{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.40.7", "colnum": "40", "heading": "WAR PRODUCTION PLANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend repeat the assurance which he gave to the House before Christmas, that in the case of vital war industries the Minister of National Service would not remove men and women from the industries where the Supply Departments concerned stated that the production in those units was essential?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.40.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "WAR PRODUCTION PLANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "bour is introducing the opposite policy, of saying—and saying to me in particular time and again—\"Do not interfere at all; leave it to the trade union movement.\" But I have settled disputes which the trade union movement have failed to check. What is the policy of the Government? Is it to allow themselves to be saddled with a dictatorship by the Minister of Labour, who is trying to push his cause?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.44.2", "colnum": "44", "heading": "WAR PRODUCTION PLANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The War?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister consider whether he could not get much better results, not by transferring the workers but by transferring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.44.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.48.5", "colnum": "48", "heading": "MR. LLOYD GEORGgE'S 80TH BIRTHDAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ver half-a-century he has been a champion in our midst. Neither his courage nor his resilience has ever failed him. He has needed both, because he has given hard blows and taken them. To-day we regard him with pride and with affection, and we, each one of us, hope that he will be spared for many years to teach us wisdom, to guide us and, if need be, to drive us along the path that we should tread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.48.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "th noting the work that has been done by the ground staff amid tremendous difficulties in bringing forward airfields and services. The Forces of our Allies and of the R.A.F. in Malta have been continuously at it, attacking enemy transport vessels; airfields and ports. A series of raids on Genoa, Turin, Milan and other towns has played havoc with the industries and communications in Northern Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CROWN LANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As a result of noble families.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Because the hon. and gallant Gentleman's view is diametrically opposed to mine. He is in favour of Scotland continuing under the hellish conditions which have existed there up to the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CROWN LANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "o pay my quota of compliment in respect of his efforts on behalf of Scotland, but I do not think this Measure contributes to his status and certainly it does not contribute to his powers. The other point made by my hon. Friend, who has made this particular Bill his foster child, was that the Minister of Agriculture trespassed in Scotland last year and that he will no longer be allowed to trespass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (APPEALS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "preceding_text": "oted as a precedent. I sincerely hope the Home Secretary will reconsider the matter. I want to be helpful, but in this particular matter I hope the Measure will not be made a permanent feature of police administration, and that we shall not tie the hands of a future elected House of Commons in dealing with this and other matters which will of necessity come up for review at the end of hostilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (APPEALS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "It was knowing the value of other words that I put what was in the hon. and gallant Member's mind into this language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (APPEALS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "No, there are two specific cases, one where the rate of pay is reduced and the other where he is reduced in rank. In both those cases there will be a right of appeal to the Home Secretary whatever the force in which the man is serving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.148.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nation and passing of Acts of Parliament. The public outside would think we were not very good at our job if we were not able to do this. We ought not to accept the view that no average Member of Parliament ought not to be expected to understand the wording of a Defence Regulation, which, after all, is an exactly similar problem to the understanding of the wording of a statutory Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-19", "file": "debates1943-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "14052113d3c1d3b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in the Empire\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "nst it. That is the only way in which the House can be perfectly certain that a Minister will have to come here and explain what the Regulation means. Attention has been called to Regulation 79D. Most of us are interested in some charitable activity and I must confess that until I saw this, I had no idea that it would have been wrong and punishable for me to write to a friend in the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-19a.172.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.198.9", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "At the end of the war?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the agreement will make some provision for its termination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.198.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT (MINISTER'S CORRECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the weight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "e office of the Editors and asked that that alteration should be made. Let me at this stage say that I think I must completely exonerate the Official Reporters when any hon. Member states that he has been misheard or misconstrued, and I understand that it is a well understood custom of the House that where an hon. Member desires slightly to modify the weight or the grammar of any of his questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT (MINISTER'S CORRECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "rs cannot alter substantially the meaning of anything which they have said in this House. They can merely make verbal alterations, perhaps to improve the grammar of what has been said or to make clearer what they have intended. In this particular case the Minister was wrong in authorising any alterations in or additions to what he had said, if he did do so. I think, however, it was quite innocent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Services? They have to move all round the country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I do not want to press the right hon. Gentleman too much, but I think we are entitled to say in this matter that before any scheme of transfers is put into operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move the Previous Question, \"That that Question be not now put.\" That is a somewhat old Motion, which is not, I believe, generally used in the House, but I understand, subject to your Ruling, Sir, that it is perfectly in Order on this occasion. I move it because, being an independent Member of the House, for many years unattached in any way to any party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "his occasion. I move it because, being an independent Member of the House, for many years unattached in any way to any party [ Interruption ]. May I ask for your protection, Sir? I have made a definite statement, which I can support by the fact that candidates from every party are regularly run against me at elections. Hon. Members might at any rate have the decency to withdraw lies of that sort.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": " to me a case where the House would be well advised, to use a vulgarism, to dig its toes in and show the Government that it is not the autocrat of this country but that the House of Commons must be consulted in these matters. Hence I do not see any reason why the Deputy Prime Minister should not accept the previous Question. I have had considerable discussion with him for many weeks upon the point", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.255.2", "colnum": "255", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "majority in this House. No other hon. Member except the hon. and gallant Member who has seconded it rose to support the Amendment. Why? Because I assume that those who lead the Conservative Party are satisfied with the qualities of my hon. and gallant Friend who is proposed as Deputy-Chairman of Ways and Means. It has been suggested or implied that my party has been consulted. Sir, that is untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made a serious and false statement. I could give the right hon. Gentleman the names of at least 50 Members of the Conservative Party in this House whom I would sooner see dead than see in the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-20", "file": "debates1943-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "a8d234fd8df58ff7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS AND DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "ent position, but this is not the first time that there has been a Government composed of more than one party, and certainly there have been occasions on which Government nominations have been made when the Government have been in a minority in the House. But this is the first occasion on which I have known objection taken on these lines. The objection taken is on some grounds of personal dislike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-20a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-26", "file": "debates1943-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "14b4028c2af95778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-26a.355.0", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY PRIVATE SECRETARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I think the general practice of Ministers—although there is no rule in the matter—is that when communications are addressed to them personally they deal with them personally. That is the general practice so far as is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-26a.355.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-26", "file": "debates1943-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "14b4028c2af95778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-26a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTER OF TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not mix them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "ave thought if it had been suggested that a town must be a blot on the landscape? What would the people of Athens have thought? It is obviously desirable that we should cease to make our towns blots on the landscape. I agree entirely with the point that has been made in many quarters of the House that if we are to preserve the beauties of town and country we must preserve both; they hang together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-26a.463.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-27", "file": "debates1943-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "502f355a31a82116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-27a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE OF CREDIT, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has been promised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ar and of which this Order is typical. First, may I say that the House is under some disadvantage in debating Orders of this kind owing to the extraordinarily diffuse and complicated wording which we have to study? I suggest that Government draftsmen and officials when we are legislating by this method should put their intentions into plain language which can be readily understood by hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-27a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-28", "file": "debates1943-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c052058274d7f466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "Owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the reply, I beg to give notice that I will raise this matter on the Adjournment. In the meantime, may I ask my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-28", "file": "debates1943-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c052058274d7f466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.643.0", "colnum": "643", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (ORGANISATION AND CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been very successful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "in the Civil Service. I have seen business men just as stupid as any civil servants could be alleged to be. Some successful business men have just been successful gamblers. Their success has been due more to luck than to good methods. Sir Ernest Benn, who writes in defence of private enterprise, failed, I think, in one or two of his own enterprises to start with. Yet he lectures the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-28", "file": "debates1943-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c052058274d7f466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (ORGANISATION AND CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You can depend on that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": " take on extraordinary powers in their own minds, and to think that they are select in more senses than one, and that the preponderance of the brains of the House is incarnate in them. No doubt the Report and its detailed recommendations will be carefully considered by the powers-that-be in the Civil Service. I hope so. But I hope—and this is an unpopular thing to say—that they will hasten slowly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-28", "file": "debates1943-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c052058274d7f466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (ORGANISATION AND CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Gregory?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "orruption whatever. Occasionally some poor underpaid devil of a postman—I am glad to see the Chancellor of the Exchequer colouring at this point—driven by domestic stress, may steal a postal order, or a temporary clerk do something he ought not to do. But taking the Service as an institution, its record of probity and incorruptibility makes it in that respect the finest Civil Service in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-01-28", "file": "debates1943-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c052058274d7f466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (ORGANISATION AND CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell me another.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "l servants. Will anybody say there was not a complete overhaul and reorientation of the Post Office? I remember well how in those days outside assistance was brought in, and expert technique played its part. I think it is generally admitted that the modern Post Office serves the country very well indeed, and it would be very unfair to say that nothing had been done in that Department for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-01-28a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And sea ones too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ext step must be to consult our smaller European Allies whose authorised Governments are here, and then enemy and neutral countries. But I suggest that it is not quite as easy as some commentators in the Press or indeed some hon. Members who have taken part in earlier Debates in this House seem to think. There are, to use a modern military term, a good many tank traps and land mines to be avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "we were bound together not merely by voluntary but by sacred bonds. Therefore, neither our present Allies nor the neutrals can have any moral or legal grounds for asking us to cut those bonds, so far as they continue in an economic sense after the war, without the free and full consent of the Governments of the Allied countries and the whole of the self-governing units of the British Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "preceding_text": "te conversations shall be begun between the two Governments with a view to determining, in the light of governing economic conditions, the best means of attaining the above stated objectives and of seeking the agreed action of other like minded Governments. There is no limitation in this Agreement as to the number of Allied Nations which may come within the scope of this inter- national agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "preceding_text": "cture that they must expect when the war is over, when by agreement with the United States and other countries it is possible to come to some definite understanding about methods of production, the allocation of markets and the distribution of raw materials, can British industrial leaders with confidence go forward and plan for the future. Reference has been made to a brochure issued by Unilevers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There would not be a boom, otherwise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "preceding_text": " of trade. A very important task after the war will be that of keeping prices steady. There is no doubt that if exchanges were stabilised as I have suggested it would cut out the exchange speculator and would obviate one of the avenues which were so often explored and have lead to slumps and booms. Hon. Members know as well as I do that there has never been a boom that was not followed by a slump.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "We must be prepared—and I do not hesitate to tell the House and the country—for a continuance of considerable taxation after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have all been wiped out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannah", "preceding_text": "state. I am rather sorry that my honoured and honourable colleague the Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) has somehow or other proposed that parties should be divided still further. He wants Conservatives to be labelled \"over 50\" and \"under 50.\" One's first remark is, How are the Liberals to be re-divided, since I do not think that anybody can say that they are a particularly united party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "BEVERIDGE REPORT (ARMY BUREAU OF CURRENT AFFAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that the only way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "they come forward and give their views. I do not believe this is the procedure to which this democratic country is accustomed. I feel it is most unusual. I would say that we need the opinion of these men and women on the Beveridge Report and on many other matters too. Who are they, these men and women who are not allowed to discuss the Beveridge Report in the only way in which they can discuss it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "BEVERIDGE REPORT (ARMY BUREAU OF CURRENT AFFAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I hardly consider that a remark of that character can be called a libel. I do not propose to pursue it, however, in view of the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has given his assurance that it is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-02", "file": "debates1943-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "d8c3acf8203d3c23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.853.0", "colnum": "853", "heading": "BEVERIDGE REPORT (ARMY BUREAU OF CURRENT AFFAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When were you last in the War Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "al, summing it up. It seems to me that that is quite a reasonable degree of objectivity to have obtained in a two-page introduction to this large subject. The War Office contains as in a microcosm a picture of the great conflict that is going on in our society and in the world at large. There is a constant conflict within the War Office between the forces of black reaction and the forces of light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-02a.853.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.887.7", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JEWISH REFUGEES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it at the end of Questions.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House that the answer is necessarily a long one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.888.5", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JEWISH REFUGEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The Questions which were addressed to the Colonial Secretary were put off in deference to the convenience of the House and because of the large number of Questions. Might we not ask for those Questions to be dealt with now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.888.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JEWISH REFUGEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "That does not follow at all. It may be that someone might have been guessing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "preceding_text": " matter carefully for two or three years, but, when I last went into it, the most reliable statement on the matter was a bulletin published by the London and Cambridge Economic Service in August, 1935, and, according to that, by 1934 the net industrial output required for exports had been reduced to 16 per cent. of the country's total effort. That is a much smaller figure than most people realise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.935.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.942.4", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What campaign?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "f I can get the decent thing done to any section of the community without an inquiry, I will have it that way, because the overwhelming proportion of the inquiries that I have seen have been devices for doing deserving people out of something. I am glad for once to see a Minister who seems to be going ahead. Surely some of the men associated with this campaign against these poor little waitresses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.942.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "No, but in the ordinary practice of our democratic method the hon. Member would come here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "No, but in the ordinary practice of our democratic method the hon. Member would come here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—and make a complaint on the Adjournment or on some other occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "No, but in the ordinary practice of our democratic method the hon. Member would come here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"]—and make a complaint on the Adjournment or on some other occasion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and if he can make a good case, does he really think that the Government will stand up against it? That surely is the real guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "e are asking. Nothing of the kind. One hon. Member said it was right to give very wide powers in 1940 because we were facing a very grave emergency, but that now the emergency is less grave. In some ways that is true; in other ways it is not true. In 1940 we had lots of petrol and rubber. Now rubber and petrol are in very short supply, and that is largely the reason for this Order, as I will show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1006.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1015.8", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas.", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas.", "preceding_text": "I hope the Minister will not agree to this advice. It is obvious to me that no one has been talking about this Order at all, but that there is a conspiracy against the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1015.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Captain C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What opposition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "I have not much Parliamentary experience but I do not think I have ever witnessed anything to better the situation which has now been created in this House. The Minister offers to the opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "The obvious thing to do is to pass the Order, and if the Government come to the conclusion that the powers they are asking for are powers they ought not to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fascism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "ers they are asking for are powers they ought not to have—[ Laughter. ] I must say that some people are moved to hilarity very easily. I am suggesting, and I think the majority of hon. Members on this side of the House are going to insist, that the Order go through or that it be defeated, and if it goes through, it is for the Minister to revise the Order as and when it suits the Ministry to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "I hope that this is the last occasion on which we shall see the Government somersaulting to factions in this House. I state my feelings as a junior Member; at least I have not been here very long. I hate Hitler and all he stands for, and I hate bureaucratic government as well, but in local government one thing I have always detested is factions trying to dictate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-03", "file": "debates1943-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f933035b6e617a9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1020.3", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "shall see the Government somersaulting to factions in this House. I state my feelings as a junior Member; at least I have not been here very long. I hate Hitler and all he stands for, and I hate bureaucratic government as well, but in local government one thing I have always detested is factions trying to dictate—[ Interruption ]—I did think that we still retained freedom of speech, and I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-03a.1020.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1163.3", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING RESOURCES (IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend observed that Mr. Tom Wickard, the American Secretary for Agriculture, has just made a statement in which he speaks of Great Britain as dipping into her food reserves? If the American public can be given that information, why cannot we be informed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "rable to state here our considered opinion that an essential condition of securing a permanent improvement in the relations between employers and employed is that there should be adequate organisation on the part of both employers and workpeople. I emphasise that, because it is one of the bases of my action now. Organisation to some extent in this industry exists on one side, and not on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": " to the Department concerned on matters affecting the industrial conditions of the trade as well as on conditions of general interest to the industries concerned respectively. In 1918 the Government of the day brought a Bill before Parliament which to some extent harked back to 1909 and did not give full effect to the recommendations I have just read. It was this House of Commons, by an Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "tely I took office, the question of the great distributive trades, a question as complex as this one, and as a result of endeavour, six J.I.C.s have been established and are working for the distributive trades at the present moment. Therefore, when I am charged and the Government are charged with breaking a pledge I assert, without fear of contradiction, that this is not only a non-party business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "hed and are working for the distributive trades at the present moment. Therefore, when I am charged and the Government are charged with breaking a pledge I assert, without fear of contradiction, that this is not only a non-party business—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] All I say is that if Members of the Conservative Party now want to saddle the refusal of the regulation of minimum conditions on that party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "that and have tried to meet that. There is a great deal in it. I am always willing to study what my opponents have to say. I have always had to do that. Therefore I thought, and the Government thought, that the basis had better be changed and instead of the Minister deciding, then waiting for objections and then having inquiries, we would in this Bill appoint a Commission—an independent Commission", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1196.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1203.5", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course they do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I say, not to leave them unprotected and without an opportunity of properly dealing with their conditions. Therefore the first duty is to ascertain how far wages regulation by joint agreements exists, and, believe me, they do exist. They exist even in this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1203.5", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is on the menu.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ther the agreements can be enforced by the parties or not. With regard to Clause 6, I have noted in one newspaper that I am supposed, under this Clause, to be taking control even of the menu—of everything. It is surprising how ludicrous some of these people can become. I really cannot understand why they write—I was going to descend to a word that I used outside, but I leave the House to guess it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Hacking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Hacking", "preceding_text": "nging the war to a successful conclusion. I was glad to hear the Minister say he was not going to talk about sweated conditions. I take it that by that he means that he does not attempt to assert sweated conditions exist in these industries. That, I think, is an answer to the right hon. Baronet the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris), who unfortunately asked a question on Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "me has appeared not only in the newspapers but in all the trade papers which go to hotels, boarding houses and lodging houses. I have, however, up to yesterday morning had only one letter of protest saying that I was doing the wrong thing. By this morning I am sorry to have to tell the House that that number has been increased by 100 per cent., and I have received a second appeal against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "ble for an interpretation to be placed on this Measure which would make domestic houses come under its provision; but I understand that that position is going to be clarified, because an hon. Member has put down an Amendment to bring in private households, and then there will be an opportunity definitely to clear up the matter. Then there is the inspectorate. This inspectorate will be intolerable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in every case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "other Government Departments? We look to the Leader of the House to satisfy us in regard to a pledge that was given by the Leader of the House. The right hon. Gentleman, I was glad to hear, advocated the Trade Boards Act. He wishes his opponents had read the Trade Boards Act. I have, and one of its provisions is that it gives an impartial and public inquiry, which is not provided for in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "preceding_text": "ill not agree to this. Further, properties are being damaged through non-use, not by enemy action. They are boarded up, and the furniture and equipment inside are deteriorating. There are many ways in which the livelihood of these people is being destroyed by the war, and so far the Government have shown no sign of relieving these burdens. By introducing this Bill they are adding to these burdens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "preceding_text": "It has nothing to do with ranks. I have heard opposition expressed from the Benches on which Members of the hon. and gallant Gentleman's party sit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "preceding_text": " industries in the country to-day. That is admitted. It is a long step towards the control, direction and management of that industry. The Minister of Labour has always been consistent. I recollect that in 1926 at the time of the general strike, he challenged the will of this House and the country in order to carry it through. What about the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Leader of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banfield", "preceding_text": "e in favour of this Bill. It would be most unfortunate if the opinion were to get about that some of the opposition to the Bill was not a matter of principle but of personality. The Minister of Labour is doing his job in a way that commands the respect of all right-thinking men and women, and I hardly think he should be made the victim of personal prejudice in some quarters. I hope that is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "preceding_text": "e history of the matter, is not unexpected. I am surprised that the Government should not have realised that the matter is so full of controversy, and has aroused so much feeling. Only a few days ago the right hon. Baronet the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) talked about sweating in this industry. The \"Daily Herald\" yesterday, perhaps under the influence of its deputy chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not the deputy chairman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "preceding_text": "ed. I am surprised that the Government should not have realised that the matter is so full of controversy, and has aroused so much feeling. Only a few days ago the right hon. Baronet the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) talked about sweating in this industry. The \"Daily Herald\" yesterday, perhaps under the influence of its deputy chairman—[ Interruption ]—the Minister of Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "on. and gallant Friend's constituents, but he himself said, when he was talking about a Commission, that a Commission could not possibly do much good because the whole industry was upside down. How could an impartial public inquiry now come to any other conclusion? It seems far better to establish a permanent Commission to take its time. Such a Commission will not be composed of prejudiced idiots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1256.3", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "spised catering trade, which has been so firmly ground in the dust to-day. Well, let us see how this Bill will assist in providing more decent, clean, cheap eating-houses. In my own district of Hammersmith I could march you along three miles of a great highway and not find a single place where a man could take his wife and child to have a meal either midday or in the evening. There are not enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1258.3", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": " controversial legislation\"—and I want, at the moment, more. Having stated this position, I suppose my opinion on other parts of the Bill are not very important, but as an independent person I should like to say this about hours and wages and the Trade. First, I have an awful confession to make! I must say that I have one share in the Cafe Royal of £5 which brings me about is. 7d. per year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In wages and hours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "What does the Noble Lady mean by, \"Hear, hear\"? So far as I know, there was never an industry more regulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": " it will be able to consider the post-war position later. In all respects I maintain that our mechanism of inquiry by the Commission is more practical and more valuable than that of the independent inquiry suggested. Now may I deal with the question of the pledge? Let me repeat that it is the view of the whole Government that this pledge does not conflict in any way with the pledge that was given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "nt inquiry suggested. Now may I deal with the question of the pledge? Let me repeat that it is the view of the whole Government that this pledge does not conflict in any way with the pledge that was given. [ Interruption. ] This is the view of the whole Government, and as the Government gave that pledge and chose the wording of it, I should have thought they would be in the best position to judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we need any special powers. The operation of the Essential Work Order would be sufficient when there is some basis in the industry, and the Bill will provide the basis. The second reason why the Bill is absolutely necessary is to deal with immediate post-war problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "e words used by the then Leader of the House. I will go on to deal with the other points, one of which was that if: is clearly inappropriate at this time to bring forward legislation of a character likely to arouse serious controversy between political parties. I emphasise the words \"political parties,\" because I emphatically deny that there is political controversy over the substance of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Macdonald.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "I have only a few minutes more left to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "ch they will naturally ask, \"What are we to get in the way of pay?\" How can we say to a man or a woman who has come back from fighting our war for us, \"You go and take a job at such and such an establishment where there is a vacancy. We cannot tell you what you will be paid. You must make the best bargain you can with your employer \"? That would be intolerable. Those who are in a position to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-09", "file": "debates1943-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "a7d8376ccdf90913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "o leave these men and women to the full rigours of supply and demand after the war. Surely it would knock the whole heart and stuffing out of these people. This is a point about which I personally feel very strongly, and I would like to appeal to those who are opposing this Measure, if they have not thought of these things. Are they really happy in their minds or with the attitude they are taking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-09a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-10", "file": "debates1943-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c971106510ce6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1319.0", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "While agreeing with the right hon. Gentleman on the need for concealing details, and for not furnishing information to the enemy, might I ask whether he could say categorically that we are now producing a tank equal to the best that the enemy has got?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-10", "file": "debates1943-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c971106510ce6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1358.4", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES (TRUSTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "I would not like that impression to go out. In the past, as we know, these bequests were made by distinguished people to promote learning. That is past and finished with now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-10", "file": "debates1943-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c971106510ce6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACTS (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "mplaint of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Captain Taylor) about the manner in which troops, and, of course, members of the Air Force, use the places in which they are billeted, I have a certain amount of sympathy, but I would ask him to bear in mind that soldiers and airmen in war-time obviously cannot take the same care of the places they occupy as the average citizen does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-10", "file": "debates1943-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c971106510ce6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1391.5", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (DETAINEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am not bound to have any opinion on the matter to which the hon. Member refers, which is not before the House and of which I have had no notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1391.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-10", "file": "debates1943-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "9c971106510ce6ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (DETAINEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "and write out a list. I have not brought it to-day because I did not know that this was coming on. I assure hon. Members that it is rather staggering when you look at it. Time after time, it is suggested that the Secretary of State should suppress meetings, or a paper control be used against a pamphlet, or so on. Let me say, lest I should be interrupted by the farmyard noisemongers opposite, that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-10a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1431.4", "colnum": "1431", "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": "There was such a term as the hon. Member mentions in the last war. They call it anxiety neurosis nowadays, and I know another name the sergeant-major has for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1431.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1453.12", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "itain was quite enough for him. We have already, of course, bound ourselves, along with all the rest of the United Nations, to go on together to the end, however long it may take or however grievous the cost may be. I therefore think it only necessary to mention the matter to the House in order to give them the opportunity of registering their assent to that obvious and very necessary declaration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1453.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1453.12", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "e job. In General Eisenhower, as in General Alexander, you have two men remarkable for selflessness of character and disdain of purely personal advancement. Let them alone; give them a chance; and it is quite possible that one of these fine days the bells will have to be rung again. If not, we will address ourselves to the problem, in all loyalty and comradeship, and in the light of circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1453.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1453.12", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ought not to know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "nt. Let them alone; give them a chance; and it is quite possible that one of these fine days the bells will have to be rung again. If not, we will address ourselves to the problem, in all loyalty and comradeship, and in the light of circumstances. [ Interruption. ] I have really tried to tell the House everything that I am sure the enemy knows and to tell them nothing that the enemy ought to know:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1453.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not a democrat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": "e all do lament—the tragic method by which it took place, we are all slightly relieved that Admiral Darlan is no longer part of the administration, and we are glad that General Giraud is now in his place, as far as that aspect of the matter is concerned. General Giraud seems a thoroughly patriotic and, as far as his word goes, a thoroughly reliable Frenchman of his own type. But what is that type?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With Hitler?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "One cannot get a proper picture of what the position was. This is wartime, and to win the war I would make peace with the devil himself", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " Atlantic the better for all of us. I was glad to hear the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker), with most of which I profoundly agreed. I found myself in disagreement when he said that in war-time we must not define too closely between right and wrong. War seems to me the very time when you ought to do it. Unless you stick to principles in war-time you go up the garden path.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-11", "file": "debates1943-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "e4f418f2b3ee2a60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1562.0", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SERVICE GRANTS (WIDOWS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "yments. Those are matters which the Advisory Committee will have to consider. There is hire purchase. Take a case where that expires in 26 weeks, we will say, and according to the hon. Member's suggestion, the allowances are continued for another 13 weeks. But some of the commitments of some woman living next door may finish earlier, and she wants to know why the other woman is getting more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-11a.1562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Why by instalment?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "—almost as bad—lukewarmness. It will be a bad end to the war if those who in various ways have secured victory return to eat the bread of disillusionment and to live among shattered hopes and discarded or unfulfilled promises. I believe that, to give heart and encouragement to anxious millions, the implementation of the social security plan should proceed quickly and should proceed by instalments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": "I beg to support the Motion. The right hon. Gentleman who moved it rightly described it as a peg on which to hang our observations. It will be found that I largely agree with much that he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thanks to the weather.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": "ervations. It will be found that I largely agree with much that he has said. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"] I cannot, and I do not propose to, cover so wide a field as he did, but will condense my observations to certain aspects of the Report. A few months ago we were considering the Beveridge coupon fuel-rationing scheme, which I then felt it my duty stoutly to oppose. Well, we managed without it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "preceding_text": "sh wrangs be righted. A good many hon. Members know who wrote that and know that it is pretty wise. Apart altogether from the Defence Services, there are other services the cost of which are quite unknown and will be until the war comes to an end—the debt services. I hope that the Chancellor, when he speaks, will give us some indication of what the budgetary position is likely to be after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "preceding_text": " markets. We have to get back our customers again. We can only get the markets if we can produce things at a price which people are willing and able to pay for them. To many countries, if they are self-supporting, the export trade does not matter, but we are not self-supporting and we must export if we are to live. I think we have to take very carefully into account the future of the export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1648.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "o are going to sea that there is truly going to be an England for them in the future not like it was in the past. After the last war England was going to be a place fit for heroes to live in, but surely we cannot tell the tale again. That tale is a thing of the past. We have to be honest. It ought not to be hard to be honest if you are true to yourself, but if you are going to work in combinations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1659.2", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " the finance of the plan has been developed, should not first be investigated and placed at least beyond the region of reasonable doubt, before that plan should be adopted. This would obviously be a prudent course, if there were reason to expect that such an investigation might reach conclusions on which practical reliance could be placed. Unfortunately, there is no reason to expect such a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1659.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "—which are of great importance I did not study very carefully the words I used. Everything I am saying represents a pronouncement on Government policy, subject only to one overriding consideration to which I referred. If hon. Members think that the statements I am making are of no importance, I shall be very surprised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1664.0", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Generally the public health services of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1664.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1674.8", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "thought to weaken the incentive to safety which is present under the existing plan, but still more important, it might be thought to go too far in the direction of relieving employers of all responsibility for finding employment for their injured workpeople who are permanently, though not totally, disabled, a responsibility which is brought home, at any rate financially, under the existing scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1674.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1674.8", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ting volume of voluntary insurance. Sir William Beveridge proposes further that the business of industrial insurance might be converted into a public service. He, however, regards that proposal as not constituting an integral part of his plan. It will be found in square brackets in the Report. The view of the Government is that with the other proposals of the Report they have quite enough on hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1674.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1683.1", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ut a very important matter of social legislation. Must the House go on record as registering a lie because we have not got the opportunity of going into the Division Lobby? The Motion is a lie as far as many of us are concerned. Must the House of Commons go on record as registering a lie on a matter in which the House and the country are deeply concerned because you, Sir, do not call an Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "immense importance. I attach importance to the spreading of the idea of social insurance on a compulsory basis for everybody. I attach importance to the proposition that approved societies and one central unit are incompatible ideas. Therefore, if the Government adopt the principle of the Beveridge Report it follows axiomatically that they cannot continue approved societies in their existing form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-16", "file": "debates1943-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9eede9a2ee00c51c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not approved societies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "funeral grants. So long as you make funeral grants an insurance problem, by paying a premium, non-actuarial, for the risk the insurance company has to assume you are inviting approved societies to amass enormous reserve against the possible risk of claims. The number of million of pounds tucked away in approved societies as reserves against the contingency called a burial grant is really shocking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-16a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1730.3", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CASABLANCA CONFERENCE DECLARATION (PREMIER STALIN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give some attention to a letter written by Mr. Yanovsky from Moscow, published in the \"Manchester Guardian\" on 6th February and clearly inspired by Stalin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1742.2", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "e matter, and I think I should be meeting the wishes of the House if I were to move such a Motion. At the same time I do not think the House would want to go on sitting indefinitely, and, through the usual channels, I have tried to find out what kind of time would be agreeable to all. I suggest that the Government will move the Adjournment of the Debate at about a couple of hours later than usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1742.2", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t to go on sitting indefinitely, and, through the usual channels, I have tried to find out what kind of time would be agreeable to all. I suggest that the Government will move the Adjournment of the Debate at about a couple of hours later than usual. [ Interruption. ] That, I understood, was agreeable. I think it is desirable that, if we suspend the Rule, we should try to come to an understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Furness", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Furness", "preceding_text": "uture is going to be not the problem of production, because I think we can produce all the food and commodities that we want, thanks to modern science. It is going to be the problem of consumption—giving our people the opportunity of taking that food and using those commodities. I think we shall best meet the danger of over-production by increasing the spending power of our ordinary men and women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1810.1", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "of one class and putting it, no doubt, into the pockets of another. That is something which it seems to me would require scrutiny but which ought in these circumstances to be accepted. I have always been a believer in private property and private enterprise, but so long as there remain people who cannot have enough to eat, the possession of private property is a humiliation and not an opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1816.0", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "stion as to whether it is desirable to put as high a priority upon the claims of the old as some hon. Members have been prepared to do. I know what I should say as a young man. I should say, \"You can take my funeral benefit when I die; you can take my old age pension if I have not by then been able to save something myself; but give me something for my first child; give me something when I marry.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1818.2", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": " the Lord President of the Council— how the words roll trippingly off the tongue. It was a ponderous statement. I cannot help making a pedantic allusion to it, because it was made by a pedantic man. I can only describe the speech as being circumlocutory, peripatetic, and a gross piece of tergiversation. I am proud to think that this Assembly is graced by the benign presence of Sir William himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1818.2", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "resenting in the majority of instances the whole of a lifetime's work and savings. For what are we asking? Do not forget that we are faced with a very definite and dangerous situation, which is fraught with dire consequences for our men. We are asking and pressing that, in the event of any change being made, redundant staffs (1) should have priority for any positions in any social security scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1848.0", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An unknown man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "f he believes that a refusal to carry out this or some other plan of social security is not bound to cause a very deep political crisis in this country. If we take our minds back, only to the last week or so, we shall remember that we had two Independent candidates at Parliamentary elections. In North Midlothian, one of these candidates fought to a large extent on the basis of a plan of this kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1848.0", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How many voted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": ", we shall remember that we had two Independent candidates at Parliamentary elections. In North Midlothian, one of these candidates fought to a large extent on the basis of a plan of this kind—[An HON. MEMBER: \"An unknown man.\"]—an unknown man and even with the combination of Liberal, Labour, Tory and Communist parties against him, he almost won the seat. He was defeated by only 800 and odd votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1848.0", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "se candidates fought to a large extent on the basis of a plan of this kind—[An HON. MEMBER: \"An unknown man.\"]—an unknown man and even with the combination of Liberal, Labour, Tory and Communist parties against him, he almost won the seat. He was defeated by only 800 and odd votes. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"How many voted?\"] That applies to every Election. I am dealing with the realities of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison", "preceding_text": "he magnitude of these proposals. Apart from employers' and workers' contributions, the additional sum to be met by the taxpayers under the Beveridge scheme in 1965 will cost £560,000,000 more than in 1938. If this sum had had to be provided in 1938 from Income Tax, when 6d. produced £30,000,000, and the rate was then 5s. 6d. in the £, the Income Tax would have had to be increased to 15s. in the £.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1860.0", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "under the Government's 5s. altered figure plus school meals, £1,645. These payments, of course, will go in a steady weekly stream, extending most likely over something approaching 40 years. We do not criticise this generosity. It is the way to rear the race. But it is necessary to remind the House, I think, of something else. All these benefit costs are costs which the spinster saves to the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said 'approved societies.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1872.3", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "is House is positive health for people, and not mere medical help when they are ill. I hope that in the Government's consideration of the medical side they will take far more care of the positive health of the people, instead of getting people better when they are ill. I would go as far as the Chinese, who, I believe, imprison you if you are ill, but only treat you medically if you commit a crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-17", "file": "debates1943-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "1fce197362e89b6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1874.0", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "Might I suggest that in accordance with the arrangements made earlier to-day, we should now adjourn our proceedings? I think it would be for the convenience of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-17a.1874.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1950.0", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Whose speech was it?", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "rom some points of view, unimpeachable, but they are not my own. There is, I think, a precedent for Members asking permission to put an error of that sort right in the House. I have been in communication with the news editor of the \"News Chronicle,\" who expressed his regret. I do not wish to take any action except to ask you, Sir, and the House to note that the speech was wrongly attributed to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1949.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "t it vote—a free vote—and I believe there will be an overwhelming maojrity for what would make the Government and the Lord President proud and happy, and would make us proud and happy too. Is it the Press that is preventing them? Has anybody discovered a single friend in the Press for the Government this week? If the Press are interpreters of public opinion—and I do not claim that they always are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'they'\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "oing to do in the future. Ordinary men and women in the country would turn to him and say, \"Ah, but they will stop you doing it.