{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-08", "file": "debates1942-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "60c4220635f005db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The 'Bismarck.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "emselves they could not fight the Japanese fleet. If we had been able to send a big enough squadron of battleships to Singapore, either by ourselves or in conjunction with the United States, which could have met the Japanese fleet on equal or nearly equal terms, it would have been worth doing, but to send two ships by themselves was to do what Germany never does, namely, to dissipate one's forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.119.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-01-08", "file": "debates1942-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "60c4220635f005db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read them.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it would save the time of the House if I showed my right hon. and gallant Friend the copies of the letters from the Air Ministry which I have in my hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-08", "file": "debates1942-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "60c4220635f005db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": " anything of the Dominions Office at present. I do not know whether the War Cabinet received a similar communication at the same time, but Mr. Curtin found it necessary to make a direct representation, I believe, to the President of the United States, and to the Prime Minister while he was in Washington. The Government do not seem to have been in touch with Dominion opinion in the last few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-08", "file": "debates1942-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "60c4220635f005db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ster of Defence, who is not in a position to be here to-day, or to the War Cabinet. Therefore, I address my remarks to the War Cabinet, and I am glad to see the Foreign Secretary in his place. With all respect to him, knowing him as a busy man, I do think it a pity that on rare occasions of this kind, when we have a Debate on the war, the Minister who is to reply does not spend more time with us.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-08", "file": "debates1942-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "60c4220635f005db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "My suspicion is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-08", "file": "debates1942-01-08a.xml", "sha256": "60c4220635f005db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "My suspicion is—[ Interruption. ] How do I know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-08a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-20", "file": "debates1942-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "148205cefe581691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS SPEECHES (ELECTRICAL RECORDING).", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh O'Neill", "preceding_text": "I take it that my right hon. Friend did not mean that he would actually broadcast to the public while making his speech", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-20", "file": "debates1942-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "148205cefe581691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: On the basis of necessity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "Ultimately you may get a great many things, but in the meantime there will be gross inequalities. On what basis will children be provided with free meals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-20", "file": "debates1942-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "148205cefe581691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I have already made that point. I have said it would be our duty to press laggard local authorities to see that every necessitous child is fed first. But on top of that we must do our utmost to see that the maximum communal nutrition is provided. I do not wish to be led away from my point. How are we going to select the children if this Amendment is carried?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.275.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-01-20", "file": "debates1942-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "148205cefe581691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is a backward area.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Westwood)", "preceding_text": "e children. They have never exercised that power. For the purpose of inducing them to provide food for the children, particularly in the country districts, we have increased the grant. They had power to do it before, but they did not do it, with the result that the County of Fife comes within the category of those education authorities which provide food for less than, 3 per cent. of the children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-20", "file": "debates1942-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "148205cefe581691", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUVENILES (EARNINGS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "her) has hit the nail on the head properly. There are one or two of these cases in the country. The Press gets hold of them and then Members of Parliament who are not over-desirous that people should have a rattling good wage bring the matter to this House. I am quite satisfied from the way the question has been raised, from the different angles in the House, that the motive is to keep wages down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-20a.313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-22", "file": "debates1942-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5e2515f0f74609e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.412.5", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SERVICE PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES (INCREASE).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Issue a White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "As regards circulating the figures in the OFFICIAL REPORT, I shall have to make inquiries about that, as it is a very long schedule, and I do not think it would serve any useful purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.412.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-01-22", "file": "debates1942-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5e2515f0f74609e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "ISSUE OF WRITS (MEMBERS PRESUMED DEAD).", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ting (Mr. Clynes), the right hon. Gentleman the Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence), the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir Percy Harris), and the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Molton (Mr. Lambert). I have no doubt the House will agree that the term of appointment of this panel should be regarded as continuing till the end of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-22", "file": "debates1942-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5e2515f0f74609e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "May I make a suggestion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-22", "file": "debates1942-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5e2515f0f74609e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AERODROMES (DEFENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend suggesting that the Germans could also take it in the same easy way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-22", "file": "debates1942-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5e2515f0f74609e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AERODROMES (DEFENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including boys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "eeded in persuading an officer to step into the car, where it would have been easy for him to have set the dog upon him. Suppose he had been a German. That is the point. So far as that side of it is concerned it does not appear to be taken as seriously as some of us think it ought to be. As a matter of fact, in some places it is a regular practice to stroll round the aerodromes. Anybody can do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-22", "file": "debates1942-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5e2515f0f74609e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AERODROMES (DEFENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " they are going to attack this country—and I have my doubts and have had them ever since Dunkirk—will be better advised to attack in strength, which indeed has been their tactics all through the war, if they are ever going to have any hope of gaining one objective, even a limited one. Hon. Members who have any experience of the matter will know which are the important aerodromes and which are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-22", "file": "debates1942-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "5e2515f0f74609e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AERODROMES (DEFENCE).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twentyfour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "I do not know the reason for the retirement of great officers; but how old was Pitt when he was Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-22a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Skaggerak?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "what the position at the present moment is on the Western front in Cyrenaica. We have a very daring and skilful opponent against us and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great General. He has certainly received reinforcements. Another battle is even now in progress, and I make it a rule never to try and prophesy beforehand how battles will turn out. I always rejoice that I have made that rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who did?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s equipment of the United States, which was arming heavily, though of course a lap behind on the road. This condition will naturally be rapidly removed as the full power of American industry comes into full swing. But, Sir, in the last six months, thanks to the energies of Lord Beaverbrook and the solid spadework done by his predecessors and the passage of time—he particularly asks me to say that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "opposite quarters it is said that no one who approved of Munich should be allowed to hold office. To do that would be to cast a reflection upon the great majority of the nation at that time, and also to deny the strongest party in the House any proportionate share in the National Government, which again, in turn, might cause inconvenience. Even my right hon. Friend the leader of the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1944 and 1945?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " what I may call \"to make hell while the sun shines,\" are more likely to occupy themselves in securing their rich prizes in the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies and the Malayan Archipelago and in seizing island bases for defensive purposes for the attack which is obviously coming towards them at no great distance of time—a tremendous onslaught which will characterise the future in 1942 and 1943.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Arthur Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Arthur Henderson", "preceding_text": "icissitudes of war as a pretext for getting out this or that Minister. That, I believe, would not strengthen the unity of the country. When I hear of people with Right tendencies cast aspersions in private on Ministers from the opposite side of the camp, and those on the Left doing the same thing regarding Ministers on the Right, that may be a very interesting topic of conversation, but it is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": " had some distinguished colleagues. I was at a certain gathering of politicians the other day—all Conservatives—and offered to donate 10s. to a certain benevolent fund if anyone present, unaided, could write out the names of our present War Cabinet. No one could do it. It is a startling thing to say, but I cannot find any Member of the House who can give the names of the War Cabinet. It is tragic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "ation as I see it. I have sat in this House for a long time. I remember how the war first started, and how it developed, when we were left by France. Then Russia came in and there was an incessant cry, \"Let us have a second front.\" That cry became popular. One could almost see a desire to land ill-equipped forces in France or Germany and take the consequences. Its advocates wanted that to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "pared at every point the Government have been lacking in their duty or that someone has failed in his task? Those are the lessons of war. Russia had to meet the might of Germany. They thought they would be able to resist it. They were not able to do so at first. Russia was beaten back month after month. Did the Russian people squeal against their leaders; did they shout for a change of leadership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am listing, and the House ought to list, the results of the Government's policy. If the Prime Minister had been standing here in my place to-day he would have been producing the same list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.662.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-01-27", "file": "debates1942-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9a7302d0e7b43c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is why he was defeated.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ruggle and in the camps of the enemy real fear would seize the heart. I hope that my right hon. Friend will listen to me, for, as he may remember, I learned my politics at his feet. I am not making him responsible for anything; I am only reminding him that I fought my first election at his side nineteen years ago. It was a thrilling experience, even although we were both defeated on that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-27a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": " that they were warned then that this was exactly what would happen? Did they take any precautions? I have here a long letter from which I am permitted to quote from a distinguished officer who was Defence Security Officer in Malaya. I prefer not to give his name as he is, as I say, a distinguished officer and he is now serving in another capacity. I trust I may read some passages from the letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Why\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richards", "preceding_text": " the Far East. If we were not prepared, we ought to have left it at that and not boasted that we were quite ready to meet any attempt there. Behind this it seems to me that there floats another fundamental question. Is this generation to witness the disintegration of the British Empire? I suppose we are all agreed that some day or other the British Empire, like other great Empires, must disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Cazalet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Cazalet", "preceding_text": " the Middle East, though I realise that this is not an exact analogy. I believe it is impossible to exaggerate the usefulness of the Minister of State in Cairo. I believe that every Service chief of a Department, every Ambassador and High Commissioner is profoundly grateful for having on the spot someone, who can and will take a decision; especially someone of the ability of the Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There will only be you left.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "the factories and urged them to work day and night to ward off the dangers which had come to us with isolation. He made an excellent job of it, which is not sufficiently recognised in this House, but shall he go, for he was wrong? Upon my word, looking at the Front Bench, I wonder who will stay. Even the Prime Minister himself spoke against conscription. An error of judgment. Well, he must go too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "If my hon. and gallant Friend would wait until I developed the irony of my argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.777.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shipping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ence of idle men and idle machines and a vast waste of our resources. Still, the Government know better. They have access to all the facts. Consequently, we seem to be faced with this dilemma. If our production capacity is being sufficiently organised and output is advancing, we should be rapidly overtaking the shortage of equipment. Therefore, that is no longer an excuse for our lack of strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Randolph Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of us were elected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Randolph Churchill", "preceding_text": "hen one remembers not only the willingness but the pleasure with which they supported Administrations composed of incomparably inferior Ministers, it really staggers one that there should be this sudden desire among them for perfection. Perhaps, as so many Members say, this is not a very good Government, but ought we not to ask ourselves, is it a very good House of Commons? Where did it come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Major Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Churchill", "preceding_text": "how does he imagine that, if we did not have superiority in the air and in armour, we were able, in a comparatively short space of time, to chase General Rommel out of Cyrenaica and in that process inflict losses on him of three for every one of ours? It is quite true that now the battle has taken on a new phase. The hon. Member chortles with delight at the new phase which the battle has taken on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No need to bother about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "on. When I went to my constituency, where I was supposed to be put on the mat, I did not hear any criticism; what happened was that people came to me and said, \"You are asking us to give our shillings and pence for the war effort, but 10 miles away there is an aerodrome, or something else, where they are throwing money away.\" I ask the Government, how are we to foot the bill at the end of the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.837.5", "colnum": "837", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "The assumption of the hon. Member was that the incapacity of the Government did not allow them to be strong enough at all points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.837.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We judge by results.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "That may be, so, but we are bound to rely upon the expert advice of experienced naval officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.849.0", "colnum": "849", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "men to give loyal political co-operation to the Soviet Union. They are as bad as some of their critics, particularly the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams). He would like to see the only man who has proved himself, next to the Prime Minister—the Minister of Labour—out of the Government. Why? Because the hon. Member for South Croydon is a Fascist and has all the attributes of a Fascist", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.855.2", "colnum": "855", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "When I am criticising the Government because of certain actions on the part of the Government or of officials who represent the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.859.3", "colnum": "859", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member cannot possibly say that I know when he is going to conclude his remarks. I would not have suggested that it was repetition if I had known that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-28", "file": "debates1942-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "1988436ae2fc528c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "MOTION OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "preceding_text": "ts this tank shows the improvements which might reasonably be expected. It is a tank with a better fighting arrangement and so forth, but in other respects it is not mechanically improved. I do not want to go into details of why it does not conform to our requirements, but I want to ask whether we are producing a tank which is not to the standard of mechanical reliability which should be expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-28a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-01-29", "file": "debates1942-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "fc5d9e7c8ca91989", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-29a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "ing. To make a man, a scapegoat for something for which he is not responsible is bad, but to get rid of somebody who is partly responsible for it when there has been a disaster is not necessarily a bad thing. If you do nothing else, you can always send him to another place, and the difference between ourselves and the Soviet Union is that they send inefficient people to a somewhat different place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-01-29a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-03", "file": "debates1942-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "47a0e88334f8504d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-03a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTORATION OF PRE-WAR TRADE PRACTICES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": " change, and are broken up. If men and women may be admitted to all jobs, provided they secure the rate for the job, that is all right; but everybody knows that that is not always so. Many trade unions, especially in the engineering industry, have opposed the admission of women, quite irrespective of whether the employer was prepared to offer that rate or not. They have objected to women as women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-03a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-03", "file": "debates1942-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "47a0e88334f8504d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-03a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hewlett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hewlett", "preceding_text": " when he asks first why they send tyres to America, which can only yield 33⅓ per cent.; why not send tubes, which would yield approximately 100 per cent? The weight of tubes available for scrap is very different compared with the weight of tyres and, further, the 33⅓per cent. that he mentions as the yield of rubber from a tyre is absolutely incorrect. It is approximately 50 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-03a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-05", "file": "debates1942-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4d9121d0948bd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "This is a tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-05", "file": "debates1942-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4d9121d0948bd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "In every case those who represent the man are allowed to put their evidence before the medical experts. He gets a fair hearing. His local panel doctor can put a case forward, and it will be considered. I can assure the House that these medical experts do their job well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-05", "file": "debates1942-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4d9121d0948bd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.4", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "If you do, you will be sorry you did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-05", "file": "debates1942-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b4d9121d0948bd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.6", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order. I repudiate any statement about bullying. The hon. Member knows that in every case he has brought to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-05a.1270.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-10", "file": "debates1942-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fc8e0a5840c4abed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1400.7", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister consider the advisability of not paying this nest-egg and the gratuity in one lump sum, but distributing it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1400.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-10", "file": "debates1942-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fc8e0a5840c4abed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1408.6", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "MINISTER OF PRODUCTION (DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES).", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Certainly, there will be a Debate if it is desired and is requested through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1408.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-10", "file": "debates1942-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fc8e0a5840c4abed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECURITIES (VALIDATION) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "If during this period there had been a transfer of a policy which had been brought to notice and which had a non-resident interest, this regulation would deal with it. That is the sort of case in which permission would not be granted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-10", "file": "debates1942-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fc8e0a5840c4abed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1458.2", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTORATION OF PRE-WAR TRADE PRACTICES BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "e so clear and explicit that when the employer refuses to implement any agreement he will be immediately subject to the penalties which are laid down, without any question of taking him into court to argue whether he has committed a breach or not. There are hundreds of cases that may be mentioned of workers who, immediately they have refused to comply with an order, have been subject to penalties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-10a.1458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-17", "file": "debates1942-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c75eff1e9c8fc7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1675.0", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethiek-Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too soon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethiek-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "s Members want to reflect upon what the Prime Minister has said. To rush at once into any long Debate would be a mistake. On the other hand, it will be the wish of the people of the country that the Debate should not be postponed for any length of time. I have taken the opportunity of consulting a number of my hon. Friends, and we think that one day this week would be desirable to have the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-17", "file": "debates1942-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c75eff1e9c8fc7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1682.0", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Something has happened since then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I certainly had thought that sometime during the next series of Sitting Days would be appropriate for a Debate. It is not very long since we had a three-day Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-17", "file": "debates1942-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c75eff1e9c8fc7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1682.0", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "absolrtely certain that I could say things to this House which would arouse hon. Members to the seriousness of the situation and to the way in which the dangers may be aggravated by action we may take or fail to take, but I do not think I could say them in public at all. Let us say then that there will be a Debate; I was only deprecating that it should be held now, as it seems, in a mood of panic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-17", "file": "debates1942-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c75eff1e9c8fc7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1688.7", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information (Mr. Thurtle)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not here\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information (Mr. Thurtle)", "preceding_text": "mittee will feel with me that, in justice to the B.B.C., it was necessary that something of the story of the tremendous programme of propaganda efforts overseas for which that Corporation is responsible should be brought into the light of day. It only remains for me to say that my right hon. Friend is here, ready to deal with any questions or criticisms which may arise in the course of the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1688.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-17", "file": "debates1942-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c75eff1e9c8fc7a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1743.5", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Listen only to you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "does a very great disservice to our war effort when he pretends that there is something wrong in making different kinds of appeals to different sections of the German people. From the narrow military point of view, that is a useful and valuable thing to do. I hope the Minister will not listen to those superior, arrogant and supercilious people who advise him that there is something wrong about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-17a.1743.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-02-18", "file": "debates1942-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56ce46a7dc09da1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-18a.1804.1", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATE PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and gallant Friend aware that where old age pensioners are doing a little war work, the old age pension is taken into account with what extra they are earning for the purposes of Income Tax? Does he think that the pensions ought to be taken into account? May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-18a.1804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-18", "file": "debates1942-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56ce46a7dc09da1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-18a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN AND HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALI FICATION BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " the lob to which I am putting him that he should retain his membership in the House of Commons.\" When he does that, he does not, in my view, remove from the individual Member the onus that still remains with him, and it certainly does not take away from the constituency the right to get up on its hind legs and say, \"We are not having our Member in that position\" and to take every step open to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-18a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-18", "file": "debates1942-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56ce46a7dc09da1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-18a.1862.0", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE DIRECTION (PROSECUTION).", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. J. S. C. Reid)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. J. S. C. Reid)", "preceding_text": "e of the accident was which caused that I do not know. It is said by the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) that the man had been warned that he would not be taken on again by his employers. I do not think his employers went so far as that, but it is true that they sent him a notice, which is common form and which is sent to miners after a certain number of accidents—I do not know how many.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-18a.1862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-19", "file": "debates1942-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7d0bd5b5159b683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1906.2", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that it might be for the convenience of the House that, if the first two days are restricted to the Far Eastern situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-19", "file": "debates1942-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7d0bd5b5159b683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1906.2", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "May I suggest that it might be for the convenience of the House that, if the first two days are restricted to the Far Eastern situation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"]—That was suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-19", "file": "debates1942-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7d0bd5b5159b683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Margesson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Margesson", "preceding_text": "tion of a new Army Council Secretariat, which nor only performs the usual secretarial work of the Army Council, for its Executive Committee and for other Committees within the War Office, but also provides—which is most important—a convenient instrument for that closer working together of the military and civil sides of the War Office on which the Esher Committee laid such stress a generation ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-19", "file": "debates1942-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7d0bd5b5159b683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1967.0", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Gadfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gadfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "mething about modern war in the Near and Far East. I was interested, too, in what my right hon. and gallant Friend told the House about the British share in the fighting which has taken place, and I would like to add that it is only right that some steps should be taken to bring out the specifically English share. I believe the whole Empire suffers because of the lack of mention of English troops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.1967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-19", "file": "debates1942-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "f7d0bd5b5159b683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.2011.0", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who would read the leaflets?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "country going to be like after the war, what will be its structure, what will be its economic shape? Would the Secretary of State like to co-operate with one or two people I could mention—including some Conservatives, of course—in drawing up a series of A.B.C.A. leaflets on what I think this country will be like after the war, what somebody else thinks—a variety of views? Let the men discuss that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-19a.2011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-24", "file": "debates1942-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ec53da571557e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman accept the assurance that this statement will give great satisfaction to all concerned, and will also give satisfaction as affording some indication that the Government are sometimes willing to listen to reasonable criticism? Will he tell the House approximately how soon the Committee may be expected to meet and whether, in view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.19.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-24", "file": "debates1942-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ec53da571557e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "e race problems. In Canada there were the almost insoluble problems of the French versus the British, and the Catholics versus the Protestants, and there were similar problems in South Africa, not entirely healed up, although I agree that they are not so complex. But, with one unfortunate instance, that of the United States, we have always succeeded somehow or another in solving the difficulties.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-24", "file": "debates1942-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ec53da571557e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.106.0", "colnum": "106", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "s opposed to the totalitarian idea of government as any radical in this House. Of course, those Germans have no chance of expressing themselves. I might say in passing that I am very proud that we have maintained such liberty as we possess, to allow a person like myself to say the things that I say now. I want the British Government to make such an appeal to the decent-minded Germans and Italians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-24", "file": "debates1942-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ec53da571557e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "preceding_text": "cept even if it comes from the \"Times\" correspondent. It is simply not true. The fact of the matter is that no civilian population, however brave, will stand up to continuous dive-bombing and shelling. We have found that ourselves in this country when the air raids started and people had to go round to our factories and persuade our workers to continue with their work after the sirens had sounded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-24", "file": "debates1942-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ec53da571557e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "preceding_text": "ace spells stagnation, but in war it surely spells death and disaster. I think it is a fair criticism of the present Government to say that they have failed to exorcise that spirit from the public administration. They have failed to imbue our administrative services with what might be called the offensive spirit in the widest sense of the term. The trouble is that no one to-day ever gets the sack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-24", "file": "debates1942-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "5ec53da571557e50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eventually.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "t least won the war. That was the organisation which really got the production. The Prime Minister mentioned several disasters that occurred during the last war; but from the advent of that organisation not one of those disasters was due to the lack of supply, lack of ammunition, or lack of guns. They may have been due to other things; but there were mountains of ammunition, and thousands of guns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-24a.118.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-02-25", "file": "debates1942-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2cd3812206d86de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WAR TRANSPORT.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Jeffreys", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that the Butchers' Association—and this corresponds to what was published in the Press—demanded an assurance from the District Council that any butcher violating their decision would be forced into line by the Minister of Transport? The District Transport Officer replied that steps would be taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-25", "file": "debates1942-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2cd3812206d86de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Under its own command.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "roplanes. For the lack of that you throw away many irreplaceable divisions—73,000 men in Singapore, 10,000 to 12,000 in Hong Kong, to say nothing of our other losses. For the sake of a few machines you lose the production of your factories in artillery, in rifles and in all the other equipment of war. Can the principle not be accepted by the Government that the Army should have its own aeroplanes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-25", "file": "debates1942-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2cd3812206d86de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Adams", "preceding_text": "ies particularly to the Joint Under-Secretary of State for War (Sir E. Grigg)—is that he and his colleagues would ensure far happier services to-day and a healthier nation to-morrow if the War Office would boldly reduce the rewards that certain trade unionists now enjoy and would increase the pay and allowances of the private soldier, the able-bodied seaman and the junior officer in the Services.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-25", "file": "debates1942-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2cd3812206d86de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was in the War Cabinet before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson", "preceding_text": "onsibilities has now had the Dominions Office placed on his shoulders. Of all people, the Minister of Labour is now in the War Cabinet. The Minister of Labour has to understand, study and consider every method of applying labour, obtaining labour and shifting labour from one place to another, and yet with all these responsibilities he has to accept the further responsibility of directing strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-25", "file": "debates1942-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2cd3812206d86de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the nationalisation of labour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "speak would not be prepared to go, but do let it be clearly understood that national ownership, national purchase and complete alteration of the ownership of industry is a controversial matter. Do not embark upon it as if it were something that could be slipped through during the course of the war, except to the extent to which it contributes directly and immediately to the prosecution of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-25", "file": "debates1942-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2cd3812206d86de8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": " management would have been only too glad to get their co-operation at so small an outlay. What happened in fact was that the head manager was telephoned for and, in order to enforce his point, he collected members of the police force on his way, had as big a row as he could and finally forced the workpeople into submission. I do not suggest that that is typical of what is going on in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-25a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-26", "file": "debates1942-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "be9203a8e0e525f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I could say this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-26", "file": "debates1942-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "be9203a8e0e525f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the inquiry proceeding?