{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.10.5", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why \"even\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will take a look at some of the bookstalls he will see some really disgusting things that are being printed now; and will he put a stop to this sort of thing and help to provide more books that are educational—even Bibles would be better than some of the filth displayed on the bookstalls?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.10.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. and gallant Member to mean that anybody who is injured as the result of an air raid will get priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.80.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "That only proves you would have to go further into the difficulties created by this Amendment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Lawson", "preceding_text": "mendment are just as anxious to protect the interests of the soldier as hon. Gentlemen opposite. The great bulk of the fighting men have taken their part in industry, and, as my hon. Friend the Member for South Tottenham (Mr. Messer) said, they have people at home, some of them sons, and the operation of the Amendment would prevent a son or daughter who might be blind from receiving consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.96.2", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps if we keep our minds on the principles and do not try to score debating points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.96.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.96.2", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "nd do not try to score debating points—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and try to help the disabled rather than point out the difficulties with which Parliament might be faced, we might arrive at a conclusion which will do all that we desire. I am quite certain in my own mind that if the Committee forced the Government to accept this Amendment it would not do what hon. Members are anxious that it should do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.96.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "Of course not. What we are dealing with now is a particular class of people who are disabled and the primary thing I regret about the Debate to-day is that we seem to be attempting to set against each other two classes both of which are deserving,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "ssion of the failure of the Ministry of Labour. The House and the country will not be satisfied with anything less than that all men who have served their country overseas in any of the Services should be found a job or be given training until a job is available. The danger of the Amendment is that it will suggest to the country that that training will not be available except for the disabled men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ress what Toryism has always expressed, no regard or consideration for the workers. Take the case of two lads who are summoned for national service, and one is sent to the Army and one to the mines. The one who is sent to the Army loses a hand and the one who is sent to the mines loses an arm. Under the Amendment the one who is sent to the mines, because he is a worker, is to get no consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is playing party politics now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "t is by putting it in an Act of Parliament. Views and Governments may change. Without wishing to indulge in any party politics I would say that if a Government formed from hon. Members opposite or from the Liberal Party—I do not know the views of the Common Wealth Party because they have not expressed them on this subject—came into power, it is obvious that this preference would cease to be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.109.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ss these big administrative statutory schemes you will find a very substantial body of Regulations and Orders because, if the House is to function and to deal with what people desire it to deal with, you cannot cross every t and dot every i of administrative schemes if they are to work properly because you would have the position of having to come back to the House whenever anything fresh came up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ne the persons who are entitled to get on the register. They must be under the general authority of, and not in conflict with, the definitions in Clause 1 of the Bill. Otherwise, they would be ultra vires. Surely that must be right. If the Bill defines disability in Clause 1, no Regulation under Clause 7 which had the effect of cutting down the definition under Clause 1 could be legally effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "se. It comes back to the same point. Nobody says that conditions should not be imposed and nobody, so far, has said that all the conditions should or could be in the Bill. It therefore follows that we are unanimous that conditions should be imposed, and that they should be imposed by Regulation, and the only thing about which we differ is as to the kind of Regulation. That seems to be quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-18", "file": "debates1944-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "ce68b80c72f5a554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISABLED PERSONS (EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that my hon. Friend is not fortifying his case in the least. Surely the point is that the purpose of the Measure is to provide vocational training for disabled persons. There is no dispute about that—or is there? An hon. Member says that it is only one of the things. Very well, it is a primary object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-18a.143.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-20", "file": "debates1944-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "9bad43222ef1b846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not try Moody and Sankey?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": "necessary—superstructure. May I as one who has taught for many years in a Sunday school, make a very humble suggestion? It is that in addition to your agreed syllabus I would venture to ask whether you cannot request all the religious authorities which you have at your disposal to join in drawing up a very simple hymn book—not containing more than about 100 hymns—which can be used by our children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-20", "file": "debates1944-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "9bad43222ef1b846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " Kilmarnock that the whole financial situation should be investigated and I can think of no better person to do it than Lord Justice Luxmoore. That is one of the sidewalks we have had in the course of this Bill. The other is the dual system. There has been a great deal of talk about the attitude adopted by those who put forward their claims for their denominational privileges. I am a Presbyterian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-20", "file": "debates1944-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "9bad43222ef1b846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "s. Therefore, I should have thought that so far as experiments are concerned there was no need of the independent school. We need enlightenment among local authorities and enlightenment and encouragement at the Board. I have no doubt that under the present dispensation we shall get enlightenment and encouragement from the Board. My only fear is that the life of the President may not be a long one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-20", "file": "debates1944-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "9bad43222ef1b846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not entirely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "those smaller municipal boroughs which cannot be expected to undertake the full responsibilities of local education authorities under this Bill. There are quite a number of them. They are not small places. There are a large number of non-county boroughs with populations exceeding 40,000 persons. Under the proposals of the Bill, these authorities will fade out of the educational picture altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-20", "file": "debates1944-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "9bad43222ef1b846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "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": "of these young people, who, after a hard day's work, undertake study at these places, because, quite clearly, they are the one set of students in this country whom you are sure are attending an educational course of their own volition from a sincere and personal desire to benefit by the course. After all, under compulsory education you are never quite sure whether a child wants to be there or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-20", "file": "debates1944-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "9bad43222ef1b846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And tanks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": " the denominational and religious tests now operating to be considerably reduced. My hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Mr. Stokes), as usual, trotted out every hobby horse he has got. We heard about banks and the way some people can lend you money although I, personally, have never found that a very satisfactory way of borrowing money. We also heard about the cost of land and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-20", "file": "debates1944-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "9bad43222ef1b846", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "That is a matter between the local education authority and the Governors of the schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-20a.495.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-25", "file": "debates1944-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "8bf616221e52c7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-25a.540.6", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SERVING MEMBERS OF PARLIA MENT (POLITICAL ACTIVITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of any cases in which they have not conformed to the Regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-25a.540.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-01-25", "file": "debates1944-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "8bf616221e52c7bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-25a.567.6", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": " to point out that we have for discussion a Supplementary Vote of Credit for 1943 and a Vote of Credit for 1944, both of which cover the same ground. With the consent of the Committee, I propose that the discussion should take place upon the Supplementary Vote of Credit, and then the Committee may be willing to pass the Vote of Credit formally and without debate. May I take it that that is agreed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-25a.567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-26", "file": "debates1944-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bfacb91fe7e5b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "NEW WRIT (DERBY, WESTERN DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "which a Writ was moved within half an hour of Members of the House knowing that any retirement was contemplated. I am told that it was in yesterday's papers, so my half-hour is a slight exaggeration, but I do not think my point is substantially affected by that. It is true that this is a constituency which appears to have been politically divided, in the past, into three approximately equal parts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.657.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-26", "file": "debates1944-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bfacb91fe7e5b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICES).", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And make up for past losses\"?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ings had increased to between £6 and £7 a week. The farmer farming between 200 and 250 acres pre-war was making £250 a year—again too low in relation to the size of his farm. By 1940–41 his income had more than doubled. Out of these earnings the fanner had to pay his living expenses, his taxation, his interest for any borrowed money and put aside something for interest from his own capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-26", "file": "debates1944-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bfacb91fe7e5b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Included in the pronoun \"we\" was included, incredible as it may appear, my friend Davie Kirkwood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-26", "file": "debates1944-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bfacb91fe7e5b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "of the war at which we are and in view of the great issues for the future to the whole of the country-side. I would also make this appeal to the farmers' leaders. This year we have—I am glad to see it—two young men leading the National Farmers' Union. It is a great opportunity for them to take the whole problem of agriculture out of politics and to sit down and talk to the Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-26", "file": "debates1944-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bfacb91fe7e5b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (PRICES).", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Scotland\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Are we to understand, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is now to wind up for the Government and that the Debate will then conclude? I put it to the right hon. Gentleman that not one Member of Parliament for Suffolk, Essex, Worcestershire and many other rural areas have had an opportunity to take part in this Debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-26", "file": "debates1944-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "7bfacb91fe7e5b29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.822.2", "colnum": "822", "heading": "GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (TRADE UNION OFFICIALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "ns to apply. The men who went there, I believe 60 originally, are now reduced to half that number. They are being reduced as the programme gets lessened. It was a perfectly practical proposition. It was a war measure, which was applied very successfully, and I think it helped our production when it was vitally necessary and we could not afford to have any more stoppages or to waste any more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-26a.822.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.831.5", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I can assure my hon. Friend that the scales are being held fairly. If there is any complaint at all, it has rather been of the favouritism shown for small businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.831.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 7.—(Entry of names of disabled persons in the register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That does not mean officials?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "The two classes who are definitely assured of places on the Advisory Committee are the employers and the workers, and there will also be others who have been in the different types of organisations for the disabled and people who have come into the administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 7.—(Entry of names of disabled persons in the register.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A typist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "the whole of the 1914–18 pensioners are brought in. But Clause 1 lays it down that the pensioner must be disabled, and his disablement must be a handicap to his obtaining and retaining his employment. An individual may lose a little finger on his left hand. I can think of one occupation for which that would be a serious disability, that is a pianist. I cannot think of another at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What is meant by \"incorporate\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "As far as local authorities, bodies corporate and others are concerned, these words are not necessary because, under the interpretation Act, the word \"person\" includes bodies either corporate or incorporate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.908.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "tish Legion is calling for a meeting of ex-Service men and the wives of serving soldiers in a certain town to protest against the action of the local authority in having appointed an accountant who is not an ex-Service man. He not only happens to be an accountant but a conscientious objector, though conscientious objectors have their rights and are entitled to the same treatment as everybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose system?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "to assume that two men are on piece-work, one disabled, the other fit, and the disabled man produces less than the fit man. Quite clearly, not in the interests of the employer but in the interests of the consumer of the goods produced, the man who produces less, ought to be paid less than the man who produces more: otherwise your whole system of remuneration in accordance with output is destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"That would not seem to arise here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": " produced, the man who produces less, ought to be paid less than the man who produces more: otherwise your whole system of remuneration in accordance with output is destroyed. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose system?\"] Anybody's system. They have in Russia, for example, a very extraordinary system of premium bonus which they have developed in the coal mines there. But it does not matter whose system it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "employer is employing a number of disabled men on the basis of a quota but he decides for some reason or other to dismiss one of the disabled employees, but in order to come within the terms of the quota he employs another disabled man, so that he complies with the terms of the quota, and so far he is protected against prosecution. That is quite clear, but the disabled man who has been discharged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ith the conditions. This Bill was introduced to give preferential employment to a certain class, namely, disabled persons. Now some hon. Members wish to limit it to one particular section out of that class. Once we give that right to employment which we are attempting to give in this Bill, it is not good enough to say that the ordinary relationship between employer and employed will be sufficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only if he can prove wrongful dismissal, even then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ersons to enjoy the benefits enjoyed by the fit person. I think it is most unsatisfactory that a disabled man can be discharged by an employer who does not like the look of his face, and that, merely because the employer fills up his quota immediately, with somebody more amenable, the discharged man has only one possible remedy, as I understand it, namely, to obtain damages through the High Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.949.3", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Obligations as to employment of quota of registered persons in substantial staffs.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "re is no attempt to burke it, that an unscrupulous employer could, by engaging six disabled men, and if five were his quota, get rid of any one of the six at any time he wished. Although it is open for that to be done, I hope that there will be a sanction, greater than any of the sanctions of the law, which will prevent that being done, and that is, the good sense of the employers of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.949.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 18.—(Provisions as to offences.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The directors of the municipality are the council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 18.—(Provisions as to offences.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Government will not surrender to the request which has been made. If we are going, in the next three or four months, to report Progress and end our Sittings seven and a half hours after the meeting of the House, we shall never get through the volume of business that we shall have before us. I consider that the Motion has been moved too early in the proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.983.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 18.—(Provisions as to offences.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erskine-Hill", "preceding_text": "or not. I do not want to discuss what I am about to say later, if it is so decided, but I think it would be unfortunate for the Committee, which has had a great deal of work to do, if the Minister were not willing to give way on what a large number of Members consider a matter of importance. There is no question of a personal attack upon the Ministed. Such an idea is absolutely without foundation,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 18.—(Provisions as to offences.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I was about to suggest to hon. Members opposite that they give the impression that their insistence on discussing this principle in relation to this Bill is rather an opposition to the Bill itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 19.—(Regulations and orders.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Lawson", "preceding_text": "re practically riots. I do not understand why this point is raised on this Bill. I agree that if you could discuss this question as a principle apart from this Bill it would be a desirable thing, but the hon. Gentleman has not told us just why it has been raised on this particular Bill. Let me put the thing bluntly. Is it because many hon. Gentlemen opposite are making a party matter of this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 19.—(Regulations and orders.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "House which I think would meet this point. Hon. Members will recall that on many occasions I have protested against the Executive's action in regard to such matters and I have not only complained but I have made positive suggestions to get over the difficulty. I am not complaining that this Amendment has been moved. Obviously hon. Members have to make their protest when the first Bill comes along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 19.—(Regulations and orders.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the positive principle called?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " I cannot promise that the amusingness will. I hope there will be less vehemence and recrimination than there was in one or two of the earlier speeches. I would like to answer the question of the hon. Gentleman who preceded me by saying that there is a negative principle in Chinese theology which I believe is called Ying, and in Christian theology the Devil may be regarded as a negative principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Preference for ex-Servicemen and Women.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. and gallant Gentleman is a little too optimistic if he thinks that the point of view expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Lawson) was disposed of finally last week. I think I know at any rate as well as the hon. and gallant Gentleman the feeling of the troops on this and other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-27", "file": "debates1944-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "178b3894e06106d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.1024.6", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHEDULE.—(Provisions as to advisory council and committees.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sometimes he is a woman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "l profession and. The Amendment is very simple. Its intention is to include in the provisions of the Bill an assurance that, on the national council and local advisory committees there shall be those who have experience in rehabilitation and members of the medical profession. I would emphasise the representation of the medical profession. In addition to being a doctor, a doctor is sometimes a man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-27a.1024.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-01-28", "file": "debates1944-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "7a676c8608825b65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-28a.1052.1", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I will come to Members of Parliament in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-01-28a.1052.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN WAR ZONE (WORKS OF ART AND HISTORIC BUILDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "As it is a matter on which a number of Members may wish to put supplementary questions, I hope that that will be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1134.3", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES (FORMAL DATE, DETERMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I certainly think the matter must always be considered but although the courts have the same difficulties as we have, it is their business most specifically to solve them as each case arises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If you are elected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "d probably be that which was represented by Sir Francis Fremantle. In Kent, Bromley looks as though it was ripe for some operation. All round London, some 20 new constituencies will be created. Even my old borough of Croydon will probably get three Members. Part of our municipality is outside the Parliamentary area. The borough looks ripe for three Members and I shall have a very much larger area:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ht be difficult for me to be at the polling station in Westminster I am registered as an absent voter in Westminster. I have a house just outside the constituency of the Noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton). There I am registered as an absent voter, and at the University I am registered as an absent voter. In each case I exercise my right of voting by post. I find it very convenient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1182.3", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Holdsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Holdsworth", "preceding_text": "s cast in an election. I want to appeal to the best motives, not to the question of whether this is going to be in favour of the Conservative Party at one election and the Labour Party at another but to see how we can complete the structure of democracy, which is incomplete at the present time. We are members of the oldest Parliamentary body in the world, which is called the Mother of Parliaments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "preceding_text": "Is it not far more dangerous to have a repetition of what happened between 1929 and 1931, when a small number of the Liberal Party were able to——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Elections do not decide points of detailed policy. They elect the Government that is going to carry on the country and, when they select a Government, they must accept the decisions of that Government for the time being and, if they do not like them, they have to turn them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chinese crackers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "of that sort. The only provocative thing I am going to say—and I am sure hon. Members would be disappointed if I did not say one provocative thing—is this. If the Tories would just charge their memories, can they recall in their lifetime an election in which the Tory Party did not try to put over a dirty trick at the last moment? The temptation is very great and I have not seen them resist it yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "he constituency. The hon. Gentleman and I must share the distinction of being the most quarrelsome Members in the House, but I never quarrelled with the people with whom I was working in double harness. One of them was Marion Phillips, who was a grand woman but one of the most quarrelsome Members of the House. This suggestion of the Speaker's Conference in 1917 was only rejected in another place——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-01", "file": "debates1944-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c18602c7d3c38782", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "CHIMNEY-SWEEPS, GRANTHAM (MILITARY SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. McCorquodale)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"She was here to-day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. McCorquodale)", "preceding_text": "r ages. I have no corroborative evidence of their ages, but I have some evidence of how many chimneys they are supposed to be sweeping, and my information is that they are doing very well. I would like, for a moment, to explain why I am answering in this short Debate. First, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security is, unfortunately, laid up; otherwise she would have been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-01a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "No, it was not that way at all. There was an idea in my Department that that might be a good thing to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Brains.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "due influence, to make their contribution to the future of our nation. There are provisions in our electoral law which seem to me to defeat the true ends of political democracy. I think we have long passed the time when we should retain the system of plural voting, whether it be the business vote or the university vote. Citizenship, and the rights of citizenship, are not based either on wealth or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "t enter, the dice are loaded against the free expression of the people, because wealth now—it is an undeniable fact, and it may be pleasant for the Conservative Party—plays a far bigger part than it ought to do in political warfare. What is the basis of politics in this country? Broadly speaking, there are two types of mind—the adventurous and the cautious. I will put this as objectively as I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "life to take my licking when it comes to me. You cannot have a system which works in favour of one party all the time and against another party all the time, and if we suffer in consequence of an exaggeration of voting that is our misfortune and, maybe, the country's. There have been occasions when this party has been slightly over-represented, though I do not believe that was a national disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loverseed", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loverseed", "preceding_text": "ould for one moment have tolerated such things as the betrayal of Abyssinia, the sabotage of the League of Nations, the betrayal of democracy in Spain, the German occupation of the Rhineland, German re-armament, or the appeasement of any Fascist or semi-Fascist who raised his head in the world. In fact, I believe this war would have been avoided had we had Proportional Representation 15 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Raikes", "preceding_text": "y with complete confidence. As the hon. Member for East Stirling (Mr. Woodburn) pointed out yesterday, in university elections you have more spoilt ballot papers than anywhere else, and, oddly enough, universities are the only places in this country where Proportional Representation is adopted. Generally, the average elector in a university election should, at any rate, know how to read and write.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can get it any time throughout their lives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "ndon, and in a great many other universities, is that you have to contract in to have the university vote and pay a special registration fee. It so happens that the majority of people passing through the university and looking for a job are penniless at the time they graduate and so do not then contract in. They have nothing to spare and do not take out their registration to get the graduate vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Major Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Petherick", "preceding_text": "he Combined Universities (Mr. Harvey) was rather ingenuous yesterday when he suggested that those who were so fortunate as to be chosen to attend your Conference, Sir, should go with an open mind on this question, but it was clear that he himself, as well as the right hon. Baronet the Member for South West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris), had both very definitely made up their minds on the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-02", "file": "debates1944-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "64dd9de21c359cd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTORAL REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": "in the past had a fair place in politics. The hon. and gallant Member for South East Essex (Flight-Lieutenant Raikes) drew attention to the case of the young Service man who is feeling that he wants to take a responsible place in politics after the war. The scales are now weighted against him. They are obviously weighted in the Labour Party against anyone who has not served in the Labour movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-02a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-03", "file": "debates1944-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "60102d0e65585eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-03a.1448.2", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REINSTATEMENT IN CIVIL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " provisions of this sort first found their way on to the Statute Book, the first in the Military Training Act—only a matter of six months then—in the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Act, and finally in the National Service Act. Looking back, it is interesting to observe that on each of these occasions less and less time was devoted in the Committee stage to the careful consideration of the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-03a.1448.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-03", "file": "debates1944-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "60102d0e65585eb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-03a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REINSTATEMENT IN CIVIL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "n order to work smoothly. I am confident that it will work that way in the future. If hon. Members ask me to put everything down in precise legal terms in the Bill, then I am afraid I must say that I cannot do it. Another point raised has been about this awfully vexed question of regulations, which has almost become as historic as King Charles's head. It will apparently be coming up on every Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-03a.1507.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1619.6", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister incapable of understanding the difference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1619.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1622.4", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "At present there is no woman head of a Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1622.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1660.0", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Appointment of Minister in charge of education and reconstitution of Board of Education.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": " am very glad it has. With it, a type of administration has gone, and I am very glad it has gone. I am not ashamed of the fact that I got some teaching—I am not going to call it education—in a board school. If there was any special reason why I should welcome the change, it would be because of my experiences. I was a favourite with my teacher and she would often take me on her knee—face downwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1665.0", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Appointment of Minister in charge of education and reconstitution of Board of Education.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no tradition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "m frankly astonished at the arguments which have come from hon. Members opposite, both from Members of the Socialist Party and more especially from my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Ayr Burghs (Sir T. Moore). Why must we take an entirely logical view of the name of the President of the Board of Education? I should have thought that this House was the guardian of tradition in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1665.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Appointment of Minister in charge of education and reconstitution of Board of Education.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has not changed his job because he is called by another name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Morrison", "preceding_text": " the President of the Board of Education should become the Minister for Education is because it would improve the status of education, not only in this House but in the country. May I remind the hon. Gentleman that even in my short term in this House, during a period of only 10 years, there have been nine separate Presidents of the Board of Education? I suggest that that is not good for education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1693.0", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Central Advisory Councils.)", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, in the hands of the Committee. If the Committee desire, I see no reason why the Amendments in the names of the hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Lindsay), the hon. Member for the University of Wales (Professor Gruffydd) and the right hon. Member for South West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) should not be discussed with the Amendment before the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1693.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1722.0", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "CLAUSE 4.—(Central Advisory Councils.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "er 20 years ago. It is a long time since I read the Report, but my memory is that the Committee came down unequivocally for the abolition of this system. It has stupid social effects in some of the industrial areas. I do not want to hurt anybody's feelings, but I know that in some areas the intermediate schools are the class snobs' schools, relative to the schools run by the municipal authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-08", "file": "debates1944-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "04d4b8d41112ce40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "DOMESTIC COAL SUPPLIES, GLASGOW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ks ended 15th January. Disposals have averaged 675,800 tons, showing a saving of 32,000 tons a week more than was anticipated, or a total additional saving of 222,000 tons. Against this, however, supplies over the same period have fallen short of the programme by an average of 63,600 tons per week, or 447,500 tons over the seven weeks and we are at present 225,000 tons worse off than was intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-08a.1736.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-09", "file": "debates1944-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "41cd3190f8bbcaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-09a.1849.1", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "uments in support of this Amendment was a thoroughly bad argument that does not advance the real case of the Amendment at all. I think he was right to say so, but I do not think it is at all wrong that because among the many arguments that can be advanced in support of this Amendment some people have chosen bad or unattractive arguments it necessarily follows that the Amendment is a bad Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-09a.1849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-09", "file": "debates1944-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "41cd3190f8bbcaef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-09a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": " day and these are the sort of cases to which the hon. Member for Ince referred. This has been done on a number of occasions, but it must be remembered that the supplementary pensions scheme is not a scheme based on contributions. Nor is it a payment which is based on a means test like the non-contributory old age pensions. It is a payment based on needs, and you cannot meet needs retrospectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-09a.1869.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1903.9", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AUSTERITY CLOTHES (STOCKS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend will realise that I said that as yet there is no evidence that any loss will be suffered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1903.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1910.1", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman suspend the Standing Order (Sittings of the House) without limit, on the first Sitting Day of the series of Sittings after next, and in the meantime, would he advise the Prime Minister to stop sending foolish letters to candidates at by-elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1910.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1913.0", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "ELECTORAL REFORM (MR. SPEAKER'S CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"If possible\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary made some references to \"agreed resolutions.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1912.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1973.3", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About 220.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "time to time in constituencies are to be dealt with if they mean to continue the appointment of these political Ministers for instance after the end of the war with Japan. We are now in smooth waters, politically. The Government have a tremendous majority in the House. I do not know the exact number of right hon. and hon. Members who are directly or indirectly in the appointment of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1978.0", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Madrid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rd University (Sir A. Salter) who was and may still be—because the point has not been clarified—Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport. He has recently been seconded—that was the term used—to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. An appointment to an embassy abroad might be regarded as of a temporary nature. The ambassador may be recalled at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I was about to make a similar observation, without suggesting that there was any dodge about it. I hope that my right hon. and learned Friend, with the consent of my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan), will acquit me of making any suggestion that there is any dodge behind the proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The South African Government does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ification was given to this House, and there is no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman is in precisely the same position as the High Commissioners for Australia, Canada and New Zealand who are resident in this country. The Governments of Australia, Canada and New Zealand did not accord to their High Commissioners the privilege we are according to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Rossendale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1980.0", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " is peculiar in many ways. The point is that, in the circumstances, it is not right that my right hon. and learned Friend should push this Measure through the House without according to hon. Members an opportunity of reviewing the whole situation. It is not a light matter. While I would not go so far—it may not please some of my hon. Friends behind me, but we cannot please everybody in this world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1980.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "n and who usually supports the Government 100 per cent. raise his voice on this occasion and threaten to go into the Division Lobby against the Bill if a Division were called? It was precisely for the same reason which I have in my mind, that there is a danger of these offices of profit under the Crown being used, as the same method was used in Georgian days, as a method of bribery and corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1983.0", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "being used, as the same method was used in Georgian days, as a method of bribery and corruption. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I say that advisedly, because if the Prime Minister really wanted the services of these hon. Members, he would have kept them as they were originally in his own Government. Think of the coincidence that the majority of these appointments are of Members of one political party only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1985.0", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "rd in the Debate—he has now accepted an appointment under U.N.R.R.A. I do not myself think that an appointment under U.N.R.R.A. is an office of profit under the Crown, although the Crown makes a substantial contribution to U.N.R.R.A. His position would be the same as that of any other hon. Member who accepts an appointment or work, not under the Crown and which, of course, does not disqualify him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "I must confess my line of thought has been somewhat disturbed if not entirely broken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1987.1", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "f this House to serve with the Armed Forces of the Crown, we can accept it as sufficient reason why we should excuse them attendance in this House. But when it comes to a Minister accepting a civilian appointment abroad, I think we ought to draw the line. I would appeal to the fairness and honesty of Members opposite, who are just as much concerned, I believe, to give the appearance to the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1989.1", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "to the House at the beginning were attractive. The right hon. and learned Member for Ashton-under-Lyme (Sir W. Jowitt), whose job in the Government I am not quite sure of—I know his title, but I do not know his job—was in charge of, or was associated with, the original Bill. One of the reasons which he gave to convince those of us who have not the deep insight into political movements that he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1989.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1990.2", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Viscount Cecil.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "r was in charge the Division would be postponed until he had got the 21 back. You have 21 persons, each in the service of the Crown and paid by the Crown, and at any date they are liable to be increased in number. As time goes on, they will not diminish. In pre-war days, this situation sometimes arose and frequently hon. Members received appointments in this country. I remember Lord Robert Cecil——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1995.5", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "annot even get ships out of the hands of the Spaniards. Does anybody in this House—I ask hon. Members on the other side—seriously believe that the presence of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Chelsea as our representative in Madrid re-assures public opinion here or anywhere? As a matter of fact, his presence in Madrid is the cause of great anxiety to every informed opinion in Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1995.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1997.1", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "One of the certificates issued is to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Madrid", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1997.2", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ble thing that Members of this House should be too much in the pay of the Executive. The power of the Executive to confer financial benefits upon Members of the House of Commons should be carefully scrutinised. It affects the very citadel of the British Constitution. It is the issue on which the biggest battles about the British Constitution have been fought, and we are throwing aside frivolously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1997.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1997.6", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ctly or indirectly with the Executive—200 Members. Before the Government begins, it can reckon upon 200 Members supporting it in the Lobby because of financial interest or the expectation of financial interest. Ninety-six Members of the House of Commons—I went through the list yesterday—are directly in the Government. If you include Parliamentary Private Secretaries, it is two-thirds of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1997.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1998.0", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I say that Parliamentary Private Secretaries receive services that are of financial value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1998.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-10", "file": "debates1944-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a9ae7182a5346340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I say that Parliamentary Private Secretaries receive services that are of financial value. [ Interruption ] I do not say all Parliamentary Private Secretaries. I say what is well known to Members of this House—do not be mealy-mouthed about it—that Parliamentary Private Secretaries, many of them, attached to Government Departments do obtain very valuable services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-10a.1998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "wfoundland, but owing to the Government's policy, there is no other form of expression for that distressed area, that impoverished island, that dispossessed part of the Empire. The Press is the only voice, and it has been caustic. Quite frankly, it does not believe that the Dominions Office mean business. I will bring these remarks to a close because I see that my next point might bring a reproof.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2017.2", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One went to the House of Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "re not opposing the expenditure for that discovery, but we have to say: Was it worth while? Are there to be more? If these great and fundamental facts can be ascertained only by sending Members of this House abroad, it seems that the depopulation of this House, which is already very great, will be still greater. Although the hon. Members concerned do not come under the charges mentioned yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2017.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2018.0", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "w on that. It is not a light matter. It is an important issue for hon. Members and it is an important issue for those who are concerned abroad. I am not raising that issue at this moment, but I want to know from the hon. Gentleman whether he regards as official the delegation, for whom he is now asking the necessary funds—although it occurs to me that they may have received their expenses already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2020.0", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Committee on this Supplementary Estimate, which offers only very limited a way of approaching this important subject, but as hon. Members know I have been interested in the matter and I look on Newfoundland as having been badly treated. I protested against the sending of this good will mission. If the Committee had listened to me at that time, we would have been £850 in pocket which in these days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2021.1", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ent a man as I have ever met. That scheme which he laid down was as sound as anything produced by our three Commissioners. I do not know that he has got Socialist or Labour ideas. He has just Newfoundland ideas, but that man, I am certain, is capable of doing first-class political work. He is staying at the Newfoundland Club, and I hope the Government will take the opportunity of talking with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2021.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2037.3", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1943", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give us a reason.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Then how can my hon. Friend ask this Committee for the funds, if he is not prepared to tell us what was in the reports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "public decision at a subsequent stage. But there is not the least doubt that throughout the country—on these benches, of course and on those benches opposite—there is a growing recognition that some of our national services may require to be publicly owned, because they are now mature and they lend themselves to national ownership, and they are indispensable from the standpoint of the public weal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "g recognition that some of our national services may require to be publicly owned, because they are now mature and they lend themselves to national ownership, and they are indispensable from the standpoint of the public weal. [ Interruption. ] Someone just behind me rather impishly said, \"They cease to provide profit.\" Let us discard all those petty considerations; they do not matter in the least.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2061.0", "colnum": "2061", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "st of the times and of what is going on in the United States. I hate to have to say this, but we have to take notice of what was happening in Germany before the war began. They were very clever, scientifically, and highly technical, and although we do not want to take a leaf out of their barbaric notebook let us not be so hoity-toity when it comes to taking a leaf out of their scientific notebook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2075.3", "colnum": "2075", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the definition of 'sub-Ministry'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": " Service Departments where he, I gather, gives a final decision on policy, and what I want to ask is: In home affairs does Lord Woolton do the same thing? When we are considering the Vote of a Minister of Reconstruction, we ought to be told a little bit more about his relations to the various sub-Ministries on the home front. That was why I used the illustrations of local government and education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2082.0", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that my rising at all may cause a certain sense of irritation among some of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2086.4", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "The hon. Member was erroneously designated as LIEUT.-COLONEL BOLES (Wells).", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "*", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2086.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2088.0", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I want to stand between the Government and the House only for a few minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2088.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\" and \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I do not know the particular constituencies. I know that two or three people have recently disappeared for different reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the Ministers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I do not know the particular constituencies. I know that two or three people have recently disappeared for different reasons. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\" and \"Name.\"] They have been P.P.S.'s. Their names I know, but it is difficult to associate them with their particular constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To which Ministers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I do not know the particular constituencies. I know that two or three people have recently disappeared for different reasons. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\" and \"Name.\"] They have been P.P.S.'s. Their names I know, but it is difficult to associate them with their particular constituencies. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name the Ministers.\"] There are Ministers, but I am referring to the P.P.S.'s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2098.0", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "ch was shorter, but perhaps he did not realise that the feeling on this matter had changed since last year. I will answer a point made by one hon. Member, which I do not think really comes within the scope of the Bill, but which seems to be harassing him since his railway carriage conversation yesterday. So far as I know, no Parliamentary private secretary has really gone abroad with his Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2098.0", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is one on this Bench now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": ". Member, which I do not think really comes within the scope of the Bill, but which seems to be harassing him since his railway carriage conversation yesterday. So far as I know, no Parliamentary private secretary has really gone abroad with his Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I only know that in my particular case I have never taken a Parliamentary private secretary, and I cannot discover a case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2098.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2103.0", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seemed to me to treat my right hon. Friend as a person of no account", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2103.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2103.3", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are worse off.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "what the hon. Member for Bridgeton (Mr. Maxton) said yesterday, that in his experience, and it is mine, the House is a pretty clean place. I say no more than that. All the Ministers and others were linked into this large number. I do not think people outside understand how very little difference there is, if any, between the financial position of an Under-Secretary and that of a back bench Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "r. He leaves them all with a worse reputation than when he entered them. He went out to the East and came back and made a report. Why is he kept in the Government—because he made a report on Singapore which they did not want to hear?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th February, 1944, col. 1995, Vol. 396.] Nothing that the hon. Member said was derogatory to the right hon. Gentleman except that in his opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ies. I think it is quite wrong to say my hon. Friend accused them of what is tantamount to financial graft and I draw the attention of the House to what he did say as reported in Hansard: Before the Government begins, it can reckon upon 200 Members supporting it in the Lobby because of financial interest or the expectation of financial interest. That seems to me to be a perfectly fair observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " is that practically speaking 200 people are only here in support of the Government and will only speak in support of the Government. I know there is a bit of dodging about at Question time when a Parliamentary private secretary comes over here and appears to be in opposition and then goes back, but when there is dirty business afoot—and I know this because I have had some jobs to do in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2108.2", "colnum": "2108", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI- CATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "e predecessor of the right hon. Member for Chelsea (Sir S. Hoare) was receiving about £5,000 a year. The right hon. Member for Chelsea, by his elevation to Madrid, is really the richest man in England, although he lives in Madrid. He has no salary because, having got round the difficulty by paying him £8,100 in expenses, it is free of tax. If you gross that up it is in the order of £160,000 gross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-11", "file": "debates1944-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0aae569100723687", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2121.0", "colnum": "2121", "heading": "ARMY LEAVE (MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Mr. Arthur Henderson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the War Office (Mr. Arthur Henderson)", "preceding_text": "He also stated that if it was not practicable to grant him a commission in the Regular Army Reserve of Officers he would apply for a war emergency commission, which is the commission held by the majority of officers to-day. It is fair to say that he also undertook, in the event of his being elected not to apply for release from the Army or for any extended period of leave until the end of the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-11a.2121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-15", "file": "debates1944-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2509704ebcd6dd71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.25.9", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Do you know what it is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.25.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-15", "file": "debates1944-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2509704ebcd6dd71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "st Schedule, they will now let us have the Clause, although I have no desire to limit discussion or to prevent them having an opportunity of looking into these matters. There has been an opportunity, however, to-day to hear the views of a great many Members, whose seats I have before me on the list, on the difficulties of typical authorities who are, in their view, going to be hurt by this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-15", "file": "debates1944-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2509704ebcd6dd71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.89.4", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": " to 20 years has come out of the treatment of our very young children in infants' schools. It would be a tragedy if that were lost. I know the difficulty of this matter. When schools have been reorganised and younger children have gone into the junior schools there has been a tendency to have the pressure of examinations at 11 years of age thrusting itself downwards into the methods of the school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.89.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-15", "file": "debates1944-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2509704ebcd6dd71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am trying to look at the matter from the practical point of view. How' will it work out, practically?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-15", "file": "debates1944-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2509704ebcd6dd71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I am not surprised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " important thing is not to think about finance in connection with the size of classes and perfect education. Let us keep in mind a clear system and method of educating our children. That is the big thing. I am one of those who was educated in a very large class in an elementary school about 50 years ago, and I have recollections yet of the teacher being completely worn out before the day was over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-15", "file": "debates1944-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "2509704ebcd6dd71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "dvantages of education which the children were entitled to get. Here you have the result of it. On Thursday the Home Secretary found it necessary to inform us that there was democracy in this country. Well, if I had been educated in a small class surely I would have known that. A little later the same day, the Foreign Secretary got up at the Box to inform me that there was freedom in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-15a.126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-16", "file": "debates1944-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "5289e53bd1ff10db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "This point has really been covered in the previous discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.251.