\" Believe me, one of the things I am sure of is that if the House turns down this Amendment, if we send the wrong message back at the end of this Debate, it will be read in the country as \"Once more the House of Commons, the Government and 'they' have stopped this thing.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which would you give up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "llor of the Exchequer intended to give that impression, but hon. Members came to me afterwards and said that all the Chancellor of the Exchequer did, and the whole effect of his speech, was to say, \"We shall consider the matter in relation to everything else. We shall consider the plan in relation to other problems and calls, such as the calls for defence, housing, civil aviation and agriculture.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2013.2", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "old system may continue. We cannot afford any new one.\" Let us consider what it was that was in the mind of the Government at the time when they called upon Sir William Beveridge to consider this Report. He himself has analysed it when he says that these are the evils with which this country has to deal—want, idleness, ignorance, squalor, disease. He said that unfortunately with regard to disease—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2013.2", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "he Beveridge Report. There is not one of them who will dare to stand at that Box and say that he is against the Report. There is not one who will go out into the country and say so. Their official candidates, representing the three-party machines, say, \"We are in favour of the Beveridge Report.\" But they say that they will postpone further consideration until it is perhaps too late to do anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2013.2", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is accepted by the Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "th these things in their turn. First, unemployment, whether it is due to anything in the man himself, to disease or accident, or whether it is due to something else outside. It deals with insufficiency, whether because the families are too large and the incomes too small, or because the people are too old. It says, \"Let us ration the national wealth and give them a chance.\" Why are you against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "I have no hesitation, in reply to the appeal of the hon. and learned gentleman the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies), in saying that I think the Beveridge Report as a whole is a very bad Report. It is very badly written. In no place do you get a convenient summary of the proposals. They are not properly arranged. The proposals and the arguments are all mixed up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2017.5", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Member for Platting, with the assistance of the right hon. Gentleman the member for Wakefield (Mr. Greenwood), and with the assistance of the Deputy Prime Minister, asked the then Government Whips to go into the Lobby in support of a proposal that the allowance for children of unemployed people should be, not 3s., but 2s. That was the level of the majority of the Labour Party 12½ years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2017.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2019.0", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Atlantic Charter?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "y lucky as far as casualties are concerned as compared with the same period in the last war, but obviously there will be a heavy debt, which must have priority over all other claims and which will have to be met as handsomely as possible. I regret more than anything else that after this war there will be a scale of Defence expenditure substantially in excess of that which prevailed before the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2020.5", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ill, inevitably, cause unemployment quite apart from the question of the export trade. We must not forget that unemployment is largely related to the export trade and that it may be at such a level that we shall have a catastrophe even worse than that experienced in the distressing period of 1921. Two-thirds of the Members who sit on that side of the House owe their election to the crisis of 1931.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2027.0", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Woolley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Woolley", "preceding_text": "ry on a programme of that description. I agree that in many ways what the Government said was perhaps said not too well, but let us examine what they did say. First of all, they said they intended to strain every nerve to ensure the fullest employment. The employment horse should come before the Beveridge cart. Secondly, they promised a comprehensive medical service for every man, woman and child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2027.0", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Major Woolley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Woolley", "preceding_text": " the inclusion of death benefits; seventhly, an indication that they are prepared to consider widows' pensions on a more generous scale than that indicated in the Report, and lastly, the unification of our social services. These are, as I see them, what the Government told us on Tuesday and yesterday and I do not think we should lose sight of that. Perhaps yesterday the issue was somewhat clouded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2027.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2029.0", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What sort of cow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "preceding_text": "till, he did make port. He gave us 70 per cent. of what I hoped we should get. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) made great play with the fact that if you had 70 per cent. of what you wanted it was like having a chair with only three legs; it would not stand up. I would point out, however, that you can sit on a three-legged stool and can milk a cow sitting on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "iam Beveridge's Report. The Report was received with warmth, and there have been a number of references to it in which it has been suggested that Sir William Beveridge himself urged that the machine should work with a view to the implementation of this Report in legislation. But, in fact, he clearly contemplated that it would not be operative until the end of the war. That is in the Report itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "statistics and actuarial argument and for estimating he took the first collecting date as, I think, 1st July, 1944, and the first paying date as, I think, 1st January, 1945, or at any rate the beginning of 1945. Therefore, hon. Members are wrong in saying that Sir William Beveridge recommended that that should be the date of the beginning. He was on another point. That, I think, clears that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Mr. Stokes) is alive and kicking, I am glad to see. He says we have no right to reserve it for financial consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"2nd December.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " at all. I certainly took the view, and my colleagues of the War Cabinet took the same view, that it is not dignified for a Government to have a three days' Debate on a great Report of this kind and in effect to sit back and say nothing about it at all. We thought the House had a right to know where the Government stood as far as they had got. After all, this Report was published only in December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2034.1", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO. Go on\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " I mention now the three assumptions—maintenance of employment, a comprehensive health service and children's allowances. All those three assumptions were accepted by my right hon. Friend in his speech, so I do not see that he could have gone much further than he did on that occasion in that respect. I will examine the matter in rather more detail. I am sorry to weary the House with these details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2039.3", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what my hon. Friend means. We had better not pursue it. I would say though, as one who has had a good deal of relationship with voluntary hospitals, starting on the principle that one rather wished to take them over, that this is not a country in which you are going to get everything on a uniform dead level pattern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2039.3", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " a voluntary hospital necessarily wrong? There are voluntary hospitals in mining communities to which the miners often attach the utmost value even to the point that in one case they did not appropriate the Poor Law hospital under the Public Health Act, because they did not want to injure the voluntary hospital they had been running. Therefore, it is not necessarily a crime if voluntary hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2040.1", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ing according to the retirement age; which is a good thing, because we had better not go on the basis that the sooner people leave off employment the better, as we have tended to do in times of stress. We ought to think that the longer people work, the higher the standard of life may be. That, of course, depends upon certain rectifications of the social order, into which I shall not go at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-18", "file": "debates1943-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "889fb2fc284b8d3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2047.1", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "et and Cabinet Committee we have at once agreed. Of course we have not. There are sometimes different angles, sometimes different temperaments and sometimes new facts which somebody has brought up which we had not thought of. There has to be give and take. Is the Report merely to be presented to the Government for them to be told, \"Here it is, sign on the dotted line\"? We are not going to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-18a.2047.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "on with the Prime Minister's statement, but because the time available then was much too limited to discuss a matter of that sort, and that hon. Members in all parts of the House wanted to have an opportunity of examining the Prime Minister's statement so as to give greater consideration to it? Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that there is now a demand for a Debate on the conduct of the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ct that my right hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield stated in his short remarks on that occasion that it might become necessary to ask for a further discussion, and in view of the fact that events in Tunisia have turned out so differently from what the Prime Minister said, and particularly in view of the most unsatisfactory statement made to-day by the Secretary of State for War about the tanks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ccasion, as my hon. Friends on this side of the House will recollect, we desisted from intervening in that Debate on the understanding that there was going to be a further Debate. So it is not a matter of half a dozen of us only. The whole of us were given to understand that there was going to be a Debate, and I want to tell the right hon. Gentleman that if he does not give it, he will be made to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSFERENCE OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": " is employed on an important form of production. It is well housed and looked after, and it is to be sent away now to a new neighbourhood. That cannot improve production. To have labour engaged fully, under skilled management, under congenial conditions, is surely ideal for good production. I hope that I may get some reply, but I see only the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSFERENCE OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do they come from the country?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": ", but may I point out that London is still a great industrial centre? That is probably not recognised. Someone said that London is a luxury place. It is nothing of the sort. London is not walking along Oxford Street or Piccadilly. That is not London; that is a little fungus which has grown up in the middle of London. It is not Londoners who are there as a rule; very few Londoners are there at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSFERENCE OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Appoint an Irishman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "fine was about double that which would have been imposed in London or anywhere else. The imposition of rules under Scottish mentality used to be one of the banes of my life. If I appointed an Englishman to take charge of Scotland, then there would be a row on the next Scottish Estimates, so I have appointed a Scotsman. But there are still complaints that the Scots are ill-treated. What am I to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSFERENCE OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hogmanay.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Duddeston (Mr. Simmonds). I cannot answer him now, but I will undertake to study with care what he said, and see whether anything can be done. With regard to returning home for holidays, great difficulties arise. The trouble in Scotland at Christmas was a very human one. It does not arise at the other holidays. In England we keep Christmas and in Scotland they keep the New Year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-23", "file": "debates1943-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "5d9e13c8d13ce6dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.119.0", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSFERENCE OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Tomlinson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Tomlinson)", "preceding_text": "aid calls for some reply from me, although some of the questions he raised were dealt with by the Minister. I do not think the Minister would take exception to the line which has been developed since he left. I can assure the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson), with regard to the closing down of factories, that over 80 per cent. of the workers released will be in red and scarlet areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-23a.119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-24", "file": "debates1943-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1a9782e632239094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JEWS (ENEMY-OCCUPIED EUROPE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I do not think it is at all true to say that nothing has been done by this country unilaterally even since the declaration was made", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-24", "file": "debates1943-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1a9782e632239094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "There are many Members in this House who wish to take part in this Debate, and I am quite certain that I shall be best serving their interests and be conforming to the wishes of the House if I confine my remarks to a few points. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland has given a very fair picture of the Bill, and it only remains for me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-24", "file": "debates1943-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1a9782e632239094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not opposing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barr", "preceding_text": ": When they make a wilderness they call it peace. But our Highland overlords made their glens a wilderness and they called it beauty, and they challenge us to disturb that beauty. We believe in restoring the beauty Of the Highlands. I would restore it by peopling those straths and glens once again. I notice that Hugh Quigley, who, I think, supported the Caledonian Power Bill, is opposing this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-02-24", "file": "debates1943-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "1a9782e632239094", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not everywhere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "nomically impossible\" should not be used. There is no crofter's house that should not have a supply of electricity. Do you argue that because a crofter's house is miles from the postman's road his letters should not be carried there, as the postal rate of 2½d. would be uneconomic? No differentiation is made. The postman has to travel through the snow in the Highlands to deliver his letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-02-24a.221.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-03", "file": "debates1943-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "58069127d8361dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-03a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Torpedo-bombers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. A. V. Alexander)", "preceding_text": " to have to take, but, given the situation, can there be any doubt that it was justified in the general national interest? However, the stage of such heart-breaking decisions is now past, and the Barracudas, I am glad to say, are coming from the factories in increasing numbers. I would add, though I must not be specific, that other new types of naval aircraft of British design are being developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-03a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-03", "file": "debates1943-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "58069127d8361dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-03a.611.3", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEATH OF MR. SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": " him. This, as the House knows, is not the moment for the tributes which will in due course be paid, but I think I shall be expressing the feelings of every Member if now, on behalf of the House, I send a message of bur deepest and most heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. FitzRoy and to the family in the loss which, though it, is nearer to them than to us, is a loss which we the House of Commons feel also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-03a.611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "his House. Sir Gilbert, I defy any right hon. or hon. Member of this House, in spite of what has been said by the seconder of the Motion, to get up in his place subsequently and be able to prove to the satisfaction of this House that every Member of this House has on all occasions, should he desire, an equal opportunity of addressing the House. Hon. Members know perfectly well that that is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are you speaking now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "this House, in spite of what has been said by the seconder of the Motion, to get up in his place subsequently and be able to prove to the satisfaction of this House that every Member of this House has on all occasions, should he desire, an equal opportunity of addressing the House. Hon. Members know perfectly well that that is not so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] If there is any doubt about that, let me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": " doubt about that, let me—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why are you speaking now?\"] Why am I speaking now? Because there was no other Member who rose. Let me remind hon. Members of what occurs in any ordinary Debate. First of all, there are all those hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, whose number is legion, who are ex-Ministers from past Governments. In all probability they were dud Ministers in dud Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": " comes to is this, that speakers as a whole in this House in the past are not chosen by Mr. Speaker but are chosen by the official party Whips. I would go further and say that there is a growing feeling in the country that Speakers in the past have been looking after the interests of the Government, feeling that that was their function rather than looking after the interests of individual Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "as their function rather than looking after the interests of individual Members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] Those people who seldom get called in this House are those Members who cannot bring to bear the influence of great party machines, who cannot get on any lists. Is it a mere coincidence that those minorities who cannot bring to their aid any privilege are the ones who very often are not called?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "ng to their aid any privilege are the ones who very often are not called? [ Interruption. ] There is a certain amount of dissent. I am not surprised. And in consequence I draw the attention of the House to just one example. Take the other day, on the Address in reply to the King's Speech. The hon. Baronet the Member for Barn-staple (Sir R. Acland), leader, I understand, of the Common Wealth Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He got reactions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "onet desired to draw attention to a policy, and he somewhat optimistically circulated certain Members of this House asking that in the event of being called they would if in the House do him the kindness of coming to listen to what he had to say, that it might be of interest to them, and that he would like to have their reactions. Whether he was wise in doing that or not, I am not prepared to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-09", "file": "debates1943-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "57bc74b8fd437c3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylebone)", "preceding_text": "reactions. That is my point. For three days he tried to put his views before this House. He wanted to test the views of Members, to have his policy debated, and I think that this was the right and proper place to do it. As it was, he not being a member of a large political party, not being able to bring to bear any privileges or priorities, and like some of us, not being too popular in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-09a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.635.5", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS (POST-WAR POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend really must not put those words into my mouth. It is perfectly legitimate diplomatic practice for two Governments who are our Allies to have conversations with each other. They will no doubt, in due course, keep us informed. I am quite confident that nothing is going on of which I am not aware, but it is for those Governments and not for me to give an account of their conversations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.635.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS (POST-WAR POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In view of the highly unsatisfactory nature of this reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.636.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "DEATH OF MR. SPEAKER FITZROY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I feel sure that the House would like me to direct that it be entered on the records of this House that the Motion was carried nemine contradicente.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.734.7", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "do. We must put the public in possession of sufficient facts—I do not go beyond that—so as to prepare them for another ordeal, namely, the need, because of the need for the conservation of our food resources, to accept less than they have been accustomed to in the past three years. Again, I am saying nothing new so far as I am concerned. I have said it over and over again, and others have said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.734.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.734.7", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e them for another ordeal, namely, the need, because of the need for the conservation of our food resources, to accept less than they have been accustomed to in the past three years. Again, I am saying nothing new so far as I am concerned. I have said it over and over again, and others have said it. [ Interruption. ]My right hon. Friend said he started it, but unfortunately he forgot all about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.734.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. George Hall)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (Mr. George Hall)", "preceding_text": " for South Paddington (Vice-Admiral Taylor), that while details of much of the work of the Service is of very great interest to the people of this country, it is of greater interest to the enemy; and, in the opinion of the Government, it is very much better for the enemy to deceive himself with his own lies as far as merchant shipping losses are concerned than that the figures should be disclosed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.751.5", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "It has been suggested that the Admiralty has been opposed to the construction of faster ships. That is entirely wrong. The Admiralty argued against it because of the lack of facilities for the purpose of producing these ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.751.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": " discipline in the W.R.N.S. being very good I come into contact with Wrens, and have a great admiration for what they do and the way they do it, but the point is that the Admiralty rightly look upon the W.R.N.S. as a naval organisation. Wrens are replacing naval officers and men to an increasing degree and doing naval work. They are all dressed in naval uniform, officers having the badges of rank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "on to many anxious citizens who are groping around the whys and wherefores of this complicated technical subject. It is, of course, recognised that convoys suffer from a serious shortage of escort vessels, and what I cannot understand, though I have no doubt there is a very simple answer, is why we do not, in conjunction with Canadians and Americans, build mass-produced escort vessels and engines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-10", "file": "debates1943-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f1f4e8fb378ac6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN'S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "bserved that the 15-knot ships consume about two and a half times as much oil fuel as the 11-knot ships. The general average throughout the country, obtainable from the leading shipping authorities, is that there is virtually no distinction between the losses of the fast ships and the losses of the slower ships, which, as I stated previously, has been proved by conferences with private shipowners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-10a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-11", "file": "debates1943-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b17cf018237b82d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"A fine-tooth comb.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hen the point about which my hon. Friend complained, the taking up of draughtsmen and so on unnecessarily, would not have arisen. But if we are to go on with a man-power policy very much similar to that which we had before the United States and Russia came in, I beg the Minister not to waste man-power on the scale that he is doing. The Minister of Labour is combing out industry with a tooth brush.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-11", "file": "debates1943-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b17cf018237b82d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.973.9", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "the capital should be lost. There will be a world monopoly. It would be World Airways, Limited, and there would be no limitation at all. It would have a right to run internal air lines and shuttle services, and there would be an end of the silly business which goes on when one wants to go from Amsterdam, say, to Calcutta. You start at Amsterdam and get to Karachi, from where you go on to Calcutta.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.973.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-11", "file": "debates1943-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b17cf018237b82d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Led by the Americans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "asts of prey to be stimulated into excessive zeal just now. I understand that the American Government have asked that we shall take part in discussions on post-war reconstruction. I hope that we shall respond—we have, I think, done so—but I hope that we shall not have a repetition of the Economic Conference of 1934, in which everybody went in with nothing to give but hoping to take something away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-11", "file": "debates1943-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b17cf018237b82d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I pointed out that if you abolished the chosen instrument and had a number of private competing concerns, you would have exactly the same sort of thing that we had after the last war in regard to road transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-11", "file": "debates1943-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "b17cf018237b82d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "orld and is bound to happen here. Behind it will be all the prestige of the R.A.F. and the Union Jack, and you will all be saying how essential it is to retain flying men here and the direction of transport aircraft because of the possibilities of war occuring again, and your civil aviation will be linked up with military aviation. We had that before. Everybody in this House knows that it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-11a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-16", "file": "debates1943-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5a74003183297c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "NEW WRIT (EDDISBURY DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I put another question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1008.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-16", "file": "debates1943-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5a74003183297c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMY OFFICER'S LETTER TO PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "y? In the next place, does the right hon. Gentleman realise that an officer in a field of action is commenting upon the policy of his own Commander-in-Chief, and that the Prime Minister and President Roosevelt have said that the relations between the Vichy officials in North Africa are matters to be determined by General Eisenhower in terms of military necessity, and this letter comments upon it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-16", "file": "debates1943-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5a74003183297c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1044.12", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Colonel Oliver Stanley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Colonies (Colonel Oliver Stanley)", "preceding_text": "d also extended to giving practical assistance and advice after the reform, and in the new situation which had been set up, many subsequent happenings might have been avoided. I might say, with some temerity in the presence of the right hon. Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) that I cannot blame my forefather for that, because very shortly after this act he left the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1044.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-16", "file": "debates1943-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5a74003183297c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "I was paying a frank tribute to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-16", "file": "debates1943-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "5a74003183297c13", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROBLEMS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "tch kept on the operation of that situation upon the life of our people is bound to be even keener than would normally be the case. I say straight away that I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising the issue; and I am grateful to him from a second point of view. I think that on one or two points he over-stated his case, and that on others he under-estimated the difficulty of finding a solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-16a.1147.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-17", "file": "debates1943-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "b9d2d4953c5a75a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-17a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY AND STATUS OF ALIENS BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-17a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-17", "file": "debates1943-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "b9d2d4953c5a75a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-17a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRAINING BATTALION OFFICER, MATLOCK (COMPLAINTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I would put him back into the ranks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "with the War Office but officers who knew the unit in question—that the unit we are talking about was considered to be a smart unit, and that a good standard of training and discipline characterised the unit as a whole. Be that as it may, the War Office authorities endorsed the suspension of this commanding officer and eventually he was appointed to the staff at the same rank. He was not promoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-17a.1293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-18", "file": "debates1943-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8c3ead49f729f870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-18a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "I think the reason probably is that these proposals are hardly likely to apply to a man unless he gets above the post of First Secretary. I think that the critical time, as it were, in the life of a Foreign Office official, or indeed in the life of any of us, is when the first enthusiasm of life has gone, when we reach 40 or 45—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-18a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-18", "file": "debates1943-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "8c3ead49f729f870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-18a.1395.2", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN SERVICE (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "arrow acquaintance with the foreign peoples amongst whom they live. I believe the criticism in paragraph 2 to be utterly well-founded. I am the Secretary of an Association which represents the clerical staff of these Embassies, and I believe that for the last 10 years my information from the Embassies of Europe has been very much better than the information that the Foreign Secretary has received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-18a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WORKERS (DEPUTATIONS TO MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "I question entirely the statement that has just been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1479.6", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "I quite agree that Members of Parliament are dealing with such cases at present. I do not think that Members of Parliament want that privilege taken away from them, even if the tribunals are set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1479.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1499.1", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " men feel and ourselves to know that they are having better than mere subsistence, we must take a present-day interpretation of what mere subsistence is. Therefore, I say, Away with the Minister's argument about the cost-of-living and its points. Incidentally, they are wholly irrelevant to the old soldier's life. I do not plead that Parliament should give money in order that soldiers may buy beer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "some tremendous war savings efforts. If the Government should respond to the appeal that has been made by all parties in this Debate for more generous methods of treatment of disabled men, would they follow up that response by organising a \"Remembrance Week,\" in which the public would be invited to subscribe to War Loans free of interest in order to show their gratitude for what the men have done?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1538.0", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "r and sympathy, who are able to sift evidence and who have a certain amount of legal bent at all events, if not legal training, because, although I appreciate the desirability of ex-Service men appearing personally before them, there will be such a large number of applications that if will be impossible in many cases, and therefore these medical men will have to decide on the evidence before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "f things done for ex-Service men, so that unemployment among ex-Service men was lower than among the general population even during the worst periods. Our old pensioners of the last war have done wonderful work in the war, and from the latest count we took 19 out of 20, at a very low estimate, of disabled ex-Service men are employed full time, earning good wages and doing good work for the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Member has common sense enough to know. The answer is what I have said, disabled men drawing pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did not the right hon. Gentleman say so straight away?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Member has common sense enough to know. The answer is what I have said, disabled men drawing pensions. [ Interruption. ] It is men wholly and partially disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1552.3", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "on the register, but we will ignore that, and we will take it that the man is a totally disabled man. The point at issue is this. If he is a married man with two children, as was quoted by the hon. and gallant Member, he will get more than what the Beveridge plan suggests is a subsistence level, a good deal more. I want that to be made quite clear, because there is some misapprehension about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1560.5", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will show me the papers, I will deal with it. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Bridgwater (Mr. Bartlett) raised the hypothetical case of a man jumping on a lorry. What is the good of putting hypothetical cases to me? I am a practical-minded man and I deal with cases in a practical way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "ould sit down calmly and spend a reasonable amount of time on a thorough investigation on the whole pensions system. They came to conclusions, and we have had those conclusions as a guide during the last 25 years, and it is upon those conclusions that the basis of the present pensions system is built. My own suggestion is that hon. Members will be far wiser to wait until we have finished this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "ies. The point I want to put to hon. Members is this. What is in the best interests of the men themselves? I represent those men just as much as other hon. Members do, and I claim that I am here representing them now in my capacity as a Member of Parliament. My advice is that you should have a committee of inquiry or a Select Committee when the war is over, when you know what your liabilities are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "rgument; that is simply ballyhoo. I claim, and I shall continue to claim, that I have as much sympathy with ex-Service men and their dependants as any hon. Member. I have a task entrusted to me by the Government, the House, and the country. It is to see that justice is meted out to these men and to see to it at the same time that justice is meted out to the taxpayers who have to provide the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-23", "file": "debates1943-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "ce7f3024a879a8fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY OFFICER'S LETTER TO PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who says they have?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "As all Members of the Services have been watching this matter closely in the last few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-23a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-24", "file": "debates1943-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "19aa88e31415b8d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1622.7", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOMBING RESTRICTION COMMITTEE (PAPER FOR BOOKLET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that the term \"crank\" as used by the hon. Member could therefore be applied to Sir Gilbert Murray, and others", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1622.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-24", "file": "debates1943-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "19aa88e31415b8d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": " opposition seems to be based mainly upon fears of dilution. It would seem that fears on that ground are more or less baseless. First of all, there is an enormous demand for nurses. The assist- ant nurses are in fact there, and no new set of people is being brought into the calling. There is also the probability of a universal medical service coming into being in the course of months, let us hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-24", "file": "debates1943-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "19aa88e31415b8d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1680.1", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "g a standard of examination under which only 10,000 can ever hope to pass? The standard of examination must always relate itself to the law of supply and demand. When the last war ended it was very much easier for an ex-Service man to pass through a university than would have been the case if he had never been in the Services. I know the right hon. Gentleman does not take any notice of what I say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1680.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-24", "file": "debates1943-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "19aa88e31415b8d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1724.1", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH NATIONALITY AND STATUS OF ALIENS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "lations. They now have a regulation which provides that a declaration made by a woman, that is, a declaration that she desires to retain the rights and obligations of a British subject in Australia under Section 18a of the Nationality Act, shall be of no effect unless registered, and that registration of the declaration may be refused or cancelled at the direction of the Minister for the Interior.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-24a.1724.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1738.0", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "ANGLO-TURKISH FRIENDSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "at Anglo-Turkish friendship is not only a friendship dictated by mutual interest but also by one of the most vital needs of the two countries.' I am happy to tell you that this declaration on the part of the President of the Council was received with applause and an enthusiastic and unanimous ovation from the whole Assembly. I take this opportunity to pay to you, Mr. Speaker, my highest respects.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1737.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1803.0", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "at it covers every house in every constituency throughout the land where they take in lodgers and supply bed and breakfast. It will be agreed that that is not the intention of the Bill. It will be very difficult for hon. Members to support a Clause of this kind. Even a Member of Parliament may live in a seaside town, and friends may come down as paying guests. If I understand the Clause correctly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1803.0", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "nd breakfast. It will be agreed that that is not the intention of the Bill. It will be very difficult for hon. Members to support a Clause of this kind. Even a Member of Parliament may live in a seaside town, and friends may come down as paying guests. If I understand the Clause correctly—[An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not.\"] If I do not understand it, perhaps the Minister will tell me where I am wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1803.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1810.0", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gluckstein", "preceding_text": "the Amendment. It is an admirable one, and I think the mover has stated very clearly the reasons why it should be accepted. Nothing which has fallen from the Minister seems to have dealt with the point. I agree with the mover in what he said about the value of small industries to this country's future. I am a great believer in small industry I believe it to be the life-blood of private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1810.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1812.1", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "f what is meant by an employed person. This Committee will not be able to decide this matter in the way suggested by the hon. Member who has just spoken. I am speaking of national health insurance, where a person is not normally insurable for health and pensions purposes unless he is an employed person under a contract of service. I take it that that will apply to this Bill when it becomes an Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1812.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1821.2", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "But the Minister did say he would make consequential Amendments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1821.5", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After inquiry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "the scope, in order to protect the public from any fear that the inspectorate would go beyond what was their duty to ascertain which undertakings came within the proper legal scope. This goes much further than the present Trade Boards Act. That Act would leave this matter in the hands of the Minister, to draw up a list which nobody could challenge—an arbitrary list, which is entirely in his hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1821.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1825.3", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I am interested to know that hon. Members above the Gangway find themselves in exactly the same position as I do. Unless the Government are prepared to define these terms clearly, I do not think that any of us are to blame if we admit that we do not know exactly what we are discussing. Therefore, I support the Amendment, and I hope very much that my hon. Friend will carry it to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1834.3", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "Bill is to regulate the wages, the hours, the conditions, and the welfare, if you like, of such workers as waiters, cooks, housemaids, and others actually engaged in the duties of running a hotel. I still do not think it is the intention of the Government that other people should be included, but that is not made clear. I want it made absolutely clear that the people I have mentioned are excluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1845.3", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "preceding_text": " can be increased. Likewise if the supervisor is never called out, the company can make representations for an adjustment. That is all worked out by good will through wages board machinery, and it can equally be done in the catering trade. I think only one grade of person might perhaps be excluded, and that is the directors. I do not think the Committee need feel undue sympathy with the directors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1845.3", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "preceding_text": "ployed on the job, their attendance is so slight. Some directors only turn at the half-year-end to see what the share-out will be. I do not think they will be brought in, but I believe everybody else should be. I hope the promoters of this Amendment will see their way to withdraw it. Do not be pernickity; be broad-minded. Remember that we are in the midst of the worst war the world has ever known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1854.1", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member was talking about another Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "I did not want to take up the time of the Committee by submitting evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1860.0", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I find that I get numerous resolutions about the Second Front and other things that have the inspiration of a central origin; I find that I get resolutions from the Trades Council, from branches of trade unions, and from a large number of individuals irrespective of status, but not one of them up to now, either in writing or by word of mouth—and I am very well employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clause 1.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Most of them relate to £ s. d. Nine out of 10 of the letters I get are from people who want more £ s. d. out of someone. After all, this is not a new subject. In 1930, when trade was bad and unemployment widespread, Miss Margaret Bondfield wanted to do something in the nature of this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1868.0", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no security of tenure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I find a growing admiration for my Commission, a growing affection for it, and a desire to protect it from being overburdened. It may be that I will be the Minister, or that somebody else will be the Minister—because, although I have always been against casual labour, I have always been conscious that being a Minister is the most casual job in the world. You might be here to-day and gone tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1868.0", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send it by rail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "d in a week he was gone; so I was right. I have never been under any delusions about the permanency of the Minister of Labour, or of anybody else. But anybody in my position must have the power to ask—the word \"direct\" is a legal word—the Commission to make inquiries as he thinks fit. Let me give on illustration. My hon. and gallant Friend said that I made a flowery speech. Well it is Spring-time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-25", "file": "debates1943-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "0dd178555592452d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (ORDER IN COUNCIL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "h His Majesty's forces. I would not like to pick out invidiously any particular body as being more important than another, but, purely as an example, there are in this country, as everybody knows, quite a large number of officials and troops of the United States of America, and there are also troops and other officials of such associated authorities as, shall we say, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-25a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "NEW WRIT (DAVENTRY DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On which you got in\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "does not look for precipitous haste in matters of this kind when there is a war on, it does seem that the Prime Minister might be able to give us some indication of when he thinks he may be able to say something to the House. If what the Prime Minister has said to us to-day means that there stretches out in front of us a long vista of by-elections to be fought on a completely out-of-date register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.4.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.61.2", "colnum": "61", "heading": "NEW WRIT (DAVENTRY DIVISION)*", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "I rise to oppose this Motion, or to ask for it to be postponed until the register at Daventry has been brought up to date. I will endeavour to follow your Ruling, Sir, in confining my remarks to Daventry itself. It is a notable and important constituency but, for reasons which we all know, there have been no elections there for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.61.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. and gallant Member state any time when we have condemned assassinations when they have taken place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. and gallant Member state any time when we have condemned assassinations when they have taken place? [ Interruption. ] I think I have answered the hon. and gallant Member's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "INDIA (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wardlaw-Milne", "preceding_text": "Cripps), now the Minister for Aircraft Production, and as a result of the deliberations and decisions of the War Cabinet. That was a most remarkable offer, which ought to have received not only assent but have fired the imagination of every Indian. It was more than any Indian to whom I have ever spoken in the days previous to the war would have believed would have been spontaneously made to India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "NORTH MIDLAND REGIONAL APPOINTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Gestapo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "that would have no bearing upon his capacity to assess factory or storage accommodation. But what about his being a traveller in yarns, or, as the Minister of Labour put it, a yarn merchant? Well, I have sources of information which are not open to every Member of Parliament. There are members of my association, the Civil Service Clerical Association, inside every Government Department in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "NORTH MIDLAND REGIONAL APPOINTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "account for 12 years, or at all, and no attempt was made to put him into any other work anywhere. He just loafed around, and is known to be of little use other than as a motor-car driver. Those are the qualifications of the person the Board of Trade was in such a hurry to appoint to this post. I now want to cast a little light upon another circumstance which may explain why this man was appointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "NORTH MIDLAND REGIONAL APPOINTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Captain Waterhouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Captain Waterhouse)", "preceding_text": "sinuation, to my mind, is absolutely unworthy of the hon. Member. Mr. Walters met Mr. Wigley, whom he did not know very well, but he knew he had some knowledge of the trade in Nottingham and some knowledge of the district, and that he would do the job reasonably well for him. Mr. Wigley was appointed on probation. After a month the usual report came through. After two months a further report came—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-30", "file": "debates1943-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "3939b15259daac65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "NORTH MIDLAND REGIONAL APPOINTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Captain Waterhouse)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Captain Waterhouse)", "preceding_text": " Member. Mr. Walters met Mr. Wigley, whom he did not know very well, but he knew he had some knowledge of the trade in Nottingham and some knowledge of the district, and that he would do the job reasonably well for him. Mr. Wigley was appointed on probation. After a month the usual report came through. After two months a further report came—[ Interruption. ] Yes, sent by the man who appointed him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-30a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.158.0", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that while nobody wants to hamper his work in dealing with a purely temporary wartime difficulty, there is the gravest disquiet at the thought that he may be trying permanently to nationalise civil aircraft", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RETURN RAILWAY TICKETS (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that no one travels unless he has to do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Hacking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Hacking", "preceding_text": "I agree with what my hon. and gallant Friend said, but surely we are getting into a little difficulty with regard to the general classification if we accept the Parliamentary Secretary's word. He said no one need be afraid that the good employer was going to be prejudiced in any way. I take it that he means that the good employer will not have to be regulated", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "e or you do not. Either the industry is organised for the purpose of serving the community, or it is organised for some other purpose. If it is organised for service, it ought to be part of the efficiency and machinery of that industry, as it is in every other kind of industry. No one in a shop would ask me or expect me to give him a tip in order to get preferential service from behind the counter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "I feel that the argument used by my hon. and gallant Friend who moved this Amendment has covered almost every phase and every angle of the question of why there ought to be an inquiry into tipping, but I feel that the Committee are inclined to overlook one fact. When a wage is fixed for the industry, tipping will very largely disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "e of tips. Their anxiety is to get the best type of worker, and to pay the right wage. Having used cafés where some of these workers are employed, I have never felt conscience-stricken when I did not leave a tip, because a trade-union rate of pay is assured for those who have rendered the service. Consequently why should anyone be conscience-stricken if a trade-union rate of pay is assured?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.231.3", "colnum": "231", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where to?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I wish the Noble Lady would follow me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.231.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "preceding_text": "I am quite ready to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.234.4", "colnum": "234", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "e in receipt of tips. The firm wrote to their staff and asked whether they would remain with them or return at a weekly wage of £3 a week, plus meals—which did not seem an ungenerous proposition—but they did not receive a single reply saying that the new proposal would be accepted. In other words, it was paying the staff to have 24s. 9d. a week plus meals plus tips. I give that as an illustration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.234.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What it says.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "I am in complete agreement with my hon. Friend who moved this Amendment that paragraph ( b ) has to be read with the remaining sentences which follow. You get under Sub-section (2): Where any recommendation is made by the Commission under this section to a government department, that department shall forthwith take the recommendation into consideration. What does that mean?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(General Functions of the Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come and ask you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "w. You get under Sub-section (2): Where any recommendation is made by the Commission under this section to a government department, that department shall forthwith take the recommendation into consideration. What does that mean? [An HON. MEMBER: \"What it says.\"] All right, it means exactly what it says, but what interpretation is the Department receiving these recommendations going to put upon it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Establishment of wages boards.