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": ", of course, that it was impossible to follow the plans which has been devised. The news flashed to Singapore simultaneously of the crippling of the United States Fleet, and the threatened landing of Japanese at Singora left the Commander-in-Chief with a most difficult decision to take as to what action to follow, and on that I have nothing to acid to what the Prime Minister said on 11th December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-26", "file": "debates1942-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "be9203a8e0e525f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I am permitted to refer to proceedings in a Session which was not open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-26", "file": "debates1942-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "be9203a8e0e525f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "preceding_text": "d a man who is ready to accept responsibility, he should receive strong support from the Board of Admiralty But how under the present system, with that dreadful thing called wireless, is a young man to exer- cise initiative, when the wireless not only gives him orders, but listens to what he is saying to other people? I have suffered from that. I could give examples if it would interest the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-02-26", "file": "debates1942-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "be9203a8e0e525f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "nths. I suggest riot only to the First Lord, but to the heads of every War Department that a real and honest attempt must be made to simplify procedure and speed-up the machine. All these processes, checks and endorsements by various Departments when quick decisions are vital ought to be simplified. There is great room in every Service Department to introduce business experts to overhaul the work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-02-26a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-03", "file": "debates1942-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9367cc18e7518618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-03a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good or bad?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "tly reduced quantity of feeding-stuffs, there was bound to be a severe shortage of eggs. Nevertheless, we have succeeded—some people may think in defiance of the proverb—in putting all the supplies of the larger producers and all imported eggs into the Ministry's basket. The total number of eggs distributed under the Ministry's scheme between 1st July and 31st December last year was 1,065,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-03a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-03", "file": "debates1942-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9367cc18e7518618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-03a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I had three out of three last week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "as not repeated. In no single case that has been brought to my notice have I been able to find evidence to support the suggestion that large quantities of home-produced eggs were rotting all over the country. I had every single case followed up, and, apart from those imported eggs that I have mentioned, which came from a long distance under very difficult circumstances, I found no evidence at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-03a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-03", "file": "debates1942-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "9367cc18e7518618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-03a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ve fined him £25,000, which I think exposes an extreme absurdity. If a suspected Fascist has no civil rights and can be arrested without trial, why should these men have civil rights? If it is the correct thing in one case to be firm, surely we must take the same attitude. I hope the Government plan, when it is announced, will mean tribunals to deal with offences against the State. The poor devil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-03a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-04", "file": "debates1942-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "310f1a91fc745b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-04a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "mployment are followed up and men are re-mustered or posted. A film has been produced for showing at R.A.F. units in order to impress upon all officers and men the need for making the best use of each man's skill. I saw in a newspaper a few days ago a picture of the late lamented Colonel \"Blimp\" fitting square pegs into round holes. We have a team of psychologists doing exactly the opposite thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-04a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-04", "file": "debates1942-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "310f1a91fc745b97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-04a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "would point out at the very outset that, whereas the bombing of this country by Germany, even if it is renewed, will be carried out by aircraft extremely useful for other purposes, the bombing of Germany by our big bombers is carried out by aircraft of very little use for other purposes, magnificent as they are. Lord Trenchard is the chief advocate of this bombing policy. He originated it in 1917.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-04a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-05", "file": "debates1942-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "919f315f31ac9467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-05a.873.2", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "od when whooping cough, colds and probably measles are prevalent. We know that medical men are anxious about having these large numbers of small children brought together, particularly at this time of year. We know of cases where illness has spread, I will not say in an alarming way, because we are prepared to deal with it, but it spreads extraordinarily quickly where you have very small children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-05a.873.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-05", "file": "debates1942-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "919f315f31ac9467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-05a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMAN-POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "eave their children under five with friends and not go to the nurseries, but I am convinced that as the scheme goes on it will become more popular. The hon. Member for Swindon asked about the expense and the numbers of people looking after the children. Naturally the expense is heavy, and yon are not always getting the return from woman-power that you would get if there were no nurseries to staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-05a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-10", "file": "debates1942-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "de2f437bed3dba12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It needs only raw materials and labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "sums of money. It has always been said that lack of money never prevented any country from going to war. I suppose the financial condition of Germany was one of the reasons why our pundits who looked at these matters closely in pre-war days thought that that country would never be able to wage war. It is perfectly true that lack of money does not make it impossible for any Government to go to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.951.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-03-10", "file": "debates1942-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "de2f437bed3dba12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "From the Governor of the Bank of England upwards.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " to join this august Assembly. Discussing the possibility of war, I wrote: As, presumably, the young men of the country will be invited to risk their lives, in return for a purely nominal monetary reward, no doubt the Government will also conscript all labour, irrespective of class, to work in the common good, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, in return for a purely nominal wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-10", "file": "debates1942-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "de2f437bed3dba12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I was thinking not of their status, but of the size of their incomes. It is quite time that the Government made a forthright statement on those lines. Personal expenditure has to be restricted. It is idle to go to the ordinary man and say, \"You must work long hours, for seven days a week, if the people at the top, Cabinet Ministers and the like, are allowed to splash money about at their will.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-10", "file": "debates1942-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "de2f437bed3dba12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Gentleman taking a chartered accountant's view of all this? War savings weeks have a great energising and vital influence. They make people believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-10", "file": "debates1942-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "de2f437bed3dba12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " spend my days cheating soldiers out of their legitimate allowances.\" The Chancellor should realise the great scope he has for eliminating wastage in Government Departments. Ministers come and go, big business men come and go, but I have yet to hear of a civil servant—and they are mainly responsible—being removed. Everyone knows that primarily they are the men who carry the great responsibilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-10", "file": "debates1942-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "de2f437bed3dba12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " true that there are some people who, unfortunately, think they have done their full duty if they have done that. I hope everyone who is taking part in these functions will stress that the object is that everyone should be spending less. A really good War Savings Week in a particular area is probably best tested if, after it is over, every shopkeeper says, \"It is the worst week I have ever known.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-10", "file": "debates1942-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "de2f437bed3dba12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "f the more important aspects of the war as well as the financial, and they provide a platform on which a great deal of useful speaking can be done, and my right hon. Friend is only too grateful to those who have supported him in making speeches of that kind. They certainly have helped in the chief object, which is to draw off increasingly as far as possible genuine savings to help the war effort.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-10a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-11", "file": "debates1942-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d52bae74e05c79ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1942.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Jeffreys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Australians?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Jeffreys", "preceding_text": ", but if such a thing did exist, would anybody say it was a good ship, or that any man in it who was a dirty man was a good man? If people ask, either outside this House, or Members inside, whether there is any example of really efficient troops who do very much go in for appearance and smartness, I would ask them whether they think that the Brigade of Guards is a good example of efficient troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-11", "file": "debates1942-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d52bae74e05c79ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1942.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Jeffreys", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Jeffreys", "preceding_text": "nd the reverse, is when things are going wrong, when things are difficult and dangerous, and when orders which have to be obeyed are disagreeable, difficult and dangerous to obey. That is a big test as to whether the officers have that power of command which enables them to take hold of weary, reluctant, perhaps even, I would say, half-beaten men and make them stand up to what they have got to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-11", "file": "debates1942-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d52bae74e05c79ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1942.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Fildes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Fildes", "preceding_text": "d the Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore) as to the arming of the Home Guard. It is notorious that the equipment of the Home Guard is entirely inadequate. I can present to my hon. and gallant Friend the Joint Under-Secretary a few lines for his notebook: Here lies a man who fought the Hun; He had a pike, the Hun had a gun; When his time comes to go aloft, Whom must he blame—the Hun or Page Croft?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-11", "file": "debates1942-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "d52bae74e05c79ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1942.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "t being able to find material, but of convincing the Treasury that they would be well advised to spend a little more on the welfare of the Army in general. The question does not apply to the A.T.S. only. I remember that in my talks with welfare officers, I learned that they had immense difficulty in providing these girls, not only in the London area but in much less civilised parts of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-11a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1205.3", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING (NEW RESTRICTIONS).", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Which newspaper was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph Lamb", "preceding_text": "Is it not undesirable that a statement of this kind should appear in the Press before it is made in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1209.7", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "MINISTER OF PRODUCTION (DUTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I did not suggest for a single moment that my right hon. Friend would give an untruthful answer.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1209.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Report says that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ted by the aggregation of household resources, which was the main feature of that test, and that applies to less than a third of those in receipt of supplementary pensions and a rather smaller proportion of those in receipt of unemployment assistance. An attempt was made at Question Time the other day to construe the Report in terms of an average of 6d. That, of course, misrepresents the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "etermination before and only came back into the live file because they were pulled out by the Board. That leaves a net figure of 158,000. There are still left untouched 142,000 who suffered, and are still suffering, from one of the essential features. The Minister promised to relieve us from the injustice of the household means test on all pensioners. Well, he was just 50 per cent. too optimistic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So are you!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " job, so we should know at least as much as the servants of the Crown. That is all we want, and if we have it, we shall then be able to tell how far the administration of the Board approximates to the intentions of Parliament. We should like to have an answer from the Under-Secretary to-day, or from the Leader of the House. I do not know whether he regards it as funny; he is making strange noises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I notice that the Deputy-Leader of the House who was here when my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) was speaking, has since left the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1293.7", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should you break it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "I cannot give any other pledge than I have given. When you are dealing with problems of this kind there are implications which have to be considered. I have been dealing with local and national administration for many years, and I would far rather make a pledge that I could keep than a promise which I should have to break.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1293.7", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": " been dealing with local and national administration for many years, and I would far rather make a pledge that I could keep than a promise which I should have to break. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should you break it?\"].—Because there are implications in connection with the issuing of instructions. There are all kinds of implications. There are implications in which, if concessions of this kind were made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1293.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1294.4", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DETERMINATION OF NEEDS ACT, 1941.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, \"That this House do now adjourn.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-12", "file": "debates1942-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "969c60e0bc128808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT RECONSTRUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have got rid of him now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "to one's country comes before loyalty to any leader? Have any of these men been brought into this reconstruction of the Government at this desperate time when only men of guts and ruthless ability can save us? Not one of them, with the exception of the right hon. and learned Member for Bristol, East, who, in the circumstances, it was impossible to keep out, for he has the confidence of the masses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-12a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put him in the Army.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "f how to deal with absenteeism, and the persistent absentee, it is not very easy. Do not let us forget that the miner is a type on his own. If you are not wise in handling him, you may get him to work and so reduce absenteeism, but you will not increase output. If you get at the coal face a disgruntled man, the absentee figure will be improved, but you will not get the results you expect from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " opposition Front Bench. I think other Members of the House will agree with me when I say that it would be a joy if we heard more frequently speeches from the Front Bench delivered with equal sincerity and without notes. If the time comes, as it may, for the hon. Member having tried one of the Front Benches to try the other, I hope I shall still be in the House and have the privilege to follow him", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that point in a minute. Let me find the cutting. It is a case of—I am afraid I cannot find the cutting at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1387.6", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What in? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "I now want to give the figures included in the analysis of percentage of shifts lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1387.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ot intend to do any more if they have to pay tax. Absenteeism is most excessive on Mondays after a week-end's rest, and it is true to say that this results in a loss of a complete day's work in the week. The manager goes on to say this: Many of our men complete their work in three or four hours, and freely admit that they could cope with more without any overtime, but they just decline to do it.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who was he?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "I will give it to the hon. Member afterwards. Before the war, when they were working five days a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "to Thursday, 5th March. I want now to refer to a speech made by a gentleman who used to be a Member of this House, Mr. George Spencer, of the Notts. Miners' Federated Union. Mr. Spencer did great work for the men in his union, and speaking on Miners' Day on 10th March he said that 20 to 25 per cent. of the miners were not pulling their weight. I know Mr. Spencer well. He started life down the pit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" He came back to us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "by a gentleman who used to be a Member of this House, Mr. George Spencer, of the Notts. Miners' Federated Union. Mr. Spencer did great work for the men in his union, and speaking on Miners' Day on 10th March he said that 20 to 25 per cent. of the miners were not pulling their weight. I know Mr. Spencer well. He started life down the pit. [ Interruption .] You do not like him because he broke away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": " that in a fully mechanised pit the absenteeism causes far more disturbance than in a partly mechanised one. The last point I want to make is this: It shows some of the tremendous difficulties under which the management and the people who are trying to get at the Minister of Mines are working. I give this as a typical example. It is a letter sent by the managing director of a big colliery company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ointed out that the present rate of absenteeism was making six-day working impossible at this pit. Absenteeism is normally high, and on week-end shifts has been as high as 40 per cent. With the exception of a short period of a few weeks only, the Pit Production Committee has never functioned at all. At the present time the workmen's representatives refuse to attend, saying that they have resigned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "laim Essential Works Order guaranteed wage for Saturday. (2) Anticipated loss of right to draw dole for Saturdays after the war when trade is bad. We are unable to appreciate these arguments, as when work and wages are available on Saturday so many men do not seem to want them. We also said, on Saturday, 28th February, 'The company intended the pit to play'. Some hon. Members know what that means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "t, 52 per cent. absentees. Average for 3 shifts, 37 per cent. absentees. At Caphouse Pit on Saturday morning, March 7th, the coal getters' absenteeism was 73 per cent. I have tried the patience of the House long enough; but I was determined, with your permission, Sir, that those figures should appear in the OFFICIAL REPORT. I have every sympathy with the miners, for the terribly hard work they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "preceding_text": " reorganising the whole of our Income Tax as it applies to wage-earners and presenting it properly to them. I am glad there has been no disposition to press for the nationalisation of the coal industry at the present moment. We are in the middle of a great war. Our one aim must be to concentrate upon our immediate task of defeating the enemy. This is not the time to embark upon a great experiment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ate delay as much as my hon. Friend does. Regarding the release of men from the Army, the Government must take note of the fact that many statements of opinion have been made from different parts of the House, and that the majority of those who have spoken on this point have taken the view that some further release of men—I am not now speaking of youths—should now take place from the Armed Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " letter here from a miner who works at a pit in my own district. On Monday, 23rd February, and the following day, when he presented himself for work, he was told that there were some spare men, and that he would have to go home. I cannot imagine, in the light of what my hon. Friend and my right hon. Friend have said about the necessity of production, that there should be spare men in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ens in the South Wales collieries that a third of the coal cut has to be buried. The people who presume to own the industry tell the miners that they need not bring it up because they will not be paid for it. If there is any profit to be made out of it, the coal-owners will collar the whole of it and the hewers and fillers will get nothing. My hon. Friend knows very well that that system prevails.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-17", "file": "debates1942-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "873e6870407f17fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "s in the hewing of that seam at least a third would be small coal which would pass through the screening plant, with its longitudinal bars and an inch and a quarter mesh. For anything passing through that the coal hewer would not be paid. Then perforce all of it would be left in the bowels of the earth to be buried with the rubbish and the slag that the seam would produce. That is going on to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-17a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-03-19", "file": "debates1942-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6ddc8a62b6a066a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1650.5", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "To surrender.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I do not quite know what decision my hon. and gallant Friend is referring to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-19", "file": "debates1942-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6ddc8a62b6a066a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1669.4", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "DAILY MIRROR CARTOON.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "This is a newspaper which has not got a wealthy single owner as its proprietor. It is a mixed proprietorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-19", "file": "debates1942-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6ddc8a62b6a066a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BOYS (HOURS OF WORK).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Children?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "I would remind the House that before the war began, and after these restrictions on hours had been introduced, both the textile trade and the pottery trade came to this House and got the Order extended in order that they might work 48 hours. They had convinced the House, and convinced those who were responsible for administering the Order, that they were entitled to work the children for 48 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-19", "file": "debates1942-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "e6ddc8a62b6a066a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1777.7", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SIR ALEXANDER GIBB AND PARTNERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "at he has resigned his partnership in the firm. I wanted to make it perfectly clear that I have it on his assurance, and on the assurance of everyone from whom I tried to get the information, that ever since he has been associated with the Ministry of Works and Buildings he has not been available for consultation or been in any sense an active member of the firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-19a.1777.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1818.7", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INVASION MEASURES (CIVILIAN DUTIES.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I thought I had made it clear that collaboration with Members of Parliament is invited, but arrangements have to be made locally, and unless Members of Parliament communicate with the Regional Commissioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1818.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1846.5", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " increased. I have discussed, both with the Production Ministers and with Sir Walter Citrine and his committee, ideas for devolving powers on to local bodies. The line that is now being examined is that by an expansion upon uniform lines of the capacity clearing centres, which are in certain districts working very successfully, we should form groups of firms employing, let us say, 500 men or less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1846.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sometimes they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": " different from those in old-established factories with a personnel accustomed for years and years to working as a team. I think co-operation will be increased by production committees, but the workers must not expect to get control of industry and production by this means. It is representatives of the workers who are wanted on these committees, not agitators. A good agitator is not a good worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "ed for years and years to working as a team. I think co-operation will be increased by production committees, but the workers must not expect to get control of industry and production by this means. It is representatives of the workers who are wanted on these committees, not agitators. A good agitator is not a good worker. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sometimes they are.\"] A good agitator is not a good worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "I believe they will do good work. The old order, promotion on merit, cannot be surpassed. Promotion from the bench to the charge hand, from the charge hand to the foreman, from the foreman to the superintendent, and from the superintendent to the works manager; by those means, labour to-day is getting control of industry. You will find that the majority of works managers have risen in that manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1884.1", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She was turned into a pillar of salt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "preceding_text": "upport. If he will go forward, and use the powers he says he has of still further extending his powers over the different Departments in order to get still further control and energy, he will receive the support of this House; but if he or any of his team is wavering, I would beg them to take heed of the fate of Lot's wife. In spite of good advice, she stopped, hesitated, looked back and perished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1884.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies (Montgomery)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies (Montgomery)", "preceding_text": "t one feels is that at last, after pressure has been brought to bear, the Government have given way, and given way without very good grace. The main disappointment to me, however, is that there is, quite obviously, no change of policy, no change of outlook, and no new vision of what is in front of us. The war is still being conducted by the Government as though, in fact, war had not been declared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies (Montgomery)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies (Montgomery)", "preceding_text": "yd George), when we were first discussing Production. It was repeated by the Prime Minister himself when he was supporting others of us who were asking for a Minister of Supply. We have gone on steadily asking for special attention to be paid to the machine tools without which we cannot even get mass production. At last, towards the end of March, 1942, we are having the matter under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1931.0", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lo—an", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lo—an", "preceding_text": ", 2½ years after the war has started; in three months, other nations have ended. I want to know. What length of life do you think you have, to go on talking about reorganisation and organisation? Are you going on until you are as old as Methuselah? Or when do you think you are going to get on with the job? There were three Prime Ministers—three of them, and they all should have been hanged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-24", "file": "debates1942-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "851f240b6eab8dc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lo—an", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lo—an", "preceding_text": " victory, but even to protect their own lives. Yet we are asking to-day, after two and a half years of war, \"Have we organised, what rate of pay are we getting, what Excess Profits Tax are we paying, have we worked this system of finance all right?\" Anybody coming on to this planet, into this House of Commons, and listening to such twaddle at a time like this would think we had literally gone mad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-24a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.1971.1", "colnum": "1971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "I do not think so. It is not laid down that they must on no account be total abstainers. If there is a total abstainer who is in every other respect perfectly suitable, there would be nothing to prevent her being appointed, but, other things being equal, it is an advantage that they should not be total abstainers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.1971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "s is a document sent to the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Birmingham district. It discloses a ghastly and appalling state of affairs. It is dated 21st March, so it is quite recent, and it covers the whole of the Birmingham area. It shows that there was an inquiry set up with reference to Production committees in most of the larger factories—the Austin Motor Company, the Rover Company, and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2075.0", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With Sir John Simon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "onths. A planned Empire Production, allied to a defensive Empire strategy, might have saved precious lives and shipping. I am getting rather tired of Ministers discussing this problem, in the country and at that Box, as though it were an entirely new problem, as though for the first time they were opening the Book of Revelations. We have been at this problem of Production in this House since 1936.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2086.3", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ted the House to put forward revolutionary proposals. Does he think that we have forgotten the last coal Debate, in which he disclosed all the old inhibitions against workers having anything to do with the planning of industry? He comes with the blessing of the Federation of British Industries, and he comes with an outlook and prestige which rest not on expanding Production, but on contracting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2086.3", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " subjects which affect all three Production Ministers simultaneously, and there are many such. He continues: I mean the planning of what is to be produced, and not in this connection of how or where it is to be produced.\" [OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th March, 194: col. 1843, Vol.378] So this superstructure is imposed on the present control and organisation of industry. I have kept the House much too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2098.5", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is all-important.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "It seems a ridiculous question. I have sent the whole of the facts to the First Lord of the Admiralty. I cannot see any particular point in the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2098.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2099.1", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " a major success. One will do. Just one triumph for our Armies. And I would say to my right hon. Friend, do not, for goodness' sake, tell us anything about it beforehand. Do no tell us that the enemy is going to be destroyed, or that we have got equal strength. Tell us none of those things, but give our Army one real chance of winning a victory and holding it. That would be the best tonic of all.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "f man to fuller life. In any case, where are the fruits of the long labours of the Minister of Reconstruction? Can we not see them? Surely enough has been studied and accomplished, and enough good will ensured, to make known, at least the heads of the new British Charter. Why not do it now? Give the people, before another Spring has passed, a vision of the promised land of which they hear so much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-25", "file": "debates1942-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "505b15f994e4b29a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2106.0", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The speech of the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for North Portsmouth (Sir R. Keyes), to which we have just listened, instead of helping Production will frustrate it. When it gets out into the Press, especially in the North of England, it will cause very much discouragement. He has said that we must do all we can to keep trade unionism down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-25a.2106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2167.6", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Don't overdo it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "preceding_text": "ted, and in Germany too, and it has done me considerable public damage. The hon. Member put down his Motion on the evidence of quotations from Irish newspapers. He must have known that Irish newspapers are not evidence and that an Irish newspaper would not print a patriotic speech by an Englishman. He must have known, too, that he had only to approach me, and I would have told him the whole story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2214.1", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (AFRICAN LABOUR).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ulsory labour which in normal times is abhorrent to all. I come to the third series of delusions, of some of which my hon. Friend has been good enough to give me private notice, others of which have been mentioned by other speakers, and the most serious and most incorrect of which I have read in parts of the Press. First, it is stated that there is no conscription of Europeans for military service", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2221.1", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA (AFRICAN LABOUR).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "nt representative, as stated, I think, in the \"Manchester Guardian,\" there will very often be two, one the chairman and one the labour officer representing the employees. After that we have the Provisional Selection Committees. These will be composed entirely of Africans. It will be their duty to select the men who are required. The men required will be male Africans between the ages of 16 and 45.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2237.0", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Information (Mr. Brendan Bracken)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it true or not true?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Information (Mr. Brendan Bracken)", "preceding_text": "I do not understand this. What is the source of this information?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2237.0", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Information (Mr. Brendan Bracken)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Information (Mr. Brendan Bracken)", "preceding_text": "I do not understand this. What is the source of this information?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it true or not true?\"]—It is quite impossible for me to say whether it is true or not. The hon. Member appears to know more about the goings on in my Department than I do. I think he must tell us where he got this information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2237.4", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "And give a lot of information to Dr. Goebbels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2240.1", "colnum": "2240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jane.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I do net say that it is always the voice of the people, but I believe that it is a voice; and I believe that it is most important that all the voices, provided that they are determined to win this war, should be heard at the present time. I want to end with this. I was in the Army, and I read the \"Daily Mirror,\" like so many other officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2244.0", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the 'Daily Worker'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "nyone who has watched developments in various countries in Europe in recent years much less so. My hon. Friend who raised the Debate pointed out that there had been increasing interference with the liberty of the Press. If that was the only subject for discussion, we might talk about this question in a more temperate manner. Indignation has been evoked because of the warning to the \"Daily Mirror.