{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-21", "file": "debates1941-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "864063da3b062a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that not only has this officer aroused a storm of protest—certainly a justified storm—among officers at least as able as he is and more gentlemanly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.16.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-01-21", "file": "debates1941-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "864063da3b062a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.31.6", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is criminal.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hen. Friend recognise that any destruction of goods in war-time is wasteful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-21", "file": "debates1941-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "864063da3b062a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Everybody?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "esses or professions or elsewhere, to come forward and play their part especially as capacity develops and demand increases. Although much has been and will be achieved by voluntary means, we have now reached the stage where it will be necessary to have industrial registration by age-groups and by this means to make a list of those who should be called upon to serve the State in national industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-21", "file": "debates1941-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "864063da3b062a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "occasions. My right hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Churchill) used to make speeches of supreme value and importance. He was supported by the late Lord Horne, by Sir Austin Chamberlain, by the two right hon. Gentlemen, the Under-Secretary of State for War in this House and in another place, respectively. We had a Debate, and then someone like the present Lord Chancellor was put up to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-21", "file": "debates1941-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "864063da3b062a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "de and war weariness in Germany would tell. Our propaganda would cause a revolt against Hitler. The Government are deeply to blame for that state of things. Now there is an equally dangerous point of view. You hear it in the speech of every Minister of the Crown. If we only wait long enough, the United States will give us everything that we want. We only have to hang out for a few weeks or months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-21", "file": "debates1941-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "864063da3b062a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "making it, with getting the same kind of Maginot Line or Russian steam roller complex that they had in the past. I take full responsibility for stating this fact, which I challenge the Government to deny. Not until very near the end of this year will you get from the United States such an appreciable accretion of strength in the things you need that it will make a real difference to the war issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-21a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-22", "file": "debates1941-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "10f35be7201aec75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-22a.214.7", "colnum": "214", "heading": "PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND MAN- POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am not attacking anybody. These attacks have been made ever since the right hon. Gentleman and this Government came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-22a.214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-22", "file": "debates1941-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "10f35be7201aec75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-22a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND MAN- POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "turn and when there is a rush for the buses, and you have to wait for buses both when going to and returning from work. Sometimes men spend 14 hours a day working and travelling to and from work. A young man who is a pretty tough fellow said to me, \"I leave home at seven o'clock in the morning, and it is sometimes eight or nine when I get back, and, believe me, at the week-end I am about done in.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-22a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-22", "file": "debates1941-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "10f35be7201aec75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-22a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PRODUCTION, SUPPLY AND MAN- POWER.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Member\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": " the victory to act with the unity which we shall have used to bring that victory. I feel my right hon. Friend is very well fitted for this great task, and it gives him a grand and a growing opportunity of historic national service. Now, I leave these matters of Governmental machinery, and I turn to the larger issues. We had forceful speeches yesterday from the Noble Lord the Minister for Horsham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-22a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Where is the Home Secretary?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "that story by itself shows an extraordinary deterioration in democratic standards in Great Britain. It does not seem to me to have been necessary, if the Home Secretary intended to take action of the kind he did, to secure the connivance of the other newspapers in order to do so. My hon. Friends and myself have made it quite clear in our Motion that we do not share the views of the \"Daily Worker.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not anticipate my arguments. His interruption is evidence that this is the sort of subject which the House of Commons is not fit to discuss judicially. The fact is that the Government enjoys in these circumstances far greater support than the last war Government did, and yet in that war there was no suppression of any daily paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.472.6", "colnum": "472", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t Britain with very large circulations. The Government, they were told, were very worried about the line they were taking. The proprietors of those two papers said, \"If that be so, we should like to discuss the matter with the Government,\" and they saw a member of the War Cabinet. That member of the War Cabinet said—mark his words—that in his view the line taken by those newspapers was subversive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.472.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As it is now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ey received these powers from the House of Commons by what now appears a trick. They got them on 31st July last year. There was another Debate in this House at that time, and I shall not go into the details because another hon. Member is to do that. It was a Debate about the Channel Islands being in the hands of the Germans, and we were discussing this matter with imminent invasion over our heads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "That is quite unfair; and it is an insult to me. I took this decision. I fully accept responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "the newspaper again gets over the line, and if it is foolish enough to do that, the Home Secretary has to prosecute. I suppose that with the amount of time that would have to be allowed for appeals, the whole procedure would take between six weeks and two months. Then, if the prosecution were successful and there were a fine imposed, or even a sentence of imprisonment, the paper would still go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Motion said that, when the attack was made on London by the German bombers, and when the worst effect of it was felt, the \"Daily Worker\" had not been able to break the morale of the people. It never attempted to break the morale of the people. There is continual talk about the \"Daily Worker\" exploiting grievances. There is a world of difference between exploiting grievances and proposing remedies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " manifest itself. On the editorial board of the \"Daily Worker\" are four lads who were fighting in Spain against Hitler and Mussolini when the Members of this House were supporting Hitler and Mussolini through the treacherous policy of non-intervention. And many more of our lads are lying dead there. Do you think we forget those lads? Do we forget our comrades in the concentration camps in Germany?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.508.4", "colnum": "508", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "r even had large subscriptions from anybody, except possibly that hysterical person Mr. Victor Gollancz, who for some strange reason the hon. Member for Barnstaple (Sir. R. Acland) thought could reinforce his views. I do not agree with everything in either the \"Daily Worker\" or the \"Week,\" but I support the newspaper in general, and I certainly could not vote for a Motion which started by saying —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.508.4", "colnum": "508", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "who for some strange reason the hon. Member for Barnstaple (Sir. R. Acland) thought could reinforce his views. I do not agree with everything in either the \"Daily Worker\" or the \"Week,\" but I support the newspaper in general, and I certainly could not vote for a Motion which started by saying —[ Interruption ]. I do not want to take up time by making more than half the speech that I have prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.508.4", "colnum": "508", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "thing about the \"Daily Worker.\" Professor Haldane is the chairman of the editorial board of the \"Daily Worker.\" Some papers say that is by some strange chance and, of course, like to explain it away. But it is not by strange chance; it is by deliberate choice. Who is Professor Haldane? He is one of the two or three greatest scientists in the world and one of the most intelligent people in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.508.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "Well, it does not matter what the right hon. Gentleman said anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what they are doing in Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "fortunately life does not work that way. The moment you suppress criticism of any Government, whether it be because it is weak, or because it is an enemy of the working classes, or a friend, you diminish efficiency and diminish the chance of getting grievances remedied. In effect, you are doing exactly what has been often described as putting a plaster over a boil and pretending it has been cured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ty has done. After almost every air raid on the great cities of our land, air raids to which the working people of this country have stood up with magnificent courage which has evoked the eternal praise and admiration of everybody, when homes have been destroyed, when families have been killed—or part of them killed, when disaster and suffering has descended on the humble households of our cities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", sooner or later, there would be trouble with this newspaper. Is it, in those circumstances, wise to wait until the damage is done? They were trying to do the damage—proceeding to undermine morale. Is it wise to wait until they are partially successful —to wait until the horse is gone before you lock the stable door? Is it not best to act, subject to proper consideration, before that takes place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-01-28", "file": "debates1941-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "ddc1ac46013a2de2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "SUPPRESSION OF THE \"DAILY WORKER\" AND THE \"WEEK.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should have learnt it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "overnment in time of war. It is playing the fool with government in time of war. It might apply to the unfortunate German Republic under the Weimar Constitution, where decision in government was lacking and weak, and where, as a consequence there were unconstitutional bodies and revolutionary parties and disturbers of the peace. After all, people should learn from the lesson of Republican Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-01-28a.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-04", "file": "debates1941-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "696aaa0ee05f7ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-04a.865.5", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a kiosk?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " case the owners would be subject to a premium of £10 a year in respect of something the capital value of which was £20. If a bomb fell, the chances are that damage would amount to less than £5, so that they would get nothing, and yet they are being called upon to pay a premium which is totally out of proportion to any kind of benefit which they can get. I cannot think of any comparable situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-04a.865.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-04", "file": "debates1941-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "696aaa0ee05f7ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-04a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "cerned whether the building society that lent him the money is getting its money back or not. But that man is the direct contributor; he has to pay his 2s. in the £ on Schedule A. You will find that many of those direct contributors will default. They will say, \"What are we going to get out of this?\" Here is a man whose house is razed to the ground—and probably his wife and children killed as well", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-04a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-11", "file": "debates1941-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9431b24ee18ce969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "CLAUSE 45.—(Insurance under business scheme to be compulsory.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "s. But there is substance in the Amendment; and the Board of Trade have power, under Clause 45, to exempt either classes of goods or classes of persons from the obligation to insure. We understand that, as a whole, the municipal corporations desire to insure their utility services' equipment, but not such things, for instance, as the works of art in their art galleries. I can well understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-11", "file": "debates1941-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9431b24ee18ce969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1305.0", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "CLAUSE 46.—(Power of Board of Trade to obtain information.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": " we were all in this war and that we all stood together, and I think it is unfair that a family living on the moors in Yorkshire or on Exmoor, or in Somerset, or in one of the safer areas should not be compelled to insure while those who live in the heavily bombed areas are compelled to insure. The official answer will probably be that compulsory insurance under the chattel scheme is not workable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-11", "file": "debates1941-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9431b24ee18ce969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "CLAUSE 46.—(Power of Board of Trade to obtain information.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "til the liabilities have been discharged, they will go on the five-year basis. It is a most ungenerous scheme because the Chancellor and his advisers will not face the issue. Why not say to the nation, \"You are going to have a system of insurance; everyone will be compensated generously and premiums will continue until the obligation has been discharged\"? This is a half-baked, rotten kind of Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-11", "file": "debates1941-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9431b24ee18ce969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1315.2", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "CLAUSE 46.—(Power of Board of Trade to obtain information.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chattels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "We are discussing a system of compulsory insurance with an arbitrary rate of premium based on fire insurance values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-11", "file": "debates1941-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9431b24ee18ce969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "CLAUSE 46.—(Power of Board of Trade to obtain information.)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "t with some of the other proposals in the Bill. I should also like to tell the Committee what has been in my own mind—apart from that section of the community to which the right hon. Gentleman refers—in order to reduce our problem, and make the scheme more attractive from the point of view of the premium. I recognise that the premium proposed may deter a number from taking advantage of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-11", "file": "debates1941-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9431b24ee18ce969", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1330.8", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sure that all the supplementary schemes from May, 1940, were produced under the régime of my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-11a.1330.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-13", "file": "debates1941-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a4ac34feef32e4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1549.9", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "I do not mind interruptions, as hon. Friends know, but I cannot go into the case of people transferring their property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1549.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-13", "file": "debates1941-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a4ac34feef32e4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "I am changing the date so cover all those cases that were mentioned by hon. Members on the last occasion. Those cases are covered up to the date of the Second Reading of the Bill, when the matter was made clear, and I suggest that is not an unreasonable course to take in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-13", "file": "debates1941-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a4ac34feef32e4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "rson living in the house who is a dependant—and that is the vital word—of the applicant come into the computation. To revert to the Methodist phraseology, there has been a change of heart. The Treasury have come out of the state of conviction, there has been true repentance, sincere sorrow for their sins, and—at any rate, I hope and believe—an honest and true conversion. I welcome that repentance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-13", "file": "debates1941-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a4ac34feef32e4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1600.3", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "paratively small a matter. The contribution of my hon. Friends opposite to national unity will be to say, when they are challenged about this, \"Had it not been for the meanness of the Tories we should have got rid of the household means test.\" The right hon. Gentleman is really under an obligation to answer these questions and to explain them. They are not trick questions. They are real questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1600.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-13", "file": "debates1941-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a4ac34feef32e4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1606.3", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was personal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I thought it was a bad example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-13", "file": "debates1941-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a4ac34feef32e4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1606.3", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "his is also in a minute, if you will have patience. I want to deal with the details. Great play has been made with the case of the mother who owns a house or at least is the householder and the colliery company which compels her to hand it over to the son. I wondered whether that was possible in the mining areas. If it was possible it is not a tribute to nearly 100 years of the Miners' Federation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-13", "file": "debates1941-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a4ac34feef32e4e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1606.5", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "But I do not accept the view that it is the colliery company which compels the transfer. If it is, it is news to me. I think my hon. Friend was drawing the long bow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-13a.1606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-18", "file": "debates1941-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "b48111ace7f631af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-18a.16.6", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that no power is vested in the Secretary of State to interfere with magistrates in their discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-18a.16.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-18", "file": "debates1941-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "b48111ace7f631af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-18a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": ". The figure of those from the Great War is 12,484 out of 400,000, while those of the new war number 15. I have been busy placing the new war cases where they can work. We have had some of the men trained and put: into jobs. Let us go a little further into the figures. This statement says: (a) Those disabled, but able to follow normal occupations; of the Great War 5,312. and of the new war, one.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-18a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-19", "file": "debates1941-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "9dc4afb3bcb480df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.138.4", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister give us the times of these accidents and also tell the House how many of them are due to drivers having taken even a slight amount of alcohol?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-19", "file": "debates1941-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "9dc4afb3bcb480df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1941 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Macdonald", "preceding_text": "d too much by the coalowners' point of view. We have felt for a long time that the Ministry is far too sensitive to that influence, and its policy is often arranged in order to satisfy the coalowners. We have felt that during the war their representations have influenced the Minister of Mines more than those of the miners. After all, the men are involved in the industry just as much as the owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-19", "file": "debates1941-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "9dc4afb3bcb480df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1941 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": "I never suggested that the Minister should reduce only miners' wages. What I said was that it should have been Government policy to pin wages and prices. The Government have not gone far enough with a result that as miners' wages go up, so the cost of coal and the cost of living go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-19", "file": "debates1941-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "9dc4afb3bcb480df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1941 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ritson (Durham)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ritson (Durham)", "preceding_text": "ind of coal we can get hold of. In the exporting areas, however, we think we are entitled to something more than a mere levy, and we ask that we should get our fair share of the inland trade. I fear, sometimes, that our own Federation is not as sympathetic in actuality as it is on paper. I am convinced that human nature enters even into federations. Some of the more rich members of the Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-19", "file": "debates1941-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "9dc4afb3bcb480df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1941 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "It is not my duty to answer that. It is my duty to bring before the Committee the instructions issued by the Minister's Department, which are known to the public, and to show how the Ministry have been going behind the backs of the public by telling the officials that they are not to take the instruction seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-19a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-27", "file": "debates1941-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f046a503dec0de1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.641.8", "colnum": "641", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If this Bill were not acceded to by the House, very great inconvenience would arise to the war effort of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.641.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-27", "file": "debates1941-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f046a503dec0de1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about serving Members\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "castle than I could have believed possible, and it was, I think, very largely that question which settled the election. There would be no objection whatever in nine out of 10 constituencies to their Members' services being employed by the Crown in time of war, provided that those services did not take them out of the country and did not interfere with their attention to their duties in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-27", "file": "debates1941-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f046a503dec0de1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": " really a very satisfactory state of affairs. I suppose we cannot get over it by reviving what used to take place in our history—a call of the House. The last occasion on which there was a call of the House was in 1836. Members who were not present on those occasions were sometimes sent for by the Sergeant-at-Arms, who brought them here in custody. I do not suggest that that should be revived now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-27", "file": "debates1941-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f046a503dec0de1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "t they are now doing. I cannot help wondering whether the time will not come when the right hon. Member for Chelsea (Sir S. Hoare) and the hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps) will have to choose between Ambassadorial careers and service in this House. I feel that we have reached a stage when we have rather passed the limit, and that is the appointment of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-27", "file": "debates1941-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f046a503dec0de1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He takes no salary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sy, even though, as in the case of the right hon. and learned Member for East Bristol (Sir S. Cripps), it is a formal, definite, diplomatic appointment, and not a special mission in any sense, has, according to the advice we have received, been held not to disqualify as an office of profit. That advice has not been challenged, or has not yet been challenged, by the House or by the common informer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-02-27", "file": "debates1941-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "f046a503dec0de1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption. '", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s Continuance Bill came on, obviously the House would include the Measure in the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, in the light of any report that the committee might make. If desired, the committee should not be wholly limited to the post-war period, but that is a matter which can well be discussed when the Motion for appointing (the Select Committee and the terms of reference are before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-02-27a.722.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "OFFICES OR PLACES OF PROFIT UNDER THE CROWN.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That step would be unusual, but, in view of the urgency of the matter, and if the House is willing, I will not stand in the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.779.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Lord North was far too frightened of the House of Commons.