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Speaking for those who are anxious to get the Bill on the Statute Book, I say that we are anxious to help the Government and to use the time to the best possible advantage. We know that it is no use making appeals to certain people who seem to have all kinds of peculiar objections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Establishment of wages boards.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "I think the right hon. Gentleman is a little greedy in expecting to get Clause 5 in any reasonable time. I am only expressing my own view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.291.0", "colnum": "291", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Establishment of wages boards.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Webbe", "preceding_text": "I do not want to take the time of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Establishment of wages boards.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not know what it is going to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "I am glad the hon. Member for the Abbey Division (Sir H. Webbe) has suddenly acquired a complete and absolute confidence in the impartiality and detachment of the Commission. I had a little doubt in my mind as to whether he had that confidence. I feel that in the valuable and impartial work this Commission will do——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Establishment of wages boards.)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Tomlinson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is an unworthy suggestion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Tomlinson)", "preceding_text": "ld be able to go back to the Commission and have it amended. The suggestion here is that it is possible that that can happen twice. I suggest that if it is a good thing for it to happen, it is just as well to be prepared for it to happen twice. The suggestion is that a recalcitrant Commission might be brought to heel by a Minister constantly referring back to them a proposal which he did not like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.296.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-03-31", "file": "debates1943-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "838d615b1f24ded9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Establishment of wages boards.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "placed upon the free citizens of this country to do things which they do not desire to do. I will conclude by quoting from a letter which I received only this morning from a trade unionist, whose name I cannot disclose, because when we are talking about victimisation by employers, I fear that, if I disclose the name of this individual, there could be victimisation from other people than employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-03-31a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.366.5", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "e, That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again I desire to make a statement on the future attitude of myself and certain hon. Members who agree with me in the opposition which we have offered to this Measure. We have now spent two days on this Bill in Committee. For two days we have tried to reason with the Government. It has taken 12 hours to discuss four Clauses of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.366.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.366.5", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Hacking", "preceding_text": "desire, to take advantage of that strong position, because we realise that during those 12 hours, already spent on the Committee stage of the Bill, we have not received the slightest concession of any kind from the Government. In consequence, we are entitled to assume that we are not going to get any further consideration if we press the Amendments which still stand on the Order Paper in our names", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.366.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "s would never have been discussed. In peace-time I have seen pages of Amendments disposed of by closure and by the guillotine and what we called the old kangaroo. On this Bill there have been more courtesy and Amendments than on any Bill for some years. Far from complaining there should be recognition that the Minister has met representations and has met those opposing the Bill on some Amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": " and when there should be a broad and a tolerant spirit on both sides, this thing should have happened. I hope that this will not be a precedent. If there has been among some of my friends and associates in this matter a little intolerance towards the right hon. Member for Chorley and his friends, I cannot help regretting what I can only describe as a sulky withdrawal from a Parliamentary contest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CATERING WAGES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By people who were not here yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "preceding_text": "on the Debate. Let us be fair. Some of us have been accused of trying to be obstructive, but when my right hon. Friend the Member for Chorley (Sir D. Hacking) follows the advice of the Prime Minister himself, who told us how important the Business is, and of the Minister of Labour, who appealed to us to cut the thing as short as possible, all that he gets is the accusation that he is running away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ower to discuss the efficiency of their own industry. We discussed the matter at St. James's Square in view of some of these terrible fears, which are quite unreasonable. The only argument I have heard up to now is that I was going to use this power to interfere with the individual management of undertakings. That was the bogy raised in the Press, which apparently they have run away from entirely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "I take it as quite clear that it would come under the conditions of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "nd very rightly mentioned it, he only directed our attention to it, and did not elaborate any argument for a different interpretation. Frankly, I have not been able to find one. I come to the next point, which the Committee has to face, and that is: Is there any Member of the Committee who is against an increase in the general efficiency or, if you will, improvement or development of the industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does not that refer to the Whitley councils?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "alth and welfare. That is what you want me to say. I really cannot accept that. I stand my ground on the Motion that this House passed in 1917, and I cannot go back on the Whitley Committee Report that this House then accepted. The Report said: to secure the largest possible measure of joint action between employers and workpeople for the development of the industry as a part of the national life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.411.4", "colnum": "411", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is that that we are asking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ed this point yesterday and said that many of my friends in the trade unions have opposed legal regulation. I am not even one of them. I have always taken the generous view that it is the duty of the man in the union who is strong enough to defend himself to use his power and influence to provide machinery for the benefit of men and women who are incapable of defending themselves. I stand on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.411.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": " may be new plant, it may be the movement of industry or matters affecting the general interest of the trade upon which in the last resort the wages that can be paid rest, and therefore it seems quite wrong to discuss in vacuo what is proper to be paid without any regard to the steps that might require to be taken to enable the industry itself to support the conditions recommended by these bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Surely we ought to have a word of explanation from the hon. Member who has moved the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-01", "file": "debates1943-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "e557324815c8caba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.425.5", "colnum": "425", "heading": "CLAUSE 6.—(General provisions as to wages board).", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That settles that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Major Milner. I hope you will allow me to say that of course I gave notice to the hon. Gentleman in question that I was raising this matter on this occasion, and I sent it by registered letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-01a.425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.527.0", "colnum": "527", "heading": "CLAUSE 17.—(Interpretation.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to prolong the Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.527.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Power to establish register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " think such words as these might lead people to assume that we really have some ulterior motive in inserting the Clause. It is quite clear that the only thing you can register for is for the purposes of this Act. No Minister can make a Regulation restricting applicants for boarding houses, because in no Clause of the Bill is there any power to restrict anyone setting up as a boarding-house keeper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.565.6", "colnum": "565", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": " so or not, they may think it is desirable that restaurants shall close, shall we say, at 10 p.m. What is to prevent them from making a regulation to do that? They can argue that the interval for rest shall start at 2 p.m., which would automatically mean no lunches after two. What provision is there here to prevent anything of that kind taking place? It may sound a little absurd as I am saying it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.565.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "In considering the hours of rest, will any provision be made to see that they are fixed daily, or will they be spread out over three months or six months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.567.2", "colnum": "567", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "try. That is not the point. We are concerned with the consumer. We all know that employers and employed may easily get together to soak the consumer. One of the functions of this House, now and for many years to come, will be to give adequate protection to the consumer against what we might call conspiracies between the employer and the employed. That applies particularly to the catering industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "Will you allow me to say how sorry I am that the hon. Member for Elland (Mr. Levy) has not been able to get his brilliantine? Obviously, it is a very sore point. I do not want to pursue that subject. I have listened to the supporters of this Clause with very great in- terest. None of them realises that at this moment the railway companies, without this Bill, have ceased to serve meals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "At present under the law of the land, as I understand it, railway hotels and restaurants can all say at what time they will open and close their establishments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.570.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not popular.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "est of those employed in the industry are synonymous terms, but that does not mean that women have to work until 12 o'clock at night and have to get breakfast ready in the morning. I deliberately refrained from putting the regulation of hours into this Bill. That is why I ask that this Clause should be defeated. The \"Front Populaire\" has been quoted. What was the trouble with the \"Front Populaire\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "the regulation of hours into this Bill. That is why I ask that this Clause should be defeated. The \"Front Populaire\" has been quoted. What was the trouble with the \"Front Populaire\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not popular.\"] I am not so sure about that. I am not going to digress, but I have my own view that if the \"Front Populaire\" had had more support from this House, France might never have fallen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.572.0", "colnum": "572", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "e my own view that if the \"Front Populaire\" had had more support from this House, France might never have fallen—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members provoke me, so they must let me put my spoke in. I am not going to accept that gibe without a protest, especially against a country that we are going to bring back at a later date. This business of throwing mud at other countries is not a wise thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Safeguard for general public interest.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "rding houses and in seaside resorts you may have to arrange the rest periods in yet another way. In that sense I have allowed the public interest to be brought within the scope of the various wages boards. The Committee will do well to trust these boards to lay down the conditions of rest and comfort for the staff, but I want to make it clear that I cannot be a party to the atrociously long hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.573.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution, Officers and Proceedings of the Commmission.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "It has not been selected. The first Amendment to the First Schedule which I propose to call is that standing in the name of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Chorley (Sir D. Hacking). From what I can gather, it would seem to be in the interests of the Committee to have a fairly wide and general discussion on that Amendment. Does that meet with the consent of the Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-06", "file": "debates1943-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "32523e51f67d8f59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Constitution, Officers and Proceedings of the Commmission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "o the Commission, it would satisfy nobody, because inevitably somebody would be left out. As can be seen by the formidable list of Amendments on this point, some Members want special representation for one section and others want it for other sections. Therefore, I should be prepared on the Report stage to move a Clause somewhat on the following lines. I do not want to be tied to the actual words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-06a.577.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.596.3", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUILDING PRACTICE (CODES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate the Minister——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.596.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "CLAUSE 15—(List of certain nurses not registered or enrolled.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Brown", "preceding_text": "e same position as the charming Irish lady, why she and her friends should not do the same. To take the second point, that the prejudice against the case in favour of this Amendment is that the General Nursing Council do not like it, I would say that my hon. Friend makes a very partial statement there. The fact is that the whole profession is against re-opening the register in the way he proposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.713.4", "colnum": "713", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are allowed to be present.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "discussing the issues that these folk want to discuss. Already it is done by soldiers. I have seen them at political meetings. I have seen a colleague of the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) addressing a meeting in my city at which there were many members of the Armed Forces present. I have seen the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) addressing meetings at which soldiers were present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.713.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is allowed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "ons. I see no reason why they should not be permitted to do so, but if the military police had been there, they would probably have intervened, as seems to have happened at the Mound. When my hon. Friend the Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) was speaking about the meeting he addressed, hon. Members on the other side said, \"That is allowed.\" Evidently hon. Members thought that it should be allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "He is the man who takes part in politics outside his unit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.2", "colnum": "720", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I never said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7", "colnum": "720", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Poole", "preceding_text": "e narrow sphere of discussion between men. They are not prepared to allow, as the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) has said, that when that man goes home on leave and is then a free agent in most respects, he cannot go along and have a discussion on politics with another man because as soon as he has a discussion with a civilian in the street he is then talking part in political controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7", "colnum": "720", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Poole", "preceding_text": "e serving man is taking part in political controversy. I am not a lawyer, thank goodness, but I think it is elementary to an ordinary mind that that is bound to happen. If two men start arguing other men gather round, and you very soon get a political discussion. If it is right for two men to argue in that way, why should it be wrong for two soldiers and two civilians to discuss the same question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7", "colnum": "720", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Poole", "preceding_text": "scuss the same question? [An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not wrong.\"] But it is wrong. I do not want to be tempted into getting out of Order, but the suggestion has been made that we should not make this thing too rigid, that if we do not define it too closely everything will go on all right. My experience is that everything goes on all right provided the sentiments expressed are not of a particular type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7", "colnum": "720", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Poole", "preceding_text": "not want to be tempted into getting out of Order, but the suggestion has been made that we should not make this thing too rigid, that if we do not define it too closely everything will go on all right. My experience is that everything goes on all right provided the sentiments expressed are not of a particular type. [ Interruption. ] I am saying that advisedly, with full cognisance of all it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.720.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marlowe", "preceding_text": "May I be allowed to answer that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "sed this matter time and again in this House. Members on the other side adopted the same attitude as they are adopting now on another occasion when I raised the subject. I speak at enormous meetings every week-end. There are airmen, soldiers and sailors always present. They ask questions. If they are committing an offence by asking questions, obviously I am committing an offence by answering them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.734.2", "colnum": "734", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Political controversy.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "complexion. That is the fundamental basis of these Regulations in so far as they apply to political controversy. The hon. and gallant Member for St. Marylebone talked about the soldier, when he enters the Army, being muzzled for the duration of his service. Surely, that was something of an exaggeration. Officers and other ranks are not prevented from voting at the by-elections that may take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.734.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "uld deal on the other side with the direction of the affairs of labour, which clearly are the trade unions, and if therefore you wish to claim that the Government shall have the right to appoint men to the boards or the executive bodies of these undertakings, I think the comparable arrangements on the labour side would be for the Government to appoint members of the executives of the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are the trade unions incompetent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "ide would be for the Government to appoint members of the executives of the trade unions. [ Laughter. ] I am very glad that hon. Members on the other side treat that with hilarity. They do not seem to appreciate that in this world, and particularly when we have a Government which is representative both of the Left and of the Right, what is sauce for the goose ought also to be sauce for the gander.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "we must have the greatest possible degree of efficiency. I ask hon. Members who have associated themselves with this Prayer whether they are satisfied that we have the maximum amount of efficiency in our supply industries. We are becoming greatly concerned at this war developing into a war of attrition. We want to supply our Russian and Chinese Allies with the greatest possible amount of supplies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I understood that it dealt with this Prayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The Government will try to find a director who will do the business, but under this Regulation there can be no obligation on the company to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "overnment directors on the board.\" You are going to intimidate every management in this country, and diminish efficiency by that power, and even more if you obtrude on the board people not acceptable to those there—not on the ground that the company is inefficient; that is not the basis of the Order; the Government have all the powers they need under 55 and 78. They have made out no case for this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with the Prayer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "hese organs of public opinion have dragged in the Minister of Aircraft Production. We have been forced to the conclusion that he above everyone else wanted to use this power in the same way as he used to horrify the hon. Members behind me by wanting to shut up the House of Commons and rule by Order in Council. That, I understand, is largely the reason why he and the party behind me parted company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "have been forced to the conclusion that he above everyone else wanted to use this power in the same way as he used to horrify the hon. Members behind me by wanting to shut up the House of Commons and rule by Order in Council. That, I understand, is largely the reason why he and the party behind me parted company. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with the Prayer?\"] Because he wants the Prayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-07", "file": "debates1943-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "6ffeb3184ac68920", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is back again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Some of my colleagues thought that the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams), who to some extent appears to be the leader of the Conservative Party, was running away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-07a.777.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Mr. EDEN'S VISIT TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "er I extended, while I was in Washington, an invitation to the American Secretary of State to come and pay us a visit in this country at any time convenient to him during the course of this summer. I am sure the House will endorse me when I say that if he does find it possible to come, he will have the most cordial welcome, both on his own account and on account of the great country he represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Mr. EDEN'S VISIT TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister still feel that that statement which has been made by the Foreign Secretary does not contain many matters which would be worthy of some discussion in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has broadcast.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": " not selected because they have either shown antagonism to the Government or a line that does not commend itself to the Government. Take hon. Members like the hon. Member for Coatbridge (Mr. Barr), on the Labour side, on religious and political questions, the hon. Member for Springburn (Mrs. Hardie), the hon. Member for West-houghton (Mr. Rhys Davies) and the hon. Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.835.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "fact, because I have listened very carefully. I have commented time and time again about the way in which the medical profession can adapt itself to the desire of the politicians. Here is a case of a noble profession prostituting its professional ability and knowledge for the purpose of backing up a Government which, in waging war, tries to make people believe that margarine is better than butter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.835.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is propaganda.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " up quite fairly in the words of a really responsible journalist. We always speak of journalists in this House as \"responsible.\" Most of them are not awfully, if you define \"responsible\" accurately. I think we all agree that the \"Manchester Guardian\" is one of the better newspapers and that the \"Manchester Guardian's\" Parliamentary report is one of the better features of the \"Manchester Guardian.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "very hurried, because he had to go and find out how much the war was costing and put that calculation in. It was not a question of leaving out. That argument really will not do. I wish to pass from that to ask about the persuading of foreigners; this is what we are interested in. We have been told at various times about the Political Warfare Executive. I do not know whether it exists in that name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": " anyone else, but is one little point which we might reflect on later. It has been frequently said rather tritely and platitudinously that inventions are not unmixed blessings. That is certainly true of wireless broadcasting. But I do not think we can criticise the instrument; it is rather human beings and the motives they have in putting that instrument to good or bad uses that we must criticise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Plymouth Rock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "in favour of the careful, the cautious and the orthodox. Why should they not allow unorthodox religious opinion to express itself from time to time? If we can have a Unitarian Prime Minister in this House, as we had some time ago, if we can have Rationalists and other unorthodox schools of thought, why should it not be possible for a Rationalist or an Atheist or a Christian Scientist or any other?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.897.0", "colnum": "897", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "mentary report. Perhaps some 16,000,000 people listen to the news bulletin. Then at about 10 or 11 minutes past nine about half of them switch off. It seems to be about as long as anyone can stand a news bulletin. After that they go on listening, the remaining half, until about a quarter past, and when they hear the opening of the Parliamentary report, about two-thirds of the remainder switch off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "nd I do not think the contention of the hon. Member for Shettleston is borne out. But I must not speak at greater length, because I do not want to occupy any unnecessary moment before the right hon. Gentleman replies to this Debate, for I am looking forward with relish to the manner in which, I am sure, he will answer the hon. Member for Shettleston. I think I have seen him straining at the leash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.906.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "r the Lonsdale Division, that the British Broadcasting Corporation is as fair as the London \"Times\" or the \"Manchester Guardian\" or the \"Glasgow Herald.\" It is a public Corporation that is supposed to belong to the whole of us. I would rather trust my political reputation, for what it is worth, in the hands of the London \"Times\" than the B.B.C., and \"The Times\" is an avowedly Conservative journal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.907.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary how all my ideals are shattered. Here is another rift disclosed in the lute. Avowedly it is an anti-Socialist journal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, it is run by a trust.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "It is a piece of private property run for private profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.908.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "I take responsibility if I was misunderstood, but what I wanted to convey was that we can expect at home to, have a clash of opinions, but when we speak to occupied Europe we must express the policy of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.912.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "? Sir Allan Powell, who has had a long life of public service? If to be Mayor of Kensington shows that you have totalitarian leanings, then of course he may have to plead guilty. If you turn to the Vice-Chairman of the B.B.C., he has undergone great sacrifices in fighting for his country as an airman, and it is an insult to a man of his gallant quality to suggest that he has totalitarian leanings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-08", "file": "debates1943-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "d5aefde5d026e65f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "s totalitarian. No-one in this House would suggest that my hon. and gallant Friend below the Gangway, the Member for Lonsdale (Sir I. Fraser), or my hon. Friend the Member for West Leicester (Mr. H. Nicolson) should be included. We know them, and we know them not to be totalitarian. There is nothing totalitarian about the B.B.C. I think it is right to say that at times it seems slightly flocculent", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-08a.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "TAXATION ON INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I bet they have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "relation to post-war reconstruction. I have in mind, in particular, the position of profits that are not distributed but are ploughed back into the business, and the treatment of capital expenditure, for which no allowance is made in the existing taxation code. I agree that this and other questions call for the most careful consideration, and in fact very full representations have been made to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.961.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.975.11", "colnum": "975", "heading": "3. SPIRITS (EXCISE)", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The next Resolution contains a complicated Table which I will read if any hon. Member desires it but otherwise, with the leave of the Committee, I propose to take the Table as read. There are other Resolutions containing similar Tables where, again with the agreement of the Committee, I would propose to adopt the same course. May I take it that the Committee is agreed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.975.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.983.8", "colnum": "983", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "rd to do without—bears more heavily on the poorer elements in the community than on those who are better off. I do not myself regard these increases in indirect taxation as crushing. They are not pleasurable, but they are not crushing. There is, however, in my view a disparity between £33,000,000 new taxation in a full year on beer and £9,000,000 on spirits and only £1,000,000 in the case of wine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.983.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.992.7", "colnum": "992", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": " I am willing to hand all these documents over to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I find that when one puts all the cards on the table one is treated quite reasonably by the Treasury officials. I have no complaint to make against the Income Tax assessors and have always found them very fair. I never had a confession from them that they do not understand what we do here, but they certainly do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.992.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.992.7", "colnum": "992", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Tasker", "preceding_text": " Interruption. ] I agree with the Chancellor's observation that very few people do. I almost dare to suggest that the Chancellor himself does not always know. One of the most curious things during our Budget day discussions is that we cannot suggest proposals for new taxes, except very quickly, before the Chairman has detected us and rules us out of Order. Are there not many ways of raising money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.992.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said 'rapacious' not 'Fascist' \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "I did not ask the hon. Member to keep off the Chancellor on one line, because I took what he said to be an illustration, but I do not think he ought to go into possibilities about all the various political parties to which the Chancellor might belong. Perhaps the hon. Member will not pursue that further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "of the noxious weed, and I have recollections of the happy days of long ago, happy days that I fear will never return, when you could get an ounce of black twist and a pipe for threepence. But the Chancellor used an argument to-day that was in actual opposition to the taxation he is imposing. Of course, I have just about given up hope of expecting anything like logic or reason from the other side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are not buffoons\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "r return, when you could get an ounce of black twist and a pipe for threepence. But the Chancellor used an argument to-day that was in actual opposition to the taxation he is imposing. Of course, I have just about given up hope of expecting anything like logic or reason from the other side—[ Interruption ]—the hon. Member is one of the young Conservatives who stands out from the mass of deadheads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in spite of increased water, too\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "hancellor said that there were two features in connection with taxation, one to cut down consumption and the other to raise revenue, but that the essential thing was to cut down consumption. Every Member heard the Chancellor use that argument—that the essential thing was to cut down consumption. Then he told us that as a result of increasing the tax on beer and tobacco the consumption had gone up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-12", "file": "debates1943-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "75e5dff4ec4037b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.995.5", "colnum": "995", "heading": "17. AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would be a Communist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "abouring day in and day out have for getting relaxation or travel of any kind. I wonder whether Members on the other side have tried to think for a moment what kind of life these lads in the factories and foundries live. I would like any Members on the other side, particularly young Members like the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) to do about six months in an iron foundry, day work and overtime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-12a.995.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-13", "file": "debates1943-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "516aa6cdcde2b818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Yes, and my son is one of them. Why are not the shipbuilders giving of their best?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-13", "file": "debates1943-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "516aa6cdcde2b818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1117.8", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Then the shipbuilders have to pay Income Tax in the winter time when the blackout is in operation, and the atmosphere has been created all over the country that it is bad policy to work on a Sunday. In my own country, the land of the brave and the free—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1117.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-13", "file": "debates1943-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "516aa6cdcde2b818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do you do with your money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "much. There is another thing I want to say. I believe that this mighty Empire, rich beyond any dreams, could find ways and means of raising enough money to give our old age pensioners 30s. a week each. That is what I want to see. However, my time is about up, because others wish to speak. I could go on for a long time advocating the cause of the working classes. I do not drink, and I do not smoke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-13", "file": "debates1943-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "516aa6cdcde2b818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "my life. The average member of the working class requires to go and see a football match. Nobody loves a football match better than I do I have seen only three this year. I never have the time to go. My whole week-end is taken in trying to get peace and trying to get the workers to remain at their work. They must have the cinemas, which are essentially working-class entertainment. So is football.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-13", "file": "debates1943-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "516aa6cdcde2b818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Volga.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "are not brought into frequent contact with American soldiers or airmen. The words that the Prime Minister used a year or two ago—\"Let it roll\"—when he referred to the way the affairs of this country and of America were being mixed up were most prophetic. We have two rivers to think about: the Mississippi on the other side, and Old Father Thames, which washes the walls of the Palace of Westminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-13", "file": "debates1943-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "516aa6cdcde2b818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1159.7", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Gibson", "preceding_text": "see the point at all. The fact is that there is this gravel pit, and gravel is being taken out at the rate of, say, for example, 100 tons a week. I do not know what the actual figure is. Supposing because of the action of the Air Ministry 200 tons are now being taken, the profit on the second hundred tons will come into the accounts of that company and be counted in with the E.P.T. which they pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-13a.1159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-14", "file": "debates1943-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e5508517ff086e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-14a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The soldiers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "been an enormous increase in telephone trunk calls during the war. In daytime they have gone up 80 per cent. compared with the pre-war figure, and the night calls have gone up 35 per cent. The actual figures represented by these percentages may interest the Committee. Before the war the number of trunk calls per week was 528,000, and now the figure is 952,000 per week. These are tremendous figures", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-14a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-14", "file": "debates1943-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6e5508517ff086e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-14a.1326.2", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "AMENDMENT OF LAW.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": " That was a serious time for the wage-earners in this country. We built up a large National Debt in that period, a very serious obligation on the country. I hope we shall be able to manage better this time. Then there was deflation, and prominent members of this Administration were responsible for the deflation that wrought havoc upon the export trade, particularly coal and steel, in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-14a.1326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1391.4", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. On a number of occasions we have been asked to raise this matter through the usual channels, and the right hon. Gentleman now indicates that he has not been approached through them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "preceding_text": "e island. With regard to the Stockdale Report, I feel we should not only congratulate the Secretary of State but also pay a tribute to Sir Frank Stockdale himself, because he has not only prepared a very excellent survey, but I think we ought to thank him and pay him a tribute for the long hours of hard work he has put in, as I happen to know, in very often difficult and trying climatic conditions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Before the war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "preceding_text": "n. Members how difficult it is. Housing out there is not cheap. I have pictures here of houses which have been put up in Trinidad and other places by my companies; I shall be pleased to show them to hon. Members. They are of wood, which you would not think should be very expensive, but to put up a house for a foreman, or perhaps somebody of a little better type, would cost between £700 and £1,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Lyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Lyle", "preceding_text": "I do not know how you would describe the difference between houses and bungalows. We can give land for houses, and we are prepared to do so free of charge. We have notified the Government of that fact. We have offered 300 acres in Frome, Jamaica, and 300 acres in another part of the country. I am glad to say that, under the progressive and enlightened Government we now have in Jamaica—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1441.0", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"By a subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "preceding_text": "s recommendations are most valuable, although one can see the fearful limitations of finance. Sir Frank proposes that the number of teachers should be more than doubled, if we are to do the very minimum of what is necessary for the child population. Yet that will involve a total annual expenditure of £2,000,000. I should like to know how that expenditure is to be met. It will be a terrible burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1486.1", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "arkets available in the colonies themselves for their products will carry them as an economic unit or else they must be related to, and dependent on the staple production of the Colonies which must always be the production of their agricultural produce. I think there is a big chance there for the processing type of industry which fits in well with the mainly agricultural conditions of the islands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1487.1", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": " of these Colonies which leaves out the industrial side of its economic prospects is lopsided and incomplete. The hon. and gallant Member for Basingstoke was followed by the hon. Member for Dewsbury (Mr. Riley), who put the whole of his emphasis on yet another side of the Colonies' economy. The subject he discussed most of all was the subject of the peasant proprietors, not proprietorship perhaps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-15", "file": "debates1943-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fc772869b346b6b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1490.1", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION (WEST INDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "ecause of pressure from the House. It is quite unfair to suggest this. They were imposed because it was believed at the time is was necessary; they were withdrawn as soon, and as rapidly, as they were believed no longer to be necessary. The hon. Member for East Surrey (Mr. Emmott) dealt some shrewd blows on my behalf and received very shrewd blows in return, which I hope he will not pass on to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-15a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "TITLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "nk the Minister of Labour will be able to get a considerable amount of help from men and women who have had long experience in creating the standard which I know he desires. There has been some difference expressed during the Debate on the question of the number of foreigners employed in the industry. As a sound internationalist I think it is all to the good that there should be some intermingling", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "TITLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "l cause a great deal of worry and hardship to much the larger number of the people concened. I am not in the least concerned about the vested interests, but about the small people at seaside resorts, watering places, and other tourist centres. They are very worried at the present time by bureaucracy and red tape and they look upon this Bill as likely to put more bureaucracy and red tape upon them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "TITLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After inquiry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "sed me to beware of people bluffing. I believe that, with regard to this Bill, that advice was right. Most of the arguments that have been used this afternoon after hon. Members had paid tributes to the Minister have been largely mixed with bluff. They know that their arguments are not true. For instance, 2,000,000 shop workers were brought within the ambit of trade board regulations not long ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "TITLE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "em, the tourists and everything else, and with an entirely different conception of what will have to be in this business at the end of the war. It was all this kind of thing that led me to promote this Bill. The hon. Member for Dulwich says it does not go far enough. I know it does not. I know that he has tried. I do not remember whether it was actually introduced, but certainly I remember seeing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (WOMEN MEDICAL OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "preceding_text": " consider extending the services of civilian doctors in camps in this country when second fronts are opened in Europe, they can easily perform this function, and not allow men to suffer the indignity of being examined by a woman in cold blood. An hon. Member opposite says, \"nonsense,\" but those who have a streak of masculinity in their nature would not agree that such an examination was desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1650.5", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (WOMEN MEDICAL OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "May I ask one question, Sir?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1650.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1650.8", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (WOMEN MEDICAL OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "But I knew what was going to be said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1650.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1650.10", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (WOMEN MEDICAL OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In front of other people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "It is the point. It is a question of medical examination. I have seen it done in the Colonies, in Great Britain and on the field of battle. It is simply a question of whether the ordinary soldier should be examined by a trained, qualified, registered, lady medical prac- titioner as part of her Army medical duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1650.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-20", "file": "debates1943-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "43f08ab48f1460c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (WOMEN MEDICAL OFFICERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "on, or being in a state of comparative nudity, with people of the opposite sex. It is a very small proportion of people, but if people who have certain definite psychological reactions really object upon the first examination, or even on the second examination, an appeal can always be made. A statement has been made that men may suffer from certain diseases due to adoration at the shrine of Venus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-20a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is the wrong answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Information (Mr. Brendan Bracken)", "preceding_text": "proceeded to read the answer to a subsequent Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1715.2", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I apologise to my right hon. Friend. My Whips did not call my attention to it. I withdraw my criticism. May I first make it clear that those who think as I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1715.2", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "eople, I would ask that the Government should postpone proceeding with this Motion if they cannot at once clarify the situation and assure us that there shall be no unfair treatment of the minorities here. I know that the reply will be that the usual channels will look after that, but some of us have not got any usual channels, and it may be that our curtailed liberties will be further restricted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1718.2", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "ur views. But if there is a consensus of opinion that a certain matter should be debated adequately and a limited period, say of an hour or something like that, is allowed, then Private Members are deprived of opportunities of expressing their views by the very fact of that limitation. What I suggest is that we should give the power of suspension, with or without notice, but for an unlimited time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1719.0", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "what I have seen of the present Leader of the House he is always willing to take into account the opinions of hon. Members as to the length of time desired for a Debate. He has always been amenable to the views of the House, and if we should ever get a Leader of the House who acted otherwise, why then would be the time to kick. The House of Commons always has the opportunity of making its protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1722.2", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": " be willing to accede to a feeling running through the House that one or two hours of additional time might be given. What prevents the Government from doing that at the present time, and what prevents other Members of the House who are quite willing to see a reasonable extension given, is this: Under the present Rule, once the extension is given, it may go on indefinitely, half through the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "That is not very easy to answer. It seems almost to answer itself. I would naturally try, and I do try, to take account of that fact. Secondly, someone has said that if this power is once given to the Leader of the House, all sorts of terrible things may happen thereafter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-21", "file": "debates1943-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "7413cdfd98cf0f93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1773.0", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "CHARGE OF TAX", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "p frankly to the fact that the final year's tax may not be collected. On the other hand, it must not be forgotten that there is no system of pay-as-you-go which can be instituted which does not mean that the Chancellor will have to forgo one complete year's tax. The institution of a pay-as-you-go scheme means that the Chancellor on weekly incomes definitely surrenders the right to last year's tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-21a.1773.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "N.A.A.F.I., STREATHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "I did not particularly want to intervene in this Debate, which seems rather in the nature of a private quarrel about something regarding which the House of Commons has not been given much information. It has been sprung upon us, and I feel that the time allotted to-day for the Adjournment might have been devoted to questions of greater national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "N.A.A.F.I., STREATHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": " in the nature of a private quarrel about something regarding which the House of Commons has not been given much information. It has been sprung upon us, and I feel that the time allotted to-day for the Adjournment might have been devoted to questions of greater national interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I do not think there is any need for any interruption. I am not putting the controversial point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1910.3", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "N.A.A.F.I., STREATHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "I also represent a constituency in which a number of grievances are brought to my notice, but I do not think it necessary to bring little grievances of this kind to the attention of the House if I can have them dealt with through the Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1910.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1910.5", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "N.A.A.F.I., STREATHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "Well, I will leave that point. I am sorry that so much indignation has been aroused on the subject. One would have thought from the speeches which have been made that the matter was one of vital concern to the whole country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1910.5", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "N.A.A.F.I., STREATHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "Well, I will leave that point. I am sorry that so much indignation has been aroused on the subject. One would have thought from the speeches which have been made that the matter was one of vital concern to the whole country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"] I am entitled to express my point of view. I will give way if there is any question of dubiety about what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1918.0", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "LIEUT.-COLONEL GATES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Sir James Grigg)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So was Crippen an individualist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Sir James Grigg)", "preceding_text": " occurred a day before the publication in the Press of the Debate in this House—not that that is more than of minor relevance. As regards his work generally, the General Officer Commanding reported that Colonel Gates was a most enthusiastic and efficient officer who set an extremely high standard. His fault, if he had one, was that he was an individualist. That is a horrible fault, I can see that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1921.1", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "LIEUT.-COLONEL GATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "An hon. Member has a right to make out his own case in his own way, and the Minister is equally entitled so to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1921.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1922.1", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "LIEUT.-COLONEL GATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGhee", "preceding_text": "I am not seeking your protection, Mr. Speaker, for anything I have said about the Armed Forces of the Crown. I was justified at the time I made that statement, and so was Baldwin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-04-22", "file": "debates1943-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "88380346da6aadfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1953.3", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And each Department has warned other Departments off its own sphere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "tee. We do not work in any spirit of hostility to one another. We all tell each other what our plans are. I see the reports which go to the War Cabinet Committee, and I sometimes say, \"Cannot you modify this here or there?\" Each Department has a clearly defined sphere. I have given illustrations of the more important spheres. Each of the Departments goes direct to this very high-powered Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-04-22a.1953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-04", "file": "debates1943-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c112d082e616a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.48.8", "colnum": "48", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Lack of initiative.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ion and its bombed areas, there is not, I think, one single site where anything of this kind has been done. Yet people are living there in damaged houses, or else many of them have to travel long distances in order to get to their work. There is thus a great disparity between what is being done by the Service Department and what is being done by the right hon. Gentleman. What is the reason for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.48.