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2245.1", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No, this House did it. It has interfered with the liberty of persons to an undreamt of degree. Constituents of mine come from various parts of this country where they are earning £6 a week in factories for comparatively easy work—work which, in comparison with mining, is not work at all. They have been compelled to go to pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2245.1", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "this matter. The indignation about the \"Daily Mirror\" startled me so much that I began to wonder whether I was living in the same world as some other hon. Members. Miners are being brought back from factories, where they have been earning £6 a week, to go into pits for £3 10s. or £4 a week. They are being compelled to do so by this House. I have not heard the \"Daily Mirror\" get excited about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2249.1", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The country was at war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t less muddled advice from on top. As a matter of fact the heading at the start of this series of articles is: Morrison's important page. Regularly you can read these articles in the 'Daily Mirror.' The Right Hon. Herbert Morrison, P.C., M.P., writes a hard-hitting page which is winning an extraordinary reputation among the people. Of course the right hon. Gentleman was not in the Government then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2249.1", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e same sort of war as that which is happening now—no air raids and no attacks on the enemy. What was the right hon. Gentleman doing there—undermining the morale of the country and the confidence of the country in the leaders of the nation and the Army? He made an attack when the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Devonport (Mr. Hore-Belisha) resigned from the office of Secretary of State for War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2249.2", "colnum": "2249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I have no notice of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2250.2", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I assure my right hon. Friend that he must not play with me the old Parliamentary game of asking me to read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2250.2", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I assure my right hon. Friend that he must not play with me the old Parliamentary game of asking me to read—[ Interruption. ] I do not want to read these articles because they are rather dull—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2257.1", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "used this machinery and not the other is that if you take any one particular passage and go into court it is extremely easy for a really clever counsel to pick it to pieces, and to ask, \"Are you really suggesting that the whole Army is going to collapse because of that?\" We remember the Chinese torture of little drops of water day after day. There is no one drop that can be described as barbarous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2259.0", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I feel bound to acquaint the House briefly with conversations I have had this week with many friends of mine, who are responsible men in the trade union movement. They are seriously perturbed that Members of the party with which I am associated should attack fellow Members who have been selected to bear the onerous duty of sharing the huge responsibility of Government in this war period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2260.2", "colnum": "2260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "The trade union side of our movement might well consider whether it is worth while spending the money of its members to enable people to behave in the way they are doing in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2261.0", "colnum": "2261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "ctators and dominators. It is surprising to me, an old-fashioned Englishman, that they should be taking such a different line to-day. They are evidently enjoying greater freedom and less responsibility than they did then. Their spokesman spoke as though this Government had imposed a terrible censorship on the Press. That is not true. There is no censorship. There is a sort of advisory arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2262.0", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I take note of my hon. Friend's words. My right hon. Friend, and comrade and brother, the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2262.0", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The proprietor was Lord Beaverbrook.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "e that they ought not to descend to this sort of thing. Rather an interesting book has been written recently by a journalist who did that sort of thing and then made a confession. He went religious, and wrote a book called \"Innocent Men.\" In that book he showed how his proprietor—I will not use any adjectives on rim, although I could—instructed him to follow the policy of \"Attack, Attack, Attack.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2270.2", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": " day by day a newspaper puts out things wrapped up in one form or another which are calculated to undermine the discipline of the one defence of this country, surely the House will not defend it or condemn a Government if at long last they take action about it. I am certain that every hon. Member who is acquainted with any officer in command knows that they are most open to constructive criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2274.0", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "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": " express their minds, as they have done to-day. The only small regret I have is that we did say that if the House wanted debating facilities we would provide them and, of course, opportunity for a Motion and a Division. I am bound to say that if there is a state of indignation in the country about this matter to the extent to which the Press—but by no means all the Press—have criticised my action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2274.0", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "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": "the assent of the Prime Minister and of the Leader of the House, to provide opportunities—as we could have done if the demand had been made early enough—for a full day's Debate, a Motion and a Division. I assure the House that there have been considerable manoeuvres among a number of hon. Members to see that this Debate to-day should take place in conditions in which a Division could not be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2277.1", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the hon. Member does. What would have been easier than to request the Government that the House should sit on another day, that we should have taken the Adjournment Debate on another day and have a Motion and Division to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2277.1", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was made this morning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the hon. Member does. What would have been easier than to request the Government that the House should sit on another day, that we should have taken the Adjournment Debate on another day and have a Motion and Division to-day? [ Interruption. ] That request was never made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2278.0", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "tions. There the policy seems to have been one of willingness to strike without any particular anxiety to take the matter to its proper conclusion, and let the House decide whether the Minister concerned is right or wrong. There is a charming idea that the Government should be so weak about its own position as to put down a Motion on the matter. Surely it is for the critics to put the Motion down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "urprised that hon. Members who have often pressed the Government to be speedy and decisive in action should ask that we should be indecisive in this matter. If in this case we had fallen back upon Regulation 2C I know what the argument would have been, that when we dealt with the \"Daily Worker\" we used the brutal Regulation 2D and that when we dealt with the capitalist Press we used Regulation 2C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2286.4", "colnum": "2286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "tion of an individual cartoon.\" But that is not the Regulation. There is in the Regulation the word \"systematic.\" The offence has to be not merely repeated but systematic. It has to reflect some kind of repetitive tendency. I believe that the interpretation which jumped to my eyes when I saw it—I know that other people have found other interpretations since—is the common-sense and obvious meaning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2288.1", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes by his interjection to associate himself with that passage he is at liberty to do so, but I would not advise him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2288.2", "colnum": "2288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "You can mention my name if you like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2290.1", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I would put another question to the right hon. Gentleman. Can he tell us how it is, if they pursued this course previous to the war, that they are now deliberately doing their best to lose the war?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2293.1", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What about Wavell?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "contrary to the whole tradition of our public life. Some generals, it is said, are genuinely alarmed about the \"Daily Mirror.\" I respect their opinion, but it is for us as politicians to safeguard the political tradition of this country. Who is the greatest general who has emerged in this war? General MacArthur has some claim to that title. At any rate, he has been an extremely successful general.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-03-26", "file": "debates1942-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "eda43532030828c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2297.0", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Impure muck.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "Crown, with the same result. It was disgusting stuff and all of it too clever for a prosecution to be successful. The third example came to my notice quite recently. I was in the City walking away from an office I had visited when I looked into a bookshop window and saw a display of cheap, paper-covered books. I did not look inside them, but the titles and pictures showed that they were pure muck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-03-26a.2297.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So would we.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "There is no intention to deprive the British public, but there is a public abroad who would like very much to know how we are getting on with coal production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.6.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.18.5", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He prepared them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is giving the same kind of answers that we got from his predecessors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.18.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.18.9", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is not this a typical example of the slow-moving machinery at the War Office, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.18.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "He will be the best judge of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": ". I can assure the House that in practice this organisation does work smoothly. I have read a great many books of memoirs and biographies of the last war, and when I joined the War Cabinet I wondered whether I should find that constant clash between the politicians and the professional men who figured so largely in those pages. I must say I have not found it. We have had very vigorous discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ns and the professional men who figured so largely in those pages. I must say I have not found it. We have had very vigorous discussions. [ Interruption .] I did not get that point. There is not that constant clash, and certainly there is not anything of that apparently complete failure to understand each other which seemed to occur in the last war between the Services personnel and the Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "d it. We have had very vigorous discussions. [ Interruption .] I did not get that point. There is not that constant clash, and certainly there is not anything of that apparently complete failure to understand each other which seemed to occur in the last war between the Services personnel and the Ministers. [ Interruption .] I am sure the noble Lord does not think that the war was won by squabbles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can make his own speech. What he is trying to do is to distract me into a direct attack on the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "in the last year or two, things had been going well, to claim that no improvement could be made in our present machinery and that we might not be able, somehow or other, to make things go better; things having gone badly for the last 2½ years, it would be too Pollyanna, even for Ministerial week-end utterances, to claim that this joint planning machinery was not capable of some improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You would have to call for another bottle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "luted. Let me take a homely simile from an age which, alas, is past. If I wanted to mix myself a whisky and water, so long as I had the whisky bottle in one hand and the water carafe in the other I could mix for myself exactly the strength I wanted. But if somebody else, unknown to me, had already been at the whisky bottle and had filled it half-full of water, I should not know how much to put in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "e prepared to use it, because unless there is a certain amount of devolution, they cannot run both jobs properly. That is the three Chiefs of Staff. Obviously you cannot put upon them any new duty. We have had references during this Debate to the position of General Ismay. He was appointed, oddly enough, my Noble Friend will be astonished to hear, not by the present but by the late Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "otalitarian war means a great deal more than action by the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. There are a great many other activities which we rightly do not discuss in public. I am not going to discuss them. I do not know whether right hon. Gentlemen are satisfied with the way they are being conducted now. If I were in a position to discuss the subject, I should tell them what I thought about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-19", "file": "debates1942-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4340aade001ffe5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "ght hon. and learned Gentleman the Lord Privy Seal was selected and went out to India to try and appease the Indians and appeal to them to help to defend the British Empire, with the invader on the doorstep. I say this personally to him, and I say it without any bitterness. I feel that he did more harm to the Indian cause by his approach than has been done by any other approach that has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-19a.154.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lyons", "preceding_text": "How were the candidates chosen for interview?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman recognise that the House is not here only to receive statements from the Prime Minister but that the House desires to make its views known to the Prime Minister at first hand, and that there is a feeling in the House that the Prime Minister occasionally comes down to make statements but does not apprise himself of the views of the vast majority", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.242.18", "colnum": "242", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "s the purpose of the Prime Minister in visiting the United States to devise a method of continuous co-operation. It is not yet in good working order. The various Allies speak with disunited voices. Stalin has been expressing the opinion for months past that there should be a second front. General Sikorski has expressed the same view. Ministers in this country have retaliated by rejecting the idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.242.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said this\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "Gentleman the Member for Devonport (Mr. Hore-Belisha) to-day was directed personally against the Prime Minister. There were of course the usual tributes to my right hon. Friend. He is we are told a great leader, but the trouble is that he leads and, therefore, it seems he should be shackled; he is a great leader but he is no judge of men; he is a great leader but the country has lost faith in him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where did you pick up that one? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "l—of the peoples who are engaged in it, and any survey of the conduct of the war which confines itself to the single point of the military direction is, on any count, an inadequate survey. I will be blunt. I do not believe we can win this war with our present \"set-up.\" The House must forgive me for that Americanism. It is a phrase I picked up in America, the connotation of which is tout ensemble .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " have afforded. For that the Prime Minister must take a heavy share of responsibility. He, at least, should have known what party tyranny was. They tried to destroy him—some would destroy him to-day if they could—Just as they tried to destroy my right hon. and learned Friend the Leader of the House, and just as they tried to destroy me—only to let me attain a greater and more glorious resurrection", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the enormous growth in the power of the machine—it is difficult for a man to survive on his own. It is difficult for him to survive except as the agent of a machine, and the machine exacts its price in punishment and reward. You cannot become an official Labour candidate in Britain today, without signing a written statement that you will never vote against the decision of the Parliamentary party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was thrown out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ent of a machine, and the machine exacts its price in punishment and reward. You cannot become an official Labour candidate in Britain today, without signing a written statement that you will never vote against the decision of the Parliamentary party. [ Interruption .] The Leader of the House can look after himself. The plain truth is that he found that situation intolerable, and got out as I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "their failures. It is a miracle that the Government have survived. I will tell you why the Government have survived, and I hope my hon. Friends behind me will not take offence. They have survived because Labour is in the Government. If Labour was not in the Government, the Government would not have lasted as long. The Government are being propped up by the presence of Labour men in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ary machine? Is that our belief? I hope, as every hon. Member does, that our Russian Ally can defeat the Nazis without assistance, but is it not desirable that we should participate in the victory? Surely it is. Consider the political and other implications of a Russian victory over the Germans without the aid of Britain. Is that desirable? We must be in this fight. We must engage in the conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Would you do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e have the tanks, and we have the air power. I would tell him at the same time that we propose to invade Norway and to attack from Murmansk through Finland, because if we could suppress the resistance of the Finns and gain entry to the Baltic, we could strike a heavy blow at the Nazis and aid our Russian comrades. At the same time, I would strike at the heel of Italy. I would tell Hitler all that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-20", "file": "debates1942-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "ea5db927adfd0644", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "WAR SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about armaments? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "king very substantial progress. It is precisely the kind of speech which might have been delivered yesterday by a member of the Government. It does not matter what hon. Members say about criticism. Criticism is determined by events. It does not lie in the mouths of certain hon. Gentleman to complain, for upon them rests responsibility for neglecting the shipbuilding industry and the coal industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-20a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "INDUSTRY (WAR-TIME REGULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "scipline of any kind, except the most unfortunate discipline of all, the economic whip, which I want to remove and which I hope to live to see removed. I devised appeal systems under the Orders, but in the end there has to be a final sanction of some kind, and what can it be? It is said that I go looking into the history of a miner, into his wages, into where he has been. I do nothing of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "INDUSTRY (WAR-TIME REGULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " to adopt the same principle. Let us take prosecutions for absenteeism. I have not prosecuted miners for absenteeism, so far as I know, unless the cases have first been through the pit production committees. I was the first Minister in this country to make pit committees by an indirect method a legal part of the mining industry, which my hon. Friends opposite had been trying to get for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "INDUSTRY (WAR-TIME REGULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not to the same extent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "my hon. Friends opposite had been trying to get for many years. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite true.\"] I think that statement will be accepted. I gave the committees certain powers. I could not give more. I gave as much as they would be prepared to take in present conditions. Now, with regard to directions. It is not only the miners who have had to be directed; hundreds of people have had to be directed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "INDUSTRY (WAR-TIME REGULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "nute because I have to direct a person to a job, and the next minute defend the trade unions and their collective bargaining. I ask Members to try and look at the problem all round. I was attacked to-day by the hon. Member for Westhoughton, but I claim to have done more in his own industry to establish joint industrial councils and regulations in two years than he has been able to do for 40 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.425.5", "colnum": "425", "heading": "INDUSTRY (WAR-TIME REGULATION).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two were from Scotland\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " will probably soon rise to nearly 8,000,000, because I am being pressed by trade unions and employers to bring more under the Essential Work Orders. Frequent deputations are coming. Proceedings taken represent one worker per 10,000 covered by the Orders since they have been operated. Imprisonment has been imposed in one per 50,000. Of the women imprisoned, three were for offences under the Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "RETAIL TRADERS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant Butcher", "preceding_text": "d. Their system has helped, in the main, the ordinary grocery covering a wide range of commodities, and there has been an increasing tendency for the people of this country to register with the general grocery. I think my right hon. and gallant Friend would be doing a good thing if he would suggest, by public advertisement, at the time of re-registration, that that sort of thing should take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "RETAIL TRADERS.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two mice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Gentleman would wish to be absolutely accurate. He said the Committee sat for one year before they produced the proverbial mouse in the shape of two Interim Reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "RETAIL TRADERS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "reconstruction and under the pretence of avoiding chaos when peace comes, preparing the way for the continuation of the control by red tape which would eventually strangle the community. I trust that I may never live to see it. Let the right hon Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade—I wish he had been here to-day—remember the words of Burke at a time when the menace was but in its infancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-05-21", "file": "debates1942-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "38903bbf262fe0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "RETAIL TRADERS.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "les has been very small indeed—much smaller than I think many hon. Members would have thought. In volume, the sales are probably down by something like 40 per cent. My hon. and gallant Friend referred to the fact that the shelves are getting emptier. That is, of course, very true, and it is a very relevant factor to-day, but the shelves are still bearing a very comfortable quantity of commodities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-05-21a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-02", "file": "debates1942-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8b5c7a43d4b6c43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-02a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (MERCANTILE MARINE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Petty Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Petty Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "f \"ship,\" would my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General like to have it this way?—as I suggested the other day to the draftsman: 'ship' shall have the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, namely, any description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars. That is the only one that seems to worry my hon. and learned Friend. Why not alter that one and accept the rest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-02a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-03", "file": "debates1942-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "e7690f12d281edfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-03a.647.9", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "There is no question of stickiness. These awards are equal. The D.F.M. is an award which is cherished by those who receive it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-03a.647.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-04", "file": "debates1942-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2a8f939259da4195", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-04a.822.7", "colnum": "822", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "In the opinion of the Government all the proposals to deal with coal come under one single scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-04a.822.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-04", "file": "debates1942-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2a8f939259da4195", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-04a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson (Glasgow, Maryhill)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson (Glasgow, Maryhill)", "preceding_text": " £12 and costs for the misuse of petrol when engaged on Government contracts. In July, 1941—this seems to be a lucky month for those who contravene the laws of this country—we find it announced that Mr. Hugh Beaver is to be Director-General of Works and Buildings and Mr. B. H. Colquhoun, fined for the same offences as Mr. Beaver in March, was later appointed to the Ministry of Works and Buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-04a.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-04", "file": "debates1942-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "2a8f939259da4195", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-04a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "ould have very serious consequences, quite apart from the merits of the proposal, if we reversed that decision at this stage. The House of Commons has power to take a step of that kind, but first, it must have regard to the previous decision, and whether there is a considerable amount of opinion to support such a course. We have only to look round the Committee to-day to judge the measure of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-04a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-09", "file": "debates1942-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f376a84b23aacaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-09a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "ould be avoided. On Thursday last I obtained from the Chancellor of the Exchequer an answer that, in view of the omission to tax the lowest priced seats in cinemas and elsewhere, the Exchequer would be losing £750,000 a year. Yet when the tax on other seats is being doubled, he has refused to increase the tax on these lowest priced seats. I have been a frequenter of the sixpenny seats all my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-09a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-09", "file": "debates1942-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f376a84b23aacaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-09a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "cent home he started work on the Wednesday morning, which was the beginning of the shift. There has been plenty of talk about absenteeism, and this man was given a chance of working overtime. He works on the surface. He put in 8½ shifts, and he and his mother were expecting a decent bit of money at the week-end. His mother had Had nothing from him for 10 weeks, only a bit of \"Lloyd George.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-09a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-09", "file": "debates1942-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "7f376a84b23aacaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-09a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "es. When I went to visit him one week-end he was ready to throw me out of the door. He said, \"What do you think about this lot?\" On top of this he later received a pamphlet asking him to invest something in War Savings. It is all right for the Chancellor to laugh, but these people do not laugh. They feel it on the raw so much that they do not care a tinker's curse whether they produce coal or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-09a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Sir John Anderson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Sir John Anderson)", "preceding_text": "ries of the country. There had to be certain discussions about the precise terms in which that Order should be applied to the coalmining industry. These discussions took some time. The critics may say that the action which we took then ought to have been taken sooner; that we ought to have intervened before so large a number of the skilled men in this vital industry had drifted away to other work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Sir John Anderson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about stocks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Sir John Anderson)", "preceding_text": "o have been taken sooner; that we ought to have intervened before so large a number of the skilled men in this vital industry had drifted away to other work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] But I am sure hon. Members will wish to be perfectly fair. Could we have held men back in the industry with the knowledge that, for a time at any rate, they would have to be unemployed or only partially employed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "s to the very important subject of re-organisation. The details are all set out in the White Paper. The whole plan is governed by the introductory words in paragraph 13, which I will read: In order to ensure that all practicable means of increasing output are adopted without delay and pressed forward vigorously, private interests being subordinated to the over-riding needs of increased production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "bers on both sides of the House know, that structure is very complicated and has a long history of discussion, negotiation and dispute behind it. To requisition or lease the pits would have involved very difficult questions in regard to the application of compensation under the Compensation (Defence) Act and would incidentally have completely destroyed the basis of what is called the ascertainment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"And the men are better off\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "argely to the difficulties in which the miners are placed to-day. It may be that in some areas the mine-owners are getting very little out of the scheme: in fact, they may be in debit, so to speak; but in other areas they may be doing better. In so far as this scheme is successful and the output of coal is increased, the owners, under the existing financial arrangement, are financially advantaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1116.3", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"And lock-outs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "evances redressed if they choose, working through their leaders and the proper channels, why should there be all this unrest in the coalfields? Those, not only in this House but in the industry, who are leaders of the miners, know that there is a state of indiscipline in the industry to-day, particularly among the younger men. I have seen strikes continually in my own area for the last few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "preceding_text": "hich has an important practical bearing on the scheme. At the foot of paragraph 18—which refers to absenteeism—there is a reference to the investigation officer, who is not to be responsible for instituting proceedings in court, as this will be the responsibility of the National Service officer. Will the investigation officer be the appointee of the Minister of Mines, or of the Minister of Labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1123.1", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You want to look after vested interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "preceding_text": "opposite as well as by ourselves. That is the national interest. This coal question is a matter which most vitally affects this country. It seems to me that we must all cooperate in trying to make this scheme a success. If rationing has to come, I assure the House I will do everything I can by myself to see that any rationing is absolutely fair as between the richer classes and the poorer classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "er amending the Essential Work Order so as to give powers to the men's representatives on these pit committees in order that they can have some voice in the control and management of the pits. The organisation set up under the White Paper stops at the manager, and because it stops there it will fail unless something is done. It cannot succeed unless you get the support and co-operation of the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Walkden", "preceding_text": " of the Board of Trade and the Lord Privy Seal answered all objections to rationing, the scheme was suspended. That scheme, which was elaborated by Sir William Beveridge under great pressure—and many of the greatest productions of the human mind have been made under pressure—met with a good deal of criticism and abuse, but the House was convinced that it was necessary, and the country accepted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. G. Walkden", "preceding_text": "y sinister change took place over the weekend. Hon. Members may smile, but we know what was going on, and it is that sort of thing with which we want to be finished. We had convinced our womenfolk, although they did not like the rationing idea, that if they were to have fuel during the winter, we must have rationing so that too much of the coal would not be consumed in the mansions of the blessed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "I may have exaggerated in saying they were working up to the waist, and I am sorry. I should have said that they were working in waist-high boots because of the quantities of water. I am sorry to have made that mistake. If the House wants it, I will certainly give the name of the pit where the men are working in water when there is there a perfectly dry seam on which they could work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ildren a penny each. They looked up at me, and started crying. I said, 'What are you crying for?' One of them said, 'My mummy told us we were not to take pennies off strangers.'\" This man had put in nine shifts a week for months past, and then the manager summoned him for being absent. Do you think that kind of thing is going to help? I know I am putting it across in a humorous way; but, comrades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " which is possible and necessary in the interests of the nation and without which no great addition to output will be possible. I referred earlier to omissions from the White. Paper scheme which my hon. Friends and I regard as regrettable. I want to refer to one in particular. It is obvious that no large scale permanent reorganisation of the industry could have been carried through at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "an assurance, but a clear outline of the better mining world which the country would desire to offer them when the war ends. My party feel that steps should be taken without delay to consider the details of a post-war plan. We accordingly propose that an authoritative body, committee, commission or whatever the Government may wish, should be set up at once to frame a practical plan for peace time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four Tories and one Labour Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "o secure their good will to carry out any scheme which may be proposed here? The fact remains that the mines are still the property of the owners and will be worked in the interests of the owners. The owners will nominate the managers who work the mines, and in the end we shall have made no progress towards the reorganisation of the industry. A great deal has been made of the National Wages Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not much milk about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "nkey Report; a Commission was set up for the purpose of inquiring into the coal industry. Will anybody tell me that the White Paper is a substitute for the Sankey Commission? Does anybody suggest that, instead of working along the lines of the Sankey Commission so that the nation should secure control of the coal—which is its own coal—this milk and water substitute is of any use to take its place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-10", "file": "debates1942-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "0b5227384e1a33f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "e thing happened then. We are not satisfied that the owners have changed their minds or that the industry can be left in their hands. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Sunderland (Mr. Storey) has just given a fine explanation, but what he has said to-day has been said elsewhere. Owners are now prepared to offer miners increased wages, but it is conditional upon extra output and regular attendance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-10a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1285.5", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "at is going to be discussed between my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other Ministers concerned, with a view to seeing what is the best and fairest arrangement. I cannot make a commitment at this stage. I think the total cost will not be so heavy as my hon. Friend thinks. At any rate, that is to be discussed, and no doubt at an early date some statement will be made upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1285.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of Order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "sals in the form of a White Paper because the House has already given the Government wide powers. If the Government had not got those powers, they would have had to bring a Bill to the House, and in that case they would have had to tell the House where the charges would lie. Now, after weeks of discussion, we understand that we are not to be told what sum of money the House is involving itself in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1287.2", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "emsworth (Mr. G. Griffiths), and I very much enjoyed the maiden speeches of two other mining Members. Nevertheless, the onlooker sometimes sees much of the game. I started ray public life by joining the staff of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Carnarvon Burghs (Mr. Lloyd George) on the day of the coal strike of 1921. In 1926 I was thrown out of work by the long stoppage that occurred then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " gallant Gentleman succeeds in his task of producing more coal, he is bound to produce more profits, because the financial structure of the industry remains the same under these proposals. How are you to persuade miners to accept those disciplines, to work harder, to accept all the inconveniences, when out of it idle, function-less coalowners will be making more profits than they ever did before?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "d by 50 per cent. One recognises that there have been rising prices in various directions throughout the country, a very big drop in the numbers of men available in the industry, and a very great increase in the demand and a much more secure market for coal than is normally found. It is not surprising that the miners' wages should have gone up. If it be true that they have gone up by 50 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do you not vote for it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "in this House. We have dealt with nationalisation to a large extent in the past as a political question, but all that has gone. We still advocate nationalisation, not as a political nostrum at all, but as the best economic and industrial solution to the problem. I should be much happier at this Box now fighting for nationalisation, as I believe that it would do far more good than this White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "With proper tests to see that the interests of the country are safeguarded. It is said that this will mean a dual loyalty in the management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-11", "file": "debates1942-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "7662853e8149150f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1345.5", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL POLICY.