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "all from the lips of the Prime Minister. In some of its passages I think it was a disgraceful speech. No one who is proud of our Parliamentary institutions could possibly have listened to some of its generalisations without a sense of shame. They could only have been uttered by Lord North or somebody like that who was intending to buy the House of Commons in order to carry some particular Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " really seems to be sufficient in Clause I to make these safeguards adequate. First of all, there is the reference to the fact that these powers under the Bill are to operate only for the duration of the war, and further there is the certificate that the Prime Minister would have to give, and the House could raise this matter on each particular occasion that the Prime Minister made an appointment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "year, which might be a most inconvenient moment, and indeed it might be inconsistent with the appointment that it should not be possible to extend it beyond the year. Therefore, I think it would be wrong in this Bill to have legislative provision which disentitled, on the face of it, an appointment beyond the year. As I have said, Parliament is free to deal with this matter as and when it chooses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "worth, to the discussion, so that anyone accepting an appointment will appreciate the state of mind of the House? That is surely a matter of courtesy that ought to be done to the persons concerned for their guidance and assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.853.3", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where they arc all old men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "ons to come and cheer when necessary, and then to go away and be good boys in the meantime. I have heard it said that the Mother of Parliaments has become an old woman. I have heard it said by Government supporters and even by hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House that during a war you do not want Debates. I believe some of the best Debates we get in Parliament to-day are in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.853.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He is 66.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "yalty to the Prime Minister. I do not: care whether it pleases him or not; I am stating my view on behalf of my constituents. So long as this is an open Parliament and so long as my constituents are not disfranchised, I intend to say what I think, and I am saying here that I give 100 per cent, support to the Prime Minister, be cause I believe that his energy and leadership have saved this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-04", "file": "debates1941-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "f142fd56d7c28d3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1939 (PRIVILEGE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stanley Reed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stanley Reed", "preceding_text": " been satisfied with most meticulous care and with the most anxious desire to do the right thing. As I understand the information put before this House, the charge against the hon. Member concerned does not, in the least, affect his Parliamentary activities or responsibilities, but relates to matters quite outside, and to something which has nothing to do with his duties as a Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-04a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-06", "file": "debates1941-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3e7a72638a6d0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Captain Margesson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unpaid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Captain Margesson)", "preceding_text": "he modern Army, and men with specialist knowledge are as far as possible drafted to the appropriate units. The basic military training which every soldier must have is reduced to a minimum in these cases. Promotion to non-commissioned rank may take place very early in a soldier's career. If he shows the qualities of leadership, he is frequently given a lance-corporal stripe within the first month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-06", "file": "debates1941-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3e7a72638a6d0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Captain Margesson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a bookmaker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Captain Margesson)", "preceding_text": "would no doubt give slightly differing results, but the figures which I have quoted will give the House a good idea of the general trend. An examination of the civil occupations of the candidates at these units for the same period is also interesting. They included a printer, a miner, tailor, docker, an optician, a labourer, a race-horse trainer, a rope maker, a grocer, a fireman, and a barrister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-06", "file": "debates1941-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3e7a72638a6d0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "is so long. At one time it was said that there was too much paper used, and too many returns. As a result, instead of sending returns in quintuplicate, we had to send them in in triplicate. That arrangement lasted for a very short time. Extra copies were called for; and soon, instead of sending them in in threes, we were again sending them in fives, and then in sixes. It is an awful waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-06", "file": "debates1941-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3e7a72638a6d0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You are not doing so badly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "y of comparison, of the pension paid to widows of officers. The wife of a subaltern receives on his death through enemy action £.90 a year. A captain's widow receives £100 and a major's widow £ 140, and so on by steep jumps, until the widow of a general gets £450 and the widow of a field-marshal £600. Some of us, of relatively humble rank, will indeed have to make haste up the ladder of promotion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-06a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-03-12", "file": "debates1941-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd367eabbe664413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAMAICA (CONSTITUTION).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "In view of the great importance of this constitutional development in our Colonial Empire, could the statement be read at the end of Questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-12", "file": "debates1941-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd367eabbe664413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Rawson", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for his reply, may I ask whether it is not a fact that any legislation can be got through in this country within 24 hours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-03-12", "file": "debates1941-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd367eabbe664413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1277.8", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recognise the extreme urgency of reducing financial commitments at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1277.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-12", "file": "debates1941-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd367eabbe664413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e to come to some arrangement. It has happened on many occasions that we have agreed to have a discussion of a general nature on the Question, \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill,\" a guarantee being given to the Chair that if we did this, the other Clauses which might give rise to similar discussion should be put automatically from the Chair and a vote taken, if necesary, without a discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-12", "file": "debates1941-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd367eabbe664413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ources will be taken into account; only the resources of one of them may be taken into account. That is what it means. If the word \"all\" was taken out of it, no member of the household could be brought in as far as his income is concerned, but so long as they put it that not all the resources shall be taken into account, it leaves them free to take some into account, and that is what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-12", "file": "debates1941-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd367eabbe664413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We know what the Regulations are. But the Rules are an entirely different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-12", "file": "debates1941-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd367eabbe664413", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1380.0", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I want to express my profound disappointment with the contents of this Bill. Something bigger and better should have been done which would have had a much better effect on the country. I want to warn my hon. Friend the Member for Dunfermline (Mr. Watson), who apparently finds pleasure in currying favour with people on the opposite side of the House by attacking his friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-12a.1380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-13", "file": "debates1941-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "4bf48c288ac26126", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-13a.1429.8", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Some consideration has been given to that, but it does not appear that the majority of Members of the House find that it would be convenient to sit the extra day at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-13a.1429.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-19", "file": "debates1941-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b2ef333e07850404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-19a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 2) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " the nation's need. There certainly needs to be consideration of a central authority for drainage. A great deal of discussion has taken place about the aesthetic side of building in the future. No one undervalues that matter, and I sometimes think it is a very cynical comment upon modern civilisation that we have to go back to the buildings of 1,000 years ago for anything of real grace and beauty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-19a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-19", "file": "debates1941-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b2ef333e07850404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-19a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (LEASING OF BASES, DEBATE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "been interested in this subject for some time, and we have sought for assurances and have had half assurances and have been put off—we agree that when the Lease and Lend Bill was not through it was difficult to raise the point. My submission to the Government is that unless an opportunity is given to discuss this question, it is yet another example of the Gestapo methods of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-19a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-20", "file": "debates1941-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "6bfc3687764456cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-20a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "efore the war a committee was set up, under the chairmanship of the Earl of Athlone, to look into the whole subject. Their report is well worth reading. The hon. Lady the Member for Wallsend will have studied their account of the difficulties associated with the subject of superannuation. Those difficulties, I believe could be overcome, but I think it is very difficult to overcome them in wartime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-20a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-20", "file": "debates1941-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "6bfc3687764456cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-20a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "n. Friend, as an admirer of his, that I thought it one of the finest broadcasts I had ever heard. It was very understandable and it came over excellently. When I heard it I was sitting in a room where there were six women. When the right hon. Gentleman announced those rates of 38s. for a woman trainee and 60s. 6d. for a man trainee I must tell him that I blushed. To say that I was shocked is mild.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-20a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-25", "file": "debates1941-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de8e35953deed4b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.417.5", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Margesson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Margesson", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, I have that information. The ration is 2 ounces a week for German prisoners of war and 1 ¼ounces a week for Italians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.417.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-25", "file": "debates1941-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de8e35953deed4b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.497.6", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (DETENTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "e are further penalties of loss of civil rights, forfeiture of all land, goods, and chattels and of imprisonment during the Royal pleasure. Finally, in very extreme cases, I believe, it is still the law of the land for a breach of this kind to be punished by the offending party having his right hand cut off. I do not wish that deformity to be inflicted upon my right hon. Friend or his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.497.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-03-25", "file": "debates1941-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de8e35953deed4b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (DETENTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "Why should they not be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-25", "file": "debates1941-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "de8e35953deed4b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.520.5", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (DETENTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "n any sense from the methods we have so strongly condemned in the Fascist countries. I did not quite get the point of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Ince (Mr. G. Macdonald) about the Lofoten Islands. The thing that stuck out in my mind about the report of what had happened in the Lofoten Islands was that there was an Englishman walking about there and carrying on his business freely and openly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-25a.520.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-26", "file": "debates1941-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "804301ab06a06cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "While thanking the hon. Gentleman for his reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-26", "file": "debates1941-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "804301ab06a06cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "y for him actually rests upon the State and not upon the local authority, although he might be transferred to the local authority. For disciplinary purposes he will come under the local authority first. Another point is that a man may be required to transfer and serve in any part of the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. The Isle of Man may become a popular preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-26", "file": "debates1941-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "804301ab06a06cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ty has shown that it is tolerant and generous towards the conscientious objector, and has given him a double opportunity of proving his case. On the other hand, I think the public and this House have a right to expect that the conscientious objector himself will loyally accept the verdict arrived at by the tribunal, and in the majority of cases this is so. But there are those who refuse to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-26", "file": "debates1941-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "804301ab06a06cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "turned down because he said manfully that the Spanish Government were right in resisting Franco. It was on his paper. He did not say, and I have never stated, that I would fight for the Spanish people. All that I demanded was that the Spanish people had the right by international law to purchase arms for their own defence, if they wanted to. I opposed intervention, and his opposition was the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-26", "file": "debates1941-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "804301ab06a06cda", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "and women to go out and keep me in a privileged position in this country. If I believed that, I ought to go out and defend it myself. Let us put an end to this humbug by people who are persecuting the conscientious objectors and by some of these people who are so versatile that they can change from one position to another in a very short space of time. There is the Noble Lady who is sitting there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-26a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-03-27", "file": "debates1941-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "9042105bec27927c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-27a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "CONCENTRATION OF PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "e with more elderly people, which will to some extent give relief to the unemployment question. It has been suggested that I should take the course of actually diverting trade from the big chain stores into the hands of the small retailer. I must not do that; I must be impartial in this matter, and I think the chain stores already suffer from some disabilities from which the small trader does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-03-27a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "In view of this man's qualifications, it is absurd—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "embers will deliberate upon that question, but I think there ought to be an opportunity for hon. Members to take that decision deliberately, and the very fact that on a subject of this sort, which, whatever else it is, is a question of some constitutional importance, it should be difficult to get the attention of more than a couple of dozen hon. Members, half of them inside the Government machine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "chromatic scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night—if anybody broke their necks I should not be sorry. Things are coming to a dreadful pass for anyone who has eyes to see, who has spiritual vision, and who can do the most difficult of all things, read the signs of the times. In regard to cinemas and theatres, London has usually led the way in this declension, as you might expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It has stood up to Hitler.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": "emas and theatres, London has usually led the way in this declension, as you might expect. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why? \"] I will tell you why. It is a cosmopolitan city; it has no communal life for a check. I could tell you in five minutes the name of everyone who matters in Newcastle or Glasgow or Edinburgh, but in London they are as numerous as the lamposts. London is the playground of the idle rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sandeman Allen", "preceding_text": "r raids have, to a large extent, stopped evening performances of the theatres; people who are working in the day-time cannot attend matinees, and so a great many of them have been completely cut off from their normal form of amusement. I cannot help feeling that a lot of the opposition to this Order has been organised by those who would like to see all theatres and music halls closed at all times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.934.3", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "t save.\" We have brought in a Purchase Tax to prevent people from buying goods. We have ruined people in countless trades. We have thrown them out hoping that they would be picked up by munition factories. Why are we leaving out of this drastic restriction of spending, this coercion into munitions, just the one trade which tends to benefit by the particular Regulation which we are debating to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.934.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Herbert", "preceding_text": "ngs have come to a pretty pass if religion is going to invade the sphere of our private lives. That quotation is perhaps a gift to the other side. But I must confess that I have not been moved by any of these eloquent and sincere speeches to believe that on my rare Sundays off I may not allow myself, if the local authority decides that I may, to go to a play by Shakespeare or even to a music hall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Herbert", "preceding_text": "and see the enlightened and instructive—we must say no more, in view of what the United States are doing just now—film displays of Hollywood. Fourthly, if the man stays at home, or if he goes to the house of a friend, and there is an efficient wireless, he can enjoy the entertainments put over by the British Broadcasting Corporation. And this is important. Let us look at what happened last Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.946.4", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And Mark Tapley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": " Ellen Terry. England was our home, the centre of Empire, the inspiration of all that we held most dear, although our families perhaps had not seen it for generations. When I came on leave to London, not knowng a soul in London, not having a friend to come with me, I came rejoicing in the companionship of Mr. Pecksniff, Tom Pinch and all the characters that come from the stage and from literature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.946.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " off on another day. Industrial circumstances are vastly different from what they were before the war. Workpeople are working at some strain, they are working different hours and different shifts, many of them are working on Sundays, and many of them are away from their own home towns, families and immediate friends. It is very important that the industrial worker should be kept happy and cheerful", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-01", "file": "debates1941-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "c47b572611d09e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We should be glad to see you up there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " are working different hours and different shifts, many of them are working on Sundays, and many of them are away from their own home towns, families and immediate friends. It is very important that the industrial worker should be kept happy and cheerful [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Scotland?\"] I will come to that presently if the hon. Member will let me continue to be happy and cheerful meantime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-01a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-02", "file": "debates1941-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0f6512ef7856ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Including the pieceworker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "t is not my experience. We have not had any difficulty with the union men or others. They have been very good in collaborating as much as they can in training the maximum number of people, and sometimes to their own disadvantage, because you cannot train a man unless you actually let him do the job, and if, when he does the job, he makes a botch of it, the skilled worker is likely to be penalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-02", "file": "debates1941-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0f6512ef7856ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Eye (Mr. Granville) that the immediate need in the industry is the maximum production and the introduction and maintenance of methods of production that give the best results. I was surprised that it should be said that certain men were not doing all they might, and that when the whistle went in the evening men walked out satisfied with their day's work, leaving the machines idle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-02", "file": "debates1941-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0f6512ef7856ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "rtificial light for months on end and, unless one disobeys the rules laid down, that will continue all the summer. Another thing is this, and it is particularly bad in the North of England. Wages on the whole, everyone must admit, are grossly inflated and yet the man who, for doing next to nothing in an aircraft factory, draws £9 a week, when he goes to spend it, finds that he cannot buy anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-02", "file": "debates1941-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0f6512ef7856ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Bevin", "preceding_text": " to apply. I make that statement generally and do not apply it to one side more than another. Immediately a crisis comes, what do the great industrialists do? They run to the civil servant —the very man who is condemned by the great industrialists; they go to the man to whom they have denied the correct training because they say it is not the State's business. They ask the great State Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-02", "file": "debates1941-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0f6512ef7856ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "We have considered this matter, and, as the Committee will have noted, I have put down two Amendments on the Order Paper. You cannot reconcile this Measure with the principal Act, because in the latter case the man concerned goes into the Army. For volunteers who leave there is a penalty of three months or a fine of £100.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-02", "file": "debates1941-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0f6512ef7856ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Members always describes anybody who takes a view contrary to his own as talking nonsense, so I am not disturbed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-02a.1102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-03", "file": "debates1941-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "96b5d5b4ae5a11d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I shall be very pleased to give my hon. Friend the figures. They are six in Berkshire, one in East Suffolk, 10 in Kent, five in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and three in Wiltshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-03", "file": "debates1941-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "96b5d5b4ae5a11d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " our factories; we must conscript acres as well. You must train and teach your conscript to make him a soldier, and you must train and cultivate the land to make it good soil. Neither man nor a field is any good so long as they are \"wet.\" Therefore, take all these millions of acres in hand, and see that the State is behind you. Then what do you need? We are here with one Minister who is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-03", "file": "debates1941-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "96b5d5b4ae5a11d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ld double the production of the soil with the machinery which could be supplied. But in order to have this done—I am not talking to the Minister, because he agrees with every word I say: I am certain he does—we want the Minister of Labour and the Minister of War to tell us how many men they can spare, and also the Minister of Health to deal with the local authorities. We want the Minister of Food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-03", "file": "debates1941-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "96b5d5b4ae5a11d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No family quarrels.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "pplied. But in order to have this done—I am not talking to the Minister, because he agrees with every word I say: I am certain he does—we want the Minister of Labour and the Minister of War to tell us how many men they can spare, and also the Minister of Health to deal with the local authorities. We want the Minister of Food—[ Interruption. ] That is all right; the Parliamentary Secretary is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-03", "file": "debates1941-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "96b5d5b4ae5a11d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " to him. He will probably refuse.\" He may not possess a tittle of common knowledge, but he accepts the job. A great many of them are not fit for the job. You have?o overhaul these agricultural committees from top to bottom. Some cases will require a little titivating and others a little chiselling, but in others they require a mallet. I will give the right hon. Gentleman the names of some of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-03", "file": "debates1941-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "96b5d5b4ae5a11d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (DETENTION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir William Jowitt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir William Jowitt)", "preceding_text": "r in making up its mind about this Amendment. I am not proposing, and you, Colonel Clifton Brown, would not allow me, to discuss the whole procedure under Regulation 18B. Of course, it is a procedure which to any lawyer, or to any ordinary man, is very unpleasant. On the other hand, war is a very unpleasant thing; and most of us think that this is a very necessary procedure. With that, I leave it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-03a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-07", "file": "debates1941-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "d2fbbcceebb97f00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-07a.1343.0", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "ndependent evidence greatly strengthened the case. Two representatives of the War Office have said that the charges that they preferred were \"unfounded\" and \"frivolous.