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-16", "file": "debates1944-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "5289e53bd1ff10db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "It may be necessary to have an Amendment but I would ask the Minister to consider very carefully any such Amendment. In connection with the publication, if the Amendment is accepted, the proper medium of publication would be the \"Daily Worker,\" but the important thing about this Amendment is that it visualises conflict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-16", "file": "debates1944-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "5289e53bd1ff10db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huģhes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huģhes", "preceding_text": "put before you, we shall not be satisfied, and we will compel you to hold a local inquiry.\" That will not come from just one area. The interests represented in different sections of this Committee will take very good care to see that it is not one objection that will be on the Minister's plate but a couple of hundred, and they will all say, \"You give way to this objection, or 200 local inquiries\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-16", "file": "debates1944-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "5289e53bd1ff10db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "hority, without consultation with the governors of schools, will insist on certain developments and improvements in a school which the governors are totally unable to provide, then I think OUT fears would be met. We want to provide for the persons who have, hitherto, run their schools very well, although perhaps not so up to date as they should have been. We want the closest possible co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-16", "file": "debates1944-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "5289e53bd1ff10db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.295.7", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huģhes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Waste of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huģhes", "preceding_text": "e plan was approved, and had an opportunity already of objecting to the Minister and so have been heard twice—for the third time are to have the right, according to the Clause, to come to the Minister and submit objections; for the third time. Not only that, but we provide another hurdle. Any ten local government electors—any ten sectional interests you like—have to be there. Why this duplication?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.295.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-16", "file": "debates1944-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "5289e53bd1ff10db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.308.5", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INFANT MORTALITY, SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "mal in most areas. That, also, is true. It is impossible, they said, to judge to what extent any of the changes which have incurred since 1939 are likely to be permanent. From my point of view it would have been highly desirable that the Committee should have analysed war-time trends, if possible, because the trend is going down. Scotland, last year, had the lowest infant mortality in her history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-16a.308.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.365.2", "colnum": "365", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "oes cover a rather wider area, but that it would be better possibly to defer a decision on temporary civil servants until the new Clause of the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) is reached. Meanwhile, we could deal with the wider issue and more particularly with the permanent civil servants. If the Committee are agreed upon that point I think we could carry on the discussion on that understanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.376.8", "colnum": "376", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, I was sorry indeed that the massive architecture of my hon. Friend's argument was disrupted by a point of Order. He has now, to some extent, had his own back, but I am comforted at any rate by the reflection that the same massive architecture will be rolled into position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.376.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You put him where he is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " for justice. What reason does the Chancellor give us for this attitude? His reason was that he thought about it, and thought about it, and thought about it and that this was the best he could do. When I heard that I was amazed. The Chancellor has the widest experience of the mechanics of government of probably any man alive in Britain—40 years' experience, with occasional help and advice from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "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": "We have given a lot of thought to this Clause and I am sorry that we cannot accept the Amendment. If I put into the Bill the words which the hon. and gallant Member has suggested the applicant will immediately say, \"The Bill has been loaded against me.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " for 26 weeks is not long enough and that it should be increased to 52. In addition to that, our country stood alone for 12 months and fought the world battle for freedom. Our men are now getting ready to carry out the greatest military feat in history. In these circumstances, the Committee should make it clear that we are not prepared to accept these 26 weeks. The Minister of Labour is a big man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " in that way in real industry. The great mass of these cases generally consist of a row between a man and his manager or foreman, and it is impossible to say who started or finished it. There is no contract of service here, as the great mass of working people have no contract of service at all and they can be dismissed at a moment's notice. The great engineering trades have no contract of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "If it would help the Committee I would be quite willing to accept the point of view of the hon. Member for West Walthamstow (Mr. McEntee) and drop the Civil Defence, 1941, conscript class out of the Bill altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "sham (Mr. Brooke) that while a good many men gave up jobs, a very large number of men who left work to join Civil Defence really jeopardised some essential work by their willingness to join. On the other hand, a large number who were unemployed at the time went into Civil Defence. I do not want to get this mixed up. I will make this offer. If hon. Members would like me to drop them from this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.464.6", "colnum": "464", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not deserve a hearing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "y the Government. They are merely drafting Amendments. As the Clause stands, it will apparently give the committee the right to determine any question whatsoever, without giving the employer an opportunity of being heard. Similarly, Sub-section (2) starts: Where the committee are satisfied that default has been made. There is no provision there, either, for giving the employers any hearing at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.464.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodate", "preceding_text": "ee shall require employment to be made available. It does not order the man to take it if he does not wish to do so. The Amendment endeavours to remove what we regard as an essential part of this Bill, namely, that provision that the Reinstatement Committee can order the employer to make employment available for a man if it thinks fit, and if the employer refuses then to make it a criminal action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "emarks about provoking frivolous applications to the committees suggests that he has not got much of an opinion of the committees which will be set up. The committees might be expected to know whether the applications were frivolous or not, and if they thought they were frivolous they would not force the man upon the employer. This Bill is designed to deal with the bad employer or the bad workman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-17", "file": "debates1944-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c25aefa5497dbb2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "INCOME TAX (OFFICES AND EMPLOYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Albery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Albery", "preceding_text": "If the speech to which we have just listened had been made by the Parliamentary Secretary, it might have been helpful. We asked the Parliamentary Secretary to give some guidance as to how the powers will be used, and what were the reasons for the two alternatives, but he gave us none at all. If we may be assured that what the hon. and gallant Member has said will in fact be followed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-17a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For one year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "We are, quite deliberately, in this Bill, giving the Government power to certify, in respect of certain Members of this House, that they are required for public service elsewhere than in this House. We are giving the Government that power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not a Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "What is the consultation that a Tory Member has with his constituents? He consults with a few leading Tories in the district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "mber for Bermondsey (Mr. Ben Smith) and my right hon. Friend the Member for St. George's (Mr. Duff Cooper). The circumstances might be such, if we had a General Election in the fairly near future, when the war might be in a more desperate condition than it has been, at any rate in the last year or two, that it would be quite impossible to arrange for a Member to come home. Or it might be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.536.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Having regard to what my right hon. and learned Friend has said, I do not desire, if the Committee are agreeable, to press the Amendment. It has served a purpose, because it has shown the Government, without any possibility of doubt, the strength of feeling in the House of Commons. I ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.545.3", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Thomas", "preceding_text": "s as diplomatic appointments and High Commissionerships overseas. These, it seems to me are quite different from the first class and probably from the second class, but the opponents of the Government are flogging a dead horse in this matter. The speeches of the Leader of the House last week and of the Attorney-General to-day have made it quite clear that in principle the Government agree to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.560.5", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is an astonishing interruption if I may say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REINSTATEMENT IN CIVIL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Censor it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I said if the hon. Member is writing for the papers, because that gives an opportunity for him to write and explain things. I hope he does not do it quite like he did yesterday, because I would like to edit the article before it goes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-18", "file": "debates1944-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "f542db3b8d83d178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.604.4", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REINSTATEMENT IN CIVIL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Might I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-18a.604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "taken a particular interest in Marshal Tito's movement, and have tried, and am trying, by every available means, to bring him help A young friend of mine, an Oxord don, Captain Deakin, now Lieut.-Colonel Deakin, D.S.O., entered Yugoslavia by parachute nearly a year ago and was for eight months at Marshal Tito's headquarters. On one occasion, both were wounded by the same bomb. They became friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the British side.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "e the good relations established at Moscow and Teheran proved durable or have they failed during the weeks that have passed?\" Does the \"Pravda\" statement, for instance, it is asked, or do the articles which are appearing in various organs of the Soviet Government, imply a cooling off in Anglo-Russian or American-Russian friendship and a rebirth of suspicion of Western Allies on the part of Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "details of those discussions as they go along. But whatever view we may take about the discussions between Russia and Poland I think we have to face the future in a spirit of realism. Indeed, there is no other spirit which makes the slightest appeal to our great and valued Ally, Soviet Russia. The fact remains, however, that we gave Poland a definite and categorical pledge regarding her frontiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Graham", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That Government is in Cairo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Graham", "preceding_text": "I do not think so. My information comes from the Yugoslav Government, which has better means than the British Government of finding out the whole truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.732.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.741.2", "colnum": "741", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is suggesting by that that I should not be allowed to express an opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.750.3", "colnum": "750", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenģer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They get plenty of help from us\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenģer", "preceding_text": "d which the Prime Minister spoke of. People cannot view our operations without comparing the results which Russia has achieved. Russia is speedily overcoming probably the finest fighters of the German fighting machine. I suppose that the Russians have also the weather to contend with, and they have probably got rivers which are inconveniently placed. They also have hills and mountains to overcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.750.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": " heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not. There was no doubt in that battle that we were on the side of Michael, and the enemy was on the side of the dragon. But look what we have done for the enemy now: we have put him and those youngsters of his on the right side, and we have put those youngsters of ours on the wrong side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " quarter of the globe nevertheless remains the same, which is not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its Powers, to consider the Government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm and manly policy meeting in all circumstances the just claims of every Power, submitting to injuries from none.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "dy late, we applaud the fact that you have cemented the alliances with Poland, made many years ago, in the whole range of collective security, with the Polish signature.' We gave full support to the Anglo-Polish alliance. In conclusion, I am a friend of your country, I love Poland, I admire Poland and I admire the future that you are going to build up. That was the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.773.0", "colnum": "773", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "It is a long time since I have listened to such a cunning, unscrupulous and immoral speech. We are told that Mihailovitch is justified in becoming a traitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.775.7", "colnum": "775", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "f the Members who interjected will realise that only Poles of a Fascist type would fit in with their opinions. The important thing that we have to remember is the heavy task and the heavy sacrifices that lie before the people of this country. In such a situation there ought to be the greatest measure of unity, but we find that there is a great measure of disintegration taking place in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.775.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.775.7", "colnum": "775", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONA SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "h-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) was speaking, in connection with certain candidates that got in, to say that the Tory voters did not get them in. That is correct, and Tory voters will not get many people in, in this country. The Member meant to say that the Tory voters did not get the Independents in, and that is also correct. They will not get many more Tories in, in the days that lie ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.775.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-22", "file": "debates1944-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "bd9fbf165514ffb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.795.3", "colnum": "795", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Act of 1774.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": " the Amendment and resisted with these words: I regret that I cannot agree to the Amendment, the effect of which would be … that they would have power to insure without the limit contained in the Bill. … To extend the insurable interest so widely would be to repeal the Gambling Act of 1874 so far as industrial assurance companies are concerned. The Amendment was, by leave, withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-22a.795.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.808.9", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "As I have said, we have no evidence to show that it is anything but accidental.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.808.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.835.6", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ITALY (LOCAL LABOUR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that we are supposed to bring freedom to the Italian people, may I take it that His Majesty's Government will not use powers of compulsory labour?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.835.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Griģģ", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scotland has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Griģģ", "preceding_text": "istory. We, who have some experience of difficult international questions, inside these islands and inside the Empire, have shown a wise capacity for forgetting. Take our relations with Scotland. Two hundred years ago, at the time of \"the 45\", our relations with Scotland and our treatment of Scotland were nothing of which we had reason to be proud, but we have managed to forget and harmonize them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Griģģ", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Griģģ", "preceding_text": "he end of 1921. At that conference we renewed our guarantee to the French of their eastern frontier and we managed to achieve a settlement of the reparations question, which was accepted not only by the French but by the Germans. The conference collapsed. Why? It collapsed mainly because the French had been persuaded that the Government of this country would not be able to carry out its guarantee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.896.0", "colnum": "896", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Longhurst", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"American education.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Longhurst", "preceding_text": " approached in one town by two school-teachers. They said, \"We are friends of Britain, we are well disposed towards you, but there is one criticism which honesty compels us to make. It is about your administration in India.\" My friend braced himself for the assault, and very earnestly they said, \"We cannot agree with your caste system there.\" Whose fault is this shattering ignorance about Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "uld not start until Easter, 1944—that we were quite wrong to think that there is going to be a sudden collapse and an end of the war in a very short time. I remember his statement in 1942 when he told us \"the ridge was in sight.\" It may be that we mounted that ridge and toppled over it and found some more ridges ahead of us. It seemed to me that his metaphor was not as sound as it might have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coalition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ppens at these innumerable inter-allied and inter-Service staff meetings? None of us know; none of us can be told; but I think it reasonable to assume that every possible objection to a particular course of action is cogently advanced, and that the dangers of such a course are not overlooked. The result that must often follow is a compromise decision, a lack of flexibility, and slowness is action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the prosecution of the war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "asures were to be taken by the Government that might affront or upset either of the main political parties. That seems to me to be nonsense. It is the business of a Government to have a policy, and no Government can expect that everybody will agree with that policy. Nobody talked like that after Dunkirk, when the Government were accorded complete power over all property and persons in a few hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We knew it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ave always thought we were humbugs and hypocrites, and very often did not mean what we said. I take, as a brief illustration, the Darlan affair, which, I think, lends colour to this view. When we gave him political power in North Africa, the faith in us of the underground movements in Europe was temporarily shattered; because they knew then, what we know now, that Darlan was a double-dyed traitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Has he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "answer to that question. Are we afraid of revolution in Europe? As against my hon. Friend, who made such an interesting speech, I do not think it is in accordance with British traditions to be afraid of revolution in Europe. At any rate it is not in the tradition of Fox, Palmerston or Gladstone. I can see the argument in favour of retaining Badoglio, for the time being. He has delivered the goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-23", "file": "debates1944-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "37877deef035f9a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eastwards?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "rld, strong as they are, are each determined to become stronger. Both are following an expansionist policy. I have not regard to words but to facts, and these, I propose to examine cursorily. Even before the United States entered the war, she was pushing the shield of the Monroe Doctrine further Eastwards, and, fortunate indeed it was for us, that that was the case. First to Greenland and Iceland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-23a.916.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-24", "file": "debates1944-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c9835443c0159c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.987.4", "colnum": "987", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "One hour.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it is intended to sit any later than the normal time to-day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.987.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-24", "file": "debates1944-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c9835443c0159c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1035.4", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member could not have listened very carefully or he would have known that I made no claim to speak for the Church of England. I claim only to speak for myself and hon. Friends in this Committee with whom I have been discussing the matter. I certainly do not speak for the Church of England officially, but I know the mind of that Church—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-24", "file": "debates1944-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c9835443c0159c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLESEY COUNTY COUNCIL (WATER, ETC.) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Yes, Wales.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Member tell us from where Birmingham gets its water supply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-24", "file": "debates1944-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c9835443c0159c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLESEY COUNTY COUNCIL (WATER, ETC.) BILL [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Divided responsibility.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " water supplies. Frequently, important requirements of this kind are hung up because of powerful vested interests, butt question very much whether there are any powerful interests holding up the national organisation of a water supply. There is no reason whatever why this matter should not have been dealt with 10, 20 or even 30 years ago, save for the inertia on the part of Government Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-24", "file": "debates1944-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c9835443c0159c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1085.2", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "at this will upset the delicate balance already arrived at. Of course, the Church of England is having its way. It gets the biggest bite out of this Bill everywhere. I suggest that the Church of England, not by any positive emotional organisation but by the enormous influence which it has behind the scenes, by the influence it has on Members on that side of the Committee—secret, furtive influence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-24", "file": "debates1944-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c9835443c0159c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "t the delicate balance already arrived at. Of course, the Church of England is having its way. It gets the biggest bite out of this Bill everywhere. I suggest that the Church of England, not by any positive emotional organisation but by the enormous influence which it has behind the scenes, by the influence it has on Members on that side of the Committee—secret, furtive influence—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1085.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-24", "file": "debates1944-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "c9835443c0159c80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "back again. The miner, after he is at the coalface, would rather finish his shift than walk home. We would very much like some guarantee that this Fund is to be tightened up. The figures that have been produced show 240,000 shifts lost in one month. I wonder if the House has perceived that 240,000 shifts lost, taking the average man-shift at one ton, means that coal production is 24,000 tons down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-24a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-25", "file": "debates1944-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2feb008546245573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"Thank God.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "ed, the Church of England has by far the greatest gain out of this Bill. If anything has been said wrongly about my right hon. Friend the President—and I have noticed for some months now that he has been attacked from this angle—it is that he has not been concerned about religious teaching in the schools, and has been somewhat indifferent. This Bill is full of provisions for religious instruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-25", "file": "debates1944-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2feb008546245573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": ", and we ask that the determination as to which should go, should be put into hands which we know and of which we approve. I would be glad as I say to leave it to my hon. Friend, but obviously he cannot do it. I would be glad to leave it to the Archbishop of Canterbury, but he cannot do it. This Amendment would determine it by law. I would be glad to leave it to the President of the Board of Trade", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-25", "file": "debates1944-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2feb008546245573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "ut of Order to say anything now on that side of the matter. The Roman Catholic community will not have to provide the £10,000,000 at once. If they had the money, they could not spend it at once. It will be a gradual process of raising and expending this money. They will not have to raise it themselves. All these pathetic stories about collecting halfpennies from little school children are too bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-25", "file": "debates1944-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2feb008546245573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1170.3", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Bower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Bower", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member speaks on behalf of his party and of the Trades Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-25", "file": "debates1944-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2feb008546245573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Fleming", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Fleming", "preceding_text": " think he has been in this House longer than I have, and I have been here for 12 years. I was astonished to hear him say that he accepted the statements of the hon. Member for South Bristol (Mr. A. Walkden). I have never heard a statement supposed to be made on behalf of the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress which received no support at all from any other member of the party in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-02-25", "file": "debates1944-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "2feb008546245573", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "It is hoped that hon. Members will not desire to debate this Motion at any length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-25a.1213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What 1S geodesy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "preceding_text": "e can produce first-class aircraft, and that we can produce the men and the teams to fly them. Further, taking into account all these weighty arguments, on top we find the fact that, before the war, we were exceedingly backward in the development of civil aircraft. It seems, therefore, from all this, that on the grounds of geography, history, political economy and geodesy, we are impelled to move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "preceding_text": "t is a commencement. I do not know what will be the views of the United States of America, and I do not want to say a single thing that will imperil the possibility of an agreement with them. But we have to be frank and say that the tendencies, as far as one can discover them, in the United States of America at the present time are clearly against the idea of an effective international instrument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenģer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenģer", "preceding_text": ", all her air transport, and all the methods of production and transport, for the benefit of peoples and not for one exclusive set. The hon. and gallant Member for Ayr Burghs and the hon. and gallant Member for the Erdington Division (Group-Captain Wriģht) talked of the high standards of living in this country and the necessity, therefore, of a well-developed civil aviation in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenģer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenģer", "preceding_text": "ked of the high standards of living in this country and the necessity, therefore, of a well-developed civil aviation in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I quite agree, but I think hon. Members opposite are living in a fools' paradise if they think that all these wonderful benefits of quick and cheap transport will come to the average person in this country for many years after this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ballenģer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ballenģer", "preceding_text": "ish money and by British effort, but not to the exclusion of any effort that may be made by our friends and present Allies overseas. I look forward to the time when, in spite of my hon. Friends opposite, we shall be able to make these arrangements with other countries. I believe, although I have not any evidence to produce at the moment, that Russia at any rate will play in with us in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hoģģ", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hoģģ", "preceding_text": "f made it only too plain what the reason is. The reason is the Labour Party, who have now produced a policy of their own, a restrictive policy, not a policy of development. They have persistently refused to permit any development of civil aviation whatever unless it strictly conforms to their awn doctrinaire approach. Let me say at once that I have no personal financial interest in civil aviation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the tank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "tion, to promote in our factories and workshops up-to-date designs and to make ourselves, if we can, the pioneers in this industry. We should do this but it is absurd to suggest that any very substantial volume of the passenger traffic or freightage traffic of the world will be carried by aircraft in the future. It is no good using a parallel like the development of the internal combustion engine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hich everybody should be enthusiastic. What does he want to do? He wants to exploit this new industry, as was the case with regard to the East India Company. Once more we can see where the Tories are going. They say that there is a great future for the industry; it is going to expand and everybody will want it. They can see the opportunity for putting their fingers into the public purse once more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "o the public purse once more. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, certainly; the Tories are not suggesting free competition, free enterprise in the development of civil aviation. They are suggesting that the State should subsidise a whole crowd of air bandits. That is their statesmanlike contribution to the future of civil aviation. It is that everyone who wants to build aircraft should be given a subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1365.1", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Have we not had two wars in one generation for exactly those reasons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1367.3", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is fantasy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rs, the fear among all of us that this great service might be used for national aggrandisement, that it might be used in power politics. To have this great instrument managed by the nominees of the great Powers is really to transfer to the management board of this new authority all the antagonism existing outside, and therefore it is not the strong who can be safely trusted with this but the weak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1374.5", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman has said repeatedly that I have made a world declaration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-02-29", "file": "debates1944-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "20b7dfc5c24c4526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RE-EMPLOYED CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "In spite of the fact that in this Act they were dealing with contributory pensions, this Section was introduced because it was felt by the House then—and it has, I think, been felt by the House on many occasions since—not right that a civil servant who has retired and who has been re-employed should have the whole benefit of his pension and the whole benefit of the salary for the job he is doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-02-29a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-01", "file": "debates1944-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "27566e2151c716ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1426.4", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I have tried, in this matter, to meet what I thought was the wish of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1426.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-01", "file": "debates1944-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "27566e2151c716ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REINSTATEMENT IN CIVIL EMPLOYMENT BILL.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like rabbits out of a hat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "y the Bill would not get any support from me but I accept it and I think it is right. What it attempts to do ought to have been done a long time ago. It puts right a defect in our former legislation. What it can do it does, but I do not regard it as anything but a very small part of the job the Government have to do. I accept it in that spirit and I look to the Government to produce with rapidity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-01", "file": "debates1944-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "27566e2151c716ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (ATTACHMENT OF STATES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "cting many people in India in the shortest possible time. I do not take the view that there is something discreditable about devoting time to the consideration of the welfare of these small groups in India. I am not so satisfied as the majority of the Conservative Party seem to be that on every occasion large scale organisation is superior to the small control and the elimination of the small man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-01", "file": "debates1944-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "27566e2151c716ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1514.0", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (ATTACHMENT OF STATES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "us Statute settling the affairs of the Government of India, to the extent that we are capable of settling them, and that legislation was produced after two very hard-working Commissions had visited India and gone over the whole territory. The Bill was debated in great detail Clause by Clause. At that time the combined wisdom of this House was of the opinion that these small groups were to be left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1514.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-01", "file": "debates1944-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "27566e2151c716ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1515.3", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (ATTACHMENT OF STATES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " it decided against the view that the Attorney-General has stated and that the hon. Member has so enthusiastically supported. The proper constitutional procedure was to bring it to the Privy Council and let them decide whether the Attorney-General is right or wrong in his prophecy about the result. If it be that he knows there will be someone on the Privy Council who will look after his interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-01a.1515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1679.3", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "oing the same operation for 52½ hours per week, day in and day out, lifting in many cases very heavy material, milling it off, and then having to place it ready for the next operation. But the soldier deserves an equal amount of money for the job that he is doing; and danger money could be claimed by the soldier in battle quite as justifiably as by workers in certain categories of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1679.3", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The last one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "r side of the House might have been fortunate enough to have got the ballot on this occasion, and in that case, if I had been fortunate enough to catch your eye, Sir, I would have made the same speech as I am making to-day. I would have supported any hon. Member on that side of the House who was fighting for this cause. I say to the Tory Party that this is their great opportunity on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1700.0", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Bernays", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Bernays", "preceding_text": "on moved by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food. What I knew about pay and allowances in those days it is difficult to recall. I hope that I know more now. I would like to say at the outset, even though it may be unpopular in some quarters, that I do not believe there is a strong case for a flat increase in pay. I do not believe that the single soldier has much cause for grievance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1700.0", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Bernays", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Bernays", "preceding_text": "s a strong case for a flat increase in pay. I do not believe that the single soldier has much cause for grievance—[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I do not think so, and I have some experience in this matter. During the nine months that I spent in the ranks I found it possible to live on the pay that I received across the pay table, excluding the occasions when I came up to attend to my Parliamentary duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernays", "preceding_text": ". There is a danger that an officer is becoming, in regard to some of his men, a Poor Law investigator, for he has to spend an enormous amount of time on these personal cases, time that is taken off training and his other regimental duties. I do not want to labour the difference between Army and civilian rates of pay. After all, there are compensations in the Army. It is for many men a grand life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "No, I think the ordinary courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1728.4", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And allowances.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I have the assurance of the Government that on that matter their mind is not made up and that they will be prepared to hear the case. This is an offer by the Government to hear representations on the question of allowances and on hardship cases, but the mind of the Government is closed upon the question of basic pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1728.4", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "question of basic pay. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And allowances.\"] No, the Government admit that there is a case to be presented under the heading of allowances. What the result of those representations will be we cannot foresee, but in regard to those matters, at any rate, I think that if they were separated, the House would be wrong to challenge the Government, because that is a valuable and fair offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1728.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1737.7", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Sir Archibald Southby", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon Gentleman mean by that, that he is not prepared to discuss the question of children's allowances except on a hardship basis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1743.6", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " in favour of that. My hon. Friend the Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) made a speech which has not been answered. The Government have no excuse whatever for not answering it because they knew that all this would arise. It was well known that this issue would be raised. When the Government say that they are prepared to discuss everything but that they reject these two principles in the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1743.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1749.2", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "n basic rates. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for North Bristol took the view that there is a number of hard cases, especially those who are married and have dependants. I agree with him, and I know some of my hon. Friends do also; I notice that the hon. Member for Abingdon (Sir R. Glyn) took the same view. It is not reasonable of hon. Members to expect the Government, at a moment's notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1749.2", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "ion of Dominion or American pay as necessarily applicable to our own troops—and why should the House of Commons assume that we are prepared to accept the levels of pay of some other Legislature?—and while they are not prepared to accept the vague principle, which can hardly be defined, that the rates of all in the Armed Forces should be brought into line with all the gradations of pay in industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1751.1", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I can only speak again with the leave of the House. I apologise for intervening so frequently, but I will try just once more to make myself absolutely plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1751.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1754.0", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irvinģ Albery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irvinģ Albery", "preceding_text": "grievances of men in the Forces was supposed to be moved, and apparently was moved, with the idea of getting the Government to agree to consider their case with the ultimate object of taking some action. I have listened to practically the whole of the Debate to-day and I must say, quite definitely, that the offer which the Government have made, except for splitting hairs, is a very complete offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The 42 Club.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "We know that there have recently come into this House a number of hon. Members, particularly on the other side, who are among the most loyal and reliable supporters the Government could possibly have, and we have watched with interest the little meeting that has been held to decide whether actually they would support the Government or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-02", "file": "debates1944-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "7635d618089aa3c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1756.1", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY AND ALLOWANCES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Guilty men of Westminster\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Personally, as one who is not at all ashamed to say that he is a supporter of a Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-02a.1756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-03", "file": "debates1944-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c0294ec6bcf676b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No, since 1935 it has been going up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-03", "file": "debates1944-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c0294ec6bcf676b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1789.3", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Historically, it is not the case, and indeed, the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-03", "file": "debates1944-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c0294ec6bcf676b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1813.0", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "preceding_text": "e never more than 35 or 40 present. I do not know whether that is a comment on the farce of Friday Sittings, but I should not like to believe that it indicates the measure of interest taken in such an important Bill. This is not a party political Measure because, of the 13 Members who have put their names to the Amendment, 11 are Conservatives and two are Independents with Conservative tendencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-03", "file": "debates1944-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c0294ec6bcf676b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1828.0", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " Government will take heed of the keen sense of the House of Commons on this Bill. The first sentence in the Financial Memorandum about the increase is really humorous in the extreme. It says that it will apply to persons who have dependants under 16 years of age. How many men over 60 years of age, I wonder, who are drawing these pensions, have children under 16? They would have to be very clever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-03", "file": "debates1944-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c0294ec6bcf676b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"250,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " that the mentality of the British people is gravitating back to what you may call the Speenhamland system under which, in fact, the workers are paid even wages on the basis of need. That tendency has appeared in connection with ail our social insurance schemes. There is one thing further. I do not know that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has yet told us how many people are involved in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-03", "file": "debates1944-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "c0294ec6bcf676b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "end some day, I suppose, and, when it ends, probably a large number of these people will then be unemployed. What I would like to know is this: can the right hon. Gentleman give us an estimate, not of those in full employment during the war period, but of the average unemployment rate for people of this kind in peace times? I do not know what the House will do with the Bill. It is in a bad temper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-03a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2030.6", "colnum": "2030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "Is there anything really very beautiful about an early Georgian house?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2030.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2041.9", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are still locked.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "There was an accident two years ago, after which instructions were changed, so that that cause of danger was removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2041.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2055.2", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "POST-WAR HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By a White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that this House is always very embarrassed in debating any matter, if it has not had previous notice of the intentions of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2055.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "POST-WAR HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may put it in my own words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.5", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "POST-WAR HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Let the Minister re-read the statement. If he wishes to give his explanation first, that is the customary thing; but if we are to extend courtesy to him, let him do the thing properly, and re-read the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.6", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "POST-WAR HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "With the greatest pleasure; but my hon. Friend is under a misconception. We are not instructing local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.6", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "POST-WAR HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "With the greatest pleasure; but my hon. Friend is under a misconception. We are not instructing local authorities. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"] I doubt whether the House wants to hear it all again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.6", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "POST-WAR HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "ired for these housing operations, using compulsory powers if necessary. And Parliament will be asked to empower the responsible Ministers, as after the last war, to confirm compulsory purchase orders for the acquisition of land for housing purposes without holding an inquiry. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and I are informing local authorities of these decisions to-day\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2062.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2067.2", "colnum": "2067", "heading": "POST-WAR HOUSING POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Uthwatt Report.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "preceding_text": "ed that they should proceed to acquire land, exercising now their existing powers, before this legislation is passed as a contribution towards the total amount of land they have to get? Secondly, is it intended to legislate for the powers that the Minister has mentioned before the Government have come to a decision and announced it upon the solution of the questions of compensation and betterment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2079.2", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: How does that compare with England?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "preceding_text": "oportion to population twice as high as that section of the population in England. This statement, I understand, was based upon a Report by Professor Bowley to the Minister of Health in England. The Report has not been published, but I understand that Sir John Orr's comment bears reference to the fact that in Scotland twice the percentage of the population is in the under 10s. a week income group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2093.0", "colnum": "2093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have not got any coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "see how far it goes. There must be coal, light and payment of insurances. Talk about it as you may you cannot produce good children on such a miserable income. I have noticed that the authorities always seem to tip the balance towards keeping people as poor as they can instead of tipping it the other way. The Ministry of Fuel and Power are responsible for the coal allocation. What is the position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2093.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2099.1", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "Very few people in this country know how to prepare porridge properly, and in a large number of the houses, certainly in Scotland, it would be more difficult to prepare porridge than to take prepared food on the allowance of coal to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2118.2", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "I was somewhat sorry that the hon. Lady should have allowed herself to be carried away by special pleading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2122.1", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"They are not normal people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Linstead", "preceding_text": "There is a French motto which says every man has his own taste. I think, however, the nutritional experts would agree that a diet of white bread and margarine and fish and chips is not the means of building, shall we say, a healthy Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2132.0", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "Major Markham", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There will not be a war all the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Markham", "preceding_text": "eech was that the whole of our national diet had been so re-organised that it was now completely free of vitamin deficiency, and that, in addition to vitamins, other elements such as calcium and iron had been added to our daily diet. Immediately following that speech, the Boyd Orr Report was published, based on pre-war facts and figures, and banging the good old nutrition drum for all it is worth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2157.3", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbruģh)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whose fault is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Miss Horsbruģh)", "preceding_text": "e useful, but it is not possible to say that one single suggestion would be a complete cure for this ill. Housing is very important. We all agree with the plea put forward by one hon. Member after another, that the housing conditions in England and Wales and, above all, in Scotland, as I know full well, are appalling. We cannot have healthy people so long as they are housed as they are at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2163.1", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbruģh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbruģh", "preceding_text": "No. It makes it quite plain that pregnancy by itself is not a reason for a person getting National Health benefits and leaving work. The hon. Lady knows that there may be some work with which a mother can quite well go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-08", "file": "debates1944-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1dd6a3260e5d440", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2164.1", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUTRITION AND INFANT MORTALITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbruģh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbruģh", "preceding_text": "I have seen many certificates. If the hon. Lady knows someone who is exhausted and ought not to be working, there is no reason why the certificate should not be given. If hon. Members will consult medical opinion, it depends a great deal on what the work is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-08a.2164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2169.0", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (PENSIONS AND GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "I am aware that that is so in a corner of Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2169.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2181.4", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I have an answer to my question? I have been sent here from my constituency for 20 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2181.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2223.2", "colnum": "2223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ust not be thought that a few hon. Members sitting in a room upstairs can take away the rights of the rest of us. I am making this protest in the interests of legislation. Let hon. Members be clear that if some of us should wish to delay this Measure it is quite easy to do so. The enthusiasts for this Bill are very stupid, they speak on every Clause, while if I come in to make a two minute speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2241.4", "colnum": "2241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "etary: Where do governors come in, in association with that brotherhood? There are two types of governors, both of them bad. There is the \"old school tie\" type of governor, a \"superior\" person, someone who would not take part in the brotherhood of man but in the governing of less fortunate people. Such governors are associated with schools which are trying to produce a dominant section of society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2244.2", "colnum": "2244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Only the tinge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": ", but proceeded to describe it as well established phraseology from which he does not want to depart. In other words, for reasons which are good to him if we rule out sentiment, memory and association, he wants to keep the two sets of words because he thinks they are appropriate at the moment, but he says they have a social tinge. It is the well established social tinge that we want to get rid of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2254.0", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "hools will, unless there is a legal safeguard, be levelled down and degraded. I say levelled down and degraded because the essence of the school is its individuality. The individuality is very much tied up with the kind of points which we wish to see in the model articles. What are these points? They are freedom to choose the headmaster, the right of access by the headmaster to the governing body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2277.2", "colnum": "2277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "he country to decide what is to be done in education. The Minister has certain powers, and he says that he wants to keep a school's particular individuality and tradition. I do not like that. There are educational methods and schools which have produced a very useful and valuable citizen like the hon. Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood) but there are no traditions attached to such a school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2277.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sometimes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "luence the matter very much. The time to discuss a White Paper is while this Committee is in possession of the Bill. I hope the right hon. Gentleman will not stick to the position that as regards the county secondary schools the articles of government can only be made by the local authority and approved by the Minister. After all, they are domestic matters and the local authorities can be trusted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2331.7", "colnum": "2331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. and learned Member moves his Amendment, I suggest that it might be for the convenience of the Committee to discuss at the same time other Amendments relating to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2331.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2332.1", "colnum": "2332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "urposes the Amendment I propose does not affect it. But in these country schools especially—I am not so familiar with the use to which schools are being put in London—the school is the one and only place where evening meetings are held. The members of the Farmers' Institute, for instance, will come tramping into that school at 6 or 7 p.m. It is used with any meeting in connection with the village.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2333.3", "colnum": "2333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER, \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "If they say they have nowhere else to go why use the school? Why not use the church? That horrifies hon. Members at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-09", "file": "debates1944-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "4f17aad1bffbd8f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2340.2", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 18, line 16, to leave out, \"except an aided secondary school.