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The House will be able to make suggestions as to alterations; but we are not going to introduce a Bill which can be amended, by putting Amendments on the Order Paper.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-11a.1345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-16", "file": "debates1942-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "bbfdec5f97a133d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-16a.1386.2", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (OFFICIAL REPORT).", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "May I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to an error of substance in the OFFICIAL REPORT of our proceedings on 9th June?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-16a.1386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-16", "file": "debates1942-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "bbfdec5f97a133d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-16a.1478.3", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "ORDERS OF THE. DAY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "As they have not yet met —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-16a.1478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1547.6", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "preceding_text": " and that, in addition to the acceptance of the other suggestions, the proposed increase should be made without the application of that iniquitous means test. In other words, the increase should be disregarded, as other items are disregarded in the determination of supplementary pensions. The method that should be adopted to deal with widows must be obvious, and therefore requires no explanation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1547.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "We have all listened with interest to the speech which has just been made, but I am wondering what our position is going to be after the war. Whether you have a capitalist system or not, strictly so-called, you cannot develop industry and avoid unemployment unless there are available substantial savings, in other words, new accumulations of capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Adam and Eve? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "st system or not, strictly so-called, you cannot develop industry and avoid unemployment unless there are available substantial savings, in other words, new accumulations of capital. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"] It may be nonsense, but I have not met anyone yet who could do it, and, no doubt, the hon. Member who said \"Nonsense\" will in due course explain how you can make something out of nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " pension? On what moral grounds do you say your own children have no responsibility to you and that your responsibility is to someone else's children? That is what you are proposing, the complete destruction of the idea that parents have a responsibility to their children and children to their parents. The members of the family ought to make the first effort to help their parents in their old age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1560.1", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I do not say that he belongs to the State. All that conscription means is that you are forced to work in a particular way, and you are paid for it. It may be underpaid, but it is paid service and is at the rate of about £4 a week if you take the average allowances and emoluments into account.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " things. We are deceiving the nation by the optimistic speeches we make one day about education, on another day about what we propose to do about old age pensions, and on another day about family allowances. We cannot finance all these things. With complete irresponsibility Members of all political parties are going around the country preaching what a beautiful rosy world is to come after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Smiles", "preceding_text": "e so long, he told me—he is an ordinary middle-class or lower middle-class person like myself—that he was paying out each month or week a certain amount for the social security scheme, which meant that when he was 60 or 65 he would be sure of a pension in his old age. I understand that there are two countries, Sweden and the United States of America, that are ahead of us in their, social services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-06-17", "file": "debates1942-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "be9a034e6945349f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What do you know about Peebles or about Scotland?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "is not a big community and you have not many members, and I respectfully suggest that you would render greater service by getting to know the individual situation of your members and bringing those that require special consideration to the notice of the Assistance Board. This will entail much more work than passing resolutions at a quarterly meeting but it will be of greater value to your members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-17a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-18", "file": "debates1942-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "07a0b10900932abe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-18a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "I wish to make a suggestion on how this difficulty can be surmounted. There can be no doubt that we are in the presence of the danger that an hon. Member will be subjected to a charge which will be made in public, and the evidence will be taken in secret and the result or verdict will be made in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-18a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Do I understand my right hon. Friend to say that the statement referred to was made in 1940, some months before the Ministry came into being?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1829.0", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "LIBYAN AND MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure that the hon. Member, desirous as he may be of finding a scapegoat", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1829.0", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "LIBYAN AND MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure that the hon. Member, desirous as he may be of finding a scapegoat [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]. Well, the hon. Member said he wanted to place the blame somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1829.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "sions when we shall meet with reverses. The right thing for an Englishman to do then is to stand up to events and try to make them better for the future. Never let us give way to depression as we are doing now. I deplore what has happened in this Debate. Here are we, the people who as Members of Parliament should be telling the nation to have courage and endurance, acting as though we were beaten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1873.0", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "the best and quickest way of solving the problem. May I say a word or two about our scheme? We will not accept a scheme which is not available to every child in the country. Once you depart from that principle, you introduce class distinctions into the social services which will undermine them. You have it already. I have heard of little children dividing themselves into \"free milkers\" and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1873.0", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What other way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "efore, from taxation. The Budget must be used to finance this scheme as a method of policy which will have to be adopted in this country. All hon. Members are joined together in our great effort, and therefore, speaking frankly, let us admit that, of course, there must be a redistribution of income in this country, either through the medium of this Parliament and the Chancellor, or in another way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1875.2", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "the reason the workers of this country cannot maintain their children is that wages are too low for a start. Who in this House will suggest that they are such wiseacres in the Treasury that they know best how to distribute the wealth of the country? Every time there is an economic problem raised in the House, we either set up a commission of inquiry or go to the Treasury. What do the Treasury say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1875.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "I am sure that Sir William Beveridge will thank the hon. Gentleman for that aid to his hands. Sir William says that the greatest cause of poverty is young children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": " will thank the hon. Gentleman for that aid to his hands. Sir William says that the greatest cause of poverty is young children. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"] The relatively high standard of health shown by children in the last war was in part a result of the system of separation allowances. The deduction is clearly that if you have not family allowances children are a curse. That is the logic of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1879.0", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "ieces, then the only thing that can take its place is blood and revolution. This constant giving of greater power to the bureaucracy, this greater control of bureaucratic machinery over the lives of our people is gradually sapping the interests of the common citizen of this country in the development of the British Constitution. That is the danger. To me that is more terrible than anything I know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1924.0", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It happened after the last war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "Beveridge has exhausted the tasks which the Government have given him they may well invite him to take a few classes in elementary economics for some Members opposite. It is in some ways melancholy to say it, but our productive capacity will probably increase as a result of the war. Owing to the greater inventiveness called forth by war, it will probably be increased and not diminished by the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1932.0", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lloyd George). Speaking as one who has been disbursing provident benefits for 35 years, I say that the notion that you destroy the fibre and personality of the individual by paying him benefits will not hold good. If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen knew the boon which has accrued to some poor people by the National Health Insurance scheme they would think twice before they opposed this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-23", "file": "debates1942-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "015f9bbdb6067840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1932.0", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SCHEME OF FAMILY ALLOWANCES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "utory scheme there is never a question of a means test. The argument is then employed that the recipients of benefits have paid for them in advance. But when the State, or a municipality, makes a payment without contributions in advance it is always accompanied by a means test. I trust that, whatever you do, you will never impose a means test in connection with this payment in respect of children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-23a.1932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-24", "file": "debates1942-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "65ebedcdb9ca2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.1968.3", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is that not due to the fact that Jews have enlisted in far greater numbers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.1968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-24", "file": "debates1942-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "65ebedcdb9ca2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2054.2", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "t the enthusiasm for the maintenance of British rule in those parts, because the general impression of the people of this country is that while coloured peoples abroad have not got very high standards of life, they are not, after all, so badly off under the good old Union Jack, and that at any rate they all infinitely prefer to live under that domination than any other alternative they might meet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-24", "file": "debates1942-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "65ebedcdb9ca2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2060.3", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "no change in the red bits. I would like to see a United States of Africa, for instance, run and controlled by Africans, the natives of the soil, but, if the white races, are to come into it and have a say as to how the wealth of that great continent is to be developed and how the people are to be directed, I would like to see the United States of America have a part in it as well as Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2060.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-24", "file": "debates1942-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "65ebedcdb9ca2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2069.0", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "d. The Dominions Secretary said: He will, of course, have the right to address any Minister direct, though when he does so his normal channel of communication will be through the Colonial Office. At this point I really begin to be baffled. We ought to inquire whether this means that the direct communications between Lord Swinton and other Ministers go in sealed packets through the Colonial Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-24", "file": "debates1942-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "65ebedcdb9ca2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2098.0", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "lisms the British Empire is much superior to the Nazis, but it does not alter the fact that many of us disagree with both forms of Imperialism and disagree with the very conception of the permanent right of one section of the human race to dominate and exploit another. No one is so absurd as to imagine that we can jump rapidly from one stage to another. There will have to be stages of development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-24", "file": "debates1942-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "65ebedcdb9ca2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2106.0", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": " his reply to me, fighting to give them a partnership in the British Empire. What steps have been or are being taken to get into touch with these people, to see that they understand what the war is about and to ensure that, if there is an invasion of those parts of the world by German or Italian forces—as there may be—they will not stand indifferent on the sidelines but will take part on our side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-24a.2106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-25", "file": "debates1942-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "aa30a3f72c6da205", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-25a.2199.1", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "ALLIED POWERS (WAR SERVICE) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "says he is not Norwegian and the Norwegian and British Governments say he is. Of course, if the man accepts the Allied nationality, the Act is applied, and no question arises. He either joins the Force or he is called up. The nationality question can only arise if a man says he is not a national of one or other of these Allied Governments to whom the Act has been applied and they and we say he is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-25a.2199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-30", "file": "debates1942-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "30274addfc3a7d85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid fevers). They were natural sources of anxiety in war-time, with the risk of disturbance of our water supplies by air attack. We have done much to protect these supplies, to take preventive action against risk of pollution, as those of us who are water drinkers know by the taste, and our medical officers of health were prepared to offer inoculation against typhoid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-30", "file": "debates1942-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "30274addfc3a7d85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.61.3", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption. .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " 1916. It is an interesting fact that not one of those deaths in heavy bombing years was due to pollution by water-borne infection. That is a very remarkable statement of our comparative freedom from typhoid fever in a time of continuous bombing. It is a corner of our general health picture at which American medical visitors to this country marvel. They have expressed it to me over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.61.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-30", "file": "debates1942-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "30274addfc3a7d85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ad at the beginning of the war for many reasons and for one in particular, namely, that we had to cease housebuilding, for at root this is a problem of wiping away the dirty, rotten, unwholesome small dwellings, and I shall be happy when my times comes to say about housing, \"Forward with speed.\" But the black-out and overcrowding and the cessation of housebuilding have made our progress difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-30", "file": "debates1942-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "30274addfc3a7d85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the size of his head?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "We have had, as we have learnt to expect, a very full, instructive and comprehensive statement from the right hon. Gentleman, and he has reminded us that during the 11 years he has occupied a Ministerial position we have heard from him facts and figures, rolled out with such ease and accuracy that in our minds \"still the wonder grew\" that \"one small head\" could contain them all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-30", "file": "debates1942-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "30274addfc3a7d85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.75.2", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": ". I know that the trouble is nursing and domestic science. A committee was appointed in 1937 or 1938, which heard evidence for a long time and reported in full. Why have not the recommendations of that committee been carried out? I understand that a new committee is now about to be appointed. What is the use of it? What is the real reason why nurses are not coming forward? One can easily find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.75.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-30", "file": "debates1942-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "30274addfc3a7d85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.84.2", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "do not want to be personal, but until we get a Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health who really knows and cares about this subject, we shall never get it straight. We had a conference the other day, and the hon.' Lady talked to the experts there as though they could learn something from her. I say this, because I care so much about children. It is not that I dislike anybody personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.84.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-06-30", "file": "debates1942-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "30274addfc3a7d85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF HEALTH.", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "getting the best nutrition, but there is still need of treatment. One of the difficulties to-day is again educational. Of those in insurance societies where there is free dental treatment, only six per cent. use it. That is a startling fact. We want more education, but we need to educate not only the people to have their teeth examined but dentists and dental mechanics, because we have not enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-06-30a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Keyes", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my hon. Friend ever suggested that the Prime Minister had unduly interfered with the naval direction of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.248.3", "colnum": "248", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "Was not it equally true that the situation was grave on 8th May, 1940?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ed from the first few put out that failure of the type might have to be faced. But these have now been largely eliminated. I believe that the present tank will run without major repairs rather more than half the distance which a perfect tank of this type might be expected to run under Service conditions, and in conditions similar to those of this country the tank is of the greatest possible value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " that any justified criticism has been directed at our machines and the efficiency of our aircraft, except in one respect, and that is the lack of dive-bombers. The present Government have always attached importance to this weapon, and, in fact, a few weeks after the Government were formed orders were placed for dive-bombers in the United States. They were placed by Lord Beaverbrook in June, 1940.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "he difficulty of identification. An armoured battle in the desert raises a great dust, and movements are very quick. For five or ten minutes the whole direction of the battle changes. It is the opinion of commanders that a force of dive-bombers could not have affected the course of the battle and that the dive-bombers of the enemy were largely ineffective in the desert for the reason I have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": " honestly convinced that it is necessary to challenge the issue, they took no steps to do it. That is why I regard the Debate that we are having to-day as the most momentous that has ever taken place in the history of Parliament.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th May, 1940; col. 1290, Vol. 360.] They were strong words. A Vote of Censure had been announced that day in the speech of the present Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Norway Debate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "preceding_text": "uty to say that when I heard the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne) say that what was wanted by the House was an opportunity of discussing the conduct of military direction of the war, I strongly disagreed. We are in the middle of a battle that may well decide the fate of our Empire; is that the moment to put down a Motion saying that we mistrust the central direction of the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Member has said that. To weaken the support of the Prime Minister when he was engaged in this important work would have constituted a vitriolic attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ernment's fault for having allowed it to develop to that point. I will not say it may not be vitally necessary—not in Russia's interests, but in the interests of this war—to start an attack when we may not be fully prepared for it. I will not be the first to say to the Government, without more adequate knowledge than I have at the moment, when they should do it or whether they should do it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "g to the fact that we had no priority system there was only one thing to go for—quality and not quantity; and I say that the planes and the pilots that won the Battle of Britain—the great bull point for this Government, because we hear, \"Look at what the Government did, look at what the Prime Minister did, look at what Lord Beaver-brook did\"—were produced by my right hon. Friend or by Lord Swinton", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "go. At other times people take the line which my hon. and gallant Friend takes. But no-one dares put the blame where it should be put constitutionally on the Prime Minister. I was sorry to hear that part of his speech. He is an old friend of mine, and I was sorry to hear what I regarded as a sneer at the Army, and so were many others who served in the last war. He said they were known as \"Pongos.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " could carry out, should go to his colleagues—and there is more than one suitable man for Prime Minister on the Treasury Bench now—and suggest that one of them should form a Government, and that the right hon. Gentleman himself would take office under him. He might do so, perhaps, as Foreign Secretary, because his management of our relations with Russia and with the United States has been perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "Send him your card.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "d not only in the Press of this country but in the Dominions, in India and in the United States of America, and someone who saw even my remarks repeated in the Press of America might attach to them considerably more importance than is their real due. Therefore, one has to be extremely cautious how one approaches these matters. The immediate occasion of this Debate is the loss of a battle in Libya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "preceding_text": "hat, if the Motion were carried, only one result would follow, that the Prime Minister and the whole of his Government would have to resign? Looking around, and having regard to the second eleven which has obtruded itself as a shadow Cabinet, I must borrow the phrase that, whatever the effect may be on the enemy, they terrify me. I prefer the present Administration to what I can see in the offing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.352.3", "colnum": "352", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "preceding_text": "ust refer to them because they appear in the Press, and I think they appear in the speeches of some hon. Members. Let us by all means have inquiries into defeats at the appropriate moment. Next week, when this battle will, I think, have been finished, would have been a perfectly reasonable time to have a Debate of this kind. The Government would have more information in their possession next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.352.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "preceding_text": " cover are money for jam, and any fighter pilot will tell you that it is his idea of heaven on earth to be able to deal with dive bombers not properly protected. We should not have been able to use dive bombers in any event until quite recently, because we should not have had the air superiority to enable us to do it. Now we have it, and I hope we are going to receive delivery of the dive bombers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ainly do not, and would not willingly, say that I regard a series of Independent victories as a satisfactory thing; it is a highly dangerous thing. But satisfactory or dangerous, it is a fact that in by-election after by-election, Government candidates have been supported by every political party in this country, including the party represented by the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Gates", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gates", "preceding_text": "o the enemy to carry on from the point where we left off. Every country which is in the war, or preparing for it, is developing the air weapon along much the same lines as our chief enemy, with the exception of this country. Probably I do not have to inform hon. Members that divisions are still leaving this country for various battlefields deficient in training in co-operation with the air weapon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.376.1", "colnum": "376", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Gates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gates", "preceding_text": "ur fellow men into the Fighting Forces, it must be our bounden duty to keep a very close eye on their subsequent fate and fortunes. This House has admittedly concerned itself with the subject known as Army welfare, and my hon. and gallant Friend and I were very glad to receive again the other day the Government's assurance that the subject of pay and allowances will very shortly come under review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "r from occupying the position of Prime Minister and that of Minister of Defence also, there is not a Member who would not vote for it. We were asking at that time for a small War Cabinet with a Minister of Defence under that War Cabinet, responsible to it. The Prime Minister as Minister of Defence is responsible to-day to no one. The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head. To whom is he responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By Swinton; give him the credit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "seen the performance of the second superman to-day. It does not require a superman to co-ordinate these methods. How long are we to go on like this? Need I remind the House of the record? It is a grim one. There is, of course, the wonderful defence of Britain by those gallant lads. Very rightly, someone has pointed out to-day that the planes used were provided before the advent of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why do you take part in it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": "t and respected and eloquent and learned Members outside the War Cabinet are necessarily extremely limited in their knowledge. I, for one, felt when I spoke last, after the Norway disaster, that the Debate that followed then was unreal, of no value to the country; and, after listening to this Debate, I am convinced more than ever that it has served no useful purpose towards the winning of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He put it down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spens", "preceding_text": " turned themselves into a sort of club of critics, and they have continued to criticise ever since. At the end of two years of the Government they have grown to the number of 21 admitted ones. They have now put down for the first time a Vote of Censure, and I personally am terribly sorry that my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne) should have associated himself with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Heilgers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Heilgers", "preceding_text": "it was in the last war, there is far too much distraction, far too many kindly ladies who want to find husbands giving dances for lonely soldiers. There is no city in the world that provides more distractions than Cairo, and the sooner the central direction of the Middle East Expeditionary Force is removed from Cairo the better. I come to my last point. We shall see sooner or later a second front.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ake place. If this Motion, by any stretch of the imagination, were carried by this House what do hon. Members suppose would be the reaction in the United States of America? They have sent large numbers of troops over here but if it were disclosed to the world that our military direction of the war was to be out of the absolute control of this Government, would they send one more soldier over here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "t be to the danger of this country. If you accept him only under conditions which you want to vary from time to time, then you have no right to put him in that position at all. I tell the House quite frankly that there is no other man in the British Empire who can take the right hon. Gentleman's place to-day. His leadership of the country is not disputed by the people who have put down the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Plugge", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Plugge", "preceding_text": "ent. To his great astonishment, when war broke out the late Prime Minister called him into the Government. At that moment he could only say, \"These Members whom I have so much criticised have now called me into the Government. I cannot ever go against them again.\" It was impossible for him at any subsequent time to dismiss any of those Ministers who had formed the Government who had called him in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-01", "file": "debates1942-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "228d4451ac61856d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "f the Navy. From a certain despatch from Libya two days ago, I gather that—I am not sure of these facts—whereas the German Headquarters are in the desert, the Headquarters of the 8th Army are in Cairo. I had, of course, always understood that General Auchinleck had his headquarters at Cairo, but it came as a surprise and a shock to me to gather that General Ritchie had his headquarters there also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-01a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-02", "file": "debates1942-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "8ce7c2c3bc9e3d36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-02a.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And a soldier.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " to understand much about war—this is a serious matter—and in any case he has not got the time. There is the Minister of Production. He is a member of the War Cabinet. The Minister of Production was, I understand, a business man of distinction, but he has no political experience worth speaking about, as was revealed yesterday. I say with all respect that in his own sphere he is a most eminent man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-02a.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-02", "file": "debates1942-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "8ce7c2c3bc9e3d36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-02a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "CENTRAL DIRECTION OF THE WAR.", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "s which suggested that they did not wish to push the Motion of No Confidence to the Vote. The Seconder's professional record and personal qualities, and the gallant record in war both of himself and of his family, must be appreciated and respected in this House. His wish was not -to get rid of the central director of the war, the Prime Minister. He paid most glowing tributes to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-02a.541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "I understand that our relations with the film industry are of the happiest character, so I do not think I can share the gloomy forebodings of the hon. Member. I think the hon. Member might make his point in the Debate and allow mc to make my statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ly tried to give a Right tendency to their propaganda as can be made of those who have obviously tried to give a Left tendency. That has been so under all Ministers and is so still. It was certainly so in the month of June. I went through the list for June a couple of days ago. I do not think there is anything to deny about that. Take another point of view. The Labour Party Conference was plugged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "ves in a short time over the wireless what it might take some thousands of tanks to accomplish on another field. Like other hon. Members who have spoken, I listened carefully to the speech of my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary. I think I am correct in saying that it is his first appearance as a Minister at that Box, and if I may say so in passing, I should like to congratulate him upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Robertson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Robertson", "preceding_text": "I have had some doubts as to whether I should intervene in this Debate at all. As I understand it, it is about the Ministry of Information and Allied Propaganda, and I propose with the permission and patience of the Committee to say something about an allied organisation, namely, the British Council and its work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": " time to get a script which is submitted to the B.B.C. accepted or rejected. Secondly, too long a period elapses before a script is put on the air. In these days this can be a serious matter, because history is being made at a very rapid rate. A script written to-day may be out of date within a fortnight, or at least less effective than it would have been had it been delivered when it was written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"Thank God for that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "ndency to judge the effectiveness of a script by the number of letters which come in after it has been delivered. This is all right if the script is of a particular kind. If it is designed to appeal to the intellectuals, then the number of letters which come in may be a good standard of judgment, but the fact remains that three parts of the country is inarticulate when it comes to writing letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman speaks as a Governor of the B.B.C, and I do not say that he is the recipient of the pressure. I say that the civil servants in the B.B.C. are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I did not say members of the Government but \"people holding positions in the Governmental set-up,\" which covers a much wider area. Equally there are those whose words are listened to all over England who are not put on the air because their presence is resented by people who do not share the same political outlook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.712.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-07", "file": "debates1942-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "43a029ecf45ab9ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROPAGANDA.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What is a socialite?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": " course of the Debate. He asked a question about the sending of socialites to America. So fat I have sent very few people to America, apart from the hon. Gentleman opposite. I never despatch any socialites to America. At the time I arrived at the Ministry of Information I laid down one absolute rule—no more lecturers to the United States because they did more harm than they could possibly do good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-07a.739.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-08", "file": "debates1942-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a77852ce2e73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.789.5", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, HOUSING AND EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ourage private citizens to lay in reserves of cut timber. There are many thousands of tons of timber-mill waste available in Scotland, and I have ascertained that the Timber Production Department will be willing to dispose of it to local authorities. Already five local authorities have trimmed their lamps and are ready with timber reserves should there be a fuel shortage at any period next winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.789.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-08", "file": "debates1942-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a77852ce2e73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, HOUSING AND EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "My Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-08", "file": "debates1942-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a77852ce2e73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, HOUSING AND EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": " from the teachers' point of view and from the point of view of education in general, and perhaps the teachers imagined that, if they were under the county councils in Scot- land, they would fare better than they had fared under the education authorities. But it has not worked out in that way, not even for the teachers, and it certainly has not worked out to the advantage of education in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-08", "file": "debates1942-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "3b5a77852ce2e73c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, HOUSING AND EDUCATION (SCOTLAND).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "her the Advisory Council will be the competent body to consider such a problem, but no hon. Member can accuse either the Secretary of State or me of having been parties to the handing over of education to the county councils. We opposed that as long as we could. Now we have to work the machine which Parliament set up and try to make it as successful as possible in dealing with educational matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-08a.906.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-09", "file": "debates1942-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6cc936803cb9b299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Very inaccurately.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Secret Sessions have been abused by the Government, and the things which have been told to the House at such Sessions could quite easily have been told in public. May I put a second point? Is there not in this country a feeling that the Americans are much franker about the shipping situation than we are and that American newspapers publish figures of American shipping losses in a much fuller way——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-09", "file": "debates1942-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6cc936803cb9b299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' PASSES (INSPECTION).", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "order to show that it does not relate only to one occasion, and that the intention was that it should be done as occasion might offer, every six months, or once every year, or whatever it might be, depending upon how long the war lasts. The Serjeant at Arms will no doubt say, \"It is about time we had another check-up to see whether Members have got their passes, or have lost them or mislaid them.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-09", "file": "debates1942-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6cc936803cb9b299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY OFFENCES (SENTENCES).", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And there is the inequality of sentences.