\" This, of course, they strenuously deny. The charges may or may not be frivolous and unfounded, but these three men are willing to stand or fall by the charges that they have made and, as they put it, if necessary, go to the Tower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-07a.1343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-08", "file": "debates1941-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "cba00a33a7dfa8c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-08a.1504.0", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are doing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "g loans. Inflation must be measured always by the difference be- tween the production of wealth and the consumption of wealth in any country. If we produce more than we consume— including the Government and every private individual in the country—there is not inflation, but deflation. Savings will increase. If, on the other hand, we consume goods in excess of production, inflation must take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-08a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-08", "file": "debates1941-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "cba00a33a7dfa8c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-08a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PEACE AIMS (STATEMENT).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "After that interruption— which will benefit me enormously, because I have now a better House—perhaps I may be allowed to say what would probably have been my concluding words had that interruption not taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-08a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-09", "file": "debates1941-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "6fc99399a1bbc8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-09a.1606.5", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "preceding_text": "had£2,000 a year income two years ago, as many professional men had, his commitments such as rent, rates, and personal insurance would be based on the scale of£2,000 a year, and he must go on paying them. The other man with£500 a year had£200 a year two or three years ago. His rent, personal insurance and rates are on the£200 a year scale, and therefore this extra£300 a year is new spending money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-09a.1606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-09", "file": "debates1941-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "6fc99399a1bbc8c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-09a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It should be done now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "preceding_text": "nsiderably reduce the purchasing power of your currency. You can check that by a series of price controls, strict rationing, and so on. But I feel that the Budget as it stands will not be a sufficient check on the danger of inflation and, both for that reason and for other social reasons, as time goes on we shall have to increase the strictness and the range of our rationing and our price control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-09a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-10", "file": "debates1941-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a6e38dadb5e20974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-10a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": " in the many details and recommendations which he has addressed to the Government. I prefer to approach the matter from a slightly different angle and from a rather broader point of view. My excuse for intervening in this Debate is that I happen to have visited those territories which we are now discussing, and not very long ago. I think it was in 1938 that I spent a little time in the Copperbelt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-10a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-10", "file": "debates1941-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a6e38dadb5e20974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-10a.1798.5", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": " country or in Germany which is not practically in that position. The whole question of financial arrangements between the Government and local authorities is infinitely bigger and more complicated than this small question of £9,000,000. There will obviously have to be at the appropriate time after the war a complete review of the whole question of local finance and its relation to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-10a.1798.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-22", "file": "debates1941-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2981591a2b6ee283", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-22a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ACT, 1935.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "ret the suggestion that a great contribution would be made to understanding between this country and India if we could persuade some Indian to come here and be an Under-Secretary of State. If anything along those lines was going to be achieved, it would have been much better to suggest that some Indian should come here to be a member of the Cabinet. Why not ask Mr. Nehru or the leader of Congress?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-22a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-29", "file": "debates1941-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e24e4a2e62b2019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-29a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the war pensioners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " find that the whole public has now arrived, as I believe they have, at the conclusion that there are two questions affecting two sections of our community which ought no longer to be subjects of bitter political strife. One of these is the care, the training, the education and the development of the young people; the other is the reward of the old people who have done their duty to their country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-29a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-29", "file": "debates1941-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "3e24e4a2e62b2019", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-29a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE ACT, 1934.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "only one thing I need say. If there is a general review of the whole of the services, those points raised by the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) and other hon. Members—such as the position of old age pensioners, which was referred to by the hon. Member for Dunfermline—would be included. It is a very happy thing for me, in winding up this Debate, to find the atmosphere so quiet and tranquil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-29a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-30", "file": "debates1941-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "44e56bac9913ae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-30a.427.7", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "There is no evidence whatever that Mr. Foster was graded A1. He joined the Territorial Army in 1937, and was embodied on 25th August, 1939. There is no record of any examination at the latter date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-30a.427.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-30", "file": "debates1941-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "44e56bac9913ae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-30a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "is new interpretation of the Order, certainly get more than two-fifths of a pint per day. The Parliamentary Secretary admits that they would have only two-fifths of a pint each if everybody was rationed. On Monday I spent a little time studying newspapers, and I found that 42 weekly or daily papers had in the last nine days denounced the milk rationing scheme as a fiasco. They cannot all be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-30a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-04-30", "file": "debates1941-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "44e56bac9913ae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-30a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff (Hull, East)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff (Hull, East)", "preceding_text": "ttee that I would sit down after speaking for only a short time. But these people are rendering a service to the community, and I hope the hon. and gallant Gentleman will be able to do something as regards the bird seed they require. Then there is the question of tobacco. One distinguished Member of this House who spent some time in prison told me that one of the things he missed most was tobacco.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-04-30a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.595.6", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "I am not going to do so, Mr. Speaker, I submit however that in this case there is involved the supply of money which is meant to maintain the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.595.6", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "I am not going to do so, Mr. Speaker, I submit however that in this case there is involved the supply of money which is meant to maintain the system. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] To a certain extent, indirectly, the House is being called upon to assist financially in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.595.6", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And all other schools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "t to point out that the Bill proposes to bolster up a system as to which there is a great deal of dispute about whether it should be allowed to continue or not under present conditions. It has been said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, but it can now be said that the Battle of Britain was won on the playing fields of the provided secondary schools of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.597.10", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": "gain and again. We all applaud our gallant Air Force. In that force a commissioned officer, doing the same work as a sergeant pilot, gets a higher decoration because he comes from a different school. This Bill proposes to perpetuate that kind of thing. It is very difficult, indeed, to debate the Bill under the conditions of your Ruling, Sir; but the Bill proposes, by the money which is being voted", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.597.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.597.10", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ammon", "preceding_text": " doing the same work as a sergeant pilot, gets a higher decoration because he comes from a different school. This Bill proposes to perpetuate that kind of thing. It is very difficult, indeed, to debate the Bill under the conditions of your Ruling, Sir; but the Bill proposes, by the money which is being voted [Hon. Members: \"No.\"]—by the provision that this House is making for further sums of money", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.597.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.611.4", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "ely to benefit by the Measure. It is clear that only some schools will benefit, and it will only give partial relief to them. I do not regard this as purely piecemeal legislation. I believe it is vital for the survival of certain schools. The suggestion that children from them could be sent to secondary schools is not a very practical one, because all our secondary schools are full to overflowing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.611.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend went on to argue that all these schools should be closed, that the entire idea of the orginal testator should be completely destroyed and that there should be a diversion of the school funds. That has never been contemplated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.630.4", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC AND OTHER SCHOOLS (WAR CONDITIONS) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Dulwich.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "d of education to which they would be entitled. The hon. Member for Stourbridge (Mr. R. Morgan) asked me about endowed schools. Suggestions were made that they availed themselves of a similar kind of arrangement during the last war, and shortly afterwards no longer took their money from public funds but reverted to the closed system. There is only one school, so far as we can trace, that did that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INJURIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " that if a woman is injured at her work, she will easily find a man somewhere to love and cherish her. I want to deal with the case of the Minister of Pensions. This is his case summed up in a nutshell: He has often said in the House that he has a soft heart, and last time he even said that he loved women. These sentiments are very nice, and we appreciate them, but we want something more concrete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-01", "file": "debates1941-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "f63adff1b88117e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PERSONAL INJURIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "e women. In the Debate to-day no one has raised the question of the non-gainfully-employed person, which was the burden of the previous complaint and the main subject on which a deputation, representing 2,500,000, came to see me. The deputation consisted of over 40 ladies and I listened carefully to all they had to say. I hope that the ladies here to-day will listen carefully to what I have to say", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-01a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.697.6", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the havoc played with overtime money earned by the workers, will the Minister not follow the line taken by the Assistance Board in connection with the means test and exempt overtime money from inclusion in the income?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.697.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "nd breadth of the Kingdom. Having read those broadcasts, I can speak from personal experience as one who was for many years a student in Germany and actually held a post as lecturer in a German university, and can say that every word contained in those broadcasts is the barest truth. Because those broadcasts are called into question, I feel bound to make the statement which I am now going to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "r. Germany will have these surprises in full for this country. In the Division on this Motion the vote will be overwhelming in loyalty and allegiance to the Prime Minister and the Government. One readily understands that, but it will be no true reflex of the opinion of the people in the country. There is a growing opinion, which I never attempted to exaggerate in the early stages, against the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "we can get there— and to bomb Belgium and France in order to accomplish the end of the industrial power and might of Germany. And what is the appeal to the German people? The appeal is to get rid of Hitler and Goering and substitute Churchill and Halifax. That is not an appeal that would find response in the mind of any man or woman in Germany. A Halifax! A Duff Cooper! A Churchill! A Beaverbrook!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "list financiers of America and Britain. America has entered this straggle. Does anyone in his senses think that America is supporting Britain because she is imbued with a desire for democracy? A nation of thugs, a nation of gangsters, a nation that would not allow even the workers to organise in trade unions because it would batten them down in every industrial compound throughout that vast State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"And Joe Stalin.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "reat guys— he is telling me— and he wished he could take some of them back with him to America, they were so tame. I would tell Members of this House that the economic struggle that is going on between Hitler, America and Britain is a struggle for power, for raw materials and for slave labour, and for the rights of the orthodox financiers on the one side and the totalitarian magnates on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "d Joe Stalin.\"] It is a struggle for power, and Joe Stalin has given Japan and Germany a free hand. He simply stands aside and says, \"Get at it, boys. Murder one another, and let me see the result, and I will be quite satisfied.\" The struggle between the barter system and the financiers is not my struggle. I am being told continually that if Hitler came here, I would be put in a concentration camp", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"You would be a Montagu Norman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "y stands aside and says, \"Get at it, boys. Murder one another, and let me see the result, and I will be quite satisfied.\" The struggle between the barter system and the financiers is not my struggle. I am being told continually that if Hitler came here, I would be put in a concentration camp [ Interruption. ] Now I am told that I would be a Gauleiter. That is an even happier fate than I hoped for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.812.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-05-06", "file": "debates1941-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "e735d5be7f41b515", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.819.2", "colnum": "819", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Air Ministry?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lord is well aware that it took a long time to come to fruition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-06a.819.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-05-07", "file": "debates1941-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "920b45aba87732b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.849.2", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I have made very careful investigation and I am told that, of the 1,230 cases which the firm in question had, not more than 13 were distributed in the manner suggested by the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-07", "file": "debates1941-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "920b45aba87732b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "le military aspect of affairs and enabled us to win the battle of the Marne, which gave us time to organise. Then came Italy, in the following May, with the very useful contribution that she made. I am not one of those who deprecate Italian bravery; they were badly equipped. That was our position then. What is our position now? Our position at the moment is that we have practically no Ally at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-07", "file": "debates1941-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "920b45aba87732b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Henderson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And Al Capone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Henderson", "preceding_text": "narvon Boroughs. When that election was over Mr. Wilkie dropped all politics and shook hands with the President. He said: \"I am an American,\" and then he came over here and saw for himself. Now he has gone home to his country to help Britain and the free people of the world. If they want an additional member of the War Cabinet, they could not do better than invite Wendell Wilkie, if he would come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-07", "file": "debates1941-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "920b45aba87732b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "as imperative we should have them. I believe that the people of this country have the greatest confidence in his powers. He is one of the few men I know who can remove the red tape worm from the bowels of the bureaucratic machine and its \"Yes-men\" interpreters. I would ask the Prime Minister what is meant by \"Minister of State\"? What are the duties of the new Minister of State? Will he have power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-07", "file": "debates1941-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "920b45aba87732b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption:'", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ht whatever to stop them. That would be a decision to quit their neutrality. Article 4 of the Convention reads as follows: In time of war, Turkey not being belligerent, merchant vessels under any flag or with any kind of cargo shall enjoy freedom of transit and navigation in the Straits. It is evident that a decision by Turkey to stop these vessels would have been of very great consequence to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-07a.927.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-05-08", "file": "debates1941-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "566065f7d79e7837", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-08a.966.2", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Would it not be better to treat this paper with the contempt it deserves, and not give it too much publicity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-08a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-13", "file": "debates1941-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6801aaf1069cd8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member \"And to all seamen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "nfair to the British seaman as compared with the seamen of Allied Powers. The Bill also requires the nationals of those Allied States to serve on their own ships if that is necessary, and of course similar powers are possessed by the Minister of Labour here in respect of British subjects. I am sure that the House will join with me in paying tribute to the devotion and gallantry of Allied seamen. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-13", "file": "debates1941-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6801aaf1069cd8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "domestic laws of their own country. That is the real principle that is involved. Basically, on all that field of argument, which I can imagine and well understand, the real issue involved is whether we are to treat these Governments in the British way or, to some extent, in the Hitler way. This is vital to the Battle of the Atlantic, and how vital that battle is was indicated by the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-13", "file": "debates1941-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6801aaf1069cd8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I thought I had given the argument to the general satisfaction of the House. I never have too much hope of doing things to the satisfaction of my hon. Friend, but I will do my best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-13", "file": "debates1941-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6801aaf1069cd8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ritime court. He needs legal defence. Will he be entitled to call upon a British lawyer or must he go to a Norwegian lawyer? It occurred to me when I saw this Bill for the first time, which was last Thursday, that the main reason for the Bill might be that there are in this country Norwegian, Dutch and Greek lawyers who have had to leave their own countries and are very anxious to find employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-13", "file": "debates1941-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6801aaf1069cd8c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIEN DOCTORS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member was, I understand, about to say something most interesting about a town next door to Milford Haven\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "ine Corps, seem, owing to the peculiar character of this war, to have an avaricious appetite for medical personnel, although there is not much work for them to do. The public are uneasy when they find they cannot get medical attention in a civil area. Some civil areas have been denuded, and doctors have left fine practices to spend their time with the Royal Army Medical Corps cleaning instruments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-13a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-15", "file": "debates1941-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d8df49e62886dcb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1262.2", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUDOLF HESS.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of the surprising character of the occurrence, I did not believe it, although I was very interested, when I was told in the course of Sunday; but I immediately sent up an officer who knew the Deputy Fuhrer and who was able to speak with him in good and fluent German. While that was still proceeding, there came the German announcement of the insanity of the Deputy Fuhrer and his flight to England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1262.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-05-15", "file": "debates1941-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d8df49e62886dcb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1297.0", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am in the hands of the Committee; if it is the general wish of the Committee to have a general discussion on those lines, I shall be quite willing to allow it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1296.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-15", "file": "debates1941-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d8df49e62886dcb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "aster, that seaman can be charged with an offence. According to this Bill, he will have to be tried. Seamen may have endured the most terrible dangers and sufferings during the past six months, bringing goods to this country; yet, on the strength of a complaint by some vindictive master, they will be hauled before the court, and perhaps sent to gaol—where they may be much safer than on board ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-15", "file": "debates1941-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d8df49e62886dcb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "take action.\" Is it in tended that this shall be held over the man's head? The shipmaster may not like the man's political colour. So I repeat what I have said. I am convinced more than ever, and particularly because of the modifications which have been made, that when the Government introduced this Bill they had not the faintest conception of its implications. I think that is going a bit too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-15", "file": "debates1941-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d8df49e62886dcb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "hat leaves me cold. Still, perhaps the Parliamentary Private Secretary will reply to my point. Were the Norwegian seamen's union consulted on this afterthought about the legislation being retrospective? Is there any hon. Member who will give a reply, or is the point one of no substance? It must be a point of substance, because already we have gained two concessions on it. It is a complete mystery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-15", "file": "debates1941-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "d8df49e62886dcb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1348.0", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e the obligation. That is their primary consideration. But will you not get all sorts of anomalies? Something has been said about double nationality. Let us suppose that a man. is at the same time a Norwegian and a Pole. Under this Bill, both Governments have claims upon him. He is brought before the Polish court, which decides that he is a Pole, and sentences him for not going into a Polish ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-15a.1348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-20", "file": "debates1941-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "41c2ec76f01ba429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRE SERVICES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "The fire services have been fought on party lines, and respect for local government, and local governments are all governed by party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-20", "file": "debates1941-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "41c2ec76f01ba429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1492.2", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ely protected, and it is on that ground that I think the Solicitor-General's argument is wrong. None of these maritime courts is to have power over a British subject. If a man claims that he is a British subject his case must immediately go to a local tribunal, and that question must be determined by that local tribunal, and the Bill provides that on arrest a man must be given notice of his right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-20", "file": "debates1941-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "41c2ec76f01ba429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1500.2", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted if my right hon. Friend will participate in the Debate and explain. Perhaps we may have it right away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-20", "file": "debates1941-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "41c2ec76f01ba429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "are responsible for impeding the war effort. I object to that. I regret that I should have had to speak with so much feeling on the matter. It was not done because of antagonism to right hon. Gentlemen opposite, but simply because I resent this ineptitude on the part of the Government. Now that the matter has been cleared up and the House is fully informed of the facts—and I have stated the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-20", "file": "debates1941-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "41c2ec76f01ba429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIED POWERS (MARITIME COURTS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "such as the hon. Member's. If the hon. Member had been alone in the Committee last Thursday, this point would never have been heard of at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-20a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-21", "file": "debates1941-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "e112279c4c5272b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-21a.1542.4", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Batey", "preceding_text": "Would it not be possible just to have these letters read, because there has grown up a suspicion in the minds of the people of the country that there is some reason for the Prime Minister not making a statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-21a.1542.