\" This Amendment is consequential upon a later Amendment, which I have upon the Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-09a.2340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2370.0", "colnum": "2370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "I intervene from a point of view contrary to that of my hon. Friend. I do not at all share his attitude on this question. I know the teachers, and I can say quite definitely that in the secondary ranks, particularly amongst secondary assistants, for years the grievance has been that they have not had a chance of being appointed by the local education authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2370.0", "colnum": "2370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "he secondary schools have a deep sense of grievance that they may be at the mercy either of a headmaster or of a non-elected non-representative body of governors. This raises again a great issue of public policy. Education is a public service: teachers are public servants, not the servants of the headmaster, not the servants even on a non-elected, unrepresentative, irresponsible body of governors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2402.0", "colnum": "2402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "wment of compulsory religious teaching throughout the whole State system of education. Not only does it do that, but it preserves and extends religious denominational teaching through the schools. This is a revolution in British educational history. There is no shadow of doubt about it. Hitherto, as I have understood it, the State has kept outside the religious field in the schools of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2404.2", "colnum": "2404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "tate, as a State, keep out of it. Let religion flourish on the basis of the voluntary attitude towards it. Let religion, in other words, win its own way, by the power of religion. I hope that the hon. Member will stand firm by his Amendment. This is a vital issue. If he will stand firm by his Amendment, I for one, in the interests of religion itself, and in the interests of the unity of the State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2408.0", "colnum": "2408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ividual and his own conscience. If there is one thing of which we are eminently proud in this country, it is our freedom to exercise our own religious conscience in our own way. What we object to, and what we are anxious to point out is that we recognise the sincerity of those who hold a different opinion from us, but we ask them to recognise that we too have a conscience. We are making no claims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2408.0", "colnum": "2408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not compulsion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": " proud in this country, it is our freedom to exercise our own religious conscience in our own way. What we object to, and what we are anxious to point out is that we recognise the sincerity of those who hold a different opinion from us, but we ask them to recognise that we too have a conscience. We are making no claims—[ Interruption ]. The point is, Shall this time be devoted compulsorily or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2411.2", "colnum": "2411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberģ", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And your constituents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberģ", "preceding_text": "I shall not detain the Committee for more than a few minutes, but I feel strongly moved to say a few words about this Clause from a point of view which I think has not been so far put. I do not represent anybody at all except myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2413.0", "colnum": "2413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maģnay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maģnay", "preceding_text": "I think it would be to the utmost advantage of the education of this country if the Minister would adhere to the terms of the Bill. We are all agreed in this country now that there is no salvation in secular education. There is no power in it. Only religion can do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2421.1", "colnum": "2421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the spirit of the last two speeches. This indicates the direction in which we may go once we have compulsion. It is a very serious step for a strong supporter of this Bill to divide against it. I hope that the Committee realise that we have now, in this Clause, imposed the equivalent of a religious test on the children of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2421.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": " did not use the phrase \"a hard bargain,\" and I submit that the words he quoted of the Archbishop of Canterbury applied rather to the arrangements reached about aided schools than to the plan for controlled schools. But the matter has now been ventilated. I have indicated that not all people are happy about the controlled schools. In the circumstances, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2452.1", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "certain that those of us who take a certain point of view are beginning to lose in this tug-o'-war. The middle way is the middle between two ends. If you shift the ends, the middle shifts too. I propose to try to shift our end, so that the middle position occupied by the Minister will be a little nearer to us than it is to our friends opposite. It is time that we took more interest in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-10", "file": "debates1944-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "9080656c35320832", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2453.0", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "cession, wants to go further. There is no justification in the terms of the Bill for the governing body to be consulted by the headmaster at all, because he is not a reserved teacher. If he is a reserved teacher, he is to be consulted. Why is the managing body being consulted about the headmaster? We all know the reasons. It is because in many single school areas the headmaster is the Tory stooge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-10a.2453.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-14", "file": "debates1944-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f26f291947e642e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.10.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-14", "file": "debates1944-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f26f291947e642e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.81.4", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "ly is not so important as all that. You are not going to get so much more of the world's trade as a result of civil aviation, and that way of competition means war in the near or far future, because it always has led to war. The world's biggest air liner is to be begun at the Bristol Aeroplane Company's works, one of 130 tons. There is no landing ground in the world capable of taking that machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.81.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-14", "file": "debates1944-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f26f291947e642e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.106.3", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "I say that these scientific requirements limit the possibilities and when you come to analyse them you find that there are, in fact, only three main groups of nations which can run world services You come down to Russia, the United States and Britain together with her associates. Those are the three main groups. Russia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-14", "file": "debates1944-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f26f291947e642e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ces, particularly the rapidly increasing demands of the Army, is quite different from that of the Admiralty and the Merchant Navy. After all, the merchant marine grew up even before the Admiralty and long swam by itself, whereas for many years to come we shall have a Transport Command—I expect it to be a permanent part of the Royal Air Force but for many years to come it will be a very large part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-14", "file": "debates1944-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f26f291947e642e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (ATTACHMENT OF STATES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " native despotic State. His appeal is to the court of a native State. If his appeal was to a British court I could rise in this House and make a scene about it. That was his wee bit of democracy. Once he goes into one of the native States this House of Commons is out because you cannot interfere with their internal affairs. Because you regard Ranjitsinghi or the Jam of Nawanagar as English people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-14a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH PRISONERS, FAR EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement which he made several weeks ago caused a great deal of anxiety among the relatives of prisoners of war in the Far East, and that there is an impression that the Foreign Office do not follow through very well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PETROL PROSECUTION, TWICKENHAM (LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "The Regional Transport Commissioners carry very heavy responsibilities in the public interest. Even if sometimes they are a little over-zealous, I think it is better to trust to their discretion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ouse has been led up the garden. I think it is being very badly treated. The real reason is that the Government have not made up their mind upon the major issue. It is really absurd for us to be fiddling about with 300, 000 houses when the conditions governing the building and the disposition of houses in future are still undecided. One does not want to mention the names Uthwatt, Scott and Barlow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.279.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has come back.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. My right hon. Friend the leader of the Labour Party has been referring to matters which come very pertinently within the purview of the Minister of Town and Country Planning. The right hon. Gentleman has left the Front Bench. Are we not entitled to ask Ministers whose Departments are under review to be present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": " involved statement handed to them by the Uthwatt Committee, they said, \"We must get on with planning.\" Then they set up Town and Country Planning. I heard remarks today which were repugnant lo me. If there is one man that I would like to see making a success of a job, it is the present Minister of Town and Country Planning, but, like other Ministers, he is being hedged around by some unseen hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What should the gauge be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "trol the actual construction work? Members will realise that many buildings may be built of new materials and by new processes. But there are many anomalies in the present by-laws. I will give one simple example. If water pipes be made of copper, in one town they have to be of 17 gauge, and in the next town, 40 miles away, have to be 19 gauge. There is no earthly reason for such a differentiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.310.0", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bossom", "preceding_text": "ly 715 houses were completed. We cannot afford such a repetition this time. Other speakers have said there will be serious times ahead if we do not have ready within a reasonable time of demobilisation the houses that will be so vitally needed. I would strongly recommend the Government to consider putting all this work—may be only the short term programme—under the control of the Ministry of Works", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Holdsworth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can resign\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Holdsworth", "preceding_text": " I should have said that I put the whole blame upon the Cabinet. Neither local authorities nor private enterprise can do anything at all unless this issue is made a major policy by the Government. There has been a good deal of criticism of certain Ministers, but I do not subscribe to it. They are absolutely circumscribed, because they can get no vital decisions from the Government on major policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.337.4", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "Then a member of the party which my right hon. Friend represents. The conference was on rural housing, after which there was an agreed Measure. Those who are doing some of the shouting now about this problem were responsible for scrapping the only Measure ever placed on the Statute Book which provided decent rural accommodation at reasonable rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "No, but the Noble Lady is a fair example of the descendants of those who did create those conditions. I want to protest on behalf of Scottish Members that this Debate is covering England, Scotland and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wragg", "preceding_text": " bricks. The hon. Member for Dumbartonshire (Mr. McKinlay) talked about 77s. per 1,000. I should be glad to supply millions of bricks at that figure, because the price to-day is 60s. and it is controlled. It is no use saying that the price of building materials is going up in every direction, because it is controlled. You cannot increase prices at all without the consent of the Ministry of Supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "We are in this unfortunate position that we had to decide whether or not we could afford to wait. That is what we had got to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I do not know what he said, or what Mr. Gladstone said; I am dealing with the King's Speech and with the pledge of His Majesty's Government. That pledge stands. Legislation will be introduced in conformity with that pledge but I submit that it does not arise on this discussion to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "een made and will be kept. What we decided to do was to see whether we should deal with the mass servicing of sites, have negotiations with local authorities and get what we could now until legislation following the Government's promises on the Uthwatt Report, the Barlow Report, re-development and the rest of it had been implemented. The hon. Member thinks we are putting the cart before the horse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-15", "file": "debates1944-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f7eb541ac83d4c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "uthorities and get what we could now until legislation following the Government's promises on the Uthwatt Report, the Barlow Report, re-development and the rest of it had been implemented. The hon. Member thinks we are putting the cart before the horse. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, we think otherwise. We think that the local authorities, so far as we have contacted them, will agree with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-15a.356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Graham-Little", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is behind them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Graham-Little", "preceding_text": "ith excitement. The chairman of the hospital was the managing director of the largest motor firm in Coventry. The Mayor of Coventry was, I think, the chairman of the municipal hospital. He was in the audience, and Lord Iliffe—Mr. Iliffe as he then was—said, \"Now, I think your hospital will have to be abolished long before mine.\" I mention that to show you what is behind these contributory schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.460.5", "colnum": "460", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craik Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craik Henderson", "preceding_text": "I have heard of certain results achieved in the Soviet Union, but my hon. Friend makes a great mistake if he imagines that the Soviet Union regard people as equal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "preceding_text": "st I may be excused for speaking rather emphatically but it is something which we have been fighting against and I am sure that the Minister could not sustain that plea so far as the medical service is concerned. Another object submitted to me—and I have had a lot of doctors to see me, and letters from them and so on—is that they are against any number of their profession giving full-time service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why condemn it like that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "briefly as may be, to express, on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends, our general and cordial support for the proposals set out in the White Paper. Modesty perhaps ought to prevent me from saying that it does so happen that the main outlines of these proposals are very similar indeed to the proposals of the Liberal Committee on the National Health Service which re- ported some 18 months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " badly sited and are in industrial areas. They have not followed the drift of population. Many suburban areas are denuded of real hospital facilities. In London itself, because it suits the consultants there are a number of hospitals. The consultants are well paid for their work, not in actual cash, but by their students, when they become doctors, sending their private patients to the consultants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.503.4", "colnum": "503", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "s for the proper accommodation of a nurses' home attached to this hospital. It must be recognised that the nurse is important. Recruitment is down to the vanishing point. In certain voluntary hospitals tuition is not as good as in municipal hospitals. Where in voluntary hospitals only 5o to 52 per cent. pass, the figure for municipal hospitals is 80 to 89 per cent. I have bored the House overmuch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.503.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "PETROL PROSECUTION (REGIONAL TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER'S LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We agree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I want my hon. Friend and the House to understand the very gravely important duties with which Commissioners are charged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.525.5", "colnum": "525", "heading": "PETROL PROSECUTION (REGIONAL TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER'S LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "m a national point of view. In some cases, a Commissioner may act in a way which some hon. Member may think unwise. Maybe, in his choice of language many hon. Members think that this Commissioner went too far. A standard letter may be more appropriate in some cases, but may be less appropriate, in others. It may be that in this case as my hon. Friend thinks that no letter should have been written—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.525.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-16", "file": "debates1944-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "33ed2c5155e244e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "PETROL PROSECUTION (REGIONAL TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER'S LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not dismissed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "is desirable that a Regional Commissioner should go behind a decision come to by justices and take a quite different view. I should have thought that the Parliamentary Secretary would have been justified in saying to these officers—and we all recognise the difficult duties they 'have to do—that where a case is dismissed by a court of justices, in the circumstances in which this case was dismissed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-16a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-17", "file": "debates1944-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e3d0e33938dfaa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.546.2", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Lady is now expressing the view of the Government, and that she is definitely hostile to voluntary efforts in support of the hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.546.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-17", "file": "debates1944-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e3d0e33938dfaa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "edical service. The hospitals co-operate; there is no question of individual hospitals having separate policies. They play ball with each other; they work with each other as one team. Is that to be continued or is it merely a question of a hospital undertaking certain responsibility and getting individual payments? What the hon. Lady has said rather frightens me. Is it to be a co-operative scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-17", "file": "debates1944-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e3d0e33938dfaa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "e Paper, because it is far too big a matter to examine in a few minutes, especially with these new attempted controls, both central and local. Though I welcome the White Paper, fundamentally, really I am much more interested in positive health and adolescence than in anything else. In this country it is possible for an adolescent to go from the age of 14 to 18 without any dentistry service at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-17", "file": "debates1944-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e3d0e33938dfaa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.623.5", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fleecing the rich.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ervice where the doctor is paid partly by salary from the State and the local authorities, to a smaller extent through the Insurance Fund, because the crofters are outside the insurance system, and partly also from private practice. There is no inhibition or prohibition from treating as a fee-paying patient any sporting tenant or wealthy individual who comes along at the time of the deer shooting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-17a.623.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. and gallant Member one of the panel which is discussing the matter?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.648.7", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do we understand that we are to march troops up and down, through the streets, and parade them, and do all that sort of thing, without consulting the men? Have they not enough duties imposed on them as it is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.648.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that this does not apply only to South Wales and that negotiations and offers were made in other parts of the coalfields?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE REGULATION, NORTH MIDLAND REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "No special instruction was given. This particular chairman is apt to run to the Press more often than all the other chairmen put together", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ermined to get the teachers and the schools, I am certain that by 1948 they can be available; but if we leave it in an indefinite form we shall find that, althrough there are organisations anxious to have the children educated, there are powerful influences in this country, and some in this House, who are not so much concerned about having the children educated as having them exploited for profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was at 11½.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "33, we face what education is going to be to the children of the country. The speech of the Noble Lady has taken me back to my childhood. I never expected to have to recount in the House of Commons this small episode, which I am now going to relate. I was born the eldest of a baker's dozen in a miner's family, and in a terrace house. At 12 years of age, I faced what was called the old labour exam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am a little disappointed that those who are so enthusiastic about education should show such an incredible capacity for being irrelevant. It would have been helpful if they had displayed more of the advantages of education in their own cases than they appear to have done up to now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "1918 passed by Mr. Fisher, whereby a local authority could, if it wished, raise the compulsory school age to 15. One of these was Plymouth and I thought I would compare what happened in Plymouth with what happened elsewhere. There was not an unconditional raising of the school age in Plymouth. It was a raising subject to exemptions. I thought I would find out what was the result of the exemptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.738.6", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "This idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.738.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "equence, because, in due course, a future Parliament—and remember that one Parliament does not bind another—will have to take the necessary steps to repudiate this, by passing an amending Act or, by Order in Council, preventing it from operating. But these hon. Members who support it think that they are going to get cheap glory by saying, \"Look how progressive we are: we have voted for something.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "They are free to stay on. Only in certain cases referred to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.741.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide‡", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "hich wishes to pin this House of Commons and, in honour, any succeeding House of Commons, to the carrying out of that plan at the earliest opportunity. That is the purpose of this Amendment, and unless my right hon. Friend can show a little more sympathy to the wishes of Members of all parties I see no alternative but take all those who agree with me into the Division Lobby against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We knew you would be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "I have not wasted much of the time of the Committee—I have spoken only once so far—but I want to say that I am one of the most impatient men in the House when it comes to educational reform in that I am extremely critical of the deficiencies in our educational system. Nevertheless, I am completely satisfied with the Minister's answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": " Committee—I have spoken only once so far—but I want to say that I am one of the most impatient men in the House when it comes to educational reform in that I am extremely critical of the deficiencies in our educational system. Nevertheless, I am completely satisfied with the Minister's answer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We knew you would be.\"] The real opponents of reform are those idealists who are always—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Shakespeare", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Shakespeare", "preceding_text": "orm are those idealists who are always—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If the Government fix a date for raising the school-leaving age to 16 then they are doing a definite disservice to the cause of educational reform, because we all know perfectly well that such a thing would not be popular. When we go to our constituencies and tell parents that the school age will be raised to 16 they will not support us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.751.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.756.2", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide‡", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "mendment states very clearly that a parent can, if he so desires, make an agreement with the new secondary school, that is the secondary school which is to be set up in the Bill, that his child shall stay at school until 16. The Parliamentary Secretary says \"We cannot accept that; they must leave; they have to leave when they are 15 because we have decided that they cannot stay until they are 16.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "ite so. I should imagine that education is really a matter for the parents, and I do not see anything in this Clause with which one could disagree. If I had a child of tender years, and I thought that, from a moral point of view, it would be better for that child to have tuition in private, or at home, I would arrange such tuition. It can be done at home, and it used to be done in the Middle Ages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "on-compliance with the order, and the parent is able to go before a bench of magistrates, which is the final, ultimate court of appeal in judging whether the education of a child Otherwise than at school is good enough for the child. Are they equipped? Are they as competent and as knowledgeable in matters of education as the advisers of the right hon. Gentleman or of the competent local authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-21", "file": "debates1944-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ca18c5f5e077e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "a child Otherwise than at school is good enough for the child. Are they equipped? Are they as competent and as knowledgeable in matters of education as the advisers of the right hon. Gentleman or of the competent local authority? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Lay magistrates? I am not surprised to hear that reply from Members on the other side of the Committee. This is the loophole for the private tutor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-21a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.882.6", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They will get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "preceding_text": "ich I was going to fire. But there is one point in the White Paper which is not clear to me. It relates to the men who were not evacuated from France, Belgium, and elsewhere. The men who were evacuated will receive the 1939–43 Star without having had to serve the six months' qualifying period, but there were thousands of men who were not evacuated and who are left in the hands of the enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.882.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Commander Agnew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Agnew", "preceding_text": "The fact that the Prime Minister has accorded this Debate to-day is evidence of the very generous spirit in which-he has met the House and the country in throwing open to review the conditions of the award of these Stars. I think it is evidence also that the Prime Minister, as head of the Committee on the Grant of Honours and Decorations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.900.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "The Army qualification is the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.913.11", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "k him for his courtesy in giving way. I did explain this while he was outside the House, that for the Navy, if a man is serving in a ship which is supporting an operation like that of the Lofoten Islands and is merely carrying out its ordinary routine sea role, that does not give a man a special one day qualification; but if a man takes such a definite part in the operation that he lands on shore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.913.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.921.0", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was the only line in the world.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "ith me when I met him here at home, because here was I sitting in this honourable House, having given up my military appointment in the Middle East. He thought I had lost a lot of interest. I said that I had been very thrilled to have been a Member of this House, and to have lived in London during those hours so ably described by the Prime Minister as the time when this country was the front line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Prime Minister cannot authorise the issue of medals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "e vehicle for honours, and you must pay attention to it.\" Everybody knows of the rather precipitate action of the Prime Minister in authorising a medal to be struck for what was a very wonderful victory, but I do not think the Prime Minister considered all the implications of this matter when he gave the order, quite airily, that this particular medal was to be struck for that particular campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.924.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Mons?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "n, who wear a piece of ribbon on their uniforms, are proud of it. They do not want a whole array of ironmongery on their uniforms, as we see with certain other uniforms, but what they do want is that, if the King is to issue a medal for an operation or a series of operations, like Africa and Dunkirk—which, after all, was a defeat, a retreat, and I do not think we usually issue medals for retreats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I said London and provincial. Plymouth is as much part of the provinces as Doncaster. We did not have many bombs in Doncaster but they certainly had a lot in Plymouth. I include Plymouth with the greatest possible joy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-22", "file": "debates1944-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "f663806e1b1886df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR DECORATIONS AND MEDALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Alter the line.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "nce of our towns and cities. Therefore I am not surprised, as I think my hon. Friend the Member for Winchester said he was, that the exclusion of the Anti-Aircraft Command from qualification for this honour has caused a certain amount of bitterness. I am afraid such bitterness is inevitable on the part of people who find themselves just on the wrong side of the line like this which has been drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-22a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. Friend for his reply, may I ask him, in view of the fact that the present form of control in the mining industry, which has been in operation for two years, has failed to produce good relations between the workmen and the coalowners, and also to produce the maximum amount of coal; and in view of the fact that we are having trouble after trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "for his reply, may I ask him, in view of the fact that the present form of control in the mining industry, which has been in operation for two years, has failed to produce good relations between the workmen and the coalowners, and also to produce the maximum amount of coal; and in view of the fact that we are having trouble after trouble—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] In view of that fact, and in view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1037.4", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "May I remind my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1037.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but I am not sure whether that applies to the people referred to in my hon. Friend's Question. He asked about the drivers employed by this committee and I have looked into the matter. There are a certain number of lorries hired by the committee, whose drivers do not come into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1040.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "I withdraw unreservedly. In the North of England, by which I mean South of the Tweed and North of the Trent, we did something for evening institutes and from my experience I know that we did it well. In the system of evening classes we have something of which we have nothing to be ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallagher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And young women\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallagher", "preceding_text": "I would be in favour of this proposal on one condition only. The condition is that the young men who came to Westminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only on the Government benches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "actical considerations in this case? These young people will be released for only one day a week from industry, by their employers, to-attend these colleges. I really cannot, in the first place, encourage by-elections to be held in colleges for the very short periods within which these young people will attend these colleges. The very word \"by-election\" causes a nausea in the hearts of most of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1142.0", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "at inspection shall take place not less than three times during the school career—entrance, midway in the school career, and before leaving. That was the practice in London for a long time—I was a school medical inspector myself—and it worked very well. If a child is reported for treatment, that is followed up by the people at the clinics, so that part of the matter is covered to a certain extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1168.0", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you believed it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I have also been told in my time that the word \"may\" in certain Clauses is a polite way of saying \"shall\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1168.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-23", "file": "debates1944-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cddc26f828472f95", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1168.5", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman", "preceding_text": "Are we going to discuss all the Amendments now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-23a.1168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "o it for what are commonly called, snob reasons. I am only quoting figures and facts, but it is the fact that, with the growth of freer secondary education, there has been almost an equal growth of independent schools outside. The problem of the \"two nations\" to which my right hon. Friend has been referring in speeches up and down the country, is not going to be healed by many things in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "on purely educational grounds I say that it would be an excellent thing for the direct grant schools—the grammar schools if I may use a common term—to come completely within the national system of education. Here in the Spens Report is the evidence of the complete remoteness, as far as education is concerned, of these schools. Latin and Greek, the Classics, taught generation after generation. Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1300.0", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "all county and auxiliary schools maintained by the local authority shall be free, that is a very large proportion of the secondary world. In fact, looking at the figures it seems to me that all but a very small proportion of the children entering this secondary world will have an opportunity of free education. That enables us to narrow the issue between us to one of comparatively small dimensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ent sends his children to the grammar school without the thought in his mind that the child will advance socially, by the recognised standards of what is social advancement in this country. You will find that the one thing common to these children is the idea that they are all a little bit, or it may be a big bit, superior to the working-class children around them. Is there anyone who denies that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1324.2", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, fourpence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": " the local education authority and say, \"We will make an arrangement with you to get your midday meals,\" and the local education authority has facilities in the way of cooking centres and for carrying the food hot to the different schools. It has been done already. What is the cost under the State system of that? You can provide a first-class meal for the children for anything between 7d. and 10d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is so now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "I am rather worried about powers which may be given to Departments, and which may be extended to others, and looked upon as a precedent by which the Departments may get still further control over local government than they have at present. The responsibility of the local authority should be to the Minister, but the responsibility of the servant or employee of the local authority should be to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1360.2", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman, has the whole trade union movement been against paying men and women equally for equal work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They always have been\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "e quarrels I had were not with my pupils or my colleagues but with my chiefs. But whether I was good, bad or indifferent as a teacher, at every stage I was teaching in schools where there would be, perhaps, about four men and a dozen women, sometimes more, sometimes less, and I was never on a school staff yet in which there were not some of the women who were obviously clearly superior to the men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were against it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Magnay", "preceding_text": " support wholly and wholeheartedly this Bill intact. I have received deputations from representatives of trade unions, the National Union of Teachers and other bodies. In none of the deputations and in none of the correspondence has anything been said about equal pay for the teachers, except in the case of the schoolmasters' deputation on Saturday morning. That was a totally different proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Raikes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": " much from those of some of the hon. Members who have already spoken, but I am not going to put them now, because I do not think that now is either the time or the place, on an Education Bill. The principle, if it is just, must be applied equally; otherwise, it is not a principle, but an injustice. If you are going to apply this to teachers only, it will be an injustice to a good many other women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "come from the public, and there are quite as many women ratepayers and taxpayers who would not he receiving this same advantage. In my opinion, the time and place for this would be when there was a proper discussion of equal pay to be applied all round. I shall support the Government on those grounds, and I believe I am speaking, not only for myself, but for the vast majority of local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Our Amendment was down fsirst.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member is, perhaps, to be congratulated on setting a lead to the Labour Party for the second time in a short space of time, and perhaps the Labour Party is to be congratulated on following a lead set by the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1383.2", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I think we do want to make a little progress with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ill support this Amendment, I have very great sympathy for the Minister. I heard the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) compliment the Minister on his loyalty to his colleagues. I certainly could not compliment the young Tories on their loyalty to their colleagues. Whenever the young Tories get an opportunity they seize upon some particularly feasible proposal and use it for unscrupulous demagogy.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1391.6", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " Friend the Leader of the Opposition ( Laughter ). Well, Major Milner, it happens to be technically true at the moment. I hope that the Leader of the House will agree to my Motion to report Progress so that the Government may reconsider their attitude and we may have some undertaking in this matter, which goes far beyond the province of my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1391.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I hope the attempt which has been made on this occasion to formalise the situation, as though we were in pre-war days, will not be pushed too far. After all, this is a Government supported by every main party in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "the House of Commons into the position in which it would be put if they formalised it, because the House of Commons would know that it must not express any opinion on any important matter against the wishes of the Government without, at the same time, taking the consequences which the whole House is anxious to avoid. Therefore, hope the Minister will not act and think irresponsibly in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1395.5", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Davies", "preceding_text": "Mr. C. Davies rose in his place, and claimed to move, \"That the Question be How put\", but The CHAIRMAN withheld his assent, and declined then to put that Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1395.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-28", "file": "debates1944-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21505617f82f7f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1396.4", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-28a.1396.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1430.11", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member makes a wrong assumption. I am assured by the competent authorities, whose advice I must accept, that it would divulge information of interest to the enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1430.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1452.5", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (GOVERNMENT DEFEAT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether he does not think it possible to distinguish between a deliberative vote of the House on a domestic issue and any lack of confidence by the House in the Government on the general issues that are involved in the war effort? Would it not seem that hon. Members, who are 100 per cent. with the Prime Minister in pursuing the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (GOVERNMENT DEFEAT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I am afraid I cannot, in any way, alter the statement which I have made. It is really impossible to distinguish between votes on domestic policy and votes on the general policy of the war, in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "PRESTWICK AERODROME (BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "this establishment? We must be consistent. If it is helpful to the enemy to discuss openly the days and hours of Sittings of this House it would be equally helpful for them to know the locus of a very important airport. I have here the script of the broadcast, and it would serve the Minister right if I read it from beginning to end. It would be a perfect punishment for allowing it to be broadcast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacLaren", "preceding_text": " putting forward an apologia for the Prime Minister, but I am trying to put the position as I see it, knowing him, and knowing what happened to-day. I want my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan), for whom I have the greatest regard as a Parliamentarian and a live Parliamentarian, to have regard to these facts. His own representatives are sitting there, and may have assented to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1497.2", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They did so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "hat this was a matter of principle, that it raised an issue extending far beyond the confines of the Education Bill. It might have been argued that this raised the whole question of equal pay for men and women, not only as regards teachers but in the Civil Service, and, indeed, in industry. The Government might have said that they could not take a decision of that importance on the Education Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1502.2", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "is stage of the war if we were, on an issue that is not vital to the Education Bill, on the one hand, to lose this great Education Bill, and the Minister with it, and, on the other, to embarrass the Government and weaken their authority, not only in this country but in the world. For that reason, I think we must make it clear that this issue, coming up suddenly, took part of the House by surprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1503.0", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " we have had it. It does appear to me that we have been, in large measure, discussing a Motion of Confidence in the Government, for which this is not the appropriate occasion. I have listened to the Debate from the time the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan) spoke and I have heard every speech. It appears to me that we have discussed, in large measure, a Vote of Confidence in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1503.0", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "g and impress the people not only of this country but of the world. I want to suggest to the Prime Minister, with the very greatest respect and in the hope that he will introduce second thoughts into the subject, that he will consider a Motion of Confidence of the kind indicated at a very early date, and that what we ought to do on the next Sitting Day is to disregard the proceedings of yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-29", "file": "debates1944-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "d9739c600774ff4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1509.5", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL (QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ut I wish to leave just this for consideration in the mind of the House. When the hon. Gentleman says that the Government ought to try to separate defeat on some domestic affair from a big international military issue, it is not as easy as all that for the Government. Has the hon. Gentleman been listening to what the German wireless has been saying this last few hours? It is no good treating that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-29a.1509.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1567.5", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I said earlier that I thought the feeling of the House was that they would like to take a decision early on Clause 82.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1567.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1582.3", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hey themselves had agreed. I beg to submit that the embarrassment which the Committee is obviously in at the moment is a direct consequence of the behaviour of the Government. I warned the House twice yesterday about this. There are very many Members here to-day who were not attending their business yesterday, and who have been brought to the House of Commons to vote like sheep for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1584.0", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dictatorship\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " also want an opportunity of declaring their unbounded confidence in the Government and I want the opportunity, as on other occasions, of showing that I have not that confidence. These are all things which Members want, for they want to do their job properly. We all want these three things, but in different Lobbies. The Government come to us and say: \"We are not going to allow you to do anything.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "rity herself introduced a Bill into the House, which accepted that principle during this Parliament. Really the Government cannot absolve themselves from their responsibilities for dealing with this principle. I would, to ease the situation, make two suggestions. The first, which I think would not be adequate in itself, is, that this general principle ought to be discussed by the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1616.4", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "atest respect to my right hon. Friend, that sooner or later, in the circumstances in which this House and the Government find themselves, the Government and the House will have to make up their minds on the main question. Is it possible to give an assurance —it may well not be—in view of the speech made by the Leader of the Labour Party, one of the most important parties supporting the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did speak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " not do so in the forthcoming Debate because he will not speak in it. The reason why he will not speak is that he does not know anything about the issues before the House, and he cannot talk about anything outside those issues.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 29th March, 1944; col. 1486, Vol. 398.] I was perfectly convinced yesterday that we would be denied the benefit of the Prime Minister's eloquence to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "eady to say: \"I should like to discuss this matter some other time.\" Oh, the brave music of a distant drum. It is always the other battle and never this one; always some other time, and never this time. I challenge the right hon. Gentleman to tell the Committee whether, if the House of Commons carried, as an abstract principle, the desirability of equality, he would accept the wishes of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "o propose to excuse themselves in that spurious fashion subsequently have the opportunity of voting for the general principle, and the House carries it—I again challenge the right hon. Gentleman —does the right hon. Gentleman inform the Committee that he would resign rather than operate it? I await an answer. The fact of the matter is that the right hon. Gentleman is not honest with the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1631.1", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " fashion subsequently have the opportunity of voting for the general principle, and the House carries it—I again challenge the right hon. Gentleman —does the right hon. Gentleman inform the Committee that he would resign rather than operate it? I await an answer. The fact of the matter is that the right hon. Gentleman is not honest with the Committee. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is being dishonest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the point I was making. If the House decides on the general principle that equality of pay is desirable, does it then become administratively possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1632.3", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "We are left with the position that hon. Members who say that they want to discuss this matter as an abstract principle are really excusing themselves on very spurious grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1633.2", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s or from the teachers' representatives, adopted the principle, we are informed that the Government would not resist it. Is that true? This is very important. Suppose the House of Commons has not adopted it, but the free use of the Burnham machinery undertakes it; we are informed on this side of the Committee, we have had assurances, that the Government will not resist the principle. Is that true?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1633.2", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"There were no assurances at all from the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nham machinery undertakes it; we are informed on this side of the Committee, we have had assurances, that the Government will not resist the principle. Is that true? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am prepared to give way. I understand that the Minister is not going to reply to my question, so that on this side of the Committee we must conclude that the assurances that we have received are inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "en resist it. We have been told that the Government will accept it. This is a very serious matter, because in that case my charge of dishonesty is wholly established, seeing that the main reason given by the Minister is that he does not want to interfere with the Burnham Committee machinery. If, therefore, the Burnham Committee machinery adopts it and he resists it, then his argument is dishonest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1634.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1637.2", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do the electors of Barnstaple oppose the Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "l issue or another, but as a matter of consistent principle. As well as those seven of us, there is a number of hon. Members who from time to time pretend to oppose the Government when they are in fact supporting it, and a certain number of others who pretend to support it when they in fact oppose it. But there are only seven in this House who quite steadily and consistently oppose the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.5", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "I cannot give exact figures, but the seven of us to whom I am referring represent something like half the electors of this country to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.7", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "We know that we are speaking on behalf of far more people than is suggested by our numbers here, and we say, quite plainly, that we have no confidence in the basic principles on Which this Government operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.7", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "ndition in which we have equal pay for men and women, we must be prepared to examine the principles on which our forefathers thought it right that men should have greater pay than women. Let us just consider this. The unequal pay of men and women is based on the principle that it is the individual responsibility of the male to carve out of the community, by his individual efforts, enough money or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.7", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": " should have greater pay than women. Let us just consider this. The unequal pay of men and women is based on the principle that it is the individual responsibility of the male to carve out of the community, by his individual efforts, enough money or—[ Interruption ]. I do not think the mood of the Committee now, or at the time when some other hon. Members were speaking, does this House any credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1638.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1640.5", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Family allowances.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "accept the new principle of equal pay for men and women. If you try to do both these things, if you go forward while retaining any trace of the idea that each individual male has this continuing responsibility, you will find yourselves in this inescapable situation—that all unmarried adults and all childless couples will be grossly overpaid, while all parents of families will be grossly underpaid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1640.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "ich the party opposite exist to maintain. In treating this as a Vote of Confidence, we welcome it as such, treat it as such and intend to vote against the Government precisely because we have no confidence whatever in a Government who maintain these principles. I believe, the matter having been raised on such an issue, it is relevant to show, as I think I was showing, that this absolutely trivial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1643.0", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": " before it in such a way that, without any disrespect to the Chair the Chair is obliged to rule that the issue shall be discussed within blinkers. Any attempt to bring us face to face with fundamental principles which underlie the trivial little issues we are discussing day after day is invariably frustrated by the way in which these issues are presented. I am only going to say this in conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1646.5", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was in Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "p of the President of the Board of Education, a baby which did not properly belong to him. First, last, and all the time, this issue of equal pay is not a Board of Education issue. It is a Treasury issue. And it is the Treasury with whom we have to deal on this issue of equal pay. For those reasons, I take the view that the promoters of the Amendment were not well advised in their choke of ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1646.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-30", "file": "debates1944-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "477e1c0334405553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1648.7", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The democratic method.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "t issue of its principle, and in accordance with its decision we will then come back to the Education Bill, and qualify it or amend it to make it correspond with the sense of the House.\" If that had been done, there would have been no Parliamentary crisis at all to-day. The Government could have taken account of the view of the House, and progress on the Education Bill would not have been delayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-30a.1648.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Lawson", "preceding_text": "When, with democratic machinery, you come to the point of trying to destroy democracy, you are not practising democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To Parliament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "s a naive observation for a gentleman of his intelligence when he said that all they had to do was to resign their commissions. Does he not know that nowadays, if you resign your commission, what happens to you is that you arc called up in the ranks shortly afterwards, unless your conduct is such that you are not wanted in the Forces at all? In that case you may be sent off to I do not know where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1742.1", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "preceding_text": " taxes and so on. It is a service to defend one's home and to maintain the war effort. In Cromwell's day our armies were more feared abroad than they have ever been since. He found the extreme value of discipline. We must have discipline. If people are so interested in politics as the hon. Member for Skipton suggested, I wonder why a few more votes could not have been raked together at Camberwell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "who said, \"You broke your mother's heart but you will not break mine.\" It has perhaps smoothed off some of the rough edges but not broken me. I have been tremendously interested in the question of discipline in the Armed Forces. One of my entertainments for months past has been on Monday mornings to pick up my paper, the \"Telegraph,\" which I buy since the \"Daily Herald\" went to the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1743.3", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Morrison?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "ticians, is described as \"Captain H. H. Balfour, M.C., Under-Secretary of State for Air.\" The hon. and gallant Member knows the great interest I have in his welfare. He used to be my next door neighbour on this bench, and he knows the number of wires I had to pull to get him shifted. Talk about discipline—here is a head of a Service who is one of the most controversial politicians in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1743.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1747.5", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or as a general.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Davidson (Glasgow, Mary-hill)", "preceding_text": "Is there not a great difference, according to whether you are serving as a private or as an officer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1747.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1748.5", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Curragh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " was when there was nearly a mutiny at the end of the last war on the question of demobilisation. I forget what the right hon. Gentleman's phrase was, but it was a very good one. That was Army politics bursting out. Decisions had been made without the views of the men in the Service having been adequately assessed. The other case in my time was the Invergordon business in connection with the Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1748.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "According to King's Regulations the hon. Member ought to have been put in clink on that account at that time, and for other things since. But there, again, this is just the very thing I am arguing about—this idea of allowing some people in the Army complete political liberty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1751.2", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "re a lot of levels. I ask that when there seems to be a necessity for a court-martial for political reasons, the Secretary of State's authority should be necessary for such a prosecution. That would have two very great advantages. It would deter soldiers from sending up proposals for political prosecutions, and it would secure that the final decision is made by a man who has some political wisdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-03-31", "file": "debates1944-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "b81978c16c3569b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR FORCE (ANNUAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Standing for Parliament is an entirely different thing, because that presupposes a candidate to have character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-03-31a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1785.9", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "I am quite clear that it would be in accordance with the general sense of the public, that A.T.S. should not wander about the streets smoking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1785.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1813.7", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YUGOSLAVIA (B.B.C. BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alfred Beit", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that the Germans do not jam these Serb-Croat broadcasts, in view of the damage they do to the loyal feelings of the supporters of the Yugoslav Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1813.