated milk is not only dirty, but tubercular, and ought to be dealt with in the same way as I am suggesting in this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.549.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-07", "file": "debates1940-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "5928c4192d334b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "entleman that, in spite of the faults of his not altogether lamented predecessors, the current production of Britain and France to-day is greater than the current production of Germany. That will be noted with great satisfaction in many quarters. I do not want to press too violently against a slowly opening door, but will the right hon. Gentleman amplify the statement he made with regard to types?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.606.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-03-07", "file": "debates1940-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "5928c4192d334b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "We shall all be worn out ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-07", "file": "debates1940-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "5928c4192d334b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATING AND VALUATION (POST-PONEMENT OF VALUATIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Etherton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Etherton", "preceding_text": "nt and the local authorities, but there are the ratepayers, the persons who have to find the money. Take the position of the London boroughs. They do not need very much sympathy. They are the collectors of the rates. They want these high artificial assessments to remain, but their heads are buried in the sand, like the ostrich. They will moan presently because of the London County Council precept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-07a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-08", "file": "debates1940-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "04b017ecc5d17906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "I should hope very much that I shall avoid unreasonable use of the Whips because the Whips, though they can solve a difficulty in the House, cannot solve a difficulty in the country. On more than one occasion I have made concessions in this Bill. I made one recent alteration in the Second Schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-08", "file": "debates1940-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "04b017ecc5d17906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "preceding_text": "Yes, getting them out is a trouble", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-08", "file": "debates1940-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "04b017ecc5d17906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ritson", "preceding_text": "een connected with mental institutions likes it. Apply it if you like to this House or to politicians, but not to decent people in institutions. I hope the Minister will listen to my appeal—whatever I may have said about his actions in the past because I know I protested against those three political moss troopers coming from Scotland to raid us. His ancestry is creeping through that smile of his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-08", "file": "debates1940-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "04b017ecc5d17906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The power is there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "the Amendments that have been placed on the Paper, many of which deal with this particular point. The Debate has taken place in general on Sub-section (3), and I think hon. Members have somewhat overlooked one or two of the points which I should like now to recall to the House before they finally decide. Let us first be clear about it. There is no question here of putting people into institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-08", "file": "debates1940-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "04b017ecc5d17906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is power to supplement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "and I think hon. Members have somewhat overlooked one or two of the points which I should like now to recall to the House before they finally decide. Let us first be clear about it. There is no question here of putting people into institutions. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The power is there.\"] No, that idea, I think, has led hon. Members a little astray. There is no power to put anybody into an institution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-08a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.856.9", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": " even if I turned aside now to give him a detailed explanation on the point which he has raised, it probably would not satisfy him as well as the explanations which were given during our discussions in Committee, if he had been present on those occasions. Briefly, I would say that the scheme for capital is the same as the scheme for savings at present enforced by the Unemployment Assistance Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.856.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.858.3", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "ir savings, to remove some of their possessions, to put some of their savings of capital into his black bag and carry them away. That is what we have been led to believe. But I think we can all agree about this—that the only change that is possible as a result of the visit of the person pictured by the hon. Member for Caerphilly as a bogy man, is an increase in the income of the old age pensioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.858.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": " their chance later and I do not want to take up too much time. I want them to have their full chance. We may have more pictures of bogy men, but I think they will find on examination that the bag will be empty when the bogy man goes away from the old age pensioner. The result of his visit will be that the old age pensioner may receive an increase in income, but he or she cannot suffer a decrease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Your people opposed it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I would remind the hon. Member that the Labour party were in office in 1929 when an amending Pensions Bill came before the House, and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood), who was Minister of Health, wound up the Third Reading Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Little", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Little", "preceding_text": "t because it is perfect, but because it is a great advance towards the fruition of the glorious realisation of ample provision for all of the good things of this life. We are marching on, and I support this Bill because we are on the march. The day is coming when the war will be over, when Hitler will have been put in his place, and we shall have our people provided for honourably and comfortably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Little", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Little", "preceding_text": "ent would present so helpful a Bill to the House? I support the Bill, first of all, because it meets a felt need. I have discovered, in moving about amongst the old people, deep thankfulness in anticipation of coming benefits. It brings encouragement and hope to many people who were giving up hope. I have only just finished writing a letter to an old lady in my constituency telling her to hope on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "f the Government could see to it that the work to be done by the Assistance Board is given to officers who would otherwise be displaced. I would ask whichever Minister is to reply to-night to give me some undertaking, even if he can go no further than to say that officers who are displaced will receive first consideration as far as possible, in connection with appointments to the Assistance Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.919.1", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Adam Maitland", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is a household means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Adam Maitland", "preceding_text": "bility for any financial Measures we introduce. I believe it will be found in time that the Bill has the approbation of old age pensioners. It is not true that the working people desire State aid to go into homes and families where it is not needed. The very people who would object to promiscuous grants by the State or by the local authorities are those who, hon. Gentlemen say, object to the test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "t down to £50 for 20 years, and at the end of that time the whole of that £50 would be disregarded, and his position would be static. I do not think that is penalising thrift. When you think that it would take 20 years to consume the £150 to a point at which all the rest of the capital would be disregarded, I do not think it can be said that that is an unduly hard or rigorous examination of means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-11", "file": "debates1940-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b85716327b9e11f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where was the Liberal Party?.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "se that social reform could not be entirely displaced. In the last Great War it was not only political reform that the House engaged upon. There was a great Education Act and a great Franchise Act. But no great reform bringing direct benefits to the homes of the people was put through that Parliament during the whole of that Great War, which lasted so long and brought so many changes in its train.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-11a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Smith", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.993.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I think that is done as a matter of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "are concerned. I need not point out that the conditions which may very reasonably govern these temporary service allowances and those which must govern permanent and continuing pensions are completely different from each other. This concession in this form is confined to allowances, and the question of pensions is being separately examined and considered by my hon. Friend the Minister of Pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ee little justification, which prevented the dependant receiving an allowance from more than one member of the Services. There is still the test of the household income and of the pre-war contribution of the soldiers concerned, but in principle, if there have been contributions from two members of the Services, and the household means justify it, two dependants' allowances may be in future issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "member of the Services. There is still the test of the household income and of the pre-war contribution of the soldiers concerned, but in principle, if there have been contributions from two members of the Services, and the household means justify it, two dependants' allowances may be in future issued. [ Interruption .] I say \"two\" although there may be circumstances where three would be possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Marvellous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "atisfy any court order which may have been obtained by the separated wife, and the assistance given to the dependant from Army Funds has to some extent, at any rate, been at the expense of the legal wife. I do not, and cannot, regard this position as satisfactory. In this dilemma the only person who could help me was the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he has been very generous in his assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Spears", "preceding_text": "Of course, it is the part the non-commissioned officer has to play, and it is one of his invaluable qualities that he is able to follow up his officer. Russia made the mistake of putting non-commissioned officers in the place of officers in the Russian Revolution, and the result was the peace of Brest-Litovsk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Four shillings, after the first child.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horabin", "preceding_text": "ttach a great deal of importance to this matter. As I understand the matter, the total allowance made under the present scale to a wife with four children amounts to about 35s. a week, including the 7s. allotment. That is made up, of course, of the 17s. for a wife, the 7s. allotment from the husband, and 5s. a week for the first child, 3s. for the second, 2s. for the third, and 1s. for the fourth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Markham", "preceding_text": "he ranks and the N.C.Os. and between the N.C.Os. and the officers. One of the greatest tributes one can pay to the War Office is that the Army has been made a thing of intense humanity, a living and fine force to which a man may be proud to belong. It is no longer, as it used to be regarded in certain quarters before the last war, something only fit for the rascals and scoundrels of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Markham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Markham", "preceding_text": "tween the N.C.Os. and the officers. One of the greatest tributes one can pay to the War Office is that the Army has been made a thing of intense humanity, a living and fine force to which a man may be proud to belong. It is no longer, as it used to be regarded in certain quarters before the last war, something only fit for the rascals and scoundrels of the community. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Markham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Markham", "preceding_text": "something only fit for the rascals and scoundrels of the community. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh, yes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I certainly shall not withdraw that, because I can remember distinctly what a disgrace it was considered in the country villages for a man to join the Army. He was looked down upon. It took some time for that attitude to pass in some of the rural districts of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "believe in \"stunts,\" but a great many people who read this regulation are rather horrified by it. It says: A woman who has lived with a soldier as his wife and is maintained by him on a permanent domestic basis for a period of not less than six months. This period may be modified in exceptional case with special War Office authority. It looks on the face of it, like an encouragement to immorality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "out the humanities?\" You can go too far with the humanities. No one wants to be hard, but we do not want to weaken the basis of civilisation, which is a decent home, for the sake of the humanities, and this House cannot afford to do it. I should like to know whether this rule is to apply now to all the men who join up. I should also like to know whether this applies to officers or only to the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Hall", "preceding_text": "ate, but, with the calling up of the age-groups of men from 20 to 24, it must be admitted that the large majority of the men who are going into the Forces at present are single. In the main, they had dependants, wholly or partially dependent upon them, before they were called up. These men have been drawn from industries and from the professions, and were, earning anything from£210s. to £5 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-12", "file": "debates1940-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "1e496da19b22ee57", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Sir Victor Warrender)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You would be disappointed if you received them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Sir Victor Warrender)", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend, but obviously it is much more simple to understand the information when it is set out in tabulated form. I think it would be almost impossible to get out a White Paper before the Report stage next Thursday. I was a little disappointed with the reception which these, what I would have called far-reaching changes, which my right hon. Friend has made received in the House this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-12a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-13", "file": "debates1940-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e40a1540f95ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that include new tonnage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "y of the shipping position as it affects the food supply. I agree with him that the two are inter-linked at every turn. The ship and the plough go together throughout the whole of this effort. From one point of view, the shipping situation is not unsatisfactory. At the end of six months of German ruthlessness upon the seas the net loss of our tonnage is only 230,000. That is a very small net loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-13", "file": "debates1940-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e40a1540f95ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the 'Queen Elizabeth'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Hoare", "preceding_text": "ogether throughout the whole of this effort. From one point of view, the shipping situation is not unsatisfactory. At the end of six months of German ruthlessness upon the seas the net loss of our tonnage is only 230,000. That is a very small net loss. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that include new tonnage?\"] It means our losses after deducting new tonnage, captures of enemy ships and other acquisitions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-13", "file": "debates1940-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e40a1540f95ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "ntion of forcing France and Britain to recognise the power and might of Germany in order to come to terms with them and to get justice for the German nation. That is what we have to offer to-night as an alternative to this horrible slaughter. The other day one of the leaders of the Labour party made a speech in which he said that he was prepared to sacrifice 1,000,000 young lives rather than face—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-13", "file": "debates1940-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e40a1540f95ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "we have to offer to-night as an alternative to this horrible slaughter. The other day one of the leaders of the Labour party made a speech in which he said that he was prepared to sacrifice 1,000,000 young lives rather than face—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"]. The right hon. Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood), at a sports club in London, as reported in the \"Daily Mail\" of 2nd February, 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-13", "file": "debates1940-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "5e40a1540f95ed4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1314.6", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four shillings!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " you are going to put up the price to the extent which is suggested, will you sell cream? Of course you will not. How does it affect the farmer? Instead of taking milk at somewhere about 6d. and 7d. a gallon for making butter, and there are 2½ gallons of milk for a pound of butter, you are going to charge 8d., 9d. and up to 1s. for milk for butter and what sort of price is going to be paid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-13a.1314.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-14", "file": "debates1940-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "413c3ab513022a4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-14a.1346.8", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that while some evacuated children are, no doubt, subject to the influence of persons of Fascist opinions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-14a.1346.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-14", "file": "debates1940-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "413c3ab513022a4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-14a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Brown", "preceding_text": "the morning shift or the afternoon shift, and then on the night shift, and it is wrong to put troops in at such places in those conditions. The practice is to knock at a door, get somebody up, and say, \"Here are two soldiers; you must put them up for the night.\" There is no general objection by the people to putting soldiers up, though I might point out that the pay is only 2d. per head per night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-14a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-14", "file": "debates1940-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "413c3ab513022a4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-14a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Brown", "preceding_text": "r. I only intervened in the Debate in order to say a few words, which, I hope, will have the effect of avoiding in future these irritations and annoyances which cause people to be generally dissatisfied with conditions. They can easily be avoided by better organisation and a better liaison between the Departments. Knowledge of geography, I think, is bad at the Department of the Ministry of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-14a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-15", "file": "debates1940-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "98575c51dab91c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-15a.1584.0", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House would be interested to know what was done in this respect in the last War. Had we repair depots in France?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-15a.1584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-15", "file": "debates1940-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "98575c51dab91c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-15a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "While the right hon. and learned Gentleman was pleading with the Bankes Commission to have a Minister of Munitions appointed, his party was voting against it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-15a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-18", "file": "debates1940-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "b3ab85f8b6a0e325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ocean-going steamers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "tleman back only a few days. I have been making careful inquiries into the subject, and this is my information. In the week ending 13th January, 14 ships were held up, the maximum delay being eight days. In the week ending 20th January, 17 ships were held up; in the week ending 27th January, 14; and in the week ending 4th February, 27 ships were held up and the maximum number of days' delay was n.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-03-18", "file": "debates1940-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "b3ab85f8b6a0e325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman say that that is being dealt with now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-18", "file": "debates1940-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "b3ab85f8b6a0e325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1709.1", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. Shakespeare)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Economic, not calorific.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. Shakespeare)", "preceding_text": "enhead (Mr. White); if as the war proceeds it becomes necessary for work to be turned over from naval construction to the construction of merchant shipping, that will be done. I agree that there may come a stage in the war when a merchant ship is almost a more precious thing than a warship. I would not like to estimate the calorific value of a merchant ship as compared with that of a capital ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-18", "file": "debates1940-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "b3ab85f8b6a0e325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is not the point he dealt with.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "I think my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State dealt with that the other night, and I think he said the equivalent of two divisions had already been released.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-18", "file": "debates1940-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "b3ab85f8b6a0e325", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "er for East Hull (Mr. Muff) said that Hull had no shipping in at all. It has to live mostly by its seed-crushing. That seed can come into Liverpool and be carried overland, and yet the Government cannot carry aeroplanes and important minerals for the prosecution of this war from London to their destination. The Government hazarded that ship and in the hazarding lost her through sheer incompetence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-18a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman once again look into this matter carefully, to make sure that this is not what I might call a wooden regulation, applying to one set of soldiers and not another? Will he, in particular, take this into account, that a man on leave for a week has to spend a certain amount of time on polishing his buttons and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1788.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1804.2", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EXCHANGE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Shaw", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in view of his answer, he will consider a request from the Bank of England? I have here a letter from the Bank of England which says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1804.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1808.3", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMPULSORY SAVINGS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that opinion in commercial circles is increasingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1836.1", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Norway and Sweden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ources in manpower were sufficient, in his opinion, to last until the thaw came. He did, however, say that he would be very glad to have some 30,000 men in May, but he stipulated that they should be trained soldiers. I ask the House to bear in mind those two facts—30,000 men, to arrive in Finland in May. At the same time, we were given to understand that both Finland and Sweden were nervous about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1856.3", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ted entirely on the Finns. I repeat the phrase \"technical responsibility,\" because if you are at war and are helping people to fight for their lives against an enemy on their territory, it is not enough to stand on a question of technical responsibility. If you have made common cause with a country, it is your duty to see that everything is done to get the stuff there, and to get it there in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1858.4", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ys that the Government's critics do not say in what direction they would seize the initiative; but everybody agrees that we cannot possibly discuss strategy in open debate. I am satisfied that everybody would be willing to put his ideas at the disposal of the Government if the Government wished to have a private Session for the purpose. The Government, the Prime Minister says, will not be hustled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1858.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "tions in Finland, the date on which Germany could have obtained the material advantages of her partnership, and particularly oil, was being postponed. To the extent, therefore, that it was in the interests of Germany to break down the resistance of Finland, it was in the interests of the Allies to maintain it. Was it, however, a practicable proposition to send the forces necessary to save Finland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You were a member of the Government,\" and \"What did you do about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "another, were to find, through unchecked German influence and persuasion, a common point of contact against the democracies. The Empires of Britain and France are the strongest entities in the world; they are unbeatable. But to carry their cause to victory they must not only be strong; they must show their strength. It is not enough to have a righteous cause. Czecho-Slovakia had a righteous cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1879.1", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "Government as a whole. The Prime Minister made, in his speech to-day, a most eloquent appeal to the neutrals. I hope and pray that the neutrals may heed it, but I am sure that small nations and neutrals would pay much more attention to such an appeal if it were directed to them by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Dominions or my right hon. Friend the First Lord of the Admiralty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. Member his answer. I think that if in face of all the strategic considerations we were to hurl the youth of this country upon the Siegfried Line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1900.1", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member would agree that there can be no question that the Poles were under the impression that, by their military power, they could keep up their end for a long time until we exerted pressure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "I do not want to range all round the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1902.5", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "will be remembered that before the war Hitler said that he had spent, I think, £7,500,000,000 on re-arming that country. If anyone thinks that the neutral nations will survive this war by standing independently, he is making a great mistake. The time has come to send out a call to all who are seriously opposed to aggression. We should lift the whole question above personal or party considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1908.1", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member. I wish that some resolution of this House perhaps could at some time be taken urging papers of that sort to remember their responsibilities at the present time. I do not see why we should not do more to make the thing dramatic. Here we have Hitler and Mussolini meeting, with these great headlines all over the place. Why do not we do something? Why not send Lord Halifax to Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Drifters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "preceding_text": "t shocks me to hear the way, when anything goes wrong, people turn round and tell him that he must take up such things as the coal shortage. Near the battleship I seem to detect one battle cruiser, not exactly a streamlined vessel, but a formidable ship which delivers powerful broadsides against the \"Nazis.