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-22", "file": "debates1941-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a2fff6e3b102753d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-22a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "ORDERS OFTHE DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ction. But what is the war effort of Germany to-day? We have not the very latest figures, bur we have the figures for the last quarter of 1940, and we know that in that quarter her expenditure was at the rate of £5,500,000,000 per annum to £6,000,000,000. The figures come from various sources and are checked by various statistical departments, and I challenge anyone to say that they are incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-22a.1621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-27", "file": "debates1941-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "051d2d7f2ba2f7fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-27a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (WAR DAMAGE) (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is there any provision for appeal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "idence that it is fit. In this provision we have followed in the main the distinction, or rather what was implied in the distinction, in the earlier Act, and that is, of course, that the standard of fitness must have regard to what can be done in war-time and in all the circumstances. The sanitary inspector seems to be the right person, at any rate prima facie, to express an opinion on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-27a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that what he has stated is absolutely false?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I believe that to be already settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1897.2", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "There may be one or two cases where there are difficulties, but the great majority of the bills have been met, and there are no serious dispute outstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1897.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1930.3", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is robbery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "never thought that at the same time we were preparing an increase for the coalowners. Tenpence per ton on the estimated output of 240,000,000 tons is £10,000,000 a year, of which 85 per cent. will go in wages and 15 per cent. in profits, so that the result of the effort put forward by the miners is that £8,500,000 will be divided between 600,000 miners and £1,500,000 will go 1o the few coalowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1951.1", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL MINES ACT, 1930.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have said that they will allow this to go through on condition that these small irritating matters are attended to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1955.5", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LADY LUCAS (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .'", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "int that my hon. and gallant Friend is raising. There was a hiatus on this short journey. It is true that, as a result of the admirable and generous co-operation of a mem- ber of the public, help was given which solved the problem\" — [OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th May, 1941; col. 962, Vol. 371.] The member of the public who co operated was the defendant, Lady Lucas. She was the person who paid for the cab.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1955.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1964.3", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LADY LUCAS (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I see the doctor, it does not prove or disprove anything at this stage. If there were bruises, that evidence should have been brought forward in court. It could have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1964.3", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LADY LUCAS (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "did not insist upon the case proceeding, and her counsel willingly did not insist. It was suggested that she was roughly treated. I am informed, and I believe it, that she was not roughly treated but that a hand was put behind her arm so as to indicate where the police wanted her to go. I do not believe there was rough treatment. What happened? There was this case. The lady admittedly got excited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-28", "file": "debates1941-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "911f73f66173575b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1964.5", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LADY LUCAS (POLICE ACTION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ys. The lady was indignant at the sight of a soldier in uniform being taken away in that way. That is according to the summary which I have. What happened is pretty clear. She got indignant, she became excited, and there it is. She then asked the crowd for names of witnesses, and she addressed the crowd. I am told she talked to them in an excited way and that this went on for a quarter of an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-28a.1964.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2027.3", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "the children in reception areas. In some reception areas there is little in the way of social amenities. The children come from the towns to the country, and we must try to provide some of the things that they miss. One of my hon. Friends has said that one of the things that they miss most is fish and chips. I do not know whether fish and chips can be elevated to a place among the social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": " wider aspect of evacuation, because I wanted to say, quite definitely, that the policy of evacuation has never been applied in its entirety. We have made proposals to evacuate mothers and children and so forth, and, as has been said, it has been a wonderful social experience, reflecting credit on all concerned, and, looking at it from every way, there have been very few casualties on either side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2056.3", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ll go further. First, we want to see what reserve we have. Now I could not agree more than I do with those who say that if there are large houses in districts which can be used, they should, and must, be used. But I do not think that the House recognises how far we have gone. We have requisitioned 27,402 houses. Hon. Members will see that the requisitioning powers have been used to a great degree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2074.2", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "r the Debate to-day, the Minister of Health has already spoken, and I only rise to make a specific reply to one or two points raised by the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirk-wood). The tribute paid to the Scottish Office by the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) I hope rather relieved the strictures which the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs saw fit to level at the Scottish Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2076.3", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "MOVEMENT OF POPULATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I want to explain why these people are living in rest centres. They are living there because some of them, again, are big families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2082.1", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "PEACE AIMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Russia\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Yes. The capitalist system as we understand it in this country, has disappeared in parts of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2083.12", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "PEACE AIMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I think I am a little more sensible than that. I am pleading that our Government ought to make a statement of what we are fighting about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2083.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-05-29", "file": "debates1941-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "94eb7ca73ba9cc89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "PEACE AIMS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ghting for and that the Germans must be beaten, unless he recognises that the kind of propaganda we are putting out, in the shape of \"Black Record\" and that sort of thing, can only have the catastrophic effect of rallying behind Hitler all those elements that we want to separate from him. The hon. Member for Leigh is the last person who wants to see this country defeated— and I am the second last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-05-29a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ganised forces of opposition it is difficult to ascertain exactly what are the wishes of the House. I have stated that our view was that a better opportunity might have been found, probably later in the month, to discuss this matter, but although His Majesty's Government may have this view, and undoubtedly have a majority, we deferred to the wishes of the minority sections of opinion in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.37.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I received representations through the Government Whips, who had consulted various Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "May I put a further point of Order? I understand that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is about to move that the House should extend its Sitting to-day by an hour. Some of us on these benches would like to extend the Sitting further", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Why did you not get the Ministry of Supply in your own hands instead of giving it to the right hon. Member for Luton (Mr. Burgin)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cornwall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "I am very privileged to follow the hon. Lady who has just made her maiden speech. It was like a breath of fresh air from America across the moors of Devonshire", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "our combined yards. It is astonishing that a statement of that kind should be made by the President of the United States in a broadcast, and should never have been discussed publicly in this country. Does that not emphasise the need for the Debate for which my hon. Friends on this side of the House have asked, to take place at the earliest possible date and to consider the whole shipping position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "t an invasion. What happens? Quite casually, in a speech delivered about a week ago, the Minister of Labour appealed to the men constructing these aerodromes to work faster. He said that they were being constructed too slowly. Can anyone conceive that in Germany the German High Command would have to appeal to workers to make aerodromes faster? They would make them, by some means or other, at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has it to do with Crete?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "e who should be tackled in this country are those who say we cannot win the war and ought to give in, and those who say that under no circumstances can we lose it. Of course we can. We can lose it to-morrow by bad direction and in half-a-dozen other ways. We can lose it tomorrow if we do not take the right course. Therefore I would venture to suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that he should say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "see too clearly what has happened. The managements of some of the factories working for the Government, some of them Government factories, even the Ordnance factory, have no power whatever to deal with these cases. They are only a very few. The bulk of the people are working wonderfully, but there are a few who will always need some form of compulsion and to whom no form of propaganda will appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-10", "file": "debates1941-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7ac64b5e2bfaa868", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cause, on the other side, one is appealed to ceaselessly to give more information, to make the war more interesting to the people, and to tell them more about what is going on. But it is not possible for the head of the Government or even for the Chiefs of Staff to vet—to use a slang term—beforehand these detailed weekly statements which are made. I think the matter must certainly be reconsidered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-10a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " he said: I am not yet converted to the view of those who seem to be anxious to undermine and destroy British local government as it is now constituted. I do not like to hear people urging that we should substitute nominated institutions for representative institutions.\" — [Official Report, 20th May, 1941; col. 1415, Vol. 371.] With that principle most people will agree, but that is not the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " fact, give orders to them. I have inquired in rural district council areas and in urban district council areas, \"How do you get on with the local officials?\" and the reply has been,\" They are my deputy controllers. We get on perfectly well.\" But there things had been carefully worked out and rehearsed. My right hon. Friend is only talking about rehearsals. It is in a circular which he has issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "en,\" They are my deputy controllers. We get on perfectly well.\" But there things had been carefully worked out and rehearsed. My right hon. Friend is only talking about rehearsals. It is in a circular which he has issued. [ Interruption. ] Well, at any rate he has been re-emphasising it. But these rehearsals have been going on for many weeks among authorities who really have a well-conceived plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Before my hon. Friend sits down can I ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "mate of the danger that we have to meet. I must apologise to the right hon. Gentleman for descending to such mundane details. I want to deal with realities and not with superficialities with which he has been entertaining the House. I suggest that, in future, attacks on this country may be more frequent than they have been in the past, more intense, prolonged and accompanied by air-borne invasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff (Hull, East)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From Trent to Tweed \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff (Hull, East)", "preceding_text": " was given earlier in the best and truest traditions of the Oxford Union, but what is actually happening and what has happened in Yorkshire, where the Regional Commissioner, no doubt, has many difficulties to overcome and many operational and administrative duties to perform. I am all the more glad to be able to do so because, I believe, the \"Yorkshire Post,\" a paper which circulates in Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"There are hundreds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ut it. I have often noticed that men just write out an order and think that the job is done. A woman will not do that; she chooses to see that the job is done. Take the question of billeting. Billeting officers in most cases are men. They really ought to have some co-operation with the women of the localities, who could help them enormously. I have never heard of a woman being a billeting officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.257.7", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "he Ministry of Education, and I must say that the one lady in the Ministry of Health does not understand children. I do not want to be rude; it is not her fault. I am not blaming her. I have often said that the greatest work ever done for children was done by single women, for instance, Margaret Macmillan. I am not blaming her, but this particular lady does not happen to be interested in children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.257.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I am not blaming you, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. But we all know that there is a plan for dealing with children in residential nurseries, and we wonder why that plan has not been brought forward before. No one who was really interested in children would have neglected the opportunity. The men there think that because they have one woman at the Ministry everything possible has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "an anybody in the country when I say there are certain things which local authorities cannot do in war-time. They cannot do them, because the problems are not local concerns but national concerns. For another thing, how often do people get on to local authorities for party reasons? They get elected because they have served the party, and sometimes they are there because they are hard up for a job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "land, that it seems to me to be stupid that the Regional Commissioner and the Ministry of Labour headquarters in Scotland should be situated in Edinburgh? To-day Glasgow has a population of almost 1,250,000, and its whole industrial area represents well over 2,000,000 people. I would never dream of saying a word about Edinburgh, but the centre of industrial population today in Scotland is Glasgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "ficient, although there are one or two things there that I would like to see co-ordinated and improved, particularly in regard to demolition squads and their interchange between towns. I am not anxious to make the police a national bureaucracy under the Home Office, but there is room for improvement in regard to them. In the County of Lanark there are boroughs that have their own chief constables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An hon. member: \"Including Service doctors? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, my hon. Friend has gratuitously entered into a battle between me and the hon. Member for Kilmarnock. I am debating a point he made in his opening speech and which occurred in the Report of the Select Committee. I would concentrate all the doctors under one Department as far as possible.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was perfectly right when he said that I ought to consider these matters on the regional level, and I was coming there, but first I wanted properly to demolish his Ministry of Civil Defence. I would only say in passing that I think the Regional Commissioner more or less lives with the regional representatives of all the State Departments concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "or an Air Force or a Navy. My right hon. Friend is concerned with police, fire brigades, health services, education and agriculture. Is my hon. Friend who made the suggestion, and who is a Scottish Member, prepared to say that all those functions of the Secretary of State for Scotland should be transferred to me or to some other Minister as Minister of Civil Defence for the whole of Great Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An hon. member: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", as I am sure the Noble Lady the Member for the Sutton Division of Plymouth (Viscountess Astor) always wants to be a success at every election she fights. On the whole she does very well as a political Parliamentary candidate. I want to succeed just as she does, and I know perfectly well I should fail if I got all these things put on to the Ministry of Home Security as a Ministry of Home Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.298.4", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nts. After all, I have a reputation to preserve as well as she has. Why should she say that they have not met when she does not know whether they have met or not? They have met several times since the blitz began. In my Department and at my instructions —and what is true of my Department is true of other Departments —every time a blitz has come we have encouraged regional consultations and so on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.298.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.298.5", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An hon. member: \"Why not argue that now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "he argument from the particular to the general. Neither my Noble Friend nor my hon. Friend opposite ought to do it, because it is a sign of inconsecutiveness in thinking. It is not true; it really will not work. My Noble Friend takes the view which I myself expressed in earlier days when I had less responsibility. It is that the billeting authority outside the borough should be the county council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "the education officer, of the public assistance officer, of the borough surveyor, of the town clerk—of all of them in a period when you are faced, not with a superfluity of administrative and technical skill, but a shortage. There fore I was not a bit surprised when I asked the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, \"Do you think it would be right for me to supersede your emergency committee?\" and he said, \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-11", "file": "debates1941-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "4e993130a82129c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I cannot give a verbatim account of it. It would be most embarrassing. It is comes to that, I should not like to give a verbatim account of all that I said to the Lord Mayor, but there was his view, and it is so. I am not going to say that local authorities are perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-11a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.394.4", "colnum": "394", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Let us see what the facts really are. The movement of little children, especially the very young ones under five, is a very delicate, and, it may be, if wrongly done, a very dangerous operation. The best place for an infant is in most cases with its mother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.394.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "say that. The Noble Lady said: I must say that the one lady in the Ministry of Health does not understand children. I do not want to be rude; it is not her fault. I am not blaming her. I have often said that the greatest work ever done for children was done by single women, for instance, Margaret McMillan. I am not blaming her, but this particular lady does not happen to be interested in children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"In what way? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ces throughout the country, so that other regions may adopt the suggestions, as described in that admirable speech to-day, with such adaptations as may be necessary. It is quite clear, surveying the field, that with the new duties cast upon the Regional Commissioners in relation to fire righting, there may be a need for strengthening the regional machine at the top. If that is so, it will be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is the team under the local authority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "officers taking vigorous charge of any work which is required in post-blitz conditions. It is an extension of the old system in the light of events, so that we may be sure that we have a mobile team for any eventuality which may come, because we cannot assume that we have had the worst bombardment, and we are not only measuring the problem by what has happened but also by what is likely to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ech, was creating arguments, putting them into the mouth of my hon. Friend who opened this Debate, arguments which he himself certainly did not use, occasionally representing them in his own way merely in order to knock them down. That is an old trick of advocacy. When your case is not a very good one, you set up a sort of dummy and then knock it down. That is the way he got away with the Debate.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"No profits \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "om completely to the right hon. Gentleman during the war, knowing that I would get it back when the war is over, rather than surrender it to Hitler for ever. We must win this war; we are fighting a foe who is ruthless and will continue to be ruthless. In order to win it I will surrender everything I have, and so will the people of this country. Let there be no privilege, no property and no rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys", "preceding_text": "which would have been put through, was held up by the Ministry that the Government had to bear the whole cost instead of the local authorities, if the work had been carried through when it was first projected, paying for a considerable proportion of the expenditure. The right hon. Gentleman has had experience himself of local government. He has been chairman of the greatest of the county councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.438.6", "colnum": "438", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It has been taken from him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "should get up a fortnight after that Member had spoken and make an unwarranted attack without waiting until the Member concerned was present, especially after that Member had been answered by the Minister. Those who are talking about compulsion, like the hon. Member for Birmingham to whom I have referred, say \"We are prepared to give all.\" Is that true? No it is not true. Will he give his factory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.438.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, that is precisely the point I was about to make. The War Office has its own transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-12", "file": "debates1941-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "29af31314cbcb7f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I am talking for the moment about billeting. Let us be careful what we are doing. The question of the rearrangement of evacuation areas is, I am certain. impossible on the facts of the situation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-12a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "preceding_text": " in kind, provide national assets to set off against the increasing national liabilities, and would enable the stabilisation of Income Tax to take place at a figure which would not be an insuperable barrier against the necessary post-war changeover from Government to private enterprise. I am not advocating an annual capital tax after the war, such as, I understand is suggested by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I have not the letter with me. He had £10 of overtime money. His pay is around about is. per hour, and", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I intervene in order to correct any impression that may have been created that we on this side were unsympathetic to the farming com- munity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The rate is going down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ockers were manipulating companies in the way they did, when Americans and others were trying to dominate certain sections of our industry, when they were sending up the values of shares, knew to our cost what we suffered at that time. The average rate of dividends paid on ordinary shares has been as follows: In 1935, 7.9; in 1936, 9.2; in 1937, 11.2; in 1938, 10.6; in 1939, 8.2; and in 1940, 7.2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If I am prevented from putting the facts before the Committee, I cannot help it, but I propose to deal with the Excess Profits Tax itself in order to show what a farce it is. Excess profit, as I understand it, is the amount earned by a business in excess of its earnings in a standard year. The standard year which a business may select for itself is the average of the years 1935 to 1937—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "as I understand it, is the amount earned by a business in excess of its earnings in a standard year. The standard year which a business may select for itself is the average of the years 1935 to 1937— [ Interruption ] . It is the average of the years 1936 and 1937 or the profit for the years 1935 or 1936. Is that correct? Those were the boom years for most of the businesses in the heavy industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.5", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Do not say such things.