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1813.8", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YUGOSLAVIA (B.B.C. BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "I am not aware whether these services are jammed or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1813.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1878.0", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "Here are presented two different methods of meeting the problem. I think it would be better to discuss them together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1877.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1900.0", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "hurch did find 25 per cent. for many schools. The Church of England failed. I am afraid that the proposal of the right hon. Gentleman for State loans for the fraction above the grant is not so much for the schools of the Catholic Church as for the preservation of Church of England schools in certain school areas. There are in this country 4,000 odd Church of England schools in single-school areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1901.3", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "That is right; Tory strongholds throughout rural England resting on State endowments of the Church schools in those villages. Therefore, I say to my hon. Friends on this side of the Committee, we are not merely concerned with the religious issue but with a deep politi- cal issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1901.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Nall", "preceding_text": "I have had no indication that any of thorn wish to give up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1905.4", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ums amounting to between 96 per cent. and 97 per cent. outside public control for the education of children. There has been some contention that it should not involve anything, but, after all, the very essence of the demand made by my Roman Catholic friends is that your communal schools, your publicly-owned, publicly-controlled, publicly-run schools are not good enough for them. That is the claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1905.4", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "blic control for the education of children. There has been some contention that it should not involve anything, but, after all, the very essence of the demand made by my Roman Catholic friends is that your communal schools, your publicly-owned, publicly-controlled, publicly-run schools are not good enough for them. That is the claim. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Exactly; they are not good enough for you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1905.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1908.3", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, Major Milner, before you reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1909.0", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To all Churches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "eigh (Mr. Tinker), who did not import the same amount of feeling into this matter as has been imported into many letters I have had from some of his supporters, both in this country and abroad. My hon. Friend stated his case very cogently, but I must repeat that I, and the majority of my friends and Members of the Committee, regard the 50 per cent. as being a generous offer to the Catholic Church.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1946.0", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "I am still of the opinion that this satisfies my Roman Catholic friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1946.3", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "Well, I gather that it satisfies my Roman Catholic friends in the main, but in fairness to the Minister it ought to be stated unequivocally whether or not it does satisfy them. My impression is that it does. But I want to know whether it satisfies my Church of England friends and my Nonconformist friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1946.5", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "The general opinion of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1946.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1947.3", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "It is meant to preserve more than the Roman Catholic schools", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1951.0", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ations which led to the Clause appearing on the Paper, my right hon. Friend commissioned me to see the leaders of the Free Churches. I am not a Free Churchman. I am a Nonconformist and there is a substantial difference between the two. As a Nonconformist I reject the authoritarian conception of religion. We have two Churches here with whom we are engaged, who in different degrees are authoritarian", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1951.0", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "y be held to exist there. Therefore, if I challenge the right of this Committee to pass an Act of Uniformity contrary to my religious belief, I must be very careful that I do not attempt to impose my views uniformly on other people. That is the philosophy on which I have based my attitude to the religious Clauses of the Bill, and I speak as one who was a Nonconformist child in a single-school area", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1951.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-04", "file": "debates1944-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "ad3ae7b6f7a20db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1961.3", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ressed by, among other people, my Noble Friend. We are not thinking in terms of this Bill coming into operation now. I have said so time after time. We are thinking of after the war, and of getting this provision written into the Bill. As for the argument put forward by my hon. and gallant Friend, does he really think that the liberty of the subject is being injured by not sending little children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-04a.1961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-05", "file": "debates1944-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8a2819b22b51e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.1995.7", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD HAULAGE SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mathers", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister explain why it is that we are continually having these questions, especially from the hon. and gallant Member for Coventry (Captain Strickland)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.1995.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-05", "file": "debates1944-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8a2819b22b51e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2039.1", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mainwaring", "preceding_text": "es. It is larger than two of our county boroughs and there are only four of them in Wales. It is larger than 45 county boroughs in England. It has been an authority itself for nearly 40 years. Therefore, it is being very unjustly dealt with by the provisions in the Bill. It has a population greater than any three boroughs and urban councils that can be found in Wales. It is now deemed incompetent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-05", "file": "debates1944-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8a2819b22b51e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2079.2", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Maitland", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 79, line 47, to leave out \"census,\" and to insert \"estimate of the Registrar-General.\" I really think this point has been largely met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-05", "file": "debates1944-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8a2819b22b51e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2106.1", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "They may make such observations as they like in such language as they like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-05", "file": "debates1944-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8a2819b22b51e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2119.2", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "e I am rather stupid about this. I want a chance for the Committee to determine, or for the Government to accept, particular forms of words which embody certain principles, or words in which they may clothe the same principles. If I now talk at large about the matter I do not see how I can put it in a concrete way. The only concrete way I can find in which to put it is in the form of an Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2119.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-05", "file": "debates1944-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "a8a2819b22b51e07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2122.0", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would make them equal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " Parker), which required that women should be appointed to education committees. We take the view, and all our experience during the Committee stage-confirms this conclusion, that women have now secured so strong a position in public life that it is necessary to assume that they will have to be considered. I can see no reason why if we say \"including women,\" we should not also say \"including men.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-05a.2122.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2179.5", "colnum": "2179", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY STOPPAGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "May I put it to my right hon. and gallant Friend and to the House that as consultations are going on, the matter might be dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2218.5", "colnum": "2218", "heading": "AUSTERITY SUITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "I think that would be abusing the time of the House. The heading of this letter shows the business to be \"Tailors and Colonial Outfitters, School Outfitters, Hosiers and Shirt Tailors.\" I think hon. Members would have grave reason to find fault with me if I said that he had 1,429 collars, 740 handkerchiefs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2219.2", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "AUSTERITY SUITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": ".7 per cent. of three-piece suits, and 88 per cent. of two-piece suits made in non-utility cloth. That is a result of advertisement and price reduction so far as non-utility cloth is concerned. There is rather a different picture as regards utility garments, which they slashed in price and reduced to hall coupon value. The figures for these are, for three-piece suits, stock reduced to 41 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2233.3", "colnum": "2233", "heading": "AUSTERITY SUITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So have many others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "He is selling at 20. Admittedly, he did not have an enormous stock like the case quoted of the man in Streatham, who certainly seems to have been having a difficult time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2267.0", "colnum": "2267", "heading": "POLISH FORCES, GREAT BRITAIN (ANTI-SEMITISM)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Refugees.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "s as widespread as my hon. Friend suggests. I think it is limited to a very few camps. I am saying that to preserve, as far as possible, the balance. When this question was raised yesterday, the Foreign Secretary advanced one or two reasons which justified him and the Polish Government in refusing to give the same privileges to the last bunch of deserters as they had given to the earlier escapees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2271.1", "colnum": "2271", "heading": "POLISH FORCES, GREAT BRITAIN (ANTI-SEMITISM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "rhaps be murdered by some of the anti-Semites in the Polish Army. I hope that all Poles will recognise that their enemy is Hitler and his Nazi followers, and their duty is not to fight each other but to fight the common enemy. The Polish Government must make every effort to deal with this evil of anti-Semitism, whether it exists on a large scale or on a small scale, for the sake of its own future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2275.0", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "POLISH FORCES, GREAT BRITAIN (ANTI-SEMITISM)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Alan Graham", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not the military authorities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Alan Graham", "preceding_text": "e at the truth. In the search for truth, it is quite possible that things shocking to our ears may emerge. That is always the danger of sincerity, but sometimes the risk has to be taken. I am glad that even the hon. Member for Maldon, in the course of very widespread and exaggerated attacks on the Polish Army, exonerated the Polish Government and the Polish military authorities from these charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2285.7", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "POLISH FORCES, GREAT BRITAIN (ANTI-SEMITISM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "preceding_text": "erwards. My main point was that I had always understood that the function of this House was to legislate for the British Isles. That is what I always understood, and that is why what we are now discussing disturbed my thoughts. As I said, Allies are fairly hard to come by. We are not overburdened with them, yet here we are doing our best to alienate one of the first Allies that we had in this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2285.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2286.1", "colnum": "2286", "heading": "POLISH FORCES, GREAT BRITAIN (ANTI-SEMITISM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bull", "preceding_text": "oblem, and not ours. What in the world has it to do with us? We have enough minority problems in our own country, let alone trying to cause trouble among our Allies. I think that we ought to do nothing—to use an American phrase—to sell Poland down the river after the war. I hope we shall remember that they were the first nation to stand up properly and fight while we were arming and getting ready.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2310.2", "colnum": "2310", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (CATERING FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ry of a committee upstairs which secured a number of amenities which we at present enjoy in this House. Had it not been for the recommendations we made to the Kitchen Committee and to the Serjeant at Arms, we should not have been able to get any guests into the House, and we should not have had the cafeteria. It was not the initiative of the Kitchen Committee which produced those tawdry amenities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-06", "file": "debates1944-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "a298f3b1d43a7464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2312.3", "colnum": "2312", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (CATERING FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracewell Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And deserved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracewell Smith", "preceding_text": "o reply to all the various points raised, but, in regard to future hours, I think it would, perhaps, be better if we wait until those hours are fixed before we say what we are going to do. I did, however, say that we would provide for adequate dining-room arrangements when those hours are fixed, and I hope that answer will satisfy hon. Members. In regard to cooking, very drastic remarks were made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-06a.2312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-18", "file": "debates1944-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7caabbfccebcf6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "These men were not acting at that time as police officers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.16.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-18", "file": "debates1944-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7caabbfccebcf6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Allen", "preceding_text": "lty in which the Financial Secretary find himself; he has no power to accept such an Amendment. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer were in his place now, we might appeal to him. I would like the Financial Secretary to put the whole matter before the Chancellor of the Exchequer again, and then perhaps, in another place, the Government may find an opportunity to accept the Amendment, to some extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-18", "file": "debates1944-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7caabbfccebcf6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I confess at once that I am at a disadvantage because I have not heard the whole of the discussion, but I will do my best to answer the two points which have just been put to me. I gather that my hon. Friend wants to know what would be the position of a Civil Service pensioner, who is also an old age pensioner, who might be an applicant for a supplementary Pension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-18", "file": "debates1944-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7caabbfccebcf6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.145.5", "colnum": "145", "heading": "PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " question\" to introduce disqualification after disqualification in this Bill or to bar men out who ask for a grant. So that what is given with one hand is taken away with the other. If the Chancellor thinks that that is \"improper\" and \"out of the question\" I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the Chancellor is \"improper\" and \"out of the question.\" May I have an answer to the second question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-18a.145.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.201.7", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lyons", "preceding_text": "Is it possible to indicate the general principle?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.201.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "But surely this is a matter of public business. Is there no Minister who can answer the hon. Member's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.202.6", "colnum": "202", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "While appreciating that this is not the most opportune moment for raising this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.202.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Obviously if there is a desire that the matter should be debated a convenient moment will have to be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.216.5", "colnum": "216", "heading": "RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "preceding_text": "I do not consider this criticism justified. Members of this House know perfectly well how keenly interested in research is our Prime Minister. Only recently he said that Science, now so generally perverted to destruction, must raise its glittering shield over the people of this country. We know that since 1940 he has had as his personal adviser Lord Cherwell, a man of great scientific attainments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Plugge", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Plugge", "preceding_text": " assistance from the Govern- ment to ensure that the instrument makers have plants large enough to produce scientific instruments in great quantity and quality as well as to produce what the Continental countries really need. It is a most important point. I am afraid that I have exhausted my time. I wanted to stir hon. Members with one or two other suggestions about what will happen in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport (Mr. Noel-Baker)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport (Mr. Noel-Baker)", "preceding_text": "on and justify their opposition by an attack on the whole organisation to which, in public, only three months ago, they pledged support. The S.J.C. say, as my hon. Friends have said, that the organisation is inefficient. They put forward the general proposition that \"the efficiency attainable under Government control falls far short of that which would obtain under ordinary commercial conditions.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-19", "file": "debates1944-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4571f553e7f95ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "ea officers are under the control of divisional officersg12 of them, and all from the industry and many recommended to us by the Standing Joint Cornriiittee themselves. In the headquarters staff, we have had the help of two founder members of the Standing Joint Committee. These men have done extremely well. They do not need an extra financial inducement to do better, as some people have suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-19a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.417.0", "colnum": "417", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would take too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Rankin", "preceding_text": "ery fine, statesmanlike speech to-day. I am glad that it came from this side of the House, because I think that one of the major errors made by hon. Members on this side in the past has been to underestimate the great importance and value to us, and to mankind as a whole, of the British Commonwealth of Nations. I will not go into the errors of the other side, because I want to make a short speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No one said anything of the sort.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": " have to be learned and new and better arrangements will have to be made for the future, and the British Empire has a great contribution to make there. There are some hon. Members—it has not appeared in Debate to-day, but one hears them talking—who seem to think you have only to blow the trumpet loud enough and all the Dominions will rally into line behind the Mother Country and do what is wanted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which half?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "e kind here to-day, but that people do say such things. I have heard them saying such things. That, we all realise, is a fantastic description of the position. The Dominions have as much right to blow a trumpet and expect us to fall into line with them as the other way round. I would like to say something to-day about the position of Canada, particularly as I am happy to be half a Canadian myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "rvative Member in the Canadian House of Commons. There was a very interesting article in \"The Times\" recently, from their Ottawa correspondent, dealing with the Canadian situation, dealing with a speech which Lord Halifax made at Toronto. I cannot help thinking it was a little unfortunate that the British Ambassador should have gone to Toronto and made a speech which was of a controversial nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Grigg", "preceding_text": "I am glad my hon. Friend has raised that point. We are not entitled to say that the Dominions shall make specific military commitments. We can only make them ourselves. I am very much in favour of making them and I believe it is indispensable. We have to make them anyhow, whether the Dominions approve or not, because they are vital to our security and nothing can alter that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "of receiving, its farmers have guaranteed prices, it has very successful public enterprise, and that public enterprise resulted before the war in its having a very low per capita degree of unemployment. Australia has been following along the same lines. I turn now to a part of the Empire which among some Members opposite is still considered to be the last stronghold of their party—that is, Canada.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Labour Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "far as I have been able to hear it, the House has been very anxious to give good advice to the Government, and also, if I may say so, to fortify the Government in the discussions which are shortly to take place. I would like to do a most unusual thing—to compliment my hon. Friend on the speech he made to-day in moving this Motion. It was a speech which astonished Members of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-20", "file": "debates1944-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "5df9d61987e73831", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "shal Smuts, the veteran of three wars, in the first of which he fought against us and in the second and third of which he has been one of our most stalwart counsellors and supports and guides, is also an old friend. All these three will be warmly welcomed by all sections of our people. Mr. John Curtin is coming here for the first time, and for that reason he will be given a specially warm welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-20a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "They might quote me right, anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellengger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellengger", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member misunderstands me. When I talk of diplomacy, I mean diplomatic methods in negotiating with our Dominions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Merriment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "That is a most witty interruption, but, I maintain, a most irrelevant one, because I am not attempting to say we ought to abolish the monarchy in this country or the Dominions, but it gave the hon. Member the opportunity of making an interruption which evidently aroused the amusement of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " or the Dominions, but it gave the hon. Member the opportunity of making an interruption which evidently aroused the amusement of the House. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Merriment.\"] I think perhaps we are splitting hairs, but, if the hon. Member prefers it, well, merriment. I suppose it is a preferable expression to amusement. What are the two considerations that apply? I suggest they are defence and trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " all sure that the hon. Members who have spoken have really dealt with this matter in an objective manner. Did they have a look at the map before they spoke about our support for the Dominions in the matter of defence? Have they looked at the position of New Zealand or Australia in relation to the Mother Country? I seem to remember, not so long ago, that Australia was crying out for American help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except in America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "on the basis of unrestricted private enterprise, as we did in the 19th century. I would say to hon. Members on the Liberal benches that it is impossible to hope that we are ever going to give them back Free Trade, which only made private enterprise possible in the 19th century. Free Trade as we knew it in the 19th century has gone, and with it many of the features of Free Trade—private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look at them now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "a and New Zealand now have Socialist Governments, let us not question the cause of their enthusiasm, let us be glad that they have shaken off the shameful indifference of the last 25 years. There is no use trying to deny this. In the last 10 years Empire discussions in this House took place with empty benches on this side but, since we are being quite frank, not very full benches on the Tory side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ew this House like a strip-tease revue. But once the Dominions or the Empire were being discussed, the indifference was chilling to a degree. The hon. and gallant Member for West Bromwich (Mr. John Dugdale)—I use the word \"gallant\" in its Parliamentary sense, because I do not think even he would feel that the wearing of a uniform for a short time without fighting would call for the word \"gallant.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH UNITY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ich mentioned it—of social services, of students, of civil servants and members of the Services, and we should, wherever possible, on such difficult subjects as migration, civil aviation and shipping, come to agreements with the Dominions. These problems will present great difficulties. There is the question of cabotage which will be very important. I have no doubt that the Empire Prime Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-21", "file": "debates1944-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ae723e2b2e3e24e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.594.0", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR SAVINGS WEEKS (PROPAGANDA)", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Assheton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Assheton)", "preceding_text": "at, in fact, small savings represent a very creditable proportion indeed of the total. The balance, of course, is made up by these big contributions made by banks, insurance companies, building societies and so on. But we want the subscriptions from the big subscriber as well as from the small subscriber. We want the banks, insurance companies, building societies, etc., to make their contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-21a.594.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-25", "file": "debates1944-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "36a0f456f3b80b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-25a.615.6", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loverseed", "preceding_text": "Has not the Army a simple means of registering every man? Would the right hon. Gentleman not agree that when each man went for his pay he could fill in the form at that time? That would ensure that every one was registered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-25a.615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-25", "file": "debates1944-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "36a0f456f3b80b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-25a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"What does it mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to cover the deficit in the financial year 1943–44, we may safely reckon that our finances have still remained on an even keel. From the figures contained in this year's edition of the White Paper on the national income, it is clear that the 1943–44 deficit was so covered, and I think I need only refer in detail to two items. Overseas disinvestment—and I apologise again for the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-25a.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-25", "file": "debates1944-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "36a0f456f3b80b0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-25a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "FINANCIAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ng it for granted. I should be failing in my duty if I did not remind the country of the vital link between wages and prices and warn them frankly that grave dangers loom ahead if the tendency to a general upward movement is not kept in check. It is equally important that industrialists should do everything they can, especially when they are taking war contracts, to keep prices as low as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-25a.660.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "Cannot the British Government take the initiative in a matter like this? Why must 'we always say: \"This is a matter for all the United Nations\"? Would it not be much more impressive to have one flag flying over Hitler's palace in Berlin than a couple of dozen flags, for all the United Nations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.745.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.748.4", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "In any further representations to the Polish Government will the right hon. Gentleman's Department use the bluntest possible language, and say that this kind of treatment must not be applied to any rank, and that, in addition, the Polish military authorities in this country, who have violated every principle of democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "I apologise if I have made a mistake and if I have unintentionally rendered myself liable to misunderstanding. May I put it this way? Will my right hon. Friend in the course of any further representations he makes to the Polish Government, point out that this House has not been satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.759.8", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "I was not criticising the staff. I realise that the staff and the machinery are old—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.759.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.759.9", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bartlett", "preceding_text": "I was not criticising the staff. I realise that the staff and the machinery are old—[ Interruption ]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.759.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craik Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have a means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craik Henderson", "preceding_text": " something in the nature of a buffer which might be used to tide over periods of slump. I do not know whether the Treasury has that in mind for the future. If the taxpayer were compelled to pay something in periods of prosperity which would be repaid to him, like E.P.T. in times when there was a danger of restriction of Tending, then that might help to level out things and modify slumps and booms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.845.0", "colnum": "845", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is £5,000 a year\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "preceding_text": " Budget estimate. A simple method of bringing home the weight of direct taxation is to take the case of my right hon. Friend himself. Let us suppose that his salary is £6,000 a year. I do not know anything about his financial resources, but let us assume that he has a private income which already puts him on the taxation rate of 19s. 6d. in the £. It amounts to this, that out of his £6,000 a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.845.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-26", "file": "debates1944-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "2cf3f0797fd52df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.889.0", "colnum": "889", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (EXEMPTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Captain Waterhouse)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not sufficient.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Captain Waterhouse)", "preceding_text": " footwear were increased because we wanted to be sure that only those who needed boots and shoes would buy them. Women's footwear was increased from five to seven coupons. No alteration was made at this time in wooden-soled footwear but—and this point partially meets the question raised by the hon. Member for East Ham, South (Mr. Barnes)—in November they were downpointed from five coupons to four.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-26a.889.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.908.5", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "I cannot imagine any officer not making an allocation to his wife —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.908.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There were plenty of others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "am prepared to take his word that these children's allowances are coming. In any case, the school meals and social insurance proposals will all be upset. I have not heard any sound reason given for the proposed re-pegging of prices, and the hon. Member for Kidderminster (Sir J. Wardlaw-Milne), I think, was the only Member who gave any support to the idea, but gave no reason at all for his support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will those who are worse off be recompensed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "preceding_text": "pite of Excess Profits Tax and other things, people are making substantial fortunes. They say that they are not, but we know that they are. Some people are building up fortunes quites involuntarily; people who have their money in land and property cannot help being richer. Everybody who finds himself richer after the war than he was in the year before the war should be made to pay something of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because we cannot grow our own food here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": ", monopoly capitalists or the ancient aristocracy; it lies in co-operation between the Government, trade union organisations and the mass of our working people. An hon. Member opposite a short while ago said that in Russia they can organise their economy so that the question of foreign trade does not matter. He said that while that was possible in Russia it was not possible to do it here. Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a warning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "He finished up on the top, when he said that it would be the same mixture as last year. From my point of view there was a fly in the ointment. That was his apparent threat to wages. He may say that it was not a threat, and although the House may think it was not a threat, you will find, if you look at certain of the newspapers yesterday and to-day, that a great crowd outside think it was a threat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "as in France, where he saw scores of our lads die like flies from diabetes. He went into his back room at Toronto along with a pal called Charlie Best and they applied what knowledge they had to the discovery of insulin. Has that not been a great boon to the world? It has been a great boon to me. I am alive now, after 22 years of diabetes. I am almost as alive as some of those who have not got it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A four-year plan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "dcast was to elaborate the views and plans of the Government—he was not speaking for himself, but for the Government—which he had broadcast about 12 months earlier. It may be remembered that on 21st March, 1943, the Prime Minister made a broadcast in which he dealt with the domestic issues of homes, food, and work. He specified that there were five or six fields in which action would be necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "ject to the Prime Minister being allowed to broadcast. But his point is that other people should be allowed to reply to the Prime Minister. I would say to the hon. Baronet, therefore, that what he is doing is this. He is saying that, when the Prime Minister wishes to broadcast, he will lay down such unreasonable and unworkable conditions that the right hon. Gentleman will not be able to broadcast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-27", "file": "debates1944-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "8bc80c6c282762d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "ruption. ] I suggest that the hon. Baronet, in laying down that other parties and other people should be allowed to reply to the Prime Minister when he broadcasts on these issues, is making an impossible condition. If one of the three main parties in this Government were to take exception to this broadcast, and ask to be allowed to reply to it, that would be a matter of very serious consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-27a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " labourers, shop assistants and the like, all thinking of coming back to civil life when the war is over, all hoping and believing that their liberties will not be curtailed but will be enlarged, and that they will come back not to a narrow and meaner life, but to a fuller and more generous life. Now, after putting them in uniform and handing them their orders, the Government stab them in the back", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "May I first congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Consett (Mr. Glanville), whose speech has been heard with the deepest interest by Members on all sides of the House? If I may say so to my hon. Friends opposite, \"There is the authentic voice of the Durham miners.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "n mine, and it only had water in it. If my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale had been there, he would have made a speech of protest under those conditions—I am sure he would. They took the photograph, and as I was trying to address the working class on their misbehaviour, the Press—which is all in my favour, we are now told, published that photograph, in order to produce disrepute next morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Were they Trotskyists?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ll depends what the weapons are, and what we are in the habit of using. If I turn to the difficulty of handling this job, in retrospect, for a moment, I may be forgiven. I did consider this Regulation a long time ago. I thought it would become inevitable. That was when this war was called an imperialist war, and I was getting strikes all up and down the country, without provocation, and by design.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "No one is a greater constitutionalist than my hon. Friend. I am coming to the point of why I used a Regulation and not a Bill. With regard to the introduction of a procedure adopted by means of Regulation, I must be forgiven if I do not know all the Rules of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all know that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " me and carried the day with the aid of the Conservatives. The junior Member for Dundee (Mr. Foot) fought it, but in Dundee not one person would go on the platform and say that he was prepared only to look after trade unionists. How many trade unionists are there in the Forces to-day? I do not know, but I do know that there is a large number, and that there is also a large number of non-unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1132.0", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "r great leaders used to defend the most awful things at the Treasury Box. I do not know whether to laugh or to get angry about the apprentices' strike, about which I made inquiries. What are the facts? They are that no boys' strike can last for a week or a day unless their parents support them. Everybody knows that. A boy is not like a grown man, he is subject to his parents in every possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the Egyptians do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "ber to be able to follow, that, if the industrial life of our whole country is thoroughly unhealthy in war-time, you are going to get strikes and they will break out at the most vulnerable part of the industrial structure, which the party opposite seeks to maintain, namely, the coal mines. When they do break out, it is very little use just trying to put your thumb on them and push them down again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "e day at the request of the present Deputy Prime Minister, giving the Government powers to conscript life and property. You have conscripted life, but you have not conscripted property, with the exception of iron railings. There has been no conscription of property whatsoever, with the exception of iron railings. No property has been taken over from any owner for war purposes except iron railings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-04-28", "file": "debates1944-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "64ba9505b5510ff6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1156.5", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-04-28a.1156.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1169.5", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "PERUVIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, (MESSAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the House will allow me to send a suitable reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1191.10", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Commander Locker-Lampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Locker-Lampson", "preceding_text": "Is there not present in this House to-day an hon. Member of that age who shows by his vigour that he is capable of efficient work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1191.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Tasker", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Tasker", "preceding_text": " £. In another case, it will work out partly at 11s. 8d. and partly at 13s. 3d., and, in another case, you will find that the first £80 is tax free, the next £165 is charged at 6s. 6d., and above £165 at 15s. I am sorry. The 6s. 6d. should be halved—13s. 3d. Thus you get three different taxes on one small income. In point of fact, you can get four different rates—los., 11s. 8d., 13s. 3d., and 15s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1238.2", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "The free allowance is £110", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1258.7", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "TY GWYN FARM, GILWERN (TENANCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"By a C3 Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "fic knowledge of farming. From the point of view of farming the Minister has no case. These dark hints about this Grade B farmer, as the Minister described him, are very interesting. He was Graded B in 1940, and no regrading has taken place until recently he was unanimously recommended as a Grade A farmer. Here is a Grade A farmer to be put on the road and an Irish labourer put in to run the farm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1258.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "TY GWYN FARM, GILWERN (TENANCY)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. Tom Williams)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And bid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. Tom Williams)", "preceding_text": "sed the farm from a previous owner, who had himself purchased the farm when it was sold by public auction. Would my hon. Friend suggest that a farm put up for public auction is purchased exclusively for speculation? Hon. Members who heard the speech of my hon. Friend are entitled to know this. This farm was put up for public auction. I understand that the sitting tenant was present at the auction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1264.5", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "TY GWYN FARM, GILWERN (TENANCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "o notice was given to the tenant by the first buyer. Therefore, no infringement took place. No action could be taken under the Regulations. None was called for. Subsequently, however, the 'bus proprietor, if 'bus proprietor he was, sold the land to a willing buyer, the present owner of the farm, and, so we are informed, made a quick profit of £1,500. I do not know the figures, we were not notified", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "TY GWYN FARM, GILWERN (TENANCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What is a B farmer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ten for a minute, he might learn what the subject is about. It is neither about tanks nor banks; it is about farming. If the hon. Member will do me the favour of listening for a few moments he will see that I am trying to make the best answer I can to the question. The Minister received all the information that could be obtained. The first thing he found was that the sitting tenant was a B farmer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "TY GWYN FARM, GILWERN (TENANCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Next door?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "sis of the farm, that that was a fairly correct category to place him in. Whether the new owner of the land can produce more food or not is one of those questions that time alone will answer. All we know is that it is assumed that he has plenty of capital—he would not have bought the farm otherwise—and he has available to him the excellent assistance of a brother-in-law who farms almost next door.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "TY GWYN FARM, GILWERN (TENANCY)", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": "That is a good point, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for pointing it out. If the builder had done so, without an intermediary buyer it would have been obvious what he wanted the land for. He would have come within the terms of this Regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "illions of men, because they feel that something is being put across them behind their backs. I assert, with regret but with conviction, that the net result of what the Minister defended at Bristol, may be to stop a certain number of strikes, but with disastrous effects to the efforts of millions of men in the factories. I believe that that speech at Bristol will contribute largely to that result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1281.7", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " because it is part of the practice of capitalists to start businesses on borrowed money! But, in point of fact, I have started three unions. I formed the Civil Service Clerical Association. That was formed on the money of myself, and others like me, who were clerks in the Government service. It started with 300 members, and now has 150,000; and there has never been a penny of outside money in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1281.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1283.0", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "MINISTER OF LABOUR (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was a heavier ladder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "her thing which the Minister said at Bristol to which I wish to make a reference. He attacked the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale for knocking down \"the base ladder whereby he did ascend.\"—He so far misconceived the situation as to invert it! The charge against the Minister of Labour, in his speech at Bristol, is that he was knocking down the base ladder by which he did ascend, not in form, but in fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1286.3", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "NEWSPAPER CARTOON", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylehone)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very low\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid (St. Marylehone)", "preceding_text": "via, and King Victor Emmanuel, peering round a doorway with pop-guns in their hands, and with the caption, \"De-Partisans.\" It seems to me that the main complaint of the hon. and gallant Member who has just raised this matter is that this is not conducive to helping the war effort. In other words, we should not poke fun at the heads of Governments with which we are negotiating. In this Low cartoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1286.5", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "NEWSPAPER CARTOON", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lord Beaverbrook\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "I did not realise that it was as ineffective as all that. Really, things are getting past a joke if we are going to raise such complaints in this House, because Low, as we all know, is always taking pot-shots at the high and mighty. He does not hesitate to have pot-shots at Roosevelt and Stalin and even at our own Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1286.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-02", "file": "debates1944-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "a85a94b197318aa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "NEWSPAPER CARTOON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": " many other Members on these occasions, I am a little puzzled as to the style in which we address each other. It appears that in regard to the hon. and learned Member, the word \"learned\" applies to anybody connected with the law no matter in what obscure capacity it may be. There was a time when we understood that it was confined to K.Cs. but now I find it applied even to solicitors in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-02a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-04", "file": "debates1944-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c1eb567ff398abec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1541.5", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "POLICE AND FIREMEN (WAR SERVICE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Suppose they do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "the case of policemen and firemen disabled in the course of their duties. The hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. Griffiths) referred to the diseases of pneumoconiosis and silicosis. As far as I am aware we have not yet had a case of a policeman, even one standing at a very dusty point, contracting pneumoconiosis, and these difficult technical issues of medical science do not, generally speaking, arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-04", "file": "debates1944-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c1eb567ff398abec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1557.0", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "DOMESTIC WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including bat-women.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "ne anything in this House to encourage the Ministry of Labour. The hon. Member who raised the matter said that much has been done and that it is not altogether unsatisfactory. Then he goes off at a tangent, and pleads for the Ministry of Labour to have another comb-out in the Army, and gives us a dissertation on the iniquitous system of batmen. I thought we were talking about skirts, not trousers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-04", "file": "debates1944-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c1eb567ff398abec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1565.0", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "DOMESTIC WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": "ored. To-day, I sent to the Department a case of an old man suffering from a heart complaint and chronic bronchitis, whose only daughter has been sent from London to Birmingham, leaving him entirely dependent upon neighbours. This man was so ill when I saw him that he could not answer the door, yet the local officer said that there was no need for his daughter to live at home or to stay in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-04", "file": "debates1944-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c1eb567ff398abec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1593.1", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "which will stand the strain of the coming operations. I believe that the instrument will make its contribution to the victory that lies ahead. I believe that we have learned many lessons that will be of value when the war is over. I must not abuse the patience of the Committee any further, but I could speak for long about the work we have done to prepare for transport reconstruction in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-04", "file": "debates1944-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c1eb567ff398abec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "preceding_text": " Our road system was never devised for heavy traffic—not the heavy traffic that is being carried at the moment—and month by month the road casualties tell their own tale. Only this morning, looking at the Press, I see that the war traffic rush has caused a rise in the number of casualties and that there were 10,300 main-road casualties in March of this year, or 542 more than in March of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-04", "file": "debates1944-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c1eb567ff398abec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1613.3", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Nall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Nall", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's Department has been wrongly advised. I am not blaming the Minister or the Parliamentary Secretary; they listen to people, but they do not always get a proper census of voices. They listen to the few, and not to the many. These muddles were not arising in 1940, although a great deal has been said about the chaos of road transport Road transport was not in any state of chaos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-04", "file": "debates1944-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "c1eb567ff398abec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1640.4", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come over here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nds opposite make a song and dance on the retention of controls, but who wants controls for the sake of controls? We do not want controls merely for the purpose of enabling people to sign forms or for other restrictive purposes. On the other hand, hon. Members will observe that controls become imperative in order to secure certain desirable objectives. Let us concern ourselves with the objectives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-04a.1640.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colman", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that, by denying the use of the theatre to the whole of the theatrical profession and making it available to the co-operative society, 11e is showing favourable treatment to a great business organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "MEMBERS' SPEECHES, HANSARD (CORRECTIONS AND REPRINTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope I have made it clear that it is entirely wrong. I should perhaps add that some hon. Members do not know what may or may not go into HANSARD. One correction that was submitted to me of a sentence which an hon. Member put in his speech was that afterwards he wanted inserted, \"Loud cheers by hon. Members.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1720.2", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "MEMBERS' SPEECHES, HANSARD (CORRECTIONS AND REPRINTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "ers, and that difficulty apparently has arisen owing to some action by Hitler's aircraft. But that no doubt is a privilege that hon. Members have enjoyed for some time. I do not propose to argue against the view that the expression \"excerpts of their speeches\" means only their own speeches, but I can say that I have on numerous occasions given orders for speeches of hon. Members other than my own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1726.6", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "MEMBERS' SPEECHES, HANSARD (CORRECTIONS AND REPRINTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "As time is the essence of this matter, may I give notice, Sir, that I will ask the right hon. Gentleman a Private Notice Question to-morrow, on the ground of urgency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1726.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1769.2", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": " changes in the teachers' associations. No doubt my right hon. Friend will take this into consideration, but it has been perfectly clear from the speeches made that the sole purpose of this Amendment is not really to implement the high sounding principle, of minority representation, which the Committee accepts, but really to serve the interests of a particular body and to secure its representation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1778.2", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I listened to the Minister saying that he admitted that there was something illogical in supporting the present Burnham Committee and that a measure of injustice was being done. I cannot, for the life of me, see how there is injustice being done to anybody. This Committee is not a representative assembly for carrying on general discussions. It is a Committee for getting a job done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1784.0", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ith a point which was raised very strongly by the Catholic Hierarchy, who had in mind the kind of place of which my hon. Friend the Member for the Scotland Division of Liverpool (Mr. Logan) was thinking, and we believe this will be a very considerable help to them in dealing with children who were formerly in their care and who have gone out to places where no Catholic school is available to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1790.9", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Newcastle?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ples, I see in front of me my hon. Friend the Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths)—the borough that gives its name to his constituency is a Part III authority—and my hon. and learned Friend for Carmarthen (Mr. Moelwyn Hughes) represents a borough, with a large part of a surrounding county, which is also a Part III education authority. Those two boroughs levied their own elementary education rate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1790.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1794.4", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Six into 36 goes six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1794.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1817.5", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "further, I would call them—are a means, as I think my right hon. Friend will agree, of teaching adolescents self-discipline, reliability, and honesty. That is inherent in the teaching of the cadet movement in schools. As regards our girls, I think that every father and mother will admit that they and their children would have been very much better if they had been taught home-craft and motherhood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1841.0", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Messer", "preceding_text": "equal opportunity to get better education, but we make nonsense of our talk when we set up a financial barrier. This matter is disturbing the mind of hon. Members on this side of the House. We believe that there should be equality of opportunity and that there is a contradiction of that principle contained in the fact that some children will be able to go to the snob schools—that is what they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1841.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1843.0", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "nd \"That boy of mine shall not only go to school up to i8, but shall go to the university as well,\" In that they are quite right. Those hon. Members know the value of education, the value of keeping boys and girls in school with a prolonged school life, with university education. What surprises me is that those who represent the universities seem to sneer at it for other sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-09", "file": "debates1944-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "5305323f2db090d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1872.4", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Ernest Brown)", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman has left me 2½ minutes in which to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-09a.1872.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-10", "file": "debates1944-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "801c669a8863d94f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It might even be recommended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " to the same thing are equal to one another.