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is referring to correspondence which has not been raised in this House. I am certain that I wrote no letter to any Minister suggesting that any theft should go unpunished. My point from beginning to end has been the severity of the sentence in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-09", "file": "debates1942-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6cc936803cb9b299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY OFFENCES (SENTENCES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denville", "preceding_text": "And what did they sentence you to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-09a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1066.0", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "In some of these coaches the lights can be put on by the passengers themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1066.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1081.4", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "Who is responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1087.5", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CHAMBER (ACOUSTICS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in this position it is almost impossible to hear half the replies of Ministers to Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1087.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1105.3", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "e 2-pounder is 40 mm. Next in the range is the 50 mm. German anti-tank gun, and that compares with our 6-pounder. The 50 mm. German gun throws a projectile of four-and-a-half pounds compared with the 6¼ pounds projectile thrown by our 6-pounder, so that the 6-pounder is a more powerful gun than the 50 mm. German anti-tank gun, and is strictly comparable. Both are designed as anti tank guns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "Yes, we have very large numbers of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Used as anti-tank guns?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "Yes, we have very large numbers of them—[ Interruption ]—also in Libya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "the last Debate, but I want to try and give the Committee some assurance that we are making the right tanks now and are going to make the right tanks in the future. First, we sent to the United States a Tank Mission, and it did very good work. That mission fixed the tank programme and allotted to the United States on the one hand, and to the United Kingdom on the other, a programme of manufacture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ned great eminence there. One of the reasons why it is impossible to organise mass production on the same scale is not that given by the hon. Gentleman but because it would be impossible for military reasons. When I was at the Willow Run plant, Mr. Henry Ford said to me, \"We have not begun here; there are only 15,000 men in the plant, and we shall have 75,000 to 100,000 when we are in production.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " chartered accountants into jobs which are essentially production engineers' jobs? How can they make suggestions? They become the tools of the Department, and within a few weeks they themselves conform to all the rules and regulations. Even if they have the capacity, they do not have the opportunity of exercising it. They become the slaves of the Department or become so disgusted that they go out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-14", "file": "debates1942-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "5fa92cc7784207b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANKING AND INSURANCE COMMITTEE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ven to my hon. Friend without notice or his expecting to be asked, the question who or what Lord Kennet is, his reaction would not be that he is a director of the Equity and Law Life Assurance Society. That is just one item in Lord Kennet's make-up, if I may use the phrase, and he is not and cannot be described, I think, as being in any sense of the word as a representative of the insurance world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-14a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-15", "file": "debates1942-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1f3738aa86b6c78c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-15a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Minister of Production went very lightly over absenteeism, but I tell him that it is still serious in many directions. It is as high as 25 per cent. in extreme cases. That is the highest I have come across, and there may even be cases in which it is higher. Something has got to be done. Where absenteeism is of the order of 25 per cent. it means that a quarter of the labour force is not being used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-15a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-15", "file": "debates1942-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "1f3738aa86b6c78c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-15a.1303.0", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRODUCTION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about a new gramophone?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ree with me that the hon. Member is developing something of the habit of a gramophone needle, which proceeds along its way, moving towards the interior until it comes upon a crack and there it stops and repeats itself. The name of that crack in his case is Beaverbrook. All the hon. Member's speeches, no matter what the subject, reach the crack in the record. I suggest a new needle or a new record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-15a.1303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1334.0", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROBBERIES WITH VIOLENCE, LONDON STREETS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And shoot them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that there are cases known to me personally—in one case the victim was in hospital three weeks—will the right hon. Gentleman take powers to ensure that very severe punishment is inflicted on these highway robbers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I understand that hon. Gentlemen opposite asked specifically to have this subject matter dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1359.5", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "No, but there is no need for the great big men to come stampeding in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1359.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. As he knows, one of the reasons for a Secret Session is in order to put Members of this House in possession of facts which cannot be published. The general impression which is created upon the minds of Members by such a Secret Session can be indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. As he knows, one of the reasons for a Secret Session is in order to put Members of this House in possession of facts which cannot be published. The general impression which is created upon the minds of Members by such a Secret Session can be indicated—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]. I say the general impression created upon the minds of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " say the general impression created upon the minds of Members—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]. I think, Mr. Speaker, I am almost quoting words which you have used yourself when I say that no account can be given of what happens at a Secret Session, of who speaks, of facts and other things, but that the general impression created upon the mind of a Member of Parliament can be communicated to his constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"It was not asked for.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "ould be expressed. If it is desired to evoke from the nation a particular concentrated effort, in view of the gravity of a particular situation, this is the place in which the matter can be discussed in order that the public opinion may be created. Now, it is plain from what has transpired and from your intervention, Mr. Speaker, that this Secret Session has been asked for upon a misunderstanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1364.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garro Jones", "preceding_text": "Mr. Garro Jones rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1366.9", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Bevan rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1366.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1366.10", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not the wish of the House\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Since the Lord Privy Seal cannot accede to the wishes of the House that a report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1366.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1367.3", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gallacher rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1367.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-16", "file": "debates1942-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "02178a6a65433cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1368.0", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "May I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that the essential difference is this, that if an hon. Member states in words that there has been a Secret Session, and then proceeds to give his impression ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-16a.1368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1426.9", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is Stalin a Fascist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "want to point out to the Committee that Fascism in other countries has always come from the Left. If you take note of the three principal authoritarian leaders in Europe—Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler—had they been British and had been sitting in this House of Commons, they would not have been sitting on these benches wearing Old Etonian ties but would have been sitting on the back benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1426.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1426.9", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "opposed to the traditions of British justice that any one man should hold such unchallengeable powers over the personal liberty of every one of his fellow citizens. What does that mean? The Home Secretary to-day has power to detain on suspicion anybody, from the Archbishop of Canterbury down to the humblest labourer in the land. These are powers which would make Himmler absolutely green with envy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1426.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1447.3", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What charge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "ic to believe that what happened to Pastor Niemoeller in Nazi Germany could not happen here. That being so, this lady should have walked out of the court a free woman. Let us apply the Lord Chancellor's broadcast to Mrs. Nicholson. He said, and I heard him say it, that \"if a man is discharged he goes free\"; did Mrs. Nicholson go free? Not at all. She is in prison at this minute on the same charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Himmler's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": " I think that his speech would have been much more effective if he had not thought it wise to perorate with a lot of generalisations which had no substance at all in fact. He told us that Fascism was abroad in this country. There is no evidence of that and no justification for saying it. He told us that the Home Secretary possessed powers over the liberty of the subject similar to Hitler's powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "that is a matter for Government. In wartime the Government must govern, and one of the functions of government is to see to it, to the best of the Government's ability, that anyone who might harm us at a critical time shall be kept under lock and key, and kept safely away from doing the evil they would seek to do. Believe me, these people are better where they are. They are enemies of our country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are they released?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "d one of the functions of government is to see to it, to the best of the Government's ability, that anyone who might harm us at a critical time shall be kept under lock and key, and kept safely away from doing the evil they would seek to do. Believe me, these people are better where they are. They are enemies of our country—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not all of them.\"]—they are enemies of our way of life.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1457.2", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "nce, to attempt to extend the Debate into the wider issue. I think this Committee wants an opportunity at some point to consider whether, in the light of our experience, it is necessary to continue the position of the Regional Commissioners, of their assistants and retinue, or whether they are not just rather decorative persons who are duplicating the work of the local authorities and other bodies", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1469.7", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "mittee are automatically right, which is also an assumption I would not make. It seems to me that there are four or five things which the Home Secretary can do. He could leave things where they are, but, if he does that, I consider that he will make a mistake. In many Members' minds there is the consideration that times are not quite so urgent as they were a year or two ago in respect of invasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1469.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1509.0", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e, and if the House tried to be, it would find itself in difficulties. A Debate in this considerable assembly as to whether Mr. X or Mrs. Y or Miss A should be released would be impossible as an operative decision. What the House must do is to keep a watch on the Home Secretary, to have a Debate, to look out for cases where in their judgment he has gone wrong, if they can get evidence that he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ernational, in other words the Trotskyists. If the Communist Party of Great Britain hate anybody more than they do me, it is the Trotskyists. Sometimes, when I see front page advertisements of this paper in the Press, especially in the Conservative newspapers, I often suspect, not altogether unintelligently, that the Conservative Press is inspired to denounce the Trotskyists by the Communist party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-21", "file": "debates1942-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "50b737cc82ec05ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Little drops of water\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "has a very small circulation of somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000. They claim 20,000, but that is wrong. The matter it has printed is pernicious in many respects and objectionable. It has apparently had a couple of pedestrians going round talking to miners, but, believe me, any idea that this very limited band of people—I do not know, but I doubt whether the organisation has more than 500 members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-21a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-22", "file": "debates1942-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbe92adabf1d8496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-22a.127.8", "colnum": "127", "heading": "TITLE.", "cue_speaker": "Petty Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Petty Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": " member. They dismissed all these suggestions and said, \"All is well; tuberculosis is included in this Bill.\" But the House of Lords, led by the Navy, said, \"Let us have this in clear, plain language,\" and as a result this and another Amendment are being put before this House to-day. I am not going to be at all intimidated, because, as I said on the Second Reading of the Bill, this damned, stupid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-22a.127.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-22", "file": "debates1942-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "bbe92adabf1d8496", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-22a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Additional injuries and damage in respect of which com pensation may be paid.)", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "Did I make that provocation? The Leader of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-22a.133.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.139.4", "colnum": "139", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER'S BIRTHDAY.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Before we commence the public Business, may I make reference to your good self, Mr. Speaker? To-morrow is your 73rd birthday, and we wish you and your good lady the best of good health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS).", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "I am limited to those who have sufficient knowledge to enable them to deal with these questions. It is necessary to have a legal man to preside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND RETAIL TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "he Board of Trade he announced the appointment of the Retail Trade Committee. I shall here re-quote words often quoted before. He said that we must make sure that any measures which might be taken should secure a fair and equitable balance between the various trading interests concerned, both small and large. That is the policy of the Government, and that is the policy which I shall seek to apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND RETAIL TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "Very well; it was at Donnington, the largest housing scheme in the country at present. The committee found, to their horror, that the question of allocating the shops in that large new town which was to be built was referred to the co-operative society. That seems entirely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND RETAIL TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is not the experience of this country in the past. Our experience is that after a war the manufacture of pots and pans grows enormously and the retail trade is well away before the export trade gets a start. I am pleased as a trade unionist that mention is made by the Committee of the necessity for establishing a proper wage scale and proper conditions of employment in the retail trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND RETAIL TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "see that no injustice is done to them. I do not accept the doctrine of my hon. Friend the Member for Westhoughton (Mr. Rhys Davies) that we have to be realists and must allow these independent traders to be swept away by the pressure of the Co-operative Movement. I am all for the Co-operative Movement, I think it is a good Mea, but we do not want to have them as the one sole means of distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND RETAIL TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. and gallant Friend that my right hon. Friend will not pay undue attention to one argument or another, and that he will weigh up all the arguments that have been put in this House and that have been put outside the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-23", "file": "debates1942-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "daf071c6d6f8325c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL CONCENTRATION AND RETAIL TRADE.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": " very glad to pass them on. My hon. Friend the Member for South-East Ham raised one particular question about the levy. He asked if it was to be a business expense. I think my right hon. Friend made that fairly clear in his opening speech. He said he thought that as far as the business expense angle was concerned it would probably be allowed as such in the profit and loss account for tax purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-23a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-28", "file": "debates1942-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "32cf9c806c6a3079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-28a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Scott", "preceding_text": "ink my case is proved on this point by the form which farmers have to fill up when they want petrol for their tractors. That form is the most perfect example of the divorce between administration and production. There is a question on the form which asks, \"How many hours per week will the tractor be used during the next two months?\" I am an honest man and have tried to fill up that form correctly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-28a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-28", "file": "debates1942-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "32cf9c806c6a3079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-28a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "best use could have been made of it. If the minds of Members will go back to February, 1939, we had a big fight about the policy of dealing with this crop at that time. The same adviser advised the Minister at that time, in order to deal with this abundant crop, to throw out all potatoes over 1 lb. in weight. The same kind of individual is advising the Minister how to deal with the crop this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-28a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-28", "file": "debates1942-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "32cf9c806c6a3079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-28a.420.7", "colnum": "420", "heading": "AGRICULTURE AND FOOD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about meals in schools? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "ot fair, in that people are getting more than their ration, but in a way it is fair to argue that those who take their food at canteens are a kind of priority class and that it is a good thing to feed the man and the woman at the job. That is the view of the Minister of Labour and of my Noble Friend, and I feel that so long as we do that we are not doing what the Committee would wish us not to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-28a.420.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCHANT SHIPPING.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that a recent convoy proceeding in a very important direction was denuded of Admiralty protection almost at the last minute and that a large number of vessels were lost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Power to impose military service on British subjects in foreign countries.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not want to be in this one!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "impression that there was a discrimination between labourers coming from Southern Ireland and labourers coming from the North. I still believe that a shuttle service can be created which will break the two years' continuity. I have never been able to understand how such a fighting race were ever excluded. It seems strange that there has to be special legislation to keep these men out of the fight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "preceding_text": "t spend the same £ twice. What I stated then, and what I repeat again, because it is very relevant to our discussions, is that you will have great difficulty in convincing an old age pensioner that you cannot find money to increase his pension, when on the same day within three minutes before I spoke the Chancellor of the Exchequer was authorised to spend or find money amounting to £1,000,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has not a very great risk to take. Personally, I am not prepared to face my people and say to them that I voted against a Measure which was to bring thousands of pounds to the constituency I represent. I am not prepared to turn down an increase of 20 per cent. It is only an instalment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.583.2", "colnum": "583", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "Is it impossible to vote for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.583.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "age I am grateful for this instalment. That is all that I am saying. It would seem that there is no gratitude at all on the other side of the House. The Amendments on the Order Paper make it plain that those who support these Amendments ask for something much more than a mere addition to the supplementary pension. Obviously what they desire is a substantial permanent increase in the basic pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ic pension. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to have that assurance. Now we know where we are. The party opposite want a substantial permanent addition to the basic pension payable to all old age pensioners irrespective of means or contributions to the pension fund; and their intention is clearly that the whole of the cost of this increase now and in the future should be borne by the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "per cent. The effect of such movement on the balance of youth and age in the population can be estimated with fair accuracy. If fertility and mortality remain what they have been during the last 10 years \"— and I beg the House to note the following words— the proportion of aged persons in the community will be doubled by 1981 and the proportion of young persons will have been reduced by one-third.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "s through taxation—because taxation is now levied upon all classes—will be regarded as an intolerable burden by the younger generation and by those who will be non-pensionable. There is only one possible way to meet the objective which I have presented to the House—that is, 30s. a week pension, free from any means test. The only way is by a comprehensive insurance policy covering the whole nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I do not want the statement of the hon. and learned Member for North Croydon (Mr. Willink) to go forth, with the idea that everyone in the House agrees with his theory that a one-roomed house will do for an old couple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.598.0", "colnum": "598", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " who has reached three score years and ten. The mellowing effect was obvious in their serenity and contentment. The wild language that I have heard to-day from the hon. Member for Abertillery (Mr. Daggar) was not used by them. I am under the impression that the hon. Member was uttering what was in his own thoughts and not what was in the thoughts of the old age pensioners for whom he was speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " be free from want only when the time comes when we shall want nothing, a time which is rapidly coming?\" The hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Robertson) apparently went to tea with 650 old age pensioners, and he thought they were satisfied, but I am bound to say that his speech was a poor recompense for the hospitality they showed him, and I am not sure that they will give him any tea the next time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "quate interim measure, and the issue between hon. Members to-day is whether the 2s. 6d. is adequate or not. Before I sit down I wish to address a few remarks first to the Government side of the House and then to this side of the House, and I beg that hon. Members will hear me in patience, even if they disagree. The root cause of our failure in this war—I believe this to be an important observation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": " am prepared to give to that question a perfectly direct and concise answer. The Amendment has been put down to secure from the Government a specific pledge that, next Session, Measures of legislation will be introduced to deal with this question; if the final speaker on the Government Benches, announcing the Government policy, is now prepared to give that pledge, this Amendment will be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is slicker.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "ften down—so that I would ask those who lecture me to-day on being a representative of a party, to look back at their own acrobatic careers before criticising other people. As I said, I had been hoping that the Debate would have been constructive. Let me turn to what the House asked. It has been suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is very adroit. I do not think he is cleverer than I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Listen to my argument before you shout \"Shame.\" Shouting \"Shame\" in a Debate is the conduct of a heckler, not of a statesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He gets the pension.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "rations (Superannuation) Act; many civil servants, many who were in employers' pension schemes, and other kinds of pension arrangements. Happily such things have grown in the last 20 years. Could I have come to the House and suggested, on the basis of conditions arising out of the war, an addition to their State pensions? How often have I heard criticism of the amount of pension paid to policemen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Please do not interrupt. I am suggesting that he gets a good pension, but he may have contributed to the State pension, and may be getting £1 a week on top of it. Under the proposal put to me to-day, in spite of his good pension and in spite of the additional £I a week, it is suggested that I should give him 5s. on top of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "a good pension, but he may have contributed to the State pension, and may be getting £1 a week on top of it. Under the proposal put to me to-day, in spite of his good pension and in spite of the additional £I a week, it is suggested that I should give him 5s. on top of that. [ Interruption .] I suggest quite frankly that questions would pour in from my hon. Friends opposite if we did such a thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "n come back afterwards, broken men with the money gone. I am reminded of the docker in Liverpool who after a terrible accident went to draw his money. When he received it he turned it over in his hand. The lawyer said,\" Are you not satisfied, Paddy? \"The man replied,\" I was just wondering who had the accident.\" Believe me when I say how true that has been of workmen's compensation in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "er section of the community, which is very small, but which must be taken into account in relation to this question of widows under 60. That section is the spinsters. Many of these women who have been in industry or in offices, when they find themselves in distress or ill or unable to work have far greater difficulty in getting back into employment again than almost anybody else. Exactly how that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "That, if I may say so, brings me to the end of my speech. If we have this specific assurance, which the right hon. Gentleman has now made, that these two problems will be the subject matter of immediate legislation or early legislation in the new Session, then in that case I would, of course, be prepared to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We object.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " assurance, which the right hon. Gentleman has now made, that these two problems will be the subject matter of immediate legislation or early legislation in the new Session, then in that case I would, of course, be prepared to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment. [ Interruption .] If, and I am saying it to my hon. Friends, I get that specific assurance, I shall ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.640.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ruption .] If, and I am saying it to my hon. Friends, I get that specific assurance, I shall ask leave to withdraw the Amendment. [An HON. MEMBER: \"We object.\"] My hon. Friends may object. They are like the hon. Member for Rugby, who is not adding to the dignity of this House. But, on the understanding which my right hon. Friend has given, in that case I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If anybody gets up and speaks with feeling he is immediately told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If anybody gets up and speaks with feeling he is immediately told—[Interruption.] Are we to under stand that the Minister of Labour is the only person imbued with deep feeling about social questions? Are we to under stand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.644.8", "colnum": "644", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said it would? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "the next Session? How can they say they are? They know they are being fobbed off once more, just as they were fobbed off by the famous formula which the right hon. Gentleman presented on the subject of taking over industry in this country. It is an old trick. I fancy it will not work so effectively this time. I do not believe that a vote against the Government means the break-up of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.644.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "\"I have altered the legislation here and there.\" The second is the claim that because of his long and very honourable connection with the Labour movement he can justify anything he likes in this House. Let me just say to him that I remember a man with an (equally long record in the Labour movement and, if I may say so, most of it a very honourable record, who used to take the same line of defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "hat way in the House. We, are a business assembly to some extent, and we ask him to justify proposals on their merits. I want to say one or two words about the merits of this proposal. What are they? The merits of the case are that we are increasing the single man's allowance; the basic rate is 10s., plus 9s. 6d., and we are increasing the total of 19s. 6d. to 22s., plus a cost of living increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It cannot be done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "hat matters is what they are receiving now. The proposals which the Minister of Labour is defending are to the effect that a man should live on 22s. a week. It may be said that some may get an increase. I do not deny it, but take the case of the person with a low rent of 5s. or 6s. a week. That 22s. is the figure they have to live on. That is the sum with which they have to buy everything in life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 32s.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "2s. a week. It may be said that some may get an increase. I do not deny it, but take the case of the person with a low rent of 5s. or 6s. a week. That 22s. is the figure they have to live on. That is the sum with which they have to buy everything in life. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It cannot be done.\"] Take the case of the married couple. Their increased allowance I think amounts to about 29s. 6d. plus 5s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-29", "file": "debates1942-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "f398c09b797c9873", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "OLD AGE AND WIDOWS' PENSIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "ged people. An ex-Lord Provost of Glasgow, who I think is as enthusiastic about winning the war as my right hon. Friend, and who, like him, has to stand a great deal of criticism, said in discussing the other day the point that we ought to raise it to at least a minimum of 25s. \"The cost will be £10,000,000. Any Government that was wise would buy the morale of the people for at least £10,000,000\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-29a.646.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-30", "file": "debates1942-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56e1b522d2606e56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.660.7", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Will not the right hon. Gentleman reconsider the idea of stripping Scotland of all its women, and will he not leave some of the women in Scotland, because we want these women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.660.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-30", "file": "debates1942-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56e1b522d2606e56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.696.6", "colnum": "696", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What report?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I want to ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether it is possible for the House to use any procedure to reject this report, in view of the fact that we are getting no statement on the war and in view of the fact that there should be no Recess at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.696.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-30", "file": "debates1942-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56e1b522d2606e56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "e in case of grave national emergency. I wish, and I think other hon. Members also wish, to have some sort of information on what, in the opinion of the Government, constitutes a grave national emergency, because the opinion of the Government might, in certain circumstances, be diametrically opposed to the opinion of the vast majority in the House and the country outside. If I may give an example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.698.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-07-30", "file": "debates1942-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56e1b522d2606e56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "WAR DAMAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must point out to the House that there is a very large number of Privilege Amendments. They are on pages 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 22, 28, 38, 31 and 32. Possibly the House will agree to waive its Privileges. If so, I will make a note of it with respect to the Amendments affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.797.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-07-30", "file": "debates1942-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "56e1b522d2606e56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.819.5", "colnum": "819", "heading": "MINISTRY OF WORKS AND PLANNING (DR. F. C. C. CURTIS).", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "s of this kind from the point of view of security. I accept the view that it may be necessary to say, as the Treasury have said, that from the point of view of security no alien—and I accept the Government's statement that apparently Mr. Curtis is a German subject—should be admitted to enter the service of a Government Department. But the fact is that this man, by a roundabout means, was admitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-07-30a.819.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-04", "file": "debates1942-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7fb794d0eb98209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (VISITING FORCES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " the House the same opportunity and the same consideration on this occasion as they gave it on those other occasions. I feel sure that the Government can entertain no doubt that the House would approach the question in the proper spirit, with a desire not to be obstructive but to be helpful. I cannot think that anyone really expects that any harm can possibly be done. There is no urgency about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-04", "file": "debates1942-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7fb794d0eb98209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (VISITING FORCES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " desire of the Government of the United States for this to happen. His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, who has been accustomed now to large and not merely municipal business for a considerable number of months, presumably uses words he means to use, and he told us that the United States Government had \"claimed\" this. I should not have troubled the House if he had not said that three times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-04", "file": "debates1942-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7fb794d0eb98209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (VISITING FORCES) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " is put before us, uses the word \"desire,\" and later His Majesty's Secretary of State comes here and tells us three times that it is not a desire but a claim, they really should agree about these things. If neither can trust the other to use the same words, then both should be here in order that the right coat-tail should be pulled at the appropriate moment. I could speak at length upon this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-04", "file": "debates1942-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7fb794d0eb98209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS.", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "it has been ameliorated and modified somewhat, but I want these men to know that appointments will be made on merit, and merit alone, irrespective of colour and race. That is the only way in which you can encourage men to produce and do good work. Now I come to the question of financial exploitation. Let me repeat to this House, because it bears repetition, the case of the St. Kitts sugar factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-04a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-05", "file": "debates1942-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b0d5d69090c54aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-05a.1059.4", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER RECESS).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "Are we to understand that the majority of Members of this House are not responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-05a.1059.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-05", "file": "debates1942-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b0d5d69090c54aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-05a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORIES.", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Labour party is always right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": ", I agree, but I think the 47-hour week in operation in peace-time industry, generally speaking, gave efficient results. All this overtime is wrong; it is demoralising, and it leads to profiteering in wages and waste. Here am I, rather a right wing Conservative, taking a view that ought to be a prerogative of the Labour party, but my colleagues and I have been convinced of this from the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-05a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-05", "file": "debates1942-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "1b0d5d69090c54aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-05a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "ROYAL ORDNANCE FACTORIES.