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-04", "file": "debates1943-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c112d082e616a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Sir Jonah Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Jonah Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "esign, sound of construction, with ample accommodation, laid out with due regard to the amenities, and provided with all the available domestic facilities, to some of which the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) very properly referred. It may be, however, that such will be the urgent and clamant demand for houses after the war that we shall have to provide a considerable number of temporary houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-04", "file": "debates1943-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c112d082e616a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are certain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " that it is undesirable that any discouragement should be put anywhere on private enterprise, and that whatever method be used, every encouragement should be given to private enterprise to pull its full weight. It may be said that private enterprise has not always produced the right type of houses and that on occasions private enterprise has been responsible for a certain amount of jerry building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-04", "file": "debates1943-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c112d082e616a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "ter. Any curious Member who likes to ask what I said in my maiden speech can look up the OFFICIAL REPORT of 23 years ago, and he will find that I rose from the third bench over there, at about 20 minutes to 9 one night, and made a little speech of six minutes on rural housing. It has been and it is one of my passions, and if I succeed in this small effort now, with the sanction of the War Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-04", "file": "debates1943-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c112d082e616a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ld like to say to the Noble Lord is that for extended repairs that kind of labour is not generally satisfactory. When you come to the difficult and dangerous problem of roof work it may not be suitable at all, but for ordinary repairs and maintenance there are different classes of operatives required, some of them skilled. I say that on first reflection, though I will think it over and discuss it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-04", "file": "debates1943-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c112d082e616a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "here are different classes of operatives required, some of them skilled. I say that on first reflection, though I will think it over and discuss it. [ Interruption. ] I will come to that. If the Noble Lord does not mind, and he will allow me, I will do it in my own way. I am making him a reasoned statement, and if he is not satisfied, he can come back again. I want to say this, that for some jobs-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-04a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-05", "file": "debates1943-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "12c5709b9206f3de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Communists, too\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " back to the purpose of the Amendment. Every Member on this side of the Committee, however it may be with hon. Members opposite, understands the danger which exists in a Board of this kind unless there is a sufficient measure of control. At the present time there is much talk about democracy. Everybody is for democracy. Even the most case-hardened, hard-faced Tories pay their tribute to democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-05", "file": "debates1943-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "12c5709b9206f3de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will get the usual scraps\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "man values and how it will pay from the point of view of the advantages that will come to many people in the more remote parts of the Highlands. Who are the people to decide whether it is practicable or not? Five business men. What are we to get? Electricity for business people, and in order to make it cheaper for them we are to supply electricity to the ordinary inhabitants of the areas concerned", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-05", "file": "debates1943-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "12c5709b9206f3de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"'Liquidate' them is the word.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ch are causing us considerable doubt. The first is the ex- tension of time from 21 to 40 days. We consider that for many parts of North Scotland it should be possible to lodge an objection or an appeal within 21 days. We cannot see any reason for extending the period to 40 days. The Solicitor-General for Scotland gets up here and presents the obstacle of solicitors. Then let us abolish solicitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.262.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-05", "file": "debates1943-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "12c5709b9206f3de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why make it easier? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "Yes. That leaves the Secretary of State to prescribe, but he is not to prescribe less than 40 days. Of course, if you have a Secretary of State who is antagonistic to the principles of this Bill, it does not matter how these matters are framed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-05a.272.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-06", "file": "debates1943-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "fe099cf8676e81c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-06a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": " to give them what they want. The Lord Advocate, I know, will remember the 1909 Act, Section 6, which enables the Electricity Commissioners to authorise the Central Electricity Board to give electricity to large power users through an undertaker at a special price. That is known in the industry as a fringe Order. I should have thought that that would have met the point my hon. Friends were making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-06a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-06", "file": "debates1943-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "fe099cf8676e81c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-06a.379.0", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that we cannot see our way to accept this Amendment. The purpose of the Amendment appears to be to allow someone who has no particular use for the line himself to refuse access to it by the person who has use for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-06a.379.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-11", "file": "debates1943-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "4b1be79c00b39e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-11a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (INTERIM DEVELOPMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A very busy eight months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "published in March, 1941. Its final Report, a much larger and important document, was published in September, 1942. During the war Lord Justice Scott's Committee was appointed in October, 1941, and proceeded fairly rapidly, because its Report was published in August, 1942. Eight months have elapsed since the final documents of these various investigations were put into the hands of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-11a.512.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-11", "file": "debates1943-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "4b1be79c00b39e23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-11a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (INTERIM DEVELOPMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " to turn down the fundamental recommendations of Sir Edward Lutyens and Professor Abercrombie. This is a very human problem, and I want to remind the right hon. Gentleman that he is a past master in appeasement, but that those people, especially those who are fighting, and the thousands evacuated, and the 30,000 who have to go into shelters every night, are not going to be satisfied with interims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-11a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-12", "file": "debates1943-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdcf24834390b6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards (Middlesbrough, East)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards (Middlesbrough, East)", "preceding_text": "May I put one question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-12", "file": "debates1943-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdcf24834390b6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " the Chancellor's speech. The Chancellor said a trader could go to the bank and get \"foreign exchange.\" I am sure that he did not mean it, but that conveyed the impression that it would be the old way of getting foreign exchange. I understand from the scheme that all foreign exchange in the future will be in the terms of bancors or unitas, that no other exchange will be allowed inside any country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-12", "file": "debates1943-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdcf24834390b6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.747.3", "colnum": "747", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Oh no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-12", "file": "debates1943-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "cdcf24834390b6fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.749.4", "colnum": "749", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Major Petherick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Petherick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member said in his speech that Mr. White should be recognised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-12a.749.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-13", "file": "debates1943-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5fc84a3a4d9c7c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-13a.779.4", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Not at all. I have to take the facts as they are. All Austrians hold German passports, and they are subjects of the German Reich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-13a.779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-13", "file": "debates1943-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5fc84a3a4d9c7c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-13a.783.3", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "While I appreciate the Minister's reply, would it not be in the national interest as well as in the interest of these girls to discourage marriages at the age of 16?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-13a.783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-13", "file": "debates1943-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "5fc84a3a4d9c7c78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-13a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I hoped that one day would suffice if the Rule were suspended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-13a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.921.5", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "In view of the most unsatisfactory nature of the reply", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Interruption,.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "If that is so, it should be left to the State to carry it on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "endment which stands in my name and those of my hon. Friends and right hon. Friends, I think, in some cases. The only thing that I was going to say about money to-day was that I wish that the general public—I know it is no use talking to the Chancellor about this—would actually understand what money really is. If the public would only realise that money is nothing more than a glorified bus ticket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "of all evil. What I want to say to the Members on the opposite side is, How much truer it is that land monopoly is the root of all monopolies. I cannot do better, I am sure the Chancellor would agree with me in this, than quote the Prime Minister on this subject. I know that he has departed from the paths of rectitude. It is long years since he made these remarks. On 17th July, 1909, in Edinburgh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "omes before they can use them. Up to November, 1937, for 26,500 acres we paid £1,525,000 for land which was probably absolutely valueless. That was the figure, but I have not been able to obtain the figures since, as it is not considered to be in the public interest to give them. If the information were given, everybody would be mightily angered and might throw the present Government out of power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member agree with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "eople their infringed rights. Do not forget that landlords have \"pinched\" the land from the people and have legislated to keep them off it. The problem must be solved in a just and constructive way. So I want to discuss the three alternatives which are commonly considered. First, and the least agreeable and one which I do not suppose many in this House or outside would agree with, is confiscation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ebt. To do the same with the whole of the land of the country would cost something like £10,000,000,000, and, when you have done it, you will hand it over to a set of quite incompetent people in Whitehall who will not know what to do with it. Much as I loathe war—as much as anyone in the House—the war has taught us at least one good thing. For God's sake, let us have less bureaucracy and not more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "impossible economically for landlords to hold their land out of use or not to put it to the best use because it would be uneconomical not to do so. If a tax were put on site values, unemployment would be done away with for ever. I want to quote again the Prime Minister on this subject. This is a somewhat earlier speech than the other and was made on 20th April, 1907, at Drury Lane Theatre, London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-18", "file": "debates1943-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "3c74b983a6da44a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "f certificates for Excess Profits Tax. I think he knows the difficulties of that particular problem himself. One of the greatest is that the sum to be determined is constantly varying, and it is therefore impossible to provide a certificate at the present time. He must be content with the assurance which the Chancellor has given him that the matter has in fact been dealt with by Act of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-18a.1064.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Any such suggestion, in view of the record of the Royal Navy in this war, is most uncalled for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1092.5", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAMAICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. and gallant Gentleman that these dumps are being systematically cleared with every county drive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1092.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEE PROBLEM", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "o be as alleged, the man appealed for his parents, and he has got an assurance from the Istanbul authorities that he could get Turkish visas, if he first got British visas. Suppose that he had got his parents into Turkey and that then they were passed on here. The facts mentioned by my right hon. Friend being known here, could not they have been straightway put into an Isle of Man internment camp?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEE PROBLEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "e a great mistake to argue from this one case. If there are certain facts about this man of the kind suggested, I am fully convinced that the sister, at any rate, is ignorant of all that, and that they were really anxious about the aged parents. If the aged parents were so safe in Berlin, why was he anxious to get them into Turkey; and anyhow, how can you argue from the facts of a particular case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1132.2", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEE PROBLEM", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbane", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But the war was over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbane", "preceding_text": "sidering, planning and executing with the Governments of the countries which they are visiting, very much in the way that Nansen did after the last war. It is true that the war was then over. When reading a biography of Nansen recently I found that it was astonishing how close the analogies were. One sentence alone was, \"Shipping was the great difficulty.\" Somehow Nansen managed to find the ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1174.0", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEE PROBLEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the French?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "or Germans. Allied countries open gates refugees. Act immediately. Deadly danger. Those are expressions of opinion from people in Palestine. The Palestine Jews will open the door themselves to take their racial kindred into their own homes. I do not know what the number may be, but we are now in complete charge of North Africa, and I believe we shall remain in full charge until the end of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1174.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1189.0", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEE PROBLEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is their Sabbath.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "In an agricultural county like Shropshire there are very few Jews, but there is one hostel for Jews who have come here as refugees. They were asked to do agricultural work. I have sent full particulars of this case to the Minister of Agriculture. The Jews in that hostel had been received handsomely, they have been fed and housed and clothed, but they refused to milk cows after 4 o'clock on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1189.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-19", "file": "debates1943-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "469b5c2d8e9b7dd5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1193.2", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFUGEE PROBLEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am sorry I have not time to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-19a.1193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The answer is that we have discussed the basis concerned, and have come to the conclusion that this is the best improvement that could be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "tly partially met by administrative means, still exists to some extent. We are taking steps here to regularise the position. The other small change provides for reciprocity with the Isle of Man, so that persons born in that island and living in Great Britain will be able to obtain pensions under conditions similar to those which apply to persons born in Great Britain and living in the Isle of Man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That, of course, covers the point which has already been made clear three times", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1271.6", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is to be found in the record of the many thousands of statements I have made in the course of Debates and the number of challenges which have been made afterwards. That is the answer to that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1271.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Poor Law mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " Returning to the question of the widow, the woman of 60 for some unknown reason gets 1s. less than the man of 65, who gets 22S. That is the basic scale on a 6s. rent. I cannot understand the way the Government work about with shillings. Can you imagine any of us running a business and treating the woman of 60 differently from a man of 65 to the extent of 1s.? Only the Treasury mind could do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have not mentioned the clothing coupons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "age pensioners will get 18s. for food and clothing, and the old people will get 12s. 3d. each. An hon. Member referred to the financial difficulties and to the question of not giving people money unless the goods were on the market. The old age pensioners are not able to buy the whole of their rations now, because they have not enough money; and as for the unrationed goods, they cannot smell them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1293.3", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I submit, Sir, that while it is perfectly competent for the Chair to refuse such a Motion, it is most unusual in my experience, which goes back a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1293.4", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name the paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "t remains. The few concessions leave the old indignities and stinginess untouched. The system ought to be abolished and a basic.pension of at least £1 a week introduced at once as a stop-gap until the more liberal provisions of the Beveridge plan are carried out. Administering pensions on a \"supplementary\" and \"means test\" basis is a shocking waste of time—and, we suspect, little economy in money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1293.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I hear a great deal about the hardships of the widows of serving men whose incomes go down most disastrously after 13 weeks, but I do not hear about the hardships of spinsters of 50 and childless widows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1305.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the other side\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "re was exerted, and it was given only at the last minute. That pledge went far beyond the question of widows and the question of savings. The most important part of it was a promise by the spokesman of the Government that the question of a further increase for old age pensioners would be considered. There is no doubt that, to a large extent, that part of the pledge mollified opinion among Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1305.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ge went far beyond the question of widows and the question of savings. The most important part of it was a promise by the spokesman of the Government that the question of a further increase for old age pensioners would be considered. There is no doubt that, to a large extent, that part of the pledge mollified opinion among Members—[An HON. MEMBER: \"On the other side\"]—in all quarters of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "preceding_text": "pplementation. First, I want to deal more specifically with the actual Amendment. I feel that the supporters of the Amendment, in asking for a flat-rate increase on a non-contributory basis, have overlooked a good many things. They have overlooked the fact that our present pensions were never intended to be a complete provision for old age or a substitute for thrift. They have overlooked the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1312.1", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Storey", "preceding_text": " pensions can bring in at least 4os. 9d. to a married couple, of which 30s. 9d. is supplementation to which they have not paid anything at all, and is it too much to ask that they should meet the odd 9d. out of their savings? It is all very well for hon. Members to groan, but the figures are there. The figures have not been disputed and cannot be disputed. I think I have said quite enough to show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "d with some form of compromise which will do justice to the old people. I am sure this House would back them if they did. If they do not intend to do that, I make this further appeal: Let the leaders of all the parties in the Government take off the Whips, refuse to apply the Whips, leave it as a pure matter of conscience, and you will get the best hiding you ever got in the Lobbies of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Etherton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Etherton", "preceding_text": "by borrowing and the other is a continuous charge which the nation has to meet for all time. I feel that the agitation that we have had and the speeches which have been delivered urging an increase in the basic rate of the old age pension are misconceived, and for this reason. No increase in the basic rate of the old age pension could in any way benefit those who are in need of further assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1329.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Ought the hon. and gallant Gentleman to take advantage of the absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "o be paid where both of an old couple are pensioners and one is a householder. The only effect of raising the flat rate of old age pensions would be that more money would be paid to those old age pensioners who are unable to prove that they are in need. That is exactly and precisely what Sir William Beveridge, in the Report which the Labour Party asked the Government to accept in every particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1364.3", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "Throughout the length and breadth of this country hon. Gentlemen and their newspapers were saying that Beveridge was the bible of the workers' security and that the Government, under the domination of big business, was refusing it to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "preceding_text": "e he made was one which he was authorised to make on behalf of the Cabinet and the Government themselves. He told us on that occasion that the Government will give further consideration to the … pensioners … who need assistance … He also said: I repeat that it is the intention of the Government to make reasonable provision for old age pensioners. That is the statement he made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "preceding_text": "ide the operation of this Measure—and there must be thousands of them—because they have no dependants. Yet the pledge was given that all widows would be included under this Bill. As has already been stated, there has been a serious effort made to relate the proposals in this Bill to certain principles in the Beveridge plan. I am almost disposed to exclaim, \"God save us from Sir William Beveridge\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "It is not a Tory argument; it is common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not done it at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ffiths) to my right hon. Friends the Minister of Health and the Secretary of State for Scotland. That deputation asked whether, if we could not transfer people from the Poor Law, we could apply the Determination of Needs assessment, or get as near to it as we could. We set to work in this Bill to try to give effect to the request of that deputation. Some may say that we have not done it very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "a good deal of order out of chaos. We transfer, for instance, the widows with children from 200 local authorities, and put them under the Assistance Board. Anyone who has a knowledge of State administration knows that if you get your contributory pensions, your old age pensions and your supplementary pensions gradually transferred to one Department, it makes it easier to carry out your final task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ssment is applicable to the two alike. Therefore we have taken the line, without having to increase the staff—which the hon. Member for Abertillery complains of—that we can now transfer these widows and children without disturbing the man-power in administration too much. These things have been gone into with very great care. This is only a small Bill, no bigger than the proverbial servant's baby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-20", "file": "debates1943-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "4d2426edbc113fa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1376.5", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I think the settlement or the vote which was taken last year. The Government made their position perfectly clear. We had that out last year, and hon. Members voted then as they will probably vote to-day. The fact is that with the 6s. rent basis, the basis we have introduced in the last two years, we gave our answer last year, and I cannot give any pledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-20a.1376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-25", "file": "debates1943-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "07a35eba555d7a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-25a.1399.8", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. As I guessed it, the figure had come from Stokes's Encyclopedia of Phrase and Fable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-25a.1399.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-05-25", "file": "debates1943-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "07a35eba555d7a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-25a.1415.0", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood)", "preceding_text": "ge order; it will enable the United Kingdom and other United Nations, which lack Canadian dollars to obtain from Canada the war supplies they need; and it will do this without the accumulation of those war debts between nations which we so much wish to avoid. I feel sure that the Committee will join with me in expressing our gratitude and admiration for these magnanimous and far-reaching measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-25a.1414.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-25", "file": "debates1943-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "07a35eba555d7a85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-25a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I do not know quite how to put this, but my point is that the Chancellor does not know what money is. However, I suppose I shall have to sit down without developing my argument and reserve my words of wisdom for a future occasion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-25a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1577.2", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Culverwell", "preceding_text": "As it is impossible to do full justice to this scandal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "ill also fall before victory is finally won. No loss of freedom which is imposed upon the people who remain here can in any way compare with the hardship and loss of freedom inflicted upon them. My hon. and gallant Friend spoke also of the enormous number of Orders which had been promulgated by the Council. I think I am right in saying that they number something like 5,000 or 6,000 already issued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "What is the very foundation of this House? Those pictures tell us of the struggle between the King and the people. Coming along that corridor, I have been struck time and time again by that thought. That particular battle has been won, but it does not mean because that particular part of the battle has been won that liberty is still assured. The rights of Members have still to be safeguarded, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": ". I do not want to dwell upon certain Orders which have been mentioned by the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Penryn and Falmouth (Major Petherick). I want to come to those particular Orders which this House cannot discuss, Rules and Orders made under the protection of Defence of the Realm Regulations. We have no power in this House, so far as I know, to challenge those Rules and Orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is an 'also ran.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ly been those of people very greatly interested in the kind of liberty that the hon. Member for South Bradford was talking about, or in the necessity of the State providing certain economic essentials. There is another name which I do not see here, but I suppose it is among those which have not been printed on the Order Paper. I mean the name of the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1626.6", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "es within their power to see that the very great powers, which I think they ought to have and ought to continue, and which freedom itself requires shall continue, in reconstructing and rebuilding the world after the war, shall not be abused and shall not be presented to those who ought not to have those powers because of the unnecessary injustices created by lack of care or control or of checking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1626.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1627.0", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am appealing to the Government to try and find some method of avoiding it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1627.5", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "All that I am pointing out—and I hope that I am not too vague or ambiguous about it—is that the Motion suggests no way out. I have heard that people have asked for a Select Committee, but mention of a Select Committee is not made in the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1627.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1627.5", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "in that the Motion itself does not commit any of those who signed it to a Select Committee, and if the House of Commons adopt it and the Government accept it, you will still not have a Select Committee. That is what I am pointing out. I do not know whether a Select Committee would be a good idea or a bad one, or a workable machinery or not, but I am convinced that there ought to be some machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1627.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1630.4", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harold Webbe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harold Webbe", "preceding_text": "e have to be on our guard. What is the remedy? I do not think anyone would suggest that the wide powers granted to the Executive under the Defence Regulations should be in war-time in any way cut down. On the contrary, I believe everyone considers that in time of crisis the Executive should be armed with the completes possible power so that they may immediately deal with any crisis that may arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1641.6", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ence of Standing Committees, particularly when Members like the hon. Member for South Croydon are present, know how their deliberations can go on, and in a war of this character what the people want is that the Government should govern with speed and decision and have regard to security. I should like to put a few questions to the Minister according to the instructions which have been given to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1641.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, it was.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "It was not in oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When will it be published?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ", it was committed before he came in as a sort of appendix. The point there was that this was an Order of some substance and importance which ought not to have been, in the judgment of my hon. Friend, a subsidiary Order. The Order has been carefully examined, and is now no longer an Order but a Defence Regulation, made this month, so that if it were wished, it could now be challenged in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1649.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Author!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " sprouted— For each one chopped away. They grapple and they strangle us— Our struggles feebler grow. Until we drop into the maw— Where all its victims go. Our substance—when digested there, New tentacles induce. Whose suckers drain the cream away— From all which we produce; Yet, do we not deserve this fate? We play the silly fool, For the Octopus could be controlled— If the House of Commons—ruled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "elf, that is to say, it is more of a totalitarian character in any case, and partly, that as a consequence of having had two wars in one lifetime, we are naturally running the second war rather better, very much better, than we did the first. If we have a third war in our lifetime—and I hope we shall not—we shall run that war with almost complete perfection, in the light of this second experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1653.1", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nt, is the fact that British representative institutions are so adaptable in times of crisis and difficulty. It is because temporarily we can voluntarily give up part of our democratic system that our democratic system survives. It leads me to believe that in the running of democratic institutions there is no greater people in the world that the British, for successful enterprise in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1657.4", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is iruV leading himself. None of those three Committees is in any sense executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1657.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1657.4", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " proposal is to work, this is where we get to. That cannot be the position, I think, in the middle of a war. Things have to be done with speed; Ministers and officers are badly pressed. I do not think that this is what is claimed, on the face of it; but the Government, having emergency powers and the power to make Defence Regulations, cannot share the responsibility with a Committee of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1657.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "sk for the deferment of the question.\" I have intervened simply to say that, so far as I am concerned, if I continue to be a Member of this House I shall be prepared to be as vigilant as my colleagues, as vigilant as I possibly can be, to see that the liberty of the subject is not infringed. I trust to the good sense, which is one of the features of this House, whatever may be our political views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " far as I am concerned, if I continue to be a Member of this House I shall be prepared to be as vigilant as my colleagues, as vigilant as I possibly can be, to see that the liberty of the subject is not infringed. I trust to the good sense, which is one of the features of this House, whatever may be our political views. [ Interruption. ] If I changed my politics I should be in danger of hell fire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1692.3", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " tribute to the useful work his committee have done in giving the Government and Departments a bit of a jolt on this matter, but, with all respect, they have not been doing what a Select Committee of Members appointed by this House would be doing. They have been taking these Orders with some of which they have considerable knowledge, and they have been deciding which they want to make a row about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1692.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " lazy life. On top of all that has lately been added to his duties another which I think he should not have. The Post Office have taken to ringing him up at night and asking him whether he would mind delivering a telegram for them as their local sub-office has shut. I know cases in which a policeman has been called out of his bed at 3 or 4 a.m. and asked to cycle several miles on a cold wet night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-26", "file": "debates1943-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "762741b4f3a5c772", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "It may be, but it is rather an unfortunate situation that arises, I maintain, from the excessive demand for coupons from them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-26a.1702.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-05-27", "file": "debates1943-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "87374bd641b9d8d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-27a.1818.5", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "NURSES (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "preceding_text": "oversy on Clause 14 as to whether, as the Clause is phrased and framed, it is not too wide? On the other hand, there have been strong representations made to us that it is not wide enough. I propose very briefly to state the reasons which actuated us in giving power to the General Nursing Council to frame rules under which they may, in appropriate cases, give a remission in the period of training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-05-27a.1818.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\" and \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "llant Member for Erdington (Group-Captain Wright) made it perfectly clear why it is desired by those responsible for this Debate that there should be first of all an Empire discussion and the formation of an Empire civil aviation board. To put it almost in his own language, rather appropriate American slang, the idea is that we should be able by Empire agreement to tell America where she gets off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.80.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes we can.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": " and Fortresses here, and they do not compete with the Lancasters and the Spitfires. We are grateful for American production for war purposes, and I see no reason why we should be so anxious on the subject of peace production. By all means let us produce and develop the best we can, but let our industry take that production in its stride. After all, we cannot really compete with America and China.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who wants to beat them out of the market?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "Evidently I have got under the skin of some hon. Members. I say that we cannot expect to compete against America or Russia in technical development and in scientific research, if by competition is meant beating them out of the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "key to form rival imperialisms based on air power, or will they unite in a common policy of freedom of the air as well as freedom of the seas?\"— which is the position of my party upon that issue? We agree with the calling of an Empire conference by all means, but we do not agree that that conference shall be called merely to lay down the basis of a competitive policy against the rest of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "eation of beer-mindedness in the young. Why should we create a demand for anything? There is a little bit of philosophy about it, but, after all, human happiness does not come from the multiplication of demands. The idea that we should go out of our way to create demands, this idea that we have to be air-minded and that the whole community are bursting for the opportunity of travelling in the air—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "and even dole-minded. They are really not interested in how quickly a few wealthy people can be flown from Britain to New York, and they do not believe that serious inroads upon unemployment can be made by the rapid conveyance of specialised goods. They would be rapidly conveyed if we did not develop the production of aircraft in this industry. But let us have a sense of proportion about all this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.85.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "l concerned. The case attempted to be made out in this and other Debates is based on the assumption of continued economic rivalry. I assert that the idea that we can beat—perhaps that is a better expression than \"complete with\"—our two great Allies, Russia and the United States, in scientific research, technique and practice, is simply nonsense. If they set out to do it, they could beat us easily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": " which brought the country to that war, and will bring this country and the world to destruction sooner or later if it prevails. I say it is simply nonsense to talk about beating the world in the same way as Hitler has talked about beating the world in a military sense. If civil aviation is to be used for the sowing of more dragons' teeth, then to hell with civil aviation so far as I am concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members had said, \"to approach the Dominions with a view to asking them as to whether they thought a conference would be the best way,\" that would be one thing. That is not the way it has been stressed in this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "There are various methods by means of which this problem might be dealt with; among other matters some form of internationalisation may be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.135.1", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Brabner", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When are you going to employ your men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Brabner", "preceding_text": "ar from America before the war. It is perhaps not sufficiently realised in this House that we built the American air liner industry. That being so, I see no difficulty in our going to the Americans and saying, \"We have to build war aeroplanes in order to fight the war. You cannot stop your production the moment the war ends, and so you will produce far too many aircraft. Will you sell them to us?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.135.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "If the British Overseas Airways Corporation is any example of private enterprise, then I should certainly limit it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I would be willing to give way, but other Members wish to speak. Unless the hon. Gentleman has some substantial point to put, I hope he will allow me to proceed. I think we are all agreed on the desirability of improving our civil air transport, and by \"our\" I mean British. Let me say that I am well disposed to British air transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "a merely because America has more transport planes than we have at the moment. We have obviously to keep our end up, because it is a matter of life and death to us, not only in peace but in war. But if we are going to enter into unrestricted competition with America, as would seem to be suggested by some of the speeches that have been made to-day, and as indeed has been suggested by some speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "war. But if we are going to enter into unrestricted competition with America, as would seem to be suggested by some of the speeches that have been made to-day, and as indeed has been suggested by some speeches. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"] Was it not Senator Claire Boothe? Read some of the things she said. Read some of the reports of the Committees of Congress which have sat on this matter in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Which?\"] Was it not Senator Claire Boothe? Read some of the things she said. Read some of the reports of the Committees of Congress which have sat on this matter in America. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members will agree with me on that, even if they disagree that some of the speeches in this House seem to suggest that it is inevitable that we must enter into some unrestricted competition with America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Of course, they would be ultra-patriotic motives. I was not attempting to impute evil motives. I was attempting to show that there is propaganda going on at present which leads me to believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The. Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The. Secretary of State for Air (Sir Archibald Sinclair)", "preceding_text": "the theme of the speech which the Secretary of State for the Dominions addressed to the House at an earlier stage. We are now striving to arrive at that common policy with the Dominions. When my right hon. Friend was speaking, one or two hon. Members cried out, \"Give them a lead.\" What exactly did they mean by that suggestion? If giving the. Dominions a lead means telling the Dominions what to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The bombs are different.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "e that the aircraft that we were flying over Germany last year bore the names of Wellington, Halifax, Stirling and Lancaster, and the aircraft that are flying over Germany this month bear the same names, they are not the same aircraft. The engines are different, the fins are different, the noses are different, the shrouds may be different; and in a great many ways they are very different aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "en put forward by others, that is to say, the administration of civil air transport by the Air Ministry. The hon. Baronet the Member for South-East St. Pancras (Sir A. Beit) said it ought not to be under the Air Council. It is not under the Air Council. It comes directly under the Under-Secretary and myself, through the Director-General of Civil Aviation and the Permanent Under-Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-01", "file": "debates1943-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "6796f55c37e178ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Why not suggest one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "perfectly plain. We are now engaged in consultations with the Dominions, and it may well come about that in those consultations there will be agreement on the part of the Dominions and ourselves that a conference would be a good thing, but that must emerge as a result of the consultations which are taking place, and there can be no question of, as my right hon. Friend said, summoning a conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-01a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-02", "file": "debates1943-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0744433d09d53fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Assheton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Assheton)", "preceding_text": "the living stage was to help the living stage in competition with the cinema, and that still stands as the justification for it. I do not think that anyone would suggest that the living stage can really be compared with football and cricket in the sense that the people who go to see football and cricket matches would be seduced from their allegiance to football and cricket in favour of the cinema.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.232.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-02", "file": "debates1943-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0744433d09d53fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "g upon the hon. a9nd learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies), I would like to suggest that we might have a wide discussion on the principle, on the first of his Amendments and that standing in the name of the hon. Member for Northamp- ton (Mr. Summers). Later, particular Amendments can be moved, if hon. Members wish to secure some small points, but there can be no further general discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.275.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-02", "file": "debates1943-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0744433d09d53fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "That one case showed that £100,000 was made out of certain things, and the people got away with it. When statements of that kind go out to the country the country will want to know what the House of Commons is doing to watch these people. If this Clause will protect the State against that kind of thing, it is a proper Clause to pass. The hon. Member who defends this kind of thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-02", "file": "debates1943-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0744433d09d53fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask a question. If a Motion is put down on the Report stage that the Clause should be left out, does the Chancellor of the Exchequer think that by that time he would be able to reconsider the drafting? The Solicitor-General did not deal with the Amendment but only drew attention to a matter which muddled the minds of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-02", "file": "debates1943-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "d0744433d09d53fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.320.3", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "of the Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"] Oh, yes. He drew attention to a discreditable transaction. If the object of the Clause is to deal with a specific transaction, that is one thing. But it goes far beyond that object. Any trader who, in order to close up a business, sells off his stock at less than he might have sold it at, if he had continued trading, will be caught under this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-02a.320.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.399.3", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: There is a limit of £50.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Wood", "preceding_text": "ey include, I am informed, offerings for particular services of the ministry. In the Catholic Church there are offerings not only at Easter, but at Christmas. If you say, \"I will pick out Easter offerings,\" it would be proper for the Roman Catholic Church to say, \"If it is to be Easter offerings, we have offerings at Christmas as well, and therefore, we must have the Christmas offerings exempted.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "lation or whatever it may be, the accumulated offerings have not come up to it. To describe a minister's remuneration as a salary, and to regard it as something equivalent to a commercial contract, is to make a vast mistake. What a minister gets is an accumulation of Easter offerings. If the principle contended for by the Clause is right, no Nonconformist minister should pay a penny of Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Not avoidance of taxation, but of Surtax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " buy the vicarage grocery, or they could do as the Archbishop of York has done. His stipend is £9,000 a year. He has arranged with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to pay the whole maintenance of his office and his castle, and is in future to receive a salary of £4,250 subject to taxation: He and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have gone through a delightful process for the avoidance of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "ember for Keighley (Mr. Ivor Thomas) has helped the Church by raising this matter or that the way in which hon. Members have conducted the Debate in favour of the Clause has added to the dignity of the Church. The Committee has agreed—or at least there was a murmur of assent—when it was stated that the legal interpretation of the position on Easter offerings was correct, and that they were income,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "There is no appeal from a decision of the House of Lords. We have to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "If Easter offerings are not income, it is no abuse to exempt the whole amount. As a matter of fact, the £50 limit shows a bad conscience on the part of the hon. Member for Keighley arid other hon. Members who are trying by tax concessions to subsidise parsons wages because those wages are low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.420.1", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "subsidise parsons wages because those wages are low. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Certainly. Anyhow, it is obvious that we cannot reach agreement on this point. I think some of the suggestions made have been most undignified. Hon. Members have said, \"Well, we can get round it this way. We can add parsons of the Church of England to the body of tax dodgers who use questionable means of avoiding taxation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He said that it would matter less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": " not the clergyman of that parish. My hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby) said that the Board of Inland Revenue is putting its hand into the plate and taking out what belongs to somebody else. My hon. Friend went on to suggest that if Income Tax was only 6d. in the £ it would not matter. I do not see the logic of that. If it is wrong to take 10s. in the £ it is wrong to take 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not cadging.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Member been more successful and the clergy had a decent living, this question would not have arisen.1s it not suggested that, if they had been provided with decent salaries, they would not have had to do this cadging?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.444.3", "colnum": "444", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "ectors a list of societies, the subscriptions to which are allowed when the professional man is working on his own account, and that list of societies would be available if the same concession were to be extended to the man working as an employee. One does not want, in dealing with financial matters, to appeal ad misericordiam. It is the duty of the Chancellor to harden his heart but nevertheless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.444.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "preceding_text": "The plea that has been made by my hon. Friend ought, I think, to commend itself to the Committee. I do not know whether he can accomplish the miracle he set out to do, because the softening of the heart of a Chancellor of the Exchequer on the occasion of a Finance Bill is as rare an event as the liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.462.5", "colnum": "462", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": " Friend the cumulative effect of these expert reports which I have quoted. The question has been raised before, and I just want to refer to that, because it has a considerable bearing upon the decision which I think the Chancellor ought now to take. In passing, I may say that the venerable and illustrious author of those duties, the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs (Mr. Lloyd George) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-03", "file": "debates1943-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "43ecc28dfa88e2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why ask it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I do not want to detain the Committee and I do not want an answer from the Attorney-General or from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the question I have in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-03a.487.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-08", "file": "debates1943-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ae8a1141592820e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-08a.505.4", "colnum": "505", "heading": "ALLIED FORCES (MESSAGE FROM GENERAL EISENHOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "MR. Speaker", "preceding_text": "embers of the House of Commons the thanks of all ranks of the Allied Forces under my Command for this generous appreciation of their services. Strengthened by your encouraging message, we look forward with increasing confidence to a future of still greater effort and achievement until the complete and final destruction of the Axis forces throughout the world has been attained. (Signed) Eisenhower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-08a.505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-08", "file": "debates1943-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ae8a1141592820e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-08a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "Yes, damp, and the quick succession of tenants, not all paying strict attention to the welfare of their houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-08a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.701.5", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCHANT NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is it sufficient for a Minister to say that he has nothing to add?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.701.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.701.5", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MERCHANT NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is it sufficient for a Minister to say that he has nothing to add? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] It may be sufficient for some hon. Members, but it is not sufficient for me. Can the Minister not give a valid reason why this information is being withheld from the public?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.701.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.709.5", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "May I ask——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.730.5", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "mselves but they have starved their families to save it. Instead of buying boots for their children, even in the dead of winter, they have put the money aside. That is in my country, which is a different country altogether from England—and, as you see, I am different from you. We are a hardier race, a race that could live on porridge and the children could go barefooted even in the dead of winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.730.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "who are higher up in society. We never hear these arguments trotted out when pensions are being paid to members' of the Royal family. We do not hear it said that the father and mother should provide for them and that they are not to be given £1,000 a year income or a very substantial salary. We do not hear it in regard to ex-Cabinet Ministers when they are given two-thirds of their serving salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "al family. We do not hear it said that the father and mother should provide for them and that they are not to be given £1,000 a year income or a very substantial salary. We do not hear it in regard to ex-Cabinet Ministers when they are given two-thirds of their serving salary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] What have they? They only require to declare that they are in need, and they are given an allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.735.