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If it is in Order on the Third Reading, I shall certainly remember that. The profits that are being made in a number of industries which I cited are giving great concern to the people, and it is very interesting to watch Amendments and proposals coming from certain directions when there is no possibility of their being ruled out of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ow doing. He would do so if he were from day to day concerned with what is happening in industry. I am trying to impress these things upon the Committee. Certain things have been forced upon this House by certain industrial interests who think they are very clever. It is a political bargain. It has resulted in having in the Government certain people who are not as clever as they are thought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "m trying to impress these things upon the Committee. Certain things have been forced upon this House by certain industrial interests who think they are very clever. It is a political bargain. It has resulted in having in the Government certain people who are not as clever as they are thought to be. [ Interruption. ] It is not as though the Minister of Labour were an outstanding success at his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" He is the man who saved the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "olitical bargain. It has resulted in having in the Government certain people who are not as clever as they are thought to be. [ Interruption. ] It is not as though the Minister of Labour were an outstanding success at his job. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] He is not an outstanding success, and nobody thinks he is. He is not nearly so successful as his own friends thought he would be when he was appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.580.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker). If a business is assessed for £100,000 E.P.T., and it is allowed £20,000, it will certainly have to pay £10,000 of that figure in Income Tax, and it will require the other £10,000. If those of us who run businesses feel that there will be a certain amount coming back, under certain conditions, in future, we shall be encouraged to keep plant in good condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "n operation the burden becomes much greater. The position of some of these people is aggravated by the fact that because of war circumstances they will produce, during the war period, more of these products, as a result of which a larger proportion of their capital assets will have been used up, in spite of the fact that they are treated as if they were income. It seems to me fundamentally unjust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-17", "file": "debates1941-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "290e96f713e8cc19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL,", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To regard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "fficulty is to find the perfect words with which to do it, and it is very much easier to criticise other people's words than to suggest appropriate words oneself. For instance, my hon. Friend the Member for Central Leeds (Mr. Denman), who moved the Amendment, used words which wholly miss the point. He used the word \"improperly.\" He would allow the tribunal to disregard devices improperly arranged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-17a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-18", "file": "debates1941-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e650958b488f2a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-18a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of our declaration of support for the statement that Syria should be given independence, would it not be a natural act for the Government to eliminate the Fascist dictatorship in Cyprus and re-establish the constitutional rule that existed there prior to1931? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-18a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-18", "file": "debates1941-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e650958b488f2a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-18a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " per person per year should be exempt from the Purchase Tax altogether, and the second was that replacement of losses by enemy action should not be subject to the tax. What did the right hon. and gallant Gentleman say with regard to the first proposition? I did not understand him to advance a single argument against the principle. By his silence, he apparently concedes that the case is reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-18a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-18", "file": "debates1941-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2e650958b488f2a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-18a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn (Stirling and Clackmannan, Eastern)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is going to limit it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn (Stirling and Clackmannan, Eastern)", "preceding_text": "ession will be the control of it. There are, therefore, two or three points which strike me. I believe that at the moment a man who is sent by his employer to another town to work, and whose travelling expenses are paid in addition to his wages, has no Income Tax charged on the travelling expenses. I suggest that the same rule should be applied to men sent from their towns by Employment Exchanges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-18a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-19", "file": "debates1941-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b2c759118f27146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.789.10", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is this not a Government Bill promoted by the Secretary of State for Scotland? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.789.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-19", "file": "debates1941-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b2c759118f27146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.825.7", "colnum": "825", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have come to the conclusion, after careful reflection, that any Debate on the shipping situation ought to be in Private Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.825.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-19", "file": "debates1941-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b2c759118f27146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDOLF HESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In time of war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "eories which have enjoyed the greatest popularity. One is the more plausible, namely, that Hess came here in fear of something. I was half-inclined to that view at first, but as time has passed, that comfortable doctrine has lost its first bloom. And yet I agree emphatically with the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne that the British public is entitled to know and can be trusted with the knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-19", "file": "debates1941-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b2c759118f27146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDOLF HESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "I specifically stated that the very reason that I am making these statements was that I know the Government now cannot adopt my suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-19", "file": "debates1941-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b2c759118f27146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDOLF HESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "t devices the Nazis might conjure up. They will conjure up many devices in order to secure this prisoner. I hope that we shall not be taken unawares as we were at Crete. It would be possible for the Germans to land troop-carriers and parachutists in the neighbourhood where Hess is. I ask the Government very strongly, and I ask with apprehension, because I do not quite fully trust the Government —.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-19", "file": "debates1941-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b2c759118f27146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.913.5", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDOLF HESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Never?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "would make for an improved effort by the public, and we do not believe that by not saying anything we in any way depress the morale of the public. I believe that the British public is quite able to go on fighting the war in its own way without wanting or insisting upon a statement from the Government about Hess when it is not in the public interest to say anything further about this person at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.913.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-19", "file": "debates1941-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "2b2c759118f27146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.920.5", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RUDOLF HESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "o make pronouncements than is Lord Provost Dollan. Why it should be necessary for him to do these things, I cannot understand. The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr Silverman) has performed a very useful service in raising this matter. I regret that he has not had any answer to his questions. Here we have an individual who flies from Germany to Scotland—of all places in the world. Why Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-19a.920.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-24", "file": "debates1941-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a305c23d298b8fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.951.7", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRFIELDS (DEFENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman authorise the Commander-in-Chief to give facilities to Members of Parliament, on request, to visit aerodromes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.951.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-24", "file": "debates1941-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a305c23d298b8fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "nd see me, and I told him of the information at our disposal and of the danger which, I was convinced, confronted his country. I gave him, at his request, details of that information as we thought we were bound to do. Even at that late hour the Soviet Government were careful to avoid any expression of opinion which might seem to throw doubt on their own observance of their engagement with Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-24", "file": "debates1941-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a305c23d298b8fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": " however, in addition to her conquest of the Greek mainland and Crete, Germany has taken the Ægean Islands, and thus commands the approaches to the Dardanelles and Smyrna. That is a great disadvantage—one might almost say a rebuff—to British sea power, which for many generations has controlled the entrances to the Dardanelles and to Smyrna. But there are other means of strengthening Turkey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-24", "file": "debates1941-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a305c23d298b8fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "oment. I am willing to admit that their difficulties are enormous; I make every allowance for these difficulties. The time has gone by in this vast earth-shaking contest, which is now apparently about to spread over the whole of the globe, when any country of the importance and dignity of Turkey can be in the position in which she is to-day. Sooner or later she has to declare which side she is on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-06-24", "file": "debates1941-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "a305c23d298b8fa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "GERMAN INVASION OF RUSSIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Communists?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "uters\" on the other side, the ruling class in this country, and members of the Prime Minister's own party, and even of his own Government, some of whom have been very active in different directions since the coming of Hess. I have always been against the sell-outers, because I knew that selling-out meant not only the betrayal of the people of Europe, but the betrayal of the people of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-24a.985.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-06-25", "file": "debates1941-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "958937b362b936a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-25a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVILEGE (HIGHLANDS DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "preceding_text": "Since the con duct of the Commission has been mentioned, would I be in Order as Chair man —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-06-25a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-01", "file": "debates1941-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "de284b3a70493cf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-01a.1307.3", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS ORDER (DETENTION).", "cue_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "ve against him. Let me give very briefly, in skeleton outline, his history. It is this. On 18th September, 1940, Richard Weininger was arrested at the London residence of my hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby). He was detained at Brixton in solitary confinement for 20 hours a day, which included periods when air raids were in progress. This form of detention lasted for 17 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-01a.1307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-02", "file": "debates1941-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "23d7471fae716f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-02a.1361.6", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL CHANGES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Halifax?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has referred to precedents. Is there any precedent for appointing a Minister to occupy a station abroad, because it is the constitutional position that all Ministers are accountable directly to Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-02a.1361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-02", "file": "debates1941-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "23d7471fae716f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-02a.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (WAR DAMAGE) (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to make the same speech three times over, and I think I am bound to ask for permission to speak on Clause 9 when the time comes. There are one or two things which defeat me. I do not understand this continual assumption that the ground landlord cannot possibly suffer. I know people, widowed ladies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-02a.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-02", "file": "debates1941-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "23d7471fae716f33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-02a.1444.2", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT (WAR DAMAGE) (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A negative gain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": ". This Debate has in the main been conducted on the basis—in spite of the laughter when I mentioned small holdings just now—of the small man. I cannot see any reason why any person—and there are certainly such persons—whose whole resources arise out of ground rents should not be considered. A small man whose house is hit does not lose his all. Re gains, for instance, in that he ceases to pay rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-02a.1444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-03", "file": "debates1941-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "bb1cf5ef4c2e384c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-03a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or equally strong denials.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ersonal statement can be made to this House after Questions, except by way of explanation or withdrawal of a statement previously made. We have had on this occasion something like a Debate and, with great respect, I submit that that is most inconvenient. If one Member makes a series of shall I say, without wishing to give offence, rather strong statements and another hon. Member replies to them. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-03a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-03", "file": "debates1941-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "bb1cf5ef4c2e384c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-03a.1529.10", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members1", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "er to ask that the four Votes, referring to at least two, if not three, different Ministries, might be taken together, but in the circumstances of the time the House is getting rather accustomed, I hope not too much so, to doing unusual things, and I am prepared to allow discussion to range over all these four Votes, provided—and this must be so—it is done with the general assent of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-03a.1529.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-03", "file": "debates1941-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "bb1cf5ef4c2e384c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-03a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. White", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get away with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. White", "preceding_text": " front. The Ministry of Information are at this time largely failing on the home front with regard to the field of production. The sense of urgency in the Department has to be revived, and let me tell hon. Members that the day of slogans has gone. It is no good putting up slogans, \"Go to it,\" \"Keep at it,\" and so on, because there are notices written up underneath, \"Where is it?\" and \"What is it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-03a.1558.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-09", "file": "debates1941-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf6ea4073b65008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-09a.197.11", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "There is another Vote on the Order Paper, a Vote for the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Representations have been made to me that it would be convenient to discuss the two Votes together and that it would give rather more elasticity to the Debate. That can only be done if the Committee is prepared to give a general assent to that course. May I take it that assent is given?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-09a.197.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-09", "file": "debates1941-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf6ea4073b65008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-09a.197.14", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "tain amount of lead splashed from the bullets, some of which might penetrate into the interior of the tank. What was the result? Special grinding machinery had to be made. There was none in existence for grinding the edges of these armour plates to such' a fine point of accuracy. Even when special machinery had been made there was a constant continuing brake put upon the production of that weapon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-09a.197.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-09", "file": "debates1941-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "cf6ea4073b65008a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-09a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "n lower down in the social grades, among the good craftsmen. I do not know how many hon. Members have any skill in particular grades of craftsmanship and who realise the endless patience and skill required to turn out a good job. One never hears a Minister of Information turn the microphone and the spotlight on these men in order to give them courage, yet we owe them an enormous debt of gratitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-09a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-15", "file": "debates1941-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "984df57da787d89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.451.6", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN SECRETARY'S SPEECH (COMMAND PAPER).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may explain. A few days after this speech was made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.451.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-15", "file": "debates1941-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "984df57da787d89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE, CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "en. I am firmly of the opinion that an extension of medical attention for the non-insured population can be more easily provided through the National Health Insurance scheme. The Minister shakes his head. That is exactly what these Scotsmen do. It is strange, by the way, that we have had a Scotsman to introduce the Bill, a Scotsman is to reply and that a Scots lady is sitting next to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-15", "file": "debates1941-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "984df57da787d89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE, CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS AND WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "ngency, bringing the total amount to £63,000,000. My hon. Friend also put a most interesting question as to the qualifying period. The answer is that with regard to medical benefit there is no waiting period. In regard to sickness benefit, reduced benefit will be payable after 26 weeks and full benefit after 104 weeks in insurance, and in regard to disablement benefit after 104 weeks in insurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-15", "file": "debates1941-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "984df57da787d89a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHARMACY AND MEDICINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Raise it on the Adjournment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "That does not meet my point. I have no wish to encourage the amateur treatment of disease, because as a medical man I have seen too many cases of death resulting from that. But I know the General Medical Council very well. I have long wanted to get an opportunity to debate it in this House, but I have not been able to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-15a.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-16", "file": "debates1941-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "382e910735b82819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-16a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PHARMACY AND MEDICINES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "I can say at once that I cannot ask the Committee to accept this new Clause. If accepted, it would destroy what has been very hard, detailed and successful work to bring to fruition agreement on one of the most contentious of all subjects raised in the last quarter of a century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-16a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-16", "file": "debates1941-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "382e910735b82819", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-16a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (APPEALS TRIBUNALS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It would not remove them all, but it would minimise them to an extraordinary extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-16a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-17", "file": "debates1941-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7e05ebf4fd507f2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-17a.722.7", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCHOOL BOOK, \"ADOLPH HITLER.\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In any schools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " regard to the first two points contained in my hon. Friend's Question, I have taken steps to get a copy of the book, and, as I am no German scholar, to have it read to me. It certainly is not a book that should be used in English schools, and if my hon. Friend can bring to my notice any case in which it is being used in a school under the jurisdiction of the Board, we will take appropriate steps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-17a.722.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-22", "file": "debates1941-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "c3f555b085dec381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-22a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Chancellor whether he means that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-22a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-23", "file": "debates1941-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "98f3653a393dd60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the contention that food speculation is increasing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-23", "file": "debates1941-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "98f3653a393dd60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peake)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peake)", "preceding_text": "jesty in pursuance of Sub-section (1) of Section eleven of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, praying that the said Act as amended by any subsequent enactment be continued in force for a further period of one year beginning with the twenty-fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-one. I move this Motion, which stands in the names of the Prime Minister and other right hon. Gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-23", "file": "debates1941-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "98f3653a393dd60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.941.4", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peake)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Peake)", "preceding_text": "an of the Advisory Committee must inform him of the grounds for his detention and must furnish him with such particulars as are sufficient to enable him to present his case. Lastly, the Home Office must make a return monthly to Parliament of the action taken under Defence Regulation 18B. It will be observed that by these amendments the powers of the Home Secretary have been greatly circum scribed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-23", "file": "debates1941-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "98f3653a393dd60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "It is not evidence in the sense that it is evidence in a court of law. It is allegations or facts which are held against him. When they consider that 760 persons have been detained without trial, hon. Members may wonder who they are. Obviously, a large number are of hostile origin or association or are persons who are British subjects only by accident of birth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-23", "file": "debates1941-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "98f3653a393dd60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or of the I.L.P.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "legal proceedings would take. But let me quote one case in regard to which I did intervene with the Home Secretary, in which a man was 12 months in gaol before he went before the tribunal. Immediately he went before the tribunal he was released on their recommendation to the Home Secretary. The worst thing they could say against him was that he had been a Member of the Labour party and had lapsed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-23", "file": "debates1941-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "98f3653a393dd60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "idual, perhaps with a kink in one way or another—and perhaps some of us have kinks in this strange world. What I complain of is that Members have not risen in a body and told the Home Secretary and the Government that they are not going to stand for it and that they insist on having the hon. and gallant Member brought here to state his own case and to hear what it is all about. I leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-23", "file": "debates1941-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "98f3653a393dd60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is stating his case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ange world. What I complain of is that Members have not risen in a body and told the Home Secretary and the Government that they are not going to stand for it and that they insist on having the hon. and gallant Member brought here to state his own case and to hear what it is all about. I leave it at that. [ Interruption. ] The case before the courts has nothing to do with the case I am discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-23a.986.