\" That, I think, would be rather a short-sighted view. First of all, we can unilaterally devalue up to 10 per cent. at any time, and thereafter, we can devaluate to any extent by consent. We have to give two days' notice for an extra 10 per cent., but the application for devaluation might be granted for a figure far above that after approval by the fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-10", "file": "debates1944-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "801c669a8863d94f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.1977.0", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "with our reciprocal arrangements or bulk purchase or preference. We shall see. But, before I proceed, let me say this to Members of the Conservative Party. I can understand the Liberal Party supporting this, because it is a return to the Manchester school of economics. It is going back 70 years, and I can understand that. It is laissez faire. The party behind me no longer believe in laissez faire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.1977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-10", "file": "debates1944-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "801c669a8863d94f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2004.1", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loftus", "preceding_text": "I will come to that in one moment. First, I would like to ask the Chancellor certain questions about Clause V, which I think would clearly be of interest to the public generally if they could be answered. Would a member State have the right to exercise control over the transfer of capital funds abroad for any of the three following purposes? (1) Exchange speculation. Are we going to allow that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-10", "file": "debates1944-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "801c669a8863d94f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2017.1", "colnum": "2017", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ey are not being finally trapped, and that they can escape from this structure that is being erected. That gives me rather an uneasy feeling. The scheme says that the growth of international trade contributes to a high level of employment. I do not think that is at all true. Trade is simply the mutually advantageous exchange of goods, and it has nothing to do with employment, one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-10", "file": "debates1944-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "801c669a8863d94f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2023.1", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gained\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I think perfectly rightly and justifiably. The owners of Mexican and Brazilian tramways and all the rest of it are suffering at the present moment because of what we did then. When I think of the amount of money we lost in South America alone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-10", "file": "debates1944-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "801c669a8863d94f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2024.1", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "g it into little blocks, putting them on to trains, unloading them at the ports, putting them into ships, unloading them again, and burying them once more under ground in the vaults of Kentucky. Nobody seeing them, nobody using them—no use to anyone at all. The value of the gold mined in 1938 was equivalent to the total value of all the other metals which are of use to humanity in the whole world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-10", "file": "debates1944-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "801c669a8863d94f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2038.2", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have not got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any inconsistency. Gold is a valuable commodity and there is no doubt whatever that it would be readily disposable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-10a.2038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-11", "file": "debates1944-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6eed5e4bb7c2c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-11a.2080.4", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNDER-SECRETARIES OF STATE (INCOME TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "The salaries of Under-Secretaries were settled by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-11a.2080.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-11", "file": "debates1944-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6eed5e4bb7c2c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-11a.2155.0", "colnum": "2155", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is still the President.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I desire to offer my tribute to the Minister for bringing forward and carrying through, in such a careful and delicate manner, this Bill, with the many difficult problems which it involved. The Parliamentary Secretary said that the Bill was a monument to the work of the President of the Board of Education—I mean the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-11a.2155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-11", "file": "debates1944-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "6eed5e4bb7c2c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-11a.2175.0", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "lp feeling that there is a note of tragedy even in the appreciation we express. The Bill is 25 years overdue. It should and could have been ours after the last war. If it had been passed after the last war, and if by now we had had real secondary education for all, possibly this war would never have occurred; and, in any case, the prospects of this country would have been better than they are now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-11a.2175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-12", "file": "debates1944-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "ac580317defdba0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-12a.2201.0", "colnum": "2201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegatc", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegatc", "preceding_text": "d. On the contrary, if we abolished these schools, it would immediately create, if the hypothesis of those hon. Members opposite be correct, a new group of private \"snob\" schools which would really be \"snob\" schools, but would not be of the grammar school type. I want to say a word or two about technical education. As an obscure back bencher I do not often get much correspondence about my speeches", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-12a.2201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-16", "file": "debates1944-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "288cec5e6c93e7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-16a.16.4", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "ed at a recreational centre known as \"Music for All.\" The primary concern of this centre is the provision of music but debates were also held. These debates were attended by British Services personnel and also by members of the U.S.A. and Polish Forces, and civilians of different nationalities. Although up to the final meeting in \"Music for All\" proceedings had been conducted in an orderly manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-16a.16.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-16", "file": "debates1944-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "288cec5e6c93e7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-16a.28.5", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Arthur Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Arthur Evans", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say why the Lord Privy Seal used two words instead of one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-16a.28.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-16", "file": "debates1944-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "288cec5e6c93e7c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-16a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": " the malicious story which is being put around by people who cannot have the best interests of this country or the Colonial dependencies at heart. The story runs like this, that nobody had ever thought of doing anything to help the Colonies until Dunkirk; that in that dark moment when the Empire might have fallen away from us the Colonial Secretary came down to the House of Commons and introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-16a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-17", "file": "debates1944-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6cef5ea61e0dabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.161.4", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YUGOSLAVIA (GENERAL MIHAILOVITCH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that General Mihailovitch is fighting with the Germans and against us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.161.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-17", "file": "debates1944-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6cef5ea61e0dabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make them come.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "comes through Act of Parliament, Regulation or Order. As I have said, I find myself in agreement with the proposal to set up a Select Committee, because if Parliament is to continue there must be changes and Parliamentary government must be speeded up. This can only be done by letting the large number of unemployed Members of this House share in the responsibility and power of a democratic nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-17", "file": "debates1944-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6cef5ea61e0dabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "—I should make a much longer speech than you, Sir, would like me to make. My hon. Friend challenges me to give one instance, and I hope he will take the example I will give as a sample of other instances which I could give, and will give if I am challenged. On Friday, 28th April, the House was debating Regulation IAA. I am not going to say a word about the merits or demerits of that Regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-17", "file": "debates1944-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "6cef5ea61e0dabcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " in an Act of Parliament. Indeed, the Donoughmore Committee itself agreed and laid down much of what I have been saying to the House to-day. Next, we must distinguish clearly between war-time emergency powers and peacetime non-emergency powers. Under the various Defence Regulations, for example, I have powers at the present time which it would not be defensible that I should have in time of peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-17a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-18", "file": "debates1944-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "4cd664bcd683cebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-18a.343.4", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEPPLEWHITE CHAIRS, CHATHAM (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stop it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Jones", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the sale is to take place to-morrow, I am afraid that very little can be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-18a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-18", "file": "debates1944-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "4cd664bcd683cebd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-18a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": " be granted to Scotland, even although my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) was against it, will not in the main serve anything like the needs of Scotland in regard to water. This little Bill is just tinkering with the matter. It is just a footling little thing touching the fringe of a tremendous problem. This single Clause Bill that is being handed out to Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-18a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-19", "file": "debates1944-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f52bd65ef07258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ht in for the structure of buildings, the existing local authorities could carry out that work. If, further, local authorities who are failing were given the wherewithal to discharge their responsibilities, it would result in an improvement. The Bill is to cost the country £175,000 a year. If £100,000 were handed over to the existing local authorities, we would get clean milk and higher standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-19", "file": "debates1944-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f52bd65ef07258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "Of course, I will give every consideration to the points which have been raised, and I hope, on the Committee stage, that I shall be able to relieve any anxieties. I deliberately refrained, I think rightly, from any attack on the administration of local authorities, but, if I wanted to produce chapter and verse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-19", "file": "debates1944-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f52bd65ef07258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.494.0", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any constituents?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e of my colleagues saying that this is parish pump stuff. Where do they come from? The rural districts and the urban districts who send us to this House ought to know what they require. The Noble Lord the Member for Horsham (Earl Winterton) says in an undertone \"No.\" I say \"Yes.\" I was sent here by some parish councillors, some urban councillors, some rural councillors and some county councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-19", "file": "debates1944-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0f52bd65ef07258", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "come slightly more elaborate than that. I beg my hon. Friends who have referred to a Royal Commission in this connection to have regard to the fact that many of us share their views, but we want, before putting it to the Government—and this applies to those who are attempting to instruct us on what our duties should be—to be clear as to what is desired. I have only one or two other points to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-19a.501.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does \"W.X.\" mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Dresses in this size are in rather shorter supply than the smaller sizes. In order to encourage manufacturers, who specialise in such dresses, to increase their output, I have decided to offer them a subsidy of one coupon per dress towards the extra material needed. My area distribution officers have been instructed to watch supplies and to report any special difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.568.4", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CLUB RAID, FINCHLEY ROAD, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that there will be no attempt made to suppress the names of certain persons who figure prominently in big business circles in the City?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "preceding_text": "at buildings, even those that do not contain vibrating machinery, do depreciate, but he still wants to draw a distinction, which I believe to be untenable, between buildings employed in productive industry and other business premises. Also he still calculates on a full 50 years life in all cases, even for the former class, and there is to be no final obsolescence allowance for any kind of building", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You and I.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "d nothing can happen until we have trained masses of teachers. Therefore, I am very glad that no early financial obligation is going to be incurred —£80,000,000 a year for the purpose of keeping people at school until they reach the old-age pension age. There is another body called U.N.R.R.A., through which we are going to feed and clothe a great part of the population of Europe. Who are to do it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ies, which is a good investment, but, again, the money has to be found. Then there is the new health scheme. I am a little embarrassed about this, because the author is the joint Member for Croydon with me. Quite frankly, I do not like it very much, or any scheme whereby you turn doctors into clerks and whereby, already, responsible people have decided not to have their sons brought up as doctors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is in Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "lant, and the good provision in this Bill is the generosity that is being applied to those who will have to carry out the switch-over. The other day the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a speech—I want to use the phrase which is customarily used on public platforms—on the policy of full employment. That just means nothing whatever; there is no policy of full employment. There is only an objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "e which is customarily used on public platforms—on the policy of full employment. That just means nothing whatever; there is no policy of full employment. There is only an objective. [An HON. MEMBER: \"There is in Russia.\"] We can have full employment if we degrade the standard of living to that of slaves. Let me be a slave-master, and I will give full employment under the most degraded conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "No, it was an all-party meeting. These people were all in the front row, and they wanted to get the approval of Philip Snowden. Though at that time I was dubious about it, it turned out rather better than expected. Between 1925 and 1929 industrial production in this country increased by 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson)", "preceding_text": "th my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall (Sir G. Schuster) when he says he does not care how high the rate of taxation is on the individual. We have to maintain a healthy and happy community, and I think it would not perhaps be rash of me to express the opinion that a material reduction in taxation within a reasonable period of time would be universally regarded as a desirable objective of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The left hand drive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson)", "preceding_text": "presented to me that home conditions—the state of our roads, our gradients, public taste and so on—are just as potent. I have been given to understand that in the view of certain people who have studied these matters in their technical aspects a reduction in the rate of, taxation on higher horse power cars might not necessarily have any effect at all in increasing the export market for those cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.686.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ransactions, in order to make sure that excessive remuneration is not paid. I have not the total figures asked for before me at the moment, but they can be got from the balance sheets of the banks. The fact that the banks have not paid Excess Profits Tax when, in fact, they are liable to the same 100 per cent. duty as other concerns, is itself evidence that they have not been making excess profits", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.695.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-23", "file": "debates1944-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "070cc14bc7c4226f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "rm borrowings should be converted into longer-term borrowings; and, whatever rate of interest is paid, there should not be discrimination as between one lender and another. We should get into great confusion if we did that. Hon. Members must agree that, as compared with any previous experience, the financing of this war has been conducted on very economical lines—one might say, conservative lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-23a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.762.10", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a matter of opinion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "n. Our Ambassador deserves credit for the influence he rapidly acquired and which continually grew. In his work he was assisted by a gifted man, Mr. Yencken, whose sudden death by airplane accident is a loss which I am sure has been noted by the House. But the main credit is undoubtedly due to the Spanish resolve to keep out of the war. They had had enough of war and they wished to keep out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.762.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.771.3", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ttempt by us to enforce particular ideologies. We only want to beat the enemy and then, with a happy and serene peace, let the best expression be given to the will of the people in every way. For a long time past the Foreign Secretary and I have laboured with all our strength to try to bring about a resumption of relations between the Soviet Government and the Polish Government which we recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.771.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be a long list.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": ". Gauss, of the German Foreign Office, who has been at his post for a similarly long period. Hitler and others get the limelight, but these men are equally important. There are other people who have been put into cold storage for a time, it may be with the idea of bringing them out when the moment arrives. I refer to such men as Dr. Schacht and Von Neurath. Their names ought to be on the document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "s other directions. I am inclined to think, and I have had no evidence to the contrary, that that good work League of Nations or by the I.L.O., but was mainly accomplished, not by the by Scotland Yard, in conjunction with the Stûreté and Russell Pasha in Egypt. As a preventer of war, which was the main object for which it was set up, the League of Nations was a really grisly failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "s the Noble Lord said, one of the real causes of the last war and of this war was the breakdown of international law and order. It is like the base metal driving, out the good currency. That is the danger in which we now stand. In reply to a supplementary question which I put to him the other day the Prime Minister said that the League of Nations would have been all right if it had been supported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "It is just possible, although I had it in my notes to refer to that, that-might have escaped me had the hon. Member not mentioned that point. I would like, if I may, to debunk that suggestion so often put forward before. I say that His Majesty's Government of 25 years ago should have withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "e wars. I am certain that Russia, for one, will not go into any such scheme. \"Izvestia.\" stated the other day that Russia would not join the I.L.O., as long as it was an appendage of the League of Nations. Governor Bricker, Presidential candidate for the State of Ohio, said very much the same sort of thing. I do not believe that our people ever liked the League. I know that I have spoken too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.840.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.873.0", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not one.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "ll import into the Peace Treaty when it is made at the end of this war. There is, however, one thing apparent in the Debate to-day. There is, obviously, a clash of opinion arising already between the Left and Right parties in the Commons. Let me give one or two instances. From some of the benches opposite we have had the usual talk of punishing the whole of the Germans and of trying war criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-24", "file": "debates1944-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "4127749f6ea26299", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Penryn and Falmouth (Mr. Petherick) made almost the whole point of his speech that it was no use trying to establish a world organisation for peace, and the hon. and gallant Member for Wellingborough (Wing-Commander James), if I did not mistake him, wanted to punish the Germans too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-24a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN COURTS, UNITED KINGDOM (DEATH SENTENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And white people, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the American authorities in this country have sentenced to death certain negroes for offences that are not punishable by death in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.909.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN COURTS, UNITED KINGDOM (DEATH SENTENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The colour of the troops is, of course, irrelevant. With regard to the other aspect of the matter, this House, deliberately, with its eyes open, and I think wisely, gave to the American Forces complete criminal jurisdiction. That being so, the laws of the United States must necessarily apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.918.9", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STREET COLLECTIONS, LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I do not think there can be any question that in general these bodies are genuine charities. As far as I know, most of them are fairly well placed financially, and I do not think that they would avail themselves of flag days if they could avoid it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.918.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "s country must rest on two foundations. The first foundation is that of the British Commonwealth and Empire. We may have had—as I took occasion to say a few weeks ago—a rather murky past which we are trying now to live down. I do not want to repeat what I said on a previous occasion, but there are episodes in the history of the development of the Empire which reflect little credit on this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has written it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "onwealth and Empire. We may have had—as I took occasion to say a few weeks ago—a rather murky past which we are trying now to live down. I do not want to repeat what I said on a previous occasion, but there are episodes in the history of the development of the Empire which reflect little credit on this country. [ Interruption. ] If my hon. Friend has not read the history of the Empire, I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "t there is a future for them in the comity of nations. Very little was said by the Prime Minister yesterday about economic problems. My hon. Friends and I hold the view that economic problems are the major seeds of war, and unless we handle economic problems boldly we may find ourselves in a situation in which we are again heading for war. I remember a discussion which I once had with Rudolf Hess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"57,000,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " culture. Here are we, in Great Britain, once assuming, and rightly assuming, the moral leadership of the world, fortified by the Empire, and with a recognition of the high qualities of our people universally admitted. Then there is France—a France in the throes of international conflict, the victim of sabotage and treachery, but a France capable of a great upsurge—a national of 50,000,000 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "mmittee or outside, if we take either of these steps. My hon. Friend the Member for Seaham put forward an eloquent plea for the utmost cooperation with the United States of America. I remember that my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Sir John Wardlaw-Milne) and myself brought forward only a few days ago a proposition for co-operation with the United States of America over monetary policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burgin", "preceding_text": "remain in its present form. I merely wish to make that observation in passing. We are drawing to the close of a memorable Debate, and I think I shall consult the convenience of the Committee if, instead of making any general survey of the points raised by the Prime Minister's. speech, I content myself with making one or two points quite shortly, and reserving other matters for some other occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "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": "resent time with the occupied countries. I felt that the Members of the Committee were many times right when they recalled the staunch Allies whom we have in Europe to-day. I think that at a time like this the Committee would like to send a message to those occupied countries—the smaller occupied countries of Europe—a message of encouragement and hope that their liberation may not be long delayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "bogy. Quite honestly, I do not quite know what that means, or its particular relevance to the present situation, because people have different definitions of Bolshevism and bogys almost every week. However that may be, I can tell him that our Ambassador has, in fact, rendered the most loyal service in all this struggle. I happen to have known him for many years. Whether he has been right or wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Whether he has done right or wrong, everything he has done has been on instructions from His Majesty's Government here in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " of Europe in the best sense of that term. For the future we know that the French people will have their part to play in Europe, and we shall need them, as they will need us, if confidence and security are to live again in Europe. In the meanwhile, I would like, on behalf of the Government, and I hope of the Committee, to pay tribute to the spirit of resistance which the French people are showing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And civilians.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " explained to them our anxiety. There were three points on which we particularly wanted satisfaction from the Japanese Government. They were, first of all, that the right should be recognised of the protecting Power, in this case Switzerland, and of the International Red Cross, to visit all the camps in which British subjects were held and to report freely and frankly on the conditions prevailing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-25", "file": "debates1944-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "83bddb4b88682b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And France\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "on should be based. They are these: first, that the world organisation must be designed, in the first instance, to prevent a recurrence of aggression by Germany and Japan and must be fully equipped with forces to meet the purpose; secondly, that to ensure this there must be close political and mili- tary co-operation between the United States, the Soviet Union, the British Commonwealth, and China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-25a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-05-26", "file": "debates1944-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "fedc7886e6baf9d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-26a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "perhaps, better remark that there are hon. Members who may be on one side of the fence on one occasion, and on the other at another. That brings me to a comment of the hon. Member for East Hull (Mr. Muff) when he brought the HOUSE back from the mechanics and procedure of Parliament to the fundamental fact that whatever the Rules may be their working will depend not on machinery but on the Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-26a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-05-26", "file": "debates1944-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "fedc7886e6baf9d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-26a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "SMALL SHOPKEEPERS (CALLINGUP)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Members of Parliament?", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. McCorquodale)", "preceding_text": "ust what I wrote to the hon. Member on this case: The Minister felt bound, however, to make it a rule that where he is free to issue an enlistment notice it should be delayed only when it is in the national interest to do so. Indeed, to adopt any course that took into account personal circumstances of any other character could but lead to the most invidious comparisons between one man and another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-05-26a.1146.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-06", "file": "debates1944-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "66fff483ce891566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1179.14", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "CHILE (MESSAGE OF FRIENDSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The House will desire me to send a suitable reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1179.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-06", "file": "debates1944-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "66fff483ce891566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1190.8", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that a well-known lady, who has two sons in A.M.G.O.T. has a villa outside the Vatican City, and that we are told in the Press that she expects to return there shortly? Are we to take it that that is what A.M.G.O.T. is for, and that that is what the lads are fighting for.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1190.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-06", "file": "debates1944-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "66fff483ce891566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1207.4", "colnum": "1207", "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": "I must apologise to the House for having delayed them, but Questions were gone through rather more rapidly than usual. The House should, I think, take formal cognisance of the liberation of Rome by the Allied Armies under the Command of General Alexander, with General Clark of the United States Service and General Oliver Leese in command of the Fifth and Eighth Armies respectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-06", "file": "debates1944-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "66fff483ce891566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Rothschild", "preceding_text": "hind the right hon. and gallant Gentleman himself, who is such an ornament and such a pillar of the Conservative Party and whether this new Colonial adviser is, shall we say, the Father Joseph who stands behind the Cardinal in our Colonial administration—I mean the right hon. and gallant Gentleman. If so, this new personage is indeed to be congratulated on the results that he has already achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-06", "file": "debates1944-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "66fff483ce891566", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "ipate on my part and on the part of His Majesty's Government that, somehow or other, we shall provide the aircraft which at the moment they need to carry on an effective service. I pass to the speech of the hon. Member for Shipley (Mr. Creech Jones), I never know now whether to call him by that name or by that new title which, I. believe, was conferred upon him ivith appropriate ceremony at Lagos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-06a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1354.5", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether it is part of his office to use that Box for the purpose of criticising publishers, or any particular publisher", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1354.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1355.2", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is the man?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that a statement has been made in the Question about the writer of this book being imprisoned for sedition, surely it is permissible to state that this is not correct?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1371.8", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "'s policy regarding the Development Areas, as they are now very generally and very properly called. I note the fact that Amendments were put down on that occasion by Conservative Members because that illustrates the fact that this is now an all-Party interest. It is no longer Members of the Labour Party only, as it tended to be in days gone by, who draw attention to the importance of this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1371.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1371.8", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "hat occasion by Conservative Members because that illustrates the fact that this is now an all-Party interest. It is no longer Members of the Labour Party only, as it tended to be in days gone by, who draw attention to the importance of this subject. [ Interruption. ] That is a historical fact which can be verified by reference to HANSARD. I welcome the fact that this is now an all-Party interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1371.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More jobs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " alone, all will come out for the best. That is rejected by all of them unanimously, whatever their other differences. The minority Barlow Report asks for a new Government Department to be set up to look after the planning of these matters. The majority do not ask for a new Govern- ment Department; they ask only for the setting up of a Board. I think the minority were right and the majority wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Am I to take it that the housing policy is to be qualified by all sorts of limitations and linked with this and that other policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e propose that the channel for the expression of Government policy in this matter shall be the Board of Trade.…The President of the Board of Trade will be responsible to Parliament for all the general aspects of the policy; and, on these, inquiries and representations from interested sections of the public will be made through the Board of Trade. Therefore, that is part of my responsibility", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1394.6", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Ministry of Agriculture?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "complex and far-reaching policy. The main responsibility will rest with the Board of Trade, the Ministry of Labour and National Service, the Ministry of Town and Country Planning and the Scottish Office. Members will know that the authority of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning extends only to the Tweed. It has no authority North of the Tweed. There it is the Secretary of State for Scotland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1394.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Superior to any Government Department?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daggar", "preceding_text": "every Ministry and yet the business of none. There are the Minister of Reconstruction, the Minister without Portfolio, the President of the Board of Trade and the Minister of Town and Country Planning, to mention four only. To expect coordination is utterly impossible. We think there should be, as the Barlow Commission Report recommends, the formation of a central authority to undertake this task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": " quote one or two names. There was a noted shipbuilder on the Thames whose firm is now on the Clyde. The head of the firm is Sir Harold Yarrow, and he tells me that no finer workmen in the world, and none more amenable to reason, are to be found than his workers on the Clyde and in my constituency. An English firm put down and supervised an aircraft factory in Scotland. An Englishman is in charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "prove that the totalitarian system of Germany is something better than exactly the same system which exists in Russia, or, if Russia beats Germany, that her system is better than Germany's? That does not give you any useful information at all because, as both sides are based on exactly the same principles, there is nothing to show which one is the better. Now let us get down to the practical part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-07", "file": "debates1944-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "b2723967c1e978f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIMONY PAYMENTS (ENFORCEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Hutchinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, for alimony.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-07a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-08", "file": "debates1944-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0923e559527b9ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-08a.1581.3", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "at the hon. Member said, because although I was brought up as a lad in the countryside I never came across many farm buildings that were not quite near to houses in which the farmers lived. The main object of the Bill is to provide a piped water supply for houses in rural areas. It seems to me that there cannot be many farm buildings which are not fairly near the house in which the farmer resides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-08a.1581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-08", "file": "debates1944-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0923e559527b9ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-08a.1581.3", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL WATER SUPPLIES AND SEWERAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are in many cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " to me that there cannot be many farm buildings which are not fairly near the house in which the farmer resides. [ Interruption. ] I am of course only speaking of what I know. I do not know the district from which the hon. Member comes at all. I know a little about horticulture and I should be very much surprised if many horticultural buildings are far removed from the houses of the owners either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-08a.1581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-08", "file": "debates1944-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "0923e559527b9ed0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-08a.1638.0", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (DISPOSSESSED FARMERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. Tom Williams)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture (Mr. Tom Williams)", "preceding_text": "o show that none of the allegatons of my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury (Mr. Loverseed) can be sustained. My hon. Friend gave me no notice of the individual cases he was about to raise. Fortunately, however, I saw a cutting from a certain newspaper which is, I cannot say popular, but notorious. Curiously, the cases quoted by my hon. Friend appeared in that newspaper one Sunday in July, 1943.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-08a.1638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-09", "file": "debates1944-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4026db986823586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "preceding_text": " is reduced to 15,000 cubic feet. Now, however, we have learned to compress it as well, and, when compressed, a cubic capacity in the raw of 140,000 cubic feet is reduced to a capacity of only 2,727 cubic feet. Hon. Members can see what a saving that makes in any transport of supplies to our Forces. The Committee may be interested to know that we have an entirely new product, mashed potato powder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-09", "file": "debates1944-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4026db986823586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why in Oxford?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "preceding_text": "hen compressed, a cubic capacity in the raw of 140,000 cubic feet is reduced to a capacity of only 2,727 cubic feet. Hon. Members can see what a saving that makes in any transport of supplies to our Forces. The Committee may be interested to know that we have an entirely new product, mashed potato powder—[ Interruption ]—which will, I am certain, be very well cooked in many of the Oxford colleges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-09", "file": "debates1944-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4026db986823586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have we any in the tea room?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "preceding_text": "much like cocoa powder. All that has to be done is to take a few teaspoonfuls of it, pour hot water on it, and you get an extremely good mashed potato without any cooking in the home at all—that is why I said I thought it might be possible to cook it in Oxford. I have tried it, and if he had not seen it mixed, I do not believe that any hon. Member would know that it was not ordinary mashed potato.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-09", "file": "debates1944-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4026db986823586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With bombs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Food (Colonel Llewellin)", "preceding_text": "nd distribute it evenly. Even distribution can only be done in the form of a non-perishable commodity such as jam. As I have said, our own fruits will be short, and we made a considerable purchase of apricot pulp in Spain, which will be used to make jam. To increase our supplies of fruit, I hope again to get oranges from Palestine, South Africa and Spain and again to get bitter oranges from Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1657.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-09", "file": "debates1944-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4026db986823586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1679.3", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "l extra ration of tea, and possibly of sugar as well, it would ease their position very much. Subsidies on food, to keep the cost of living down, have now risen to £250,000,000. They have risen steadily during the war. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in opening his Budget, said that eventually, although not immediately, it would be necessary to allow the cost of living to go up another 10 points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-09", "file": "debates1944-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4026db986823586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1709.1", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it would be wise for me to mention the name of the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-09", "file": "debates1944-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "e4026db986823586", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Be generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Central Edinburgh (Mr. Watt) in what he has said, I can assure him it is because I am hoping that the Minister will provide him with a little education in connection with food distribution. Such education seems to be necessary, especially when the hon. Member foolishly contends that the small retailers are the only ones to receive supplies of third grade jam. That is utter nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-09a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "nsing implies discretion, and as, under this Bill there is a Ministerial discretion, I think \"licensing\" and not \"registration\" should be inserted. I want the public to know what we are trying to do. I want this word put in the Bill because this is the first Measure, apart from those relating to the sale of alcoholic liquor, which introduces into this country the conception of the corporate State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member suggests that independent tribunals should be set up, nominated by the Minister of Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1823.4", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the Unemployment Assistance Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1823.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1824.8", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I am not referring to anything that is in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1824.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1828.3", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I have had no injustice myself. It does amaze me that \"these gentlemen of England,\" who oppose the Minister, should be so concerned about the poor farmer being at the mercy of the Minister. Is not every tenant farmer in this country at the mercy of the landowner?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1830.3", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And war ever since.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilfrid Roberts", "preceding_text": " great sympathy with the tenant farmers who are not responsible for their buildings, for instance, and may be deprived of their living because their landlords will not make the improvement. To the hon. Member for South Bristol (Mr. A. Walkden) may I point out that since his grandfather farmed, a certain amount has happened. Since then, and it is a long time ago, we have had a Liberal Govern- ment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1833.4", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "or to administer justice fairly and according to the law. With great respect to my hon. and learned Friend who moved the Amendment, that should be the cure for this problem. You cannot have and the country, with the exception of the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher), will not tolerate, decisions given by a Minister of the Crown, of whatever party, against which there is no right of appeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1833.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1851.0", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"The corporative State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "s ideas of what should be done. This is not in dispute. A third examination took place because the Ministry of Labour at headquarters were dissatisfied. On the third report, 14 or 15 months later, we only now get the conclusion that the man should not have been taken from the industry without a substitute having been found. The hon. Gentleman said that we were drifting into the co-operative State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1853.0", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "tem. I am just as anxious as anybody else to preserve the reasonable rights of the individual, but I say quite definitely—I hope hon. Members will agree with me on reconsideration—that the proposition put forward by the hon. and learned Member for North Edinburgh, when he said that clean milk could be bought too expensively at the cost of individual liberty, seemed to me to go a good deal too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1853.0", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "s country are concerned with, is, if it is humanly possible, that we should secure the children of this country from the danger of drinking unsafe and also unclean milk. Some hon. Members, in criticising the provisions of Clause 1, and in defending the Amendment, have talked about a dairy farmer losing his licence. There is no question at all in this Clause of a dairy farmer losing his livelihood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1853.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1854.2", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "lfil the burden placed upon him by Parliament, and it would be foolish for him to try to do so. If hon. Members are in doubt about that, let them just consider for a moment what would happen if there was a completely independent tribunal. I think that a suggestion along the lines put forward by the hon. Member for North Cumberland (Mr. W. Roberts) will go a long way to meet the Committee's wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1855.1", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any tribunal would say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "s not fit to produce milk. When the conditions improve, the question will be treated on the circumstances of the time. I know a case—it is possibly an extreme case—where the only water supply of the farm to-day is the overflow from a cesspool. That farmer is producing milk for human consumption. Clearly that is a case where it will be said, \"Your conditions are not fit for the production of milk.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1858.2", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "ery humbly, is that since 1931 I have served in all the home Departments except the Home Office, and the thing that has impressed me above everything else in the period of that service, especially in peace-time, is that the great protection of the individual against the Executive lies in the fact that every civil servant knows that, in the last resort, his Minister can be questioned in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1859.2", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That applies to the coal industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "at we are going to get into the position where people will only be able to make their living and follow their occupation if and when the Minister sees fit, and not only when he sees fit now, but if he thinks they are likely to do well in the future. I would ask some Members of the party opposite whether they think that is a desirable precedent to set up in industry and agriculture in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1862.0", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "May I just answer the appeal which my right hon. Friend has made? I quite understand, and am very anxious to meet, his point. I have not the least doubt that in 999 cases out of 1,000 where the tribunal's decision is unanimous that their verdict will be accepted. The only difficulty I find is in giving a specific promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1862.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1863.3", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree with my right hon. and gallant Friend who has just spoken, because he was out of Order—not having been here all day; but what he said I agree with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1863.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1865.2", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Under the present proposal, if the tribunal that is suggested by the Minister decides against the dairy farmer, the dairy farmer can go to a Member of Parliament—any of us—and we can say that we will fight for all we are worth to get the matter reconsidered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1868.1", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "wants to and why on earth should not a man who is doing the job continue to do so? The Minister will no doubt reply that the Government have no intention of interfering with people, but as many Members have said, justice is not always done, and it is in the giving of powers of this kind to a Government Department that many of us see extreme danger. I do not want to say much more on this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1894.3", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "You have certainly, Mr. Williams, given us a very elaborate dissertation as to what we cannot speak upon. Now will you be good enough, for the guidance of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1902.1", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " council. If other local authorities have neglected their duties or carried them out in a lackadaisical way, why should we be victimised? That is my grievance, but I have not known a Minister go so far as the Minister of Agriculturt has gone to meet the opponents of this Clause. That was why I felt I could go into the \"Ayes\" Lobby in the Division, and I will go back to Hemsworth and tell them why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1907.4", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": ". It is the fundamental issue of liberty, on which this war is being fought—the whole issue of Fascism and Communism. We have to see what the proposals of the Minister are. I understand he has given the minor concession that, if you are in, you will be allowed to stay in, unless your registration is later cancelled, but that no new person is to be free to become the owner of a cow in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1907.4", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, a dairy farmer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " stay in, unless your registration is later cancelled, but that no new person is to be free to become the owner of a cow in this country. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If he has a cow he must not sell any of the cow's milk to anybody else. Obviously that is what it means. The words are: carry on the trade of dairymen. A dairyman is a man who sells milk. If I sell the produce of my own cow I am a dairyman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1907.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1920.0", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member*", "cue_text": "You guessed.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "authority there will be, how many official people, and whether the Ministry of Agriculture itself will be represented on these bodies. A lot of people who are enthusiastic about this Bill have not read it. For instance, I said that this refers to people who keep cows. The hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Ouintin Hogg) said \"No.\" I thought he might know, as he is a lawyer, so I looked it up and I found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1919.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1927.0", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " really compensation for loss of work. The Ministry say to the local authority: \"Although we are depriving him of his employment, you must pay for it, despite the fact that we are sacking him.\" I do not think that is right. If a man is losing his job because the Minister is putting fresh legislation on to the Statute Book, it is the Government and not the local authority who should recompense him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1932.6", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Obviously if employees are not to be dismissed the Clause does not arise. I say, and I challenge anyone to deny, that in all cases where they have to dispense with the services of their employees, it means that they will be saved expense in the future because they will no longer have to pay that expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-13", "file": "debates1944-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "126d128751de76d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1934.2", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "The only permission one needs is that of the Chair. The Noble Lord has not made out the case which we might reasonably have expected from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-13a.1934.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1947.8", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM COSTA RICAN CONGRESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The House will desire me to send a suitable reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1947.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1954.2", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCE AND UNITED NATIONS (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ich exists in very many parts of this country, that American and British lives may be endangered in France as a consequence of the political handling of this question by the Government, and that, although we are all delighted with the military successes on the Continent, His Majesty's Government do not, in fact, receive the full confidence of all the peoples in their political handling of the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1954.2", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCE AND UNITED NATIONS (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "erican and British lives may be endangered in France as a consequence of the political handling of this question by the Government, and that, although we are all delighted with the military successes on the Continent, His Majesty's Government do not, in fact, receive the full confidence of all the peoples in their political handling of the war? [ Interruption. ] They do not, and, in point of fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1957.0", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRANCE AND UNITED NATIONS (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edgar Granville", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edgar Granville", "preceding_text": " House of Commons has expressed a very strong view on this question, which did reflect a fairly general opinion in this country; and will he also bear in mind that, while there may be complete silence in the House, the Press of the United States and of this country is openly debating this matter? Will the right hon. Gentleman also bear in mind that many of us are being pressed by our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.1957.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "ealt with in a court of law. Nobody will object if my right hon. Friend tightens up his Finance Bill, in order to prevent evasion, but he is now taking a step which will be resented throughout the country. In order to find out whether evasion has or has not taken place, there must be a re-investigation of all the accounts, which may run into hundreds of thousands of pounds. Who is to be the judge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is all wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "bt whether it will ever be possible to prevent tax avoidance in its entirety. There is always some ingenious person who will find a way round, if he cannot find a way through. For the last to years, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has threatened, time and again, that if these ingenious practices were continued then any legislation which was introduced to stop loopholes would be made retrospective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2044.0", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " the Crown had given the Chancellor bad advice. They did not; it was an Amendment forced on the Chancellor from the opposite side, that weakened the Clause. The hon. Member for Elland said that this was not a party matter, but it is getting very near it. You will not find any Members of the Labour Party attempting to weaken this Clause; you will find that among a limited section of the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-14", "file": "debates1944-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "33195b1619b49ddc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2082.0", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "inviting the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take this Clause back again and see whether he cannot devise a Clause which will give him the additional powers which he desires to have but which will be free from the objections to which this Clause is open. The Debate to-day has shown that this Clause does contain certain matters which are, generally speaking, repugnant to both sides of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-14a.2082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL REGISTER (TEMPORARY LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I think it would be undesirable to confuse the two things. This is, primarily, for by-elections, and, clearly, that issue does not arise there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2128.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2143.5", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WATER SUPPLIES SCHEME (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Circulate it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House for the length of the reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2143.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2143.7", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WATER SUPPLIES SCHEME (COMPENSATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it is the wish of the House that the right hon. and learned Gentleman should make his statement at the end of Question Time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2151.6", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Yes, in effect, because we are actually taking to-morrow, on Supply, a Motion which ought to have been taken by itself as a substantive Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2151.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2153.5", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marton", "preceding_text": "salary for an offence of his predecessor seems to me to be a misuse of a Supply Day. I would urge the Leader of the House to reconsider the matter. May I make this further point with reference to the proposal to give an extra day next week to the Debate upon the White Paper, that it means appropriating a Supply Day for Government Business, which seems to me to be a complete misuse of a Supply Day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2194.4", "colnum": "2194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "All honour to people who make these dire sacrifices to educate their children, but they are the people who would receive the least advantage under the proposed new Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2211.0", "colnum": "2211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the resident housekeeper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "the man whose wife is a cripple, is disabled, and who has no children. He made the case sound very impressive, but, in fact, as the law stands, and as the result of a concession made, I think, last year, the married man whose wife is disabled throughout the Income Tax year and who has a child or children gets a housekeeper's allowance in addition to the allowance for the wife, so that case is met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2237.0", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Abingdon (Sir R. Glyn) had wanted to divide the Committee, he could not have brought forward a more suitable question. We, on this side, look upon racing as being a rich man's pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2262.2", "colnum": "2262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "That is not the sort of suggestion that can be made against this Chancellor of the Exchequer, whatever else may be said. I suggest that the real reason is a very obvious one—that it is, at this stage of the war, quite out of the question to alter the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2262.