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ch £25 after the first, is, in respect of the first £100, is. 6d. a week; the second f too adds 2s.; the third £100 adds another 2s. and the fourth £100 adds a further 2s. If a man has £400 he gets 10s. a week pension and is credited with 7s. 6d. income from his £400, that means that he is credited with only 17s. 6d. of an income. Yet the £400 rules him out of supplementary benefit. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Liquid capital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "d that he had refused to tell her. I told him that if he did not tell her, he would not get anything. It took me over half an hour to explain the position to him and I am not quite sure even now whether I succeeded in putting it across. Suppose you have two men working side by side in the same pit. One invests his money in the Co-operative Society and the other in Sam Smith's Brewery at Tadcaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The prodigal son.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": " Society and the other in Sam Smith's Brewery at Tadcaster.[An Hon. MEMBER: \"Liquid capital.\"] Supposing one man saves £400.and the other man saves nothing. When he is sick the man who has not been thrifty gets 15s. from National Health Insurance and has to go to the public. assistance committee as well. Now we are to say to him, \"Having spent all your money, you can have a supplementary pension.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "00.and the other man saves nothing. When he is sick the man who has not been thrifty gets 15s. from National Health Insurance and has to go to the public. assistance committee as well. Now we are to say to him, \"Having spent all your money, you can have a supplementary pension.\" [An HON. MEMBER: \"The prodigal son.\"] Yes, I know, it is the case of the prodigal son, but what about the elder brother?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.760.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.764.7", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.764.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh yes, just now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": ", that the local authorities were not doing this. We said, \"They are doing it. If the local authorities do not do it and the auditor comes along, he will force them to do it. It is not a matter of choice. We are asking that the married son shall be put on the same footing as the son who is at home. Surely we are not asking too much. Up to now we have not had a crumb fall from the rich man's table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Etherton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To justice, and not to generosity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Etherton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has made an appeal to generosity and to sentiment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When is the time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Lady will admit that last week I made an attempt to better the position of widows who are greatly suffering, but I sincerely feel that this is not the time to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " far, I feel that we ought to have been pressing for this Clause to be made wider still in its scope. Instead of that, hon. Members have been vying with one another to defend the Minister. Many deserving widows have been left out who ought to have been in. We have gone rather on to the defence instead of keeping up the attack. It is a good Tory claim that we, because we are simple and do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-09", "file": "debates1943-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "56ee2c4e52d72166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.806.0", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND DETERMINATION OF NEEDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Minister will see his way to accept this Amendment. He has been very sticky up to now and stood fast throughout the whole day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-09a.806.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.873.6", "colnum": "873", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That makes a difference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "im that the financial affairs of Newfoundland were not being conducted with complete rectitude, was so horrified that he decided that the only way to cope with the situation was by taking away from the Dominion its right to govern itself and put in brokers. I was horrified at that, and the present Dominions Secretary was even more horrified. At that time he was on the Opposition side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.873.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson (Pudsey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson (Pudsey)", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt my hon. Friend? Would not a request such as he refers to be a request from the Government, as representative of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "happy to do so. The special grade was designedly stopped at 58 per cent. when emphasis had to be laid upon quantity rather than quality. We see no point, therefore, in farmers, who with their wide experience know that the cattle have now a killing-out percentage of 57 or 58. con- tinuing to waste more feeding stuffs on them to carry them on to 60 or 62. After all, it is the view of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.953.5", "colnum": "953", "heading": "ARMY LECTURES, IPSWICH (CANCELLATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Sir James Grigg)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Sir James Grigg)", "preceding_text": " family have been victimised by some supposed implication of moral obloquy. I tried to remove any implication of this sort by my answer of 18th May. The hon. Member gave an instance designed to show how serious the victimisation was. If he will forgive me for saying so, I think he exaggerated a little, because I have reports of what was said and the suggestion, according to my reports, was merely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.953.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.957.2", "colnum": "957", "heading": "ARMY LECTURES, IPSWICH (CANCELLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And not all of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is the implication. If only orthodox opinions are to be given to the troops, only hon. Members on that side will be able to lecture to the troops at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.957.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "hard words to say about the Minister—although I have said hard words before. Sometimes he is badly advised. I think he depends too much upon the British Medical Association, and he leans too much towards bureaucracy. After all, he is a Minister, and he has to consider the policy of his Government and take his proper place in it. It is a position in which any of us at any time might find ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "d go up to an extent which might jeopardise the scheme. But in the purview of the profession Whitley machinery, national, regional or local, can be arranged to get over these trivial difficulties. I could go on for days and days. I have handled this subject for 20 years, and officially for 10 years. I am a person whose advice has to be taken or rejected on this by important bodies in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-10", "file": "debates1943-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "7608428e245d2282", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ies, medical as well as lay. I want to ask him in particular also to have certain principles in front of his mind—no public finance without lay control; that medical education should, if possible, be democratised and brought within the purview of some authoritative body. At present those in control take your doctors early, as most religions do, and turn them out Tory sausages. I have seen it done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-10a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-22", "file": "debates1943-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "3c54e9b30d903e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-22a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "POLICE INVESTIGATIONS, NORTH LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What nationality?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ccupied two rooms the doors of which were open and both the police officers were standing on the landing. By this time Mr. Somers was getting very impatient. He did however produce an Armed Forces Registration Card with a different name on it to the one he had given to the police, because at the time he had served in the Army his name had been not Somers but Sarro. This was a curious circumstance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-22a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-22", "file": "debates1943-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "3c54e9b30d903e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-22a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "POLICE INVESTIGATIONS, NORTH LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I would like to say, as a Member, any of whose constituents may be, at any time, in a similar position, that the reply of the Under-Secretary is to me very unsatisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-22a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943 CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that in mining areas the great majority of magistrates are members of the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943 CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "That does not alter the fact that there is continual disagreement. I have seen strikes going on in my county all this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1209.3", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943 CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "Thousands of men have been away from their work through some form of pettifogging dispute which ought never to have interfered with coal production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943 CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "That is beside the point, if I may say so. The complaint is that the miner does not get enough to eat. My answer is that where there are canteens which supply these things they are patronised by only one-third to one-quarter of the men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943 CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": "But it shows that they think the mining industry is one which is worth going into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1248.9", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943 CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": "man working underground. In Leicestershire a banksman on the surface, owing to the bonus that he is getting now, and owing to the flat rate, is receiving £5 13s. 9d. for a six-shift week, and if he goes underground he gets only £5 16s. 6d. for a six-shift week. The ordinary man at the age of 21 or 22 with a light job on the surface does not feel inclined to go down the pit for an extra 3s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1248.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943 CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "In what regions have these medical officers worked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-23", "file": "debates1943-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "67ba845ed5d96bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1276.2", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "SOFT DRINKS INDUSTRY (CONCENTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "rable to make any observations on the way this propaganda has been conducted. I do not think it will have much influence on the minds of those who are taking part in the meeting to-morrow. A considerable part of the document is a criticism of the Minister on the ground that he has a controlling vote. There can be no doubt whatever of the enthusiasm of the industry in giving the Minister this vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-23a.1276.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-24", "file": "debates1943-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "75ce87ba7892eb82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1283.8", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister consider whether raising the registration age might not be the best way of dealing with the difficulty referred to in the Question, and might be the means of releasing a considerable number of women now taking shelter in the form of household and domestic workers in establishments where there are four or five domestic workers for a household of two or three people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1283.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-24", "file": "debates1943-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "75ce87ba7892eb82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1313.5", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL MACHINERY (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "There is no case for that. This House deals with legislation when it has got it, and it will get this Bill at an early date. It would be an innovation in Parliamentary proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-24", "file": "debates1943-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "75ce87ba7892eb82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haslam", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, on the Ministry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haslam", "preceding_text": "hat point, but looking at it from the point of view of the applicant, I am a little doubtful as to whether that system will benefit him. The hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander) said that the whole force of the Government machinery is against the man, but is that quite correct? Independent tribunals are to be set up to arrive at just judgments. The onus of proof must be on the tribunal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-24", "file": "debates1943-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "75ce87ba7892eb82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": " of the tribunal. The Bill should, at some stage, contain provisions for removing unsuitable people, or superannuating them when they get too old or for taking action in respect to them where they have been convicted of any crime. Before the Bill comes out of Committee, I look to find those matters rectified. Subject to that, I think I can join in the chorus of approval which has greeted the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-24a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-29", "file": "debates1943-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2cf85a7eb526a7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "lternatively, there are two suggestions to make. The Motion I have moved is permissive, and if it is passed the Business may be taken in one day. If the House is willing to let the Motion be passed, and will have confidence in me as Leader of the House, and if I find, as the Business proceeds, that it is desired to have another day, I am prepared to arrange it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-29", "file": "debates1943-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2cf85a7eb526a7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Disposal of company's stock at under value.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "n to a black market offence. It is an endeavour to make money in a way that I think must be abhorrent to all. It would be unfair if I did not quote his next sentence: Equally we must not be led away by our feelings to do anything unfair or anything calculated to bring misfortune on innocent people.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd June, 1943; cols. 321–2, Vol. 390.] With that we are all in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-29", "file": "debates1943-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2cf85a7eb526a7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "CLAUSE 23.—(Disposal of company's stock at under value.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " a way that I think must be abhorrent to all. It would be unfair if I did not quote his next sentence: Equally we must not be led away by our feelings to do anything unfair or anything calculated to bring misfortune on innocent people.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 2nd June, 1943; cols. 321–2, Vol. 390.] With that we are all in agreement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Certainly we are all in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-29", "file": "debates1943-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2cf85a7eb526a7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1563.9", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "CLAUSE 22.—(Payments to superannuation funds, etc., in respect of back service.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It seems to be a convenient course. It is a matter for the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1563.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-29", "file": "debates1943-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "2cf85a7eb526a7a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1582.3", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "CLAUSE 22.—(Payments to superannuation funds, etc., in respect of back service.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "If you did not put it aside for superannuation, would it remain as capital employed in the business? Would it be invested? If invested it would not be treated as capital employed in the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-29a.1582.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1597.6", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLISH NATIONALS (MILITARY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I do not accept at all what the hon. Gentleman has said. I have seen no notice whatever that if these men do not join Forces of their own nationals they will be liable to penalties under the law of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1597.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1631.6", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the representative of the Ministry of Labour has stated that military personnel are now making deliveries, I am now asking the responsible Minister whether I can be assured now that we are going to get fish that is normal and not rotten delivered in our city? Does the Minister know that? Can I get an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1631.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1658.2", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": "er of Civil Defence. It was established with a view to preparing for a decentralisation so extreme that regions could operate on their own if they were cut off from London. Happily that eventuality has never arisen, and it is exceedingly unlikely now that it will arise, yet these staffs have increased since 1940, and we did not hear from the hon. Lady that there was any attempt now to reduce them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1676.2", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "uld also remind the Committee that youth organisations are receiving uniforms—the A.T.C., the G.T.C., and the Cadet Corps. If these organisations can receive uniforms to-day, surely an important branch of the fire-fighting organisation is entitled to the same consideration. I do not know how many people in this Committee have ever tried to hold a hose. You cannot do it without getting wet through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1695.3", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "n in the control room because there are not sufficient women in that area. These men are, of course, paid at a much higher rate. Take the despatch riders, men and women, on motor bikes. Has it been proved to the Minister that women are less efficient and less conscientious than men or are afraid of danger? Of course it has not. Why should the women despatch riders not be paid the same rate as men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1734.3", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "case that civil servants must not get into trouble too often. My hon. Friend was followed later by the hon. Member for Abingdon (Sir R. Glyn), who pursued us with great vigour about certain shelters. I forget whether it happened in my time or before, but this was the position: There was a need for the rapid building of shelter when war broke out, and later on during the blitz there was a shortage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1736.0", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "they were in many cases misunderstood by the local authority technicians. I wish my people had been a little more expansive and that local authority technicians had been a little more bright in understanding the circular. Mistakes were made, though it was not altogether a mistake, because in some cases the condemned mixture when used at certain times of the year stood up to the weather conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-06-30", "file": "debates1943-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "acbfe3a7badb2a17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1736.0", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "would be perfectly legitimate in the ordinary way of employment. Before the Orders were made many commitments had been made, agreements had been freely entered into between employers and trade unions, and the trade unions said, \"If you try to upset these agreements, there will be so much bother that you will lose rather than gain on the transaction.\" Let me say that the employers agreed with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-06-30a.1736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-01", "file": "debates1943-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "fdb74c7b15b0dd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1825.1", "colnum": "1825", "heading": ">ORDERS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not bring in a new Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": " I am definitely advised that the Bill as drafted covers the points, at any rate as regards the question of a man's entitlement to a pension, and I have to decide whether a man is entitled to a pension or not, on the two conditions that are laid down in the Royal Warrant. If those conditions are altered and improved as a result of this review, the tribunals will deal with them in the amended form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1825.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-07-01", "file": "debates1943-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "fdb74c7b15b0dd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": ">ORDERS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-01", "file": "debates1943-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "fdb74c7b15b0dd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": ">ORDERS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "It so happens that there is a certain amount of time for the news bulletins", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-01", "file": "debates1943-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "fdb74c7b15b0dd5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1899.6", "colnum": "1899", "heading": ">ORDERS OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "It says that the provisions of Polish law shall be applied -to such persons. There is nothing in that statement which contradicts the Act of Parliament. The Act implies that the Poles have no power to enforce the call-up in this country. The Act does not say that the Poles have no power to enforce their own law in their own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-01a.1899.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.1978.0", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": " I do not see why we should not have a Commissioner's office in Wales, with a Commissioner in charge. It is true that Scotland and England have Assistant Commissioners. I do not know whether we should jib at the word. There is the chairman of the Commissioners, the general Commissioners, of whom there are eight or nine, some of them colleagues of ours. I think there are four Members of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.1978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.1984.0", "colnum": "1984", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And thanks to the Minister of Agriculture and the subsidies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "said, there are lands which can be used for forestry which a few years ago were regarded as derelict. It is still more true of agricultural land. Thanks to the tremendous advances made under the guidance of Sir George Stapledon, and thanks also to the new machinery, which can tear up this land, and the new scientific methods used, land which we regarded as derelict is now capable of growing crops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.1984.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2015.0", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "this country—they would be favourably considered by the Commission and, I suppose, by the Government to that extent. I do not know whether I am entitled to deal with the hon. and learned Member's statement that he would like to put this Commission under the Minister of Agriculture and to deprive the Minister of deep-sea fishing. I think, without exception, we part company with him in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "All of us, that is to say the Commissioners. I was speaking of those who had signed the Commission's report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has any Scottish Socialist signed it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "ad signed the Commission's report. [ Interruption. ] I have no doubt my hon. Friend who interrupts will get his turn. If he will let me go on, I shall be obliged. So far as that Report is concerned, I say we accepted it unanimously, and as far as the set-up is concerned, again I think there cannot be very much complaint about it. There are four Scottish representatives who have signed this Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For English owners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "for Scotland. On the present authority there is Scottish representation. I do not know whether my hon. Friend is a Welshman, but he took a Welshman's place on the Commission at any rate; and he is not filling that place badly. In any case, no Commissioner looks upon himself as representing Scotland or England. He looks at the business side of it all, as part of the internal economy of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2039.0", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "d their evidence. Perhape he will also assure the Committee that there is no separate report from the technical officers of the Commission, or no memorandum of any kind. I think it most essential that the Committee should know that, though I am very optimistic that my right hon. Friend will have the good sense to tell the Committee that the Government will take a little time to make up their mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-06", "file": "debates1943-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "90e12a9e8cff8c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2039.0", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": " soft wood growing area is inside Scotland, under the 1924 census analysis in that paragraph only one-third of the country's soft wood was at that time being grown in Scotland. If you look at paragraph 219 you will find that there are 1,500 forest workers, almost, in the country, of whom only 24 per cent. are in Scotland, despite the fact that half the potential area in the Kingdom is in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-06a.2039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2073.9", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Creech Jones", "preceding_text": "May I thank the right hon. and gallant Gentleman and also congratulate his Department on the publication of this Report; and may I express the hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2073.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2084.3", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that this paper criticised the wrong Ally? Have not other papers slandered the Soviet Union and nothing has been done about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2115.4", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Assheton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Travel hopefully.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Assheton)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read the Third time.\" It is nearly three months since my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced his Budget, and today we hope to reach the end of this particular journey. There are those, I know, who say that it is better to travel pleasantly than to arrive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "t. We may each of us, here, have our own design for living after the war, and we may each shape our design for budgeting accordingly. Some want this new order, and others want that. There may be some who have hankerings after some part of the old order, and there are others, like the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton), who would probably prefer in their heart of hearts to have no order at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2140.1", "colnum": "2140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "r as taxes are concerned, and he has wrung more money out of the British public than any other Chancellor. He has managed it somehow. I want to put a concrete case to him. I met a miner's wife in my Division on Monday afternoon, and I said to her, \"How are you getting on\"? and she replied, \"I am getting on bad. Our Jack, on Saturday only brought a bob home after he had had his tax stopped off it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2145.2", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a bachelor, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "when repayments will be made and how they will be made. I am met by such inquiries as this: \"If I should die, to whom will my Post-War Credit go? Will it go to my wife or family, or will the State take it?\" Another one was this: \"If I accumulate Post-War Credits for a year or two, can the Chancellor include that in my assets and tax me on it?\" I have with me my own certificate of Post-War Credits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2182.1", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They ought to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "Reverting to the question of stability and the 20 per cent., I hope my right hon. Friend will recognise that no responsible set of accountants would put down any part of that 20 per cent. on a balance-sheet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2195.0", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Superannuation benefits on termination of service before retiring age.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And security.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "In case the right hon. Gentleman intends to put in another manuscript Amendment, I would like to say, with great respect, that I am at variance with my hon. Friend. I do not think his proposition is a very good one. I have always understood that pensions in the Civil Service were part of pay, and that people got lower pay because they had expectations of pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-07", "file": "debates1943-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "7a07085da4e2661b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2213.0", "colnum": "2213", "heading": "COAL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "tees are there that the Commission can be protected, and can at the same time protect the people of this country? What guarantee is there that any document so submitted is not spurious? I want the right hon. and gallant Gentleman to appreciate that I am very merciful in attempting to put certain questions relating to this Bill. There are many dark and obscure and suspicious points about this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-07a.2213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-08", "file": "debates1943-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "451e1fade86eb8d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-08a.2227.9", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that although miners are provided with holidays they really come out of their wages?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-08a.2227.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-08", "file": "debates1943-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "451e1fade86eb8d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-08a.2257.4", "colnum": "2257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES AND CIVILIANS (PENSIONS AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "If I did that, should also have to give a full list of the cost-of-living figures in the various Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-08a.2257.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-08", "file": "debates1943-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "451e1fade86eb8d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-08a.2357.3", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman only knew how many letters I have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-08a.2357.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-07-13", "file": "debates1943-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "93a9bb6b954176fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUILDING COSTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Works.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I do not gather to which Ministry my hon. and gallant Friend refers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-13", "file": "debates1943-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "93a9bb6b954176fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.29.5", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Are we to take it that the £143,000,000 are small subscriptions made by genuine small subscribers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.29.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-13", "file": "debates1943-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "93a9bb6b954176fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "ch His Majesty's Government are to give under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, will be fully needed for basic developments and social advances, and I think we shall need and be glad of, the assistance of private capital. Under proper control—and everybody agrees that in Colonial territories it should be under proper control—I think it could be of great benefit to the Colonial territories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-13", "file": "debates1943-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "93a9bb6b954176fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": " for great risks, also looked for great profits. What I hope is to give a chance to the efficient producer with reasonable security to get a reasonable return. I believe—although some hon. Members opposite may laugh at the idea—that after the war there will be found a number of industrialists who will have a real desire, apart from the profit motive, to assist in this task of Imperial development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-13", "file": "debates1943-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "93a9bb6b954176fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"All Conservative?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "preceding_text": " war. They fear that the political changes, if there are any such, will also mean changes in Colonial policy, and that the rosy promises made for the future will fall into oblivion. These articles express doubts, further, as to the benefits that the Colonial peoples themselves will reap from the future and from any post-war developments in their territory, and these articles from different organs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-13", "file": "debates1943-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "93a9bb6b954176fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So have you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and gallant Friend is not doing himself justice. He has a better intelligence than he is leading us to suppose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-13a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.222.13", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ghly speaking—I shall use only rough figures—20,000,000 tons of shipping. On the most optimistic estimate, we cannot expect to have more than about 9,000,000 tons of shipping at our disposal at the conclusion of hostilities. On the other hand, the United States of America, which has never been re- garded either from the standpoint of numbers or from that of maritime skill as a great marine nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.222.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With the dames?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all she knew. We have even heard that society dames are behind the Government. Who can tell? In the United States they are flirting with this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ately controlled. He added—and this is worth noting—that if private ownership could not do it, the Government would. There is no doubt about their intentions. I want to know whether the Government intend to hand over the whole of the shipping, now requisitioned and largely nationalised, to private owners at the close of the war. I ask that question from the standpoint of the shipowners themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "re is no dead face she can caress, she can only caress a memory, \"My beautiful, my brave.\" From the Government all she gets is a message telling her that her son is missing. There are many of these mothers. These seamen have a record which no section of the community can surpass. But what of the shipowners? They have a record which would bring the blush of shame to an Al Capone or a Charles Peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.278.5", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "The widow of one man was left £7,000,000 or £8,000,000 from shipping, and it will be remembered she went to the Channel Islands in order to escape taxation. As I have said, a former President of the Board of Trade introduced subsidies five or six years ago. His family, by a piece of the sharpest practice imaginable in the transfer of ships, made over £2,000,000 and walked away with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.326.4", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Then my hon. Friend had better look at Hansard in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.326.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.326.4", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Several HON. MEMBERS: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Then my hon. Friend had better look at Hansard in the morning.[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think I am within the recollection of the House. It is clear that before the war you could wander over fields without being prosecuted at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.326.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was dealing with a point with which I was not dealing. I have come back to the point of the hon. Member for Harrow, who deprecated the method of pilfering. How can you describe those habits unless they were seen? I suggest that he was imagining these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I wanted the hon. Member to say. Every person who is seen on an allotment in future is to be a suspected person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ose of removing him from the land. If he resisted he committed an assault, on which a summons could be taken out against him for assault. But it was not presumed that because a man was on land which was not his own he was about to commit a crime. Now the presumption is that he is about to commit a crime—the crime of theft—and for that reason you have made it a crime for him to be on the allotment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Certainly. On Sunday afternoon I went for a stroll past one of the allotments in our park to which the Minister has referred. I saw two people digging for victory with enthusiasm, and I exercised the Briton's right of watching other people work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.331.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-07-14", "file": "debates1943-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bb8a5ff0d12905dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.334.7", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "I was endeavouring to say that, in view of the fact that it would, according to the information at our disposal, cancel Regulation 61 and since we have aired what we considered to be a grievance in the fact that people might innocently become criminal because no notice was displayed, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-14a.334.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.359.4", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Over what period?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Private enterprise has provided 3,000,000 and public enterprise 1,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the Order Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the first and second speakers, and I am waiting to hear what is their purpose. Are they moving an Amendment to these Regulations or to Standing Orders? What is their purpose? I really cannot follow. I would like the hon. Member to be more definite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Less government of the right sort?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "To a very considerable extent I share the sentiments expressed by the hon. and learned Member for North Edinburgh (Mr. Erskine-Hill), although possibly not for the same reasons. What I want is less government of the right sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "To a very considerable extent I share the sentiments expressed by the hon. and learned Member for North Edinburgh (Mr. Erskine-Hill), although possibly not for the same reasons. What I want is less government of the right sort. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Less government of the right sort?\"] What I want is less government of the right kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.459.4", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "y were when his predecessor put all these people in. I am not concerned with what different political faiths or political beliefs people have. My responsibility in this House, whether everybody agrees with me or not, is to attempt to see that justice is done to everybody and that people's freedom is not curtailed except in the national interest. I leave that particular aspect, and I want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.459.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Regulation 18B has been discussed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The Order which has just been mentioned is, of course, a subsidiary Order, and this is the only occasion upon which the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Penryn and Falmouth (Major Petherick) could raise it, but, nevertheless, it is rather unfortunate that the merits of a particular Order have been interpolated into a general discussion of powers given to the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams). I am complaining that he did not do what he now conceives was his Parliamentary duty. The real fact is that the British democracy and the British Parliament, faced with a terrible war and with a foe which for fifth column technique and for unscrupulous methods and for exploiting treachery was a different kind of foe from the general run of foes in wars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Those Special Orders are in the main I think gas and electricity supply Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.500.2", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We did approach—or they approached us, I forget which—the Society of Friends, who have been helpful in a number of cases. I assure the House that in a considerable number of these cases—I do not say in all of them—it would be very embarrassing for me to issue a certificate saying \"This man is reliable.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.500.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am being very patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "preceding_text": "ure our liberties. Although I instinctively dislike these Measures, I do not think the Government can be regarded as anything but trustees of our liberties. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will regard himself in that way. I think he does. In spite of many of his expressions and his different attitude in the past, I believe that, deep down in his heart, he is proud of the British Constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry the Noble Lord is interrupting me. He might listen to my poor defence before he brings the heavy artillery to bear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "r girl has committed against the community—except that perhaps a girl has a disease and has had a secret liaison. There is no evidence that she has infected anybody else or that she is immoral. These two individuals who inform, are at the best sneakingly breaking the code of honour, in telling against their partners in an unorthodox intimacy. The woman is subjected some-times to painful treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-15", "file": "debates1943-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "fb58dbfc62bc4c96", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.527.3", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "reatment for any disease, scarlet fever, measles or any other disease. A doctor when he is qualified under the Medical Acts is free to treat anybody by any reasonable means whatever. He need not believe in orthodox medicine, but here under a Regulation passed by this House in wartime for the specific purpose, at the bidding of newspapers on the other side of the Atlantic, of saving their soldiers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-15a.527.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-16", "file": "debates1943-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5622807c559a3770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREND OF POPULATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "wealthy women? Your arguments cannot apply to them.\" I want the Committee to realise that my remarks apply to about go per cent. of the housewives of the country. The To per cent., the privileged few, have all sorts of other factors affecting their lives. I know perfectly well that the wealthy mother is never very anxious to feed her own baby, because she has so many social functions to attend to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-16", "file": "debates1943-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5622807c559a3770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREND OF POPULATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Fremantle", "preceding_text": "traceptives. They have to face this problem as they faced the problem of anaesthetics. When Bishop Samuel Wilberforce denounced the use of anaesthetics it was Queen Victoria who made use of them, to give the example; and the objection was overcome. In the same way the proper value of contraceptives must be recognised. I propose that there should be legislation to control the sale of Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-16", "file": "debates1943-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5622807c559a3770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREND OF POPULATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady agrees with the hon. Gentleman that we must maintain the power of Great Britain and the British Empire and that that power depends upon our numerical strength", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-16", "file": "debates1943-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5622807c559a3770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.7", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREND OF POPULATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not to decline.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "uncil table the descendants of British stock in South Africa, or the United States, will necessarily take the English view of the problems to be confronted. I think we want to know, as a nation, first of all what we are trying to do with this population question. Though we have been discussing this for over four hours, everyone has tacitly accepted the view that we want the population to increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-16", "file": "debates1943-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5622807c559a3770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.7", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREND OF POPULATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"First one and then the other.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "or the United States, will necessarily take the English view of the problems to be confronted. I think we want to know, as a nation, first of all what we are trying to do with this population question. Though we have been discussing this for over four hours, everyone has tacitly accepted the view that we want the population to increase. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not to decline.\"] Is it the one or the other?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-16", "file": "debates1943-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5622807c559a3770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.7", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TREND OF POPULATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "the other? [An HON. MEMBER: \"First one and then the other.\"] You want to maintain our present 40,000,000 odd and then to get more and more. Is there to be any upper limit? I think that some of the problems of India and China have arisen just because there was no upper limit, no consideration of prudence and forethought at all. You say we can afford to go ahead increasing our population recklessly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.617.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-16", "file": "debates1943-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "5622807c559a3770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPROVED SOCIETY (CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR'S EXPULSION)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "e appellant as a person who has been imprisoned for a crime. The appeal fails on these grounds, and is dismissed. There is the legal situation. The referee gives the answer on the legal situation. It is nit for him to judge whether it is wise or unwise. All that he has to say is whether the society is within the law in what it has done. The referee has gone into the matter, and that is the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-16a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.688.8", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS FORCES (LEAVE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Six years\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I cannot, at the present time. The war is spreading over wider regions, and our Forces are ever more completely engaged with the enemy. The hard cases of men who have been a long time away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.688.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Suppose a person is receiving something for partial disablement. You say he must be wholly disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Suppose a person is receiving something for partial disablement. You say he must be wholly disabled. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, wholly unemployable is wholly disabled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " that, had the father lived, he would have given the educational facilities for which she is now asking. In these days that sort of condition ought to go. I have seen children of people in Scotland being sent to the university when their parents have been drawing Poor Law relief. My father had long spells of unemployment, and I am the only member who did not have some sort of university education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Coloned Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And many others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Coloned Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "These concessions have arisen after some months of pressure being brought to bear upon the Government by this House, by the British Legion, which has been to see the Minister of Pensions in deputation, by St. Dunstan's and by the newspaper Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "y has occurred while those people have been in the Services. I know it will be argued that a medical board may have made a mistake, that there may have been some inherent disease that the doctors or the medical board were not cognisant of. I know that medical men make mistakes; we all make mistakes. I agree that when the medical man makes a mistake the undertaker invariably takes the mistake away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " public funds will be used to provide in part, pensions for these widows. The Minister might very well take them on his books and not throw them on to an outside body. The Government have thought more than once on these matters. There is still time for them to think again. It may be a small issue, but is it worth while raising consternation, as it undoubtedly has done in the minds of legionnaires?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "came back from a flight on which he had been instructing, stepped out of the aeroplane which I believe_ he had been piloting and turned to speak to someone on the landing ground. As he spoke the first few words he fell over. People rushed to him and found he was dead. There was a post mortem, and it was discovered that he had coronary thrombosis. I do not recall his exact age; I believe he was 31.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-20", "file": "debates1943-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "5ce6580d7296cd88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions (Mr. Paling)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions (Mr. Paling)", "preceding_text": " the fact that at least a breach has been made in the principle and the concession has been partly granted. He also asked about a man drawing partial disablement pension who had been married after his injury, and whether if the man died his widow would get a pension. Unless, as his wife, she got an allowance whilst he was living, she would not get a pension after his death. Nor would his children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-20a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-21", "file": "debates1943-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "9664427669885513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND YOUTH WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "y proved that there is absolute neglect and disregard of what is necessary to be done by parents for their children, I think, as a final resort, there must be some sanction taken against parents for the welfare of the children. I put it as strongly as that. As I said, this section of the Report from the Educational Institute of Scotland is quite foreign to the atmosphere of the rest of the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-21", "file": "debates1943-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "9664427669885513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND YOUTH WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Sir Josiah Stamp.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "chosen. I am not for a moment discounting the value of university education. I am merely saying that there should be a greater measure of opportunity for those who come in at the lower scale, and that they should not be automatically crowded out by those who come in with no actual grounding in the industry or profession and simply enter it at the upper end and block promotion for those below them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-21", "file": "debates1943-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "9664427669885513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND YOUTH WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ised a whole lot of subjects which have been controversial, and porridge is one of the things I should like to be controversial about. I think porridge is just one of the greatest swindles that was ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that porridge has any great food value. It supplies what the animal nutrition people call \"bulk,\" but as food it is just no use at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-21", "file": "debates1943-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "9664427669885513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND YOUTH WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What size\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunter", "preceding_text": "as to keep down the rates, and that some who adopted that attitude were those who were financially able to send their children to higher schools but knew nothing about elementary schools. It is simplicity that we want. If I had to make a suggestion, I should say that the Advisory Committee have to find out a better system of administration. Each large burgh should have its own education authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-21", "file": "debates1943-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "9664427669885513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH EDUCATION AND YOUTH WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": " hear the hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Lindsay) suggesting that the young people of Scotland in this generation are not so good from the educational point of view as were their parents or grandparents. The hon. Member shakes his head. That was my impression, and I think it was the impression of other Members in other parts of the Committee. The hon. Member shakes his head. I am glad to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-21", "file": "debates1943-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "9664427669885513", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (INTERIM DEVELOPMENT) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "ion to be settled, as it must be ultimately, by a declaration of Government policy followed by any legislation that may be necessary. The hon. Member for Dumbartonshire made one or two further points. As I have said, this is not a Bill that deals with the acquisition of land. Therefore, I do not think that his first point about local authorities acquiring land is really germane to this discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-21a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-22", "file": "debates1943-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "44ad8615b8d717e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1114.9", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "preceding_text": " to 12 months, even though the man himself makes no application. If a man himself writes in and complains that his circumstances have changed, or got worse, or that he is not satisfied with what has been done, he is at once re-examined by another medical board, who report to my right hon. Friend. It is right that that should be made clear, that these cases are under constant administrative review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1114.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-22", "file": "debates1943-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "44ad8615b8d717e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "In every case where a Member calls my attention to what he considers a low assessment I immediately order that the case shall be examined by a board, and a different board from that which examined him previously. That is a method we shall continue to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-22", "file": "debates1943-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "44ad8615b8d717e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1158.2", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "nery. The Minister does so in every case. If there is any case in which a man feels aggrieved by his assessment and the matter is raised with the Ministry, either by a Member of Parliament or otherwise by a direct reference, it is, as the Minister recently explained, referred to a board of medical men who review the case. It seems to me that if the tribunal makes the assessment, it would be final.