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1025.4", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER'S BIRTHDAY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "I understand, Mr. Speaker, that to-day is your seventy-second birthday, and, on behalf of all Members of the House, may I offer you birthday greetings? May you live a long and happy life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1025.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And no bombs.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consider the position of schools in rural areas where there are no sirens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1031.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Very rarely.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend knows, the Regional Commissioners meet Members of Parliament from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I can only say that I think the whole of the Regional Commissioners have invited Members of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOMBING OF CIVILIANS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "That is not the point of my Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1081.10", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I understand that it is proposed to take more than one Vote in this discussion to-day, and I assume that that proposal meets with the general agreement of the Committee. It is in order that we may have a discussion of a wider nature than would be possible on this Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1081.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Golf courses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "nce Regulation 51, of 150,000 acres of uncultivated or badly cultivated land. In a great many cases this land has never been cultivated. Down land in the South of England, fenland in Norfolk and Cambridge, horrible stiff clay land in Huntingdon, undeveloped building land in Surrey, Sussex and Essex, commons throughout the country, hilltops in Wales, have all been requisitioned for food production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "If there are no imported feeding-stuffs apart from by-products—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Major Lloyd George)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Major Lloyd George)", "preceding_text": " our people in trying to get them. We have heard about queues to-day. In a good many cases the source of the queues can be traced to those people who have to wait for these things, but do not let us delude ourselves into the belief that all queues are due to that sort of thing. There are many women who stand in queues who do not know why they ever went there. I am not saying that without knowledge", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-24", "file": "debates1941-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "429f9a22838b3209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information (Mr. Thurtle)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Abyssinia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information (Mr. Thurtle)", "preceding_text": "r of Information, was that each week a selection of gay and patriotic tunes, excluding the National Anthem, of a single country should be played. As is known, this particular form of programme came into force last Sunday with a French programme, and next Sunday, as the hon. Member correctly pointed out, our Ally Russia is to have her turn, and in due course the turns of our other Allies will come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-24a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-29", "file": "debates1941-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5db3899bf85173f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": " propaganda about tobacco is most unsatisfactory, that the appeal to the tobacco consumers to reduce their consumption for a few weeks only, by one-fifth only, is unsatisfactory, first, because patriotic smokers have already reduced their consumption by far more than one-fifth and, secondly, that they would be ready to reduce it far more than that if they had reason to suppose it to be necessary.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-29", "file": "debates1941-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5db3899bf85173f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the President of the Board?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that we do not retain people who could easily be replaced—ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-29", "file": "debates1941-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5db3899bf85173f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "me far less stimulating and interesting than it was a year ago. Except for our Fighting Services, we have been driven back to a large extent from the carnivore to the herbivore. That may be quite satisfactory to the dietetic scientists who would like to make us all live on nuts, but undoubtedly it has produced, and is producing, a very definite effect upon the energetic output of the heavy worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-29", "file": "debates1941-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5db3899bf85173f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1325.6", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows I have not communicated with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1325.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-29", "file": "debates1941-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c5db3899bf85173f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "adjustment of wages. We hope, by the methods we have adopted and by the policy which the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the Budget, to create a situation in which adjustments will not be necessary. I think that is the best policy to follow. May I say on behalf of—perhaps I should not say on behalf of anybody, but I cannot yet remember that I am here, after so many years in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-29a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-07-30", "file": "debates1941-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "3bce8149f658fa60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-30a.1427.9", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": " into this disorder. There is a number of Votes down on the Order Paper I understand it is desired to take in one Debate the first three Votes, Class V, Votes 15 and 7, and Class IV, Vote 13. The Debate on those Votes will continue for about two and a-half hours. We should then go on to discuss together the remaining two Votes, relating to agriculture. Has that the general assent of the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-30a.1427.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-07-31", "file": "debates1941-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "f5a39282704b1995", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-31a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "CLASS VIII.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"And the L.N.E.R.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "minate the foolish practices that are applied to citizens who live in the suburbs and must get to work and get home, yet have to stand in trains, day after day, and are probably punished two or three times a week because they travel first-class instead of third-class. I hope the right hon. and gallant Gentle man will, particularly, ask the Southern Railway not to be so hard on our folk these days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-07-31a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "To consider stocks, we began last winter with very little coal on Government sites. There is now about 1,250,000 tons of coal on Government sites all over the country. There are over 600 sites, with a holding capacity of nearly 5,000,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1818.0", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many days' supply will that be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "little coal on Government sites. There is now about 1,250,000 tons of coal on Government sites all over the country. There are over 600 sites, with a holding capacity of nearly 5,000,000 tons. [ Interruption. ] The stocking programme contemplates placing 3,000,000 tons of coal of different qualities on these sites. The hon. Member asked what kind of coal. There are over 600,000 tons of house coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1859.1", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He did say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "power and output per man-shift. The Lord President should have told the industry, when he asked for an additional 24,000,000 tons of stock, that it was the intention of the Government to provide it with additional labour, and the miners and the owners should have told the Lord President, \"Give us the tools, and we will give you the goods. Give us the men, and we will deliver the coal you require.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1862.3", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I know important districts in West Wales where the output per man-shift is less now than it was at the outbreak of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member know of any other trade in which the output per man-hour has gone down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "is picked out to be the subject of such a wage agreement. No other set of workers, professional workers, tradesmen, railwaymen or other, would tolerate such a settlement. it is not sufficient to say that we were depending on kindly treatment from the mineowners. That kind of argument leaves me cold; the history of the mineowners does not lead anybody with intelligence to expect that kind of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1900.1", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "preceding_text": "ld be given. In one or two areas there is no doubt that if progress has not been quickly made it is because there is apathy on the subject. But the Miners' Welfare Commission are putting their funds behind this movement, and it is reasonable to expect that it will quickly get under way now. Keep in mind also that the number of man-shifts worked per person is greater now than it was before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1900.1", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "preceding_text": "ion are putting their funds behind this movement, and it is reasonable to expect that it will quickly get under way now. Keep in mind also that the number of man-shifts worked per person is greater now than it was before the war. [ Interruption .] The number is higher for the reason that in a great many areas pits which are normally idle for part of the week in summer are working continuously now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-05", "file": "debates1941-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "37b93d05863a8974", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1900.1", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shiver\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Duncan", "preceding_text": "t the face has fallen, output has fallen off. There is, in this matter, no blame being thrown on the mining industry for slackness. The whole thing is perfectly understandable, and what we are now calling upon the mining industry to do is to address itself with fresh energy to the problems of production that face us now. I am convinced that if it does so—and I am sure it will—we shall this winter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-05a.1900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-06", "file": "debates1941-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b465a56c7cd3496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-06a.1946.5", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "But are not queues the fairest way of doing it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-06a.1946.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-08-06", "file": "debates1941-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b465a56c7cd3496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-06a.1950.2", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lyons", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Arising out of the Minister's remarks, in which he said I am not well informed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-06a.1950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-07", "file": "debates1941-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "b712f163cde2b800", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2079.0", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I attend here regularly, and this is the only Supplementary Question which I have put this week, and surely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-07", "file": "debates1941-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "b712f163cde2b800", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2100.3", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (CHAIRMANSHIP).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"About 70.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "I have no idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-07", "file": "debates1941-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "b712f163cde2b800", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2177.2", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (WAGES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"100 per cent!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Smith", "preceding_text": "ation; therefore, if we do not pay him what is reasonable, let him take his place in the competitive labour market. If you go to parts of the country where aerodromes are being built, you will see these labourers in a field, and just over the other side of the hedgemen, whose work is no more important than agriculture, who are earning 50 or 60 per cent. higher wages than the agricultural labourer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-08-07", "file": "debates1941-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "b712f163cde2b800", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2207.2", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (WAGES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "that in the circumstances—he used the term \"in the circumstances\"—of such county no higher wage can be paid? Is that the defence, or is the defence that the Government wash their hands of the whole problem? If that is the defence, I must be quite frank. I want to ask whether the right hon. Gentleman is speaking for the Government as a whole. Is he speaking for the Labour Members in the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-08-07a.2207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-09", "file": "debates1941-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "cd5504080c83988e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.39.6", "colnum": "39", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "leman aware that this announcement will give rise to considerable dissatisfaction in many parts of the country? If the Government have not Business with which to engage the House, will the Prime Minister give some of us an opportunity of consulting with him in order that we may propose some Business? Does he not realise that considerable harm will be done to Parliament if the House again adjourns?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.39.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-09", "file": "debates1941-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "cd5504080c83988e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.67.2", "colnum": "67", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "is no question of France maintaining the same position which she exercised in Syria before the war, but which the French Government had realised must come to an end. On the other hand, we recognise that among all the nations of Europe the position of France in Syria is one of special privilege, and that in so far as any European countries have influence in Syria, that of France will be preeminent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.67.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-09", "file": "debates1941-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "cd5504080c83988e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "ndustry will have to be changed over from manufacturing munitions to the manufacture of articles for peace. Literally, the sword will have to be turned into the ploughshare. That was comparatively easy to do in the 18th century, but in a time of mechanised industry it is extraordinarily difficult. If millions of soldiers are left marching about Europe, anarchy, followed by revolution, must result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-09", "file": "debates1941-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "cd5504080c83988e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "d Nazis in those days. I cannot see our Russian Allies making quite the same differentiation as we do in this country between the two sorts of Germans. I desire to associate myself in the fullest degree with the statement made by a distinguished Russian statesman the other day that he would see that every one of the 30,000 members of the Nazi party were placed on trial if the Russians won the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-09", "file": "debates1941-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "cd5504080c83988e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why three years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "es. No corps of ex-officers must be allowed to roam about the country murdering democrats as they did after the last war. After a term of years, perhaps three years, during which we should supply food to the German people, as we are supplying food for the people of Persia, and raw materials for industry, a party of civilised and reasonable people might arise with whom we and our Allies could deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-09a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-10", "file": "debates1941-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "205fac6c228e64e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-10a.184.6", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I could not possibly accept that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-10a.184.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-10", "file": "debates1941-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "205fac6c228e64e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-10a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "preceding_text": "we never display greater disunity than when we are discussing measures for the improvement of Scotland. I myself believe that the rejection of this Bill would be far more likely than the passage of it to disturb unity, and my reasons for that are these: I think I am right in saying, as far as my casual observations go, that the majority of Scottish Members of this House are in favour of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-10a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-09-10", "file": "debates1941-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "205fac6c228e64e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-10a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "No. It is a very serious responsibility to depart from a procedure which has been established for 42 years, and hon. Members ought to ask themselves why for the first time this different method of approach is being attempted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-09-10a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-02", "file": "debates1941-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "327444958a2ba0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Reply to this Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-02", "file": "debates1941-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "327444958a2ba0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.705.2", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is entirely wrong. There is no such thing as a means test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.705.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-02", "file": "debates1941-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "327444958a2ba0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for that somewhat queer reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.705.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-02", "file": "debates1941-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "327444958a2ba0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD DISTRIBUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then what are you grumbling about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "taurants are competing with a sadly-harassed catering trade. My right hon. and gallant Friend, in his speech, told us how these British Restaurants and communal feeding centres are doing a great work, and then he let the cat out of the bag when he said that they are supplying only 1,000,000 meals a week, while other caterers are supplying 35,000,000 meals a week. It is only scratching the surface.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-02", "file": "debates1941-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "327444958a2ba0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD DISTRIBUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or at the House of Commons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": " one of these canteens I would recommend the Members of the Kitchen Committee of the House of Commons to visit it. A 1s. meal is provided in the canteen which I visited in company with the hon. Member for Normanton and the hon. Member for Mansfield (Mr. B. Taylor). It was a real colonel's banquet. It was a bob's worth the like of which I have never seen at a Lyons' restaurant or a J.P. restaurant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-02", "file": "debates1941-10-02a.xml", "sha256": "327444958a2ba0a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD DISTRIBUTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "elf for \"ham and tongue paste, yd.; biscuits, 2d.; total, 9d.,\" and he says: I hereby authorise the London and North Eastern Railway Company to deduct from my wages the amount shown below as the total charge for the commodities which have been supplied to me. Signed E. J. Hirst. whom I take to be the engine driver. That is the actual situation that has been reported to me during the last 24 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-02a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "he longest Parliaments in our history have not necessarily made the least contribution to democracy and to freedom. Even our longest Parliament, which met, according to the best of my recollection, about 300 years ago, was not least creditable in its achievements. It promoted many reforms, and it destroyed tyranny. Like this Parliament, it began in party rivalry and finished in party co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The provision which it repeals is the only material provision in the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.903.2", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "There is another contingency. The Bill has been drafted on the assumption that we shall have to continue Parliament beyond this further year, and that we shall go back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.903.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.913.12", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY SERVICE (OXFORD GROUP).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "o answer at that time to an inquiry about the statement to the Press being made prior to the reply being given to the officials of the Group. On the question, when we raised it as a matter of very great importance, of the pronouncement that had been made by the Archbishop of Canterbury and others, the right hon. Gentleman replied to me, \"Of course, I know far more about these things than he does.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.913.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY SERVICE (OXFORD GROUP).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the spiritual side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " look at your newspapers, and you will frequently see announcements from the Ministry of Labour that the age of reservation has gone up or down, or that categories have been taken in or put out. It is part of the administrative machine. The object of the Schedule was to reserve those who were regarded as absolutely essential to the war production effort. Fundamentally, that is why it was designed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY SERVICE (OXFORD GROUP).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " questions. I had to ask, \"Is it a recognised religious body in the ordinary sense, and purely in that sense?\" I am not questioning its religious basis. \"Is it, within the intention of this definition, a religious body?\" I can be guided only by the facts of the situation. It has already been mentioned in this House that the Group is registered as a company, but I did not regard that as conclusive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.936.3", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY SERVICE (OXFORD GROUP).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ld be exempted or reserved. There was no ground for their exemption under the Act, and there was no ground upon which, having regard to the claims made for man power, I could say that they were entitled to deferment. Indeed, had I given in on this matter I should have brought up the position of an enormous number of bodies. I could not have denied to Jehovah's Witnesses what I had granted to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.936.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.938.5", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY SERVICE (OXFORD GROUP).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Leeds told me a similar story. I have here a letter from the Mayor of Nottingham, who indicates the same kind of policy. A Member of this House, who is prepared to support what I say, brought me a message from the Mayor of Blyth to tell me that they called upon him, told a story and ended by saying, \"With Mr. Bevin it can be understood because he is an atheist.\" That is going a little bit too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.938.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-07", "file": "debates1941-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "d0dce3d9c4013089", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MILITARY SERVICE (OXFORD GROUP).", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Aske", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Aske", "preceding_text": "not pointed out one single respect in which these men are doing work which is not analogous to that of a minister of religion. They are doing work which the Ministry of Labour, as I have pointed out, formally stated in their letter of March, 1941, was religious work, and if the work is religious work it is work analogous to that done by a minister of religion. Otherwise, we are playing with words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-07a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-08", "file": "debates1941-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "0c3347cc958d2512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Lyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Lyle", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I have not the reference by me, but I think it will be within the recollection of the House that it is the general view as expressed by War Office advocates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-08", "file": "debates1941-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "0c3347cc958d2512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "To America, or even to Russia. Why not go to Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-08", "file": "debates1941-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "0c3347cc958d2512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Working the same hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "g similar work in neighbouring factories getting different rates of pay, so that, when men are idle in one factory and it is necessary to transfer them to another, you get all sons of difficulties because of the different rates of pay. The result is a loss of mobility. Secondly, there are many cases where men doing an unskilled job are earning more than men doing a skilled job in the same factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-08", "file": "debates1941-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "0c3347cc958d2512", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "MAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Wealth and labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to follow the last speaker into the controversy about wages, except to say that many of us, on all sides of the House and in many parts of the country, always envisaged some sort of policy, if we had another war, under which there would be complete compulsion and conscription of both labour and wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-08a.1066.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-09", "file": "debates1941-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "5e5e2a2f5e490f5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-09a.1197.5", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thanks to America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "do not think I need take up any further time. This is a land Measure, in a way—at any rate, it is a food production Measure—which meets with general approval. I pray that so long as we can, we shall continue to lift food production out of the realm of party controversy. This is a part of Civil Defence. We are now able to say, for the first time in history, that there is no empty belly in the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-09a.1197.