\" But when I look at the rest I am bound to say that the picture is not quite so impressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "t of Spanish democracy, is enough to satisfy anyone that what we heard from him to-night is merely hyprocrisy of the worst character. What I am concerned with, after hearing the Debate, is what appears to me the almost complete collapse of political morale in this House. The Prime Minister to-day—and hon. Members cheered him—talked about sending 50,000 young British lads to their death in Finland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " this House and make such a statement. He ought to have said that owing to the corruption of the British and French Governments, Germany was free on her Eastern front. If the Prime Minister, or the Under-Secretary, is prepared to deny that, why have the Government not published a White Paper on the negotiations with Russia? If the proposals of Russia had been accepted there would have been no war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "n the negotiations with Russia, and we always got the answer that the Government had received a report from their representatives and that they were sending fresh instructions. That is the sort of thing which went on. It became clear to the leaders of that great Socialist country that hatred of Socialism was preventing an understanding, and Russia thereupon made a non-aggression pact with Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1915.1", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ent sent back a note that was exceptionally cynical. They said that they would make an investigation into the artillery firing, but that they were satisfied that the firing was not from the Finnish side of the frontier and that it was from the Soviet side. We were asked to believe that the Soviet Union brought artillery up to the Finnish frontier, turned it round, and fired on their own territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1917.0", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Now that peace has been made in Finland, it is possible for a. new life to start for the Finnish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ember an occasion when I was sitting in the Public Gallery one evening listening to the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs speaking from the Government Front Bench and talking about a deputation that had come down from the Clyde at the time when the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs and others were deported. The righthon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs at that time referred to me as a fanatic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1919.4", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They call up in Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "A wrong impression, which is the fault of the hon. Member. If he will look at the Official Report for 2nd September he will find that I said, in connection with the calling up of the lads of this country, that under no circumstances could I support it under such a Government or under the control of such a Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1919.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-19", "file": "debates1940-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f27c061938ff92ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1935.1", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 1) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "s country, and I hope there are none left in Mayfair, in the drawing-rooms where Ribbentrop was once received as a gentleman. I hope the number of persons who are still taken in by the so-called peace terms which this German tyrant might offer has now diminished to vanishing point, but, in case it has not, I should like to say, on behalf of my hon. Friends and myself—the vast majority at any rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-19a.1935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-20", "file": "debates1940-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7dfc411426d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-20a.2051.1", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIETIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "preceding_text": "in question concerning which I know practically nothing, except what I read in the report of the Registrar-General. Of one of the societies that was absorbed by the society that I have mentioned, the Registrar-General reported that the directors received payments representing about 61 years' salary, and that the secretary of the absorbed society received the equivalent of his salary in perpetuity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-20a.2051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-20", "file": "debates1940-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7dfc411426d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-20a.2053.1", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIETIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If the Registrar-General agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "tings and the continuation of officers for long periods. I do not accept the view that it is impossible to collect votes because of the war emergency. The temptation to accept the provisions of Clause 1 enabling me to continue in office might be very great. I am the chairman of my union and I am due to retire in the next few months, and this Clause, I suppose, would allow me to continue in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-20a.2053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-20", "file": "debates1940-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "6ae7dfc411426d12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-20a.2059.3", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIETIES (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "t is one unfortunate member who is injured or a dozen unfortunate members. But provision is made so that trade unions, if they wish, can alter their rules and pay benefit to those members who are injured as a result of war conditions. It is quite competent for a trade union at their next revision so to amend their rules that they can incorporate this liability in their rules and pay their members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-20a.2059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-21", "file": "debates1940-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecae18725c2269a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2100.2", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I am making the contention that there is a bad and rotten method—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-21", "file": "debates1940-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecae18725c2269a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2102.6", "colnum": "2102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that it is necessary for skilled aeroplane workers to be able at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-03-21", "file": "debates1940-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecae18725c2269a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2105.3", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOTBALLERS (SCHEDULING).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister in making inquiries elicit the fact that a director of this firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2105.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-03-21", "file": "debates1940-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ecae18725c2269a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2131.5", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE (JEWS AND ARABS, ENLISTMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "May we take it that this sets out the relative standard of loyalty of the two?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-03-21a.2131.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-02", "file": "debates1940-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "10e450671e660023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.52.7", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "preceding_text": "ection of the community he will spread his benefits well in all quarters; but we are not satisfied that that will be the case at the present time. Therefore, this Amendment is brought forward to ventilate certain aspects of that approach to the problem. As I indicated at the outset, I have not come here—to misquote Shakespeare—to badger Caesar but to raise him in the public esteem of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.52.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-02", "file": "debates1940-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "10e450671e660023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.64.7", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "start. Look at what has happened with regard to meat. You have taken all the best meat for the Services, and have told housewives that they must take the poorer cuts of home-produced meat if they are to feed their families at 1s. 10d. a head per week. Home-produced meat is dear, and the price of that affects the whole lot. It is a pity that there is no representative of the Board of Trade present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.64.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-02", "file": "debates1940-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "10e450671e660023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I do not want to argue about details of that kind with the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-02", "file": "debates1940-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "10e450671e660023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.97.3", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "f argument which is put up as to the basis on which you should get it, that you should pay whatever the farmer demands. I do not believe that that is the farmers' view. I believe the farmers as a whole are much more patriotic. On the present basis you are creating the impression in the mind of a large number of townspeople that the biggest profiteering section at the moment is the farming section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.97.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-02", "file": "debates1940-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "10e450671e660023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is that the hon. Gentleman in front?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": " substitutes? The substitutes for the rationed foods are the commodities which the people are buying to-day, and if those are the foods upon which the people are having to live surely those are the foods which should be controlled. I particularly want to know what factors determine these controlled prices. In order that I should be well informed on this subject I spent last evening with my grocer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-02", "file": "debates1940-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "10e450671e660023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Cheese.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "which my grocer had very well displayed, and I put myself in the position of the woman who came in to buy substitutes for rationed foods. I looked down the list saying to myself \"What shall I buy as a substitute for the rationed meat?\" and I observed among the controlled foods that the only foods that any wise woman could buy as a substitute for meat were tinned salmon, sausages and imported eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-02", "file": "debates1940-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "10e450671e660023", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Six foot six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "picture of him going up and down the country telling mothers how good margarine is. That speech must have been made somewhere because so many of us have the same impression. I do not believe that the Parliamentary Secretary has ever had a taste of margarine in his life. I know that he could never have been brought up on margarine, otherwise he would never have attained the height of six foot four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-02a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-03", "file": "debates1940-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "e9ce694c14cee7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-03a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Colonel Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Colonel Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith)", "preceding_text": " Without going into any great detail I may say that, broadly, their objections are these: They contend that any wage-fixing machinery must be sufficiently elastic to take account of the many differences in farming practice and farming conditions, the productivity of the soil, and so on, which are to be found up and down the country. There is no doubt that the amount of profit which a farmer makes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-03a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-03", "file": "debates1940-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "e9ce694c14cee7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-03a.186.4", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": " few weeks of starvation. The Government had to legislate in more ways than one to succeed in their campaign to produce more food and the agricultural labourer was embodied in the Corn Production Bill. The Minister referred to the establishment of the Central Wages Board, and I agree that wages crept up to 46s. in 1920, but the moment the emergency was over the agricultural labourer was forgotten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-03a.186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-03", "file": "debates1940-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "e9ce694c14cee7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-03a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) AMENDMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Morgan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And feed the ploughman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Morgan", "preceding_text": "see how some of these great industries are treating their people. The other day I saw a set of working people's houses, beautifully arranged in ideal conditions and with good sanitary conditions. With the sanitary conditions which exist in the country you cannot possibly expect people to stay there. The best way to speed the plough is to house the people properly and pay them a good rate of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-03a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-04", "file": "debates1940-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "28fdfdc7af483569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some children's benefit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "have this £1,100,000available for use at the time. The Government have decided to accept all the proposals of the Statutory Committee, and the House is being asked to-day to approve the terms of the draft Order. I know that hon. Members in all parts of the House will share in the pleasure which my right hon. Friend and I have in being able to make a proposal which increases the children's benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-04", "file": "debates1940-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "28fdfdc7af483569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "nt will be greater and unemployment less. I do not think it is quite fair to assume that the right financial policy, although it may be a strictly correct financial policy, is that so much as £37,000,000 of the balance of the Fund should be devoted towards the payment of debt in one year. Although I recognise that in this matter the House has no alternative but to accept the Committee's proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-04", "file": "debates1940-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "28fdfdc7af483569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "This has been going on persistently and constantly and it is a record in which I can take nothing but pride.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-04", "file": "debates1940-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "28fdfdc7af483569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.399.3", "colnum": "399", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " must. Some say that unless you do something—something unspecified, on some big, broad imaginative plan, something as enthusiastic as what the hon. Member for North Camberwell (Mr. Ammon) proposed, namely, the reconstruction of the whole social and economic system—there will be unemployment. Anyone reading the report of the Debate to-morrow will find that these views have not been very consistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-04", "file": "debates1940-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "28fdfdc7af483569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ed between January and July is 450,000 greater than the normal decrease in the normal years when decreases have taken place in the 10 preceding years. That is a very remarkable fact and, although I do not want to belittle the enormous effect on employment of the expenditure on armaments, it is not true to say that it is solely due to that.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd August, 1939; col. 2694, Vol. 350.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-04", "file": "debates1940-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "28fdfdc7af483569", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.404.5", "colnum": "404", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACTS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does make a very big difference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "telling the House that I thought the time had arrived when there should be any alteration in the general arrangements, under the Anomalies Act, for married women. In the first period of the operation of the Anomalies Act, 134,000 married women came off benefit. The majority did not return to the exchanges. Of course, conditions may change; the impact of war on women's labour may make a difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-04a.404.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-09", "file": "debates1940-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ba916336db71f162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.510.10", "colnum": "510", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister any information with regard to the alleged occupation by Germany of Bergen and Narvik? It is obviously in the minds of Members as a whole that it is a remarkable thing that this expedition should have taken place while the British Fleet held the seas. No doubt, in due course some explanation of that will be given; but at the moment it is extremely puzzling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.510.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-09", "file": "debates1940-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ba916336db71f162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.510.10", "colnum": "510", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "inds of Members as a whole that it is a remarkable thing that this expedition should have taken place while the British Fleet held the seas. No doubt, in due course some explanation of that will be given; but at the moment it is extremely puzzling. [Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] It is all very well to say that; but it is a very astonishing and startling thing, and it is just as well that it should be said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.510.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-09", "file": "debates1940-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ba916336db71f162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.510.10", "colnum": "510", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "en the Russian attack on Finland took place there was an immediate meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. The British Government took part in that meeting, and wholeheartedly supported the resolution that was passed against aggression. I am quite sure that the British Government would desire to treat all aggression alike, and the question I am putting to the Prime Minister on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.510.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-09", "file": "debates1940-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ba916336db71f162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "nd now that disaster is threatening to come on the whole of Europe I want to ask, whether it is possible to get this House, representing as it does the people of the country seriously to discuss a complete change of Government in order to get a Government that will seek to save the young manhood of this country and bring the war to a speedy end, instead of concerning itself with spreading the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-09", "file": "debates1940-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ba916336db71f162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " of the country seriously to discuss a complete change of Government in order to get a Government that will seek to save the young manhood of this country and bring the war to a speedy end, instead of concerning itself with spreading the war. [ Interruption. ] I ask the Prime Minister whether it is not the case that he himself declared in this House that war brings no gain either to the victim or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-09", "file": "debates1940-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ba916336db71f162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "se of the German attack on Poland, we used our full resources, and in the case of the attack on Finland we passed a resolution at the League and did give a certain amount of material help, while we were ready to give more. In this case now, we are going to do all we can, but there is another act of aggression which is going on in the world to-day, and that is the Japanese aggression against China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-09", "file": "debates1940-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "ba916336db71f162", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY AND DENMARK.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "re going to do all we can, but there is another act of aggression which is going on in the world to-day, and that is the Japanese aggression against China. [ Interruption. ] It is all very well for Members to jeer at that. While agreeing about first things first, I none the less feel that those hon. Members who jeer should hold it in mind that this country will not understand it if the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-09a.514.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-04-10", "file": "debates1940-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a99ab28bcee143d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.544.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-04-10", "file": "debates1940-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a99ab28bcee143d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I do not know as much about beer as you do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-10", "file": "debates1940-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a99ab28bcee143d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICE (ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " for my friends. That is a matter on which I have been tremendously scrupulous during the whole of my Parliamentary life. I do not think I have ever asked for any advantage for anybody in any public service. I did say a word, however, to the Prime Minister about the right hon. and gallant Gentleman on one occasion, but that could scarcely be described as trying to secure privileges for my friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-10", "file": "debates1940-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a99ab28bcee143d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.658.5", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICE (ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " do with examinations will know what might happen if candidates had to go to a shelter and came back again. That is why I press this consideration in the case of competitive examinations as opposed to qualifying examinations. Some hon. Members have suggested that there is no difference. Supposing that in one of these places there is an air raid. It may be said that that it is a remote possibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.658.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-10", "file": "debates1940-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a99ab28bcee143d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL SERVICE (ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I do not think so, because people are not compelled to go to football matches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-10a.661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-11", "file": "debates1940-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8773e55cd13c01a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-11a.733.13", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE WAR AT SEA.", "cue_speaker": "The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "e selected as the first victim or when the blow would be struck remained, inevitably, a matter of pure speculation. The Nazi German Government is accustomed to spreading through its channels a continuous flow of threats and rumours. These are put forth by all their agents in neutral countries, by the \"hangers-on\" of their legations and by their sympathisers and backers, wherever they may be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-11a.733.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-11", "file": "debates1940-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8773e55cd13c01a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-11a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE WAR AT SEA.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Churchill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "k by the fact that those who have shown courage in opposition and independence of mind, who have criticised where they thought criticism was needed, even when they have done it without any suspicion of malice, and taking risks of their future career, have been blackballed. Not one of them has been put into the Ministry. I am speaking entirely of the Members of parties which support the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-11a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-16", "file": "debates1940-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9c357ee6886fb198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "f Germany. In the case of steel, for instance, the combined figure of Great Britain and France for steel production in 1938 was something over 16,000,000 tons of ingot steel. In Germany, the production was 23,000,000 tons. In the case of aluminium, the pre-war production of Germany—I do not know what her present production is—was 2½ times the combined production of Great Britain and France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-16", "file": "debates1940-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9c357ee6886fb198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "olours. I have no powers there—it is not my duty—but I have certain obligations in connection with the process, and I may perhaps tell the Committee what the machinery is, for I have helped, in happy co-operation with the Service Departments, to work the machinery out. The illustrations drawn by the hon. Member were both from the Territorial Army. I beg the Committee to be level-minded about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-16", "file": "debates1940-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9c357ee6886fb198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": " War in 1936 gave a pledge to work out a machinery for a comb-out of the Territorial Army after embodiment. This is the scope of the comb-out; that soldiers whose occupation was reserved at ages 18, 21 or 23 who were at or above the age of reservation should be returned to industry unless employed with their units in the corresponding military trade. I am not inclined to go back on that principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-16", "file": "debates1940-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9c357ee6886fb198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And in coal mining.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "rial life. The sequence is this: design, orders, material, continuity of orders, and at all stages labour. Labour, highly skilled and specialised, goes into design at the very beginning of the process. It is that process that we have to see working in production. Movement of labour takes place in thousands, in innumerable factories, workshops and shipyards, and right through the whole of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-16", "file": "debates1940-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "9c357ee6886fb198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Assheton)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Four years!