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2290.1", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "e Wrekin (Mr. Colegate) is always very persuasive, and has made a splendid speech attacking Death Duties as such. I am bound to say that, had I been here in 1894, I should have voted against them, but here they are, and we have got to make the best of them. I understood the hon. Member to say that farmers, as such, should be exempted from a tax which falls upon all other sections of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-15", "file": "debates1944-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "940794a3e53456a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2292.0", "colnum": "2292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Trade Facilities Act?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colegate", "preceding_text": "d cheap capital to farmers; they did not do that to industry. As a matter of fact let us be honest with ourselves about this difference between agriculture and industry, It is too late for me to go into detail but right through Income Tax, industry has to be treated on one basis and agriculture has to be treated on an entirely different basis. I gave the illustration of cheap credit as an example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-15a.2292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2311.0", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "I am well aware that, numerically, I and my Friends are only a very small number in this House, so I rather appeal for your protection, Mr. Speaker. You have told me that it is in Order to state what issues we think need to be discussed at an early date. Surely, if we are allowed to state a thing we should be allowed to state briefly some of the reasons which have led us to this conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2311.2", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I would not claim to be an expert in Parliamentary procedure, but I have a sort of instinctive belief that the hon. Member for Mossley (Mr. A. Hopkinson) is always wrong. If an hon. Member considers that the House should meet on Monday, to discuss a particular question, surely he is entitled to give his reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2311.2", "colnum": "2311", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "uss a particular question, surely he is entitled to give his reasons. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Why not? I do not mean that he should discuss the question itself, but that he should give reasons why the House should meet on Monday. Surely, he is entitled to say that he is suggesting that the House meet on Monday, because the people of the country are demanding that the matter in question be discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "Why should you be lenient to large numbers and not lenient to small numbers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2314.2", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is SO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "That may be so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2357.1", "colnum": "2357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not challenge me upon something that I did not say. I did not say that the Labour Party did not apply impartial minds. I said that there are individuals who have said, \"We must defend Morrison.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2357.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.2", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "a recommendation of a Select Committee and to have to think \"Shall I defy this or not?\" On the other hand, supposing he did not accept the advice, supposing it was one of those cases where the Home Secretary did not agree, the Committee would presumably report to the House that it had recommended release. It would be known to the House that the Home Secretary had not released. What do you do then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.4", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Not a bit of it, not yet. If this Motion were carried to-day it would be a fair issue on which to resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ts to the House; I take no notice of the Select Committee's report. The next thing, presumably, would be that the House would have to decide by Debate and vote whether it thought the Committee was right or wrong, and if the House decided that the Committee was right even then the fact that the Committee was advisory would mean that I need not, technically, take notice of the decision of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How can you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n if the House recommended release and he did not release. The idea will not work. I admire the motive, but again I bring the House back to the point that the only way for these exceptional powers to be administered, exceptional as they are and as I recognise them to be, is to place the responsibility fairly on the shoulders of the Minister, hold him accountable to Parliament, watch him with care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "k to the point that the only way for these exceptional powers to be administered, exceptional as they are and as I recognise them to be, is to place the responsibility fairly on the shoulders of the Minister, hold him accountable to Parliament, watch him with care. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How can you?\"] You do, you know, and you form your judgment as to whether he is acting straightly or fairly or is not,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5", "colnum": "2389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "se, as I would about any other, that the hon. and gallant Member's case is reviewed from time to time and carefully considered, but I have not yet come to the conclusion that he ought to be released. If and when—there must be a when—I am convinced that it is reasonable and in the public safety and security to release him I assure the House I shall release him, whether I get attacked for it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2389.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2407.1", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It could not be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "; that is to say, she circulated postcards giving the wavelength of this enemy station. It is said: Why detain a man without trial, why not bring him to trial? If he had been tried for something which arose materially out of his actions and out of his Parliamentary Question in this House, I believe some hon. Members would have been found to say that to prosecute a man for a Parliamentary Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2407.1", "colnum": "2407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "enemy station. It is said: Why detain a man without trial, why not bring him to trial? If he had been tried for something which arose materially out of his actions and out of his Parliamentary Question in this House, I believe some hon. Members would have been found to say that to prosecute a man for a Parliamentary Question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It could not be.\"]—was a far greater breach of Privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-16", "file": "debates1944-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "06f19e91e1411a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2410.2", "colnum": "2410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE REGULATION 18B (RE-CONSIDERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "e him, but I have been from time to time to Brixton Prison, and I was there yesterday. As he has been attacked, I propose to make one or two remarks on what he said, though I do not pretend that I am able to state his case because I do not think he himself really knows what he is locked up for. Certainly the Select Committee which inquired into the question of Privilege were never told the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-16a.2410.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.1.4", "colnum": "1", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM URUGUAYAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "hat I have received the following cablegram from Sr. Luis Batlle Berres, President of the Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies: The Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies shares the anxiety and hope of the British legislators in this hour, when the armies of liberty, in their greatness and heroism, make their appearance on the Continent of Europe. I trust that the House will allow me to send an appropriate reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.1.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.54.5", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "No, for reasons I am ready to discuss with hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.54.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.55.6", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There have been delays.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ocated 200 of the last 1,000 houses on the 7th of February this year. By the 15th February the type plans were approved by the Department and the layout plans were also approved on the same day by the Department, and the tenders were received on 18th May and were approved by the Department on 29th May, so that no delay whatever in the construction of these houses can be attributed to headquarters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.55.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it a white one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of any such approach. There is one elephant in that constituency already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.73.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Seven feet, six inches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": "e sure that I would be prepared to accept anything to-day, because I have seen the Portal house since then and that is a lot better than many other buildings that might be offered to us. I would say to-day that if my right hon. Friend cares to put up 500 of these houses in Dunfermline Burghs tomorrow, before the week-end every one will be occupied even although the ceiling is only seven feet high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"300.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "h a way that they will be as completely out of date, some years hence, as some of the houses that have been built in the past, and which are still in use, although they should have been demolished long ago? We built too well in the past and we are suffering from that to-day. We should not build houses that will last for 60 to 100 years. We have houses in Scotland that were built over no years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "There were any amount. It was not building workers who were responsible for holding back houses: it was land and materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": " programme to the people of Scotland, of this country and the Committee of the House of Commons time and again. I only wish they had taken my advice. I only wish they had gone in to a much greater extent than they did for an auxiliary housing programme, especially when I see the Portal house. I am no advocate of it as an oil painting. I believe that the Weir house was ten times as good to look at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "What world are they living in when they talk of these as temporary houses? We talk of getting 100,000 of these in Scotland. How long will it be before we can pull down 100,000 houses? The proposal is that there shall be 100,000 houses and that we can pull down those 100,000 houses. We shall all be in our graves before that happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "cretary of State is involved with the Ministry of Works and Buildings in this matter, he must bear the brunt of any criticism. I should like to make a suggestion, which I am astonished has never been pressed by Scottish Members, that the Secretary of State should be a Member of the War Cabinet. Until he is, I do not think we shall ever get our views properly brought home to the powers that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "00, and the figure for Scotland was 108,850. The figure for Great Britain was divided roughly, into 525,000 craftsmen and 525,000 building labourers. In July, 1943, the last date for which we have figures, the total labour force in the building industry in Great Britain was in the region of 400,000, of whom only 38,896 were in Scotland. The industry shrunk to about one-third its pre-war dimension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "building industry in Great Britain was in the region of 400,000, of whom only 38,896 were in Scotland. The industry shrunk to about one-third its pre-war dimension. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"] They are in the Army, Navy and Air Force, and if they were not making sacrifices there, I very much doubt whether I should be able to discuss this subject in the peace and quietness of this assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": ", it will definitely come under the Ministry of Labour. But we have to get that labour, and I am trying to explain to the Committee what it will mean in the way of housing. I will get on to housing. If we can get an additional 24,000 from these dilutees, on the basis of building one house per man per year in the intdustry, that will increase our production of houses by approximately 24,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the names, because, so far as I know, the names of the contractors do not come to the Department, unless we make special requests for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-20", "file": "debates1944-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "f29ee6ddcfd9e1f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY [12TH ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "s, and 24 were not begun because the local authorities failed to receive reasonable tenders; but they are still hoping to do so. That is the 200. The reasons for the failure to begin are, first, difficulty in some areas in getting satisfactory tenders—I feel perfectly sure that neither of the two Members who raised this point would desire us to pay up to £1,700 or £1,800 for four-apartment houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-20a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private Enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclean", "preceding_text": "Does the First Lord not consider that this is a very excessive price to pay for the salvaging of a small ship, and that it could have been done very much more cheaply by an expert firm of salvage operators?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why your side? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "On our side especially, the question of unemployment is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And by this House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "l, which meant so much off steel, and so much off other things, all the way up through industry. And so, the people who suffered were one class of the community. I make the assertion, and this is a basic principle of this White Paper, that if either exchange or financial adjustments have to be made, they must be made over the community as a whole, not singling out one particular industry or class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "f social capital which would be better spent on developments. We do not, therefore, regard large scale transfers as the solution. At the same time, we must have mobility of labour; that is an essential condition. An expanding economy entails a certain degree of mobility of labour as well as of industry. I have not found in the war, given the right conditions, much difficulty in transferring labour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " discuss it with the parties and work out the methods, just as Parliament, I hope, will work out the legislation as we go along. I have not worked out the precise methods, but I have asked my trade union friends, industry and everybody to realise that this is an essential thing that must be done. If it is to be done, we have to alter the old catch-as-catch-can methods that we have had in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are the articles?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "preceding_text": "nt in this country at present to discuss the question of the allocation of certain primary products in my own industry between this country and America. The greatest difficulty with which we are faced is that in some countries, in India and South Africa, the consumption of these primaries has gone up at such an alarming rate that there is a definite shortage for the United States and this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craik Henderson", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER \"That would wait until after the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craik Henderson", "preceding_text": "ey from the public and allow their opponents to spend it? Can you imagine that Government in the year of a General Election, being willing, if they find it necessary—I am not dealing with the question whether it is good or bad—to transfer labour from one part of the country to another, or can you imagine that Government being willing to increase contributions at such a time under social insurance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Canada.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "n-power some of its freedom of action. I am going to give the Government a challenge on this matter of exports, and a specific suggestion whereby they could produce an extremely valuable export which would make some part of the£400,000,000 that they want. When the war is over, there will be only two countries in the world with sufficient capital to make motor cars, ourselves and the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-21", "file": "debates1944-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "64541ada75468c98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Freedom of choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hely-Hutchinson", "preceding_text": "I rather thought so myself. I am glad I am able to mention these matters from the position of security of a Private Member who has no responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-21a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vote for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "vice said yesterday, \"Here we have got this machinery; we are not begging the question as between private enterprise or public enterprise.\" I am bound to point out that sooner or later that is the issue which must be faced, if this problem of unemployment is to be dealt with on a proper scale. Therefore, there is much substance in the Amendment on the Order Paper, and I personally subscribe to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How can you pay for them if you do not export?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rts, this country's standard of living will diminish, that, if we fail to export not only at the pre-war level but at least 50 per cent. more than the pre-war level, we cannot provide sufficient work for the workers of the country. Exports have nothing to do with the provision of work. We do not export in order to find work for people. We export for one reason only, and that is to pay for imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " not succeed, when the war is over, and after we pass through the transitional period, and come to the days of chaos and crisis and hard times, according to the White Paper, in exporting as much as is intended. Suppose we fail to export 50 per cent. more than we exported before the war, having regard to current prices and the rest of it; do we wring our hands in despair? Do we throw up the sponge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fifty years.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " What about the railways? Do not they require electrification, at any rate, as far as the branch lines are concerned? What about the transport position generally? I am not raising doctrin- aire issues. I am talking about our objective—a healthy transport system, efficient for the user and worthy of the State. There is 20 years' work to be done there. Then let us have a 20 years' housing programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.397.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The opposite to maximum.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craven-Ellis", "preceding_text": "What is meant by \"minimum\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "t is Scottish logic. I would like to pass to what my hon. Friend had to say about exports, because I think there are one or two observations to be made at this stage. My hon. Friend said, truly enough, that we are not particularly interested in exports for their own sake, but because they are the means, now that we have lost the greater part of our foreign investments, by which we can get imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sour grapes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Smith said. He took a simple and homely expression to demonstrate the fallacy of supposing that by taking thought and making effort you could produce at home, to equal advantage, what you had been producing abroad. He took the case of grapes in Scotland. He said \"You can grow magnificent grapes in Scotland, but if you want to enjoy a glass of wine do not rely on the Scottish production of grapes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ery painful. I say to my hon. Friends in all quarters of the House, Do not let us be deluded in this matter. We want imports, to maintain our standard of living and our level of industrial efficiency, and we need exports in order to pay for them. It would be deplorable if, on an issue of that sort, which is as plain as a pikestaff, as a result of the sort of argument which my hon. Friend advanced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the change of outlook?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "lding up a plan of this kind, we do not want to try to come down at the outset with cut-and-dried plans. This Paper is, in fact, at one and the same time, an announcement of a fundamental change of outlook towards these matters, and the submission to the judgment of Parliament of the pattern of a general policy, to which plans, still to be fashioned in detail, will conform, if Parliament approves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.418.3", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That could never happen at any time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "on, referred when he mentioned what he described as a deflationary gap that may be found to develop. I agree with him that, in the transitional period, the problem will be a problem of an inflationary gap, but, after the transitional period, we may have an inverse position and the problem may be what I should prefer to call a deflationary overlap, where production is in excess of effective demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.418.3", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": " a problem of an inflationary gap, but, after the transitional period, we may have an inverse position and the problem may be what I should prefer to call a deflationary overlap, where production is in excess of effective demand. [An HON. MEMBER: \"That could never happen at any time.\"] That is what happens, in fact, though I agree that general over-production is impossible, in spite of Adam Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.418.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Labour Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "e future with the same degree of optimism as some of my right hon. Friends. It is easy to be a pessimist, but there is some truth in the saying: Pray for sunshine, but always be prepared for rain. As far as the war is concerned, I realise the trade union and political Labour movements have to harmonise many differences with the other side, but ultimately control must be vested in the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-22", "file": "debates1944-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "cdfe738f877c7eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.459.3", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Real totalitarianism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "as the war is concerned, I realise the trade union and political Labour movements have to harmonise many differences with the other side, but ultimately control must be vested in the Labour Party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Labour Party?\"] Yes, to a large extent, because the Labour Party is the political expression, and will be so still more in future, of a great number of the workers in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-22a.459.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "OFFICER PRISONERS OF WAR, GERMANY (SHOOTING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House is shocked, as the country and the whole civilised world will be, at this atrocity committed upon helpless and gallant men, and I am sure that the Government can take it, that any steps they take now, and in the future, to mete out justice to these culprits and murderers, will be supported by the public of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.491.17", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot (Glasgow, Kelvingrove)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot (Glasgow, Kelvingrove)", "preceding_text": "efer to call it choice. That is the first point I should like to establish as one of the lessons of the Debate upon which we are now engaged. There is nothing odd about it. Other great communities which have developed themselves economically and have sought for a policy of full employment have themselves taken the line of insulation, and in some cases a complete insulation, from the outside world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.491.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " the programme of the right hon. Member for Carnarvon Boroughs they proceeded to adopt as much of it as they could. They went on doing that for two years. They succeeded in producing a first-class crisis, and in raising unemployment from the low level when they started of something under a million to the much higher level of about 2,500,000. That was the result of giving effect to these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.535.3", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Prime Minister agreed with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "cceeded in producing a first-class crisis, and in raising unemployment from the low level when they started of something under a million to the much higher level of about 2,500,000. That was the result of giving effect to these proposals. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes. It is no good going in for public works, which have the inevitable effect of increasing imports at a time when exports are restricted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "rovide them with the wherewithal. We are living on charity at the moment—Lend-Lease, handsome gifts from Canada—which enables us to do all sorts of things which would normally be impossible, and this White Paper is based on the assumption that foreign outlay will make it possible indefinitely to finance these schemes. I think I have made it reasonably clear I am not a supporter of the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"By war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "hose to do so, cured the unemployment with which it had been previously afflicted. The question is what you have to pay in order to cure it. Germany cured it at the price of preparing for war, financing it out of the proceeds of intended war. Russia cured it at the price of a certain loss of liberty, and perhaps another price as well. We, in our turn, have cured it in the face of an external enemy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " help, at least, in increasing employment, whereas the case of the Socialist is that the capitalist system and free enterprise cannot solve the problem of unemployment. If it was found that that was wrong and that it is possible under free enterprise to maintain the high and stable level of full employment, one of the best arguments for a Socialist case would have been taken from the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.571.5", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "t want to go into the matter of commodities today further than to point out that disposal of surplus stocks is an immediate practical subject which faces us now, and upon which the Board of Trade has done a great deal of work. If we wished to create unemployment there would be no surer way of doing it than to spew out surplus stocks, liquidate them and get cash for them at whatever price we could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The point I am trying to make is that, at the moment when we are asking every citizen in the country and every board of directors to expand their expenditure—and that should not only apply to extensions of plant, but to care and maintenance and a host of other things—it will be nice to have on the table a letter from the Treasury to say they can now cash that credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.577.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Let us have an answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " expresses a decisive view, but the Motion now before the House is, in my submission, deliberately drawn up in the most innocuous terms in order to avoid asking the House to express a view on the White Paper. However, if the responsible spokesman for the Government is taking the view that a Vote for this Motion is a mandate to proceed on the lines of the White Paper, I am bound to vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.580.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.581.8", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Then the original statement is withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.581.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "ce in the last few minutes expresses the view of my hon. Friends and myself about this Motion, which we regard as being question-begging almost to the point of fraudulence. We had intended to vote against it in order to express our displeasure with this kind of Motion on the Paper. We have been told, however, that many hon. Members are anxious to catch trains which leave in less than half an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-23", "file": "debates1944-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c73e0772b0a2a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "otion, which we regard as being question-begging almost to the point of fraudulence. We had intended to vote against it in order to express our displeasure with this kind of Motion on the Paper. We have been told, however, that many hon. Members are anxious to catch trains which leave in less than half an hour. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It has been put to me through the usual channels that this is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-23a.582.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-27", "file": "debates1944-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "450d9d269e701508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.588.5", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman, in deference to the wishes expressed by hon. Members, give a sensible reply to this Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.588.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-27", "file": "debates1944-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "450d9d269e701508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.630.4", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS (WAR- TIME REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "It would be most unfortunate if we got the system of the party list such as exists on the Continent and such as might exist here, if we had no residential qualification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-27", "file": "debates1944-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "450d9d269e701508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS (WAR- TIME REGISTRATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " part of the population: so I can quite see why my right hon. Friend does not want to see the residential qualification insisted upon. It is just that section who will be the victims of bureaucratic interference, and of that regimentation against which my hon. Friends opposite have been protesting in the Press and elsewhere. This is the section to whom I want to give the greatest chance of voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.631.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-27", "file": "debates1944-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "450d9d269e701508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE (PAY AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "etary of State was quite indignant about it and said that my suggestion was \"misleading.\" Well, I do not think that the Under-Secretary will tell us to-day that they would have made that adjustment anyway and postponed putting the new arrangements into force, even if there had not been all this discontent, misunderstanding, and fuss about it. It seems to me an obvious case of post hoc propter hoc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.658.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-06-27", "file": "debates1944-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "450d9d269e701508", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE (PAY AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "I will not keep the House for more than a moment——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-27a.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-28", "file": "debates1944-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f4d93638dfa3370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irving Albery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And by the men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irving Albery", "preceding_text": "Will His Majesty's Government, in view of the very important war services rendered by the railway companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-28", "file": "debates1944-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f4d93638dfa3370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.730.8", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "preceding_text": "t the Clause be read a Second time.\" In this proposal I am asking the Chancellor to give some regard to those who supply spirits and wines. The Financial Secretary will recall that when the Finance Bill, 1942, was going through the House of Commons, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer made a concession of five per cent. to licensees of public houses in order to compensate them to some extent for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.730.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-28", "file": "debates1944-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f4d93638dfa3370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should they not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "Once again the Government have given way to the pressure from hon. Members behind them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-28", "file": "debates1944-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "4f4d93638dfa3370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OLD AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because the hon. Member is a bachelor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "or all our people. I imagine that the hon. Lady the Parliamentary Secretary has come here to-day primed with what she has to say. I know she is sympathetic in her heart, but she has not the power or authority to do what we would like her to do, and I wish that her chief, the Minister himself, had been here to answer this case. I am always more at home when fighting the male rather than the female.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-28a.759.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.793.7", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AERIAL WARFARE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Am I not allowed to make this statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.793.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "but it was not a job for an engineer. He in turn was followed by my right hon. Friend the Member for St. George's, Westminster (Mr. Duff Cooper). He had some qualifications; he was a man of letters, and did not do so badly until unfortunately one night he read a poem in place of the nine o'clock news. That poem was his epilogue because in this country poetry is rightly looked upon with suspicion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Their responsibility in the matter does not come into the question at all. They publish what they think would be of interest to their readers. It is not for then to say \"Has this been engineered or not?\" If it is of public interest it is acceptable to them. I am going to the source of the crime, not to those who take the results of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.866.2", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For whom is the hon. and gallant Member Speaking now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "preceding_text": "ations, or even policy, except in the most remote fashion. There is a responsibility on my right hon. Friend to sort the thing out in some way or another. I am quite frank about my views. I hope that after the war we shall not restrict broadcasting in this country to the B.B.C. I do not want to do away with the B.B.C., but I want to see some form of commercial broadcasting in this country as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tree", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tree", "preceding_text": "no control, making statements which may endanger our relations with those foreign countries. But, with due deference to the Foreign Secretary, I do not agree with that argument. The training of diplomats—nearly all the diplomats I have ever come across—certainly does not include publicity in its curriculum. Not only do they dislike it intensely but most of them have a very supreme contempt for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is 'boosting' now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": " of Information would use his Public Relations Officers to show what a beautiful, handsome, attractive personality he is and what a high level of intellectual vigour he brings to bear upon the administration of his high office. The subject ought not to be discussed in that way here. Foreign commentators will say, \"Here is a Member of Parliament, a journalist of outstanding importance and vitality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "mmander King-Hall) said it was proposed that the B.B.C. should put their institution under the fiery trial of a Brains Trust. I think that is probably a good idea and I cannot understand why the Governors should refuse. He made some remark about the Beavenbrook Press not liking the Ministry of Information. I am bound to tell him that almost all the Press share the opinion of the Beaverbrook Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ch in their judgment can sift news or can prevent newspapers, through censorship, from dealing with the news. I do not blame newspapers at all. I was the only Member of the House of Commons who opposed setting up a Ministry of Information, so I speak with great authority on it. The newspapers do not like the Ministry of Information. I think if you went to the most respectable newspaper proprietor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was well feted when he was here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "ndous then. I think that in future there will be greater toughness in foreign policy and that if an Ambassador goes again with such a complaint he will be told to go back and he will be warned not to disfigure Carlton House Terrace. When Ribbentrop was Ambassador here he removed all the amenities of two houses in Carlton House Terrace, thereby taking away a little of our architectural inheritance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "in foreign policy and that if an Ambassador goes again with such a complaint he will be told to go back and he will be warned not to disfigure Carlton House Terrace. When Ribbentrop was Ambassador here he removed all the amenities of two houses in Carlton House Terrace, thereby taking away a little of our architectural inheritance. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He was well feted when he was here.\"] Not by me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "I said I would bring it to the attention of the B.B.C. It is for the Governors to decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-29", "file": "debates1944-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "546a859bc41187d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.929.7", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COALMINES (DIRECTED YOUTHS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Taylor", "preceding_text": "days. We know there has been a serious coal shortage, and I am afraid it is very largely due to weakness on the part of the Government. I am not going into the merits or demerits of private enterprise or State control, but I must say that the miner, who has a very unpleasant job to do, deserves fair and good wages, but he has not got the danger, and has got far better pay than the man in the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-29a.929.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-06-30", "file": "debates1944-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "6f486c13b172d11c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-30a.953.6", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": " depleted if they are not spent on plant and equipment. The right hon. Gentleman has two strings to his bow: persuasion and generosity, and, at the same time, severe coercion. I want the Chancellor to realise that his job is not to fall in with the wishes of industry, but to be a flail. In his Budget speech he referred to motor taxation and said that he was willing to do anything to get agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-06-30a.953.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-04", "file": "debates1944-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "bfe16f4b2684159f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend would suggest a name, a short and simple English name, and I shall be glad to adopt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.984.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-04", "file": "debates1944-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "bfe16f4b2684159f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. MacDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. MacDonald", "preceding_text": "e of the present low types of land, either moderate or marginal land, as it is normally called. If some system of this kind were carried out, it would be, from the Government's point of view, I am told, a great saving in money compared with the present expenditure. I can freely say that I have had a farmer come to me and say in private conversation, \"I am ashamed of the money I have been getting.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-04", "file": "debates1944-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "bfe16f4b2684159f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1072.3", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "It depends. This land was taken over under the Defence Regulations. It does not necessarily go back afterwards, but it may do. It my hon. Friend means: \"Is this land in the keeping of the Government forever?\" the answer is \"No,\" but it may become so; it all depends on the circumstances after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1072.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-04", "file": "debates1944-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "bfe16f4b2684159f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "grading in the quality of our beasts at home. It is continually going on and benefits all our herds in Scotland. The question of the upgrading of our livestock is continually borne in mind, and I therefore urge my hon. Friend to see that there is another side to the case. On the general question of imports and exports, I would ask him to let us have the fullest details about those dehydrated frogs", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-04", "file": "debates1944-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "bfe16f4b2684159f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS IV", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Westwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Westwood)", "preceding_text": "I only wish there had been more time to deal with the many points raised, but I will take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-04", "file": "debates1944-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "bfe16f4b2684159f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1123.0", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES, OVERSEAS (HOME TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Major C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Leave\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": " Financial Secretary to the War Office whether there is any guaranteed minimum period of home service for these men, even if they have been overseas for five years, which they can get after that five years overseas? Some hon. Members know of cases of men who have been brought back after a period of five years overseas, who have been given a fortnight's or three weeks' home service in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-04a.1123.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1142.7", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CEYLON, CONSTITUTION (AP- POINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sinhalese.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sorensen", "preceding_text": "Has there been any preliminary discussion with representative Ceylonese on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1142.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERRING INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It died.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm MacMillan", "preceding_text": "of London to Scottish fisheries that would not be there if these applications could be made to Edinburgh and dealt with there. The fisheries are in Scotland and the proportion of the Scottish population, compared with England's, engaged in the fishing industries is about seven to one. We have had in Scotland for about 6o years the Fishery Board, which England had not the distinction of possessing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1206.0", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERRING INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "d towards the end of what when he. began was an excellent speech would not have been said. It would be a great pity if it went out to the world from here that any Government omitted to do their utmost to develop the Russian market. If hon. Members will read the Report to which they have paid so much tribute, they will see that the Russians have expanded their own herring fishing industry 99 times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1206.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords] [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the condition?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": "e have a majority of your professional and technical people in our membership we want to negotiate service conditions applicable to them,\" the chief staff officer of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company and other officers, although they do not give us a blank negative, put up an impossible condition which we really cannot accept, a condition which should never have been imposed upon us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords] [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "s due to the fact that the canals have to have hump-backed bridges for the barge traffic underneath. The hon. Gentleman on the Front Bench opposite and the Minister of War Transport have a great affection for several Clauses in this Bill. The purpose of these is to do away with these humpbacked bridges as soon as possible and enable motor and other traffic to cross these canals without difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords] [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": "one, but by the Staff Negotiating Committee, that the Railway Clerks Association are to be recognised, and they are recognised, in so far as all their members are concerned. A very proper rule has been made, which has worked to the advantage of the trade unions, setting a limit in regard to salary or wages, above which people cease to belong to the trade union or to the Railway Clerks Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords] [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Glyn", "preceding_text": " many are not, and that there might be prejudice. Nobody wants any prejudice about it, and I feel that the fairest thing is to submit it to outside arbitration. If it is submitted to the Minister of Labour, nobody, I feel, will have any cause to complain, or to believe that the railway managements are opposed to trade unionism. I submit that these two Bills should have their Second Reading to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords] [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "kers who carry out the jobs. They are highly qualified and highly educated men, and most of them have spent hours of their lives getting qualified in railway technical colleges at Crewe and Derby, as my hon. Friend knows, yet he wants to keep them below the standard of the men whom they supervise. It is quite intolerable, and it is quite evident that my hon. Friend has not been told all the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1253.0", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords] [By Order]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denman", "preceding_text": "Obviously it cannot get both these aims by dividing, and it is clear that, if we adjourn for a while, the parties might come together and make an agreement. The issue now is a very small one. Apparently the railway companies have agreed to submit to the Ministry of Labour the question whether recognition should be given, having regard to the figures relating to the different categories of workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERRING INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is recommended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "the present war-time Ministry of Food fiat rate transport charges. The hon. Member for the Western Isles (Mr. MacMillan) may ask how it is possible for his fish to compete with Yarmouth, if it costs them two or three times as much to send the fish to London. That is getting at the root of it. That is practical politics and it is business. I hope the Minister will say what is being done about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-05", "file": "debates1944-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7fa0f9a02a7987c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HERRING INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "the latter used by the ordinary fishermen—and my people on the Ayrshire coast use a fishing boat that costs something over £2,000 which will, I am afraid, hardly be replaced now for less than £3,000 and probably £4,000. I cannot see that the amount of money that is being expended in the Bill will meet the situation for those who require it afterwards. The fishing industry has been very badly hit.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-05a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN PEOPLE (PEACE TERMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman make it quite clear that, in whatever dealings we have with any democratic elements in Germany, if they exist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (RAILWAY PASSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that any Member of Parliament can go to the Fees Office and get a packet of vouchers and change them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1322.4", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "pared with the terrific destruction by fire and high explosives with which we have been assaulting Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and scores of other German cities and other war manufacturing points in Germany. This form of attack is, no doubt, of a trying character, a worrisome character, because of its being spread out throughout the whole of the 24 hours, but people have just got to get used to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1322.4", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Improvising\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": " under-rate nor exaggerate. In all up to six a.m. to-day, about 2,750 flying bombs have been discharged from the launching stations along the French coast. A very large proportion of these have either failed to cross the Channel or have been shot down and destroyed by various methods, including the great deployment of batteries, aircraft and balloons which has been very rapidly placed in position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "There is just one matter to which I think the Prime Minister has not referred. Judging by my own correspondence and that of several of my hon. Friends, the point that is emphasised is, \"Is it not time that the Government made a public statement with regard to reprisals?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1335.1", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Davison", "preceding_text": "lic statement with regard to reprisals?\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am not saying that it is right, or anything about it, but only that that was the nature of my correspondence. It is suggested that the flying bomb is an illegal form of warfare, being contrary to international law, and my correspondents ask whether we ought not to say that if it is continued we shall take such steps as are necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not to-day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In view of the Prime Minister's most excellent statement and of the real danger that we may get into if these questions and answers go on; in view also of the mere fact that certain Members have risen to ask questions that may well help the enemy, because that will give the localities away, should we not now go into Secret Session?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1339.6", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "They save people's lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1339.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "efore various kinds of tribunal, and once or twice I have sat as a member of a tribunal. I have had to argue on mining problems before an independent, single arbitrator; before a body of arbitrators; before what is called an independent tribunal—and I presume that what hon. Members are now asking for, as an independent tribunal, is that its members will be drawn from outside the industry affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "—and consumers of milk, that this tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS (MILK AND DAIRIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Southport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ontinually insisting on taking all the power from the House of Commons and getting people outside to decide independently of the Minister and of this House? I say, as the hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths) said, you should have an expert chairman, a representative of the trade and a representative from the Minister representing the people of this country. Whom does the Minister represent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-06", "file": "debates1944-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "a77906afc6960aac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED STATES FORCES, GREAT BRITAIN (DEATH SENTENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " out, and the answer was that seven death sentences had been carried out, that none of those death sentences was in respect of the crime of rape, that each was in respect of the crime of murder. My hon. Friend sought an answer as to the numbers of coloured and white soldiers respectively who had been so sentenced, and my right hon. Friend did not think it right to give the answer to that Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-06a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-07", "file": "debates1944-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "16b5357c61372230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1449.4", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "nt case to the Committee. There is one thing of which I am sure, that all who, like myself, have been interested in war pensions since the last war will agree that this goes far beyond any pension demand that has ever been put seriously to this House. There is no question about that, and to my mind the Government acted very generously in increasing these rates without any pressure from this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-07", "file": "debates1944-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "16b5357c61372230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"5s. 6d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobbie", "preceding_text": "ion, during which period the regular money went on. But after all, when the pension comes into operation there is an anomaly which no ordinary civilian can really understand, because the allowance for the child comes down from 12s. 6d. to 11s. a week, so that the woman with two children, in addition to the loss of her husband and the circumstances I have related, finds herself 5s. a week worse off", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-07", "file": "debates1944-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "16b5357c61372230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cobb", "preceding_text": "The Government recognise their responsibility where the parent is concerned during the son's life by paying the parent a dependant's allowance. In those cases, I have no doubt that where that allowance is being paid, a pension is awarded pretty automatically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-07", "file": "debates1944-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "16b5357c61372230", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Better, I hope.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charleton", "preceding_text": "surgery which is now being spread over the country. Surgeons throughout the country have been asked to study their cases so that, when the men are ready for artificial limbs, those limbs will be right, the stump having been prepared, not as a pretty neat job, but as a good serviceable limb. The limbs themselves are prescribed with as much care as a doctor takes in prescribing a bottle of medicine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-07a.1510.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1556.4", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Can we see the Bulletin?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say why all discussion on monetary reform was specifically excluded by instruction, and that there was no discussion about money despite the \"Salute the Soldier\" week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1556.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise!", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander James", "preceding_text": "It is true that the hon. and gallant Gentleman gave me notice, about two minutes ago, that he was going to raise this matter. I do not desire to waste the time of the House at this juncture. I would suggest that the real procedure would be for him to seek one of his not infrequent Adjournment Motions——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1597.4", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Due to private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "at a sense of urgency should be imported into the Statute. At the same time private enterprise has its own great part to play, and from that point of view people should know as soon as is practicable whether their property is to be acquired or not. The problem of the blighted areas or, as they are defined in the Clause—— Areas of bad lay-out and obsolete development is familiar to every one of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1597.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1602.5", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Duke of Westminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nterprise. One particular object which I have much at heart can come into being by such means. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour and National Service also has this matter much at heart—the provision of \"flatted factories.\" Let me explain what they are. Most of the great industries of this country started at some time with someone in a backyard with a lathe, a few other tools and an idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1602.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "They are not relevant to my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ed upon our attention a Bill to be accepted or rejected. It is idle to say, as it is said, I understand, that the White Paper on the Control of Land Use deals with the long-distance problem and the Bill with the much more immediate problem. I believe the immediate Bill will produce a long-distance problem for us, because we are going to try to handle this thing out of relation to the wider issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " a little better English, but not much. I want to ask the House to discount the peroration made by' the Noble Lord. This Bill would not be opposed by such a combination of public authorities if it were not for the fact that they have serious misgivings as to what will happen when it becomes law. We dare not, as a House of Commons, once more disillusion those who are serving us in the Armed Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1628.9", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "am sorry for the Minister; I have a great regard for him, because I remember rough passages which he has already had in his career. I was hoping that after the protracted gestation period, and the deferment of the confinement for about seven weeks, the infant the House would welcome to-day would have been well developed and that we should have been prepared to take it into our arms and nourish it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1628.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1635.0", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " out of the soil immediately under their feet, or out of their neighbours. These are the two primary responsibilities of Government. When we debated the other day the White Paper an employment, we talked about primary responsibilities. I do not know how many primary responsibilities there may be, but in our generation I do not doubt that of all the primary responsibilities these are the two first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "Certainly, I do, and the Lord preserve me from my friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1641.3", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Guest", "preceding_text": "sociation of Municipal Corporations, the County Councils' Association, the Urban District Councils' Association, the Non-County Boroughs' Association, the Rural District Councils' Association, the London County Council and the Corporation of London are all run by a small junta of Socialists and that this is an entirely unrepresentative document. Is that really the opinion of hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "is too expensive to destroy it.\" In regard to these matters, the policy is to plan parochially, for selected areas only, and the very fact that people are working on these plans now will prevent a broader, bigger, more generous scheme being brought in later on. What is the real remedy? It is perfectly obvious. It is the Conservative majority in this Douse and in the Cabinet who have had their way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Labour Ministers agreed to it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "areas only, and the very fact that people are working on these plans now will prevent a broader, bigger, more generous scheme being brought in later on. What is the real remedy? It is perfectly obvious. It is the Conservative majority in this Douse and in the Cabinet who have had their way. [ interruption .] Oh, yes, obviously. It is not a measure that any of us on this side would have brought in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1652.3", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not what they said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nationalisation—and remember that they were men who had not taken a prominent part in any political controversy; and at least one of them would be the last man in the world that I should have thought would have said anything in favour of nationalisation, having been a valuer of all these big estates. But they say, \"We dare not do it now: the matter is urgent; it will arouse political controversy.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1652.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "She does not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady knows where she gets her income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "hear very much about that on the Education Bill. Is it proposed that when that Bill comes into operation all grants will be 33⅓ per cent. higher? It would be extremely interesting if that turned out to be the case, but it seems to be an entirely fallacious argument. When I put it to the Chancellor he turned it down flat. He said, \"We all rise and fall together.