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1158.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-07-22", "file": "debates1943-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "44ad8615b8d717e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Satisfactory to whom?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "members of the tribunals would be dull, dreary, safe people with no imagination and no initiative. Far be it from me to say that that applies to judges. Judges are trained people, but in the case of appointments to these tribunals the Government should have some freedom in trying experiments. If they have no power to remove people without giving reasons, because those people were not satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-22", "file": "debates1943-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "44ad8615b8d717e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS APPEAL TRIBUNALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " concerned with your view and I take no part in the case. Quite judicially and impartially from the medical point of view I submit to you certain advice.\" I would also like to see the advice of medical assessors put down in writing. It is a great habit of medical men to expound views and theories by word of mouth which they would not dare to put down in writing. I have to put mine down in writing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-22a.1202.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-23", "file": "debates1943-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c7d583464501dbf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-23a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "uilders have gone to aerodromes and other places and I suppose they will never be able to come back and start in business again. But they built the bigger part of the town and built it fairly well. I do not believe that the town council could build all the best houses. I should like to steam-roller many of them. When you go inside, they are as mean as you like. They should be of a higher standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-23a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-23", "file": "debates1943-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c7d583464501dbf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-23a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "n that the trade to get into at present is the building trade. You get more money for less work than in any other trade, as far as I know, except that of the politician. I challenge Members of the Committee who have experience in industry to deny that. The building trade is the trade in which to get easy money at the present time. It even beats aircraft manufacture, and that is saying a good deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-23a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-23", "file": "debates1943-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "c7d583464501dbf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-23a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "I have said that, when the basic rate was fixed, the industry was entirely opposed to any system of payment by results and that the conditions of remuneration were based on plain time rates. When payment by results became an Order, and therefore legal and compulsory, employers and operatives jointly agreed to advise the Ministry how best to give effect to it, and they fixed that figure themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-23a.1330.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-27", "file": "debates1943-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "19519f8ae54fdee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1385.2", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend give me any example of anything that is acquired otherwise than under the second Order he mentioned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-27", "file": "debates1943-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "19519f8ae54fdee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1390.6", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that a far more serious danger exists than that? Anyone having a pound can buy 400 lire; with that 400 lire he then buys 4 dollars; with the 4 dollars he then buys £2 on the black market; with the £2 he then buys 800 lire; with the 800 lire he then buys 8 dollars; with the 8 dollars he then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1390.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-27", "file": "debates1943-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "19519f8ae54fdee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1396.3", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " wish to discuss, because we do not know what the situation may be in the next series of Sittings, as he properly says, but certain decisions have already been taken by the Government, one of which was referred to by the Secretary of State for War to-day, which bears on the political situation in Sicily and possibly Italy. It is on these matters that the House, I am sure, desires to have a Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1396.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-27", "file": "debates1943-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "19519f8ae54fdee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1438.6", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnstone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnstone", "preceding_text": "No, but it is the same kind of thing. The question of refugee industries is also under consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1438.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-27", "file": "debates1943-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "19519f8ae54fdee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The general well-being of the country does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "f the sort. If you want to provide employment, you need not export. For example, instead of exporting machinery you might produce houses and thus provide as much employment in the country in an internal direction; instead of exporting whisky to the United States of America, you might perhaps make clothing in this country. That is the way to provide employment. Employment does not depend on export.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-27", "file": "debates1943-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "19519f8ae54fdee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ry produce of the Dominions. Indeed, that was the reason why it was necessary for Australia to enter into an agreement with Japan on the wool question—we could not buy the whole of the wool clip. These are new facts that have emerged, and we have to face up to them. In spite of what I have said about the export position, I believe it is necessary to have an export trade. Of course it is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-27", "file": "debates1943-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "19519f8ae54fdee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS TRADE DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "n the U.K.C.C. for its operations in all the countries of the Middle East. We have also used the U.K.C.C. as the medium for all the British non-military supplies to Russia, whether by the Northern route or by the Persian route. The U.K.C.C. is entirely financed by public money. There are no private shareholders; no rent, profit or interest derive from its operation. It is financed by the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-27a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-28", "file": "debates1943-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f8348f203862ee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-28a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "PRIVILEGE (LETTER AND CHEQUE TO MEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "It has been stated by several Members that they have received cheques. It seems to me to be becoming a regular business. If two or three Members can say that £5 cheques have been inserted, we might as well not come to this House at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-28a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-28", "file": "debates1943-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f8348f203862ee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-28a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not any in it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": " out £13,000,000 to £14,000,000 a day. Therefore I want to know what my right hon. Friend has in his mind when these subsidies are coming to an end. Farmers are not making large profits, though I give my right hon. Friend the greatest possible credit for standing up for fair and reasonable prices, the Chancellor has diddled him. He has put on Income Tax, which will take all the cream off the milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-28a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-28", "file": "debates1943-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "f8348f203862ee39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-28a.1721.1", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Major York", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major York", "preceding_text": "rinciple on which all agricultural policy in the future should be based, is the maintenance of fertility. The Minister has said that the Government have accepted Recommendation 15 of the Hot Springs Conference Report, and therefore we may take it that, whether policy be decided in future by a Tory Government or by a Labour Government, that will be the principle upon which the industry will be run.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-28a.1721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1793.4", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\" and \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " of freedom as he can have. As regards the Debate, I would like to be given a chance of consulting the Prime Minister about this situation, because it is a serious decision to take if we are to have a war Debate. I can tell the House that in the view of the War Cabinet it is inadvisable—we have already discussed it—in the present circumstances. If we are to have one, if the House insists upon one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1793.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House quite cognisant of the fact that the military situation at the moment is more important than a discussion on the political situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "gnisant of the fact that the military situation at the moment is more important than a discussion on the political situation? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is very much more important. Will the right hon. Gentleman keep in mind the point that our Russian Allies are suffering terrible casualties and that what we should be considering is how the most immediate assistance could be brought to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1802.0", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "MAN-POWER (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "In this Committee which the Minister is setting up on the question of domestic help in hospitals, which is entirely concerned with women, would it not be wiser to appoint more women? May I tell the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1801.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1836.3", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"There are only two religions in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "The reason is set out at such great length in the White Paper that I thought I had better not cover exactly the same ground but try to give as clear and homely a description of the problems as I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1875.0", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "preceding_text": "insisting that special provision shall be made for Wales in the reconstruction of education. I will not trouble the House with an account of many of the reasons why this is necessary as well as desirable, but will name only one or two. First, in addition to the numerous complications in education in England we have in Wales the problem of making provision for teaching two languages instead of one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "Let us not try to delude people with that phrase. Opportunity depends even upon psychological factors within the children and within their parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "the children apart from food and the prevention of ailments by proper medical inspection? What is it proposed to do by way of games, sport and so on? This is referred to very briefly under the heading \"The Youth Service,\" but only very briefly indeed. I venture to think that the President has been too much occupied with this unfortunate religious controversy, which seems likely to divide us again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-29", "file": "debates1943-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "c26d861cb490896b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1886.0", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir John Shute", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was the Tory Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir John Shute", "preceding_text": "cost of such alterations and improvements for the putting up of a new senior school if such new school would be more advantageous than the extending or reconditioning of an existing school. Financial aid was furnished, and in a great number of instances the full 75 per cent. was paid. It was not so in all cases, and Liverpool, to its discredit, refused to carry out the Act in its implied entirety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-29a.1886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth lindsay", "preceding_text": "ew poems of Burns—I spent the day before yesterday in a boarding school under a local education authority. What did I see? I saw 140 children from the East side of London, looking like young gods, physically. There was the head. They simply had camp buildings, which were provided at the beginning of the war and were originally for evacuation. It is no longer an evacuation camp but is now a school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1956.3", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sometimes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "anning. I would suggest that, with all that there is of value in this White Paper, there is much to be said for 'some short-range planning when this war is over. I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock that we do not want monumental buildings in order to teach people. You can improvise in all sorts of ways. In the summer you can put children under canvas, to their very great benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Viseountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viseountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ories and Liberals behind him in favour of this, he said, \"You know, it would be very controversial to raise the school-leaving age.\" I nearly lost my seat over it, because the very people who ought to have been working with me—the Labour people—went round the back streets and told the women, \"Lady Astor wants to keep your children at school, and you know very well that that is not what you want.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1963.2", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " has failed so profoundly in education, we must judge things by results. Has England ever failed? Have men ever fought with more courage? Have the people, purely passive and absolutely unprepared and loathing war, ever done better? I do not agree that our system has failed. It has been the best system in the world so far. I judge the tree by its fruit, and the fruits of our system are magnificent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1963.2", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "h more courage? Have the people, purely passive and absolutely unprepared and loathing war, ever done better? I do not agree that our system has failed. It has been the best system in the world so far. I judge the tree by its fruit, and the fruits of our system are magnificent. [Laughter.] Hon. Members opposite may laugh. Look at the evils of the system in which they believe in Spain and in Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1967.1", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "of the windows of my house. I was taught the usual lessons by means of books and blackboards. Very likely they were the same things which were being taught in the common school. But we were taught something else, not in books or by the teachers. Subconsciously I was being taught every morning as I left my front door, \"You are one of the special boys, and you gà to the special boys' school.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1980.2", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "I am not disputing that. I am only stating what my constituents feel about the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1981.6", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "colleagues, and that I was not necessarily going to support the views advanced there. He said, \"Do you realise that the public schools are the incubators of reaction, that I have suffered from having been educated at one of these same public schools, and that it would be a national disaster if the general opinion is circulated throughout the country that that type of education should be extended?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.1981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.2006.0", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seven-teen years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman would not for a moment claim for these proposals any great originality. They are the result of long years of study and thought by his experts, but particular credit should go to what I believe will be a great name in our education history, Sir Henry Hadow. The very titles in the White Paper such as \"modern school\" and \"grammar school\" appeared in his report many years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.2006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-07-30", "file": "debates1943-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "591f6d56b0cb9bb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.2033.0", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "and led opposing forces in a great debate on that occasion. I noticed that he did his best to stoke up the fires of controversy, not on those particular lines, again to-day, and I welcome the result, because really my right hon. Friend and I have had so much praise showered upon us that it is well there should be a few reminders that we are only human beings after all. The hon. Member for Scotland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-07-30a.2033.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Their interests are the better protected if they have taken the precaution of joining some organisation. Unorganised people are difficult to protect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Their interests are the better protected if they have taken the precaution of joining some organisation. Unorganised people are difficult to protect. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because they are not organised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2164.2", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN IN NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I want to thank Juno, as he has been called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2165.2", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN IN NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "services. They selected two very good but, as has already been said, very busy men, and one woman—a trade union official who is really overworked. There have been very successful committees under women. The Committee of Miss Violet Markham was one of the most successful. Other women Members have already dealt with nearly every aspect of women's work and I do not want to bore the House any further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2165.2", "colnum": "2165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN IN NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "That is what the women of the country will feel unless something is done pretty quickly. I do not want a sex war. There is no more truth in it than there is in a class war. There is much woman in some men, and much man in some women; you cannot afford sex war. We heard talk about snobbishness. If snobbishness were confined to one section of the community we could get rid of it but snobbishness is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2177.1", "colnum": "2177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN IN NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "It would be putting the obligation on the right sort of people to serve—upon the young, energetic and active who have their lives before them and who do not get tired like the women of 45 to 50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2193.0", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN IN NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Sir William Jowitt)", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"NO\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Sir William Jowitt)", "preceding_text": " attention of the various Ministers. I did think that this question of directing women between 45 and 50 was obviously of such importance that the House would desire that some representative of the Ministry of Labour should be here to reply to that topic, and accordingly in the course of this Debate the House has listened to and I think been reassured by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2198.1", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WOMEN IN NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And cooking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "I certainly think that everybody should be taught nutrition and dietetics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nd to me it is a source of immense gratification that the final blow was delivered at the Fascist dictatorship by the ordinary steelworkers and miners of Italy and Sicily. It is to me a source of immense pleasure to find that our Allies, our real Allies, are among those people; but I was extremely disturbed when I heard of the establishment of A.M.G.O.T. It is an ugly word to cover an uglier deed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "thing to do, you know—shelter behind a general who has no public responsibility, who is elected by no one? Why make a scapegoat of a general, because a scapegoat he has been made? The American Press and the British Press in the last few days have been full of criticisms of the statement made by General Eisenhower the other day—not only the Radical Press and the Liberal Press, but \"The Times\" also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "this is what he said: I could not help being charmed, like so many other people have been, by Signor Mussolini's gentle and simple bearing and by his calm, detached poise, in spite of so many burdens and dangers. Secondly, anyone could see that he thought of nothing but the lasting good, as he understood it, of the Italian people and that no lesser interest was of the slightest consequence to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ussolini's gentle and simple bearing and by his calm, detached poise, in spite of so many burdens and dangers. Secondly, anyone could see that he thought of nothing but the lasting good, as he understood it, of the Italian people and that no lesser interest was of the slightest consequence to him. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That was years ago.\"] Yes, but Mussolini's major crimes had already been committed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1", "colnum": "2205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only 16 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "freedom of the Italian people, had already been committed, and all this subsequent history of Mussolini is the logical consequence of that act. This is what the Prime Minister said—because not only did he show his remarkable interest in the character of Mussolini, but he also went on to lay down obiter dicta about the whole Fascist movement. I admit that he is an older man now, but not much older—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2209.1", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "r there was not a voice raised against her. In the case of Germany there were in this House and the country men who connived at the establishment of Hitler until he started to arm against Great Britain. Why therefore should we go home for the Recess and trust a Parliamentary majority who have been the chief architects of the war and who secretly sympathise with the principles of the Fascist enemy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We have heard that silly canard now for too long. It is really unworthy of the Minister of Information. My record as an anti-Fascist is much longer than that of the Prime Minister. We must face the facts clearly. Let not Members imagine that the disquiet exists only among some of us on these benches. It is shared in the country. On this matter hon. Members do not represent the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e not represented this country for many years. The people of Great Britain are hoping, desperately hoping, that in Italy the ordinary people of Italy will overthrow the existing régime. They are hoping that they will establish the authority of the common people of Italy, but according to the broadcast of General Eisenhower if Badoglio had accepted our terms, his would now be our Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "esterday that in a certain village, our men went along and found some men in prison who were there, they thought—so the story goes, and it was repeated twice—for murmuring anti-Fascist slogans. But they found to their delight that the men were in only for demanding bread, and so they let them free. To be anti-Fascist in Sicily is still regarded by many of our people in occupation there as a crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2224.0", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How very wicked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "e of the leading members of this organisation is a member of the firm of Morgan, Grenfell and Co., and has been associated with the Bank of England and also with the Banco Italo-Britannico. Another member has been associated with the Banco Italo-Britannico, and also with Robert Benson and Co, and with Lloyds Bank, and a third member in high office has been associated also with the Bank of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2230.2", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The military have to carry on the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "e are told that all political activities are to be forbidden. To forbid all political activity is in one sense only another form of Fascism. No good purpose is going to be served by creating this political vacuum in Sicily, and I most sincerely suggest that political activity should be allowed under the protection of the military authorities to the fullest extent compatible with military security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2230.2", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " the protection of the military power, elections should be held for a constituent assembly. We must allow the Italian people to choose their own Government and their own form of government. Let us have in Italy a constituent assembly which would decide these matters on behalf of the Italian people. I am not going to say whether Italy ought to have a Monarchy or a Republic. It is not for me to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2232.3", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " I cannot imagine that, even if the Monarchy is retained in Italy, we could have any dealings, or the Italian people would be likely to have any dealings, with the present King or the Crown Prince. If the Monarchy is retained, I imagine that it could only be in the form of a Regency in which the Crown Prince's young child would succeed to the throne. But these questions are for the Italian people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2232.3", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" and \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "e found on the same side as the hon. Member who sits behind him. I am afraid we can have little faith in the Progressive Conservative. This question raises the whole issue between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, and it is bound to become clearer as the war draws to an end. The parties have always been divided on this question of Italy. I could go back to the 19th century, if I wished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2232.3", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is one still there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ts of democracy. I do not propose to go into detail about the 19th century, because it would be out of Order, but I am entitled to use an illustration. I would point out that Disraeli refused to meet Garibaldi in this country. When we talk about the traditional friendship between Great Britain and Italy, it was in fact the Liberal Party, not the Conservative Party, that was traditionally friendly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-03", "file": "debates1943-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "0b76a54f84b7e4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2248.1", "colnum": "2248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALLIES AND ITALY (POLITICAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Oh yes, the hon. Member did; and his friends did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-03a.2248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-04", "file": "debates1943-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "932e5bb8f377d05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Is there any real reason to continue this sort of camouflage, which only encourages more and more people to try to obtain first-class privileges? Will the hon. Gentleman now consider advising the railways to abolish the sale of first-class tickets altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-04", "file": "debates1943-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "932e5bb8f377d05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2349.0", "colnum": "2349", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "t so much to-day, but they used to—about a new world, when the Government and other side have every intention of dragging this abominable means test into that new world. But only for the poor—no questions of means test for the big pensioners. We have had Members on the other side of the House lecturing us on the fact that it is public money we are handing out and that there has to be a means test,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-04", "file": "debates1943-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "932e5bb8f377d05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2361.8", "colnum": "2361", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "In many instances, even if the scales had been far higher, because of the shortage of material, it would have been impossible for the pensioners to get blankets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2361.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-04", "file": "debates1943-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "932e5bb8f377d05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2407.0", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brawn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brawn)", "preceding_text": "I have been at a loss, in the light of what has happened in recent years, and especially since the war started, to understand the note of pessimism in so many of the speeches to-day. One would imagine that little or nothing had been done about this issue. That is not so. One of the biggest changes made in old age pensions has been the introduction of supplementary pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-04", "file": "debates1943-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "932e5bb8f377d05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2412.2", "colnum": "2412", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have not said that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-04", "file": "debates1943-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "932e5bb8f377d05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2423.0", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "HOSPITAL NURSES (RUSHCLIFFE COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "rtant on this particular side of the Committee's work that we should take the swiftest action possible. I do not bind myself on any future occasion or any successor of mine to accept everything that the Rushcliffe Committee, may recommend on other subjects. What I do say is that, if there is not a ward sister on the Committee, the fault is not mine but surely that of the trade union organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-04", "file": "debates1943-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "932e5bb8f377d05f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2423.0", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "HOSPITAL NURSES (RUSHCLIFFE COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "drew a distinction between the nurse and the matron. One of the great things that has impressed itself upon me all the time I have been Minister of Health and Secretary of State for Scotland is the extraordinary capability and character of the matrons of our hospitals. So I hope we will not go that way. Let us rather say that if we are dissatisfied, we will have a little more for those lower down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-04a.2423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2465.7", "colnum": "2465", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Davison:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Davison:", "preceding_text": "I am not quite clear. Have we an undertaking that no further action in the way of registering these women of 45 to 50 will be taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2465.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2520.1", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "REGIMENTAL BADGES AND TRADITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": " on the face of it, this Instruction has as one of its objects the fostering of esprit de corps. Hon. Members have reminded me that it says \" esprit de corps, \" and not \" esprit de bataillon \" or \" esprit de compagnie. \" There was a second object: to put an end to the vast multiplicity of badges and signs which battalions and companies, and even units and sub-units, got into the habit of assuming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2520.1", "colnum": "2520", "heading": "REGIMENTAL BADGES AND TRADITIONS.", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": " hard pressure of war allows. My hon. Friend the Member for Lowestoft says, \"What about postwar?\" I cannot project myself into that great unknown. All the same a great deal of thought is being devoted to the kind of Army we shall need after the war. In the description and fears of what is going on in the War Office, as made by the hon. Member for Lowestoft, I do not recognise anything I have seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2534.5", "colnum": "2534", "heading": "WAR AND PEACE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " the stage when there is a larger proportion of our people in these Islands in uniform and under discipline than has ever been the case in history. The essence of the Nazi technique is here in full blast. Now we are getting proposals to conscript labour from among schoolboys and grandmothers. Let me now pass on to the question of bombing. It is astonishing how the human mind works on these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2539.0", "colnum": "2539", "heading": "WAR AND PEACE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Exactly what will make some other people give up office later on, probably in this country too. It would be a good thing, as I said, if all the belligerent Governments gave up office and allowed others to come into power to make peace among the nations and bring mankind back once again to sanity and reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2542.1", "colnum": "2542", "heading": "WAR AND PEACE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "am not alone in the House in holding these principles. There is a minority here who take the same line as I do, but there is a larger number outside. I should not be surprised if there were 2,000,000, 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 people in this country who agree with what I say. Hon. Gentlemen laugh. I have lived longer than some of them, and ought to know. I do not want to detain the House much longer,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2543.0", "colnum": "2543", "heading": "WAR AND PEACE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "support his views. I know that he addresses meetings in the country, but he knows also that I address meetings, and very large meetings, probably as many as any other Member in this House. I must say, with the utmost good will to my hon. Friend, that I have so far failed to detect any evidence, apart from the natural desire to avoid war and to promote peace, to indulge in surrender to our enemies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2548.1", "colnum": "2548", "heading": "WAR AND PEACE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That would seem to me to be slightly irrelevant, but I will take up my hon. Friend on his own ground. He wanted the Government to state their peace aims. I thought they had been stated. My peace aims are the destruction of the enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2549.1", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "MINISTERS' SALARIES (INCOME TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "equer would take in Income Tax and Surtax £4,875, so that the man would receive 5,000 shillings —£125. He is found a seat in the House of Commons. He has an income of £3,750 from his own investments and £125 from his Ministerial salary of £5,000. That is a total of £3,875. But he will have to spend out of his own income the cost of his constituency, which is not likely to be less than £600 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2573.0", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "WAR DAMAGE ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. craven-Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. craven-Ellis", "preceding_text": "This House does not always appreciate the significance of what it is passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2577.5", "colnum": "2577", "heading": "NEWSPAPER \"LA MARSEILLAISE\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ecific case of \"La Marseillaise\" because, for one thing, it was a newspaper which I did not very often see. I am told that one of its offences was that it published articles mischievously criticising America and the American Government; and, if so, I agree that that is in general principle a very deplorable thing indeed. I do not hold with newspapers criticising any of our Allies in harmful terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-08-05", "file": "debates1943-08-05a.xml", "sha256": "a9851d2a0c714b46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2597.1", "colnum": "2597", "heading": "GERMAN PROPAGANDA, EIRE", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "I gave the date in the Question, and again in my letter. Here it is. It was the 26th November, 1941. The right hon. Gentleman may think it is out of date, but that speech is not out of date, because it traces the origin and history of the war from the German point of view. When I heard that speech in von Ribbentrop's own words—and one must admit that he speaks beautiful German.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-08-05a.2597.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.10.8", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "May the House know whether the disciplinary action taken in this case has been published in Orders so that others who may be like-minded may be warned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "With regard to the proposal to adjourn the House for another few weeks, does the right hon. Gentleman realise that most people in the country regard a Recess as merely a holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SOLDIER'S IMPRISONMENT (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I, with great respect, point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not send them out to pioneer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s never one moment's pause in the process of carrying out the military operations, and everything else had to fit in with that main-line traffic. When I hear people talking in an airy way of throwing modern armies ashore here and there as if they were bales of goods to be dumped on a beach and forgotten, I really marvel at the lack of knowledge which still prevails of the conditions of modern war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.81.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.96.4", "colnum": "96", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.96.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: King Victor Emmanuel and Badoglio.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of 1940. I remain convinced that the highest honour will be accorded to those who never flinched or wavered in the hour of disaster and that lasting condemnation and I trust salutary punishment will be meted out to all prominent persons who have not merely bowed to the force of circumstances but who, for the sake of personal ambition or profit, have tried to promote the victory of the common foe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "ry peculiar past, and at certain times in the last year or so he and the partisans have come into armed conflict. That is a difficulty which has to be solved. In view of the feeling which animates many thousands of the Greek patriots—I do not say all of them—I think that paying public tributes to the King of the Hellenes and stating that it is our intention to put him back on the throne is unwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British Communists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "eaving themselves open to a folding up, a destruction in that area. It is very bad that I should make interjections when the Prime Minister or any other Member is speaking. I always make resolutions after I have done it that I will never do it again, but when I made an interjection to-day it was no answer for the Prime Minister to say that the Government will never accept the advice of Communists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "No, I do not recognise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "the Government, but they have been converted only by recent events. They did not believe that a little while ago. I think that if they had done so three months ago, instead of three weeks ago, events might have taken a very different turn. It must certainly be the case that they did not realise that Sardinia would have fallen so easily, or surely they would have sent a sufficient force to take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-21", "file": "debates1943-09-21a.xml", "sha256": "e5fe1275f85d409b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ill show how they can fight when they are fighting for the right. There is Keren and there was the last stage of the fighting in Tunisia. But, speaking generally, the hon. Member is right. The Italians have not really been fighting in this war because they have been fighting a war which has been hateful to them. Give them a good cause and they will show that they can fight as well as any soldiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-21a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUDOLF HESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House and my hon. Friend will make allowances for the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "sonably look forward to ultimate success. Further territories will be occupied by the United Nations as the war proceeds, and such occupation will throw very heavy responsibilities on the liberators. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration—I wish the Foreign Secretary could find a better name for it—which represents a noble ideal but hides itself under a clumsy suit of clothes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "y, and I think it is a reasonable argument to address to the House, that if the Prime Minister says that the maintenance of national unity is no longer the policy of the Government which is now to be determined by majorities, by which be must mean majorities in this House, then the essential condition on which we agreed to go into Coalition with the Tories has been broken and we ought to come out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "hen Italy is free—I am afraid that will not be for some time yet—by all means insist that Italians who are exiled shall be allowed to return to their native land—such as Count Sforza and other Italian patriots who have been exiled by Mussolini. But in the middle of a great war like this how can we ascertain the feelings of the Italian people? We cannot have even a general election in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "ainst the renewal of the life of Parliament. How can we expect that, with the greater part of Italy in the hands of Germany, we should have negotiations only with a Government representing the Italian people. I believe that when the test comes there will be, after 21 years' experience of Fascism, a great uprising of the people, and that they will return to the great liberal traditions of the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "? We on this side of the House want to know why, when already overtures had been made by the Badoglio Government, when it was known that the Governor of Milan, although appointed by Badoglio, was already arming the Italian workers, we bombed Milan and Turin. This is a very serious matter, and I warn the Foreign Secretary that there are men in the Air Force who will not be used for that dirty work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Parliament must have an explanation. I want the House to keep its mind on the dates, because they are extremely important. Why was it necessary after Mussolini had been driven from power by the revolt of the Italian people to bomb the centres of Italian revolution three weeks afterwards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have it wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "had been received from Italy before the envoy reached Rome so that during the time of the bombing of Milan indications had been received by the British Government that the Italian Government were anxious to discuss peace terms. The Prime Minister said yesterday in precise terms that they were not particularly anxious to expedite the Armistice because it •had to fit in with our time schedule", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tut, tut.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "time of our attack in Sicily there were 10 German divisions right throughout the Italian mainland and in Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia. Now I suppose there are nearer 20. If we had immediately recognised the situation on the Italian mainland and expedited our affairs as they should have been earlier, we should have been on the Italian mainland long ago, and many British lives would have been saved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "e have been accustomed: But of course it is very difficult to get very much evidence of what Europe thinks. I have always wished to make things easy for hon. Members opposite, especially for those whose particular pleasure is in not very articulate derision, so I will put it in the plainest and most blimpish terms: I conceive that what Europe wants of us is that we should play with a straight bat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " criminals that I take that line. Hon. Members who are old enough to remember and young enough riot to have forgotten the last war may remember that it was in the first months of the war and it was from the Left, from the \"Daily News\", the \"Daily Chronicle\" and the \"New Statesman\" that these inventions were made of \"Hang the Kaiser\", \"Germany must be made to pay heavily\", and \"The war to end war\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "ime-table in a moment. Many hon. Members probably know Sicily much better than I do. If they do, they know that it is an island of intensely active rival political factions. Perhaps the strongest party of all in Sicily is the party that stands for separation from the Italian mainland altogether. Then there is the clerical party and there is the party of the extreme Left, all in violent divergence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is there freedom of political discussion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "think I have described the position wrongly, but I am sure that he will not disagree with my statement that these parties disagree with one another with very great vehemence. In the existing military situation, and while we were using this island for the preparation of the advance upon Naples, it was impossible to allow free rein to these various political parties. The hon. Gentleman can well ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ll tightly applied. There is a great deal of political discussion. There is freedom of the Press to say what they like about each other, and even about A.M.G.O.T. I am informed, that after 20 years of Fascist rule, the Press are not in the least happy at being told that they can say what they like. They have been so used to having a directive that they do not quite like it when they do not get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-22", "file": "debates1943-09-22a.xml", "sha256": "c53aab499e95cffb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "the House that every phase of these negotiations in these complicated weeks has been decided in the Cabinet with complete unanimity. There is no question at all, so far as I can recollect, at any time of any serious difference between us as to how to handle these things. When the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne talks about our being near final victory, I think, if I may say so, he is quite wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-22a.349.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.384.8", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, as conditions now are, it does not pay an hon. Member of this House to draw his salary as an Under-Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.384.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.401.4", "colnum": "401", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "preceding_text": "Either this question of the coal situation is so urgent that it should be debated this week—if necessary at a Saturday Sitting—or it is not so urgent, in which case a great deal of the force of the argument of hon. Members opposite is destroyed. Personally, I take the view that there should be a coal Debate before the House rises and that we should sit on Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.401.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t the feeling of the House, and I think that the best decision is this, that to-day and on the next Sitting Day we take the discussion as arranged, which allows a large part of the subject of the direction of labour to be raised, and that we come back on the Sitting Day originally proposed, and I will do my best so to arrange the programme that we can give two days to the Debate when we come back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": " I can, because it is not my intention at this stage of the Debate to take very much of the time of the House, to present the picture as it is and what we have to do in order that hon. Members may have the facts upon which to base their judgment, and not I hope their political prejudices. Mobilisation has reached a stage in this country which is not exceeded by any country in the war. We have not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is an exception.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister, having examined all the strategy of the war and the tasks that lie ahead, came to the Cabinet and, in the terms of that strategy, made a demand for labour. I have read in the Press that all this arises because I am a little enthusiastic or something. I did not know that that was a sin among Cabinet Ministers, but I read it in \"The Times\" the other day and was rather struck by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " sorts of things, which, if arrangements can be made, they will come forward to help. There has been an agitation over the registration of the women between the ages of 45 and 50. I am not impressed by the medical arguments at all, as I will show the House by the numbers who are already working. I registered nurses and midwives up to the age of 60 and no one made a protest. Why did not they do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "These doctors are more eminent than the hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Why does he not resign?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ing to do; in May 13 days with nothing to do, and on two days he worked mornings only and on two other days had two hours' work. In June there were 15 days with nothing to do. In July, I am glad to say, there was a change. There was one full day's work in July, hut there were i6 days with nothing to do, one day with three hours' work, one day with two hours' work and one day with 10 minutes' work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "ion are those who have spent most of their life underground, and I would certainly accept the view of a man in the mining industry as better than my own regarding the difficulties of the employment of very young people on the coal-face. However, the particular point to which I wish to address myself is whether women of the 46 to 51 age group should or should not be called up—should be conscripted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.490.0", "colnum": "490", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "rk. Our case is that they are already doing it. The hon. Lady really supported our case. She said what they were doing—the Women's Voluntary Service, keeping the home going, etc. Our case is that they are already doing a superb job and that if you add this other burden on top then not only will you break them down but you will undo the good work which is keeping the homes of this country together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "n the Services. I have one letter here from which I would like to read an extract. This woman falls into the 45–50 category. She works on an average some 12 hours a day or more as a member of the W.V.S. She is on two hospital committees and in some way or other has managed to keep going a home to which her children in the Forces can come back. This is a woman who is threatened with call-up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.491.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "I was not making a charge of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ork, make surpluses available where they could be revealed, and transfer the surplus staffs to other places. Will the House believe me when I say that, at the end of four years of effort, in only six Departments have we got a man-power committee set up? The total number of Departments is more than 100. At the present rate of progress it will take me another 48 years before the process is complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "ng, the only way you can get big reductions of staff is to cut down some of the work. On that Committee Ministers realised very clearly the immense difficulties which Departments have to face. The load is a very heavy one, and it is very difficult to determine what work which is being done is not absolutely vital. Most of it, I am certain, will be regarded by hon. Members as being quite essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-23", "file": "debates1943-09-23a.xml", "sha256": "a25fe891c28e0e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would help you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "of not helping the war effort. The amazing thing is how few people have complained in this war. In the last war several by-elections were fought in which people stood as candidates on call-up issues. I am certain that, if anyone at a by-election makes this the sole issue, he will beat the Government hands down anywhere. I could win a by-election if the Government sent the whole Cabinet against me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-23a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.551.8", "colnum": "551", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr.McCorquodale)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr.McCorquodale)", "preceding_text": " Hempstead (Viscountess Davidson), I thought, made notable contributions to the Debate—so much so that the effort seems to have been too much for them, for I notice that none of them is in her place to-day. I would like to pay my tribute to the speech of the hon. Member for Anglesey. If I might humbly suggest it to the House, it will well repay reading by those who were not priviledged to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.551.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "The figure I was quoting was on those who did not have children under 14 living with them or household responsibilities. In the case that the hon. Lady is quoting they have household responsibilities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.575.4", "colnum": "575", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCarquodale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:?That is an opinion\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCarquodale", "preceding_text": "I could not give that figure, and not even an estimate with any basis of fact, until we have interviewed them and seen what medical certificates there will be. All I can say is that in the age group one year earlier, where we had a smaller field for interview, we regarded the registration as worth while, and I suggest that this registration will be worth while, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinso", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinso", "preceding_text": "thing they held dear were in real danger. It was perfectly marvellous to see the enthusiasm with which they buckled to and got to work. Mark what happened then. There was a change in Government, and a new Labour Minister was appointed in the place of a Minister who had done his work better than any other Labour Minister we had had. A new Minister was appointed who knows precious little about work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "rience extending over 40 years, that there is less ill-feeling in the mining industry than in many others, particularly between the managements and the workers themselves. But look what the Minister of Labour has done by putting the industry under the Essential Work Order. The miner loathes being brought into court, whether he is guilty or not. I respect him for it. I have only been in court once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.621.2", "colnum": "621", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And management too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": " In peace-time one of the chief businesses of the management and employers in engineering works is to keep their eyes open to see which men in their employment are making things uncomfortable for the others. There is a small percentage of people in all walks of life who are just rank malicious and wicked, and one such man in a machine shop of 100 can make the whole place miserable in sheer malice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.621.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "in whom it has great confidence, in any demand he makes, provided he can prove conclusively that it is necessary for the purposes of the war. Nevertheless, we have a responsibility to our constituents to bring home to those in administrative responsibility the point of view of the toad under the harrow. I want to urge on my hon. Friend that when the House does agree to an exercise of these powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the firms?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "preceding_text": "ng.\" He also said, \"There is a good deal of unemployment at the present time and I have come all this way outside my area in order to try to get some work for that area.