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Assheton)", "preceding_text": " done so, because it has given him the opportunity of saying a great many things which for some time he has wished the House of Commons to hear. I am sure, also, that the Minister is very grateful to the hon. Baronet for what he said about him, and particularly for the suggestion that he should be given a second chance. I do not know whether that means another five years, like President Roosevelt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-16a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-17", "file": "debates1940-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c2103f5b3e3bfa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURAL WAGES (REGULATION) (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"There is the question of prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ching at the surface of the problem of agriculture in Scotland. Secondly, it is a lamentable commentary on the condition that we have allowed agriculture to get into, that if is only when we get war that we get this particular development. One is entitled to ask, if it has been possible to plough this land during the last few weeks, was it not possible to plough the land during the past few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-17", "file": "debates1940-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c2103f5b3e3bfa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "nt through so much evidence and took so much pains to read, hear, and present in an ordered form these propositions to the House. But we are now under conditions in which planning, control, authority is being exercised to an extent which none of the signatories to the report could possibly have envisaged when they started upon their labours and we shall be foolish if we do not take full advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-17", "file": "debates1940-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c2103f5b3e3bfa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Anything which anyone objects to is not planning. What we like is planning. What we do not like is chaos. The fact is that these matters are being carefully gone into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-17", "file": "debates1940-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c2103f5b3e3bfa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": ", reduction of transport costs, and an ample labour supply. There are also the amenity points to which the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street referred, in passing and rather harshly not to say with some contempt, such as that wives preferred to be near towns, shopping centres and amusement facilities. You cannot get away from the fact that the choice of the woman is a very important thing nowadays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-17", "file": "debates1940-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c2103f5b3e3bfa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who decides?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " done: the Admiralty, the Air Ministry and the War Office; the Ministry of Agriculture; the Ministry of Labour; the Scottish Office; the Ministry of Transport; the Office of Works, and the Ministry of Health. All that is being done now. Every one of those Departments has to be consulted before a new factory is sited. It may be said, after all that consultation, that the siting is not satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-17", "file": "debates1940-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c2103f5b3e3bfa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "s; if the Ministers cannot decide then the Cabinet make their decision. A Minister is only a Minister. Even the hon. Member's suggestion would not give a Minister the power of finally deciding on a matter over the heads of the whole Cabinet. If sites have to be found all those Departments are consulted, and therefore I say that the suggestions of the Commission have been put into effect, and more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-17", "file": "debates1940-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c2103f5b3e3bfa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is very casual.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "abinet. If sites have to be found all those Departments are consulted, and therefore I say that the suggestions of the Commission have been put into effect, and more—[ Interruption ]. Hon. Members opposite do not agree that this is done well; they say that the whole thing is chaotic and that the Departments do not know what they are doing. There is machinery suggested in the Commissioners' report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-17a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-18", "file": "debates1940-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "200ae8b7873d0de7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-18a.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "Has there been consultation between the various parties on this question? Does not this affect national unity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-18a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-18", "file": "debates1940-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "200ae8b7873d0de7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-18a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister in a position to deny the statements made in that article?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-18a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPOSED LEGISLATION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " the law now stands, although the allowance per child is deducted only once, when the parents are living together—of course, the husband is, in that case, assessed both for himself and for his wife—if they are separated, either by decree of divorce or by agreement, cases may arise in which the allowance is deducted twice for the same child, once on the father's assessment and once on the mother's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPOSED LEGISLATION.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": ", both of the country and of this House, that if, as an outcome of a period when many people are making sacrifices which no money can measure, while some may come out of the war greatly impoverished there emerge after the war a minority of individuals to whom the war had brought nothing but colossal fortunes, Parliament would never pass such a situation by without effective and appropriate action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEER.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The beer will?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In the case of beer, the increase on beer of average gravity will be roughly equivalent to a penny per pint, but for reasons of revenue protection connected with the very complicated formulas under which this duty is charged the new rate of duty will be expressed as 65s. per bulk barrel plus 2s. 6d. per degree of gravity above 1,027 degrees. It will take effect from to-morrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "m informed that in some quarters there has been a hesitation in making full use of the opportunities for small savings on the ground that, in the event of the individual hereafter losing his employment and continuing unemployed until he is obliged to apply for unemployment assistance, his war savings might be taken into account in determining the amount of assistance to which he would be entitled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC COMPANIES (LIMITATION OF DIVIDENDS).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about private companies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " sustain the industries in the very difficult period of adjustment which will follow at the end of the war. They are far less valuable if they are used for increased distributions into the hands of shareholders who may be tempted to devote a good deal of them to purposes of consumption. I propose accordingly to provide for the limitation of dividends paid by public companies during the war period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.127.3", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY RATES AND FARES (INCREASE).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Wallace", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman thinks the increase justified, so much the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.127.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY RATES AND FARES (INCREASE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I well understand the surprise of my hon. Friend, but the Minister made the agreement, and that is what he says. If it is to be interpreted as meaning that under the agreement, if working costs are up by £10,000,000, notwithstanding the fact that gross receipts are up by £20,000,000, the companies are entitled to a further £10,000,000 from the users of the railways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY RATES AND FARES (INCREASE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Not even the railway directors in the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "preceding_text": "ry-pokery, in the dark, on the basis of an agreement which Parliament has never even seen and as to which it was misled by the terms of the White Paper and the Minister's explanation. There is not a single Member of the House who, on the day when the White Paper was approved, really thought that the railways would get their increased costs without any question as to what the increased revenue was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-23", "file": "debates1940-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "516d9e8b208f4af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAILWAY RATES AND FARES (INCREASE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "As the Opposition always do when it suits them. There is a considerable misconception as to the nature of the Railway Rates Tribunal. It is argued by the hon. Member for Clay Cross as if in some way it represented the voice of the user.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-23a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-24", "file": "debates1940-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "aa3092812f723a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-24a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "material the home trade will be restricted but you do not help the export trade by abstaining from a purchase. In what way do the 6,700 people now unemployed in Croydon, 1,200 more than a year ago help the export trade by not pursuing their normal economic lives? A lot of nonsensical economics is being talked, as much from our own side as from the other side. There seems to have been a conspiracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-24a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-24", "file": "debates1940-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "aa3092812f723a92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-24a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "CLEARING OFFICE (SPAIN) AMENDMENT ORDER, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald South by", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald South by", "preceding_text": "d I hope we shall not be—in operations east of Gibraltar. There were those who some time ago, were rather Jeremiahs as to what might happen in Spain at the end of the civil war. We have seen a Spain which, I believe, is settling down with traditional friendship for the people of this country, a Spain which can contribute a great deal in the fight that we are making for freedom at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-24a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-25", "file": "debates1940-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9b9d2b4e64486a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are two archbishops.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "and. I have been doing my best to lend it wings and to help it to travel. He said that we must have no more five-figure incomes in this country, either in war or in peace. When I turn to the financial statement issued by the Chancellor two days ago, what do I find? The last time I referred to this matter an hon. Gentleman opposite said there were no five-figure incomes left. No one says so to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-25", "file": "debates1940-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9b9d2b4e64486a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "as uttered in good temper, but I do not think I have ever listened to a more surprising speech than that he has just delivered. He said it is not right that we should compare our war effort with that of Germany or that of France, that we should remember we have Canada, Australia, South Africa, and everybody else to rely on and that they should bear the burden which the Chancellor refuses to carry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-25", "file": "debates1940-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9b9d2b4e64486a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ugh these figures. If he did not do so, he was neglecting his duty. If he went through them, can he challenge them? That being so if his optimism is not justified, when will he face up to the real situation, and when he does, what will he do? What system is he going to adopt? He can adopt one of about five or six systems. He can adopt the French remedy of taxation of wages and the fixing of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-25", "file": "debates1940-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "b9b9d2b4e64486a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Did he not torpedo it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "s its true value and so be able to see things in the light of reality and in true proportion. I was delighted to hear the Chancellor of the Exchequer torpedo the Keynes plan of compulsory savings. As I will not exaggerate, or say what is not exactly correct I must add that the right hon. Gentleman thought the Keynes plan inapplicable to the position at present, but did not turn it down altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-25a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-30", "file": "debates1940-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "9409de098efaa962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-30a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (SUPPLEMENTARY ALLOWANCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Another threat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "is that the Bill does not contain provision for single men and women and fails to recognise what is described as the admitted necessity for an immediate all-round increase. I should make it clear to hon. Members opposite, if it is not already clear, that if their Amendment is carried, this Bill is dead, and it might be many months before any satisfactory Measure could be found to put in its place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-30a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-04-30", "file": "debates1940-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "9409de098efaa962", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-30a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (SUPPLEMENTARY ALLOWANCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "s the sort of plan that hon. Members have in mind, I should like to point out that the highest percentage increase theoretically possible would be 33⅓ per cent. To add more than 33⅓per cent. would bring the compensation for loss of earnings to a figure in excess of the earnings themselves in the case of workers at the lower end of the scale—an absurdity that no one has yet suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-04-30a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. South by", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. South by", "preceding_text": "May I ask, in that case, whether my hon. Friend will discuss with the First Commissioner of Works the advisability of taking over this hotel and running it for these officers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.754.5", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ays, I think, a mistake for Chancellors of the Exchequer to declare months or years in advance what they are going to do. I remember that the late Lord Snowden, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, made that mistake in 1930. He announced that it was not his intention to make further increases in taxation in the following year. I thought at the time that that was a very grave error of judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.792.7", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Simon", "preceding_text": "e is one which we ought to include in our armoury of taxes. As for the way in which the tax will be applied, it is plain that we must apply it in this way. We cannot by passing the Purchase Tax Act on a particular day provide that when the Royal Assent is given the tax shall start. If we did anything of that sort, there would be a forestalling of the most prodigious character all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.792.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"She would get the Queen's bounty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "th-rate has been lamented. We are saying to every young wife, \"Directly you have a baby we shall tax you,\" whereas another person who does not have a baby will not be taxed. There is no exemption even on bassinettes, such as was advocated by an hon. Member opposite, and there is no exemption on baby clothing. If the baby turns out to betwins or triplets, it would be a tragedy for the young mother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": ", is only a subject for sheer derision. There are ways and means of raising taxes without harassing the public, and without creating a battalion of bureaucrats, making life unbearable for the ordinary wealth-producer in the country, and exacting a vast volume of expenditure and bringing very little back to the Treasury. There is something I will not mention because all the House knows what I mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "000 any proposal to make a tax of this kind operate at the extreme end of the transaction would be so unpopular politically that the right hon. Gentleman would seek to avoid it. I have heard it said that the two people of whom the Tory headquarters have always been most afraid are the small retail trader and his power of propaganda over the counter, and the insurance agent calling at the back door", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.844.3", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "et as much money as you can, and at the same time you do not mind reducing—in fact, you are quite pleased the more you can reduce—the consumption of civilian goods. \"So,\" says the hon. Gentleman, \"you are in a complete dilemma and anomaly.\" He says the same sort of thing as was argued about before my time—I suppose it was in his time, as he mentioned it—on the subject of Free Trade and Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.844.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-01", "file": "debates1940-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "3abd2a1ae2ea1079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said we always found that those who discussed the matter were impaled on the dilemma that you could not get both the revenue and the protection as well. Whatever may have been said in those days, I think that since we have introduced our present fiscal system, we have been quite pleased with the fact that we have actually got them both. We are getting a very nice revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-01a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-02", "file": "debates1940-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "d9ae36e5223e98d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-02a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (MAJOR REID-KELLETT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " firm through which they bought the hardware pipes were situated, not, as one would expect, near Devizes, but in North Wales. The brother of the contractor was the managing director of the firm which produced the pipes. It is much better for them to do business in hardware than in concrete stock pipes. I personally blame, not the contractors, but the resident surveyor for being such a damned fool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-02a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1047.7", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware that there is not a word of truth in this assertion, and that some of the most bitter opponents of the Communist party absolutely failed to produce a tittle of evidence in the High Court last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1047.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "All over the world.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benjamin Smith", "preceding_text": "And abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They missed the bus.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Well it was not expected that it would be necessary, but I see that it is stated that Ministers were to blame for that. Ministers, of course, must be expected to be blamed for everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s not expected that it would be necessary, but I see that it is stated that Ministers were to blame for that. Ministers, of course, must be expected to be blamed for everything. [Hon. Members: \"They missed the bus.\"] There were reports emanating from Stockholm—maybe invented by the enemy—which roused expectations which were never justified, and which were certainly never endorsed by any Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o placed that she can at any moment attack any one or a number of different points. We want to be ready to meet that attack wherever it may come, and the more vital the point the more important it is that we should be ready to meet it. A Minister who shows any sign of confidence is always called complacent. If he fails to do so, he is labelled defeatist. For my part I try to steer a middle course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hitler missed the bus\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r a number of different points. We want to be ready to meet that attack wherever it may come, and the more vital the point the more important it is that we should be ready to meet it. A Minister who shows any sign of confidence is always called complacent. If he fails to do so, he is labelled defeatist. For my part I try to steer a middle course—[ Interruption ]—neither raising undue expectations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "led complacent. If he fails to do so, he is labelled defeatist. For my part I try to steer a middle course—[ Interruption ]—neither raising undue expectations—[Hon. Members: \"Hitler missed the bus\"] which are unlikely to be fulfilled, nor making the people's flesh creep by painting pictures of unmitigated gloom. A great many times some hon. Members have repeated the phrase \"Hitler missed the bus\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We said that five years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ast. But that is a digression brought about by the interruption opposite. I am bound to say this afternoon that while I think the implications of the Norwegian campaign have been seriously exaggerated, and while I retain my complete confidence in our ultimate victory, I do not think that the people of this country yet realise the extent or the imminence of the threat which is impending against us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "In so far as it is necessary to find out what was wrong, I will inform the First Lord of the Admiralty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman will find that when you have built up an Army so speedily as ours was built up, and when you have had to send forces to all parts of the world, and especially to main strategic centres such as the Maginot Line, you cannot choose separate forces for various possible expeditions, consisting of men of various ages. I point that out only because I think it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Where do you come in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "ople ready to sell their country for money. He extended his right flank by over 1,000 miles and in doing so 40 per cent. of the remainder of the German Fleet was wiped off the stragetic chess board. Forty supply ships were definitely sunk, and although no one can tell how many casualties that involved amongst his fighting men, the estimates vary from the pessimists' 7,000 to the optimists' 25,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Croft", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and gallant Friend says, they made a new thousand, so that instead of having 1,000 they have only 800. The fact remains that this is a strategic folly. Here Hitler and his Government from now onwards must keep in Norway at least 100,000 men until the end of the war. They have to feed them and clothe them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And Turkey.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "e had from Andalsnes and Namsos show that it was the machine-gunning—even more than the bombing—by day which made it impossible for any army to live. There, the houses were of wood, and machine-gunning was more terrible, of course, than it would be here. The second thing we should learn is that all neutrals will obey Hitler—all neutrals, that is, with the exception of Russia and die United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "The British Navy could perfectly well defend this country if it had not gone to the other end of the Mediterranean to keep itself safe from bombing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "Make him afraid of where we shall strike next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "the Government's plan, but I imagine that when Hitler invades Belgium, if he does, there will be a demand immediately from Belgium for the assistance of our Army. Can the British Army, within 12or 24 hours, leave their present line and be on the Belgian frontier? That is a possible plan that I suggest. But the one thing you want to avoid in war is to be caught on the hop without any entrenchments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "n and to house themselves properly, with the danger increasing every day with the approach of the relieving German troops. I presume that all this has been considered by the Government. All that I now say is that, if I were in the Government, I would immediately, either take these troops out, or get into touch with Russia and see whether we could not arrange for them to come in and take our place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "preceding_text": "nd women who have sacrificed all to take their part in this great war. I am satisfied, too, that political intrigue will, more swiftly than anything else, bring about our downfall as a nation. We heard last week all kinds of rumours about hole-and-corner meetings that were being held in the corridors of this building. It was really nauseating. There were rumours of cabals floating through the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "ertainly mined what has been called the \"rat run.\" I suggest that it was because neither Norway nor Sweden stood up for themselves at a critical time when by standing up for themselves they would have enabled us to give them adequate help that the position became so bad that help was impossible. It was not British incompetence which led to the British failure in Norway. It was Norwegian treachery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "mselves they would have enabled us to give them adequate help that the position became so bad that help was impossible. It was not British incompetence which led to the British failure in Norway. It was Norwegian treachery. [Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"] Treachery of Norwegian officials. It is perfectly true. The Norwegian people are putting up a gallant fight but it was the Quislings who sold the pass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "tting up a gallant fight but it was the Quislings who sold the pass. [ Interruption. ] I say it was the traitorous action of Norwegian officials, which put Norway into an impossible position. It is not fair to say that the failure of the campaign was due to some unspecified action by Members of the Government. The speech of the right hon. Gentleman will certainly give great satisfaction in Berlin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We are not squealing!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "y and he beat her in the end. If we choose to learn from that lesson we may realise that however much the setback in Norway may have effected us so far as our own feelings are concerned, it does not make the slightest difference to our ultimate winning of the war. What real cause is there for blame? If people inside and outside this House are going to squeal every time there is some minor setback—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "o not think that is so. I think that the whole history of the world might have been different, and many lives saved and much suffering avoided. The break in Anglo-Italian friendship made possible the Berlin-Rome Axis. If Anglo-Italian friendship had not been broken it is possible that the present war would never have come. Italian friendship at that time was vital. It is no good jobbing backwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "or Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) and the Leader of the Opposition, that those who were in Gallipoli greatly regret to this day that some Minister or Ministers were not impeached and some high generals not court-martialled for what occurred in that place. In saying that I wish expressly to exclude from my condemnation the First Lord of the Admiralty. I am not concerned with personalities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "who before it was over were getting £6 or £7 a week when those of us who were in the trenches—even officers, let alone other ranks—were getting less than those favoured people. That sort of thing is not going to repeat itself, or there will be such a feeling on the part of the Forces as will make it impossible to carry on the war. The public should be told these things. They do not mind the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "t it is one of the privileges which he enjoys that he can speak his mind freely in this House of Commons. I shall probably disagree with him before I have finished in what I have to say, but I credit him, in spite of his views, with a desire to see a definite and decisive victory. That is the view of all Members of this House. When the Prime Minister rose this afternoon he was greeted with cheers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "as, so to speak, to assess gains and losses. There is no point in stating that they had no value. Why should they, when it was at least what the Prime Minister would have called an interim assessment, just as he made an interim statement last Thursday. Members of this House know perfectly well, and it is no good pretending to hide it, that there is a feeling in this country against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-07", "file": "debates1940-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "a595f2ecf482bc99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1190.3", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDUCT OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": " time when others, not necessarily members of the Government, were giving them the idea that by some miracle the war was going to end in victory without sacrifices, of the bitter struggle which lies in front of them. Hon. Members have said that the Government have been complacent. Is it only the Government that ought to share in that? In these eight months, have not we all tended to be complacent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-07a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "preceding_text": "I have received applications from many trained journalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "d one friend in the Press of the world outside our own country and the British Commonwealth of Nations. This was an organ of the Spanish Falangists, an organ of General Franco's, and that organ said that the statement of the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister did honour to the traditional nobility with which the illustrious name of Chamberlain is so linked with the life of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1251.