\" But not the property owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "of a small farm on the outskirts of Ipswich, the rental value of which was £26 8s. 1d. in 1939. This farm was purchased for £3,600. The Minister would not dare to get up and say that here was an enthusiastic farmer who was out to invest £3,600 in a farm which, apparently, gave such a small return. Next door there was another farm, the net rental value of which was £126, for which £10,000 was paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " not want to force anybody into an impossible position, but we shall not let the Bill go through as it is. When the Minister says it is his intention to accept reasonable Amendments on the Committee stage my mind goes back to the Education Bill. Are we to have a Vote of Confidence every time we pass an Amendment? We did not succeed in getting one really fundamental Amendment to the Education Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And tanks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "We did not get a single Amendment through on the Education Bill, in any way comparable in its fundamental character, to what will be required to put this Bill right. I do not want to detain the House for long; Members know my views on this matter, and on money matters", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ht for the land, and when they come back they will find they have not got it. They will not be satisfied with that. In my view, and in the view of a great many of us, something ought to be done to hand back the land to the people. I agree there are different ways of doing it. Some are in favour of confiscation. Personally, I think that is an injustice which the British public will not put up with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " my view is that the right of an individual to use his land exactly as he wants is so contrary to planning that it should now be extinguished. The community must take to itself the right to decide how land may be used—that is positive planning. I come to the second point, of the right to draw income from land. I am sorry that the Senior Burgess for Cambridge University (Mr. Pickthorn) is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Expropriation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " in the way of management of land for instance, is entitled to income. But I do not think that, on a basis of justice in any planned society, it can be said that those owning land and doing nothing for it, should be entitled to income from it. I maintain that we can have a compromise between the two proposals to which the hon. Member for Ipswich (Mr. Stokes) referred: a cross between compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Where would the borderline be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ionalisation—compensation of 100 per cent., in the form of Government bonds, of the value and confiscation. The compromise that I propose is this: A person who has a relatively small income from the ownership of land would receive no diminution of income when the land passed to the public, but a person who has a large income could, quite fairly, be given a small fraction of his previous ownership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-11", "file": "debates1944-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "b5dccf83264f9d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1692.3", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to say. It is a matter of opinion. There are cases, I think, where it is desirable on some points to get the views of the House of Commons before negotiating with too many outside bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-11a.1692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As a lawyer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "lic inquiry. He proved that an inquiry was such a good thing, that I wonder he does not have scores of them. Why does he not make provision for them all over the Bill if they are so good? They educate the public, they let the public know exactly what is going on, and so on. But let us come down to practical questions. I, probably, have attended as many public inquiries as any Member of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1770.4", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is what the hon. Member said yesterday.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member was trying to make out that those of us who advocate public ownership of land were advocating that there should be no compensation at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " anybody in the National Government. I am not happy about this Bill. I am not happy about the National Government. Who is? Nobody wants it, but we have to have it in war. If we had not a National Government we would not have the Prime Minister, and then whom should we have? Is there anybody who could do better? I am not such an admirer of the Prime Minister but there is nobody who could do better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1782.3", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Is the Noble Lady a Tory Reformer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "ey have had to be under a dictatorship during the war. They want freedom. That is what they are fighting for, and when I hear hon. Members opposite say that our fighting men want to be under Government control when they come home I do not believe it. We all know that a woman would rather have two rooms of her own than four rooms belonging to someone else. That is inherent in us. We Tory Reformers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1793.2", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " to be impressed. Like the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) I want to see things done quickly, but I do not believe that the Bill will have that effect. We should not give a Second Reading to a Bill containing such features. Take the second point, about the powers of local authorities. I speak here as a Member for a Scottish Division and it may he that I ought to offer an apology to hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "And I suppose nobody knows it better than the party opposite and the hon. Member. One understands from the Press that hon. Members opposite have had three meetings in order to make up their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1795.2", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "to obtain, by an expedited machinery, possession of that land. Secondly, although the Bill is obviously intended to deal primarily with blitzed areas, it also gives power, under a slightly different procedure, for the blighted areas to be dealt with in other towns, as soon as it can be done. I hope that this House will not hold out extravagant expectations at a time when there is an acute problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1795.2", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor has anybody on the Labour side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "ite are those who have been most frequently inclined to criticise hon. Members on this side when we have said we hoped it would be possible to carry out great reforms in this country. We have never said it would be possible, immediately the war was over, to overtake the shortage of housing over the last five years as well as to rebuild everything that has been destroyed by the malice of the enemy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1795.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1803.3", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "probably the most conservative organisation in the country—are agreeing to collaborate with the London County Council, which has been suspected of Socialistic tendencies. The urban district councils are very jealous of their position—they are independent. I am rather surprised that in this family there are even the rural district councils. All these organisations have got together and have agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who did it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "I hope I have satisfied the Noble Lady and that she is completely converted. I want to see that reform. I believe that, if that valuation had been carried out, and that policy had been allowed to go on, instead of being thrown out, I think, in the 1931 Parliament, we would have been in a very different position to deal with this problem than we are at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": " the criticism on a national basis and does not deal with the problem on this narrow issue, but covers all the problems in the White Paper. I think that would be far the best thing to do. So far as I am concerned, and I will be quite frank with the House, if it were peace time, I should vote against the Bill, but, under war conditions, I see no harm in letting the Minister have his Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1808.4", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "I am very fond of my hon. Friend, but he did challenge me. Perhaps I was a little rough on him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1808.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "If it is a rule of good manners to be as abusive as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-12", "file": "debates1944-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "5ab12c215e37618e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilmot", "preceding_text": "I think that is a somewhat inexact paraphrase. Speaking for myself, I am in favour of people owning their own houses. What I am not in favour of is people owning vast tracts of land and holding the public up to ransom", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-12a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1877.6", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1877.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1894.6", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "In view of the questions addressed to-day to the Deputy Prime Minister, will the Leader of the House consult with the Prime Minister as to the possibility of a future day being given, in Secret Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1925.5", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the managements.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "his last year. It has considerably improved on the figures which I gave the last time I spoke on this matter, and I would like to say that there has been more co-operation, as a result of my appeal, particularly through the managements, and definitely they have very greatly improved. Much still remains to be done, however, and much must depend on the active interest of the district miners' unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1925.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1929.6", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "But the men themselves must understand that high wages can only be maintained by a high output per manshift, so that the cost of production permits the supply of coal at a reasonable price to our industries, particularly those manufacturing goods for export, and to those who buy our coal overseas as coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1929.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1946.10", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lancaster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And paying twice the wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": "he cost per ton we have considered up to April, 1944, is in the region of 28s. 5d. I suggest that that figure will now become of the order of 32s.; more or less exactly 100 per cent. greater than it was at the commencement of the war. That figure must be considered in relation to world competitive prices. In the United States they are today producing coal at the pit head price of 13s. Id. per ton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1946.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1951.0", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. J. Brooks", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. J. Brooks", "preceding_text": "s up to date. Give good wages and better working conditions. It has been pointed out to-day that five days a week is enough for these men. I agree. Give the pits a chance every week to cool down and get aired a bit, and allow the repair work to be done at the week-end. That, perhaps, will reduce accidents. The men are breathing this atmosphere for six, seven, eight, and sometimes nine days a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1951.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1955.0", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nine shifts.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. J. Brooks", "preceding_text": "Give good wages and better working conditions. It has been pointed out to-day that five days a week is enough for these men. I agree. Give the pits a chance every week to cool down and get aired a bit, and allow the repair work to be done at the week-end. That, perhaps, will reduce accidents. The men are breathing this atmosphere for six, seven, eight, and sometimes nine days a week. [ Laughter .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1951.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1980.1", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. and gallant Friend had made his statement more plain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1980.3", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "HANSARD to-morrow. In regard to the district which my right hon. and gallant Friend chose for his attack, the district of Ayrshire and Dumfries—he referred especially to the Scottish miners, with special emphasis on this particular incident—I find according to the Digest that he has placed in our hands they are among the districts with the highest annual output per man shift of any in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "e installation of the machinery, although we know that a promise was made, either by Lord Hyndley or by the Minister, some time ago. We have cooperated to the best of our ability in Scotland with regard to output. We raised no obstacle regarding the introduction of this machinery. We did not question the right of the owners to introduce it. We were prepared to allow our men to work these machines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1990.1", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is only a relatively small industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "It IS 12,000,000 to 14,000,000 tons, and the conditions in the Dutch mining industry are the best in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1994.4", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who caused it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Taylor", "preceding_text": "and the children's teeth are set on edge. The sources from which mining labour has been recruited are rapidly drying up. There is a marked indisposition, as the figures in the White Paper show, to take up mining as a career. I am not surprised. Many of us on this side foresaw this situation. There is in the mining areas, and outside too if my experience is to be relied upon, an anti-pit psychology", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.1994.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-13", "file": "debates1944-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9f6807f2e81ae65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.2004.1", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want action.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ed that my right hon. and gallant Friend has been meeting the different bodies connected with electricity, both in production and distribution, quite recently. He has also got an advisory committee working with regard to what is best to do with gas, and the Committee may take it from me that there is plenty of thought being exercised inside the Ministry as to what is best to do with this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-13a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2008.9", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS", "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": "I told the House yesterday that I would have consultations on the subject, and these are not yet concluded. But so far as I have been able to take soundings through the usual channels, the majority of Members are definitely against any discussion in Secret Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2008.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2029.4", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Bernays", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is asking for that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Bernays", "preceding_text": "by such simple measures. I was re-reading the other day Chesterton's story \"The Ball and the Cross\" in which the people find themselves enslaved by one simple rule. Everybody had to get themselves certified as sane. If such a permit was not issued, they found themselves in an asylum. The British people, I believe, will not tolerate as a permanent part of their future existence, life under permits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2034.0", "colnum": "2034", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That Debate covered a wider issue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "get through this business with just a few formal remarks on the part of hon. Members, and then go on to the next business in about 20 minutes. He quoted a lot of absolutely vital Regulations—18B for example—and said that because we had debated recently the detention of an hon. and gallant Member of this House he thought hon. Members would agree that it would be unnecessary further to consider 18B.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2046.1", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who does?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "within my lifetime. The older I get, the more I hate all totalitarianisms, including Communist ones. If Socialism does not mean any more than a full dinner-pail, a roof over one's head and central heating, well, you can find that in Dartmoor. The kind of Socialism I want to picture is not the Socialism which depends upon making the State all-powerful, either by these Regulations or any other sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2046.1", "colnum": "2046", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "at in Dartmoor. The kind of Socialism I want to picture is not the Socialism which depends upon making the State all-powerful, either by these Regulations or any other sort. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Who does?\"] Some trade union elements in this House. I have seen more vindictiveness and more oppressiveness on the part of some trade union leaders in the country I could name than I have seen from any Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2060.2", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rols, a lot of people who are not primarily concerned with the liberty of the individual will use the indignation and the rancour naturally aroused for the purpose of sweeping away all the controls which will be necessary when the war is over, if we are to avoid a condition of economic anarchy. I understand that some hon. Members have suggested that when the war is over all the controls should go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not by force.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "behind them. Hon. Members on the other side talk as though the direction of workers from one part of the country to another started with the beginning of the war; Heavens, what about the old Ministry of Health? I think it was the late Lord Melchett who suggested, as far back as 1923, that the only thing left for Durham, South Wales, Lanarkshire and other places was for us to decant the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2065.4", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "He was able to choose his form of employment. He was not told he had to leave one profession and go into another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2065.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2066.0", "colnum": "2066", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "re was mass unemployment between the wars which resulted in the denial of liberty to millions of people. Now they can exploit that psychology in their perorations. I therefore say that I hope the Home Secretary will take this attitude towards these controls; that any form of control which is vexatious over the life of the individual, and which can be relaxed, shall be relaxed as early as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2066.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2069.0", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has had a margin. Everybody has a margin, depending on his income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2069.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2079.0", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not on these Benches?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "are, of course, varying views as to the necessity of such economic controls, but there is not necessarily any clear party division of opinion. There will be gradations of opinion. As a matter of fact, in the Debate on the White Paper on Employment Policy, there were speeches made from this side of the House which did contemplate a period when necessary economic controls might have to be continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2082.1", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "pean war is finished. Who knows, they may be reconsidered, some of them, before the European war is finished? Clearly they are in the field for reconsideration at that stage. In my view, it will be the duty of the Government to sweep away all restrictions which can safely and without social disadvantage be dispensed with, and it will be the duty of the House to keep the Government up' to the mark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-14", "file": "debates1944-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "7992362701c18b27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2083.0", "colnum": "2083", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ACT, 1939 (CONTINUANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They must.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "If we interpret what my right hon. Friend says correctly, I am afraid there will be some apprehensions on this side of the House. We are agreed, I believe, that many of these Regulations should be relaxed one after the other, but if the Government are going to seek an entirely new legislative instrument——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-14a.2083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"That is very unfair to the generals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " going to get an important niche in history for what they are trying to do. I hope I shall live long enough to see what the history books say about it. \"Unconditional surrender\" is a schoolboy's phrase, a childish phrase, the phrase of the man in the field, a general's phrase, a tactical phrase, the phrase of a man dealing with troops immediately in front of him, but not the phrase of a statesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.86.8", "colnum": "86", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "army was never defeated. I think the one thing that must be done this time to Germany is that every living German must be taught that their army has been crushed in the field, their air force destroyed in the air and their navy destroyed in the sea. They must drink the bitter waters of defeat to the very last drop this time, because otherwise the legend will grow again and once more they will say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.86.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.88.2", "colnum": "88", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": " vinegar that could ever emanate from the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) and his friends combined, could equal the violent attacks of the present Prime Minister on the late Neville Chamberlain, when he was Prime Minister. I would venture the view, with all serious- ness, that it was attacks of the present Prime Minister which killed the spirit of the previous Prime Minister during this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.88.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Williams. I, therefore, come back to the war. I hope the Committee will agree with me when I say that there is very much greater bewilderment about the objects of this war than there was about the conflict of 1914–18.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Williams. I, therefore, come back to the war. I hope the Committee will agree with me when I say that there is very much greater bewilderment about the objects of this war than there was about the conflict of 1914–18. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It suits the purpose of hon. Gentlemen to say \"No.\" I also lived through the war in 1914–18.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.95.3", "colnum": "95", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": ", because of tenderness for parties of the Right. I am perfectly certain that the contrary is nearer the truth. We all think we know something about English politics too, and I think hon. Gentlemen opposite will agree that we can disagree here about English politics. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale suggested that I, and other hon. Members on this side, did not care so much about the soldiers killed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.95.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "and the representatives of the National Committee, and I hope that before long that understanding will be translated into a general agreement with which our American Allies will be associated. Everything promises very well indeed in that direction. Perhaps I might be permitted to pass to some of the matters raised in the Debate which are more particularly my concern as Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about francs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ny risk of misunderstanding, I certainly agree with the observations of my right hon. Friend. I think I have covered all the points affecting the Treasury which have so far been raised in the Debate. I could have spoken at greater length, but it is not necessary. If any other hon. Members wish to raise further points my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary will be delighted to deal with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " the Debate. If so, I hope that he will deal with the serious allegation made by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan) that we have sent far from adequate supplies of arms to the Maquis. That seems to me to be a matter of immense importance at the present moment, and I hope that if the right hon. Gentleman makes any observations in the course of the Debate he will deal with that allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We cannot have it without.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "All right, make it 60,000,000 or 30,000,000 if you like. It still remains true that we cannot settle Europe or have any sort of forecast of security and peace by a mere policy of killing Germans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.117.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "ng him, but the fact is that we may win this war in a military sense and lose it in other ways. Something more than the defeat of the German army will be needed to defeat Fascism. When I hear from hon. Members on the other side of the break-up of Germany and of the smashing of Prussianism, I ask myself, \"What do they really mean? Are they prepared to smash up the land-owning interests in Germany?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Russian.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "If that is so then the remark applies to many other Members of the Committee. The whole Debate, when you were not in the Chair, Major Milner, has ranged throughout the wider issues of the war and its meaning and purpose. In any case I would end by saying that it is imperative that this Government, this country, should take the initiative. Are we to be dragged at the heels of American Imperialism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Not at this stage, certainly not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "If there is no difference between us I hope to carry the hon. Member with me. Does he agree that the policy of Hitler and for which Hitler stands is symptomatic of a dominant sentiment, force and tradition among the German people? I would like an answer", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The German people put him there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "eople? I would say that the hon. Gentleman is quite right when he says we can win the war and lose the peace, but not in the sense he thinks. I think we should win the war and lose the peace if we did not take every military and political precaution in our power to see that Hitler, who is not an accident, but a symptom of a certain mentality, or his successor, never had the like opportunity again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.6", "colnum": "121", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "aid, to which we have no present intention of adding anything at all. The Prime Minister said: Unconditional surrender means that the victors have a free hand. It does not mean that they are entitled to behave in a barbarous manner, nor that they wish to blot out Germany from among the nations of Europe. If we are bound, we are bound by our own consciences to civilisation. We are not to be bound——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.6", "colnum": "121", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "consciences to civilisation. We are not to be bound—— [ Interruption. ] I hope the hon. Gentleman will listen to me. We are not to be bound to the Germans as the result of a bargain struck. That is the meaning of unconditional surrender.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 22nd February, 1944; Vol. 397, c. 699.] That is the meaning by which we stand. We are not prepared to be bound as a result of a bargain struck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.121.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are all supporting them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "e is fundamental. It is interesting that very few Members of the Conservative Party have spoken to-day. The hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams) was interested in Indian credits, and the hon. Member for Wood Green (Mr. Baxter) was interested in supporting the Prime Minister. Otherwise, the Government—and I have been in the Committee the whole day—have had no support from their majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.126.7", "colnum": "126", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "o surrender, if you like, all we need say is \"We will stop fighting, if you will accept the following terms.\" I cannot understand the mystery in which this \"unconditional surrender\" slogan is wrapped up. Is the suggestion that the Germans are such awful people that you will not even tell them on what terms you will call off the fight? Are they to be mentally bullied, as well as militarily bullied?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.126.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "complained that I gave him no warning. I wish to remind him and others of what happens when one does give warning. I speak with some feeling on this matter. I think it ridiculous for a Government that comes to the Committee for a Vote of £1,000,000,000 not to expect to have it debated and to have questions asked as to policy. My mind goes back to what happened to me on the vital question of tanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.143.4", "colnum": "143", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "in before the Recess. On this occasion we are in the position of demanding a reply. Usually, the right hon. Gentleman winds up a Debate by answering nobody, passes us off with a number of verbal ambiguities, and expects us to be satisfied. We are not satisfied. He made one admission, which was that His Majesty's Government had already decided the terms which will be presented if Germany Collapses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.143.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-18", "file": "debates1944-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "95dc515608002e0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "KINMEL BAY, DENBIGHSHIRE (HOUSING ESTATE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Almost? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "ncil to take it over. That can be done but it lies now with the district council. As soon as their plan for their sewerage scheme comes forward to the Ministry, it will be considered and the inquiry will be held. I think those are the main points I can deal with in these very few moments. As to whether or not those who have taken their houses have, shall we say, been almost cheated by the company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-18a.164.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.185.8", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Fly.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "Arrangements have been made so that manufactured foods such as pies and sausages will flow to those areas as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.185.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jewson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It depends on the landlord.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jewson", "preceding_text": "ting, which means that we should remind ourselves that we want landlords. Perhaps those who have taken a very poor view of landlords in the past may now change their ideas in that direction. Landlords should be regarded as people who are performing a reputable public service in providing houses for other people to live in, not as those who are trying to exploit the needs of their fellow creatures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Irving Albery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Irving Albery", "preceding_text": "ty's Government—that when this war ends the most acute, even the most dangerous, problem which will face us among all our post-war difficulties is undoubtedly the housing problem. This Bill touches but the fringe of it. With reference to the Minister's intentions that something shall be done to enable private enterprise to play its part in dealing with that problem in the early days after the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not prove it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "d learned Friend. Why has my right hon. and learned Friend fixed upon the figure of 100,000? That brings us to the interjection of the hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite. In introducing this Bill, my right hon. and learned Friend has given no indication of why he has taken the figure of 100,000. Is it because there are no materials? My hon. Friend opposite has said that there is plenty of timber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Prewar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask the hon. Lady a question. We are going to give a subsidy of £5 10s. now, and the local authority has to give no more than £2 15s. subsidy. The houses are to be built inside two years. Who is to pay the difference in the rent of the house that is going to be built for £450? The hon. Member for Anglesey (Miss Lloyd George) gave a figure of £450 for a three-roomed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.255.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "But the Minister has told us that some of these houses will be up in six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does Scotland know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I said that it was already in the statutory provision. It has been there, I think, since 1925.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": "all the burghs, especially in the mining burgh of Cowdenbeath. The story my right hon. Friend told us to-day with regard to the 2,000 houses ought to act as a warning to us that we should get busy now before the end of the war to get the land prepared. He had to confess that very few of the first 1,000 houses have yet been completed. I think he said that over 800 of the first 1,000 had been begun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Westwood", "preceding_text": "t, would definitely make one so—and say that there must be no control, that all the building workers have a right to go where they like in the first two years, sell their labour as they like and build pubs and cinemas rather than houses, I will be quite willing, as a Minister of the Crown, to follow him into his own constituency or any other for the purpose of putting the policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-19", "file": "debates1944-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "0f452d967f33d45a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (COMPASSIONATE LEAVE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "is considered that if the brother needs a rest he should to in a position to make arrangements for some one else to carry on the business while he is away. That seems to me quite a reasonable attitude, to take up. The soldier is a young man of 23 and of medical category A1. It is also true, as my hon. and gallant Friend says, that he is serving in the Army Catering Corps, not in a front line unit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-19a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nt or an incident connected with possible air-raid incidents. If that detail were published it would be information useful to the enemy. On balance, I came to the conclusion that it ought not to be published. The learned judge, however, gave his judgment in public, and, to that extent, the public has been informed. I noticed that my right hon. Friend accused me in the Press of hushing up the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Regarding the date of the Adjournment, while everybody hopes that the position in London will improve, if it does not would it not be improper for this House to adjourn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.357.2", "colnum": "357", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I ask, Mr. Speaker, whether you will allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "preceding_text": "Is it necessary to say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "preceding_text": "ge to stage. I now come to the main point, whether the machinery which the right hon. Gentleman has assembled is going to do the job in a reasonable space of time and bring about a substantial change in the economic and social standards of the people. It will be far better done if, in place of the Economic Advisory Committee, simply reporting to the Minister upon such matters as he refers to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.379.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.379.3", "colnum": "379", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And to initiate.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Riley", "preceding_text": "bstantial change in the economic and social standards of the people. It will be far better done if, in place of the Economic Advisory Committee, simply reporting to the Minister upon such matters as he refers to them—[ Interruption .] The terms of reference are: To advise the Secretary of State on such questions of economic policy in relation to Colonial questions as he may refer to the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.444.7", "colnum": "444", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "making over federation. He said that he did not believe in a general principle of this nature and that executive power should rest here. Well and good. But then he put forward the fantastic idea that an additional Under-Secretary of State should be appointed to go out to certain consolidated and, I presume, federated areas like West and East Africa. Some most amusing things are said in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.444.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.445.3", "colnum": "445", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ns by people interested in the medical and nursing problems of Jamaica. They concerned a hospital, once a poor law hospital, which had been flooded with patients from another hospital because of the want of room. I put four questions to the Minister, from authentic sources, and he told me that he could not give me an answer at the time because he had not the information. Now I have his reply here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member complained about the inadequacy of the social services and went on to say that it was the dissatisfaction of the people of Malaya that was responsible for Singapore.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing of the sort.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member complained about the inadequacy of the social services and went on to say that it was the dissatisfaction of the people of Malaya that was responsible for Singapore. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I certainly got the impression that he was imputing to the people of Malaya dissatisfaction with British rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.460.5", "colnum": "460", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "oad lines of general policy, particularly on the political side, rather than with these technical questions. Above all, I do not want the situation to arise when it is said, \"You have put a member of that party on a particular technical committee, and so you must have a member of the other party,\" and then it is said, \"That leaves out the hon. Member for the Isle of Ely, and you must have him on.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.460.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-20", "file": "debates1944-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "20698023ebf4dee5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "GERMAN WAR CRIMES (RETRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": "mistake in stifling all open Debate on this subject that so intimately concerns the public. Excluding the public to this extent could well spread apprehension, and the public is made all the more anxious by hearing that there are only to be secret meetings of M.P.'s. This might lead people to surmise that as public debate has been barred, gloomy prospects will be divulged at these secret meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-20a.476.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-21", "file": "debates1944-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "526761a8a36f69c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "FLYING BOMB ATTACKS (CONFERENCES WITH MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Beamish", "preceding_text": "As my name has been mentioned may I say one word? First of all, if in using the word \"informative\" I overstepped the bounds I should like to apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-21", "file": "debates1944-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "526761a8a36f69c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham - Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Parliamentary Secretary is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham - Reid", "preceding_text": "I wanted to say a word which concerns the Minister of Health and he has just told me he will be coming back shortly so I will postpone a question that concerns him until he returns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-21", "file": "debates1944-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "526761a8a36f69c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham - Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham - Reid", "preceding_text": "ing bomb simpler than the German model that we know of, but nevertheless with a bombing accuracy hitherto unheard of. The Government put every obstacle in the way of developing this British robot invention with the result that we have been caught napping. I only want to say this last word. The Prime Minister recently told us that he had known about the present flying bombs for the last six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-21", "file": "debates1944-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "526761a8a36f69c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, INDIA (WELFARE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "sentatives over here. Apparently, America has no difficulty in finding facilities for Senators, Congressmen and large numbers of other visitors to come here to vist American camps, talk to their men and then go back home to report. As part of the maintenance of a link between us and the troops in India and the Middle East, I invite the Government to send out representatives from the back benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-21a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-25", "file": "debates1944-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d9a8abe68d8d41f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.621.1", "colnum": "621", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1944, AND NAVY ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "cently been considering, in par- ticular, two questions of principle regarding Government factories. The first is, are these to be disposed of to the highest bidder or, in the alternative, should they be allocated by the Government according to broader social and economic criteria? The second is should these factories normally be sold or should they normally be leased to the particular applicants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-25", "file": "debates1944-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d9a8abe68d8d41f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1944, AND NAVY ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "at was said, was that up to that time, there had been no consultations with regard to it, and that while it was the desire of the right hon. Gentleman that that should take place, little or no consultation had taken place. With regard to what my right hon. Friend has said, it is quite true, but it ought to be in this White Paper. We ought to have a real plan for this purpose. That is my complaint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-25", "file": "debates1944-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d9a8abe68d8d41f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1944, AND NAVY ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On long lease?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Granville Gibson", "preceding_text": "cause of the fact that their financial strength may be limited, eventually it will be for the good of the buildings themselves that they should be owned by those firms. When they became the owners they would be prepared to put more into the buildings and expend more money on them in order to make them produce more economically, whereas they might hesitate to do that if they were only renting them:", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-25", "file": "debates1944-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d9a8abe68d8d41f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1944, AND NAVY ESTIMATES, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They may not dissolve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": ", for instance. It might easily be argued that the easiest way of distributing these things is through the normal trade channels, but it is not unknown to hon. Members who sit for London that the London County Council not only built a large number of flats but also furnished them with L.C.C. furniture. If the present Government dissolve we shall have, I hope, a decent housing policy after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-25", "file": "debates1944-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d9a8abe68d8d41f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "VALIDATION OF WAR-TIME LEASES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Not in this case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt my hon. and learned Friend who is dealing with such an interesting point? Is not the real answer, that if Parliament would only be more careful in passing its Statutes these difficulties would not arise? It is the words put into Acts of Parliament that lead to difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-25", "file": "debates1944-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "d9a8abe68d8d41f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.734.2", "colnum": "734", "heading": "PENSIONS AND GRANTS (CANCER CASES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": " matter with him, when he comes out I should take the responsibility. This man received this weekly allowance which has been granted for six months after discharge to men suffering from some disability, not due to or aggravated by service, to help them along the way but, in addition to that, he should have been receiving National Health Insurance, which brought the family income up to 51s. a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-25a.734.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-26", "file": "debates1944-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92733c264c555a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.790.2", "colnum": "790", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Fair Wages Clause.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " United Nations bank to a specific country to develop its economic life, cannot we lay down that, in its economic development, that country must observe the conditions laid down in the I.L.O. Code? We can tell a country: \"Yes, you can have a loan to rehabilitate your country, to develop its resources, and to build up its economic life, but not unless you observe the conditions of the I.L.O. Code.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.790.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-26", "file": "debates1944-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92733c264c555a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Hopkinson", "preceding_text": " successful to this day and which overrides every distinction of clime, race, and religion, and that is, curiously enough, the War Graves Commission, because it happens to be founded upon a sentiment which is common to the whole human race. Therefore, every participant in the War Graves Commission no matter what its nation and What its religion is determined to make it succeed and it does succeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-26", "file": "debates1944-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92733c264c555a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Irish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "an Republics. May I refer again to the hon. Member for Mossley? He suggested that separate races and nations cannot live together. Would he be good enough to bear Switzerland in mind? There the French, Germans and Italians live in one country in agreement and harmony. He forgets, too, that in these islands there are Welsh, English and Scottish living together, and that is a tremendous achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-26", "file": "debates1944-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92733c264c555a77", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I do not think we are going to build up international confidence by approaching other nations in a spirit of unctuous self-righteousness. Human beings are very much alike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-26a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-07-28", "file": "debates1944-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "0be1e12c3149cf45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-28a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "pressed classes and the organised labour movement of India? What about those who are not content with the mere domination of the Hindu majority who, after all, have not yet all been converted away from the principle of the caste system? We want some idea of what is going to happen, and this country is justified in asking before it gets out and under for the benefit of one political party in India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-07-28a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1152.1", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the main consideration in that case is that he could do that on his periods of leave. If he is posted there, on the spot, it is very likely that he will tend to devote more time to his business than to his Army duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1157.2", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "I should get into trouble with the Revenue authorities for selling beer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1157.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Indemnity.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not now?", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "We will look into this in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "CLAUSE I.—(Indemnity.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On the Report stage?", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The Question before the Committee is \"That the Clause stand part of the Bill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMO DATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " the Minister of Health to unload these houses on to local authorities. I know that, rightly and properly, the Minister of Health has enormous power and great influence over the local authorities, but I think it regrettable that that influence and power should be used for the purpose of unloading this enormous number of substandard houses on to local authorities. To these few helpful observations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1302.3", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMO DATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They were mostly by local authorities.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": " will be very happy to be told how he can build a house for that figure. There is quite a difference between discussing the matter here and making suggestions and getting them carried out by the industry. When it comes to putting them out to tender, the results are not equal to the enthusiasm of the advocates of that method. The jerry-built houses that were put up were not built by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1302.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1302.4", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMO DATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "They were mostly by local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-01", "file": "debates1944-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "2e393bdbf7b4a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1310.2", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMO DATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I would ask the hon. Gentleman very seriously not to follow the example of the Minister of Health and refer to part of these houses as the carcase. Nothing could so prejudice them in the eyes of the people as to use this term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-01a.1310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1381.3", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EQUAL PAY (ROYAL COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the Government were nearly defeated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1381.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1385.7", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Morris-Jones", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and gallant Friend appreciate that chocolate gives great sustenance and comfort, especially to women and children and non-smokers, and, if he has chocolate to spare for other people, will he give it to our people now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1385.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.15", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody said it had.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "assemble before the date suggested in his Motion. We are living in very stirring and very difficult times, and it may well be that, long before the date suggested, we may have to come together again. I would hope that the House will accept the Motion of the Government. It is the normal custom of the House to rise for a period at this time of the year, and this has nothing to do with \"doodle-bugs.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.15", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "to which they really must attend and in view of my right hon. Friend's repeated assurance that the Standing Orders we have now got enable the House to reassemble should the situation require it, I hope that the House will accept the Motion. I would put this point to my right hon. Friend, and I am sure he will give an affirmative answer. If, during the Recess, there is from any responsible quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.16", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Recess.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out \"26th September,\" and to add instead thereof \"29th August.\" My Amendment, if accepted, would mean that hon. Members would have rather more than three weeks' vacation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.16", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "at I gather from certain conversations that, in certain quarters, this Amendment has aroused some discussion. Members seem to be afraid that they are about to be deprived of absence from their Parliamentary duties. I shall not use the term \"holiday,\" because the assumption is that Members, in fact, do not go on holiday but use the Parliamentary Recess for the purpose of meeting their constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.16", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Some of us live there\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ll not use the term \"holiday,\" because the assumption is that Members, in fact, do not go on holiday but use the Parliamentary Recess for the purpose of meeting their constituents—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]—a fiction that up to now should, among honest men, be abandoned. Of course Members, taking them by and large, avail themselves of the Parliamentary Recess to pay visits to their constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1390.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I beg hon. Members to understand that I am not responsible for this Debate. If hon. Members will persist in interrupting, I have to change my physical position to answer them and you will understand, Sir, that, if I turned from the Chair, it was not because of any disrespect for yourself. I was about to observe that we are all anxious to hear the important pronouncement from the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And from the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "able thing that some Members should express themselves independently. In any event, the question whether the House should go on a seven weeks' or a three weeks' holiday is not a party matter. That has not been laid down by the Labour Party Conference. What is more, in the past, in normal times and even during the war, protests have come from this side about the length of the Parliamentary holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With what\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "mber for Wakefield (Mr. A. Greenwood) said the length of this Recess had nothing to do with \"doodle-bugs.\" One must not speak about personal matters, but I have seen something of this business myself. I dislike it, I have suffered from it, but I fortify myself—and I hope hon. Members will not regard this as mere soft-soap stuff or mere emotion—I fortify myself when I am going through it in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is perfectly right. I said that that remark might be misconstrued and asked him whether he was speaking flippantly", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1444.2", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "modation) Bill, which involves no less than £150,000,000 and, what is far more important, is supposed to provide temporary houses, for which the need is so appalling that there is not one of us who is not gravely exercised about it. If these houses are to be factory-produced, as they are, it will be essential to lay down jigs in order that they may be produced in quantities at a fairly rapid rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Lawson", "preceding_text": "s very considerable support for their point of view. The right hon. Gentleman used that as an argument for saying that the Opposition, because of changed opinion outside the House, had a very special right to see that Parliament did not go for a long Recess, and that the opposition must be vigilant. I use that to-day because I have no trust in the political direction of the war by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1449.4", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I hope it is in Order to suggest to the Government that they should not move the Closure yet. A number of us who have not made up our minds on the way to vote want to discuss the matter further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who lost it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "And we lost the peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the Allied Air Forces dropped approximately 48,000 tons of high explosive bombs on Germany. Of course we try in the main to aim at important military objectives and consequently it may be that there is less loss of life in particular places than when a weapon is used which has no other object than the indiscriminate slaughter of the civilian population. I have trespassed a good deal on the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "e assistance for the Army of the Interior—military assistance and supplies, and especially support from the air. I hope help will be given in the fullest measure to the French Army of the Interior. There should be no reluctance in giving it, and it should not be given in driblets, merely because some Members of the Government may think that the Maquis represent the spirit of the French Revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "d: \"It happened in Yugoslavia\"—I am not saying it is true—\"and it happened in Greece, and in France\"—I hope it is not going to happen in Turkey—\" You induced them to stand up to the Germans, and for 48 hours you sang paeans to them.\" \"They found their souls and all that; and then they were not very successful or much helped, and they were called mere emigrés, lucky if it was not quislings.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members are prepared to allow me to digress from my speech in order to define an elementary matter of this sort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did go off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "r, under the direction of many leading generals and many sections of the army, have come to the conclusion that they want to stop the war as soon as they can. Therefore, there is opposition in Germany to the continuation of the war. That has been proved. We had this bomb attack on Hitler's life. It failed, for two reasons. One was that the bomb did not go off and there was mismanagement somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "riend attacked my hon. Friend the Member for North Lambeth (Mr. G. Strauss) on the remarks he made about the proposed transfer of population, and suggested that the Only way to maintain peace—and he is entitled to his view, I do not dispute it—was to conduct the kind of transfer which is therein contemplated. I propose later in my speech, which may take some time, to refer to this matter in detail", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ore I sit down. If nobody wants to listen I do not mind. If my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for West Leeds has his way, it is certain that there will be another war. The sooner he and the Government realise that the better. I think the Foreign Secretary, in his own heart, realises that that is the truth. If one could get alongside him and discuss these matters one would arrive at a solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1529.8", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " a Right or a Left peace, or a middle kind of peace. I believe that ordinary, honourable, decent people would not fight unless they were led by corrupt Governments, and, practically speaking, all people are led by corrupt Governments. I believe, with Nat Gubbins, that if all the peoples of the world had an opportunity of really understanding what the whole thing was about they would stop fighting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1529.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Really and truly, if I had thought that my hon. and gallant Friend, for whom I have a great personal regard, was going to make a remark like that I would not have given way. It is not true. If he took the trouble to read my speeches he would be aware that all along my criticisms have been based upon irrefutable facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1537.6", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "ntage under which I find myself at the present time when thinking what the point of view of the soldier is with regard to political propaganda, a point which I have recently raised. The Prime Minister said nothing to-day. He gave us a great military review, but no leadership. Why? He said, \"I cannot give you any lead at all, because I have to subordinate myself to the United States and to Russia.