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-10-14", "file": "debates1941-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "72fbdfeba504253a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1250.7", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "It is quite obvious that we cannot make exceptions from these general rules in the cases of Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1250.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-10-14", "file": "debates1941-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "72fbdfeba504253a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1250.9", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members:", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "If we were to permit the hon. Member for Shettleston to travel for this purpose, we should have to be equally prepared to allow any members of the general public to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1250.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-14", "file": "debates1941-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "72fbdfeba504253a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1281.4", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "s not answered my point in the very smallest degree. The unfortunate owner is to have his land nominally improved, and the Government are going to come along and, with all the generosity in the world, advance the cost. After a number of years the Government will come along and say \"Having increased your land in value, we are now going to reclaim from you repayment of the cost of this expenditure.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-14", "file": "debates1941-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "72fbdfeba504253a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "wner of the land. The assumption is, however, quite mistaken, for three reasons. Unless the owner of the land was also the occupier—Members know how often the owner of the land is not the occupier —the cultivation was in the hands of the tenant and not of the owner. There is plenty of land which was not under cultivation for very good reasons; for example, it was being held for some other purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-14a.1293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-15", "file": "debates1941-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "98acca23e588a930", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-15a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MARRIAGE (MEMBERS OF HIS MAJESTY'S FORCES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan(Liverpool, Scotland Division)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan(Liverpool, Scotland Division)", "preceding_text": " know what procedure he will take to satisfy himself as to the genuineness of the application if it is desired that a marriage should take place at short notice. I want to know what steps can be taken by parents to say that their son or daughter has the right to make application for the sanction of the appropriate officer. There have been many unhappy marriages even after the publication of banns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-15a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-15", "file": "debates1941-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "98acca23e588a930", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-15a.1410.5", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "Not to my knowledge. They certainly did not express it in any way officially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-15a.1410.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-15", "file": "debates1941-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "98acca23e588a930", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-15a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why resign?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": " is given to the House, with the exception of the Members who were present and the voting of the Committee. There are two reasons we ask for our discharge. One is that we dis- agree with the full Committee, and the other is the specific waste that is taking place in connection with the unknown problem before us. That waste is continuing, and will continue, unless the House does something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-15a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-10-16", "file": "debates1941-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "1e6546e92c823570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-16a.1479.2", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "To Communists.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-16a.1479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-16", "file": "debates1941-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "1e6546e92c823570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-16a.1531.8", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourteen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Pensions (Sir Walter Womersley)", "preceding_text": "in his own house, educational charges, war damage contributions, and additional rent if a house is bombed and the person concerned has to take another house and pay a double rent. I want to make it quite clear that for an adult the unit figure is 16s., and that two children under school-leaving age count as one unit, but that when a child over the normal school-leaving age—I believe it is fifteen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-16a.1531.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-16", "file": "debates1941-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "1e6546e92c823570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-16a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions (Mr. Paling)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions (Mr. Paling)", "preceding_text": "gree that, whatever the criticism may be in other regards, this scheme is a vast improvement on the present one. One of the main troubles that I came across was this: You had a man who before he joined up was in a low wage employment. His pay, allotment and allowances very often amounted to more than his wages before he entered the Service, and because of that fact you could not give him anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-16a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1665.5", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "HEALTH OF THE NATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "y were in a dangerous spot, and the other was to provide beds for casualties. Perhaps that was the main reason. But there seems to be no earthly reason why this new Emergency Service should have had all its posts filled by representatives of the voluntary hospitals. As one of my hon. Friends remarked in a supplementary question last week, voluntary hospitals in the modern world are an anachronism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1665.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "MR. PEAKE", "preceding_text": "It is quite obvious that we cannot make exceptions from these general rules in the cases of Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1712.2", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "I thought it would probably be for the convenience of the House if I addressed it on this matter, after the case had been made. I must say that some surprising things have been said. The hon. and gallant Member for Basingstoke (Squadron-Leader Donner) says that democracy is reasonably good for the English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1712.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1719.0", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "But you got in.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "en there are protected areas under Defence Regulation 13, the North West of Scotland, and the Orkneys and the Shetlands, and there have been also certain other areas, but they are not material. I, myself, when I went recently to a factory in Wales, Home Secretary though I be, had to sign on the dotted line and make the appropriate declaration. I did not feel that there was any humiliation in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1720.0", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "plied: The Government would always desire to treat Members of the House with all possible consideration and courtesy, but no general right to inspect military defences, dockyards or secret munition factories has ever been claimed by the House for its individual Members, and I cannot think that any such departure should be taken at this time.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th July, 1940; col. 999. Vol. 362.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If that argument were sound it would mean putting a Member of Parliament in a worse position than a member of the public. That is not true. If a Member of Parliament makes anything like a case.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e, has a right to go without questions asked, and without any restrictions, to any part of Ireland. We must consider where that takes us. It takes us to the point that if there be one, or two, or three, four or five Members of the legislature who, going to those countries, did harm or mischief, or committed a grave indiscretion that would involve us in trouble—and that is not difficult in Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Yes. I have given plenty of permits. My hon. Friend the Member for Frome (Mrs. Tate), for example, on nth July, 1940", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1723.3", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Did he not get permission?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e right to debate liberty as well as the House of Commons, and if my hon. Friend the Member for Shettleston had the right to go, plenty of Noble Lords would insist and would have an equal right to go. There is one Noble Lord in whom I am in terested, who, as long as I am Home Secretary and as long as his opinions and activities are what they are, will not go to Dublin. That is the Duke of Bedford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1733.0", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEM BERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ember, the Duke of Bedford or anybody else, is a dangerous person, the right hon. Gentle man has ample powers of arrest. The feeling which many of us in all parts of the House have is that we are approaching, if we are not already upon it, the broad, straight road that leads to a form of political discrimination under which it is for a Minister to say whether or not it is in the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1733.0", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "at he should do this thing. You can, of course, make a general rule and say that no Mem ber shall go to Ireland unless that Member satisfies a general condition by receiving a permit, but Mr. Dillon, Mr. Healy, Mr. Redmond and Mr. Swift McNeill were not prevented from going to Ireland as individuals. The right hon. Gentleman has pro pounded a completely new doctrine. There is no pretence about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "embers of this House maintained, but what we have done and are doing is to make it possible for Members to be silenced in pursuance of their Parliamentary duties. That cannot be right. I do not know why the hon. Member for Shettleston wished to go to Northern or Southern Ireland. I am not greatly concerned, but I am greatly concerned that the Home Secretary arrogates to himself the right to decide", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not new.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "to perspective. References have been made to this war and the last war. Every hon. Member must agree that in this war we are faced with a new situation, a new kind of tactic, a new kind of technique, against which the Government, the House of Commons, and the nation have to provide some defence. In this war the enemy has deliberately sought to raise within each country a fifth column to defeat it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " that in war-time Members of Parliament should not have more privileges than members of the general public. If hon. Members apply that doctrine, what does it mean? There are Members who, by accident or by a variety of political causes, are Ministers, because they are Members of the House in the first place, and for no other reason at all. They must first be Members here, before they can sit there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1749.3", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The interruption has not illumined the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-21", "file": "debates1941-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "bde27d646ffb1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1749.3", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (VISITS TO IRELAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The interruption has not illumined the Debate. [ Interruption .] We have suffered at the hands of too many of you \"Yes-men\" in this House. Let us get on with the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-21a.1749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-22", "file": "debates1941-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "1b80317567c552a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-22a.1873.2", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "NEWS DISSEMINATION (REUTERS, LIMITED).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " going to happen, but we are fortified by this Debate. There is apparently a real and genuine interest in it. If we are to ask them to take our advice on how to manage their business, we negotiators will have a certain amount of trouble in putting that across. We are greatly helped by the unanimity of the House, because hon. Members opposite would like to nationalise every business in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-22a.1873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-23", "file": "debates1941-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c49a39ff407927a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1913.5", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "SECRET SESSIONS (DIVISIONS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The only instance of a Division taking place in Secret Session —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1913.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-23", "file": "debates1941-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c49a39ff407927a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1987.6", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "RUSSIA (BRITISH AID).", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ing whether the Press is as free as we would like it to be. One sometimes feels that the freedom of the Press, from the point of view of the Press itself, is not altogether as sound a doctrine as we would like. Is it not true that all too often the Press is not free, but that in many cases it is shackled to the chariot wheels of a boss or proprietor who controls its policy and tells it what to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1987.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-23", "file": "debates1941-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c49a39ff407927a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1993.1", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "RUSSIA (BRITISH AID).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-23", "file": "debates1941-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c49a39ff407927a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1994.1", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "RUSSIA (BRITISH AID).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "y will destroy him, destroy his Government and destroy this country and its people unless the Prime Minister takes the necessary action to clear them out, clear out all those who are not for 100 per cent. co-operation with the Soviet Union, which means 100 per cent. for the people of this country. Clear them out, and from the best Members of this House—and there are some good Members in the House,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.1994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-23", "file": "debates1941-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c49a39ff407927a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.2000.0", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "RUSSIA (BRITISH AID).", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Mussolini?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": " for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Wedgwood), in response to a question which he put. He asked whether I would undertake that the Government would discuss nothing, however attractive, with Hitler. I can give him that assurance emphatically. As has already been stated the Government do not propose now or in the future or at any time to have any negotiations with Hitler or his associates on any subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.2000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-10-23", "file": "debates1941-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c49a39ff407927a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "RUSSIA (BRITISH AID).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " six or more squadrons complete. Now I come to some of the charges made against the Government during this Debate. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) said he would have imagined that the Government, faced with this problem, would have considered that Russia would very soon be hard pressed for raw material and that therefore we should have immediately considered the despatch of raw material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-10-23a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-11", "file": "debates1941-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "dff79516b28f46d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-11a.2033.1", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "But the country as a whole is anxious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-11a.2033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-11", "file": "debates1941-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "dff79516b28f46d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-11a.2036.5", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "If Lord Cherwell was one of the members of the party, does not my right hon. Friend think it unwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-11a.2036.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-11", "file": "debates1941-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "dff79516b28f46d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-11a.2107.1", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is not following the point. I am not talking about that aspect of the subject, but about this levy. The levy was imposed only six weeks ago and involves a payment of 6d. on every stone of fish landed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-11a.2107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Errington", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shoot him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Errington", "preceding_text": "irely different view of the situation. I have had an opportunity of speaking to a number of women of different classes, and they all ask what they can do if the invader comes. They are told by the Prime Minister and by other Ministers that invasion is likely to take place, and they complain that they are not told what they can do. They are asking what they should do if a German came to their door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "dequately with that Parliamentary device. Moreover, on 7th May of this year the Government challenged the House on a Vote of Confidence. They asked the House to declare its confidence that \"our operations in the Middle East and in all other theatres of war will be pursued by the Government with the utmost vigour.\" That Motion was carried by 447 votes to three. I deliberately abstained from voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the revolution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Because there is a standing rule in the Labour party that if you dislike a decision reached by that party, relating to Parliamentary affairs, you must not vote against the decision, but you may abstain from voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Campbell", "cue_text": "An hon. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Campbell", "preceding_text": "told them by Members of Parliament when they visit their constituencies Therefore, a great responsibility attaches to us. I regret exceedingly to see that beyond criticisms of the Government's policy there are personal criticisms of the Prime Minister. That is wrong in these days. I confess that I was not one of those who were very enthusiastic when the present Prime Minister took over his office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": " us that criticism is the buoyancy of democracies? With that aphorism to sustain me, I shall now take leave to mingle in my remarks a little helpful criticism. I think it will be well to speak of matters in which I can claim a certain special knowledge— conditions in the Army. I am pleased to see that my right hon. and gallant Friend the Secretary of State for War is on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.141.5", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "her by anything he may have previously said or, if I may say so, by any great sense of responsibility. After listening to him to-day and after a careful re-reading of some of his speeches, I recognise that he suffers under very severe handicaps. Except when he is, for the moment, very pleased with an utterance as he is making it, I have observed lately that he frequently wears a very worried look.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " reserve our Forces for the ultimate defence of this country they were making a great blunder. I say that the two statements are contradictory. If he had to make the assignment of the Forces available—not merely the equipment, but the Forces too —he would have to deal with the same kind of problem. He chooses to forget that we are short of the 150 French Divisions that were available in May, 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Seaham has occupied the time of the House in making his criticism and I am entitled to reply.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "on. Member wants a case, let me put it with regard to my own Department. The hon. Member has posed in the Press and in this House as a great expert in regard to sea convoys and their business and management. I have also made a little study of it myself and there are many experts at the Admiralty who have also studied it. He has said in this House and in the Press that this convoy system is wrong.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: ''Why raise it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to do nothing of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-13", "file": "debates1941-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "e564f3f94ad96a89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.147.2", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": " that we should do our best to meet the points which have been made by representatives of labour for better feeding, so far as we can arrange it, for workers in industries who have to provide the wherewithal for our war effort. I wish I had a little more time in order to make that a little clearer but I understand it is not desired to go beyond the time which has been fixed for our Sitting to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-13a.147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-18", "file": "debates1941-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6e6d4d14e86afbc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-18a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "But will my hon. Friend tell us—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-18a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-18", "file": "debates1941-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6e6d4d14e86afbc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-18a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leader\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "ent local authorities, and there is far more reason, in their case, to have somebody which will see that there is uniformity in the treatment of the various police forces of the country, organised as they are on a local authority basis, than there is in the case of the National Fire Service. The present Home Secretary was a highly successful and much respected Chairman of the London County Council", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-18a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-18", "file": "debates1941-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "6e6d4d14e86afbc4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-18a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "usion that if proposals to meet the difficulties and inefficiencies of the dual system are made in conjunction—there can be no other way—with a great step forward educationally, agreement can be found. I hope, therefore, that my hon. Friends on the other side will not merely press for an advantage here and an advantage there and so create suspicion that they are out for denominational advantages—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-18a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-20", "file": "debates1941-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "346ee728083023f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-20a.537.0", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did they spend it on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "l Commission shocked, and when he was sent for did not the proprietor say that it was quite true—he locked them in because he did not want to get up to let them out, and that if the door was open, they would not work? And is it not true that the latrines were actually inside the premises into which these men were locked? Is it not also true that girl shop assistants received wages of a £1 a month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-20a.537.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-20", "file": "debates1941-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "346ee728083023f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-20a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not use it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "hat the House of Commons has on behalf of the taxpayers of this country agreed to an expenditure not only of £50,000,000 in 10 years, but, as was promised at the time the Bill was going through the House, if more money than the £50,000,000 referred to in the Act is required, there would be no hesitation on the part of the Colonial Office to come to Parliament and ask for an increased expenditure.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-20a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-20", "file": "debates1941-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "346ee728083023f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-20a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"West Africa.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "ome into the advisory committee. Again, much has been said concerning the question of civil liberties. I know there has been a good deal of apprehension among Members with regard to this question, but the House ought not to feel as anxious as some hon. Members appear to be. Let it be remembered that, out of more than 50 Dependencies, criticism has only centred on two, namely, Jamaica and Trinidad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-20a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-26", "file": "debates1941-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb21708699702c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Evans", "preceding_text": "the Home Secretary. We gave it freely, and therefore Parliament is free to withdraw that authority at any time. I do not think we want to do that, but I do feel very srongly that it is the duty of this House in particular to take every possible step to ensure that the authority which we gave to the Home Secretary is not exceeded, and that the powers which we conferred upon him shall not be abused.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-26", "file": "debates1941-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb21708699702c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Major Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Fyfe", "preceding_text": " to deal with the Amendment as it comes before the House, because that is what we are to vote upon. They suggest that after this power has been exercised then, sometime later, at a time, let me point out, when the recollections of witnessses may be dimmed, and after a delay which may not have seen any change in the war situation, the matter should come before a tribunal with all its disadvantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-26", "file": "debates1941-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb21708699702c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "and, believe me, when I consider them, I consider them myself individually, with great care, realising that the decision is mine—and when he studies these papers in connection with a proposed Order for detention, he is required to satisfy himself that it is reasonable that the person should be detained. That is different from the blank and unqualified power to detain under the original Regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-26", "file": "debates1941-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "fb21708699702c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will there be a free vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "it is not right that I should be left in any uncertainty as to the opinion of the House. It is sometimes difficult in these Debates without divisions, and from which the old party system is absent for the time being, for me or other Ministers or the country to be sure where the House stands on a particular matter. I therefore say that if there is a material challenge, it would be better to divide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-26a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-27", "file": "debates1941-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "98c62675c5642ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-27a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "o be changed? Our primary complaint against the attitude of those hon. Members is that they do not appear to share the powerful and strong resentment that we feel at the continued opposition of the German Nazi rulers to settling their complaints and grievances by the process of negotiation. The Amendment does not say or mean that the direct responsibility for this war must rest on the Nazi rulers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-27a.