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Samuel Hoare)", "preceding_text": "came Secretary of State for Air that I have had the opportunity in this House of saying something of the air operations, and I am sure that hon. Members will wish me, at the outset, to give in short outline, a description of what the Air Force has been attempting to do during the last three or four weeks. The Germans were in control of all the strategical aerodromes in Central and Southern Norway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.4", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon Boroughs)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon Boroughs)", "preceding_text": "I intervene with more reluctance than usual—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon Boroughs)", "preceding_text": "I intervene with more reluctance than usual—[ Laughter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up, please.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "vene with more reluctance than usual in this Debate. All my hon. Friends know very well that I hesitated whether I should take part in it at all, because I thought it was more desirable that we should have a discussion in which Members not of front-bench rank should take a good deal of the time, but I think that it is my duty, having regard to the fact that I have some experience of these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "many, broken. A million of the finest troops in Europe of a very well-educated race of free men, all gone. Such advantage as there is in Czecho-Slovakia, with its great lines of fortifications and its Skoda works, which turned out the finest artillery in the 1914 war, are in the hands of Hitler. That is one strategic advantage which we have handed over to the enemy. What is the next? The position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Russia!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ot have it in her hands a month ago, by this failure in Norway you have handed over Rumania. What else? Spain. I am hoping that my fears about that will not prove true. Now you have Scandinavia and Norway, which were one of the great strategic possibilities of the war, and they are in German hands. It is no use criticising Sweden. Sweden is now between Germany on the left and Germany on the right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "never any doubt about it. This is the first doubt that has entered their minds, and they said, \"It will be up to us to defend Democracy.\" Then there are the neutral countries. We promised Poland; we promised Czecho-Slovakia. We said: \"We will defend your frontiers if you will revise them.\" There was a promise to Poland, to Norway, and to Finland. Our promissory notes are now rubbish on the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I cannot re-open that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ns is known to the world. We started these preparations five years ago, in 1935. In 1935 a promise of rearmament was made; in 1936 active proposals were submitted to this House and were passed without a Division. The Government said they would commit us to £1,500,000,000. If they had asked for more and had said that it was necessary, there was no party in this House which would have challenged it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You did!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What is the meaning of that observation? I have never represented that my personality", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1283.5", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "The concluding observations of the right hon. Gentleman presented a direct challenge. I happen to have been in the House of Commons nearly as long as he has. If I thought that my vote to-night would put the Prime Minister out, I certainly would not give it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1284.6", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "the spirit that will win this war; not these Debates in the House of Commons, where every passion is aroused. I am sorry, indeed, that the Labour leaders did not offer their help to the Government, because these constant polemics, these constant attacks upon the Prime Minister, must be weakening our war effort. After all, my right hon. Friend is Prime Minister, and he has the direction of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1284.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "is no way out of it. I have had a good deal of service with the First Lord. I should say, first, that he is a gentleman; he never bears malice. Secondly, he is one of the bravest of men; he will take any risk. Therefore, to accuse him of cowardice is beyond anything that should have been said in this House. I candidly confess that I have watched this Norwegian business, and I do not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "ng in the meantime to observe from a distance the development of events, one is at once struck by the depressing atmosphere which prevails in this country. In the Far East, for instance, in such a place as China, however difficult material matters may be for these people, one senses an intense feeling of hope and of life. In this country there seems to be no conviction of success for a just cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No,\" and \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "No, the operations by Germany were started simultaneously with the laying of the mines. That was what we were told by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Courthope", "preceding_text": "er speeches have amounted to severe condemnation of the Government because we failed to get to Norway first. Only two of the speakers, the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) and my right hon. Friend the Member for the St. George's Division of Westminster (Mr. Duff Cooper), went so far as to suggest—if I understood their speeches correctly—that we ought to have invaded Norway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. V. Alexander", "preceding_text": "e—I like to be fair and to speak as I feel—that he was wholly inadequate in the replies which he tried to make to the very cogent criticisms from the Leader of the Opposition yesterday and from my right hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood). In these circumstances I hope that the House will forgive me if I take a few minutes to direct some questions to the First Lord—if he is about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "o-night. But when we are considering the position created in this great struggle, at a time when following upon this reverse and not only because of this reverse we are facing one of the most dangerous periods in the history of this country, it is a great pity that the Prime Minister should at once have jumped up and intervened, mostly, as I thought, upon the basis of his friendships in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who said it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "erals in their bold designs. Others have suggested that I have personally overruled them, or that they themselves are inept and cowardly. Others again have suggested—for if truth is many-sided, mendacity is many-tongued—that I, personally, proposed to the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet more violent action and that they shrank from it and restrained it. There is not a word of truth in all that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Because it was too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " which is kept constantly up-to-date by contacts with modern conditions—and I believe the Fleet itself has confidence in them. Therefore, when my hon. and gallant Friend came to me with his plan for forcing an entrance into Trondheim, I could only tell him that there was already a plan very similar to his, though I thought his was to some extent to be preferred; but that we had abandoned the plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "the services of seamen whose skill and daring are well known. Also we have taken into our service a very large amount of Danish shipping which will be of the greatest assistance. These are notable facts when we remember that the British and French losses through enemy action since the war are barely 800,000 tons, and the captures and the building have already made good three-quarters of that loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e a very large amount of Danish shipping which will be of the greatest assistance. These are notable facts when we remember that the British and French losses through enemy action since the war are barely 800,000 tons, and the captures and the building have already made good three-quarters of that loss. [An Hon. Member: \"Oh.\"] I dare say the hon. Member does not like that. He skulks in the corner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You should withdraw that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "will be of the greatest assistance. These are notable facts when we remember that the British and French losses through enemy action since the war are barely 800,000 tons, and the captures and the building have already made good three-quarters of that loss. [An Hon. Member: \"Oh.\"] I dare say the hon. Member does not like that. He skulks in the corner—[ Interruption ]—What are we quarrelling about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-08", "file": "debates1940-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "1a04fa44d60adf5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1361.4", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940 [Progress].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-08a.1361.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-09", "file": "debates1940-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f7a210db8c5aa5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1383.3", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE OF THE REALM.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Can the Home Secretary give the names of those with whom he actually consulted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-09", "file": "debates1940-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f7a210db8c5aa5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " the House last night. We are now confronted not only with a very serious military and strategic situation abroad, but a serious political situation at home. Many of my hon. Friends may disagree with me, but I submit that, on the whole, the events of yesterday proved that the Government, as at present constituted, do not possess the confidence of the House and of the country in sufficient measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-09", "file": "debates1940-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f7a210db8c5aa5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "rious military and strategic situation abroad, but a serious political situation at home. Many of my hon. Friends may disagree with me, but I submit that, on the whole, the events of yesterday proved that the Government, as at present constituted, do not possess the confidence of the House and of the country in sufficient measure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is at least a reasonable interpretation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-09", "file": "debates1940-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f7a210db8c5aa5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "verything is all right and the same as before, that the Government have a majority, and that they can carry on under the present leadership. There had always been opposition from this side of the House to the Prime Minister, but what we are faced with now is that last night, on a three-line Whip, after a personal appeal from the Prime Minister, something like 44 loyal supporters of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-09", "file": "debates1940-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f7a210db8c5aa5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "l supporters of the Government—[ Interruption. ] Are they not?—44 Members who take the Government Whip, and who had always supported the Government so far, went into the Lobby against the Government. That number contained not unimportant Back Benchers, but some of the leading personalities in the House. I think that nearly all the Privy Councillors outside the Cabinet voted against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-09", "file": "debates1940-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "f7a210db8c5aa5e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1451.3", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Haw-Haw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "The point of my remarks is that it is very desirable that we should have a little interval free from speeches such as we had yesterday, which would relieve Mr. Hee-Haw of his occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-09a.1451.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1498.6", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENEMY PARACHUTE TROOPS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that, in the British Legion throughout the country, is the nucleus of this force, already organised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1498.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "lief that by changing a few men round about, something new and strange may happen. I have never believed that the strength of the House of Commons lay in the fact that there was one body of men with certain principles upon which they were united on one side, opposed by another body with a different set of principles on the other, and that the clash of these two principles in debate and discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And you are howling\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "will not get the wind up either. We were calm and serious while the right hon. Gentleman was making hysterical speeches on the Floor of the House of Commons. It does not require any great courage to attack the late Prime Minister. He was in an awkward spot and the jackals gathered around. It was their night to howl, and they howled, and now we have a new Government—a Government of all the talents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We might say 'whining'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "es on the Floor of the House of Commons. It does not require any great courage to attack the late Prime Minister. He was in an awkward spot and the jackals gathered around. It was their night to howl, and they howled, and now we have a new Government—a Government of all the talents—[An Hon. Member: \"And you are howling\"] I put it to the House whether my utterances here can be described as howling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "o the House whether my utterances here can be described as howling. [An Hon. Member: \"We might say 'whining'.\"] No, I do not think even that is a decent description. My hon. and right hon. Friends above the Gangway are a little bit nervy to-day. The excitement started over the fact that the Norwegian business had not been such a success as was expected. The Government came under serious criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": ", I do not think even that is a decent description. My hon. and right hon. Friends above the Gangway are a little bit nervy to-day. The excitement started over the fact that the Norwegian business had not been such a success as was expected. The Government came under serious criticism. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] I understood so. But, I can still read. I heard that the Navy came under serious criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The function of a political working-class movement is to mobilise that anti-war opinion throughout the world and make it effective in the affairs of humanity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stafford Cripps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stafford Cripps", "preceding_text": "more smoothly, but there is at the present time a very serious danger of getting a breakdown of the machinery altogether, and I ask the Prime Minister either to consider this matter himself—I do not suppose he has the time—or to set up a small committee of this House to consider what alterations in procedure may be necessary in view of the altered circumstances in which the House now finds itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1517.1", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-13", "file": "debates1940-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "4a632f44792468e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "hen democracy is experienced by our own people, for a mere change of personnel will not end the devastating economic crises that we know so much about. It will not in itself end unemployment and insecurity or bring greater comfort to the old age pensioners, those veterans of industry. I should like to ask whether this change will remove from the Statute Book of this country the Trade Disputes Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-13a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-21", "file": "debates1940-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "902bd96eb8ca3e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-21a.21.8", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION (SALARY).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"You leave that to us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The answer seems to indicate that not only is the salary of the Leader of the Opposition being put into abeyance but that there is an attempt being made to put opposition into abeyance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-21a.21.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-21", "file": "debates1940-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "902bd96eb8ca3e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-21a.26.6", "colnum": "26", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's point is that while there were Opposition Members in this House in the last war, as no doubt there are at the present time in several parts of the House, there was no distinct and separately organised Opposition to the Government in the House and in the country. On this occasion there is such an Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-21a.26.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-21", "file": "debates1940-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "902bd96eb8ca3e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-21a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "I can, of course, intervene in this Debate again only by leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-21a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-22", "file": "debates1940-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1e05913252593b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (EMERGENCY).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "e action rapidly, and even against all constitutional practices and traditions. The Government must take responsibility, and I am glad they are prepared to do so. Parliament, of course, must be diligent in examining—the House has a great duty in that respect—the way in which these powers are used. When the occasion arises, Parliament must be vigilant to see that these powers are not unfairly used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-22", "file": "debates1940-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1e05913252593b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Permanently?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "who is engaged in this great effort should be satisfied that the rights which he has had shall remain alive and in being and it is proposed, therefore, that there should be an addition to the Fair Wages Clause whereby employers who do not at the end of this war restore any customs or conditions which have been set aside for the war, will be ineligible to come on the list of Government contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-22", "file": "debates1940-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1e05913252593b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREACHERY BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Treacherable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": "urt to award a less penalty than death. That consolation may be less satisfactory than the hon. Member might wish, but, along with the safeguard of the Attorney-General's fiat, it seems to me to make a very considerable difference, and it ought to be some consolation. I was a little troubled that the word \"treachery\" should be brought into the law. It seems a very atrocious and objectionable word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-22", "file": "debates1940-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "c1e05913252593b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE (ARMED FORCES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ace within the last few days, of the large numbers in which these men have volunteered in these critical times, must feel proud of his fellow countrymen. The hon. Gentleman has asked us not to ask too many questions, but there is one point I should like to raise. It is a well-known fact that the Regular soldier does not look too kindly upon the Territorial. The Territorial suffers in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-22a.246.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-23", "file": "debates1940-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "afe201aade60423e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-23a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "DETENTION OF A MEMBER.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Mr. Thorne rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-23a.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-23", "file": "debates1940-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "afe201aade60423e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-23a.354.4", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIMITATION OF DIVIDENDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They will all be inside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "I think that some of them will be outside and some will be inside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-23a.354.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-28", "file": "debates1940-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "cf37d01544c128bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-28a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Chatterbugs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": "portant thing is that such discussions take place. I believe that all these instruments might be used by the Ministry, to give to the country the sort of knowledge that it wants in order to digest properly the information that it gets. The right hon. Gentleman has given us very good speeches, and the Parliamentary Secretary did the same sort of thing very well when he told us about the dangers of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-28a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-28", "file": "debates1940-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "cf37d01544c128bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-28a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "ound about London trying to speak bastard American when bidding you \"Good-night\" or telling us who his performers are. We have our own musicians and composers, our Elgars, as well as the native song and harmony of the three countries that compose this Kingdom. Let us exploit them. I would suggest, in passing, that we do not want over-much of Mr. D'Oyly Carte. That is also getting a bit threadbare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-28a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-28", "file": "debates1940-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "cf37d01544c128bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-28a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Give them bagpipes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "e Committee what happens. Certain gramophone records must be used, and can be used, only at certain intervals. It is laid down, apparently, by the person responsible, that the only gramophone records to be played—perhaps before a public pronouncement by the Prime Minister—shall be Gilbert and Sullivan records. There are other kinds of music, native to the country and more suitable to the occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-28a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-29", "file": "debates1940-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "aeb6f38c62ff0bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-29a.539.4", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That is quite true, but I am not sure that it would be right to bring the figures before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-29a.539.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-05-29", "file": "debates1940-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "aeb6f38c62ff0bd4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-29a.548.2", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL DEFENCE VOLUNTEERS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "( by Private Notice ) asked the Secretary of State for War whether adequate numbers of volunteers have been enlisted for the defence of London and whether those volunteers are armed with defensive weapons issued by the War Office or with weapons provided by themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-29a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-30", "file": "debates1940-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "a53ed06376a47bc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-30a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MILITARY SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "In view of the very acute shortage of accommodation in the country, not only for children, but for land workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-30a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-30", "file": "debates1940-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "a53ed06376a47bc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-30a.687.10", "colnum": "687", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "d to me as to the other two Votes which are on the Order Paper to be taken to-day, and it seems, from the right hon. Gentleman's opening, that the Committee may think it advisable that the discussion on the Question which I have put from the Chair should be allowed to range over the other two Votes as well. That is not an uncommon practice, provided it receives the general assent of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-30a.687.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-05-30", "file": "debates1940-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "a53ed06376a47bc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-30a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "It is my privilege to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman, first, on the very clear exposition which he has given us to-day of the work of the Export Council, and, in addition, upon his maiden speech in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-05-30a.694.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-06-04", "file": "debates1940-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "35c77af3e28a3ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.750.13", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Fifth column.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.750.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-04", "file": "debates1940-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "35c77af3e28a3ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.797.1", "colnum": "797", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "May I explain that in accordance with the custom of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.797.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-06-04", "file": "debates1940-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "35c77af3e28a3ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.797.7", "colnum": "797", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to know what the hon. Member means by creating a precedent. No precedent is going to be made on this occasion, but I think in the circumstances, and in view of the misunderstanding of the situation, the right hon. Gentleman had better not proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.797.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-04", "file": "debates1940-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "35c77af3e28a3ed1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPERANNUATION SCHEMES (WAR SERVICE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "I can speak again only by leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-04a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.843.2", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is a fact that a good many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.843.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS ACT, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about your Parliamentary Secretary?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Malcolm MacDonald)", "preceding_text": " as are many other Members of this House; but if there should be questions of detail the answers to which I could not keep in my head, and of which I should require notice, there is here my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, whose knowledge of the facts of this problem is encyclopaedic; and I hope that he and I between us can satisfy the House as to the merits of our proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS ACT, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "hat development has occurred particularly in my own native city, where I have taken in the past, and possibly will take in the future, my share in criticising the treatment which the authority has accorded to the old people. I was glad that the right hon. Member for Kelvingrove (Mr. Elliot) had the courage and the decency to do what he did in this respect. To-day we are more or less indicting him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS ACT, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e, and now you are working six days a week as you have done for the past 10 or 12 years.