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are in the wrong place.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "ld be proud of them. The remuneration that they receive is inadequate. As to hostels, I have always shared the view that we should have built houses, instead of building hostels at prices which are fabulous in relation to their structure. We should have a national asset when the war is over if we had built houses, and the housing problem would not be so rampart as it is in some of these districts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-05a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-06", "file": "debates1942-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3a6fd14c25caa82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1271.4", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "JEWS (FIGHTING SERVICES).", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "I have already said that they will be separate battalions. Secondly, the Palestine Volunteer Force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-06", "file": "debates1942-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3a6fd14c25caa82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR (INQUIRY).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW does the oyster get out\"?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I want to go one step further. I want to be perfectly frank with the House. It it very difficult to obtain one's evidence, because Members of the Front Bench are like closed oysters when they get together to try and whitewash themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-06", "file": "debates1942-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3a6fd14c25caa82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1306.0", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "MOBILE WOMEN WORKERS, SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "preceding_text": "I should like to add my plea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-08-06", "file": "debates1942-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "b3a6fd14c25caa82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "MOBILE WOMEN WORKERS, SCOTLAND.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "ies in some instances. Thus throughout the country women are required to leave home and in the light of what has been said it is interesting to note that Scotland is transferring 500 women a month to the Midlands but London is transferring 670 a month to the Midlands, so that there is a greater number of people going out of the London area every week into the Midlands than is coming from Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-08-06a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-09-08", "file": "debates1942-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "defdb365e0e7ea16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE (FOOD SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the first three of the Swedish ships only arrived on 29th August. My information is that they have not yet been fully unloaded. The House will recollect that an earlier vessel carrying relief to Greece received an Axis safe-conduct but nevertheless was sunk by the Italians on the return journey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.23.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-08", "file": "debates1942-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "defdb365e0e7ea16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECOND FRONT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend be kind enough to inform me, and the House, what form the acknowledgment took, and whether he proposes to do anything about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-08", "file": "debates1942-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "defdb365e0e7ea16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECOND FRONT", "cue_speaker": "Major Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Petherick", "preceding_text": "Does not the Question raise matters whose military and strategical value may be very great, and is the right hon. Gentleman willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-08", "file": "debates1942-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "defdb365e0e7ea16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.29.2", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECOND FRONT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I am trying to be as pleasant as I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.29.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-08", "file": "debates1942-09-08a.xml", "sha256": "defdb365e0e7ea16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "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": " think that the fall of Cairo and Alexandria was only a matter of days. \"Wait till Monday, wait till Tuesday,\" it was said, \"and events will reinforce our criticisms.\" Well, we have waited, and now after more than two months I feel able to assure the House that they may be confident in our ability to maintain the successful defence of Egypt, not for days or for weeks, but for several months ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-08a.82.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.123.4", "colnum": "123", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, VENEZUELA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ted States of Venezuela, conveying cordial greetings in token of the spirit of solidarity of the representatives of the Venezuelan people with the principles for the defence of which the United Nations are fighting. The House will perhaps authorise me to transmit a suitable Reply expressing our satisfaction at the receipt of this cordial Message and reciprocating the sentiments which it expresses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.123.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.164.9", "colnum": "164", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Through whom?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "The soundings were taken in the ordinary way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.164.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Maryle-bone)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Maryle-bone)", "preceding_text": "I desire to oppose the second part of that Motion, and I do not know whether any Members of the House are likely to support me in my opposition. I want to draw the attention of the House to the statement that was made yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.187.5", "colnum": "187", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "s Members are prepared to pay greater attention to their duties in this House, which are just as great as the duties of men in the trenches at the Front.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th September, 1942; col. 112, Vol. 383.] In that somewhat wangling White Paper which was laid before the House the other day, it was pointed out that the average soldier receives the equivalent of £3 per week—a seven day week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.187.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "he end of the year, on the basis of last year, it will work out that for every six days Members of Parliament have worked in this House they received over £30, taking our remuneration at £600 a year. I would also point out that we receive that whether we work or not. To come to another point, at the end of this year, reckoning on the same basis, this House will have had over three months' holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "liament should have no more holidays than the workers. The Leader of the House, who, I regret, is not here—I accept the statement that. he has had to leave for exceptional reasons—told the House at the beginning of the last Recess that one of the reasons why it was necessary to have a Recess was that Members of Parliament should be able to go to their constituencies and consult their constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.189.0", "colnum": "189", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "I am indeed glad to hear how assiduous the hon. Gentleman has been in attending to his Parliamentary duties, but I believe that if you were to take a census of all Members of Parliament, including myself——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.189.2", "colnum": "189", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "ember aright, that it not quite what happened to the hon. Lady some time ago in her own constituency. If we in this House are to go on with these continual Recesses and do not show an example to the country of hard work, we should at least show an example to the country in national economy, and therefore I think that it would be only right and proper, considering how little work we have to do now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "Having made my protest against these continual Recesses and against the little interest that is taken in Parliamentary affairs in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.190.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT AND BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in other constituencies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "as not been done. In the past, when we were asked to go into Recess in an abnormal situation, it was usually on the ground that Ministers required time to devote to the affairs of their Departments, or for the purposes, quite properly, of recuperation, and as regards the general body of Members it was said that the Recess would enable us to devote ourselves to activities in our own constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1942", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "e freezing of wages is destroyed morally by the fact that these people are allowed to utilise an enormously higher percentage of purchasing power than their numbers warrant. Until the inequality that exists in our social structure is dealt with we shall not get the bulk of the workers to accept a ceiling placed upon wages. I am not going into the argument whether an increase may produce inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1942", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Japanese?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s to this pass? At the end of three years of war, at the end of three years of mobilising the resources of the British Empire, the Prime Minister and his Government manage to preoccupy the attention of 150,000 Germans and Italians in Egypt. That is our contribution. We have so disposed our forces, so mobilised our resources, that all the enemy has to do is to set aside 150,000 troops to engage us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1942", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are they not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ont. We have not even been able to prevent Italy from reinforcing her Russian armies. The Prime Minister talked yesterday about these nations being dragged reluctantly into the war machine by Hitler. The fact is that Hungary and Rumania are not fighting reluctantly: they are allies of Hitler; and Hitler is luckier in his allies than Stalin is in his. Hitler's allies are fighting, Stalin's are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1942", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Prime Minister did so, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "is Government took to deal with that fact. It is now the beginning of the autumn of 1942. What I say is not merely the opinion of a private back bench Member in this House; it has been the opinion of some Members of this Government, because the Leader of the House of Commons some months ago used language about a second front which led the country to believe that we were going to have it this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-09", "file": "debates1942-09-09a.xml", "sha256": "018dc444da9c7e19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1942", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "management met the men, and not all the grievances were settled then, though they were bread and butter grievances. These men are not in the second front or the third front. They are in the first front. We cannot win the war without coal. I am asking the Government to say to these managements, \"If you cannot manage the firm better than this we will clear you out of the way.\" It has got to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-09a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that the statement he has just made—while every one of us is anxious to secure the defences of India against the Japanese or the enemy in general—will profoundly shock and disappoint millions of people in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has just made a statement of first-class Government importance. I would like the right hon. Gentleman to tell the House, if he is able, that the actual form of the statement and the language he has used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "In view of the statement which the right hon. Gentleman has made, of a somewhat provocative nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\" and \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Could we then have a simple vote on the statement which the right hon. Gentleman has just made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Could we then have a simple vote on the statement which the right hon. Gentleman has just made? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\" and \"Now.\"] Could we have, on that statement, a simple vote which will record the approval or disapproval of hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.377.4", "colnum": "377", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "That did not jeopardise the comradeship or the power of collaboration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.377.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will get no benefit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer whether they will be proportionately reduced, but these increases will be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.386.8", "colnum": "386", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman agreed to that, in view of all——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.386.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Labour party does it too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "pay made up to the civilian standard, and the State is doing that now. If a civil servant getting £2,000 a year joins the Army, he has his pay made up. If a civil servant getting £200 a year joins the Army, he has his pay made up. If men employed by local authorities, by Imperial Chemical Industries, by Unilever, or by a thousand and one other firms, join up, their pay is made up at various rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.395.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Quite the reverse.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "Do not put the agricultural labourer in an inferior position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Major; Sir Edward Cadogan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. and gallant \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major; Sir Edward Cadogan", "preceding_text": "We have listened to-day to a number of maiden speeches, and I am sure that I shall have the whole House with me when I say that they have reached a very high standard. I sincerely congratulate the hon. Member for Whitechapel (Mr. W. Edwards)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "t seems to me, therefore, that there is no general case for increasing the basic rate of pay, and that the whole emphasis of any demand there may be should be to meet the special responsibilities of certain groups of soldiers. I believe that not only is there no general case made out for an increase in the basic rate of pay, but that there is no general demand for it among members of the Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not allowed to make that demand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "the Services. [ Interruption .] Certainly, if a number of politicians and newspapers start a movement in favour of an increase in the rates of pay, the serving officers and men would not be human if they did not hope that it would result in their getting- an increase. As I say, I do not think there has been any general demand among serving officers and men for an increase in the basic rate of pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubert Beaumont", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubert Beaumont", "preceding_text": "ully, I think, because of pride have not made application for War Service Grants. They shrink from an inquisition into their private affairs. I have no complaint to make at all against the investigating officers. I think they have done their work well. They are considerate and courteous, but there are women who do not like the idea of having to expose their private domestic affairs to anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grig g", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grig g", "preceding_text": "Journals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-10", "file": "debates1942-09-10a.xml", "sha256": "8959e3452b8111eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "SERVICE PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Medlicott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Per month \"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Medlicott", "preceding_text": " are parsimonious, but because of the policy behind them. In particular, what many of us strongly object to is that the whole question of pay and allowances for the Fighting Services is based too much on a needs test. One sees calculations, made with the best of intentions, as to how many cigarettes a soldier ought to have per day, how many glasses of beer and how many visits to a cinema per week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-10a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.536.13", "colnum": "536", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " very strongly that there should be a Debate this week, and after the Prime Minister's statement yesterday I felt more than ever certain that before the House went into Recess there should be some discussion. I say nothing for the moment of the substance of the Prime Minister's speech, but I am bound to say that it was couched in language which was not calculated to improve Anglo-Indian relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.536.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.536.13", "colnum": "536", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "y own views, and I intend to do so—the form of the Prime Minister's speech was unhelpful. I cannot think that it will have a good effect on the United States. I cannot see that it will have anything but a most unfortunate effect in India itself. I am no Congress man. I do not believe myself that Congress represents the attitude of mind which I hold. I would rather ally myself with the Untouchables", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.536.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.536.13", "colnum": "536", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ghter ]. If people regard that as amusing, they can so regard it, but there are other kinds of untouchables in other lands, and, at least, the Untouchables in India \"come clean.\" I think it is unfortunate, although this crisis was created by the action of the Congress Party, that the Prime Minister should have gone out of his way yesterday to state the things about the Congress which he did state.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.536.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "e discussing something that affects the lives of nearly 400,000,000 people, and I have some complaint as a Member of the Opposition in this House at the way in which this whole Indian business has been handled in these recent weeks. The timing of the change from our political methods-to the iron-hand for the day that this House went for its autumn Recess did not appear to me to be a pure accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " an attempt to establish the strong hand in India again. Everybody in this House who was here at the time of the India Debates knows perfectly well that there were no two Members of this Assembly who were more hostile to any extension of political liberty in India than the two right hon. Gentlemen. They led for months a revolt against their Government in this House, blocking, delaying, preventing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.596.4", "colnum": "596", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Reed", "preceding_text": "I think it would give him a painful shock if I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "I would not have got up if I could have derived the slightest hope from the long and, may I say, the very tedious speech which the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State has inflicted on the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-11", "file": "debates1942-09-11a.xml", "sha256": "92a0fd8686aa062a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "GREAT BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES (INTER-PARLIAMENARY UNION)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information (Mr. Thurtle)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information (Mr. Thurtle)", "preceding_text": " taken the greatest possible pains to see that the only people who go there are people who are fitted in every kind of way to put the British case before the American people. With regard to the manner in which we should conduct our propaganda in the United States, I think it is-probably true that we have suffered as a result of our natural characteristics of modesty, understatement and diffidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-11a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-29", "file": "debates1942-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbbf1bbeb79da8b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-29a.738.3", "colnum": "738", "heading": "LAND CULTIVATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ance, is to reclaim about 1,000 acres of downland in West Sussex for the 1943 harvest. Similar action is being taken in Kent and East Sussex. West Sussex are reclaiming 1,500 more acres of derelict weald clay, most of which has not been ploughed in the past fifty years. That goes to indicate that constant tests are being made and areas are being added as and when material and labour are available,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-29a.738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-29", "file": "debates1942-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbbf1bbeb79da8b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-29a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "LAND CULTIVATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Yes, but there are other Ministers who have priority powers. My Noble Friend will not forget that there is an importation of soldiers from other parts of the world. You cannot expect hundreds of thousands of them to come across the Atlantic, and to lie out in the middle of fields; accommodation must be provided for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-29a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-29", "file": "debates1942-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "fbbf1bbeb79da8b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-29a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "LAND CULTIVATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " war broke out the Army took possession of the race course, and that they have used the interior part of it for German and Italian prisoners. There have been no races held there for the past three years, nor have there been any race horses there. In odd spots tiny crops have even been produced on Doncaster race course, where nobody would have thought that anything but dandelions could be produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-29a.742.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.752.5", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "The point of choosing the photographs, as I have informed my hon. Friends, was to show that the buildings had been destroyed. That was what they brought out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.775.4", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman realise that if bread continues to be as unpalatable as it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.813.2", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's argument is quite wrong. This House must make provision for Northern Ireland—unless this House makes no provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.813.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh O'Neill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh O'Neill", "preceding_text": " House. I should like to give one or two reasons, some of which have been already mentioned by the Home Secretary, why a General Election in Northern Ireland now would be most undesirable and, in many ways, nearly impossible. Nearly everybody is agreed—we may hear some words on the other side in this Debate—that an election for this House during the war would be undesirable, and almost calamitous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some hopes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "eople have done so in August, 1918. I have a very clear recollection of coming home from the East at that time, when everybody was talking about the coming Allied offensive in 1920 and how effective it was going to be. Suppose, hypothetical though it may be, that this war should come to the same sudden unexpected and happy conclusion as in 1918 after this Act has been in operation for four months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "tion they were vigorously opposed to him as leader of the Conservative party and violently opposed to the policy which was being pursued. In these three constituencies the majority of our fellow citizens supported the candidates who took that view. They did not support the official Conservative candidates. In other words, you have to reckon with the fact—I do not regard this evidence as conclusive", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "s the Members themselves who are responsible. For instance, take the incident the other day, when the Debate on the Prime Minister's war statement collapsed after only four hon. Members had spoken. I happened to be one of those four Members. But what happened? That Debate was being treated with disrespect by all -concerned. The Prime Minister made a speech which was, very unusually, a dull speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "mber says it was a boring speech. He can make his own speech and use that word if he wishes. It was, for the Prime Minister, a dull speech, and a good many left while he was speaking. The Leader of the Labour party got up to reply, and the Prime Minister did not wait until the end of his speech but left the House, treating the House with contempt. The Prime Minister treats the House with contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "f compromises and only a small number of really genuine contests throughout the country. I should like to see a General Election because I do not think that this Government or this House really represents the feelings of the people. In conclusion, I would remind the House that the hon. Member for Rugby (Mr. W. Brown) referred to the moral and spiritual regeneration that is going on in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.868.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-09-30", "file": "debates1942-09-30a.xml", "sha256": "20f0ada8a3d2ef86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "ugh I have not visited it sufficiently. My objection to continuing the Government of Northern Ireland is that its great population is centred in Belfast. The Northern Irish Government suppressed the municipal machinery of that great city. When we consent to the continuation of the Northern Irish Government we consent to the continual suppression of the democratic government of the city of Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-09-30a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-01", "file": "debates1942-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "af18f5604aa90374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.907.7", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware of the justifiable condemnation of the air gunning of turbulent crowds which has taken place in parts of Europe, and that if aeroplanes were used to quieten crowds in this country there would be wholesale resentment in all parts of this House? In view of that, will he see that this form of——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.907.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-01", "file": "debates1942-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "af18f5604aa90374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1010.5", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said domestic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "There must be some mistake there. The hourly output is 100,000 tons, which is 700,000 tons a day, and we must reckon seven days per week. The joint consumption of electricity and gas undertakings is nearly 50,000,000 tons per year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1010.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-01", "file": "debates1942-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "af18f5604aa90374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not do that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": " his utmost to limit consumption of coal, gas and electricity to the utmost, so long as the war effort is not thereby impaired. As the House knows, even if the country does not already know it, I have opposed, from the beginning, the Beveridge plan, of which the fuel target, as voluntarily exercised, is a complete copy. I am going to call Sir William Beveridge, however, to my aid on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-01", "file": "debates1942-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "af18f5604aa90374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1012.4", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Samuel Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Samuel Chapman", "preceding_text": "e tackled in three ways. The first way is to leave the wood merchants to continue business as they are doing now. In the county of Sussex they are getting about £3 a ton for wood, which works out at about a penny for a 3 lb. log which when put on a fire will last for a considerable time. About four of these will keep an ordinary sitting-room fire going from 4 p.m. until bedtime with a little coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1012.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-01", "file": "debates1942-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "af18f5604aa90374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1012.4", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Samuel Chapman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would disturb the pheasants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Samuel Chapman", "preceding_text": "self fit and be able to get up early next morning. The thing is to leave the wood merchants, who are conducting their business in a most admirable manner, as they are at the present moment. As regards my second point, I know a wood of 1,800 acres. I went through it yesterday and could have picked up tons of wood lying on the ground, wood for which people would be thankful. Why is it not picked up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1012.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-01", "file": "debates1942-10-01a.xml", "sha256": "af18f5604aa90374", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell the House why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member is not going to have it all his own way. Nobody is disparaging this effort, but the hon. and gallant Member knows what the trouble has been for six or eight weeks. That is why some of us did not go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-01a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1083.8", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALLIED OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS (MR. STALIN'S STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that in the country there is so much discussion upon this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1083.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is not that public opinion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "gh it took him some time. We may have to do the same. I would like to point out that the Leader of the House said in a Debate last June that the Government had set aside the compulsory rationing scheme which had previously been presented to the House because they must have regard to public opinion. But I suggest that it was not public opinion which was taken note of; it was the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "n the side of the miners. During the course of this Debate doubts have been expressed and questions have been raised as to what is to be the future of the industry. One of the things which will most conduce to effective working in the pits at the present time is that the miners should understand—as I take it to be the case—that the changes that have been effected in the industry have come to stay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s been great concern on the part of some of the younger miners at not being allowed to go to the Army. I nearly lost my breath when I heard that. An appreciation of the industrial situation which represents that a large body of young men in industry is straining on the leash to go to the Armed Forces is one which one would not expect to exist outside the pages of Seton Merriman or Captain Marryat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it all.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "August, 1942. It starts: The Executive Committee of the Mine-workers' Federation of Great Britain at its meeting in London on the 14th August, 1942, heard a very detailed and most alarming statement from representatives of the Government on the present rate of coal output and its relation to the war effort and the domestic needs of the country. I will come to the essential part about absenteeism.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "t will go a long way to solving our difficulties. I would add one final word. The Minister said, by implication, when in my constituency, if not by plain statement, to the miners of the country, \"This control by the State is not a temporary thing; it is a permanent thing.\" Without any disrespect to him, I would say that the miners still fear that at the end of this war they will be double-crossed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Well, you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "thing I want is to be at issue with my hon. Friend. I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for the observations he made during his speech last week about our association together in dealing with this matter. I was addressing myself to a rather different point, the suggestion that we allowed men to drift away uncontrolled into the Army in circumstances which made it quite impossible to get them back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-06", "file": "debates1942-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "a1a787225b618a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1181.9", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "COAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Government Departments\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "st be a general cutting down. The principle of equal sacrifice must be applied. The various industries will have to make their own contributions. When battle casualties come along, as we must expect, they will have to be met, as in the last war, by drawing upon the resources of vital industries. The aircraft industry and all branches of the munitions industry will have to make their contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-06a.1181.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1213.11", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Minister said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "Is not the Controller-General of Machine Tool Supply one of the most competent officials?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1213.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "egard to these contracts is that we are trying to work what I cannot describe as other than a hybrid system. I understand the system of capitalism and that the prime motive of capitalist society is profit, and, to a certain extent, the pride that a man has in building up a large and a successful business. On the other hand, the prime motive of Socialism is first of all a patriotism in what may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1245.4", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "Did the right hon. Gentleman say that patriotism was the primary motive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1263.6", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On whose authority?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, the particular group of guns concerned in this dispute as to delivery were not delivered until the price had been fixed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1263.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1264.7", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I think that is a quibble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1264.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " in 1940 the price asked for every gun was around £280, and that the Company came to a very reluctant consent on the price of £168 after saying that it was quite ridiculous. The production of papers was not done until the direction was given by the Ministry, which direction was asked for by the Company on the ground that without that direction they would not be justified in producing those papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "The inference from what the right hon. and gallant Gentleman has just said is that large sums of money have been poured back from the Ministry of Aircraft Production as the consequence of the action of the Public Accounts Committee. If that is true that is one thing, but if it is not true it is another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I agree, but that does not dispose of the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1287.4", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Company never agreed to it.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the transcript at the moment, where it says: If you fix a provisional price, unless the other party agree there is no possibility of modifying that price? Answer: No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-07", "file": "debates1942-10-07a.xml", "sha256": "e164a23761f9c627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "CONTRACTS (PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was the Air Ministry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": " is tried on each individual thing separately. If he has done well nobody praises him, and if he had done badly he is condemned on that isolated thing, and everything else is forgotten. If it were the case that the Ministry of Aircraft Production had erred in respect of the two charges made against it, the first of which is that it had made a fixed price contract for the second of these contracts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-07a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1330.5", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Yorkshire \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "There is no difference in the treatment of Scottish, Welsh, English—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1330.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1371.2", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "DEBATES (SELECTION OF SPEAKERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What right? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I put this to you, Mr. Speaker? Does your answer mean that if the Labour party does not exercise its right——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "I have a question which it is very vital to ask while the Minister is still speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Absolutely wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "nting of independence at once to Burma, The Lord Privy Seal made a great deal of that in his broadcast in connection with India. There was nothing like that in respect of Burma, but the strong man, the Secretary of State for India, this \"mighty man of valour,\" imprisoned the Prime Minister of Burma, and when the invasion took place you had the Burmese fighting against you, and you have lost Burma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is wicked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": " case of rioting, and collective fines are being imposed. Where is this happening? Is it something that is being done by Hitler? These are the things that are in our Press, and there is only indignation about them happening in Norway. Exactly what you condemn in Norway under the Hitler régime is what the British Government are doing in India. There is no material and fundamental difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "ond condition that he laid down was that any alteration made in the Government during the war must secure the continuance of the defence of India. So long as we stay in India we have to be responsible for its defence. If anything went wrong, if Japan conquered India under the conditions envisaged by the hon. Member opposite, whom would the world blame? Whom would America, whom would Russia, blame?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": " a few miles over an imaginary border in Assam? What nonsense! As we walk Out, the vacuum we leave will be filled by the Japanese, those kindly folk, this tolerant race, this democratic, unselfish people who are going to give to the Indians the social services of which we have deprived them and who are going to relieve them of the exploitation which they have so long suffered from us. What humbug!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not there now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "mosphere that the British Government are now being urged to take the initiative. I read with great interest a leader in \"The Times\" of, I think, the day before yesterday. It was up to the best standard of \"The Times.