\" He said that the unemployment was chiefly in the Dorset area and the Thames Valley area. As my constituency happens to be in one of the areas I went down shortly afterwards and made inquiries and found that what he said was true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Macdonald", "preceding_text": "ching the last bus to work and the first bus home, and on a rainy day they do not turn up at all.? In one case a man gave so much trouble that the firm was obliged to sack him. What happened then? He appealed. to a tribunal, and the next week he was back at work. It is no use employers taking cases to tri- bunals; they are packed with trade union officials who never give them any support whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-09-24", "file": "debates1943-09-24a.xml", "sha256": "67e7fc06632bec9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.665.0", "colnum": "665", "heading": "MAN-POWER", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "s inspired by people who have had quite different motives. When you come to analyse strikes, in nearly every case there is a different reason. The second class of strike is one which is organised for political reasons, and it is that type of strike which the Government are considering dealing with, the strike in which, having regard to the fact that the executives and the unions and the employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-09-24a.665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " recruitment will, however, still be retained, so that both the Forces and the mining industry will be on the same footing in that their intake will consist of both volunteers and compulsorily called-up men. A considerable number of volunteers have come forward, and both my right hon. Friend and I are grateful to them for their readiness in offering their services in getting coal at this juncture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georǵe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the present\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georǵe", "preceding_text": "No doubt this is largely due to the past history of the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georǵe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The other side do not mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georǵe", "preceding_text": "war and to what is going to happen after this. We must move on from that atmosphere. You cannot get anywhere at all if the whole industry is going to live 20, 3o or 40 years ago. We must learn by our mistakes. We must have some vision and look ahead. I am fully aware of the difficulties, but, if we do not get out of that atmosphere, we shall have this kind of thing for heaven knows how many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georǵe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georǵe", "preceding_text": " all if the whole industry is going to live 20, 3o or 40 years ago. We must learn by our mistakes. We must have some vision and look ahead. I am fully aware of the difficulties, but, if we do not get out of that atmosphere, we shall have this kind of thing for heaven knows how many years. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The other side do not mind.\"] It is not a question of the other side. I know the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.775.4", "colnum": "775", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On estimates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "o 11,000,000. In other words, we had to find ri,000,000 tons. On the estimate made by the Department production was supposed to be so much, consumption so much, and there was a deficit of 11,000,000 tons. The mild weather saved about 1,000,000 tons and no more. The consumer saved nearly 5,000,000, leaving out the mild weather, and there was an increased production above estimate of 5,000,000 tons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.775.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "ve been more outspoken than that. The other day Mr. Abe Moffat said that unlawful strikes were a luxury of the minority at the expense of the majority. Mr. Lawther last Sunday said that the menace of strikes must be wiped from the face of the earth, and Mr. Frank Hodges, who has had some experience both as a miner and as a colliery director, said, \"There is a new element of anarchy creeping in \".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": " colliery. I shall not give any names, but I am prepared to give full particulars to my right hon. and gallant Friend. First I will give a few examples of illegal strikes. At one colliery the brushers claimed extra money for handling coal. The trade union agent investigated the claim and found that it was groundless, but the men went on strike, and 3,000 tons of coal were lost. At a Yorkshire pit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": ". No. It is the director of the colliery company concerned with production. He is the person responsible under this White Paper. The colliery manager has no contact with the Coal Controller. People talk about colliery managers having the power of management, operating and discipline; but colliery managers are nothing but clerks without power, and they operate policies which are decided above them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-12", "file": "debates1943-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "691be70f3c49f89e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.845.5", "colnum": "845", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "been a good many such stoppages in Scotland. Anybody who knows mines knows that the miner has a streak of loyalty, which comes out when he believes, rightly or wrongly, that injustice is perpetrated. As I see it, the object is not to send a man to prison but to get him to work underground. It depends upon how you talk to the man when before the court as to what attitude he adopts when he gets out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-12a.845.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE BUILDING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Arising out of the original reply, which was entirely unsatisfactory, the Question was asked in such a way in order that we might get information about the material and labour required. The Question was put originally to the Prime Minister to collect that information so that we could have an intelligent Debate on the subject on the Floor of the House. The Minister has not given that information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.877.4", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE BUILDING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "abour required. The Question was put originally to the Prime Minister to collect that information so that we could have an intelligent Debate on the subject on the Floor of the House. The Minister has not given that information. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] I want him to give us that information, and at the same time I would ask whether he would give us temporary houses; we do not ask for new houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.877.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "I must apologise to the House for intervening in this Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tory Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "hrough my mind. I thought however it might help if I reminded the House at the outset of this discussion of the general foundations upon which we stand at the present time. We have a National Coalition Government, which came together to try to pull the nation out of the forlorn and sombre plight into which the action, or inaction, of all political parties over a long period of years had landed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1926?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " have followed the fortunes of the miners all my life—for a great many years. I introduced the Coal Mines Regulation Bill in 1910 as Home Secretary, and I moved the Second Reading of the Mines (Eight Hours) Bill, and I remember well the long battles that I fought side by side with Bob Smillie, who will be remembered in this House, in order to establish the very essential feature of pit-head baths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.933.0", "colnum": "933", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Grenfell", "preceding_text": "es. This industry had been weakened. We heard very much about it in yesterday's Debate. It did not start the war strong. It started the war weak, because there was a large number of men unemployed. No attempt had been made to mobilise the unemployed men. I remember being asked by my predecessor in office, before the Minister of Labour appeared on the scene and before I was in the Mines Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.944.3", "colnum": "944", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that he and other Members on that side of the House were still receiving letters from ex-miners in the Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "tages of Parliament is that you there have speeches from men who know nothing about the industry, either financially or commercially or because it has been their career. I have no association whatsoever in any way with the mining industry, nevertheless I have held definite views about it almost all my life. I think that the speech made by the Prime Minister on the subject is of immense importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Baillie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Baillie", "preceding_text": "rippers too. I am talking about the collieries in Scotland. This is the complaint made by the managers—that there is this arrangement whereby the strippers are not allowed to strip more than their neighbours do. The young and virile could strip 20 per cent. more yardage per day, but are not allowed to do so. Therefore, they leave the coal face two or three hours before the end of the regular shift", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.979.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Baillie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Baillie", "preceding_text": "I apologise if I have offended in any way, but I think it is quite in Order for me to say that I am prepared to give the information I have received to the Minister in confidence. I am giving the information to the House as it was given to me, and I should be very glad to know if my facts are incorrect. I am told that there is in fact this ca'canny movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.982.4", "colnum": "982", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "o work but also for them to think and to sit at a round table and not a square table. The manager at the pit where I have worked has had proposals put before him repeatedly about getting coal. He has said, \"I will look at it and consider it,\" and it has then had to go to the managing director, who has prevented anything being done. Why? Because it costs money. The manager dare not push it forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.982.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Automatic drills. Would you care to do it for 2½d.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They said other things, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "en put forward. We get plenty of criticism as to what we should do to stop these things, but I do not often get really constructive suggestions. But no suggestion is rejected, and, where possible, it is experimented with. Both he and the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Fylde were good enough to say that the position had deteriorated rapidly since I became the Minister for Fuel and Power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "s. Reference is also made to the lack of a production director. That is one of the weaknesses I am up against. The shortage of man-power is not confined to those who work at the face and underground. That shortage is reflected on the technical side. I have had the greatest difficulty in getting a production director, but at last I have got one, a man of tremendous experience on the technical side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-13", "file": "debates1943-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "b234ceffb9e866ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "COALMINING SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "et us forget what has been done, and, really, we have started, especially recently, to do a great deal, though a great deal has still to be done. I ask the House to believe that I am not unmindful of that, because I believe there is a lot of leeway to be made up. I have been told there will be gloom in the homes of the miners to-morrow, I assume because the mines have not been nationalised to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-13a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-14", "file": "debates1943-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c39cd5a6ea2a404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS' INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "s arising owing to fluctations of earnings on either side of the dividing line. If such an extension as I have suggested is made, what I may call the \"in and out\" difficulty will have to be met by the adoption of this simple principle for every individual taxpayer—\"Once on pay-as-you-earn, always on pay-as-you-earn.\" I do not think the House will expect me to say more on that point at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-14", "file": "debates1943-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c39cd5a6ea2a404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS' INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Adam Maitland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Adam Maitland", "preceding_text": "t that he thinks many workers would be much happier and proceed much more eagerly to their work if Income Tax was abolished entirely. I pass on that suggestion to my right hon. Friend but I would add that I have not found myself able to support the suggestion. The great interest which has been caused by this scheme is not by any means confined to the particular class of taxpayer directly affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-14", "file": "debates1943-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c39cd5a6ea2a404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS' INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The rebate is off the Income Tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "try, and they are now in favour of it. The next item that I am asked to draw attention to is this: We have among us people who do not pay Income Tax because they do not earn enough, but some of them make a tremendous effort, at great sacrifice, to take out an insurance. I am informed that, because they do not pay Income Tax, they get no rebate. Surely it is worth while making them some concession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-14", "file": "debates1943-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c39cd5a6ea2a404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS' INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "I think the first thing I have to do is to compliment the hon. and gallant Member for The Hartlepools (Colonel Greenwell) on his exceedingly clear and competent maiden speech. We are always nervous when we make speeches in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-14", "file": "debates1943-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c39cd5a6ea2a404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS' INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" And their wives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "The next six months may be among the most important from the point of view of production. Could the hon. Gentleman make it clear that, as an incidental result of this scheme, workers will be relieved from Income Tax on any increase they make on their production between now and April next?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-14", "file": "debates1943-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "8c39cd5a6ea2a404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS' INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it true?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "There is certainly something in what the hon. Member has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-14a.1180.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-10-19", "file": "debates1943-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "63113f4ac83bc24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1192.6", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that women know a little more about children's shoes than do men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-19", "file": "debates1943-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "63113f4ac83bc24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1260.4", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT OF FURNISHED HOUSES CONTROL (SCOTLAND) BILL??", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ions that the local authorities of the city of Dundee, the burghs of Johnstone, Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline, Dumfries, Kilmarnock, Inverness, and Clydebank and the counties of Lanark and Dumbarton would welcome the immediate creation of these tribunals. And not only do these local authorities support this Bill, but the National Federation of Property Owners and Factors have expressed their concurrence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-19", "file": "debates1943-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "63113f4ac83bc24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1262.0", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT OF FURNISHED HOUSES CONTROL (SCOTLAND) BILL??", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not differentiate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Charles MacAndrew", "preceding_text": "tion goes on with a proviso which washes all that out. This is what the proviso says: Provided that a house or part of a house shall not be deemed to be let at such a rent unless the value of such board to the tenant forms a substantial proportion of the whole rent. The women who mostly run private hotels and boarding houses—I have a bill in my hand—do not differentiate as to what your meals cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-19", "file": "debates1943-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "63113f4ac83bc24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1264.3", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT OF FURNISHED HOUSES CONTROL (SCOTLAND) BILL??", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "preceding_text": " a pity that a Measure which will affect so many people should be put through in such an undiscussed form as this must be. I therefore appeal to my right hon. Friend to cover those people who let rooms by cutting out the proviso in Clause 9. I know that the Lord Advocate thinks that they might trick the Measure by charging enormous amounts for early morning tea, but the Scottish people are honest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1264.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-19", "file": "debates1943-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "63113f4ac83bc24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1326.0", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (FIRE GUARD) REGULATIONS, 1943", "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": "which is round about the beginning of double summer-time and the beginning of the Income Tax year. It seems to me that at about the period of the beginning of double summer-time people begin to take things more happily than in the middle of winter. I hope the House will agree that it is reasonable. We hope the change will be taken with more sweetness than would be the case if we were to do it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-19", "file": "debates1943-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "63113f4ac83bc24d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (FIRE GUARD) REGULATIONS, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "aining and why we say we do not want to have well intentioned people flocking about in a raid, but well-trained people who know what they have to do. I could just add speaking to the hon. Member for the English Universities (Mr. Harvey) that really the women cannot have it both ways. The claim was made that we should not use women until all the men available were doing their full 48 hours a month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-19a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-10-20", "file": "debates1943-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "f9cfce4207f27616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-20a.1356.7", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ITALY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that short answer, will not the Minister agree that Russia has shown considerable wisdom in this war, and is he aware that in this White Paper, \"Punishment for War Crimes,\" Part II, page 7, paragraph 5, the Russians have urged that this arch-murderer Hess be tried without any further shilly-shallying? We have had years to provide the necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-20a.1356.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-20", "file": "debates1943-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "f9cfce4207f27616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-20a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers (Northampton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers (Northampton)", "preceding_text": "he cost of this proposed extension. He said it would cost an additional £7,000,000 to extend the scope of the scheme to those earning up to £600 a year, and that to go to the limit of Schedule E Income Tax payers, would mean a further £53,000,000. Those estimates will be affected by what happens in the future and by the income which the beneficiary will have at the time he retires or when he dies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-20a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-20", "file": "debates1943-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "f9cfce4207f27616", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-20a.1468.0", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGE-EARNERS INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "r. McEntee). On the other hand, I can imagine quite a formidable body of objection from people if in fact they were told that a scheme was being introduced on the basis that a very large number of them would have larger sums taken off for Income Tax than they were liable to pay. This Amendment proposes to leave out the Sub-section which embodies the principle upon which this whole scheme is based.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-20a.1468.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "On the facts before me it appeared to me that the order of the court was not unreasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1543.1", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interupt my right hon. Friend, but there was one point which I did not quite catch. I understood him to say that, in the case of an unmarried man, during the first 13 weeks of his disablement the new Bill proposes to give him 40s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1546.3", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "pose to lift the minimum from £200 to £300 and the maximum from £300 to £400. Where children under the age of 15 years are left in addition to a widow or other adult dependants provision is made by the Act for the payment of an additional sum in respect of the children, the total amount payable being fixed at £600. The Bill proposes to increase the aggregate of £600 under the existing law to £700.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1546.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the Bill which is before the House, where the increased premium is paid 100 per cent. by the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the engineering industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "ustry I know something about. The original Compensation Act of 1897 fixed benefits at 50 per cent. of the average weekly earnings, and that principle has been maintained. The hon. Member for Stoke referred to the relatively low compensation that could be received by a man earning £6 or £8 a week. Well, a man earning that amount of money should be in a position to put a little away for a rainy day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "me Minister an assurance that a Workmen's Compensation Bill of a comprehensive kind is regarded by the Prime Minister as not coming within that general edict? Is the hon. Member going to reply now or later? I make him the prophecy that he will not reply later either. I will tell him why, because he does not know, and if he brings the Home Secretary he cannot reply either, because he does not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " course he does not know. If the answer is \"No,\" he is deceiving the House. If he has not got from the Prime Minister the assurance that this is to be done, what he has said to-day misleads the House and encourages us to look forward to something which he knows it is not proposed to carry out. I suggest that this is far too grave a matter for conduct of that sort. On the merits of the Bill itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-21", "file": "debates1943-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bf0ddd032e8eda2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is wrong in that. The £5,000,000 is what we calculate will be the additional actual payment in compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-21a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "NEW WRIT (WOOLWICH, WEST DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member, I think, has forgotten that the passing of a Bill does not put all the machinery into operation. The passing of the Bill is one thing, and the machinery then has to be set up for putting it into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.3.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": ", so let me illustrate it by my constituency. I know that numbers of ray people work away from home, but they have their home ties, and they realise that their work is temporary and continues while the emergency lasts, but home ties are sufficiently strong for them to return to their homes practically every week-end. Where will they be expected to register so far as this new register is concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.109.2", "colnum": "109", "heading": "PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "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": "o an end at this point. There are only two short Clauses in the Bill. One of the Clauses amends the Septennial Act, 1915. It is a curious fact to which attention has previously been called that the Septennial Act, 1915, was actually passed in 1916. It is a constitutional mystery why it became called the Act of 1915. I cannot explain it. Undoubtedly it is the fact that it was not passed until 1916.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.109.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "st Fascism he has been told, rightly, \"Little boy, you know nothing about it, so keep out where you cannot do any good.\" It is the moral and political struggle against Fascism with which the House is concerned. I say, and I claim to have the right to say, that there is not a Member opposite who is not implicated up to the hilt in the repeated condonation of Fascist crimes committed by his leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is false.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "ow nothing about it, so keep out where you cannot do any good.\" It is the moral and political struggle against Fascism with which the House is concerned. I say, and I claim to have the right to say, that there is not a Member opposite who is not implicated up to the hilt in the repeated condonation of Fascist crimes committed by his leaders. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] What am I asked to withdraw?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "; Members opposite are doing this thing and can only defend themselves by silence in order to escape from arguments which they know perfectly well cannot be met. Because it is absolutely impossible to deny the fact that the whole of the Conservative Party machine endorsed Nazism, and liked it, and endorsed Fascism, and liked it, as long as they regarded it as a great bulwark against Soviet Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " it does not give about 3,000,000 men and women who are in the Fighting Forces abroad, a chance of registering their opinions in the election of a new Parliament. That is, I think, most regrettable because if there is any section of the community entitled to have a real voice in the election of a new Parliament it is the men and women who, as I understand the Bill, will not be able to vote at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.140.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-26", "file": "debates1943-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "1b63d5dd5d27096c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "eyes in that country. I hold the view that the people of this country as a whole are averse to social upheaval and that there are two trends in our own people which, so long as they do not get too divorced, are an effective guarantee against violence and upheaval. The first strain is the Saxon strain, which does not know very much about formal law but rests upon a rough equity between man and man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-26a.153.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Application of Act by Order of the Secretary of State and appointment of Tribunal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why, if they are agreed already?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "clusion that he is justified in setting up a tribunal, and he is quite right to retain that power in his hands, but he would not set up a tribunal in any area without consultation with the local authority, and in my opinion he has a right to consult the local authority before he sets up a tribunal, whether in a progressive or in a reactionary area. The local authority should be consulted at least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Application of Act by Order of the Secretary of State and appointment of Tribunal.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "d powers—apart, of course, from the legislation which this House must enact regarding the Rent Restrictions Acts. I do not want to enter into the point made by my hon. and gallant Friend as to why the law differs as between Scotland and England. I have a very valid answer on that point. I would put this to him, that there have been no High Court decisions in England, as there has been in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.229.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.258.9", "colnum": "258", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION (TEMPORARY INCREASES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Rule has been suspended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "For the convenience of the Committee, might I put one or two questions to you, Mr. Williams, on procedure? We are beginning the Committee stage of this Bill very much later than was originally intended. In view of that, does the right hon. Gentleman propose to complete the Committee stage to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.258.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ellen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman is putting on the Whips is because, un- fortunately, he thinks he has taken part in a bargain. What other reason is there? The Trades Union Congress is out of the way. The British Employers' Confederation never got in the way. The young, enlightened minds in the Conservative Party are straining at the leash to do this. I would like therefore to know what stands in the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.270.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.273.3", "colnum": "273", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I have envied the right hon. Gentleman on many occasions. The fact is that when the right hon. Gentleman uses the Beveridge Report as a reason for this Bill, we all know that he is twisting. He is tricking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The bargain already referred to by the right hon. Gentleman. The bargain has already been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "The Beveridge proposals are before the country and under consideration at present. The fact that we are not able to make an increase in the single man's rate under this Bill and the fact that we adopt the 13 weeks laid down by Beveridge does not in any way commit us so far as the long-term scheme is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "f course it does. As an old miner I am delighted at the efforts which my colleagues have made to persuade the Government to alter their views on this matter. If the money for this purpose came out of State funds, I guarantee that the Government would readily admit the principle of this Amendment. Why have they refused? Because the increase comes out of the funds of the private insurance companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman is doing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "cts of the present system and above all to deal piecemeal with deficiencies in the amount of benefit or compensation now provided, in advance of a general decision on the whole plan, involves a risk amounting to a certainty of the continuance of the anomalous treatment of like cases by different methods. I am bound to say that the gentleman who wrote that report was absolutely right on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "22½ per cent., so far as I can make out. But I am treated to-day by my own comrades, not as a man who is adding £4,000,000 and about 22½ per cent. to their benefits, but as though I were attacking the injured workman and taking things away from him. That was the spirit of the speech of the Mover of the Amendment. I say nothing about that speech because it was not worthy of an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A deal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d had ideas and the Government Department and the Government had ideas. Then there were the ideas of the Trades Union Congress and the Employers' Confederation. We had discussions. We had our own mind on the subject, and they had theirs. At the end of the day, concessions and acceptances were given by all sides, this way and that way, and finally a deal was done. There is nothing wrong about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.296.3", "colnum": "296", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " side of the Committee are entitled after the Debate we have had to resent the tone of the Home Secretary's speech because the right hon. Gentleman has imported into this Debate much more than we did in our Amendment. May I say to the Committee that, in point of fact, in two-thirds of his speech, the right hon. Gentleman was wallowing in self-pity for the difficulties which he himself had created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.296.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ion of the permanent scheme that new principle is to be included. The Home Secretary said that if this Amendment were carried, the Bill would be withdrawn. I will answer that by this: If that cowardly thing were ever done, if the Home Secretary sank to such despicable depths as to withhold the increase from the married men, I would stump the coalfields and get the men out on strike in a fortnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By all your members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "ave done so it has been immediately twisted. I led the T.U.C. delegation in the negotiations with the Government on this Bill, and I want to say at once that we were met with every courtesy and as far as they found it possible to go. I have been connected with wage negotiations many times. When we pleaded for 10s. and came out with 5s. I recommended that acceptance because it was all we could get.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Let us give them some measure of consolation in the knowledge that if the Government are not prepared to go the whole way we at least desire to go the whole way. Surely we can ask for that. I believe that is the best way out of the difficulty. We are going to be defeated, so the Home Secretary tells us. I presume that is the position. Hon. Members on the other side do not believe in the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.304.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "A deliberate threat has been made by a Member on the opposite side of the Committee to take extra-constitutional action in the middle of a war to bring out the miners on strike at a time when the troops need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.307.6", "colnum": "307", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "stitutional position. If the hon. Gentleman is a friend of this country and of the Constitution, he must accept it. What has seemed to me, as a person—and I scarcely hope to be believed—who really does wish the party opposite well, to arise out of this Debate is. How can we on this side of the Committee regard that party seriously when we are presented with a spectacle such as we have seen to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.307.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I hope that nobody would prejudice the rights of my hon. Friend or anybody else, nor would I attempt to do so, but if we are to collaborate with the parties of the Left, it must be clearly understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.308.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-27", "file": "debates1943-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "dec6429bc95ec909", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "CLAUSE I—(Supplementary allowances).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": " I am going to vote against the Government. Considering the friends I am leaving behind me and the friends I am going to acquire, I think I am entitled to say a word of explanation. This Debate took place with one speech after another in favour of the Amendment, and not one speech against it, until at a certain point the Under-Secretary, quite sincerely but in a perfunctory four or five sentences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-27a.310.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-28", "file": "debates1943-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8b3c27153f9590bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.427.6", "colnum": "427", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS REBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "The Crypt has been used, even in my time as a Member of Parliament, for incidents connected with the conduct of Parliament, and the building itself is of very great value. I can remember conferences taking place in Westminster Hall. The two Houses met His late Majesty there. I can remember incidents there which have the closest association with our Parliamentary life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.427.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-28", "file": "debates1943-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8b3c27153f9590bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS REBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": " in the rebuilding of the House of Commons is in no way similar to the material used for the housing of the people generally. I imagine that it will be a stone similar to that used recently in the repair of the old House. I imagine that the timber will be English oak—at least, I hope it will be English oak which is used in rebuilding the English House of Commons. I know of no timber more suitable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-28", "file": "debates1943-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8b3c27153f9590bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS REBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "oalition is that I meet my political friends face to face, which is a disadvantage on occasion. An hon. Gentleman below the Gangway mentioned that we have to be very careful about the location of the new Parliament; it must be in Westminster, because the Departments of State are here. But I am sure I am right in saying that the Departments of State are scattered all over the country at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-28", "file": "debates1943-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8b3c27153f9590bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS REBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viant", "preceding_text": "with the Motion, and anything that might be suggested in that regard would be unacceptable for this reason. The old Chamber was placed between two existing buildings, therefore you must keep the architecture of the remaining buildings, otherwise you will have a bastard building of the worst possible kind. It would be an eyesore to everyone. Outside you must endeavour to keep the existing building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-28", "file": "debates1943-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8b3c27153f9590bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.446.7", "colnum": "446", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS REBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not if it is good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "s can be done within the scope of the Motion. My hon. Friends have felt, and I think it is very natural at this time, that at the end of a chapter of history we might well commence by building a new kind of Chamber. It is to some an attractive idea but one which I hope the House will reject. We are building for posterity, and nothing is so liable to become out-of-date as a new architectural style.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.446.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-28", "file": "debates1943-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8b3c27153f9590bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS REBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": ". I do not suppose for a moment that the Government will adopt my suggestion—probably it would be inconvenient to do so at this moment—but I suggest that they could meet the two streams of opinion, which are, in a way, parallel streams, which we have seen in this Debate. The majority opinion, I think, is in favour of rebuilding the old Chamber in more or less the same form, with certain additions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.454.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-10-28", "file": "debates1943-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "8b3c27153f9590bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS REBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "connected with the Chamber. My hon. Friend the Member for South-East St. Pancras (Sir A. Beit) asked whether there would be latitude for the Committee to interpret its terms of reference as to what was to be covered by the words \"essential features.\" Of course, it is for the Select Committee to interpret for itself the terms of reference, and it would be most improper for me to give them guidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-10-28a.467.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-02", "file": "debates1943-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7579b09163ea0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.579.6", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Regulations of Commis- sioners of Inland Revenue.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "This division in the Tory Party is interesting. I have seldom come across such an exhibition before. I have always known that on this side of the House there were slight differences of opinion but I never heard such a noise about such a trifle for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-02", "file": "debates1943-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7579b09163ea0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Transitional provisions.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "ous to deduct two years' tax from one year's salary the Chancellor of that day said, \"Well, it is pretty rough now, but after all, these temporary civil servants will go out into private enterprise again after the war and then they will have the accumulated reward of virtue, for they will, for a period after going out into the world again, be exempt from tax.\" That at least was some sort of reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-02", "file": "debates1943-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7579b09163ea0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (REGULATION OF DISPOSAL OF STOCKS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Campbell", "preceding_text": "I have listened to all the speeches, and it is a remarkable thing that so many Members seem to accuse every trader of being dishonest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-02", "file": "debates1943-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7579b09163ea0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (REGULATION OF DISPOSAL OF STOCKS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We agree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I am glad the hon. Member rather changed the tone of his speech. I maintain that the majority of traders are very honest,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-02", "file": "debates1943-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7579b09163ea0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (REGULATION OF DISPOSAL OF STOCKS) BILL [Lords].", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This does not do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Campbell", "preceding_text": "act that we all agree, I cannot see why hon. Members do not allow the passage of this Bill which my hon. and gallant Friend has explained to us as being necessary owing to the war. We all know that there are certain communities who need certain things more than other communities, and the Board of Trade are endeavouring to see that those people who need the things most should be those who get them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-02", "file": "debates1943-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "7579b09163ea0287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES (EMPLOYERS' RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "s the men who are to blame. The innocent employers walk away and pretend that they are interested only in increasing production and assisting the war effort. My right hon. Friend was perfectly right when he said there are employers who provoke strikes. I am not making that charge against the general run of employers. The majority are anxious to see their works going well, but there are exceptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-02a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"They were ignorant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "I would now like to refer to what has happened in this country. Last April two Irishmen were summoned at Chester for failing to register for fire-watching duties. They pleaded that they did not think they were liable, because they were not British subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.694.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Gunston", "preceding_text": "After that explanation I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.701.8", "colnum": "701", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beattie", "preceding_text": "The Amendment contains the word \"Eire\" which covers 32 counties of Ireland. Eire is Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.701.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Arising out of the remarks made by my hon. Friend the Member for West Belfast (Mr. J. Beattie), I want to ask you, Mr. Williams, whether this Amendment is in Order. The Amendment refers to Eire, and if it be the case that Eire includes all Ireland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.702.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "cult job. Is it proposed to issue a supplementary register so that the names can be checked? Members on the other side always leave the electioneering cupboard bare. They rake out the infirmaries and, if possible, would do the same with the graveyards. I am satisfied that if a valuation notice was served that ought to be sufficient for anyone to give an indication that he is on the valuation vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.731.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It shows it does not work properly.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "That proves there is no Conservative caucus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.742.4", "colnum": "742", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "I realise that it is possible out of a minor issue for serious consequences to arise for the so-called unity between all parties. It is a thing that we should turn over in our minds that disaster might easily come from what is after all a very tiny matter which was, and I say so quite frankly, misunderstood by about three-quarters of the Members who trooped into the Aye Lobby in the last Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.742.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.742.4", "colnum": "742", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "nity between all parties. It is a thing that we should turn over in our minds that disaster might easily come from what is after all a very tiny matter which was, and I say so quite frankly, misunderstood by about three-quarters of the Members who trooped into the Aye Lobby in the last Division. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They were under the impression that the business vote was going to be taken away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.742.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " him but if he were right it would only strengthen the case for opposing this Amendment. The hon. Member says now that if a husband exercising his right under the Amendment—the principle of which the Government seem prepared to accept—should put his wife's name upon the register in respect of a business qualification the effect of that would be to deprive the wife of her residential qualification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am attracted into this Debate by the hon. Member's reference to the Exchange Division of Liverpool, of which I happen to have some knowledge. My first adventure in Parliamentary contests was made in a by-election in the Exchange Division of Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "There is no question of justifying taking away something which a man has got. If you were to compile a register to-day, on the legislation that we now have, irrespective of this Bill, the majority of those people would not be entitled to be on the register at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ore filled with alarm than I was before. It seems that a soldier can change his view and opinion as to where he is normally resident as often as he likes. My right hon. Friend says, \"Trust the soldier.\" We know that we all should, but there are those who will exploit the innocent and who might desire to organise innocent-minded soldiers in order to obtain their votes for a particular constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "That is my point. I chose somebody who had been talking a great deal on the question of the business vote and the position of the Service men in relation to it, but who when it comes to the question of voting by the Service men is no longer interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eight days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": " some 46 days and that this has been cut down to 17, by the provisions of this Bill. There would be no difference in a General Election if you had Service voters. I do not think there is any difficulty on that account. My point is that at the present time except for the Far East, all our theatres of war are sufficiently near by air mail to be in easy communication with this country within 17 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "n getting it ready. If we abandon the discussion at this stage and do not take the further stages of the Bill to-night, it is dear that the Second Reading cannot be taken in another place until the middle of the next series of Sittings. The intention of the House is to adjourn at the end of that series. It is clear that if we report Progress now, the Bill will have to be reintroduced next Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (ELECTIONS AND MEETING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "stages of the Bill to-night, it is dear that the Second Reading cannot be taken in another place until the middle of the next series of Sittings. The intention of the House is to adjourn at the end of that series. It is clear that if we report Progress now, the Bill will have to be reintroduced next Session. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] The only alternative is for the House to sit in the following week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-03", "file": "debates1943-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "16959a93c4f990e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Parliament, not Government\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "May I put this, with great respect, that what we are here discussing is not merely technicalities, but whether the Northern Ireland Government should be granted an extended life or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-03a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fish and Chips.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r, following the Workmen's Compensation Bill. Afterwards, if there is time, we shall take the Committee and remaining stages of the Price Control Bill [ Lords ]. The Business for the next series of Sittings will be as follows: First Sitting Day.—Report stage of the Supplementary Vote of Credit. Motions to approve the Fish Sales (Charges) (No. 3) Order, and the Potatoes (1943 Crop) (Charges) Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I am not able to throw any further light on the matter at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What date was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ich certain parts of Southern India had been accustomed to look to supplement their rice crop, the situation looked so threatening, not merely as regards prices but as regards actual supplies in many provinces, that the Government convened a general All-India Food Conference with the Provincial and State Governments. At this Conference it was decided first of all to drop the price control of wheat", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": " ships to deliver a considerable tonnage of grain to India between this and the end of the year. The first few ships have already unloaded and arrivals will continue steadily during the next few weeks and for as long as they may be required. I must repeat that the task before the War Cabinet in this matter is not an easy one. Every ship released for this purpose is a diversion from the war effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Say something about prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "operation enable India's economic life to stand up to the strain which war has imposed upon it without the recurrence of such a calamity as that of which we are witnesses in Bengal. But the House will have realised from the account I have given and from the account given by my right hon. Friend the nature of some of the problems which confront India not only in war but also in peace. The problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "es in the Far East there also will be a legacy of privation and destruction in Asia. That is what the world will be like. But India is in a better position than almost any other country, in the long-term view. How has the war affected India as a whole? How have we put into operation this economic Imperialist exploitation of India, of which complaint has been made? India has completed a transition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "This was the situation in the Province. It is also the situation that the Government of the Province from time to time said, as the White Paper discloses, that they could deal with the situation without assistance. That is also the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "In his speech Sir M. Azizul Hogue said that there was a deplorable exhibition of what we call economic nationalism. That is what transpires here, and it prompts me to say this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "d be led to a happier state of existence. But the facts of the situation are more nearly that our salvation depends upon economics and an understanding of its principles even more than it does upon politics. You have in India a geographical entity. It is not, like Europe, split up into separate nationalities. Its physical barriers have not divided the country naturally among diverse nationalities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Action.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "uiry is certainly necessary. The responsibility must be fixed. I think I am giving the opinion of hon. Friends on this side of the House in saying that the inquiry and the responsibility should be fixed quickly. Such an inquiry may be conducted by a Select Committee of the House or a Royal Commission, but it is quite clear from the tone of the hon. Member's speech that we need further information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "ry of State for India and our Government here to point out that India was always on a low level, and had no surpluses worth speaking of. The fact that India was almost on a level of starvation should have made the Government aware of the situation that was likely to arise. Some Indian representative people are thinking that Indians have been deliberately starved in the interests of our war effort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.957.0", "colnum": "957", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a great deal more than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "se that the corollary of our sense of responsibility is that we ourselves must have a plan for the future of India. It is no good saying that it is the Indians' own business. No, our moral responsibility demands that if India fails to reach agreement we must have a plan that we will have the character and courage to carry out. This breakdown of the Administration has led to the loss of many lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "omparison; there can be no comparison. India is a poor country, a country mainly of small agriculturists spread over a vast area, with a very primitive social and economic structure. I do not know that I would go so far as my right hon. Friend in talking of a hand-loom mentality, but it is still, despite the great progress made in the last 100 years, a very primitive economic and social structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "s only fair to my old Province and to those who are responsible for administration there, and for the admirable body of officials to whom I was glad to notice tribute was paid in one of the speeches to-day, who are carrying an immense burden of care and anxiety, that that should be made clear. There is very little time left to me to deal with the position of His Majesty's Government in this matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-04", "file": "debates1943-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "69179ed536b3c7f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "INDIA (FOOD SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: What is the authority?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "wning Street. If people were dying here of starvation, the whole country would be aroused to indignation. Because this tragedy is happening two or three thousand miles away our imagination may be a little dulled, but the logic is just the same. I understand that in Calcutta 1000 people are dying of starvation every week, and that in the country districts the death roll is said to be 50,000 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-04a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-05", "file": "debates1943-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "5268e5ebb7980d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-05a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Allowances to families not supported by injured men.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "rcumstances. It is no objection to an Amendment to say that there is no precedent for it. It is a fact that Service pensions and allowances have given rise to similar injustices, but there is no reason for increasing the number of injustices. There is no doubt whatever that there are men who take the money they get for their wives and do not hand it over, and this is true of some children as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-05a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-05", "file": "debates1943-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "5268e5ebb7980d8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-05a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "JUVENILE DELINQUENTS (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did she not tell her?