\" In my county, men have been working 2½ or three days a week, but now they are working five, six or seven days a week. Because Jack is working full time and is earning £4, £5 or £6, the old people will not get any supplementary pension. I ask, What is the Minister going to do? Does he refute what I say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS ACT, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Scotland can certainly be described as one of the biggest optimists on the Government side. He has always been of an optimistic frame of mind, but surely even he will not claim that in this British climate winter is confined to 22 weeks. It would be much safer to say that we have two or three months of reasonable weather and nine months of winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS ACT, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "All I would say in answer to the hon. Member is this: Some of us would very much like to see him sitting on this side of the House, on this Bench, for once, with responsibility on his shoulders. It would be most interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "a capitalist system, with a capitalist industrial structure, and with a motive which is consonant with that structure, if you interfere with the motive, you interfere considerably with the whole efficiency of the system. If you alter the structure, it is a different matter. We have the Civil Service. Does anybody suggest that ordinary private capitalists are any more efficient than civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-05", "file": "debates1940-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "6c8b28bdb546a9ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Vote against it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "will induce the great mass of people to put forward great efforts because their employers will be taxed 100 per cent. But they can rob the community to their hearts' content, as I know they are doing. We are doing a stupid and foolish thing which will hamper our war effort, upset the labour situation and disturb production. Do not let the Committee give assent to this Resolution without realising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-05a.963.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-06-06", "file": "debates1940-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "94e6d1abe2d158d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-06a.990.7", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not give it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Economic Warfare (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, I have very full information on this subject, but it is not in the public interest to disclose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-06a.990.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-06", "file": "debates1940-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "94e6d1abe2d158d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-06a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What is the address?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "on overdraft from a bank. As security for the overdraft you pledge your investments abroad. When your overdraft in this country has become as large as the investments abroad which you have pledged, obviously you cancel the overdraft. There are two ways of doing that. You can bring the assets which are the security to this country, in which case you are taxed, or you can send your overdraft abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-06a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-11", "file": "debates1940-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "000e07a8debd2219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-11a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "preceding_text": "Who is to share the 4d. increase and what proportion of the 4d. is to be divided up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-11a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-11", "file": "debates1940-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "000e07a8debd2219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-11a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "Are these principles published and available to us in any way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-11a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-11", "file": "debates1940-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "000e07a8debd2219", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-11a.1146.7", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\" and \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "he war the Prime Minister and the Service Ministers are very heavily occupied with other business and it has therefore been found necessary to postpone the Secret Session which had been arranged for to-day. A statement was issued by the Government last night in order that hon. Members might have the earliest possible notice of the change of business. The Secret Session will, of course, take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-11a.1146.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-12", "file": "debates1940-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e0b430c595db41dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1278.7", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. and gallant Member will not press that Motion at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1278.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-12", "file": "debates1940-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e0b430c595db41dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1281.5", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Gossip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "There must be one set of the \"usual channels\" running along peculiar courses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1281.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-06-12", "file": "debates1940-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e0b430c595db41dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1281.6", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There was consultation.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "sual channels\" running along peculiar courses. [Hon. Members: \"Gossip.\"] Yes, there is gossip and my gossip, as far as the House of Commons knows, is as good as any other person's gossip. Perhaps in this case the channels have overflown. I support the Motion to report Progress, and I make the suggestion to the Government that before they arrange the discussions for Supply Days they should consult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1281.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-12", "file": "debates1940-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e0b430c595db41dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1282.3", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "e such a discussion and that none of this clamour was raised then. Further, no one has approached me since with representations on the ground that it would be improper to have such a discussion. The Minister is, of course, perfectly willing and ready to make a statement on Civil Defence. I suggest that he should be allowed to make it and if the Committee then wish, they can either report Progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-12", "file": "debates1940-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e0b430c595db41dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": "sport, which also has been difficult to obtain, but the provision of bricks is a matter of urgency, and plans should already be in existence to deal with this matter. I should like to see the Government commandeer all the transport necessary to ensure that the brickworks are kept working full out, as fully as if they were working for the Ministry of Supply instead of the Ministry of Home Security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-12a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-13", "file": "debates1940-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "78812e755d082fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-13a.1376.7", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (BROADCASTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"In Italy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend if he is not aware that this address caused very great pain and distress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-13a.1376.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-18", "file": "debates1940-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e9f80b54689451e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "No. May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-18", "file": "debates1940-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e9f80b54689451e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.31.6", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REPAIR DEPOT (LAND ACQUISITION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Does not the Chancellor realise that the criticism of the people is against the price paid for the land and that it is a scandal that land of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.31.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-18", "file": "debates1940-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e9f80b54689451e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.33.4", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD CHANCELLOR (PENSION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "Surely, the Lord Chancellor is entitled to the same sort of pension as an ex-Cabinet Minister gets. Ought not that to be sufficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.33.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-18", "file": "debates1940-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e9f80b54689451e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I think it would not be doing what the Prime Minister wants, but I feel that it would he desirable if, even in his absence, we did say a few words this afternoon on the general subject of the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-18", "file": "debates1940-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e9f80b54689451e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I think it would not be doing what the Prime Minister wants, but I feel that it would he desirable if, even in his absence, we did say a few words this afternoon on the general subject of the war—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—for this reason, that the country is at the present time extremely discouraged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-18", "file": "debates1940-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "3e9f80b54689451e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does he pay his rent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "wn. Questions have been asked about him in this House, and no satisfactory answer has been returned. In view of the fact that we are engaged in a life and death struggle, and in view of the Prime Minister's solemn words to-day, I think that the Home Department should take this matter into serious consideration. I myself have received several letters from this individual, who is a tenant of my own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-18a.113.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-06-20", "file": "debates1940-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "9cbfbf38271108d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-20a.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Adams", "preceding_text": "As it is at least possible that when the hunting season begins we may need petroleum for war purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-20a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-25", "file": "debates1940-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "70c45fb978a8d517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.301.10", "colnum": "301", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And by the politicians\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "o long in war and peace, and whom we have regarded as trustees with ourselves for the progress of a liberal, cultured and tolerant civilisation in Europe. There is no use or advantage in wasting strength and time upon hard words and reproaches. We hope that life and power will be given to us to rescue France from the ruin and bondage into which she has been cast by the might and fury of the enemy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.301.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-25", "file": "debates1940-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "70c45fb978a8d517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next week\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister indicated that this was the only statement that we were to have on this particular happening until the historians came along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-25", "file": "debates1940-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "70c45fb978a8d517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": " draw the money at any time if their circumstances change. While this is a Department which does not help anyone with a keen sense of humour, such as I have been charged with, I will give the Committee one instance which it may appreciate. I have had a letter from a pensioner, who wrote: Dear Sir, Your savings scheme is marvellous. The man who thought of it ought to be given some high distinction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-25", "file": "debates1940-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "70c45fb978a8d517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.331.5", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A wangle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member misunderstands. What I meant was the administration. A man is left to himself so far as his medical skill is concerned, but in the question of administration there are certain things in every Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-25a.331.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-26", "file": "debates1940-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "fa6b35294cbbe6c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-26a.533.7", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TROOPS' ACCOMMODATION (RAILWAY TERMINI, LONDON).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " retail organisations at the full retail price less 5 per cent. That shows, I believe, very clearly, that these welfare organisations are trying to do a job without any profit at all. They are trying only to do good, and it is distressing that this atmosphere of deliberate frustration—and of deliberate interest, if you like—is stopping the movement. I am reluctant to say these things to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-26a.533.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-27", "file": "debates1940-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82e2c48e39fe8efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-27a.579.8", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Low wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "If this service is of any national importance at all, is there not a danger when these vacancies continue in the service, and does not my right hon. Friend think that the spirit of the nation now demands that a measure of compulsion be introduced in areas where the voluntary principle does not succeed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-27a.579.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-27", "file": "debates1940-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82e2c48e39fe8efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-27a.583.8", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The position is that organisations which were invited to be represented on the Central Council were left to choose their own representatives on the occasion of a particular meeting. I think it will be found that I have answered the Question on the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-27a.583.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-06-27", "file": "debates1940-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "82e2c48e39fe8efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-27a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "a man whose appearance might tempt you to think that he was not \"all there.\" I do not scorn the cranks. I do not scorn the fanatics. The world owes much to cranks and fanatics, both in the course of politics and otherwise, but one must have discipline, and at any rate one must get decisions as to what is wanted in the matter of tanks. The truth is that there was no clarification of what we wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-06-27a.626.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.645.7", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that quite a number of them are still wearing the uniforms they had in the last war, and that in one company in East Sussex there are six different generals all dressed up as generals; and, although one does not want to impugn their patriotism, is it not a fact that the great mass of people of this country, while they do not mind Corporal Hitler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.645.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Lōco! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "I have seen the suggestion made, not in this House, but outside. I shall regard myself in lōco parentis —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are these particular schools?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "sible in such cases to arrange for parents, here, to pay into a trust fund the equivalent of the schools fees to a Canadian school, and such sums will be blocked for the duration. It will be for the Canadian authorities, of course, to maintain and educate these children with this potential cover, and to make all financial arrangements in respect of the children they have absorbed in their schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "e other side to welcome the children, one can imagine the kind of crowd that will be there and the sorting out that there will have to be. This Advisory Council is certainly open to some amount of criticism in respect of its personnel, and there is one organisation which has at its head a very prominent Fascist, and we do not know how far other persons within the same ambit may have been included.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.750.5", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "I will only say that the morale of the population can be kept up only if there is an absence of that sort of thing. The situation could get to the stage where the suffering of the women and children would be so great that the men would be compelled to take a hand in demanding the cessation of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.750.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood), who called it trivial, valueless and a disappointment. We do not put this scheme forward at the moment as a big scheme, but we are certain that it is a scheme that is as large as we can make it at the moment, and if the Dominions and the United States of America will afford us the opportunities, we can make it as large as their generosity will allow us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or her.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "t is to happen in the case of a child whose parents withdraw their permission for him to go? Parents will not accompany their children to the port of embarkation. They will part company at some collecting point near the child's home unless the child lives at the port of embarkation. The child will then be taken from the collecting point to the port of embarkation where he will spend the whole day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-02", "file": "debates1940-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "a751ae1cb5d026a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did he hold your hand?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "s said that the child is to go, and we have said that the parent is to have the final word. If the child develops homesickness, one can only hope that it will get over it on the journey. I have had some experience in handling children. I recollect a woman once bringing her grandchild to me, and saying, \"This child may go with you on your ramble if you will undertake to hold his hand all the time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-02a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-03", "file": "debates1940-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "a3798d33e6d050b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-03a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA (BRITISH SUBJECT'S CLAIM).", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "preceding_text": "I was interrupted then by the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander), who takes up a lot of time in this House, and who afterwards apologised to me. I cannot bring the matter up again. This man has been blind for 17 years, and it is about time that something was done. What can I do, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-03a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-04", "file": "debates1940-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a946f4650376bd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-04a.979.10", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "On 19th June I received a deputation of women Members of Parliament and discussed with them various questions relating to the employment of women in war-time. At the end it was agreed, at the suggestion of the deputation, that a small committee of women might usefully be created. I promised that, if this committee arrived at any agreed proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-04a.979.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-04", "file": "debates1940-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a946f4650376bd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-04a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (BROADCASTS TO AMERICA).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister consider that it is in the national interest that broadcasts from Ministers to America should be made by people who are persona grata with the American public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-04a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-04", "file": "debates1940-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "a946f4650376bd0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-04a.1008.3", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " and all views could be expressed without their having to be read next morning by the enemy; and at the next moment, when we are indulging in that procedure at the wish of the House, my hon. Friend raises the opposite point of view and claims that the discussions should be in public. It is a matter of total indifference to the Government if hon. Members would like to have the discussion in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-04a.1008.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-09", "file": "debates1940-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6c83f84676fdecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1076.9", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman please make arrangements whereby Members who have run away from this country on missions invented by themselves should forgo for ever the right of sitting in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1076.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-09", "file": "debates1940-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6c83f84676fdecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What did it say?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irving Albery", "preceding_text": "hievous article which appeared in the \"Daily Mirror\" on 4th July under the heading of \"Cassandra,\" which was extremely ignorant, extremely ill-informed, and, if one may use that expression with reference to financial matters—and I think one could rightly use it to-day—subversive. I should like to call the attention of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Minister of Information to that article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-09", "file": "debates1940-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6c83f84676fdecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can they be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": ", I would remind the Committee, Parliament passed an Emergency Powers Act enabling the Government to conscript, not only all manpower for any purpose, but to conscript wealth. I believe that the Government are afraid to do it. We are going to borrow, and to pay a percentage on the borrowed money to the very rich people who, at the end of a war, are usually far better off than when the war started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-09", "file": "debates1940-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "d6c83f84676fdecd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Royal Warrant?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " the point I want to raise. This is a serious matter. The Committee is in a difficulty with regard to this question, and if we are doing our duty to the people, we are bound to be concerned about it. We were told that this Royal Warrant had been submitted, and I asked the Prime Minister to give an undertaking that the House would have an opportunity of considering it before it was finally adopted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-09a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-10", "file": "debates1940-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "393fea888648bbdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why speak?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to take part in this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-10", "file": "debates1940-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "393fea888648bbdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "It is no good being so scornful. We all know that many of our troops have not got essentials at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-10", "file": "debates1940-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "393fea888648bbdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "It is no good being so scornful. We all know that many of our troops have not got essentials at this time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault is that?\"] It is the fault of the whole nation which would not wake up to the peril which faced us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-10", "file": "debates1940-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "393fea888648bbdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "ich in the public interest and anxiety should be settled at once. There is an aspect of this matter which has not been stressed in this Debate, and that is that the division we have to make now in the case of the foreigners in our midst is not between one nationality and another nationality. We are now in a civil war, a civil war of ideas. The distinction is not between an Englishman and a German—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-10", "file": "debates1940-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "393fea888648bbdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEES.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-10a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-11", "file": "debates1940-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "497335a2d12115c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1377.2", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (AIR-RAID WARNINGS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "The case of members in the Government service in ordinary offices is quite different from this case. Here it is not a question so much of danger from bombs or splinters, as of the fact that this Chamber is glass-roofed and any bomb falling within 100 yards of it would probably blind half the Members of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-11", "file": "debates1940-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "497335a2d12115c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "erbage growth. We cannot afford to neglect this potential source of herbage supply. I hope my right hon. Friend will make representations to the Ministry of Transport about a matter to which I have previously called attention. The Ministry is cutting grass verges at the side of roads. If labour is to be used in cutting grass, the grass should be used for agricultural purposes and made into silage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-11", "file": "debates1940-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "497335a2d12115c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon Boroughs)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon Boroughs)", "preceding_text": "nd matters of that kind which you had almost to apologise for mentioning in the House of Commons? I am very glad that, in spite of the fact that it is a tragedy that has roused us, we have come to a realisation of what the tillage of the soil has meant since the days of Eden, when Adam was turned out because he was a bad farmer, and when the next two farmers cut each other's throats—Cain and Abel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-11", "file": "debates1940-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "497335a2d12115c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon Boroughs)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And wire-worms.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George (Carnarvon Boroughs)", "preceding_text": "e money. I take it this would enable drainage to be done on a bigger scale, not merely where there is drainage field by field, but where the drainage of fields is quite impossible unless some sort of arterial drainage can drain off what the fields pour into the outlets. This would involve the possibility of draining very considerable parts of the country, which are full of fertility, full of food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-11", "file": "debates1940-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "497335a2d12115c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Smith", "preceding_text": " to satisfy the farmer. For years, as a layman who has taken a great interest in agricultural Debates, I have contended that the farmer was entitled to a fair price for his products at the point of production. It should be a figure sufficient to pay him for all that he has put into the land, and give a decent return for the capital and enough to pay a reasonable wage to those who work on the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-11a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-17", "file": "debates1940-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1894512c1a6a793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREAT BRITAIN, CHINA AND JAPAN.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman consider this act of appeasement to an aggressor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-17", "file": "debates1940-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1894512c1a6a793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At what rate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "glish scheme would not so much increase the total credit available to farmers as divert from the banks some of the worst of their business; second, the Scottish banks were probably in more sympathetic touch with the farming community than the English; third, that the Scottish banks were willing to co-operate to increase the farmers' credit where reasonably possible in the ordinary way of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.252.