\" It was unequalled in clarity of language and obscurity of meaning. It always makes me feel that in some way or other Geoffrey Dawson must have been descended from the Delphic Oracle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Secretary of State said so to-day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "he statements which have been made to-day, and argue about them, but that would not alter the problem which confronts us. What I want to know is, what are the Government going to do about the situation? The speech of the right hon. Gentleman seemed to suggest that the Government were going to do nothing. I would question even whether the offer that the Lord Privy Seal took out to India now stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": " fear of contradiction, that the Tories are losing us the British Empire. You cannot have repression on the one hand and pursue a policy of negotiation on the other. Let us be frank. I do not want to occupy the time of the House for more than five minutes more as I know that long speeches are not liked. I am going to be quite frank, but I am not going into any details of how to solve this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "and gallant Gentleman would like to know something about the Princes, I would recommend him to read part of the very able book which I have read written by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Walsall (Sir G. Schuster). Had time not been so short I would have quoted from it, but the hon. and gallant Gentleman will find something very interesting about the Princes there and why we support the Princes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was done in Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "come this difficulty by using ambiguous words. It is no good talking about \"the people of India.\" It is no good thinking that by so doing you have thereby settled the problem of Indian unity. You might just as well say, \"Let us hand Europe over to be governed by the people of Europe.\" Take a smaller item, if you will; you might say, \"Why not hand over the Balkans to be ruled by the Balkan people?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-10-08", "file": "debates1942-10-08a.xml", "sha256": "1f59e241f6562d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA AND BURMA (TEMPORARY AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "That is a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-08a.1454.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-13", "file": "debates1942-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "45e4190ccb5ac277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1528.0", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Somerset", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Somerset", "preceding_text": "out the three administrators, who have been appointed, it is marvellous that they took the thing on. Their appointment is for four years. As regards the two Parliamentary by-elections to which reference has been made, as the hon. Gentleman said, the first was for the seat of the late Prime Minister. The present member is a strong Unionist, a strong Orangeman and a Church man—a thoroughly good man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1528.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-13", "file": "debates1942-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "45e4190ccb5ac277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1586.0", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in the Library.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "subjects. He should consult other Government Departments, in which case he might be able to give us a little more information. What is the report which we are discussing? I regret to say that we know very little about it. Of course, the Chancellor of the Exchequer knows nothing about it. Perhaps he may have got some enlightenment since he has been consulting with some other Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-13", "file": "debates1942-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "45e4190ccb5ac277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1589.0", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "a certain amount of inefficiency, and it certainly calls for an explanation. This report gives, on the back of it, the names of the directors, and only four of these can be described as neutrals in this war. In addition, several of the executive officers of this Bank for International Settlements are bound to be opposed to this war. Perhaps the Chancellor will take that cynical smile off his face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-13", "file": "debates1942-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "45e4190ccb5ac277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is he a partner in Higginsons? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "nk for International Settlements as at present constituted and conducted. What is the present position as I know it and as I am advised? Since the outbreak of the war, having regard to difficulties which must naturally arise from the constitution of a Bank of this kind, the conduct and control of the Bank have been and are to-day in the sole hands of the President of the Bank, an American citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-13", "file": "debates1942-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "45e4190ccb5ac277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1599.0", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Strauss", "preceding_text": "May I ask one short question, because the Chancellor apparently contradicted himself in his statement, and I think we want to be clear? I understood that he said the deposits at the Bank earn interest in Germany or elsewhere and that that interest helps to pay Great Britain interest on our deposits at the Bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-13a.1599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-14", "file": "debates1942-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "a5c039fd47cb36bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1684.0", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELSH COURTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Edwards", "preceding_text": "in it—my hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood) represents it very well—their poets have written sufficiently in English for us to grasp them, and this has made us interested in many things in Scotland that have been a closed bock to us in Wales because our people there insist on writing in the Welsh language. I do not know that any Welshman will agree with me in these remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-14", "file": "debates1942-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "a5c039fd47cb36bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1691.2", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "preceding_text": "er this Order. Only a day or two ago the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, making a speech, said: You can't have a Gestapo without a national police service. Are we now laying the foundation stone for a national police service? Once you have a national police service you have opened up the way for a Gestapo, and I have no more confidence in some of the gentlemen in Whitehall than I have in Hitler himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-14", "file": "debates1942-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "a5c039fd47cb36bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1709.0", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940", "cue_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys (", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "General Sir George Jeffreys (", "preceding_text": "ve us more particulars about that. Speaking generally, small forces, in spite of what some of my hon. Friends have said, have seldom the same standard of efficiency as larger forces, for a variety of reasons. In a small force of comparatively few men it is only natural that the chief or head constable will be hardly of the calibre of the chief or head constable of a large and more important force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-14", "file": "debates1942-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "a5c039fd47cb36bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1713.2", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "manding some of these things. I quite understand the hon. Member for Southampton being apprehensive lest Southampton should be included. No doubt the same observation applies to the hon. Member for Ilford (Mr. Hutchinson). Suppose the Home Secretary said to them in reply, \"I propose to proceed with the Regulations, but Southampton and Ilford will be excluded\"; that would remove their apprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-14", "file": "debates1942-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "a5c039fd47cb36bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS, 1939 AND 1940", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Parochial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rs. I have had one or two such cases, and the police did very well. They did their best, but I must point out that, in time of war, in areas where leakage of military information may be a matter of the most disastrous consequences to the Army, Navy and Air Force and to the nation's war effort, it is not right that Members of this House should seek to put before the big national interests the mere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-14a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-15", "file": "debates1942-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7c3f3c97ebdf474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-15a.1772.2", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I think that the substance of the statement was the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-15a.1772.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-15", "file": "debates1942-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7c3f3c97ebdf474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-15a.1794.6", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "ery other field of the population where we have dealt with people living on moneys from the State, we have in fact made substantial adjustments to the rates of pay or allowances. We have adjusted unemployment benefit, we have adjusted Assistance Board relief, we have adjusted the separation allowances of the Armed Forces. We have adjusted—very inadequately, it is true—widows' and old age pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-15a.1794.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-20", "file": "debates1942-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "0383268bbbc9a2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-20a.1922.9", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "There is no answer at all. I say that it is left to the experts to decide what methods they should adopt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-20a.1922.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-20", "file": "debates1942-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "0383268bbbc9a2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-20a.1924.0", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "his recommendation was accepted by the Government and adopted on 1st April, 1922. From then onwards all new awards of pension to parents were conditional upon the claimant being able to show that he or she was wholly or partially incapable of self-support and in pecuniary need. This has gone on from 1922 down to the present war period, and, so far as I know, without a single complaint from anyone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-20a.1924.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-10-20", "file": "debates1942-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "0383268bbbc9a2f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-20a.1932.7", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a general issue.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "It is quite right for the hon. Member to bring that case forward on behalf of his constituent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-20a.1932.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1976.3", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": " to consider a Motion for the temporary Adjournment of the House for a period, and I think it is very desirable that the Government should reconsider their decision before the House adjourns. One can thoroughly understand the natural reason which prompted their decision, but we cannot compete in brutality with Germany, and I think the whole country realises that the Government have made a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1976.4", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I very much regret that the hon. Member should have put this Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1976.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1977.0", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"You are wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "Is not the Leader of the House aware that it is because I think the country and the House do not agree with the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1978.5", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is it desirable that the public should be left in a state of indecision in regard to the chaining of prisoners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1978.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1978.18", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wages or earnings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "se dates; they are the selection of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour and National Service—in the industries concerned, which are the bulk of the industries, men's wages are up by 47.8 per cent.; youths' and boys' wages by 62.9 per cent.; women's wages by 46.2 per cent.; girls' wages by 45 per cent. while the general wages average shows an increase of 46 per cent. during the same period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.1978.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2005.2", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "e cases where a general body of employers are indifferent, or largely indifferent, because of the fact that if there is an increase in a rate of wages, that is then passed on in the form of increased costs. This was a different issue. This was a proposal to wait until the end of the year came, and that when the Excess Profits Tax was ascertained there should be an increase of pay to absorb it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2016.2", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " Tax have taken something like 90 per cent. of the larger incomes. That is quite possible, but we must not overlook the fact that, despite the undoubted shift in the quantity of purchasing power down towards the lower income scales and despite the very high taxation of the upper scales, there has so far been little or no change in the relative standard of comfort of the various classes of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2018.1", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "Of course, it is, but I did not say that. I said quite the opposite. I agreed there has been an undoubted shift of purchasing power towards the lower end of the scale. I said there has been no relative change in the standard of comfort of the different classes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2019.0", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: God gives ability to all men.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "s opposite realize it, but that is an extremely revolutionary proposal, reversing the whole policy of the past. In the past the' incomes of individuals have depended on monopoly in one way or another. If it were a landlord, it is the fact that his land had a monopoly value. If it were a barrister making £10,000, £15,000, or £20,000 a year, it was the monopoly value of his particular kind of skill,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "I am pointing out that hon. Gentlemen opposite are still maintaining the right to go back to the law of supply and demand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2033.3", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£4 1s. 8d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "e. Not long ago, after a prolonged and painful agitation, this House was induced to grant a minimum wage of £3 a week to agricultural workers. Does the hon. and gallant Member say that those wages should be stabilised at £3 a week? Are those fellows, upon whose efforts the feeding of this country depends, to be told that £3 a week is too much for them? The engineers wage to-day is about £4 2s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2037.1", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Beit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rents are controlled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Beit", "preceding_text": "justified in saying them since the needs of war have imposed severe restrictions upon the capitalist element which most of us accept entirely without complaint. Whatever may be said, profits are controlled either directly or through Excess Profits Tax, and, fortunately for the nation, no money can be made out of war without breaking the law. Why, therefore, are not wages and also rents controlled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2037.1", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Beit", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Beit", "preceding_text": " he cross-examined some of my hon. Friends on' this side of the House as to whether we thought anything of that sort had been achieved. Well, the hon. Member cannot have been round the country very much recently or he would have had greater knowledge of the equality which is now in existence. I can assure him that before the war is over we shall all be pressed into a still more standardised mould.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2043.1", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bower", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bower", "preceding_text": "uld be excellent and very much to the advantage of the whole community, but I am afraid I cannot place quite as much faith as the Chancellor appears to do on our ability to rely upon that particular element. If one expected people when negotiating wage agreements at the present time to be actuated solely by a sense of the national interest, one would be expecting them to be rather more than human—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2058.3", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "tate-owned or privately-owned, and including local authorities and any other publicly-owned institution. I use the phrase \"employer\" in that sense. There is a moral force working which it is wise to harness and take account of. There was a terrible disaster at the end of the last war, due, first, to an orgy of speculation, and, secondly, to inflation that went with it, and then a sudden deflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-21", "file": "debates1942-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "ef31806675d9c8aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2064.1", "colnum": "2064", "heading": "WAGES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "creased production. We have been told by the Minister of Production recently that the increased production per man-hour is up by over 44 per cent. If we had, in peacetime negotiations, been able to show an increased production of 44 per cent. per man hour, what kind of wages could the unions not have succeeded in getting as a result? They would have been colossal. We have pressed no claim at all——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-21a.2064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-10-22", "file": "debates1942-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "c5025ff40f5aecd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-22a.2192.2", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "WAR PRODUCTION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "od Marxism, they would see that if these girls are taken away it will not give strength to the campaign for self-government in Scotland. If they are taken away as they are being taken away, there will be no Scotland left for self-government. If we can get our own girls back and our own industries going, there will be a basis for self-government in Scotland, which will have to come sooner or later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-10-22a.2192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-10", "file": "debates1942-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "f2369305d8729d7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-10a.2238.4", "colnum": "2238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR (FAREAST)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give it after Questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "I apologise for the length of the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-10a.2238.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-11", "file": "debates1942-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "647bd7838cd7e6f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-11a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-11a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in line 2, at the end, to insert: except that after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and forty-three, the House shall sit on a fourth sitting day each week for the consideration of private Members Motions. There is no doubt that during the last few months—perhaps I might say during the last two years—the prestige of Parliament throughout the country has fallen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Group-Captain Wright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Group-Captain Wright", "preceding_text": "they were better left alone at the present time. That seems to be an extraordinary outlook in a democratic country. Such matters are, in fact, being discussed in the Press, by the Church and by political parties in the constituencies—everywhere, except in this House of Commons. There is no question about it whatever, the prestige of this House, and particularly of the back benchers, is going down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I find the speeches which have been made by the hon. and gallant Gentlemen most unconvincing. I stoutly resist the view that the prestige of this House is going down. That is not the case. I can find no better method of adding to that decline, if such there be, than for the House of Commons to descend on a fourth Sitting Day to the level of a Sunday school debating society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since you came here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "ed by the Amendment, I would support it, but I doubt very much whether the Amendment serves either purpose. In those circumstances I shall vote for the Motion. I agree whole-heartedly with the mover of the Motion, but I dissent from the view expressed from the other Front Bench about the public status of Parliament. In my view there has been a calamitous decline in the public status of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was the same on the other side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "t in various parts of the House there is no more freedom for the Private Member to move the Motion that he wants than there is when Government Business is on the stocks. For example, on the Opposition side of the House there was a standing stock of Resolutions in relation to Private Members' days drawn up by the party executive, and the Member successful in the Ballot was expected to draw from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.69.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.71.6", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I bow to your Ruling, Sir, but I am bound to say that I think the proceedings of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.71.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You cannot get it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "Yorkshire, of the War Cabinet. They did a great disservice, in my opinion, not only to Parliamentary institutions but to the country. When this country was going through one of its darkest hours, it was our duty to give a real leadership to the War Cabinet. It is our duty also to give a real leadership to the country, if Members of Parliament are worth twopennyworth—I was going to say of cold gin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.117.0", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I said I had not had time to look up the reference, but I think I am within the recollection of the House in reminding the hon. Member that he said he would like to see Members of Parliament—I cannot think that he did not include himself—leading the troops, or going with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "controversial. I do not intend to be controversial, but I have been a Member of this House long enough to remember that there was a time shortly before the war—I cannot remember exactly how many years before; I do not think it is a matter of controversy but a matter of fact—when the Labour Party, rightly or wrongly, but as they thought rightly in those days, did oppose expenditure on re-armament.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not the Labour Party this time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "ategy we made our plans and we prepared our armaments, and it was not until about six months before the outbreak of this war, on urgent demands from France, that it was decided to change the policy and to send an expeditionary force to the Continent. It was not therefore until that decision had been made that we were free to go ahead with the armaments necessary for a land force of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.130.0", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Air Estimates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "er Braithwaite). I would take this opportunity of suggesting that we should now hear no more of the story, which has been repeated in this House and in the country on so many occasions, that it was the fault of the Labour party in particular that sufficient military preparations were not made before the war. It is correct that on several occasions the Labour party voted against the Army Estimates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"First, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nd 1937 gave the then Government unlimited powers to spend what they wanted on armaments. The House of Commons is not responsible, nor is the Labour party directly, for the failure to rearm before the war. It was a series of incompetent and misguided Governments. Hon. Members opposite supported year after year three Prime Ministers, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Chamberlain, and now the present Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " do not let us get out of proportion in this matter. We delivered to the enemy a great blow which rejoiced us and our friends, but we have a very long way indeed to go before we have won this war. The battle is not over. Why are we ringing bells next Sunday morning? It is a very silly thing to do. By doing so you are creating the impression throughout the country that the worst of the job is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "d women of Europe that if they fight and take risks and it may be die, they will do it for something rather better than they have had in the past. What have we done recently? We have guaranteed the Spanish Empire. We have guaranteed the Portuguese Empire. We have guaranteed the Dutch Empire. At the Mansion House the other day, the Prime Minister guaranteed the British Empire. What we have we hold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ps, they are making a mistake. We can see the Conservatives crawling out of their holes now. In 1940 and 1941 they would not have dared to say these things. It was a different story then. We hear made by some members of the Government, well-meaning and smooth-tongued decoys, agreeable speeches, in ambiguous terms, about a new world, but the authentic voice of the Conservative party was Lord Croft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rawling out of their holes now. In 1940 and 1941 they would not have dared to say these things. It was a different story then. We hear made by some members of the Government, well-meaning and smooth-tongued decoys, agreeable speeches, in ambiguous terms, about a new world, but the authentic voice of the Conservative party was Lord Croft. [ Interruption. ] Is the authentic voice the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-12", "file": "debates1942-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "61eb2b361ab44e0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nment, well-meaning and smooth-tongued decoys, agreeable speeches, in ambiguous terms, about a new world, but the authentic voice of the Conservative party was Lord Croft. [ Interruption. ] Is the authentic voice the Prime Minister? [ Interruption. ] The Prime Minister said at the Mansion House the other day that he had not become the King's First Minister in order to liquidate the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-12a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.205.7", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "y be some explanation, but I must confess that the reaction on those splendid men and women who have been loyal to the cause of France under the leadership of General de Gaulle, has been unfortunate. It has been a rather bitter pill for the Free French to swallow. It may be that Admiral Darlan is a much-maligned personality. It may be that he is not the quisling that we were led to believe he was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.205.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Totally irresponsible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Campbell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to imagine that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible for everything that happens in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.257.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Dead hand.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I have never yet been called a dead end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman whether the Atlantic Charter applies to the Colonies. I notice there is a revival of the Rump on the third bench below the Gangway. Whereas two years ago it was considered a mortal sin to mention the British Empire or to talk of a revival of Toryism, now the knives are being sharpened, and there are cheers whenever the British Empire is mentioned instead of the British Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you seen it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": ", if necessary, for an ideal, if that ideal is not big enough to safeguard them afterwards. I believe that the Beveridge Report is the beginning of that. I hope that we are not going to be told, when the Beveridge Report is issued at the end of this month, that it cannot be dealt with in the lifetime of this Parliament. I believe that the Beveridge-Report may be the foundation of a better Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": " is the beginning of that. I hope that we are not going to be told, when the Beveridge Report is issued at the end of this month, that it cannot be dealt with in the lifetime of this Parliament. I believe that the Beveridge-Report may be the foundation of a better Britain. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you seen it?\"] I only know what I read in the newspapers. I hope it corresponds to something like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good Lord preserve us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e of criticism since the days of the Stuart kings, there should be hon. Members who prefer the monotony of agreement to the clash of controversy. When agreement is complete Debate becomes unreal and, therefore, superfluous. When that occurs we are reduced to the level of the Reichstag, and hon. Members represent nobody but themselves or it may be a Fascist dictator. From that melancholy situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "one hon. Member said, in an interjection: Would Hitler believe it? The hon. Member who was speaking said: But it is necessary to maintain the threat and to give the appearance of aggression—to support it and fortify it materially, of course, but to go on threatening.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT; 20th May, 1942; cols. 320–321, Vol. 380.] That is what the hon. Member said, but he was met with derision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "es in this achievement. Let me now direct attention to what is perhaps a disadvantage. Recently there have been manœuvrings of a diplomatic and political character in North Africa. I do not want, at any rate at this stage, to embark on a subject which might be embarrassing to the Government, but if the matter were left to me, I am prepared to use anyone and anything in order to win the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did you say to them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "ave a bad effect on that effort. I struck it in a small way the other day. A certain Home Guard unit had been told to come out and dig trenches and prepare a certain place as a defended locality. The turnout was very poor because, they said, the place would never have to be defended. How do they know? How do any of us know which locality might have to be defended in the event of an air borne raid?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Colville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were Secretary of State for Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Colville", "preceding_text": "n parties. We most urgently require a very large number of new houses, a number far larger in proportion than is required in England. I hope that the question will be kept right out of party politics and that there will be joint effort on the part of all parties in Scotland to bring the matter of housing into line with standards of decency and comfort of which we are far short at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "g at the Guildhall confronted by the vested interests, the bankers and the brewers, the coal, shipping and land interests, the armament gang, iron and steel and all, he said: Let me therefore make this clear in case there shoud be any mistake about it in any quarter. We mean to hold own own. I have not become the King's first Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-17", "file": "debates1942-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "6c8d747bb7858af5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the British people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": " Dominion status under the Statute of Westminster, with full powers to contract out, if at the same time you say, \"What we have we hold\"? The position seems to me to be absolutely inconsistent. When hon. Members opposite cheered the Prime Minister's statement they meant that you are only trying to deceive the Indian people by saying that you are prepared to give them Dominion status after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-17a.308.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ETHIOPIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t. At the same time, as Parliament was in Recess, I took it upon myself to authorise Mr. Howe to convey a similar message on behalf of this House offering to Their Majesties and to the Ethiopian Parliament the best wishes of the British peoples for a happy and prosperous future. I trust that this step which I have taken will meet with the general approval of hon. Members in all parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "Flying squadrons are not being amalgamated and their organisation profoundly altered, as is happening necessarily in the case of balloon squadrons, but I agree that there will come a time when we can say that we have reached stabilisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST-WAR CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "In view of the failure of private enterprise to organise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.347.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.386.8", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " the next Sitting Day. Yesterday I was informed by one of the principal Whips that a special subject would be taken to-day. Later on I was persuaded by a Member of the Front Bench to approach you, Sir, and to ask whether there was any possibility of getting into the Debate. I asked you whether there was any possibility of 15 minutes to-day for me, and you said, with a quite apparent cynical sneer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.386.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By the Americans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "troops and their dependants and relations who are waiting to see whether Government and Parliament really mean business. They have been led, to use a colloquial expression, up the garden path so long since the last war. They see things happening which make them think that the old order is still prevailing. They see Darlan being accepted by our military leaders as the principle authority in Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Major Milner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Milner", "preceding_text": " set up as soon as possible, or practicable. Whatever personal feelings one has for the Minister—and he knows that I have a considerable regard for him, and for his Parliamentary Secretary—the House ought to make it clear to the Minister that they insist on the setting up of these tribunals. The Minister has on several occasions resorted to evading action—I do not say evasive action—in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the second time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "they are many—his influence up to date has prevented the French Fleet from being handed over to Germany. I believe that it is time the Government made some authoritative pronouncement upon the subject of Admiral Darlan. There is a great deal too much surmise, misunderstanding and doubt as to what is happening. Either Admiral Darlan, as somebody said yesterday, may be a rat leaving a sinking, ship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": " of a popular dance band, or whether indeed the Archbishop of Canterbury is to receive more or less than Mr. J. B. Priestley, or whether Mr. George Robey, the inimitable and irreplaceable, is to receive more or less than either the Archbishop of Canterbury or Mr. Priestley? Up to date it has been the community which has in effect decided what everyone is to receive for his or her effort or talent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From the Tories\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "to be a world of happiness and liberty, it will have to be built by common-sense men and women and not by visionary cranks. The danger that I see in planning is that there is too much visionary crankiness about. I believe we are all united in the desire to build a good, stable, splendid world when the war is over, but already we are hearing ominous talk about things like the conscription of youth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-18", "file": "debates1942-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "e64d4c8d497b5134", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "hey have shown in fighting the U-boats over three years of war. The skill and endurance of the men of the Coastal Command have also done very much indeed to assist in securing for us those vital cargoes of food and raw material which have kept our war effort not only alive but ever-growing throughout that period. Sea power remains the vital key to our success and a first charge upon our resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-18a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-19", "file": "debates1942-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f952692c31349a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And never getting replies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "if we are not prepared, this country will be in a state of chaos and revolution greater than we have ever known before. I shall not talk about the war front. I want to talk about the home front. I want to say a few things to the Minister of Health. The Minister of Health has a very important position in the Government. I have been putting Questions to him ever since he has been Minister of Health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.574.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-19", "file": "debates1942-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f952692c31349a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Christ was born in a stable.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "g people of today as to whether what is officially told them as being the Christian faith has anything at all to do with that faith. I am not exaggerating. I have in my pocket a report of what was said by one of the foremost ecclesiastics in this country only last week-end. He is reported to have said: We shall insist that the child is born into a house that is suitable to be the home of a family.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-19", "file": "debates1942-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f952692c31349a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "ees with me that the essential feature of this war is that it is a biological struggle, which is going to decide the future development of the whole of the human race for thousands of years to come. It may well decide whether the present human race is to be the progenitor of what is to come afterwards, or whether it is to die out and some other branch of the animal kingdom go forward in its place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-19", "file": "debates1942-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "9f952692c31349a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " As a matter of fact, we have seen part of the dividend in the standard of health and life of our people, especially the young people, in this war period. Second—and this is the answer to those who suspect the Government of being lackadaisical about social reform—it would show a remarkable result if you prepared a list of all the things which have been done in the social field since the war began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-19a.623.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Francis Fremantle", "preceding_text": "If the Government make up their minds that the case for immunisation is fully proved, will they take steps to arrest the hon. Member for causing the death of innumerable children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "o my next point. This is a very grave matter. It has come to my knowledge within the last 48 hours that it was intended on Sunday that General de Gaulle should broadcast to Europe in the European service. By a long-standing arrangement with the Foreign Office and the Secretary of State for War, the script, I am informed, was submitted for approval and after some discussion apparently was approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is this correct?