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "as still there, did not tell her successor whom she overlapped anything about Mary at all? The new warden wrote to the probation officer who had originally sent Mary down there, and I quote from her letter: I was pleased to receive your letter. Having just taken over this hostel, I knew nothing about Mary. The first warden told nothing to the second one about a person who was placed in her charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-05a.1032.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-09", "file": "debates1943-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "c71ca03337eebe76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-09a.1093.4", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "FOODS (LABELLING AND ADVERTISING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or members of the council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "preceding_text": "In view of the hon. Gentleman's statement that the responsibility for prosecution will largely rest with local authorities, and the fact that most of the people responsible—the manufacturers of these spurious goods—may be, perhaps, hundreds of miles away from the locality where the offence is discovered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-09a.1093.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-11-10", "file": "debates1943-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "7cc07f60c1711804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman's answer suggested that Allied aircraft are allowed to fly over the Vatican City, will he not issue instructions to stop it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1128.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-10", "file": "debates1943-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "7cc07f60c1711804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "TUBERCULOSIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "Because I think on this occasion a Scots Minister can do it just as well as anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-10", "file": "debates1943-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "7cc07f60c1711804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1217.3", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "TUBERCULOSIS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "You cannot do everything at once. Yet have to get the sets. It is not a crime to start in the right direction. We have started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-10", "file": "debates1943-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "7cc07f60c1711804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "GREECE AND BELGIUM (FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Monstrous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "at an early date? Germany is not going to be defeated by starving the children of our Allies. Germany is going to be defeated by massive hammer blows from left and right. In that set-up, it is argued that we must maintain the blockade to the point where we produce—\"we\" produce, just note that—in co-operation with our German allies—for, believe me, the Minister is an ally of Germany in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-10", "file": "debates1943-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "7cc07f60c1711804", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "GREECE AND BELGIUM (FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Brown", "preceding_text": "espondingly more difficult. If that is true of this country it is infinite more true of Europe. I sometimes wonder what those countries think. They must sometimes say to themselves, \"We do not know who hurts us more, our friends or our enemies.\" We are accomplices in this act of starving Europe, and we are left to-day with no excuse for what we do, because the food is there, the shipping is there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-10a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-11", "file": "debates1943-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fdd02ce147e48b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1386.3", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "JUVENILE DELINQUENTS (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "As a teetotaller, I see no wrong in a woman having a little drink in her room, and why should she not have a man in her room if she wants to, provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1386.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-11", "file": "debates1943-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fdd02ce147e48b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1386.4", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "JUVENILE DELINQUENTS (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "as—and this is from the OFFICIAL REPORT: Incidentally, the first warden of the hostel, who is no longer there, and who was chosen by the Y.W.C.A., left under a cloud. She was in the habit of having a man in her room and bringing drink into the hostel, which, as hon. Members know, is contrary to all Y.W.C.A. regulations.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th November, 1943; col. 5037, Vol. 393.] The Y.W.C.A. say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1386.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-11-11", "file": "debates1943-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fdd02ce147e48b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1399.0", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "JUVENILE DELINQUENTS (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "ant point that I will refresh the memory of the House with one short sentence as to what my allegations were on that occasion and which I deliberately repeat again, and I shall give some further chapter and verse as to why these allegations are true. I said to the House last Friday that the first warden of the hostel was in the habit of having a man in her room and bringing drink into the hostel\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-11", "file": "debates1943-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fdd02ce147e48b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "JUVENILE DELINQUENTS (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "ht confirm my arguments, especially concerning the drink being brought into the hostel, when I say that I am prepared to bring forward two people who were in that hostel who themselves had cleared away bottles which had contained spirits from the room of that first matron. That first matron, the Home Office will find out, will be willing to admit that she certainly did bring stout into the hostel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-11", "file": "debates1943-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fdd02ce147e48b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "LEBANON (FRENCH AUTHORITIES' ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " in the public Press to-day. I cannot speak with the authority and the knowledge of the country possessed by the hon. Member, but I wish that my voice, as well as his, should reach General de Gaulle now that he has been so recently reinforced in civil power and the power that has been given to him in the recent happenings at Algiers. It is only a comparatively short time ago since General Catroux—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-11a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-23", "file": "debates1943-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "23c2f6fa8b32ee8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-23a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SIR OSWALD AND LADY MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "But the medical attention is not wholly mine. As far as the prison doctor is concerned, certainly they all get the same medical attention. Let me remind the hon. Member, who is very indignant about this, that in the early days of the war there were very similar arguments against the war, both by his friends and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-23a.1435.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-24", "file": "debates1943-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "09a3feac051b610f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-24a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "hen he got his first job in the Government—Minister of Supply, I believe. He said: \"Go to it.\" When the telephone rang I thought: \"I had better go to it.\" Candidly, I feel that this is an honour, but I never felt more nervous in my life than I do to-day, because when I look across to the other side I feel that almost anybody, in fact everybody, on those benches could do this job better than I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-24a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-24", "file": "debates1943-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "09a3feac051b610f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-24a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "cy has borne his absence. When they get his speech in the Press down at Folkestone and Hythe I do not think they will bother about him until the next General Election, because of the able way in which he has performed his duty. I want to say a word about my own Division. Of course, I think that my Division is the best in the country; for one reason, they give me the best job I ever had in my life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-24a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-25", "file": "debates1943-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9affb5ac91f7f252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "Government themselves are coming forward with proposals looking to the day of peace, it seems only wise and right that Private Members should have the opportunity of introducing Bills. That will let people throughout the country know the sort of ideas that Members have. The Government would benefit, too. A great many Members now, unless they have a job of some kind, really have nothing much to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-25", "file": "debates1943-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9affb5ac91f7f252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": " Members should have the opportunity of introducing Bills. That will let people throughout the country know the sort of ideas that Members have. The Government would benefit, too. A great many Members now, unless they have a job of some kind, really have nothing much to do. [ Interruption. ] Some hon. Members, under present conditions, are not able to fill up the whole of their Parliamentary time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-25", "file": "debates1943-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9affb5ac91f7f252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Half-time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am loath to take up time. I will not take up more than a minute and a half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-25", "file": "debates1943-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9affb5ac91f7f252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How about Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "xcessive powers, should come about. I believe they combine the defects of a centralised administration with the power—though I do not suggest that they always use it—to exploit the public. I am certainly no enemy of the profit motive. I wonder really whether any of us in practice are. I believe that the profit motive, in the present state of our civilisation, is an essential incentive to progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-25", "file": "debates1943-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9affb5ac91f7f252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " ground lease. Every five years all land will have to be revalued. If you adopt the Uthwatt proposals, there will be no building of houses in this country by private enterprice. Some people want private building to cease. Just before the war three-quarters of the houses of this country were being built by private enterprise, without a subsidy, and, to an increasing extent, were being built to let.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-25", "file": "debates1943-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9affb5ac91f7f252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS (HOUSE OF COMMONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "s (Mr. Kirkwood) queries whether we can secure an efficient, competent well-informed and intelligent committee of seven Members of the House. If I may say so to my hon. Friend, that is hardly worthy of him, because no one would dare say that in a House of this kind we cannot secure seven efficient, well-informed, competent and intelligent Members. We might even find them on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-25a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.203.4", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "s the Minister satisfied that his own officials are making adequate use of constitutional trade union machinery? In that connection is he aware that in a recent strike in the Lancashire coalfield the Regional Controller proposed a method of dealing with it which was very much criticised, and eventually responsible officials of the Miners' Federation took the matter in their own hands and in spite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "part of the Debate on the Gracious Speech, or is it to be taken as a special item of Business? I ask for your guidance because it may be, within the Rules of our procedure, that, if hon. Members have spoken or wish to speak in the general Debate, they are precluded, so it appears to me, from speaking in the course of the Debate announced for the second Sitting Day. That seems to me to be improper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "wn a Motion, which will appear on the Order Paper to-morrow, drawing attention to the very grave alarm and distrust which have been caused in this connection and proposing that the Government should take the necessary action to re-intern Mosley. I suggest that it would be very unfair, in regard to a discussion on a question of this character that has aroused so much feeling throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Poole", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who do not either.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Poole", "preceding_text": "lish the people of this Island will be as willing to fight for the things that belong to the peace as they are to fight for the things that belong to the war. We have had new Ministerial appointments to the Government. Each week-end there descends upon us a shower of speeches both from hon. Members opposite, who do not always speak with quite the same voice, and from hon. Members on these benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Poole", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Poole", "preceding_text": "y. We alone of all the European nations have our internal economy intact. We alone have an industrial machine capable of turning over to peace production. It is, however, going to be an enormous problem, and we should like to know how far the Government have gone in their plans to accomplish it. Is everything being done to train the necessary personnel so that they might fit into that transition?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Nothing has proved more beneficial to the war effort than the adoption of the principles of co-operation and collectivism. You cannot employ those principles for the purpose of gaining victory over your enemies and then discard them in the hope of rendering assistance to your friends. It is quite a mistake. The Minister of Production delivered a speech the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "—they live drab, colourless lives. It frequently depends on the point of view. The right hon. Gentleman has one point of view, we have another. But these ex parte statements are of no value. To seek to uphold private ownership not because of any other virtues that it may possess but because it imparts colour to the proceedings is absurd. I could make out a better case for private ownership myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Production (Mr. Lyttelton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Production (Mr. Lyttelton)", "preceding_text": "some extent upon our capital and building up, day by day, arrears of maintenance which have to be met. I think it is also rather a sobering fact that if we are to meet these three demands for consumer goods, housing and essential maintenance, the national savings, as far as we can calculate them, may not support any further substantial programme of capital reconstruction immediately after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "d. The Ministry of Works will be the Government authority to which the Ministry of Health and the Scottish Office will look on all matters concerning—and I will read them out carefully: Plans, designs, specifications, materials and the technique of construction and costs of houses. The local authorities will, on the other side, have to look solely to the Ministry of Health and the Scottish Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is a bit uncomfortable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "which we are undecided and upon which we wish to take the opinion of hon. Members and to make soundings. I see nothing reprehensible in that. I think the Chinese have a proverb in which they say that to be uncertain is to be uncomfortable but to be certain is to be ridiculous. On one or two of these subjects I prefer to be uncomfortable at this Box rather than to place myself in the other posture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-11-30", "file": "debates1943-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "e0415ea2a9ddded4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "COLLIERY CANTEENS (TOBACCO AND CIGARETTES SALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I am responsible, and I am not prepared to run the risk of mineworkers being hoaxed. I prefer to speak frankly and bluntly, having mineworkers in my own division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-11-30a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OMNIBUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Liddall", "preceding_text": "Is it then necessary to have six at the Elephant and Castle, three at Camberwell Green, three at Waterloo Station, three at New Cross Gate, two at High Street, Peckham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.395.10", "colnum": "395", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "does not raise controversial issues. It is quite obvious that the release of Sir Oswald Mosley has had these repercussions, particularly in our factories and mines. I also want to make it clear that this Amendment is in no sense a Vote of Censure, and I hope that a great deal will not be made of that point. It does not imply any lack of confidence either in the Government or in the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.395.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "the same considerations, namely, that we should act impartially and without prejudice and—I say so with some personal feeling—without being unduly influenced in our decision to-day, even by the weight of the party machine. In the constituencies which we represent I think it is beyond all doubt that the overwhelming majority of our constituents are satisfied that an error of judgment has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "isfied that an error of judgment has been made. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I believe that to be the case, and I believe that that reaction has been spontaneous. I have gone about the country since this decision was taken: I have met many people who were indignant, I have met many people who were bewildered, and I have met one or two who were entirely cynical about it and said, \"This confirms our view—\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "interested to learn that I have heard of one individual who was ecstatically happy about the decision to release Sir Oswald Mosley, and I will say that that one individual is well known as an A1 Jew-hater and Jew-baiter. Incidentally, he agrees with Sir Oswald Mosley and also with Hitler that the cause of all the trouble in the world is, a certain group of people of one origin. He is wildly happy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woods", "preceding_text": "on. Friend, the exception that proves the rule and in that way is illustrative of the reaction which has taken place throughout the country. A great deal has been made of the argument that this agitation has been the result of the activities of the Communist Party. I am not surprised that the Communist Party have cottoned on to this and made the most of it. It was what anybody might have expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.401.0", "colnum": "401", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "g as much an enemy of this country as is Hitler or Hess. That is the feeling of the great majority of people. They look upon him as public enemy No. 1 and as a traitor to his country, and they think he should be treated as a war criminal, and they cannot understand the Home Secretary's action. They ask whether a similar line is going to be taken with regard to Hess and Hitler when the war is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chater", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chater", "preceding_text": " of my own where Oswald Mosley's Fascists marched up in military formation and endeavoured, in military formation, to take possession of our meetings. Only on Monday night I had the testimony of several of my constituents that Fascism is already raising its head again in Bethnal Green. Only this last week the doors of Jews have had chalked upon them during the night \"P. J.,\" which means \"Pig Jew.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": ", because we know that those resolutions also came from the feeling that this release was symbolic. In no case of any resolution that I have seen has there been any suggestion that the Home Secretary has improperly exercised his powers as laid down by 18B or within the limitations of the practice which he has from time to time brought to the attention of the House and which the House has approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "It puts them in a category within which he has to exercise his discretion whether they are such persons as ought to be in. I invite the hon. Members who are shaking their heads doubtfully now to read 18B (1 a ). In fact, not all Fascists or people who have been Fascists were interned, and many of the Fascists who were put in have since been released, and up to this moment there has been no outcry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did the Communists.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "ed was bound to create bitterness and bad feeling, and I would have reminded my right hon. Friend if he had been here that Sir Oswald Mosley's activities were by no means confined to post-war conditions, even after the outbreak of war. He and his friends were actively opposing the war, stating repeatedly that it was merely a war organised by Jewish capitalists and that it was all to be deprecated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend has he has always been a good propagandist—the bald statement, Sir Oswald Mosley is to be released\"—it was bound to create suspicion and deep resentment. That is my feeling, and I think that every Member connected with the East End can confirm what I say. On the other hand—and here I have no doubt I am going to be told by people on both sides that I am sitting on the fence as a Liberal", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "If it is the case that the danger has passed—and that is the argument the right hon. Gentleman put up in defence of his action—I say that it would be better to let out everybody who is detained But he has singled out one particular man for great publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": " keeping the home front stable and secure. I believe that by the ill-considered action of the Home Secretary he has struck a powerful blow at the morale of the nation. Hon. Gentlemen opposite may not like it. Hon. Members on that side or on this side may say that they do not think that factory workers should have stopped their work and have signed petitions or have come up to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "n. Members know in the conduct of the war—do they think the expression of these bodies is irresponsible or that it is only Communist-sponsored agitation? The thing is just incredible nonsense. These people are protesting in this way, and they have every right to do so, because they take the same stand upon it as I take, that the Home Secretary has dealt a terrible blow to the morale of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.427.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "And HON. MEMBER: \"Why not release them all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "on has arisen. The hon. Member for North Islington (Dr. Guest) spoke of very special treatment. It is not true. Others persons, when it was reported that detention was likely to cause permanent injury to health, have been released on the same lines and on exactly the same principles. In fact something like 600 of those originally detained in the dire and dark days of May, 1940, have been released.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.437.2", "colnum": "437", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was satisfied on the medical reports, applying the same principle to the medical facts in this case that he had applied in others, that Sir Oswald Mosley might be let out subject to restrictions consistently with the public safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "After listening to the Debate, I am wondering whether Parliament is using its time very well in discussing this matter, but I suppose the excitement that has been caused means that we have to talk about the matter whether we want to do so or not. Personally, I do not think Sir Oswald Mosley is worth it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "Certainly, but I am afraid my hon. Friend has forgotten that, as I pointed out at the beginning of my speech, there are two sections of 18B. The Home Secretary put him under control under Section 1 and has suspended the order under Section 2.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "of those who support the Amendment to Communists or personal references to myself, and the whole argument has been mixed up as between Fascism and Communism. I consider that in a situation such as this, particularly when the Home Secretary at the Labour Party meeting was blaming the Communists, and will no doubt be trying a diversion of that kind to-day, I ought to have an opportunity at any rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "Has not every point of view been expressed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frankel", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frankel", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that I and many others were concerned before the war with the activities of the gentleman concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.454.5", "colnum": "454", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I understand that my hon. Friend the Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher), at long last, is prepared to give way to me. I will not abuse the privileges of the House by making a long speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.454.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He has other punishments.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " think that on this occasion deep political differences have been disclosed, and if hon. Members on that side think that they have learned something about my hon. Friends, I imagine that many of my hon. Friends feel that they have learned something about hon. Members opposite. I do not know whether my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary permits the detainee to have copies of Hansard or the Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.454.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " Russia I and every other leader of the Communist Party would have been thrown into gaol with such a bang that the noise would have been heard in every part of Europe? I ask the Home Secretary: If this country had been at war with the Soviet Union, would he or any other of the gang on the other side have proposed to liberate me, Harry Pollitt, Palme Dutt or any other leader of the Communist Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "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": "on the wireless, \"What would you have done about it, chum?\"—because that is the issue. That is the fact that would have to be faced. I feel a bit unhappy about the time I have been having for the last fortnight. If I had to choose between being attacked and even abused by hon. Members on this side and hon. Members opposite, I would choose Members on this side before hon. Members on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.461.2", "colnum": "461", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "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": "assed their resolutions did they have before them the actual terms of the Regulation\"? In short, did they know what they were talking about? Because if they confess that they never had the Regulation in front of them, they had no right to express any opinion on the subject at all. I venture to suggest that it is highly probable that precious few of them did have the Defence Regulation before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.461.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "elease or detain according to opinion and according to likes and dislikes, or according to mobs, then I say that even though the House of Commons gives me that power it can find another Home Secretary. I will not do the job in such a way. There is too much of a party political element in the desires about the administration of this Regulation, too much of the unjudicial, and a bit of mob hysteria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "mber for North Islington (Dr. Haden Guest) perhaps, who wanted to know when the complaints about health arose. I will give the House the background rather more than I was able to do in the already long statement which I made earlier. It is the case that Mosley has suffered from recurrent attacks of phlebitis for quite a time. Of course, we Members of the Labour Party knew it when he was one of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was also one of the Conservatives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ve the House the background rather more than I was able to do in the already long statement which I made earlier. It is the case that Mosley has suffered from recurrent attacks of phlebitis for quite a time. Of course, we Members of the Labour Party knew it when he was one of us. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"] I mention that point quietly because none of us wants to remember it. Certainly I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "cquainted with the case it was felt that consultation with them would be the most advantageous course. The consultation was accordingly held and Lord Dawson and Dr. Evans submitted a report which I will now read and in which Dr. Methven, the Medical Commissioner of Prisons, Dr. Matheson and Dr. Fenton, two of the prison medical officers who had followed the case, concurred. This is what they said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.466.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.468.6", "colnum": "468", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are \"we\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "It is not my fault. On that point of Order, I have never said that I had access to Home Office files. What I say is that copies of those reports which are not Home Office files exist and I say that we—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.468.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.468.10", "colnum": "468", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "f permanent injury, or even death. It is perfectly true that 18B does not say anything specific about letting a man die, but I feel sure the whole House would take the view that if I could satisfy myself on security grounds it would be wrong on my part, deliberately and of malice aforethought, to let any man die as a consequence, not of conviction in a court, but of detention under Regulation 18B.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.468.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about John Beckett.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It must be faced. This is historical fact, and the failing of the Weimar Republic was that it did not prohibit all these private armies. We were on the verge of having two private armies. The Mosley Fascist army existed here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did they all have four roomed flats?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "d. I assure the House that there was nothing exceptional about the case we are discussing except that it is perfectly true that Mosley may have been able to spend more money than others. Well, I cannot alter the social system by Defence Regulation, tempting as it may be. I can assure the House that I have given no exceptional facilities to this man and there is no reason why I should have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-01", "file": "debates1943-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7662655bef487fc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "SIR OSWALD MOSLEY (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ". There is a Sunday paper called \"Reynolds\" which mystifies me. It seems to take its policy from the Communist party and to get its money from the Co-ops., of which I am a humble member. \"Reynolds\" news- paper does not like the Labour party and does not like me, and it is entitled to its view, but it has been rather hysterical. The \"Spectator,\" which is, I understand, a Conservative weekly review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-01a.471.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-02", "file": "debates1943-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea6a238f1419e481", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-02a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "DOMINION AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Yes, naturally, but it was representing this House and not His Majesty's Government. The right hon. Gentleman himself, in announcing it, laid stress on the fact that there were to be three Members of this House sent out, first of all to inform themselves and then to inform the House of Commons. I see that I have 10 more minutes left to me", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-02a.637.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "rity. We shall provide full employment and wages. All these things would be possible. Poverty and financial insecurity would happen without full employment. Full employment means wealth, and less than full employment will mean poverty. There is a large body of opinion among the economists of this and other countries to-day who believe that with adequate controls full employment can be established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.849.3", "colnum": "849", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "a position of inequality with those other nations in the post-war period. My hon. Friend the Member for Seaham (Mr. Shinwell) in a speech with some parts of which I agreed called attention to that. His speech was, I thought, effective. Friendship is much easier to maintain on grounds of equality than grounds of inferiority. Russia has a land system of ownership which does not gobble up its wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.849.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " not only in our own country but throughout the whole of civilisation, and when the present Secretary of State for Air, then Secretary of State for Scotland, said at that Box that shipbuilding and engineering in this country were finished. Where would we be to-day if that had been the case? I do not know why hon. Members will harp on this idea that every other country is better equipped than ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or aeroplanes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "t every other country is better equipped than ours. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, that is the meaning of what they say. We built the \"Queen Mary\" and the \"Queen Elizabeth\" against the views of all the experts and wise men in this country. On both sides of the House people went on predicting the end of the British Empire, because that was what it meant, but what country has produced ships like those?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": "You only find that in countries where the land is privately owned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "I do not see how you can have a guarantee that things are going to be done by the appointment of a Minister or the constitution of a machine. What matters is what way the machine is to be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Member mean names of personnel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "lans for housing by the Minister of Health. As I said, these plans will then be passed round to other Departments to see whether they conflict with their wishes and so on, and then, if there are differences to get rid of, the Minister of Reconstruction will do that. If he thinks that plans are not com- plete, he will say that this, that or the other is something you need to do. That is the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "I am working under and with the Minister of Reconstruction. I will represent his policy in this House, and if the Noble Lord will address any Questions he has to me, I will do my best to deal with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-07", "file": "debates1943-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "98c1c40e051b9f76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "ssumptions. He assumed full employment, he assumed a system of children's allowances, and he assumed a comprehensive medical service. Does the House say that the Government, just because Sir William Beveridge is a very eminent person, who knows a good deal about this and has given 18 months to it, should accept this Report, and say, \"Sir William Beveridge says so; therefore, it must be all right\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-07a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "w. Thus from the amœba nature developed first the inefficient fish, then the efficient fish, and finally the shark or dead-end. From the shark no development was possible. Nature had to find the inefficient but adaptable creature which crawled on the bottom of the sea but which one day crawled out. By similar processes nature formed the amphibions, dinosaurs and reptiles, and similarly man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.995.2", "colnum": "995", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "ition policy, which will confirm our degeneracy. We will lose our purpose and, because it is not family allowances but a sense of communal creative purpose which gives birth to purposeful life, our birth trends will continue as they are at present, and it may be that babies born this year will live to see this island peopled by some 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 old gentlemen of both sexes and all ages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.995.2", "colnum": "995", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that £1,000 tax free?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "unt got larger, the rate would be 50 per cent., 10 per cent., 5 per cent., and ultimately nil. It is my view that there should be an absolute compensation ceiling of £1,000 a year, which would terminate on the death of the present owner, so that in one generation from now all sons shall start from scratch, which is justice in the name of God and man. I hope that these proposals will be understood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 'gallant'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. I want to congratulate my hon. and gallant Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1004.2", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "m had to be split up and tackled in detail, and he said, \"I have been successful\"—I am not quoting his exact words—\"in taking a Welsh miner\"—a skilled man who was digging coal and producing an essential commodity—\"and giving him a course of training in one of our training centres, and to-day we have been able to secure an appointment for him as a handyman on a gentleman's estate in the Highlands.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1004.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "cription of what happened. It puts the evil geniuses of finance outside this country. It was here on this Bench that the agitation started to show that they would show the world that this country was running into financial bankruptcy because there was £100,000,000 debt on the Unemployment Insurance Fund. This nation going down because of £100,000,000 debt on the Unemployment Insurance Fund!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "inancial bankruptcy because there was £100,000,000 debt on the Unemployment Insurance Fund. This nation going down because of £100,000,000 debt on the Unemployment Insurance Fund! [ Interruption. ] It is not funny, or perhaps my sense of humour is contorted. Now, when we are piling up debt at the rate of thousands of millions a year, hundreds of millions a month, we are financially solvent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "lem which will be serious enough without these childish school boy Debates, can we hope to succeed in an atmosphere of recrimination, not unity? We are faced with the problem of grave changes, and we must go forward together or be faced with disaster and disaster of the worst possible kind. I cannot see that any party issues are raised by these things. The hon. Member for Seaham said that we must—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1023.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1035.4", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "COMMON OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": " his quotation from the Psalm of Love. Yes, Love is the greatest of all things. But I would remind him of something else. There was a young man who had lived a very virtuous life, who had kept all the Commandments, who was very anxious to win eternal life. But there was one thing he lacked. He was not prepared for the great test, to sell all he had and follow the Master. So he went away sorrowful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1035.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-08", "file": "debates1943-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "c2b4677dfec3cde5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1061.2", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "Are we, once again, to pay out millions of pounds with nothing to show for it in the end, as was done between the two wars? I think there could be nothing more wasteful than to pay out money in the form of doles and to have nothing in return to show for it. There was a time when the Labour Government were accused of wasting the people's money because they sought to provide work for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-08a.1061.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-09", "file": "debates1943-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "d8b995abcb7ec2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1193.2", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the new Minister a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "The only point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-09", "file": "debates1943-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "d8b995abcb7ec2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1197.6", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "ith rents up to 8s. That is quite different in the case of the Ministry of Pensions. Secondly, the rates for children are based on entirely different principles governing the treatment of the first, second and third child. On the whole the Ministry of Pensions rates work out at a higher average than the Board's rates, and I think that it is in accordance with the mind of the House that they should", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1197.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-09", "file": "debates1943-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "d8b995abcb7ec2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But trivial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "not here—the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Jackson), who, when he was able to be in this House, always agitated about this question. Then it abolishes, as the Minister has said, the differences between the sexes. There is a shilling advantage there. It abolishes the financial difference between the married woman who has a pension and the married woman who has not. They are all advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-09", "file": "debates1943-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "d8b995abcb7ec2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "many of the Regulations on which I would like to touch, but I would say to my hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Ness Edwards), who also has left his place, that I do not know any reason for the differentiation between the rates in England and Wales and the rates in Scotland unless it is the rent factor. I believe it is generally understood that rents are lower in Scotland than in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-09", "file": "debates1943-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "d8b995abcb7ec2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ome. If there is only £100 to play with and someone takes too much of it, it must be at the expense of the workman who produced it. Nothing exists except through the producer; that is where wealth comes from. When he produces his £100 you proceed to divide it up, and you have to say how much goes to one category of people in goods and services and how much to another. That is exactly what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-09a.1237.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "nd Reading. This is the interesting thing to me, at any rate in connection with the question of the King's Roll and its substitution by a quota: there are the names of seven men who are now being trained in this hospital as gardeners. He gives the names of the men. They are all ex-Servicemen of the 1914–18 war, and their average employment from 1926 to 1943 was three and a half months each.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "Yes; all employers under whatever guise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Psychiatry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " sticks was able to perform quite difficult work within a few months. The main point is to get the men back into the working habit along with their fellows. That is the foundation, I think, of Ministry of Pensions work and of all this kind of work apart from specific and specialised training. I suppose that people have been surprised at what is called nowadays \"psychiastry\" or something like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are never out of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "red industry, the printing trade, but that he had acted for some among his constituents who had no powerful trade union at their back. Let us never forget that the Army, the Navy and the Air Force have no trade union to speak for them and that the duty to speak for them lies here in this House. It may be, I hope it will be, that when these men and women come back they will join their trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in other directions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "try of Labour's officer coming into the hospital and saying, \"What would you like to do?\" or, \"What do you think you can do?\" It is obvious that the Minister will be dependent to a large extent not only on his Central Advisory Council but, I hope, on hon. and gallant Members who have some special experience of ex-Service men and will utilise them in that capacity to the fullest possible advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1331.0", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "preceding_text": "uce more coal much more quickly than either the ballot or any other means will achieve, because he is a trained miner. My last word is with regard to quotas, the number of men who will be taken on by employers. As has been pointed out, we have a very high rate of accidents in our mines, and it is true that employers by and large have taken on a percentage of a quota of light-work compensation men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE LETTER (SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has become the first-class interrupter in this House. Nobody has a higher opinion of the dignity, prestige, honour and integrity of the Civil Service than I have. I am an old civil servant myself, and I resent the imputation put on this letter, the imputation against the Civil Service and Sir William Beveridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-10", "file": "debates1943-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "66b6dcc7b27be4c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1357.4", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE LETTER (SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "I know what the hon. Member is doing. He has brought this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-10a.1357.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "rtisans emphasise the provisional nature of this administration, and they hold that it is for the Yugoslav people, as soon as their country is liberated, freely to choose the form of Government they prefer. If that is the position, this, too, is the view of His Majesty's Government. It is also, as I know, because he has told us so, the desire of King Peter himself and the policy of his Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Clearly that is not so. I am trying to make a fair approach to this very difficult question, and what I am saying is that all, including the Government in Cairo, have declared that the moment their country is liberated they will lay down their offices and it will be for the country to choose its Government. That is a point on which all are agreed—the King, General Tito and the Yugoslav Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "o the mistake of setting up a League of Nations as it was before, because that was proved to be a failure. I would give one instance, and that is the invasion of Manchuria. Nobody put the situation more clearly than did the Minister of Aircraft Production, who, in 1932, said that that matter was the test of the League of Nations. Not one of us in those days here was willing that our mothers' sons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "preceding_text": " efforts of the Prime Minister or of his stimulating speeches which he gives to us from time to time, but I was very much disturbed, as I feel sure many other Members were, some three months ago when he expressed the view that he hoped the time was not far distant when the King of Greece and the King of Yugoslavia would be restored to their thrones. I thought that was a most unfortunate statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "preceding_text": "I said that I did not want to say anything offensive, but I suggest that it is no use mincing matters. It is necessary that these things should be said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "d that China is in what is called the American sphere. I have the greatest possible friendship for the American people, but I cannot help reflecting that, after all, Europe may be said to be our sphere, and yet nobody complains that to-day London is to all intents and purposes an American armed camp. Nobody complains that we see far more American troops than British walking up and down the street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "ur profound errors before the war. We said, \"Germany can do what she likes; Italy can do what she likes; it does not concern us.\" But it did concern us most profoundly. While we are saying, rightly, now that it will be for each, country, after the occupation is taken away, to settle its own form of government, I hope that we shall make it clear that that must not be a Nazi or a Fascist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-14", "file": "debates1943-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "277be32a5035b83f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1505.0", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "thought it would when they made those statements. I am much more concerned as to the Foreign Secretary's speech so far as it showed any indication whatever that any decisions had been reached on foreign policy. Certain hon. Members have to-day made suggestions as to what our foreign policy should be, and I should like to know—I do not see any representative of the Foreign Office on the Front Bench", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-14a.1505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-15", "file": "debates1943-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1901b3db12da562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1566.5", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "NEW WRIT (SKIPTON DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "y as I have described them. I have not searched the records, but I am convinced that never before in the history of democracy or at all events in the recent history of democracy, has a by-election campaign been arranged to coincide with the Christmas period. The next answer with which I was met, when I tried to press this point yesterday, so as to avoid having to waste the time of the House today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1566.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-15", "file": "debates1943-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1901b3db12da562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1566.5", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "NEW WRIT (SKIPTON DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "n of good will.\" Although a superficial glance at the contemporary scene does not suggest that men here have taken much intelligent notice of them, it is the fact that the electors of Skipton have a lovable habit of trying, even in these dark days, to hold a little festival of human good will extending over about a dozen days, in so far as they can do so, consistent with the Essential Work Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1566.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-15", "file": "debates1943-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1901b3db12da562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1572.2", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "NEW WRIT (SKIPTON DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "d here for as much as six or eight weeks to enable particular candidates to be brought back from the Near East or the Far East. I am not arguing against that. I am prepared to have all the delay necessary if it means fair play to the candidates, but the attitude of the Leader of the House is that he wants the Writ issued to-day, fair play or not. There is great feeling in the country on the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1572.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-15", "file": "debates1943-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1901b3db12da562b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1619.1", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "WAR SITUATION AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "precisely what we had done. What about Malaya, Hong Kong? As a matter of fact, Hitler for three years bas put our Forces into a series of concentration camps and immobilised them. We have been unable to gather them and concentrate them against the enemy at any vital point. We have never, in fact, deployed more than 30 divisions in a concentration against the enemy. We have so dispersed our Forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-15a.1619.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1663.11", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for India (Mr. Amery)", "preceding_text": "I hope, before answering Question No. 16, I might be allowed to say one word to express the regret which we all feel at the premature death of Sir John Herbert, once a well loved Member of this House, and since a popular and esteemed Governor of the great Province of Bengal. There can be little doubt that his unwearying devotion to duty contributed to the breakdown which ended in his death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1663.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1696.3", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "ILLNESS OF THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "the left lung. The general condition is as satisfactory as can be expected. It is signed Moran, D. Evans Bedford (Brigadier), R. J. V. Pulvertaft (Lieut.-Colonel), and is dated 16th December. A further bulletin will be issued daily. The House will be sorry to learn of the Prime Minister's illness, and I am sure it will be the desire of all of us that we shall send our best wishes for his recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ing, and lending to His Majesty's Government free of interest. Therefore, I say, the conditions have now been met that make it obligatory upon this House to restore self-government to Newfoundland. But there is the other point, and that is what the Government are resting upon now, and what the Commissioners are backing them up in, and that is that there must be a request from Newfoundland as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I would suggest to the House that we dispose of this Amendment, for it is a limiting Amendment. If hon. Members agree, I will put the Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Newfoundland on her feet as speedily as possible, secondly to promote the political education of her people, and thirdly to restore the Constitution—which we had never revoked, but merely suspended—as soon as the island was self-supporting again. In that Act itself there is no mention of a request from the Newfoundland people; that is in the Commission's recommendations, but not in the Act itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "r pledge to restore her independence—I grant the Minister the point—unless the people ask for it. I ask the Under-Secretary to explain the position of the Government. Does he believe that we are trying to deal with Newfoundland on the basis of a means test, on a Micawber style of finance—income £20, expenditure £20 0s. 6d., self-government; income £20, expenditure £19 19s. 6d., no self-government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1780.2", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nominated or elected?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "suppose we might reserve a few services. I hope high quarters will consider whether that could be carried out. That would be one of the things to be discussed by the Council, which should be presided over or assisted, I suggest, by a big constitutional expert from this country and attended by representatives of the Dominions Office able at any moment to say what was in the minds of the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-16", "file": "debates1943-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "fcd2831e06f7c3eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1788.11", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "NEWFOUNDLAND", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friends here will bear me out when I say that the interruption was loud and noisy, and really the Noble Lord cannot expect to be the only person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-16a.1788.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-17", "file": "debates1943-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7aa04fffdc052d11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-17a.1938.0", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "JUVENILE DELINQUENTS (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, it was not that particular probation officer, because we put another probation officer to help the first one with the case. She is a very experienced probation officer. We brought her into this case because the hon. and gallant Member had disliked the first probation officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-17a.1938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1943-12-17", "file": "debates1943-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7aa04fffdc052d11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-17a.1938.4", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "JUVENILE DELINQUENTS (TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I must appeal to you. I cannot speak with all this going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1943-12-17a.1938.4"}