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-17", "file": "debates1940-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1894512c1a6a793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "m the banks some of the worst of their business; second, the Scottish banks were probably in more sympathetic touch with the farming community than the English; third, that the Scottish banks were willing to co-operate to increase the farmers' credit where reasonably possible in the ordinary way of business. [An HON. MEMBER: \"At what rate?\"] I think the normal rate of interest is about 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.252.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-17", "file": "debates1940-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1894512c1a6a793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "ittee on Deer Forests which was appointed in 1919, it would be wrong to assume that the whole of this area has been preserved for deer, to the exclusion of sheep and cattle. Many forests carry in parts of them either a permanent or a summer stock of sheep, in numbers which vary according to current economic conditions. There are few deer forests in Scotland which do not carry some cattle or sheep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-17", "file": "debates1940-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b1894512c1a6a793", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "CLASS VI.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friend, is surveying the deer forests in Ross-shire, Sutherland and Caithness. That is the way to go about this matter. While the deer forests in 1919 were estimated to cover 3,400,000 acres, a total of 541,000 acres, situated in the counties of Aberdeen, Angus, Perth, etc., has been used by small-holders. That reduces the total to less than 2,900,000 acres in the congested districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-17a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — METHOD OF COLLECTION (INCOME TAX).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.696.9", "colnum": "696", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And many of the working classes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "e fate which threatens them and which has been brought upon them by the capitalist system, then the land has got to be taken over, and all rents and all money associated with the land. Why should it not be so? \"Ah,\" they say, \"that is a big question.\" There are so many of the aristocracy in this country who have an interest in the land that you cannot interfere with them. There would be hardships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.696.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.705.4", "colnum": "705", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "on which was necessary; but we go on legislating, and ultimately we produce this document, under which, if I understand it correctly, all sorts of people can be bumped off without trial. I put it in crude terms, because I think in crude terms with regard to this Bill. The Home Secretary really ought to tell us why his first Amendment is to declare that all that is in this Bill can already be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.705.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "ich are not available at the present moment under our present law, although they may be available under present regulations. I would ask my right hon. Friend to consider whether it might not be possible slightly to enlarge the words: by reason of recent or immediately apprehended enemy action. so as to include action taken in this country on account of recent or immediate apprehended enemy action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The point which was raised by the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Glenvil Hall) was really answered by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Silverman). I did not deal with that case, as I thought it was best disposed of by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale, but the position is surely this: These powers, if they are granted, must of necessity be entrusted to the Executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.723.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State told us that a vigilant House of Commons will make sure that everything is all right. The right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary or the Minister of Home Security—he is not certain which—will take action. The courts are set up. With great expedition they shoct a certain number of people. They any shoot them, or cause them to be shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "leman the Home Secretary or the Minister of Home Security—he is not certain which—will take action. The courts are set up. With great expedition they shoct a certain number of people. They any shoot them, or cause them to be shot. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is what we are talking about. We are talking about whether people are to be kilted who have not had a fair trial. That is what the Bill means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "That makes it even worse. The right hon. Gentleman is going to make an Order, the, text of which I have not seen. He says that a vigilant House of Commons will take control of it. It will be laid on the Table. I am not certain whether it will mean an affirmative Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.733.5", "colnum": "733", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is for you to find out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Who made the Regulation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.733.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"We want it in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "e quite impracticable. There is a greater danger. In debate it is one of the rules of the younger debater that if a Minister gives any indication of what he is going to do, you attack him. If he is honest and takes the House into his confidence and gives assurances, they say, \"What are your assurances worth? You may not he here in the future.\" Do the Committee desire a particular assurance or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "It is true that the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary gave certain assurances to hon. Members in the Second Reading Debate, and he has fully complied with the spirit of those assurances. That much ought to be said. He met what may be described as a representative body of Members in that they represent all quarters of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "an those who were met. That is a debatable point, but the right hon. Gentleman agreed to meet several hon. Members, and he did. It must be noted that my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan), in a speech of characteristic eloquence, supported the Amendment placed on the Paper by the right hon. Gentleman as a result of the discussions in which this so-called body of Members participated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "o do not like a Roland for their Oliver. Many of my hon. Friends, keen as we are about safeguarding the liberties of our people, and anxious as we are to protect ourselves against Regulations of a severe character, feel that the Amendments which have already been accepted as a result of our submissions, and other safeguards, such as the assurance which the right hon. Gentleman has now reaffirm ed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Leaving out any considerations of political partisanship, I accept that. It may be that we shall find ourselves on the wrong side of the street in consequence, but I accept that assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-23", "file": "debates1940-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "e2c14ad7e02578cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman the Home Secretary, but on any successor who may follow him in that office—that not only will he consult about the Regulations he is now going to bring in, but he will consult about any subsequent Regulations which may be brought in under the Bill, and those subsequent Regulations will be presented to the House after consultation in exactly the same way as the first set of Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-23a.745.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.814.6", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "In the event of an increase in the importation of feeding-stuffs, the question will be reconsidered, but, as has been stated, the livestock must have priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.814.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "which might, perhaps, be made on the Report stage. The other Amendment which I would suggest deals with the particular case of the death sentence. I am quite willing to propose on Report the insertion of words which will make it quite clear that provision must be made by Regulations for securing that no sentence of death shall be carried out until the question of reprieve has been duly considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.839.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has not said that.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Albery", "preceding_text": "If what my hon. and gallant Friend has now stated as the Home Secretary's argument be, in fact, his argument, and if it means that the body which the right hon. Gentleman might set up would be a confirming body, it would go a long way towards meeting the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No—review the case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think that is the general sense of the Committee. The difference, therefore, is a comparatively small, though important, one. The suggestion is that there should be some body, an individual or two judges, who should be not a court of criminal appeal, not an executive or administrative body, but should, if I understand correctly, control the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor is this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has the advantage of me. It is not, however, a process with which our judges are familiar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "led. We never know, from day to day, when conditions may come upon us in which it is vital that the machinery which this Bill provides shall be put into operation. I want to make an appeal to the Committee. I appreciate the desire for some sort of judicial body which would be not merely advisory to my right hon. Friend but would have some function which I think it is rather difficult to determine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So is this Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "machinery which this Bill provides shall be put into operation. I want to make an appeal to the Committee. I appreciate the desire for some sort of judicial body which would be not merely advisory to my right hon. Friend but would have some function which I think it is rather difficult to determine. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because a review by a judge is something unknown to the law of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Regulations will be under the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "re for some sort of judicial body which would be not merely advisory to my right hon. Friend but would have some function which I think it is rather difficult to determine. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because a review by a judge is something unknown to the law of this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"So is this Bill.\"] What the judges will have to do will be done, not under the Bill, but under the Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman thinks that I have not; he is entitled to his opinion. But I am sure that my hon. and learned Friends here will agree that if you are proposing to impose by Statute on his Majesty's judges a duty unknown previously to our law, it would normally, of course, be a matter for consultation with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "am sure that my hon. and learned Friends here will agree that if you are proposing to impose by Statute on his Majesty's judges a duty unknown previously to our law, it would normally, of course, be a matter for consultation with them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, certainly—before we settled their duties. Therefore, I cannot be absolute in regard to the undertaking that the hon. Gentleman asked for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.872.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.874.8", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And serious cases.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not take it that this reviewing body—which I certainly understood from the earlier speeches was wanted for death penalty cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-24", "file": "debates1940-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7357b5b94137398", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Power to provide for trial of offences by special courts in certain areas.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "s to deal with capital cases without a jury. That is one conception, and it may he the one finally thought to be the best. It involves a greater demand on such judicial legal talent as there is. The other conception is a different one. There is not the slightest idea in anyone's mind that the lay members of the court, whether justices or not, should give the judge the \"low down\" on the individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-24a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-25", "file": "debates1940-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "df8556768f1ff5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.963.7", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I want to ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.963.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-25", "file": "debates1940-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "df8556768f1ff5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that Mr. McEllin—that is his real name—is one of my best supporters", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-25", "file": "debates1940-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "df8556768f1ff5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Broadbridge", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Broadbridge", "preceding_text": "here are the local rates, and these are increasing owing largely to the expenditure on A.R.P. and to the profligate expenditure in peace-time of local authorities. To take the place of people taxed out of the Chancellor can only look to those whom I prefer to call emergency taxpayers, that is, excess profits taxpayers and the workers who are now earning on munitions anything from £5 to £20 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-25", "file": "debates1940-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "df8556768f1ff5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ds of individuals will be reduced to the amount which will buy the available services and commodities at existing prices. The national income is increasing day by day; on the other hand, the consumable goods and services for the public, apart from those required for the war effort, are decreasing day by day. The result is that there is an enormous gap which, left alone, makes inflation inevitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-25", "file": "debates1940-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "df8556768f1ff5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Supplementary allowances to workmen entitled to weekly payments.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Large?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "eeding. That would be a cheaper proposal than the proposal that we have put forward in the Bill, and if hon. Members press the point upon those lines, some alteration in the Bill might, I think, reasonably be made. But I cannot go back to the employers after the long negotiations we have had and say to them, \"The House of Commons has decided to place a large additional burden upon your shoulders.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-25", "file": "debates1940-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "df8556768f1ff5fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 8.—(Short title, construction, commencement and extent.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House of Commons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " and many thought that, as the Bill passed its Second Reading it had become law. They did not realise that we held the Bill up in order to get something better. Now they are disappointed and they hope it may operate as from 1st July.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th July, 1940; col. 550, Vol. 363.] Let us have no recrimination about the past. I do not know who the hon. Member referred to when he said \"we.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-25a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1158.6", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is it that by these wordy evasions the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not know the answer? What does he qualify for if he does not know the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1158.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "SECRET SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Earl Winterton (Horsham and Worthing) rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1194.3", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "SECRET SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "most disarmed by the most witty and eloquent speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, but despite the cries of \"Divide,\" which proceed from some of my hon. Friends, I do suggest to the House that a question of some constitutional importance is involved in this issue between secret and open Sessions, and I do not think it is a question which can be disposed of without some form of Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "SECRET SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friends and I feel that there is no real case against having a full, frank and free discussion on international affairs. If the Prime Minister suggests that there is information which cannot be made public, he should give the House of Commons an opportunity for which there was a precedent during the last war; that is, to hold the first half of our discussions in public up to, say 7 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "SECRET SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "rds ought to be published and public, that criticism of the Government was valuable; and even Governments finally supported that view. Today we are reverting over a great part of the world to the fifteenth or sixteenth century, and in exactly the same way this House is trying to revert to type by keeping its discussions secret and to have a certain private privilege over the people in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1199.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1199.4", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "SECRET SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "We are not a town council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "SECRET SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "or anything, and the Debate is wasted. It has no effect whatever on the people who are actually conducting the affairs of the nation. The first objection to a Secret Session is that it gives the public the erroneous impression that something tremendously secret has been divulged. Everybody who has been at any Secret Session knows that every one of them might just as well have been in open Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-30", "file": "debates1940-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "143769393a088d5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "SECRET SESSION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "—the fact that we are forced to debate a thing in secret. The country is suspicious, and is bound to be suspicious, not so much about what individual Members are doing, but about what the Government are doing, if the subject of debate has to be discussed in secret. Then there is the far worse effect it has upon Goebbels and Goering. Everything that is reported in the OFFICIAL REPORT Goebbels will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-30a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1217.0", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "What proportion of the 60 people engaged are women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1217.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1217.4", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too late.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the salaries paid, which were asked for in the Question on the Order Paper, were not disclosed, and in view of the very unsatisfactory nature of the reply, I beg to give notice that I shall raise the matter on the Motion for the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1288.2", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": "point was raised about the case of bankruptcy. If the employer is compelled to deduct it week by week, then as a large number of businesses are conducted on overdrafts, it seems to me that in such circumstances there is insufficient provision to safeguard the Treasury. The other point that I was not clear about was this: Is any commission to be paid? I cannot think that there is any justification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "oon as he says he is—that there is, in any newspaper, a systematic publication of matter which is, in his opinion, calculated to have the effect set out in the Regulation, he can stop that newspaper appearing, or being continued, or having its place taken by some other newspaper. Those are very drastic powers. It is not as though there were any kind of review of or check on the Minister's opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "he court is moved by the aggrieved person, to decide whether the action has been justly taken or not. I will answer that point in a word or two. I say that if such drastic action is to be taken, in the interests of public safety, by a member of the Executive Government, it seemed to me and to those associated with me, that it would more properly be judged by the House of Commons than by any court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "he Home Secretary to stand firm in this matter. I have listened to the whole of this Debate, and I do not think the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Etherton) has listened to anything like the whole of it otherwise he would know that the issue has been narrowed down to the point of whether there shall be an appeal to the House of Commons or to a court of law. We have reached unanimity on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1348.2", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You have already spoken.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "Mr. Glenvil Hall rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-07-31", "file": "debates1940-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "c567f5d3353be913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1348.5", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "MISCELLANEOUS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Clifton Brown)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member can speak again only by leave of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-07-31a.1348.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1456.0", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or by the Ministry of Agriculture.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "roperly cultivated. They have at present some authority over professional market gardens, but not over private gardens. Many of these gardens—and I speak with a knowledge of small country towns and country districts—are going to rack and ruin, and the worst cases are those in the larger county towns and the larger houses which have been taken over either by the military, the Air Force or the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS WAR PROVISIONS) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "grazed during the summer. How can the farmer meet his wages, seed and fertilizer bills, starting, as he should, to-morrow, with the prospect that he will get no income from that land until over a year hence? The Minister said he had chatted with the banks, which would give accommodation, but that is not the real way to deal with this difficult problem. I have an overdraft myself with a large bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1465.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SOCIAL SURVEY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "sation. Scientific cross-sections of public opinion are notoriously unreliable. In this country, whatever our political views may be, we had a good example of this sort of thing in the Peace Ballot. The Peace Ballot may have gathered certain impressions from people, according to how their political views went, but it was and is now acknowledged to be a most unreliable reflection of public opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1534.0", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SOCIAL SURVEY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": ". May I call attention in this regard to the outrageous conduct of one of the chief constables in this country, if it is correctly reported in the \"Daily Mail\"? He said: I have warned householders through the Press to be on their guard. I killed Communism and the Fascists in this town, and I intend to kill anything else which will persuade people to express their views. I believe that is in Derby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1533.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1536.3", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SOCIAL SURVEY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are united here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " are terribly strained. This gives them something to talk about, and may change their thoughts. I do not believe that there is this feeling in the country against this survey, but I believe that there is a feeling about this constant sniping at the National Government. The country was never in its history more united than it is now. It is far more united than we seem to be in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1543.3", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SOCIAL SURVEY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends who asked the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "ion which was conducted to-day. I believe he said that 80 people were asked a certain question and that not one of them resented the question being asked; but I submit that it entirely depends on the nature of the questions. I can imagine people going to a house and asking, \"Is your husband at home?\" The answer might be \"No\" or \"Yes,\" and possibly there would be no resentment in giving the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1543.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SOCIAL SURVEY.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Information (Mr. Duff Cooper)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Information (Mr. Duff Cooper)", "preceding_text": "ve been elected since, and are merely carrying on the state of parties existing in their constituencies. All those things are limitations upon our usefulness at the present time. Other hon. Members are carrying on other activities by serving the State in many ways, and are no longer available as representatives of their constituencies. The usefulness of Members of Parliament is at present limited—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-01", "file": "debates1940-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "96c2ffdef4000dca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR-TIME SOCIAL SURVEY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooper", "preceding_text": "been going on since the middle of May. It was only the end of last week that the Press discovered it, and all the papers discovered it simultaneously. At this moment there is very little news to report. It is often the way in happier times, when it is called the \"silly season.\" The Press is shorter of news now than it was in happier times. There is no sporting news and very little theatrical news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-01a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "om the scheme. There would be a certain number of children going, in future, in convoyed ships, and some 3,000 or 4,000 of those children would have been going from grant-aided schools and schools under various private schemes put up by authorities in England and by bodies in the United States and Canada. It is hoped to resume those whenever possible and whenever the military situation will allow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.22.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that some of these children left in neutral ships and in the American ship \"Washington,\" is it the intention of the Government to give permits for children to leave in the future in neutral or in American ships?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.22.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.68.5", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Because that will be dealt with in the regulations. There will be a great deal of matter in the regulations which it is not convenient or practicable to bring before the House in a Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.68.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.68.7", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But not amending them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "inging a Bill before the House at all, but it was thought desirable to bring this Bill before the House for the reasons which I have explained. It seemed only courteous and proper that the House should hale, in outline, the scheme which we contemplate putting into the regulations. The regulations when they are made will come before the House and the House will have an opportunity of debating them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.68.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": " winding-up speech at the end of the Debate. I fully appreciate that my right hon. Friend desires that this Bill should be passed as soon as possible, but other criticisms may be made as the discussion goes on, and I should like to have an assurance that we are to have an opportunity thoroughly to debate the Bill, whatever decision may have been taken after a discussion lasting an hour and a half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.94.