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "rope in the European service. By a long-standing arrangement with the Foreign Office and the Secretary of State for War, the script, I am informed, was submitted for approval and after some discussion apparently was approved. [HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"] By the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. What happened subsequently? It was suppressed by the Prime Minister, and so no broadcast took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\" and \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "onnection I call the attention of the House to some remarks made by the Prime Minister on 12th October. He said: Here in the fourth year of a world war more people in Scotland are to-day getting three square meals a day than ever before. He went on to say that Glasgow boys of 13 were to-day nearly three pounds heavier than boys of the same age before the war. I suppose fattening for the slaughter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "fighting so that when the war is over we can go back to two meals a day and to children who are three pounds lighter? Then the Prime Minister has said, \"What we have we hold.\" What a silly remark. Would it not have been a more statesmanlike remark and a great encouragement to everybody to have said to all the world, \"What we have we will pool with anybody who will come in and collaborate with us\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "in peace-time, and the Government will have to take action now. If they fail to do so, it will be a betrayal of all the fighting men who are asking just the sort of questions which I am asking. A little time ago a constituent of mine, a very capable young man, brilliant at his work and in every way qualified to speak for the youth of the country, wrote to me that he was perfectly willing to fight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.685.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "One is tempted to reply to the speech that we have just heard, but I beg, Mr. Speaker, to call your attention to the fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "One is tempted to reply to the speech that we have just heard, but I beg, Mr. Speaker, to call your attention to the fact that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I must keep to the arrangement that has been made.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows very well that if I were to reply here and now to it, I should exhaust my right to speak in the forthcoming Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-24", "file": "debates1942-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "7f0dd5964d1af572", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ing Debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Of course, I am in the hands of the House. It is my duty to interpret the wishes of the House. An arrangement has been come to, and Members have come here for the express purpose of discussing a particular subject. I have said that they shall have that opportunity, and, as far as I am concerned, they shall have that opportunity. Therefore, I beg to call attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-24a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.732.5", "colnum": "732", "heading": "GENERAL DE GAULLE (WITHHELD BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "eman has said that the decision in North Africa had been taken by the general in the field; the general in the field has accepted Admiral Darlan as a great ally of the United Nations, thereby temporarily disposing of another ally. Have we now reached the point where a general in the field, in the midst of his military preoccupations, is able to decide the Allies of the United Nations? Furthermore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.732.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.735.6", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "eir methods have not been very creditable; but I excuse that, because their case is so weak—are now going to offer me a Select Committee. It will be very easy for them to say, \"Be reasonable. You have been offered a Select Committee; what more can you want?\". After eleven years, I know how long it will take a Select Committee to report; and I know the kind of duplicity the Government will sink to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.735.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the catering industry\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ave done this alone. But a Coalition must stand together, a Coalition held together by bonds of prejudice and custom, a Coalition which, to-day, on this issue, is completely out of step with public opinion. The Government know full well that they can ignore this appeal. Why? Because the women of this country are not organised. If they were organised as well as the coal-owners or the drink industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.796.0", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "All I was saying was that in fact more money is paid to widows' than is paid to widowers. More money is paid out to women where somebody dies than is paid out to men. I am only stating the fact. It is a fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.796.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " supplementary scheme. It was a very long document, and I am not going to say that I carry all the details in my mind, but it is true, and I think the Minister of Pensions will bear me out, that where a woman is killed the compensation her husband may receive is less than she would receive if he had been killed. Therefore, in fact, where there is a fatality more money is paid to women than to men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.819.5", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "n this subject, because I have been steeped up to the neck in it for many months. I have been trying to find a real solution to this problem. Believe me, I have my sympathies. One hon. Lady mentioned about our mothers. Well, I have said in this House before, and I repeat it, that I had the best mother in the world. Possibly I should not have come into this House but for the influence of my mother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.819.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "hing to refer this subject to a Select Committee. I have heard hon. Members talk about the Select Committee as though it were something the Government would have in their pocket, but that is a grave reflection upon the Members of the House. The Members of a Select Committee are selected from all parties in the House, not because they take particular views on the subject either for or against, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "ubmit that to cast reflections upon a Select Committee is to cast reflections upon ourselves. Surely, there cannot be any fairer tribunal than a Select Committee. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for East Edinburgh (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) asked a series of questions which it was quite right and proper to ask. First, he asked about the speed of the inquiry. My answer is that no time will be lost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.821.1", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has read the hymn book: so have I. I think I have cleared up that point. The next question asked by the right hon. Gentleman was whether there will be a Debate in the House when the Report is presented. Certainly, there will be. As has been stated already, it will be a fact-finding committee and when it reports on the matters covered by the terms of reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.821.5", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "There are methods of Parliamentary procedure by which these matters can be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.822.4", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "We shall have to hear what the views of the House are. The next question is whether the payment will be retrospective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.822.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.822.4", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "We shall have to hear what the views of the House are. The next question is whether the payment will be retrospective. [ Interruption .] I must ask to be allowed to finish my observations. I did not interrupt the hon. Member or anyone else. I was tempted at times, but I did not do it. These are very serious questions. Surely hon. Members are not going to make this into a variety theatre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.822.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-25", "file": "debates1942-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "4e5e4adfb6bf5975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.822.4", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR INJURIES (COMPENSATION TO CIVILIAN WOMEN.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "rt must come before the House, and the promise has been given that there will be the fullest opportunity for full debate on the question. I am satisfied that Members, after reading the evidence and noting the Report, will be in a far better position to cast their vote than they will be to-day. When I give a vote I want to be dead sure that I am not creating worse anomalies by removing one anomaly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-25a.822.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-11-26", "file": "debates1942-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "29f2b8642362b70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.884.6", "colnum": "884", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Can the Leader of the House inform us whether it is the case that a protocol has been prepared, and will be signed within a very short time, making Darlan the High Commissioner of North Africa? Is it not desirable that there should be a discussion in this House before such a step is taken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-26", "file": "debates1942-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "29f2b8642362b70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.905.6", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Grigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Egypt?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Grigg", "preceding_text": "y exists, for the purposes of the study which I have in mind, the other African Colonial Powers. You must add Belgium, you must add Portugal, I think; Portugal not only has problems but creates problems in Africa at the present moment. I do not think it is undiplomatic to say that. I presume now that you will add France. All the Powers with responsibilities in Africa should be asked to co-operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.905.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-26", "file": "debates1942-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "29f2b8642362b70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.931.0", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "preceding_text": "seem to know that it was flourishing, that it had a loyal people and that the standard of living of the natives had been very much improved. He did not know that the inhabitants of the country had given treasure to this country and spent large sums in order to prosecute the war. Hardly any of our Colonies have been more generous and more forthcoming in support of the war than these loyal Malayans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.931.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-26", "file": "debates1942-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "29f2b8642362b70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "to have destroyed the opportunity for good feeling in Malaya. The West Indies are one of the oldest of our settlements. The population there are not the aborigines. They went there as slaves, taken in our ships. They were taken there by Drake and other heroes, and I confess I am proud of my family connection with those Cornish buccaneering toughs, who went there, across the ocean, in 30-ton boats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-26", "file": "debates1942-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "29f2b8642362b70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Malcolm Robertson", "preceding_text": "We have just listened to a somewhat impassioned speech in many directions. The hon. Member began with what I think commands the approval of a large number of Members of this House—deprecating what I might call washing our dirty linen in public and giving material for Dr. Goebbels and Lord Haw-Haw. I regret to think that the major part of his subsequent speech was extremely helpful to Dr. Goebbels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-26", "file": "debates1942-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "29f2b8642362b70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.956.2", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "lf-righteousness and hypocrisy to blind our eyes to the fact that there is much of which we should be completely ashamed. One hon. Member referred romantically to Sir Francis Drake and other Elizabethan heroes. I am aware that they have frequently been quoted as inspiring Elizabethan Christians, but we know that in fact they were often slave traders of the most unscrupulous and ruthless character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.956.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-11-26", "file": "debates1942-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "29f2b8642362b70c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "might reasonably have been expected to be about to produce a policy. I had rather hoped to have played the part of midwife, but my right hon. and gallant Friend has not been nine days in office, and therefore any progeny so rapidly delivered would have the imputation of illegitimacy. Nevertheless, this Debate, although no longer a suitable occasion for any pronouncement of policy, has given us all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-11-26a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-01", "file": "debates1942-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7a1392f6d43c5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1010.3", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "I beg to give notice that I will raise this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1010.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-01", "file": "debates1942-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7a1392f6d43c5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1026.18", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " than is possible in this short Debate. It should, however, be said now that the proper utilisation of land and the space available to us in this country, as well as the proper use of coal, power and transport resources, cannot be adequately debated without raising the question of land ownership. I am afraid that there are elements in this House which would regard that discussion as controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1026.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-01", "file": "debates1942-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7a1392f6d43c5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1026.18", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "et-up for dealing with our internal devolopment in all its ramifications after the war. In fact, I had an ambition to be chairman of that development board in more difficult days. The third home front problem to which I wish to refer is that of social security. When I invited Sir William Beveridge to undertake his arduous and vital task—and I offer my personal thanks to him for his great services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1026.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-01", "file": "debates1942-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7a1392f6d43c5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1075.0", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Sir William Jowitt)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Sir William Jowitt)", "preceding_text": "inking men and women will subscribe. What steps can we take in the immediate future towards the attainment of that ideal? We must survey his work not in isolation, but as a part of our reconstruction work as a whole. He covers a vast field, he proposes sweeping changes, and it would be foolish to suppose that the Government can here and now make any pronouncement of their views upon these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1075.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-01", "file": "debates1942-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7a1392f6d43c5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": " opinion of Members in this House in regard to many of these matters so that I may know on what lines we might try to tackle some of these problems. Now I want to conclude by consideration of the problem which I believe lies at the root of all our reconstruction problems and which is a sure foundation for the future, namely, education. During the last war the Fisher Act was a millstone—a milestone", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-01", "file": "debates1942-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7a1392f6d43c5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It never happens.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Entwistle", "preceding_text": "e extent that its surpluses will be absorbed in a regularised way by a world development commission, must accept the obligation of balancing its imports and exports. If that is done, however much science may increase the capacity of production and however much the machine develops, at no time will you be faced with the position of a production and supply of goods in excess of the available demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-01", "file": "debates1942-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "a7a1392f6d43c5b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Paymaster-General. I saw no attempt on their part to rise on their toes or to ask a question, except for the hon. Member for Elland (Mr. Levy), who asked a question about water, on which he is an expert, on the whole, I rather feel that the Conservative party are not anything like so interested in the question of reconstruction as we are on these Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-01a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-02", "file": "debates1942-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "78d9623fb9bc53f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1166.7", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dr Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say how he arrived at the composition of the Select Committee on Equal Compensation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-02", "file": "debates1942-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "78d9623fb9bc53f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Major Petherick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Petherick", "preceding_text": "ow. We used to say to ourselves, \"It is all very sticky now and we do not know how we are going to win, under what conditions we are going to win, or when we are going to win. All that we know is that we are going to win, for the perfectly good reason that no one in this country will surrender because there will be no surrendering until no one is left in this country and we are utterly destroyed.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-02", "file": "debates1942-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "78d9623fb9bc53f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sir William Beveridge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "it before, but I remember when it started, in 1906, when there was to be an inquiry into this canker called unemployment—this thing that stultifies the so-called economists and creeps across this floor like a shadow intimidating Governments. What were we to do about it? What did we do in 1906? We appointed a committee of inquiry. Who do you think was the leading light in that committee of inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-02", "file": "debates1942-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "78d9623fb9bc53f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1243.5", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So are we all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "r. Every time we go to fight, other nations to which we have been supplying commodities learn to manufacture those goods themselves. I understand that the United States of America are now supplying the goods which in the past we have sent from Lancashire to the South American Republics. I do not wish to detain the House too long. I feel rather deeply about this problem of war. I am opposed to war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-02", "file": "debates1942-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "78d9623fb9bc53f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1243.5", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ica are now supplying the goods which in the past we have sent from Lancashire to the South American Republics. I do not wish to detain the House too long. I feel rather deeply about this problem of war. I am opposed to war. [An HON. MEMBER: \"So are we all.\"] I hope you are, but the way to oppose war is to try to prevent it, and when you are at war to endeavour to get out of it as soon as you can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-02", "file": "debates1942-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "78d9623fb9bc53f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ble. There are some in this country, not very many, I believe, who think that the existence of a Communist régime in Russia makes co-operation between our two countries in the long run impossible. I do not agree with them any more than I agree with those who think it is necessary to hold the Communist faith in order to co-operate with the Soviet Union in the field of international politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-02", "file": "debates1942-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "78d9623fb9bc53f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will mean Socialism here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ir victory to elaborate such a settlement as will make it impossible for Germany again to dominate her neighbours by force of arms. That lies at the root of the business, and it would be sheer folly to allow some non-Nazi German Government to be set up, and then, so to speak, to trust to luck. The rooting out of the old false gods will be a long and strenuous business, but it must be accomplished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-02a.1257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-03", "file": "debates1942-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4a1ecc19b3ac0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD PEACE AND WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "es, if sufficiently analysed, always come down to be something economic, just as the fundamental assumption of physicists once was that everything if sufficiently analysed come down to atoms of hydrogen, or what not, or at different times, of other things. I believe that that fundamental assumption which the hon. Gentlemen make has been the besetting heresy, the pseudodoxia epidemica of our time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-03", "file": "debates1942-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4a1ecc19b3ac0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD PEACE AND WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " to change them. We hear a lot about vested interests in Malaya. Who was it who took the stuff to Malaya that anyone now wants? We did not take the tin and oil. Geologically speaking, they were there, but only geologically speaking. Economically and socially speaking, no one knew precisely that they were there or knew effectively how to get them out if they were there. Rubber we did actually take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-03", "file": "debates1942-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4a1ecc19b3ac0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD PEACE AND WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The generation of to-day, the people of Britain to-day—if my hon. Friend is so very keen on making grammatical corrections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-03", "file": "debates1942-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4a1ecc19b3ac0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD PEACE AND WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "rom the policy of the Labour party only at the point when they declined to do the things they had been brought into this House to do, and did precisely the contrary things to the unemployed and the miners, and in international affairs. And not even then did we break away. We only broke with them when they not only did these things themselves but tried to compel me and my friends to do them honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-03", "file": "debates1942-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4a1ecc19b3ac0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1394.4", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD PEACE AND WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "en great changes' in the position of the Labour movement. The Labour movement increasingly, through its members, has taken responsibility in Parliament and in local councils of every kind. Their speeches have tended to change because it was enough in the old days to get up and denounce the existing state of affairs for 50 minutes, and in two minutes to say, \"The remedy is Socialism,\" and sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1394.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-12-03", "file": "debates1942-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4a1ecc19b3ac0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD PEACE AND WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "se they are taking their share in getting the conditions in which we can realise the Atlantic Charter. The hon. Members talk about the future and do nothing whatever about the present. I ask them whether they do or do not at this stage think that it is necessary to overturn Hitlerism? If they do not, why have they so much to say about the future, and if they do, what are they going to do about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-03", "file": "debates1942-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "f4a1ecc19b3ac0a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1399.3", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORLD PEACE AND WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "of restriction. I can assure him he is preaching to the converted. The Government are resolved that we shall not go back to a scarcity economy. Our policy is based on the utilisation of abundance. We are now engaged in talks and conversations with our Allies to work out these very things about economic collaboration. We are in touch with the International Labour Office concerning labour standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-03a.1399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-08", "file": "debates1942-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "9d312826ebfafd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-08a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Air Force?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I ought to make it clear that that referred to the Army. They go overseas in the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-08a.1452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-08", "file": "debates1942-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "9d312826ebfafd50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-08a.1476.0", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "d him before making the few remarks I propose to make. I know that in the last war there was not this distinction at the age of 18. I can speak with some feeling, because I was then at school, like many of the boys now at the age of 17; and then I had an interrupted career in the sense of winning a scholarship and not taking it up. We were in France at the age of 18, and nobody thought it was odd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-08a.1476.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-12-09", "file": "debates1942-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "9f69c6ffaa3977e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1542.4", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAMAICA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, and there has been no prohibition or ban upon the party. This is a ban upon individual members of the party for acts which they have committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1542.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-09", "file": "debates1942-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "9f69c6ffaa3977e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1654.0", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "one is working a full week, and many are working many hours of overtime, and their average weekly earnings are calculated upon the basis of the greatest possible regularity of work. While everyone hopes that at the conclusion of the war wage rates will not fall, at the same time most of us hope that there will not be so much overtime and that we shall return to more reasonable hours of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-09", "file": "debates1942-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "9f69c6ffaa3977e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "whole trouble among my hon. Friends, the very low rates of wages carrying with them very low compensation rates. There is no earthly reason why we should take half-a-dozen or even two bites at this cherry. This is a matter which must be adjusted in the face of things. Why cannot we do it now, when we have the opportunity? I notice my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-09", "file": "debates1942-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "9f69c6ffaa3977e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "ion, he said, \"I want to get the Bill through in 10 minutes.\" He could have answered the question in less than 10 seconds. The question of my hon. Friend the Member for Wigan is still unanswered. On that rests the whole case. We would have had no reason to divide the Committee if that had been answered satisfactorily; and I hope that we shall divide unless we get a straight answer to the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-09a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-10", "file": "debates1942-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "e3debdfbed13d71c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-10a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I would remark that the public position in respect to this matter is already governed, and remains governed, by the statement made by the President of the United States and by the statement I have made in this House. I could not therefore possibly give any undertaking that any statement of that kind will be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-10a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1775.2", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHURCHILL TANK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "In view of the most unsatisfactory statement by the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MR. CLAUD MULLINS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of the most stupid remarks made by magistrates and chief constables in courts have been made in connection with Communists and that in those cases they have not been condemned but have been commended for their stupidity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ification. I think it will be agreed that the \"British Medical Journal\" is recognised as the official organ of the British Medical Association, which, I suppose, represents most of the organised doctors in this country. The editor would not allow figures of that kind to be published unless they were authentic, and I would not think of quoting any figures unless I was sure that they were authentic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1827.0", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "arsely populated may lead to an outbreak of venereal disease in places unprovided with facilities for treatment. We know that in spite of that Report the Government have done very little. It is no good the hon. Member for St. Albans (Sir F. Fremantle) talking about how wonderful the Government have been and how they have tried their best. It is no good comparing this disease with mumps or measles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "er day, talking to men who had the disease. One of them said, \"Now, all we want is a drink of whisky.\" I told them, \"If you hadn't had the drink, I doubt whether many of you would be here to-day.\" Out of 42 men, 36 admitted that that was true. Have the Government done anything about it? If you talk about drink in this House of Commons you are looked upon as a crank and fanatic. I am not a fanatic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1837.3", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "icer, who informed me that immediately adjacent to the aerodrome where he was serving there was a house which had been taken by two women of about 35, who had money of their own, who kept up a very good table, and who invited the pilot officers and others to come and be entertained in their house, and who became all too friendly with them and did actually infect four or five of them with syphilis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1844.0", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "out informers, and so on. The situation is far too serious to be left as it is. I can assure the Minister that those who are resident in ports, those who have any responsibility for the transport of the country at the present time, and all those who are moved by those wider motives which have caused hon. Members to speak so eloquently in the Debate, hope that this Regulation will become effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1852.0", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ical lord, one of the finest I have ever known, generous-hearted, skilled, who would see patients for me for nothing or for 5s. or for 10s., while other medical men would charge 10, 20 or 40 guineas. He has always treated me very nicely and is a perfectly noble specimen of the other Chamber. But there is the delusion among medical men that venereal disease is always curable. Believe me, it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1852.0", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "s or no informers, degradation or no degradation, there will be difficulty in curing patients, and it is far better to take a patient quietly aside and give him treatment which will clear him of this inherent poison. I have warned the right hon. Gentleman before that he is acting on very bad advice—he, a democrat, a Liberal, open-minded, anxious to do well, worthy of congratulation on his efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1871.0", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "n which the Government are making, through me and through my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland, is the right first step, whether there is some other which would do more good, or whether, as my hon. Friend the Member for Springburn (Mrs. Hardie) would like, the Regulation should be scrapped and its place taken not by any stronger compulsory measure but by education and the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will that apply to Scotland? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "h Education has been actively engaged in revising the educational material available, and very soon I shall be able, I hope, to satisfy the hon. Member for Maldon with a whole range of new leaflets and pamphlets, some of which are already available, as well as with competent lecturers and certain films. We are also arranging for a complete new series of posters for free issue to local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ed programme. It does not abolish the general basis on which the present system rests and which has proved to be solid ground; that is, it does not replace voluntary attendance by compulsory notification and treatment. What it does—and this is what the Government claim for it—is to stop a gap in the voluntary system which has existed for a long time and which assumes a new seriousness in war-time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I know!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "m rests and which has proved to be solid ground; that is, it does not replace voluntary attendance by compulsory notification and treatment. What it does—and this is what the Government claim for it—is to stop a gap in the voluntary system which has existed for a long time and which assumes a new seriousness in war-time. [ Interruption. ] There was such a place as Number 9, Rouen, in the last war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-15", "file": "debates1942-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "aa19ae6f40472f0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a Nonconformist answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That may be, but that statement does not come very well from those who want much wider measures of compulsion and many more sources of information, because every country where there is compulsory notification has ramifications and other measures, all of which demand information from some person in some way, some of it anonymous. That will not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-15a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-16", "file": "debates1942-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "59ac32ebf934a90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-16a.1942.3", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I realise that there is important Business, and I do not want to detain the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-16a.1942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-16", "file": "debates1942-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "59ac32ebf934a90f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-16a.2020.0", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR FINANCE AND BORROWING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "afely through the 1914–18 war, helped us over the 1931 slump, and now was successfully getting us through this war. It seems to me that he proved conclusively that it is quite time we upset a system which led us into the first war, pitched us into the slump of 1931 and landed us in this war with the added knowledge that German rearmament was to a large extent financed by the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-16a.2020.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1942-12-17", "file": "debates1942-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ccc89ef4fb3c3df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2067.1", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES AND CIVILIANS (PENSIONS AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister aware that there is a terrible sense of injustice when the widow of a man who has served his country, come back and passed A 1 and gone to Dunkirk, is treated in this way? Will you ever get any widow or any section of the population to believe that a man who served at Dunkirk has not had his health affected in some way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-17", "file": "debates1942-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ccc89ef4fb3c3df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that everything possible and practicable will be done", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-17", "file": "debates1942-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ccc89ef4fb3c3df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2081.7", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I saw the draft of it, certainly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2081.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-17", "file": "debates1942-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ccc89ef4fb3c3df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2084.0", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JEWS (GERMAN BARBARITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The whole German nation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "While thanking the right hon. Gentleman for that statement, in which he has given eloquent expression to the conscience of humanity in this matter, might I ask him to clear up two points: First, whether the phrase, \"those responsible\" is to be understood to mean only those who gave the orders, or is it to include also anybody actively associated with the carrying-out of those orders?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2084.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-17", "file": "debates1942-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ccc89ef4fb3c3df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2168.1", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "FISH ZONING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "y the millions of consumers we are here representing to be ignored. I hope too that my hon. Friend will not make over-much of the cases where selected communities are better off now under this scheme than they were before. We all know of places which have been allocated more fish to-day than previously. It has been said in the House, and I have heard that used as an argument to support the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-17", "file": "debates1942-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ccc89ef4fb3c3df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2185.1", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "FISH ZONING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not equal now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "expense of areas that, having regard to the limited supply, had been proportionately over-supplied. I am confident that the House will approve of that purpose. It seems strange to me to hear the hon. Gentleman below the Gangway arguing on the one hand for equality of distribution and on the other hand complaining of the very measures taken by the Department to secure that equality of distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1942-12-17", "file": "debates1942-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "ccc89ef4fb3c3df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2191.3", "colnum": "2191", "heading": "SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Progress and Poverty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "preceding_text": "were two characteristics of the Scottish Sabbath as I knew it. The first was that there was no visiting from farm to farm on a Sunday. If we saw a man making for our homestead, we at once concluded that there was illness of man or beast and that some help was needed. There was no ordinary visiting. The other thing was that we were told to sit down and read a good book. That meant a religious book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1942-12-17a.2191.3"}