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-27", "file": "debates1941-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "98c62675c5642ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-27a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "tainable now, I should prefer to pin my faith to the method of internal revolt, notwithstanding that the hon. Member for Shettleston long ago told us that it is a futile hope. It is very hard to know what the real policy of the hon Gentlemen below the Gangway is, in spite of the eloquence with which it is advocated. They have declared repeatedly that they are not pacifists, and yet at other times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-27a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-11-27", "file": "debates1941-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "98c62675c5642ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-27a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " last occasion, to be irresponsible, they do not show themselves to be more responsible to-day. I cannot congratulate them on the alteration in their Amendment, because last year the proposal to come to the conference table with Hitler, however foolish it might; have been, or however disastrous, was, at least, a possibility, but to overthrow Hitler by means of words is not a plausible possibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-11-27a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-02", "file": "debates1941-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f53d27f876850672", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-02a.1044.1", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "And ownership, but I am urging this extension now not as a piece of Socialist theory. I believe that theory is sound and I am prepared to argue it when the time is suitable, but this is not the time for theorising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-02a.1044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-02", "file": "debates1941-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f53d27f876850672", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-02a.1082.0", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "ursery schools and day nurseries in which women can leave their children while they work in the factories. It is disgraceful that, after these many months have passed, we should not have at least a number of nursery schools of which we could be proud instead of the pitiable number of which the Minister of Health, so obviously but absolutely incomprehensibly, swells with pride when he boasts of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-02a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-02", "file": "debates1941-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f53d27f876850672", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-02a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "y with a situation of that kind and making certain that, although the real reason could not be given, at any rate there was no possibility left for thousands of men to suppose that this was yet another case of Government muddle. The subject of strikes is a delicate one in war-time, but this House has a reputation and a duty of facing facts. We are losing by strikes far more time than we should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-02a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-03", "file": "debates1941-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7168a7cf6f0f4afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "atter up for months. They made certain conditions, which subsequently were reversed. That is what I mean about the throttling hand of the Treasury. The Treasury have no right to step in and stop a thing of that kind, which is a matter entirely outside their control. I should now like to say a word about the Reports of the Select Committee on National Expenditure. So far there have been 40 Reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-03", "file": "debates1941-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7168a7cf6f0f4afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "n keeping up with our production of jigs. I was in a factory last week-end where the people were asked to make certain parts, and the Minister said, \"How long will it take you to get into production?\" They said they believed they could do it in a month, but they were told they could not get their jigs in less than six months. Probably they would have to wait six to nine months for jigs and gauges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-03", "file": "debates1941-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7168a7cf6f0f4afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " Government have thought this matter out. The Government talk as though, if married women were conscripted, it would break up homes. But the first thing that happens when war begins is that homes are broken up. There are many homes that are broken up now. Nobody in the world is more old fashioned than I am about women; I think that a woman's place is in the home, if she has children to look after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-03", "file": "debates1941-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7168a7cf6f0f4afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ve it would be much fairer if there were conscription of girls and women from the time they left school until 30 years of age, with generous exemptions. There is one more thing I want to ask the Minister of Labour and the War Office concerning the A.T.S. Do they not think it would be a good thing if some time they talked about the wonderful work that is being done on the cooking and domestic side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-03", "file": "debates1941-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7168a7cf6f0f4afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You picked a Tory seat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "f the main points on which I made a declaration at the outset of my remarks. I am aware of the feeling that exists in certain quarters of this House and outside that the Government are more ready to take and to exercise powers to enable them to deal with human material than they are to exercise the powers they already possess to deal with property. I am not, as the House knows, a party politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-03", "file": "debates1941-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7168a7cf6f0f4afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "f my remarks. I am aware of the feeling that exists in certain quarters of this House and outside that the Government are more ready to take and to exercise powers to enable them to deal with human material than they are to exercise the powers they already possess to deal with property. I am not, as the House knows, a party politician. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You picked a Tory seat.\"] I did not pick it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-03", "file": "debates1941-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "7168a7cf6f0f4afa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT AND LAND SALES (SPECULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of judgment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e the last to wish to break, either in this or any other matter of the same kind, the confidentiality of a particular taxpayer's position is quite secure, and it would not be right for a Treasury Minister to answer on behalf of the Inland Revenue what tax this or that seller of land paid. If we once started disclosing in this House the tax position of individuals, that would be a very grave error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-03a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-04", "file": "debates1941-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "869c5c2e1ccacc2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "ar the best organisation during a war. Why? State Socialism is the best and simplest way of getting at the capital resources of the country and converting them into a form where they can be poured out like water, which is what we want in war. In fact, that is the whole object of Socialism—to use capital as revenue. Anyone who has studied Socialist books knows that that is the underlying principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-04", "file": "debates1941-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "869c5c2e1ccacc2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "lcome a Debate, and, after hearing the views of the House, we shall consider the matter and make an early statement. The Government recognise that the proposed extensoin of the National Service Act imposes on them the necessity for making every possible provision for the wellbeing of those affected, and, in the administration of the pensions scheme proper regard will be had to these circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-04", "file": "debates1941-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "869c5c2e1ccacc2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "t for my officers to go in and root out men of 20 or 30 years' service and tell them to go somewhere else in order to keep the war effort going. When I am asked by the hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell) whether I have machinery to move men here and to move them there, I reply, \"The men have got something to say about that.\" They are not a lot of marionettes. Take a case that I had not long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-04", "file": "debates1941-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "869c5c2e1ccacc2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MAXIMUM NATIONAL EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The annexe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "re under the dire necessity of letting it go through without opposition. It has been said that, in spite of this Order, there have been dismissals. I cannot expect a widespread Order like this to work absolutely perfectly. I would compliment the hon. Member for Stoke (Mr. Ellis Smith) on his first speech from —I do not know whether to call it the Front Opposition Bench or the Front Bench Opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-04a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-09", "file": "debates1941-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "26cf924d917dccc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1380.7", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Does not the Undersecretary think it is time that the Government took some steps to control drink? The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) had to do it during the last war on account of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1380.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-09", "file": "debates1941-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "26cf924d917dccc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that Members of Parliament are exempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-09", "file": "debates1941-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "26cf924d917dccc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will lose a lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I cannot allow myself to get drawn into a conflict on medical questions. I think that if a man is discharged on medical grounds, I had better take a clear-cut line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-09", "file": "debates1941-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "26cf924d917dccc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Elderly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lees-Smith", "preceding_text": "m of interviewing and powerfully explained what would have been the result if he had not adopted it. Much will depend on the actual machinery of this interviewing, because on a quarter of an hour's interview will probably depend a girl's life for the rest of the war. In his closing words he said he intended to call up for interview women over 30. If you are to interview these fairly elderly women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-09", "file": "debates1941-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "26cf924d917dccc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1432.2", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "obably the best way for the very awkward squad, as the right hon. Gentleman called our people, and about which he is perfectly right. However, despite the delay which is the result of the timidity shown by the Government two years ago, and despite the fact that our fighting men are drawing a miserable wage of 14s. a week, whereas we see immature, unskilled young men drawing their £4 and £5 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-09", "file": "debates1941-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "26cf924d917dccc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1482.3", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "No, I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-09", "file": "debates1941-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "26cf924d917dccc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " the people of this country —that is, the question of wet canteens. The mothers and fathers of the girls who are to be called up, and of the young men in the Army, and the young men who are producing munitions, are afraid of what will happen if we thrust these young women and men straight into the risk of intemperance. I am raising my voice in protest even if it is a voice crying in the wilderness", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-09a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1559.5", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "xperience of the right hon. Gentleman's handling of labour problems since this war began. First of all, he said to ex-miners, \"I want you to register, because we want you back in the pits.\" They registered, and after registration he directed them back to the pits. There are scores of men in my Division who believe to-day that they have two enemies in this world—Hitler and the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1559.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I do not know from my own experience of any single case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it based on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I do not know from my own experience of any single case— [ Interruption ]—but I assert, and I have the support of my right hon. Friend the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris), that throughout the country there is a wide feeling of distrust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1583.0", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I have been requested on behalf of my hon. Friends the Members for Springburn (Mrs. Hardie) and Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies) to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1611.1", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "the carrying on of the war. This country has become totalitarian and this Clause puts people in a worse position than they are in Germany. If this Committee uses machinery to put the country in that position I must do all I can to prevent it. I am sure that when this Clause becomes operative and women are being dragged off by Bevin's press gangs, there will be a tremendous uprising in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I suppose that this issue is being pressed upon me at this moment because of the difficulty of dealing with it at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I suppose that this issue is being pressed upon me at this moment because of the difficulty of dealing with it at this stage. [ Interruption. ] Please be quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-10", "file": "debates1941-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "47f72ab1f8d31e75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1628.1", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ill, and I propose to maintain that position, but I want it clearly understood that I am not casting my vote against the Clause on the issue that is raised now, which I think merits a statement from the Government, though I agree that it is quite unfair to put it up to the Minister of Labour to make a statement off-hand on this Measure. I think he is very wise to refuse to do anything of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-10a.1628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-11", "file": "debates1941-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "715828ad15cf5557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1721.6", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for South Tottenham (Mr. Messer) has given an instance which he thought was practicable, but evidently it is not being done administratively, so that it appears that those who are responsible are not doing what the Government have said is their wish. I am seeking to give statutory protection, but evidently the Minister thought that would introduce class bias.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1721.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-11", "file": "debates1941-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "715828ad15cf5557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "limitation. My impression is that hardship tribunals have consistently laid it down that deferments cannot, at any one time, be granted for longer than six months, and, in total, for a period exceeding 12 months. We accept the hon. Gentleman's assurance, but I should like to have this point cleared up. The hardship tribunals have made it quite clear up to date that they are only competent to deal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-11", "file": "debates1941-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "715828ad15cf5557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1746.0", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "among the associates of the lads in the Army. I do not like the suggestion that these women are being treated differently from married women who are supposed to be kept free from trouble. In the class to which I belong the married women have to bear all the troubles and it would be a good holiday for them if they were to be put into the Forces. They are not the delicate blooms we see in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1746.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-11", "file": "debates1941-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "715828ad15cf5557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Docker's K.C.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I thought at first that I would ask my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to reply on this new Clause, because it would have been very nice to have heard him opposing his own union. I speak purely as an amateur K.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-11", "file": "debates1941-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "715828ad15cf5557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "uestion of reinstatement is a very difficult one. My right hon. Friend has already had something to say about it to-day. If the hon. Member who. moved the Clause wants to ensure that reinstatement rights are given to women and to men of over 41 who are called up under the National Service Acts the answer is that they already have such rights, and that, therefore, there is no need for a new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-11", "file": "debates1941-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "715828ad15cf5557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1788.0", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "o the \"Aye\" Lobby to the sound of the little tinkling bells, because you thought you were beginning a new order with your new tariffs against the foreigner; little did you think that you were beginning a new era of international hatred. Little did you think, after your Ottawa Conference, when you prided yourselves that you were going to make the British Empire into a closed shop against the earth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-11", "file": "debates1941-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "715828ad15cf5557", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1788.0", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "w order with your new tariffs against the foreigner; little did you think that you were beginning a new era of international hatred. Little did you think, after your Ottawa Conference, when you prided yourselves that you were going to make the British Empire into a closed shop against the earth—[ Interruption. ] I think these are appropriate cogitations at this moment, but let me come to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-11a.1788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-16", "file": "debates1941-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6756d180696febf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-16a.1795.0", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and gallant Friend not think that it would be a little more practical to see that the A.T.S. do not have wet canteens, which is worrying the mothers far more than the question of giving lectures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-16a.1795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-16", "file": "debates1941-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "6756d180696febf9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-16a.1868.8", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "preceding_text": "p the school meals system, I hope that before long we shall be able to report that 20 per cent. of the children attending our schools have a hot midday meal. I go further, and I suggest that we ought to be doing everything we can to encourage the teaching of cookery in our schools. It is more necessary than ever that we should do so, and especially in the last two years of the child's school life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-16a.1868.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-17", "file": "debates1941-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "efe1041d645306b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-17a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SERVICE PAY AND DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU will deserve it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must be a little patient. If I get three months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-17a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-17", "file": "debates1941-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "efe1041d645306b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-17a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SERVICE PAY AND DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " wish I could send him more. That shows the great spirit behind these people and one which this House ought to recognise. She goes on: I am sure he is in great need. I am a widow in bad health, have lost the sight of one of my eyes and have to pay to be looked after. You can use this letter, as it is all facts. You can show it to the Prime Minister if you like. So this is how mothers are treated.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-17a.2035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2060.2", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If further information is available, I will look at it, but the Home Secretary must not become a substitute for the courts of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2063.9", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have, as my hon. Friend knows, written a long letter about it. The hon. Member also knows what the difficulty was. A considerable amount of inquiry was necessary because this lady did not fill up the forms correctly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2063.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2107.1", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "CHRISTMAS RECESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": " date suggested in the Amendment. Earlier I put a supplementary question to the right hon. Gentleman the Lord Privy Seal. It was not put with the idea of helping the Government out of a difficulty but I would repeat the suggestion if the Government gave the House a definite assurance that, should anything serious transpire, the House would be called together at once, that might meet the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2164.0", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME GUARD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wedgwood", "preceding_text": "ll get your men, but they will not be the same men. I now come to my third point. What are you substituting for this gallant body of men who are doing everything for the love of their country? A compulsory body, more numerous perhaps, but will it be more efficient? You are getting rid of the people like me, and others in this House; you are getting rid of all the people who fought in the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2189.1", "colnum": "2189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "I cannot visualise, except, perhaps, the Official Minutes of this House. It may be that the last sentence is a bit controversial, and I can understand exception being taken to it. But this sentence could have been \"blue-pencilled.\" It expresses sympathy for the men who have to bear the ordeal of prison and the stigma which is attached to it. That, or any other sentence, could have been eliminated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2196.2", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "Not at all. The B.B.C. asked Mr. Gibb to do this broadcast in the belief that he would be able to do an impartial broadcast. A study of the script showed that the broadcast was not impartial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is why I raised this matter. The hon. Gentleman opposite stated that he accepted the advice of the Home Secretary that this was an improper statement to broadcast. We are in no position to judge whether that was so or otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2213.4", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hing, it would have been essentially a partial broadcast. In at least one particular it is grossly inaccurate as to the history of the matter. I am entitled to that opinion, and indeed the fact that it was partial came out in the course of the recital by our hon. Friend, because the partiality of some of the remarks was enjoyed very much by hon. Members who have held certain views for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2215.1", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My point is that a document is read out which it has been argued by the opener of the Debate, is an impartial statement of the case. I said in my observations that in my judgment it is not impartial, and I felt that there was evidence contributory to that view in the way in which parts of that document were cheered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2215.3", "colnum": "2215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "permitted by the B.B.C. to send birthday greetings to the King of Italy. There have also been other questions in this House as to why the B.B.C. did so and so, and why did the Minister permit it. To-day we have the opposite argument—and it is curious how these opposite arguments usually come from the same familiar quarters on both sides of the House—that the B.B.C. ought not to be interfered with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2216.1", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "was delay in the B.B.C. for which, I have no doubt, he is sorry. I know I am, too, because otherwise there would have been more time for consideration of this matter. At a certain time, some hours before the broadcast was to be made, the appropriate B.B.C. official queried it, and sent it to the Minister of Information, evidently on the basis that he himself having read it, had some doubt about it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1941-12-18", "file": "debates1941-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "683d538cf0387571", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2219.9", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (CANCELLED BROADCAST).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think I am entitled to be asked, because mine is the State Department concerned with this Regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-18a.2219.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1941-12-19", "file": "debates1941-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9497a81fabbcb37c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-19a.2250.2", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "SECRET SESSIONS (REPORTING).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "preceding_text": "I want to ask this question, Mr. Speaker. I understand that communications should not take place between Members who are present at a Secret Session in the Chamber and those who are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1941-12-19a.2250.1"}