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "I do net think that by dressing a man in a uniform we necessarily make him a better to lawyer or a better judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Arthur Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Arthur Evans", "preceding_text": "ced as a result of the state of affairs through which he had passed in recent hours or days, and the man being shot as the result of his decision. Before the decision could be put into effect it would have to be confirmed by the competent military authority of the area. I do not recall the circumstances to which the hon. Member drew attention, but that would be impossible in present circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The regulations do so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "l with cases which involve long hearings, doubtful evidence on one side or the other, masses of witnesses and so on. It is important also that the courts should have power to impose the full penalties which may be imposed under the law. More than one hon. Gentleman has spoken as though the courts to be set up by regulation under the Bill might create new offences. That is, of course, quite untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And what a mess they made of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend said that that was under the regulations and not in the Bill. There may be circumstances in which it is unnecessary to have an appeal. After all, there was no right of appeal in this country until 25 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.143.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "preceding_text": "their findings. The hon. Member for Faversham (Sir A. Maitland) pointed out in a very fair speech, that it is not only the Air Ministry which comes under the criticism of the Select Committee and it would not be at all fair to state this case in terms which suggest that it was the Air Ministry, of their own free will, who chose this site, and was solely responsible for the decision that was taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "He will be £10,000 out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not profiteering!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "iday was paid time and a half, so that the Amalgamated Engineering Union insisted on profiteering. It is just as well that this should be said, in spite of the many murmurings behind me from hon. Gentlemen who are members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and who are quick to cry out, \"Shame on others who are profiteering,\" but are inclined to wink the eye at anything done by their own members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And more millionaires.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "preceding_text": "thod of finance. Last week, as on a previous occasion, the Chancellor laid great stress upon sound finance. Exactly what does he mean by sound finance? One would assume that over the last years we have enjoyed what he terms sound finance, but what has been the result of this sound finance? We have had as many as 5,000,000 people unemployed. When war broke out we had more than 2,000,000 unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-06", "file": "debates1940-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "6867b8cb448657b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.157.5", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want to hear him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "This is not a point of Order. The Financial Secretary caught my eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-06a.157.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.217.10", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "hich we can see arising, and also having regard to our future needs. It is free to take up any economic problem where, in its judgment, there is particular need for the co-ordination of the activities of a number of Departments concerned in that problem. Secondly, there is the Economic Policy Committee, over which I preside and which concerns itself with the broader problem of economic war policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.217.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "still being pressed forward at the expense of work required at some later stage, but work which, if the war be prolonged, we shall have to complete at sonic time or another. It became clear to us also that certain private enterprise building was interfering with the war effort, and the Production Council therefore decided, on the recommendation of the Chairman of the Works and Buildings Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.266.5", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Surely I am not being called upon as a member of the Labour party on this side—I cannot say the Opposition side—to deal in detail with all the matters which ought to be the concern of the Government themselves. I am going to deal with something much more important. After all, surely it is better, instead of allowing miners to remain unemployed, for the Government to build up huge stocks of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.266.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.266.5", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n which they asked, and persisted in asking for an iron ration. I noted, in particular, that the hon. Member who is now Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food was as keen as mustard on an iron ration. But the other day he spoke about there being no need for extending rationing this year. There seems to be a change of mind on the part of hon. Members when they cross the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.266.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": " now time that the Government considered revising the 100 per cent. Excess Profits Tax. The last two Budgets have imposed burdens on industry that will undoubtedly produce stagnation if they are allowed to continue. Enterprise is being stifled. It is individual enterprise that we require. I disagree with the speech of the hon. Member who has just spoken. There must be some incentive to production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "ork. I now come to the point about the remuneration of labour. I have great admiration for the efforts that labour has put into industry during the war period. I have never had any trouble, argument or differences with trade unions. I respect their organisation and the good work that they have clone for the community. On the other hand, I do not respect the wages ramp which is taking place to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "isfied and is becoming more dissatisfied. I am not complaining because I happen to be a manufacturer and have to pay these high wages. I receive correspondence daily, in common with other Members of the House, and I could extract one or two facts from these letters for the benefit of hon. Members who do not believe me. I saw in the paper to-day about a young fellow of 16 who is earning £12 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.288.5", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "I do not agree that he is getting trade union rates; he is getting a bonus to which he is not entitled and which is above the trade union rates. I agree that supply and demand of labour and its remuneration are the same as supply and demand of commodities, but a small section of the labouring community is taking advantage of the present exceptional conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "blem which I have outlined is faced, we are in for economic collapse. The war may be won or lost on the economic front, and we have to take into consideration factors of that description. Six months hence may be too late. It is too late as it is, but I hope that the Minister will give some attention to this very important factor. I will not worry the House with another half-dozen of these letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.289.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": ", why, we can go back to our present system, if we find that State action is not the most efficient method of producing wealth. Naturally, as an individualist, I consider that the State, in interfering with the individual in normal times, always makes mistakes and is more foolish than the average individual. I think that probably most Members of the House, even on this side, agree with me on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or unskilled\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ether, because, even if the danger of invasion has gone, the import and export trade of the country will not be of a character to take up the peace-time full employment. Reference has been made to men being stood off at aircraft factories. That may be. We cannot afford for any skilled man to be idle, and one of the pressures that I am daily putting on managements is not to keep a skilled man idle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "on can compensate him. He has to face at the end of the war a competitive factor which may mean, not waiting for the Treasury to tell him how much money he is to get, but whether his whole employment is going. That is the nightmare that dilution represents, yet that inspector has to carry it out. Please do not say there is no planning, and that the danger is being dealt with in a half-hearted way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "The suggestion was made that miners were being thrown out of work and nothing was being done. It is a cynicism which goes deep into the hearts of men when it is implied that one of his own colleagues is letting this happen and that nothing is being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "both goods and materials available and idle men who could produce more wealth to keep the whole economic system in action. The whole thing is based on a profound misconception of the meaning of money, but I do not want to go into a long dissertation upon what money is. I do not want to start that hare. There are two things I urge that the Government should do. First of all, there is land purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "over. I quite agree with the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Labour that the Cabinet, Ministers, secretaries and so on, are doing far too much to be able to sit down and think out what is to happen under an enormous variety of possible circumstances, but I suggest that it will be quite possible to find some fairly level-headed, intelligent and progressive people who are not in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "What we are talking about is the fresh unemployment caused by the peculiar legislation being passed by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.354.3", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But better machinery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "f 20 years ago, knows that. It is more difficult to get organised on a small scale basis, and we have to face that reality. Moreover, the limiting factor is not the production of ammunition but the production of weapons, and weapons, especially those of the more scientific development, are very complicated things to make. So we have, obviously, a rather different problem from that of 20 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-07", "file": "debates1940-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "0e80acdd97caa8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY (DEPART MENTAL PROCEDURE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "preceding_text": "had a conference with two outside experts, and the Minister's private secretary was present to be quite sure that the position was fairly considered. On the merits of that conference, it was decided that this man should be authorised to go ahead with the tests, and that if the tests were satisfactory, the Government would provide the money to put down the working plant to produce the ferro-chrome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-07a.358.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-08", "file": "debates1940-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "c91ac13260ab5409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "What conceivable public interest could suffer from the House of Commons knowing how our money is being spent? Can the right hon. Gentleman assure us that the appointment of Lord Swinton and the other gentleman mentioned are appointments which will give confidence in this secret committee to the trade union movement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.415.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-08", "file": "debates1940-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "c91ac13260ab5409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "he is considerably concerned about the committee that has been set up under the chairmanship of Lord Swinton. I share with him equally some of the very grave doubts as to what this body is doing. If the purpose of this body is to nose around among Members of Parliament and to and out their opinions on this, that and the other thing with a view to reporting them to the authorities, then this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-08", "file": "debates1940-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "c91ac13260ab5409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the usual channels?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " been better to have discussed the question. This Government has again and again pointed out to Members of the House that it is desired that the House should have the fullest opportunity of discussing subjects, and it is our constant endeavour to find out—and it is not always very easy—what any considerable number of Members want to discuss. This matter can be discussed through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.427.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-08", "file": "debates1940-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "c91ac13260ab5409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.428.16", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I take it that the Committee will consent to the usual course and that I should call the numbers of the Clauses, when there are no Amendments on the Order Paper, one by one and then put those Clauses en bloc, unless any hon. Member interrupts me when I call a particular Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.428.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-08", "file": "debates1940-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "c91ac13260ab5409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "ring to the replacement of capital. The suggestion has been resisted by the strength of the organisation. The miners have now refused to allow such a provision to be inserted in their agreements, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer is making this present to his friends in the coalfields, the coalowners. Evidently, the opposition that has been put up from these benches is to be very limited indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.493.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-08", "file": "debates1940-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "c91ac13260ab5409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not food.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "preceding_text": " was being given to foodstuffs. We spend £53,000,000 a year in order to prevent the price of food rising. This new tax is a direct contradiction of that policy. I cannot see the consistency in subsidising foodstuffs by more than £50,000,000 a year in order to keep down prices and at the same time putting taxes to the amount of £110,000,000 a year upon food and clothing and the necessaries of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-08", "file": "debates1940-08-08a.xml", "sha256": "c91ac13260ab5409", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.559.3", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "I should not have intervened but for the suggestion that my hon. Friend had introduced a wrecking proposal in seeking to omit the Clause. The articles mentioned by the last speaker are not in any sense in the same category as the articles which will be covered by the Purchase Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-08a.559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that raids have taken place without notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Without a warning\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that raids have taken place without notice—[ Laughter ]—I mean without notice being given to the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.607.8", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "I have already stated that the extra remuneration has been given on two counts, one, that the number of directors rendering exclusive service to the Bank was increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.607.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware that if this man had said or done anything to conflict with any of the Regulations, the police would have been entitled to take action against him? He has committed no offence of any kind against the Regulations. He is a competent worker. What is the reason for his dismissal and for the police interfering with industrial workers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.611.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.613.7", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lunn", "preceding_text": "I do not like this Purchase Tax in any way. I should have much preferred conscription of wealth. But, having got this tax, we should know what it is to mean. The Chancellor indicated that children's clothes and boots would be exempt from the tax. I had a letter this morning from a mother who asked me what are \"children's\" boots? She has a girl aged 12 who wears size six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.613.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Broad", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Broad", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, who has an income of a Member of Parliament, says that his wife does so now. I should think she is almost unique in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.675.3", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBE: \"How do you know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "If you wish me to take a cheaper frock, I can do so. Four yards of cotton material at 1s. 3d. a yard is 5s. Add 25 per cent, to the retail price, which is 1s. 3d., and that brings the price up to 6s. 3d. The same frock which you buy ready-made to-day costs 10s", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "cellor persists in this, he will throw overboard any respect that is felt for him among a certain community in this country. People who cannot afford flannel have to be satisfied with flannelette. The pre-war wholesale price of the common variety of flannelette was 7⅞d. per yard. Today, the wholesale price is 11¼d. per yard. There is an increase in the wholesale price of 87 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "t cases which have been presented, but he has to keep the main objectives in view—the raising of cash and the checking of consumption. When all is said and done, in spite of special cases which have been mentioned by hon. Gentlemen, the purchase of beds is not, perhaps, the most frequent thing that happens to people in their lifetime. Beds are not one of the most frequent purchases in a household.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.724.1", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "n being unanimous about anything; and, for that reason, I have very grave suspicions about this list. I urge the Chancellor to consider very carefully indeed the wisdom of including these words in the Schedule. By greatly increasing the cost of a number of drugs his proposal would bring hardship to many people who could ill afford the addition. For example, there are drugs which relieve headaches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.724.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "rnment factories, as I have done recently. I could spot one by one patients needing treatment, but no doctor was attached to the premises. All things needed for their treatment are now to be taxed. I suggest that the Chancellor should recast the tax and I appeal to him to do so on behalf of the poor who will have to pay. I do not appeal for the rich, who can always go to the Riviera and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were sent to hospital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "cords specially prepared for them. There might be some hope for people who become maimed and afflicted. They should not be compelled to suffer, and then be fined by the State because they have sought some cure. The Chancellor seemed to arrive at the position of Samuel Butler in \"Erewhon,\" where those were penalised who were ill or infirm, while those guilty of normal crime roamed the country free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-13", "file": "debates1940-08-13a.xml", "sha256": "18176fdf038f31e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.745.5", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "xious that books should be free of tax. We want all literature free of tax. We have the wireless, but sometimes we are glad to get away from it. In these days of rumours when we hear of \"silent columns\" and are told \"You must not talk\" we should remember that it is not silence or talk which defeats rumours but statements in print, in papers that can be trusted. There are papers that you can trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-13a.745.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "om one thing to another. The whole background of this matter, the whole reason why the pledge was ever made and why this problem ever arose, is to be found in the fact that unless something of this kind could be done there would be a stumbling-block in the way of the campaign directed at getting new savings—not transfers from other securities, but new savings throughout the country during the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There has been.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e reason why the pledge was ever made and why this problem ever arose, is to be found in the fact that unless something of this kind could be done there would be a stumbling-block in the way of the campaign directed at getting new savings—not transfers from other securities, but new savings throughout the country during the war. [Interruption.] I do not want any misunderstanding about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Capt. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Capt. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "People know whether they have some of these savings, and the quicker they apply the quicker they will be able to get the back payment. That brings me to the end of what I have to say. I feel sure the House will agree with me that the Bill which I have explained does give full effect to Lord Simon's pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Capt. Crookshank", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is a miserable and disgraceful Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Capt. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "of these savings, and the quicker they apply the quicker they will be able to get the back payment. That brings me to the end of what I have to say. I feel sure the House will agree with me that the Bill which I have explained does give full effect to Lord Simon's pledge. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Whether or not there has been any doubt about it, we have put the most favourable interpretation upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " happy times of unemployment after the war.\" Consequently you create, in effect, a small deprivileged class, and you say to the ordinary citizen: \"If you have sold your previous investments in Morris Motors or any other commercial enterprise and brought money to the Government during the war, all that money will be new money and treated in accordance with the Chancellor of the Exchequer's pledge.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And saved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "With all respect, it appears to me to be absolute nonsense. In both cases the money was earned before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " of money being spent on public assistance which otherwise would not have been; it will, at any rate, have the advantage that there will be a marked encouragement for people to save money, not only now when the Government are appealing to them to do so, but at all times. I understand that there is not to be a Division on this Second Reading; at any rate, I do not understand that there will be one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "sk what is the principle whereby a person who has invested £375 is not permitted to sell old loan and buy new loan, and thus get the benefits to which his patriotism and thrift entitle him? Am I right in stating that if a man has £375 and has invested it in building shares or railroad stock he could sell his shares and buy war saving stock and thus be included among the beneficiaries of this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "tant statement made the other day on India, and I suggest that it might be wise not to press the Bill at the moment. It is a very complicated Bill. It aims at doing a very simple thing, but it upsets many preconceived ideas of Members and of the public outside. I have read the speech of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I agree that, on a strict interpretation, the Bill might be justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.855.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.859.10", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw the Bill.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The money may have been saved since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.859.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.859.11", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are wasting time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.859.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " different aspect from the normal thrift propaganda in times of peace. When hon. Members go on to take exception to my interpretation of what is \"new money,\" I would refer again to what was said by my Noble Friend: It will be necessary in the legislation to make provision to secure that the investment really is of new money and not a transfer of money from previous funds of the same sort. …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.860.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-14", "file": "debates1940-08-14a.xml", "sha256": "80564573cb4bf5e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.862.5", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS (DETERMINATION OF NEEDS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Or the Leader of the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary is not in a position to take a decision. Only the Chancellor can take a decision with regard to the withdrawal of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-14a.862.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-15", "file": "debates1940-08-15a.xml", "sha256": "88c79fbf1e9d58f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is a Government factory in Birmingham where girls in the early twenties are earning as much as £8 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-15", "file": "debates1940-08-15a.xml", "sha256": "88c79fbf1e9d58f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is a Government factory in Birmingham where girls in the early twenties are earning as much as £8 a week—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and does he consider that this is just and equitable to the men in the Forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-15", "file": "debates1940-08-15a.xml", "sha256": "88c79fbf1e9d58f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.957.6", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "work in our Island. [An HON, MEMBER: \"Watch them.\"] Several branches of State Departments are, of course, always charged with the duty of frustrating such designs. But they were not working smoothly. There were overlaps and underlaps, and I felt in that hour of anxiety that this side of the business of National Defence wanted pulling together. I therefore asked Lord Swinton to undertake this task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.957.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-15", "file": "debates1940-08-15a.xml", "sha256": "88c79fbf1e9d58f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.957.6", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He failed in another job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ranches of State Departments are, of course, always charged with the duty of frustrating such designs. But they were not working smoothly. There were overlaps and underlaps, and I felt in that hour of anxiety that this side of the business of National Defence wanted pulling together. I therefore asked Lord Swinton to undertake this task. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because he was the best man to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.957.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-08-15", "file": "debates1940-08-15a.xml", "sha256": "88c79fbf1e9d58f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.961.8", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I ask for your protection, Mr. Speaker, against this gross and lying innuendo?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.961.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-15", "file": "debates1940-08-15a.xml", "sha256": "88c79fbf1e9d58f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.963.6", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but would it not be desirable that the atmosphere should be cleared up at this moment so as to avoid, if possible, any further discussion? Is it not the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has inadvertently missed the whole point of the criticism? No Questions have been put on the Order Paper the answers to which would have injured the public interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.963.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-15", "file": "debates1940-08-15a.xml", "sha256": "88c79fbf1e9d58f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEVENTH SCHEDULE.—(Purchase Tax (Chargeable Goods).)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would it be done by stamps?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "Cases of that kind will obviously need special consideration. Of course there is power to make an exemption, but where it would be of no benefit to employers, employés or to the State, then this exemption would not apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-15a.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-20", "file": "debates1940-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4cfc72bdad9730f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-20a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Almost invariably when the Prime Minister makes a statement nowadays it takes the wind out of the sails of most of the speakers who follow him, and there seems to be some unwritten law that after the Prime Minister has spoken there should be very little criticism of what he has said", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-20a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-20", "file": "debates1940-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4cfc72bdad9730f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-20a.1225.5", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " he said, I thought that his speech might have had a good deal more that was constructive and on that account it lacked statesmanship. He swept aside the appeals which, he said, had been made to him to take this opportunity to make a broad declaration of our aims. It might have given the House the impression that there was nothing behind that appeal and that people did not want such a declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-20a.1225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-20", "file": "debates1940-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "d4cfc72bdad9730f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-20a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "preceding_text": "which he made, and those of my hon. Friend the Member for Bodmin (Mr. Rathbone), will receive careful consideration. Another hon. Member complained about that tiresome necessity of organisation, the filling-up of forms. There is hardly any organisation, civil or military, which is exempt from that process. It may seem tiresome that it should require the filling-up of two forms to procure a window—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-20a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-21", "file": "debates1940-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "1bb008556adc29b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "you are very much involved in the Adjournment procedure, and as it has been a practice in this House that Adjournment Debates should be opportunities for back benchers, that what is disturbing us is that the right hon. Gentleman seems to be giving a Front Bench intimation of an intention to take all the time available, to-morrow, on the Adjournment Motion, for the discussion of a specific subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-21", "file": "debates1940-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "1bb008556adc29b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1314.20", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "e would, I think, agree that it has not functioned, within the last generation or two generations, with anything like the efficiency it has shown since the war started. It has shown itself a free assembly in which every Member has the right to express his views. It has been able to repair injustices and initiate reforms on more than one occasion. Three or four months ago it changed the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1314.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-21", "file": "debates1940-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "1bb008556adc29b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1346.3", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is to be discussed to-morrow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "I refer to the question of the refugees, only as one which I wish to see ventilated before the House adjourns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-21", "file": "debates1940-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "1bb008556adc29b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " what has been said by the Lord Privy Seal. I have no doubt at all that Parliament will do well to separate for a fortnight. There was one day last week when there was more rude temper about this House than there should be, just because we are tired of looking at one another. I do not know how the hon. Gentleman sitting opposite to me feels, but if it is the same as I feel sitting opposite to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-21", "file": "debates1940-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "1bb008556adc29b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED FORCES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "Do I understand the hon. Gentleman to say it will require another Bill to be passed by this House? I do not think it will. The pressure that you bring to bear upon unfortunate nationals in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-21", "file": "debates1940-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "1bb008556adc29b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED FORCES BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": "been armed and is still regarded as something rather like the Labour Corps of the last war. I do not want to accentuate that, because I know it is the desire of those who organised the force that they should not be considered as being like the Labour Corps of the last war. But they are not armed, even now, as fully as many of our own troops, and there is a slight slur on those who join this Corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-21", "file": "debates1940-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "1bb008556adc29b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Scottish farmers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morgan", "preceding_text": "eason why people who can buy imported wheat at 37s. or 38s. should buy home-grown wheat at 65s. and no reason, apart from pressure, why they should buy it at 14s. 6d. a cwt. In regard to oats, there are farmers who want to sell, yet when farmers sell it is very often to each other, and it is therefore in the interests of farmers as a whole that the price of the commodity should not go up too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-21a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-22", "file": "debates1940-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "514d177d97f557f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "INTERNEES.", "cue_speaker": "Major Cazalet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Longer than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Cazalet", "preceding_text": "on. I myself have taken very few cases to the Home Office, because it is so difficult to check the facts. Of course, there has been exaggeration, but I would say, in extenuation of some of the exaggeration of which perhaps hon. Members of this House have been guilty: how can you expect that there will not be exaggeration when it has taken over three weeks to get a letter from one party to another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-22", "file": "debates1940-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "514d177d97f557f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "INTERNEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " people who were defeatists, and from people who have nothing to lose if Hitler comes here. Those are the natural dangers. Can anyone in this House imagine the right hon. Gentleman interning every person who had ever been suspected of agreeing with Mussolini or Hitler? Nearly everybody in this House—I do not include myself, of course—has been enamoured of Mussolini or Hitler at some time or other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-22", "file": "debates1940-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "514d177d97f557f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "INTERNEES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "that some form on which applications can be made for release under all the different categories, so that the one form can be used whichever category they are applying under, should be prepared and drawn up in English with a German translation underneath it, and that this should be made available to refugees and to Members of the House to save us correspondence and to help the Ministry in its task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-22", "file": "debates1940-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "514d177d97f557f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1580.3", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "INTERNEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-08-22", "file": "debates1940-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "514d177d97f557f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1581.7", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "INTERNEES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was yours addressed to the Home Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "o their friends outside. The hon. Member for Barnstaple asked about postal communications and cited an instance of a letter having just reached a friend of his after having been posted on 2nd or 3rd August. Well, like other hon. Members here, I have my friends in internment, and I have a letter here from one of them in the Isle of Man which is dated 13th August and which reached me On 17th August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-08-22a.1581.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-09-05", "file": "debates1940-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "bada9af344841e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-05a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Will the Home Secretary say how many of these Bengali tigers have special qualifications for air-raid precautions work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-05a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-09-05", "file": "debates1940-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "bada9af344841e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-05a.11.9", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "An air-raid warning has been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-05a.11.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-09-05", "file": "debates1940-09-05a.xml", "sha256": "bada9af344841e83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-05a.28.12", "colnum": "28", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Motor cars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ncement to-day, but such an announcement must be made within the next week, at the latest. I think I have given the House a pretty clear indication of what is in our thoughts, and of the direction in which we are thinking of moving at the present time. There is another point which I should like to mention, and that is this business of lighting the streets, the centres of the cities of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-05a.28.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-09-17", "file": "debates1940-09-17a.xml", "sha256": "63db8291515651b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-17a.83.6", "colnum": "83", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "By Order.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Clyde Lighthouses Consolidation Order Confirmation Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-09-17a.83.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-08", "file": "debates1940-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "b12e56610d25b508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary cannot answer for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.240.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-10-08", "file": "debates1940-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "b12e56610d25b508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.252.4", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Could not we have some fuller statement regarding Secret Sessions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-08", "file": "debates1940-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "b12e56610d25b508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.261.7", "colnum": "261", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "aintained all through the winter, not only along the beaches but in reserve, as the majority are, like leopards crouching to spring at the invader's throat. The enemy has certainly got prepared enough shipping and barges to throw half a million men in a single night on to salt water—or into it. The Home Guard, which now amounts to 1,700,000 men, must nurse their weapons and sharpen their bayonets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.261.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-08", "file": "debates1940-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "b12e56610d25b508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "vice of his officials. Even that shelter, experts advise, contains far more steel than is necessary. We wasted steel in its construction because the steel masters had far too much influence. Every expert knows that the Anderson shelter contains a far higher percentage of steel than is needed. The deep shelter policy of the right hon. Gentleman has been shown to be a miserable farce and a disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-08a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-09", "file": "debates1940-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "62293bbb8bf3cfc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "the County Council that they would not be available. We settled down with the County Council straight away to work out what was the proper staff for each of these centres, and we agreed with them that it should be five individuals doing a 24 hours stretch of work at a time, plus a nurse to be available round the clock, plus an Information Officer who would be present throughout the daylight hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-09", "file": "debates1940-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "62293bbb8bf3cfc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "have still to be evacuated, yet an instruction came down to us last night to be ready to-morrow to accommodate 560 Royal Engineers and to billet them inside the borough. That cannot be done. It is a ridiculous proposition to make. The people who are to send the Engineers to help to deal with the debris must have made some sort of arrangement for the billeting and accommodation of their own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-09", "file": "debates1940-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "62293bbb8bf3cfc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Going round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ecurity. The right hon. Gentleman is going round. Fortunately he will not need to do so, because he knows the difference between a borough council and a public assistance committee. The Minister of Health has been going round. The Parliamentary Secretary—I have often followed in her tracks—has been going round. Now, if you please, we have a Regional Commissioner for London. What has he been doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-09", "file": "debates1940-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "62293bbb8bf3cfc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "roydon (Mr. Willink), for whom I have the greatest possible respect, but he has to learn his job. He is going round. I have followed him in Stepney, Poplar and West Ham. He has had to do it all this week. Now, if you please, we have an additional Under-Secretary to tackle this problem. Therefore we have 10 people, including Sir Warren Fisher and Sir Ernest Gowers, to tackle this problem of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-09", "file": "debates1940-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "62293bbb8bf3cfc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is what we want to do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ommodation in the schools. That position no longer exists. I plead to-day that London should be treated as a region. I do not want to say anything against local councils. I have been a member of the borough council in Stepney, and I realise the touch they may have with the local people; but the time has come for local authorities, even Poplar, to be agencies doing executive work for a larger body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-09a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-10", "file": "debates1940-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "fc56ca78f1b7ffd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-10a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "AIR-RAID PRECAUTIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that. Some weeks ago I was in Glasgow, and on the day of my visit there was a call from the military commander of one of our Allies billeted somewhere in Scotland to know whether they could get any instructors in the English language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-10a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-15", "file": "debates1940-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f9bda00e6f3d0f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-15a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "f the new world without consulting the other people who live in it is fantastic. If we are to bring real peace, the German people must play a part in framing that real peace. There is no one who thinks that peace can come without consulting 120,000,000 people, of great ability and culture, or that they can be suppressed and kept under for 40 or 50 years, while we call it peace. That is impossible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-15a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-15", "file": "debates1940-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "f9bda00e6f3d0f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-15a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "ver, declaring war on the very gentlemen in France and in Great Britain who welcomed him at the time. I have been in Danzig. What has the right hon. Gentleman got to say about Danzig? In the settlement of this war what is to happen to that city? I will tell the House what I saw in that city, which is predominantly German, more German than Liverpool is English. The Corridor is predominantly German.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-15a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-16", "file": "debates1940-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "3f52d8e432e16563", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-16a.783.4", "colnum": "783", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "est relation with them, and I am pleased to be able to say that the Air Force is consulting with us at the moment about giving us the same releases as we are getting from the War Office, and I am sure we shall find the same accommodating spirit that we have found from the War Office without being on the directorate. I think it is a considerable gain that the directorate should be small in numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-16a.783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-22", "file": "debates1940-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c651a051a5964f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-22a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Meat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " question, but a great deal of practical work has been done about it, and the Government have been advised about it. Let me say what I think scientific advice would be about the matter. It would say first that there are things which are vital, and, secondly, that there are things which are supplementary. Among the vital requirements it would put bread, milk, potatoes, oatmeal, vegetables and fats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-22a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-23", "file": "debates1940-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "9ce78896bbfbb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "This Bill is to extend the life of Parliament for another year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-23", "file": "debates1940-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "9ce78896bbfbb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "I bow to your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, and would only say that redistribution cuts both ways. The two speeches of the right hon. Gentlemen brought out many points of substance, but, I think, were rather strained. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Devonport made very heavy weather with the fact that this was both a revolutionary and unconstitutional proceeding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-23", "file": "debates1940-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "9ce78896bbfbb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1081.0", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " what I can only describe as a somewhat furtive, clandestine way, as though we were doing nothing which was in the least important, as though this was a mere formality which required no special justification and no special recommendation to the judgment of the people, seems to me to be a profound mistake to make in the middle of a most critical fight for the preservation of democracy in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1081.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-23", "file": "debates1940-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "9ce78896bbfbb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXIT PERMITS (Mr. H. G. WELLS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "s not the first time we have been indebted to a praying general. When I was a boy there was a man called Gordon, and he was a praying general, and there was a man in my grandfather's time called Havelock, and he was a praying general. In the last war, when our very lives were at hazard, we had a praying general in Foch. All this talk comes from an agnostic who is going past his best in his dotage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-23", "file": "debates1940-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "9ce78896bbfbb6b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXIT PERMITS (Mr. H. G. WELLS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not inaudible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I think we had better consider one case at a time. One important point in considering whether a particular lecture tour is or is not in the public interest is the question of the eminence of the lecturer and the amount of foreign currency which will inure to the benefit of this country. In that respect we may regard Mr. H. G. Wells as an invisible export.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-23a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1940-10-24", "file": "debates1940-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "88c22c2e6df34a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-24a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicolson", "preceding_text": "I am aware that Mr. Taylor's statements led to a considerable controversy at the time, but Mr. Taylor was speaking as an independent person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-24a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-10-24", "file": "debates1940-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "88c22c2e6df34a95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-24a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that nearly 1,000 men were lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-10-24a.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-05", "file": "debates1940-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "75e3c75c8e6c74ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-05a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "Has not the time come when this practice of referring to \"the next Sitting day\" instead of stating the date, might be reconsidered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-05a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-05", "file": "debates1940-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "75e3c75c8e6c74ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-05a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All schools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": " friends were being thrown away on the French battlefields. It is giving us a magnificent example of what mankind and womankind can stand up to. Who would have imagined, when we were discussing this war 15 months ago, that in actual practice our airmen—our boys, drawn, mind you, not from the public schools, not from the aristocratic caste, but from the secondary foundation schools of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-05a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-07", "file": "debates1940-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "bdc915b3025da377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1433.3", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "I must have an answer to my Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-07", "file": "debates1940-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "bdc915b3025da377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1444.9", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "er? I have a Question on the Order Paper, No. 101, and it has been on the Paper for the last fortnight. It is in regard to the reconstruction of the Home Guard. Yesterday my hon. and gallant Friend the Joint Under-Secretary of State for War anticipated my Question by one day when he made his statement. Now, Sir, Question Time is almost the one democratic privilege left to us Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1444.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-07", "file": "debates1940-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "bdc915b3025da377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For what purpose\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "any hope for us unless we make that effort for international understanding? Is not the whole war about that as far as we are concerned? Is there anything inconsistent in saying that if you are in favour of international understanding, that means understanding the enemy as well as we understand ourselves? A good soldier would have known that the first duty of a combatant is to understand his enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-07", "file": "debates1940-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "bdc915b3025da377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "to maintain themselves. Take the case of Mr. X, with a wife and perhaps one or two dependants. He is able, being in a job, to maintain himself and his family. He is no charge upon the fund. But take him away and put him in a camp at Huyton or in the Isle of Man, or deport him to Canada or to Australia, leaving his dependants at home without support, and promptly they become a charge upon the fund,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-07", "file": "debates1940-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "bdc915b3025da377", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1524.3", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS III.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "The question of policy is the only question I am discussing. I am moving the reduction in order to get the opinion of the Committee on the policy for which the money is being voted. I know that the Chief Whips on the two sides rig these Debates and try to prevent free discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-07a.1524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-12", "file": "debates1940-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "e000f25f364a928e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-12a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Adams", "preceding_text": "en exposed after nine long years as a huge political sham, had gone either to the Suez Canal or to the House of Lords. I came back last week to find acres of the East End of London in ruins, as well as tracts of devastation in other parts of the Metropolis—magnificent memorials, we shall all agree, to the methods by which the Chief Whip and his friends have run our affairs for the last nine years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-12a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-12", "file": "debates1940-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "e000f25f364a928e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-12a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Adams", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. and gallant Gentleman will hold his peace until I have finished speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-12a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-12", "file": "debates1940-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "e000f25f364a928e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-12a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Adams", "preceding_text": "old his peace until I have finished speaking. [ Interruption. ] If I have transgressed the canons of ordinary manners and proceeded beyond the rules of Parliamentary invective, I apologise, and withdraw. The only favour I have ever asked the right hon. and gallant Gentleman—and he will bear me out in this—is that I should be allowed to speak, a favour which he has not always been able to grant me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-12a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-13", "file": "debates1940-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8bced1ae19a2c0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-13a.1688.4", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the men should not have confidence in a Governmental inquiry, when the Government represents all parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-13a.1688.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-13", "file": "debates1940-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "8bced1ae19a2c0ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-13a.1792.0", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES PENSIONS AND GRANTS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "preceding_text": "just as much in the front line as the members of the other Services and who at the moment are indeed bringing more claims against my Department than the Services themselves. Then I have the Mercantile Marine and the fishermen. They were not under my Department in the last war. There is the whole of the civilian population of the country—45,000,000 of people—and now added to that is the Home Guard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-13a.1792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-19", "file": "debates1940-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "e797414218e24337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-19a.1915.0", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME GUARD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "some future time to consider whether any step such as the alteration of the 14 days is necessary. If the country contemplated making any change, it could only be under conditions in which the great bulk of the men themselves were in favour of it, had thought it over, appreciated the position and were willing and consenting parties to the change, and I do not think that that at present is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-19a.1915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1940-11-20", "file": "debates1940-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "dd20d0c7cd5ebff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-20a.2098.2", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "INDIAN, BURMAN, AND COLONIAL WAR EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "preceding_text": "e Secretary of State has made, but is it not possible that the right hon. Gentleman himself might make the effort for which an appeal has been made from more than one quarter of the House? The great difficulty is suspicion and misunderstanding. This cannot be removed by White Papers or governmental pronouncements, but it might be removed by the personal influence of the Secretary of State himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1940-11-20a.2098.2"}