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1537.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-02", "file": "debates1944-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "fce452a218ea2a5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1540.3", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "WAR SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am sorry the hon. Member does not believe me. If he will listen, I will tell him a little more. We take our full responsibility for what is decided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-02a.1540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-03", "file": "debates1944-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "e8158eba789afcc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1608.3", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "DIVISION LIST (CORRECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "There is not only the question that the hon. Member's 12 disciples are missing, but in the same HANSARD there are some very bad misprints.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-03", "file": "debates1944-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "e8158eba789afcc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "PENSIONS AND GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": " the remedy is to see that it is put right when the matter comes before this House, as it will before long. I have said that repeatedly about widows' pensions. There is no such person now as a widow without a pension, as hon. Members know. If they do not get war pensions, they can qualify for contributory pensions. The great difference is that one pension amounts to 10s., and the other to 32s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-03", "file": "debates1944-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "e8158eba789afcc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Air (Captain Harold Balfour)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Air (Captain Harold Balfour)", "preceding_text": "nd away, a back place compared with the conduct of the war.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th July, 1944; Vol. 402, c. 25.] I am second to none in my feeling regarding the importance of post-war civil aviation, but nevertheless my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and Members of the Cabinet have got very many pressing matters to be decided, hour by hour, day by day, on foreign and on current war matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-08-03", "file": "debates1944-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "e8158eba789afcc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "JOINT PRODUCTION COMMITTEES AND WORKS COUNCILS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the managing director of a company. Personally I am chairman of a company and I always preside at the works council. It is quite a usual thing to do. There have been complaints about the composition of these committees. It has been suggested that those who have been elected, in some cases, have not been all of the most constructively minded and co-operative type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-08-03a.1713.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.20.8", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "While desiring to await that circulation for detailed statistics, might I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman is aware of the growing bitterness of all ranks serving in the East, when they see their own situation compared unfavourably, not merely with that of the other two Services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.20.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.43.5", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DETAINED MEMBER (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Surely I am entitled to draw attention to the fact that anti-Semitism is an incitement to murder. That has been proved in every country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.43.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "DETAINED MEMBER (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the Home Secretary this: If the mothers of this country, whose lads are being sacrificed now, are to be informed by him that their sacrifices have enabled him to release this unspeakable blackguard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.44.6", "colnum": "44", "heading": "DETAINED MEMBER (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I recognise the difficult position in which you find yourself, Mr Speaker; hon. Members also find themselves in some difficulty. The right hon. Gentleman, the Home Secretary, has just announced that the hon. and gallant Member for Peebles and Southern (Captain Ramsay) has been incarcerated—and presumably he was incarcerated for some crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.44.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.44.7", "colnum": "44", "heading": "DETAINED MEMBER (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "mstances, it is not altogether invidious for the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher) to use language which indicates that in his judgment the hon. and gallant Member for Peebles and Southern is acting in a manner prejudicial to society. I am bound to say, with great respect, that it appears to me that the treatment to which the hon. Member for West Fife has been subjected was somewhat harsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.44.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.84.4", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is that a permanent house?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": " asbestos cement external walls. Another makes use of prefabricated units of wood covered with asbestos sheeting. The Government propose to enter into arrangements for the production of these types as soon as suitable terms can be arranged. They have also under consideration a type of house constructed of prefabricated concrete units which has also been approved in principle by the Burt Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.84.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plus x \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "by deputy. I may say that on the estimates which the Minister of Health has put forward in his discussions with local authorities in England and Wales, the average loss falling on the local authority will be £4 a year, plus site charges (Interruption) —the charges for land and servicing and so on. I am saying that the average loss falling on the local authority will be £4 a year, plus site charges", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Scotland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "No. I am sorry if I am not making myself clear. What I am saying is that the average loss—not necessarily the loss in every case which will fall on local authorities—will be £4. The local rate contribution is expected to be £4, and it is expected that the average or normal site charge will be about £4 in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "It was under Tory rule. Lieut.-Colonel Elliot: It was not under Tory rule. It was one result of the rapid fall in housing which took place as against the Moderate output when the Socialist majority was in control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I was doing my utmost to indicate that a very big effort in housing by everyone was necessary, and nobody, not even my hon. Friend, would suggest that 86 houses built by Fife County Council and 38 houses provided by private enterprise in the county of Fife constituted anything like an adequate contribution to the housing needs of that great county for a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMO DATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have stone in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "indemnify the Government. We are changing our minds. What we have to do is to make up our minds, and to get rid of some of our prejudices against what we call prefabrication. In the West Riding of Yorkshire we have plenty of stone, and we like to think in terms of stone, but our friends in Scotland and Northern Ireland and other places have to think in terms of unit blocks—that is, prefabrication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-26", "file": "debates1944-09-26a.xml", "sha256": "69b172ff45f38822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOM MODATION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s to be a very strange procedure. The only people who are ever hurried in the preparation of legislation are Members of the House of Commons. We are expected to rush Bills, more or less through all their stages, on the same day, although Ministers have dilly-dallied and wasted months, and when Members raise certain questions we cannot even get replies. There is no hurry about this business at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-26a.176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.236.5", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Captain Plugge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has stopped removing them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Plugge", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend if he will make it quite clear, when removing these railings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.236.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE AND MEMBERS' SPEECHES (TIMING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "lso be resumed of putting in the time at the commencement of every speech. In Committee, owing to the commendable brevity of many speeches, it is proposed to replace the time of the commencement of each speech, by the regular indication of every quarter-hour, without regard to speakers. If this arrangement commends itself to the House, I will give instructions that it be put into effect forthwith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Provision for making structures for temporary housing available to housing authorities.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leach", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. If an Hon. Member, called upon by you, Mr. Williams, to move his Amendment did not do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We all are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Committee will be grateful to my right hon. Friend for the very clear explanation he has given of the difficulties of this technical matter, and that we will readily give him the indulgence for which he asks in view of the special circumstances. I believe that my right hon. Friend is to-day a wiser man than he was some three months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "preceding_text": " power to deal with the question of the 1939 value where there is clear evidence that someone has bought up the land since the war and is going to make a profit out of the public. I am sorry that that has not been provided for here. 4.30 p.m. We also feel very strongly that nothing has been done to remove those two objectionable aspects, the power to order a local authority to dispose of its land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ful to the Committee for having received the Resolution as they have. The point made by the hon. Member for the Scotland Division (Mr. Logan) seems to me more a matter for housing grants than grants for the acquisition of land, because the case put was where a corporation already possessed the land and wanted to put houses on it. These grants are for getting the land and not for putting up houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.352.5", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES (EXTEN SION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "a procedure which has been in operation for the last 230 years in respect of foreign Embassies. If anybody thinks that somebody has been put on who ought not to be, the matter can be raised in the ordinary way. The list is conclusive, that is the object of it, though naturally the Foreign Secretary's action in that respect, as in others, can be challenged in this House if anyone disagrees with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES (EXTEN SION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "a form that you can give the wider immunity, and leave it to the Order in Council to exempt British subjects from taxation in the way you would be bound to do in the case of those who were not British subjects normally resident here. But if my hon. Friend or anybody else has a point on which he would like the assurance of the Secretary of State, we will consider whether the assurance can be given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-27", "file": "debates1944-09-27a.xml", "sha256": "ebbf9799254eb37e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.358.3", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES (EXTEN SION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I did say, and I think it is probably right, that these people would have privileges as representatives of foreign Governments in any event. Being representatives of foreign Governments, they would have them. What this Bill does is to enable us to control them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-27a.358.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.399.6", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "And good beer.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister bear in mind that tourists want good food, good bathrooms, good coffeeg", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.402.4", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "dication of the difficulties with which he might be faced, continual pressure was brought to bear upon him at all stages; and in the last speech I made on the Third Reading, I referred to this question—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—I am asking my right hon. Friend whether he really does appreciate how deeply the local authorities and organisations interested in education feel about this; and in view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.402.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.421.7", "colnum": "421", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good old War Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "already know, or only telling him too late for it to be of any service to him. The speed with which the mighty British and American Armies in France were built up is almost incredible. In the first 24 hours a quarter of a million men were landed, in the teeth of fortified and violent opposition. By the 20th day 1,000,000 men were ashore. There are now between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 men in France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.421.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.487.6", "colnum": "487", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s worked steadfastly for the improvement of relations between Italy and Britain and between Italy and the Allies. His behaviour on leaving office, in giving cordial support to his successor, is also creditable. Finally, I had the advantage of an interview with the Lieutenant of the Realm, whose sincerity and ardour in the Allied cause and whose growing stature in Italian eyes are equally apparent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Dunglass", "preceding_text": "ks there followed an ultimatum to Poland demanding territory, and declaring that this could not be, except for a few details, a matter of negotiation. It seems to me that this action is capable of only two interpretations; either Russia's reading of the Atlantic Charter is fundamentally different from our own, or Russia feels herself strong enough, when it suits her own purpose, to go her own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "Will the Noble Lord deal also with the situation created by the Polish invasion of Soviet Russia in 1920—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Dutchman\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": " imposed by the Gestapo and the Nazis. He spoke of the Maquis in the final onslaught, raising themselves from the underground and taking part in the open struggle. Therefore, I ask Members of this House whether they agree there are no good Germans. I know of at least one person whom I can claim to be a good example. Prince Bernhard, the husband of Princess Juliana of Holland, must be a good German", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "good example. Prince Bernhard, the husband of Princess Juliana of Holland, must be a good German [An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Dutchman\"]. He is not a Dutchman. He has not been nationalised but naturalised. He is a German by origin and has moved about as a German through the world. There are many groups, races, and classes of people in Germany. There are something like 23,000,000 Catholics in Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.529.3", "colnum": "529", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "imposed on Germany produced mass unemployment, and the mass unemployment produced Hitler, and Hitler produced the conditions to bring about the rehabilitation of Germany and war. He says, \"Are we going to produce the same process again?\" Then we are told that we have to see that Germany has no means of making war and that she is to have no flying fields, unless under supervision, no army, no navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.529.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Bartlett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Bartlett", "preceding_text": "le it is because so little is done to re-establish this exchange of news and ideas. It is just four months ago that Rome was liberated. Even to-day no British correspondent can go to Rome to write about conditions there unless he disguises himself as a war correspondent. It is surely ridiculous that if I want to go to Rome to carry on my job as a journalist, I have to dress myself up in a uniform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-28", "file": "debates1944-09-28a.xml", "sha256": "b8117a67b8c08d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Bartlett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vernon Bartlett", "preceding_text": "om which food was sent to France. It meant that no commerce was going on. People read that and concluded that the whole of France was very prosperous indeed. As soon as possible one should reopen lines of communication for ideas. Yet there are scores of journalists and writers and authors of one kind and another who cannot get permits to go to Paris because they are not given permits by S.H.A.E.F.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-28a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-29", "file": "debates1944-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "7a6e30181f97c369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Poland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "to achieve, when the war is over, some kind of world peace organisation we shall not be able to prevent war breaking out again, even if Germany is disarmed. I furthermore believe it would be a nonsensical thing to dismember Germany by taking away from her any part of her territory which she properly regards as Germany. I do not believe we shall settle the world by territorial national mutilations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-29", "file": "debates1944-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "7a6e30181f97c369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I suggest that when democracy is being attacked by its enemies inside a country we should come to the aid of the friends of democracy in that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.634.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-09-29", "file": "debates1944-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "7a6e30181f97c369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.659.2", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "I do not want interference against the Soviet Union. I only want the point of view of a very large number of people with regard to Poland made quite clear to the Russian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-29", "file": "debates1944-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "7a6e30181f97c369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.668.4", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR AND INTERNATIONAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cunningham-Reid", "preceding_text": " can see, except the P.B.M.P. He seems to be the Cinderella of the show who apparently counts for nothing and can be ignored. We certainly shall be ignored so long as we all meekly sit around smiling and submitting to this kind of treatment. Surely it is time Members of Parliament made it quite clear that it is definitely part of a war-time M.P.'s political duties to visit the liberated countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.668.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-09-29", "file": "debates1944-09-29a.xml", "sha256": "7a6e30181f97c369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAR AND INTERNATIONAL 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": "are to pursue their purpose, consists in laying the foundation of a secret organisation intended to operate many years ahead. From our information, these foundations are being laid now. That is what we believe is going on in Germany now—that Himmler's organisation is laying the foundation for this future secret organisation which is to revive the spirit and meaning of Nazidom in the German people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-09-29a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many soldiers are being discharged without any clothing at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.739.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.747.3", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH AIRBORNE FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister not go further and make it plain that the Government want to abolish all war charities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.802.0", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "This Amendment seems to me to be absolutely vital. If the Committee passes it, we shall plan; if it is not passed, we shall simply patch up. The so-called Tory Reformers are in favour of patching but not of planning, so that we know where we stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.802.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "preceding_text": "ould be found possible to help these authorities. If the right hon. Gentleman would like to accompany me on a tour of Merseyside and talk to men of all political opinions upon whom rests the responsibility for facing up to the problem, he would see evidence to prove that the Amendment is possible, if we are to get down to planning and reconstruct areas on a total planning and reconstruction basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "powers of public authorities to acquire privately owned land. We do not conceal it from ourselves that we wanted to use the crisis in housing in order to enlarge the powers of the public authorities to acquire land. So there is between us a very important point of principle, arising out of the fact that my hon. Friends opposite think it is always a bad thing for public authorities to acquire land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "rs opposite who have spoken because he did not suggest that Clause 9 was inadequate to the purpose of acquiring the land and of carrying out rebuilding in blighted areas. What he put forward was this proposition, that it would have suited him and his friends very well if the same expedited procedure had been made available in the case of Merthyr Tydvil as is going to be made available in Plymouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ailable for a long time to come, will be the governing factor, and I think it ridiculous to suggest that, because they have five years, local authorities will all wait until the five years are nearly up, and submit a host of schemes to the Minister. There is another thing. Suppose they were forced, by the acceptance of this Amendment, to submit a large number of half-baked schemes to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.840.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no—", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "d gallant Friend who moved the Amendment used words like this, \"We want the period to be as short as two years so that the local authority's plan can be completed and the least harm is thus done to the country.\" There is a kind of fear on the part of some hon. Members that the planning must be done as soon as possible to get rid of the idea of local authorities having anything to do with planning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Between what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "Order Paper one sees two Amendments standing together—one in the name of Members representing the Common Wealth Party, and the other in the name of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Penrith (Lieut.-Colonel Dower) and some of his friends. I think the Government on this occasion should stand on their original intention which, I think, represents the happy mean between the two points of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "ment. Unkind remarks have been passed by hon. Members but they have been withdrawn. I should like my right hon. Friend to appreciate that there is a deep and real support behind us which really wishes to see this matter carried into effect. I hope that my right hon. Friend will give it his attention. I gather that he will produce on the Report stage some procedure or provision to bring this about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not promise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "my right hon. Friend to appreciate that there is a deep and real support behind us which really wishes to see this matter carried into effect. I hope that my right hon. Friend will give it his attention. I gather that he will produce on the Report stage some procedure or provision to bring this about. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no!\"]Some shortening of this period, where it would otherwise be unreasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "his matter carried into effect. I hope that my right hon. Friend will give it his attention. I gather that he will produce on the Report stage some procedure or provision to bring this about. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no!\"]Some shortening of this period, where it would otherwise be unreasonable—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not promise.\"]If that is so, may I have my right hon. Friend's assurance on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "My Noble Friend has forgotten the argument that we have been having. We have just had the argument, advanced exclusively by Members on the other side, that it was very desirable to get these schemes in operation speedily, and that, therefore, the period of five years should be made less, to encourage the local authorities to get on with the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I was a member of a local authority for 20 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rking against the local authority. I speak with experience, I was for 20 years on a local authority. We used to be under an obligation to hold a town's meeting to promote a Bill, and we had to placard the town and put advertisements in the local newspapers. A great deal of that still remains, so as to provide that every single individual interest shall have an opportunity of making its objections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.869.5", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "You have to let the whole of the people know what is going to happen. You get them all coming together and small vested interests begin to show. It happens everywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "le propositions are introduced the cumulative effect of this might be to make the Bill unworkable. If every simple Amendment is accepted then before we get to the end of the Bill, there will be so many obstructive points that he will not get the work done. Therefore I would like to recall some of the statements of the mover and supporters of the Amendment that they are definitely against planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.871.4", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Lamb", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend said he would like to reconsider the wording and I thought that he had accepted the principle that there should be a statement describing the land to which such application relates, because that is what I really want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.871.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-03", "file": "debates1944-10-03a.xml", "sha256": "4853706db70673cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "This relates to war damage.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "I listened with very great interest to the arguments of the hon. and gallant Member. If the owners of large estates are so much in advance of their local authority in regard to planning, why have they not carried it out already?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-03a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-04", "file": "debates1944-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "da09e816475f13c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 1.—(Designation of areas of extensive war damage, and of land needed for providing for replacements in redevelopment thereof.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coleg;ate", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Wrekin and all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coleg;ate", "preceding_text": "mes, I should support it. The hon. and learned Gentleman has shown no appreciation at all of the conditions that are likely to be found. We are considering a period about five or six years hence. It is clear that during the next five years thousands of owners will be overseas not only in the Army, but in the Navy and the Air Force—they will be required in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, all over the place", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.995.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-04", "file": "debates1944-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "da09e816475f13c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 1.—(Designation of areas of extensive war damage, and of land needed for providing for replacements in redevelopment thereof.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "It may be for the convenience of the Committee if these Amendments are discussed together, if the Committee are agreeable to that course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-04", "file": "debates1944-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "da09e816475f13c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 1.—(Designation of areas of extensive war damage, and of land needed for providing for replacements in redevelopment thereof.)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The Privy Council, as a lawyer's point, is a bad one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-04", "file": "debates1944-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "da09e816475f13c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Power to purchase land for redevelopment of areas of bad lay-out and obsolete development: authorisation under special procedure with local inquiry.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "If I remember accurately the particulars of the area to which my hon. Friend refers, I think that almost any definition of an area of bad lay-out would cover his land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-04", "file": "debates1944-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "da09e816475f13c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1060.2", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 9.—(Power to purchase land for redevelopment of areas of bad lay-out and obsolete development: authorisation under special procedure with local inquiry.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "riate authority, has some power of submission to the Ministry. It does not matter whether it is private land or public land. I maintain, and I am sure hon. Members on the opposite side of the House representing agricultural constituencies will agree, that it is a crime before God and man to build houses on land suitable for food production when there is equally good land available for the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1060.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-04", "file": "debates1944-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "da09e816475f13c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFTMAN, CAIRO (HOME POSTING)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "ad the complete answer. My right hon. Friend gave this reply: The Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief has full discretion to post an airman at any time if he considers such a posting to be in the interests of the Service, and Aircraftman Abse was posted by the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Middle East in the exercise of this discretion.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 5th July, 1944; Vol. 401, C. 1136–7.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-04", "file": "debates1944-10-04a.xml", "sha256": "da09e816475f13c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIRCRAFTMAN, CAIRO (HOME POSTING)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": "airman—and may I here interpose and say that Abse is doing excellent work at his present station and that there has been no complaint at all—that when a man had developed decided enthusiasms which had an influence upon his own Service life and that of others, the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief has a clear right to say \"I would prefer to have a man who will concentrate more on his Service duties.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-04a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 15.—(Disposal or appropriation by local planning authority of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For what purpose?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McEntee", "preceding_text": "ional purposes, but I am not satisfied that every Minister, in any circumstances, would use that power wisely. I have had a rather bitter experience, as a member of a local authority, of having to fight a Ministry for a very long time in order to retain 180 acres of land, for which our authority had paid. The Minister of Health at the time was endeavouring to compel us to sell that land privately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 15.—(Disposal or appropriation by local planning authority of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Merthyr Tydfil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": " or may be, indifferent or reactionary so far as the needs of planning and rebuilding their areas are concerned, and that the Government, through the hon. Gentleman and the Minister, may be more progressive than the local authorities. The hon. Gentleman knows very well that it is the local authorities which have been the drive and urge for social betterment in this country, and not the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1212.7", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 15.—(Disposal or appropriation by local planning authority of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is capitalism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " the local authority; there is only a difference of degree. The local authority is a localised expression of the State. Is the State a good landlord? Nobody would say so who walks up Regent Street. There are two landlords in Westminster—one a Duke and one the Crown. No one has ever seen a more oppressive landlord than the landlord of Regent Street—the worst landlord in the history of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1212.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 15.—(Disposal or appropriation by local planning authority of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "use provisions which would appear to be deliberately designed to discourage people from owning their own homes. I have always found it hard to understand why some of my hon. Friends opposite who have spent their lives in endeavouring to secure for manual workers a higher standard of living and a brighter future, should so consistently seek to deny to those workers the right to own their own homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 15.—(Disposal or appropriation by local planning authority of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " appear to be deliberately designed to discourage people from owning their own homes. I have always found it hard to understand why some of my hon. Friends opposite who have spent their lives in endeavouring to secure for manual workers a higher standard of living and a brighter future, should so consistently seek to deny to those workers the right to own their own homes. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 16.— [Power of planning Authority to carry out development of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can do the work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "erstand this great industrial community from Birmingham wanting to stop a man building his own industrial premises on what is, in fact, his own site. If the City Corporation should, for the moment, buy all the devastated land round St. Paul's Cathedral in order that they can make a little change in the roads, move the sewers, electric light mains, etc., which is very necessary before one can plan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 16.— [Power of planning Authority to carry out development of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ite. The man who carried on a business on a particular site is entitled to some consideration over everybody else. I am talking about Sub-section (3). If the Minister knows of somebody who is willing to do the development—there are still all the restrictions to see that the development is on the right lines—surely a man should be entitled to build on the site where his old business was carried on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1234.0", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 16.— [Power of planning Authority to carry out development of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not misrepresent me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 16.— [Power of planning Authority to carry out development of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No it does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ublic and private building, as Tories we must naturally support private building because we are in favour of private enterprise, but there is no reason why this question should arise on this or any other Clause. All that this Sub-section does, as I pointed out before in connection with another Sub-section, is to give power to the Minister to consider which is the right authority to develop a plan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-05", "file": "debates1944-10-05a.xml", "sha256": "10a0e09ac088ac6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — >CLAUSE 16.— [Power of planning Authority to carry out development of land held by them for purposes of this Part.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No profits.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e private builder to build the garage for them. What is in mind is this: Imagine an area that has to be reconstructed, and which is now lying flat. It is local authority land, and it is cleared. If the plan is to proceed by progressive and good stages there must be a row of shops in a certain place. Private enterprise, on viewing the prospects of the whole thing, does not think they are very good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-05a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1311.7", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "tion for harm done to that particular business. What the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams) and the others who support him are trying to argue is the principle they would not themselves apply because of the ruthlessness of private enterprise. Do Boots, if they exterminate a chemist in a village or town, pay over enormous sums of compensation? It is not done under the capitalist order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1311.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "Being an old grocer myself, and recognising that the small shopkeeper is being bamboozled by the Tory element in this Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1313.3", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Morrison", "preceding_text": " injunction as between landlord and tenant. I am not trying to do that in this Bill. What I can promise is this. The purpose of this permissive Clause is to enable the local authority to act like a good man. I will make further inquiries into this matter, to satisfy myself that it is being properly applied; and I hope that, with that assurance, my hon. and learned Friend will permit us to pass on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I suppose that it is something more than a coincidence that those hon. Members who sincerely do not like this Bill are also doing their very best to-day to obstruct it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1316.0", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why get up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "mething more than a coincidence that those hon. Members who sincerely do not like this Bill are also doing their very best to-day to obstruct it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]I know this is an important point, but even important points can be threshed out ad nauseam. I thought that everything that could possibly have been said on this matter, both for and against, had been said more than half an hour ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": " not in the interests of agriculture. 1.45 p.m. Let me endeavour to relieve the anxiety of some of my hon. and gallant Friends. First they say that some local planning authority may be extremely foolish and reject the design of the building and they seem to think that would end the matter. Of course it would not. The farmer, the applicant, would appeal to the Minister of Town and Country Planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson - Hicks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Joynson - Hicks", "preceding_text": "is urgently wanted because my supply of pig styes is exhausted, and I have another sow farrowing?\" When that happens, you cannot tell the sow to wait until you have applied to the local authority for permission to erect a shed. I beg the Government to reconsider this matter, to see if they cannot limit it to apply to buildings, either adjacent—or I believe the appropriate word now is \"contiguous\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "nd that some of our farm buildings are, indeed, admirable? If the farming industry is prosperous, the buildings will be all right, and if it is not prosperous, no planning will cause proper buildings to be put up. The real point is this. Can we trust those who know the country, and who love the country, not to abuse it? In this country we have done so for many years, without sustaining any injury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Gunston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Gunston", "preceding_text": "Do I take it that the hon. Gentleman is speaking for the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1356.5", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "I was assuming, perhaps wrongly, that hon. Members who have spoken were acquainted with the general planning law on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1356.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "Of course, in the hon. Lady's house there are so many rooms and the quarters are so palatial that it may take a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1363.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1373.8", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The importance of the Business of this Committee is not affected by my presence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1373.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1373.10", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1373.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1376.2", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "I do not wish in any way to intervene in the struggle between the Prime Minister and his more enthusiastic followers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1377.6", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick - Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick - Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ebate on this Clause, and I appreciate the difficulties of the Government in proceeding with the matter today. I hope that the Prime Minister will equally appreciate the difficulty in which he is putting the Committee. It would have been much more fortunate if it had been possible for the Government to have foreseen this position a little earlier. This Bill has been before the House for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1377.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1382.3", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " going to become operative before the appointed day, so there is nothing in the offer. The Prime Minister has said: \"Let us make an Appointed Day for the portion of the first Bill,\" that is, this Bill without these Clauses. In the meantime, the new Bill is to be introduced. Is that Bill to be passed through all its stages before the appointed day for this Bill? In that case, why have the new Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "ther the storm which has struck the districts which have been bombed. It is not coalition, it is make-believe; it is a contemptible business. It is a shocking thing that the Prime Minister should have been asked, even if he had the time to spare, to come here to-day. He has been hauled into this because of the reactionaries who prefer to put their own interests before the interests of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1393.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-06", "file": "debates1944-10-06a.xml", "sha256": "cfef7b85ecd21a0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1400.6", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What Question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I have put the Question, and the Question has been carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-06a.1400.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-09", "file": "debates1944-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "5b038633202f5121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "tee with regard to Clause 46 standing part of the Bill. I should like to submit to you, as a point of Order, that you are not in the hands of the Committee on that matter and that, in view of the fact that Clause 45 has been negatived, and that Clause 46 as it stands now does not make sense, it should be—I respectfully submit to the Chair—the duty of the Chair to prevent a discussion taking place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-09", "file": "debates1944-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "5b038633202f5121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1424.7", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "e who have interest in land, whether as owners, payers of ground rent or as lessees. The normal rate of interest in these matters is not 2½ per cent., but 4½ or 5 per cent. as everyone knows, and unless that is taken into account great injustice is going to be inflicted, and not only on a few rich people. They are not the people concerned. There is a poor old lady in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-09", "file": "debates1944-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "5b038633202f5121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Value.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rsons who have lost their homes and require to get other homes, and those who have been deprived of an investment. As far as those who invested money are concerned, they have been amply and sufficiently warned from the first days of the interim Report of the Uthwatt Committee that the purchase of property is attended with the risk that it may be acquired, at any time thereafter, at the 1939 price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-09", "file": "debates1944-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "5b038633202f5121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1429.3", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "tely we cannot do it. We shall have to bring in a new Bill, and compensation will have to be discussed separately from town planning and redevelopment.\" That is exactly what certain sinister interests on the other side of the Committee want. What happened last Friday was that the Prime Minister—not, I understand, under pressure—came out as an enthusiastic volunteer in defence of land racketeering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-09", "file": "debates1944-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "5b038633202f5121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1431.5", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "inister would not have made his broadcast had it not been for that purpose. Now we are considering a Bill for town planning, and the same Prime Minister said on Friday that national unity was being impaired. By what? Anything from this side? All we were doing was insisting that the Government should honour the promise which had been made. There was no disturbance of national unity from this side —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-09", "file": "debates1944-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "5b038633202f5121", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NEW CLAUSE.—(Power to extend the area of a local planning authority.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in every case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": " county council which has recently received the population from the borough. Here we are debating an emergency Bill involving the expenditure of £570,000,000 to enable these towns to rebuild themselves on more spacious lines and, therefore, on a far greater scale than ever before. The population from these towns is to be decanted outside into the areas of neighbouring local government authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-09a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1558.5", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the co-operative societies have a monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1558.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1561.4", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Lyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Lyle", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend, apart altogether from control of personal liberty, which should be done away with at the earliest possible opportunity, does he not think it high time that the Government instructed the Department to make out a list of the things which might be decontrolled in Business, so that those businesses could get on with peace-time production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1561.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1640.1", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Broadbridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Broadbridge", "preceding_text": "For instance, when the Treasury want to issue a loan, what do they do? They do not go to other metropolitan constituencies to place this loan. Of course they do not. They go to the capital city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1640.3", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Broadbridge", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same sort of thing happened in Bethnal Green.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Broadbridge", "preceding_text": "In April, 1939, the rateable value of the City of London was £8,300,000. After the enemy's air raids and devastation, it had dropped in April, 1942, to £6,385,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1642.5", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edmund Harvey", "preceding_text": "t is one of the tragedies of our history that our system involves, again and again, the loss to Parliament of some of the finest minds in the country. I do not think of the personal loss to the leader—a brave man will bear it bravely, as brave men have in the past-but I think of the loss to the country. Was it right that Mr. Arthur Balfour should be missing from the opening of the 1906 Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1642.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1645.1", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is suffering now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "The loss is a loss to the nation. We need the best men and women, the best minds in every party, if we are to get the best results out of Parliament. If we are going back to the old days of acute party divisions, you need a strong Opposition as well as a strong Government, because the Government suffers when the Opposition is entirely weak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this an argument against Proportional Representation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "nstituencies and we have the fantastic proposal, that if you are elected you pick out certain wards and say, \"They are my constituency,\" leaving the people in the other wards to say, \"We voted for you, and now you are throwing us overboard.\" It is a monstrous thing; it is the grossest form of ingratitude to the unknown people who have supported you at the election not to represent them afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Combined Universities?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "on we find another independent Member, who is a protagonist of good doctoring, and whose chief enemy, as I understand it, sits on the Front Bench. Then we come to Wales, where we have a Radical of the Radicals, who has an English name and insists on spelling it in Welsh. Last of all, where should we be without the robust voice that comes from Queen's University, Belfast? He is a good Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Lard Mayor of London. Tell us who he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am a member of the London County Council, but I know what the attitude in this matter is. I do not suppose one-tenth of the Members of this House could name the present chairman of the London County Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "preceding_text": " draw up lists of hon. Members whom they believed to be their supporters, but so uncertain were they of what the attitude might be on various issues by hon. Members that you will find in the book that some names often appeared on both lists. The party leaders were not at all certain in many cases whether they could get support from Members until they had heard their case on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander King-Hall", "preceding_text": "dies. I think it is an evil strangle-hold and an undemocratic thing and something that does no good to Parliament in the eyes of the people. But suppose the Amendment were carried, I ask the House whether the Government would treat this as a Vote of Confidence? Would the Leader of the House tell us what a comfort it would be to Goebbels to read that the Government had been defeated on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-10", "file": "debates1944-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "f26144755fa165bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": " religious know nothing at all about politics in any shape or form. Other parties might be thrown up, with all kinds of minority opinion. We are told that it is an advantage to have a multiplicity of small parties in the House of Commons. It may seem a contradiction, but I say, as a representative of a small party, that we are not in a small party by desire. We are quite a large body in the State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-10a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1742.12", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "In view of the large number of Questions on the Paper still to be answered and the fact that we have only reached Question 39, I ask that the answer to my Question may be circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1742.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1816.3", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCREASE OF BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Fund might be raided.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin", "preceding_text": " contribution during the war, no one was likely to miss it, and now it is extremely useful. It is a very effective method of saving. The State has the benefit of the money. The conditions of employment during the war have resulted in a steady increase of the Unemployment Fund, and it now stands at about £290,000,000. I am sure if Philip Snowden could come back to this Bench, his mouth would water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1816.3", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCREASE OF BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At military rates?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Ernest Bevin", "preceding_text": " have to be met by the Exchequer. But there is this difference between now and the end of the last war—we are paying ex-Servicemen during eight weeks' furlough to enable them to settle down in their jobs. We regard that as minimising any possible claim upon the Unemployment Fund because, if we cannot get most ex-Service- men resettled in a job in that period, we shall have failed in our machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1816.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1851.2", "colnum": "1851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCREASE OF BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ve long believed, that there is nothing for the people of this country, nothing for the workers of this country, to be got out of this Coalition Government, and that the presence of Labour Ministers in it merely prevents the organised Labour movement of this country from getting that elementary portion of social justice they could otherwise get. My right hon. Friend is a hostage in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1855.0", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCREASE OF BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "If it does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1856.6", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCREASE OF BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would get more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "that when a time of plenty comes the 24s. will be raised to a much higher figure, to keep employment going? Otherwise, we still have to seek a reason for the 24s. It is not based on any desire to keep the unemployed man, because he has paid contributions into the Fund, in a position superior to those who have not paid contributions; because the man would get the same amount from public assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1856.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1865.8", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (INCREASE OF BENEFIT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "May I proceed with my argument, Mr. Deputy-Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1865.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1874.7", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) COAL (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the statement of the hon. Gentleman on the Labour benches, because I believe that in actual fact miners in some districts do get free coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) COAL (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "' wages, irrespective of what is made out- side, the higher the profit that can be made away from the pit by the owners. It is nothing new that the owners of the pit should lose money on the actual production of the coal to the pithead, and that they should go and make a profit outside the pityard. We had the alarming situation of a gas company as a subsidiary of a colliery company in South Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1893.0", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) COAL (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But they are not remedies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georg", "preceding_text": "I would agree with this, that there is less known, and therefore more remedies are proposed by all sorts of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1893.2", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) COAL (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get rid of the owners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd Georg", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Member that if he nationalises it tomorrow he will not get rid of the responsibility of doing something with this industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) COAL (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " would transfer a man who knows the district very well to a place in which he has never worked, and that would be for the benefit of coal production. There is a special problem with regard to South Wales that sixty per cent. of the coal is in the control of one undertaking. The purpose of this is to give the best technical advice and the best administration to collieries not so fortunately placed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) COAL (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "lace in which he has never worked, and that would be for the benefit of coal production. There is a special problem with regard to South Wales that sixty per cent. of the coal is in the control of one undertaking. The purpose of this is to give the best technical advice and the best administration to collieries not so fortunately placed. [Interruption.] The hon. Member must really control himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-11", "file": "debates1944-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "fda48fd8b1428b8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) COAL (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "ation to collieries not so fortunately placed. [Interruption.] The hon. Member must really control himself. [Interruption.] In that case it is no good discussing it with him any further. He thinks it is a terrible thing that these men should sit in the same office. The whole purpose of it was that all the technical advantages which the more efficient undertakings have should be extended to others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-11a.1896.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I still think it would be unfair to publish the list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.1926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.1944.6", "colnum": "1944", "heading": "DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES (EXTEN SION) BILL (SECOND READING DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In answer to the question put by the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams), of course, the Rule of the House is that one cannot speak a second time in a Second Reading Debate, except by leave of the House, and as the hon. Member says that might be very inconvenient. Possibly the House would give leave to hon. Members to speak again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.1944.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2004.1", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 3.—(Initial report of Commissions as to redistribution.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Caretakers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "f Commons. In the controversy during the last war when the other Bill reforming Parliament was going through the House, there were discussions then on the position of the City. If I remember rightly, there were then about 20,000 residents in the City of London; now, as my hon. Friend quite rightly said, they have been reduced to about 10,000 residents or less, mostly charwomen and office cleaners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2021.2", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 6.—(Exception of university constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Petty Officer Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Co-operative Society.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Petty Officer Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "he men who fought the Battle of Britain and so on, I am afraid that will be impracticable for many of them, because they will have to earn a living; so I should like to see constituencies like these returning, say, two young men from the Army, two from the Navy and two from the Air Force, so that they could give us the views of youth without having to bear the full labour of a geographical Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2021.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2023.5", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 6.—(Exception of university constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. Is it not an absolute rule for every hon. Gentleman who makes a direct attack on an hon. Member to give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2023.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2024.0", "colnum": "2024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 6.—(Exception of university constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Petty Officer Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Petty Officer Herbert", "preceding_text": "e some test before a man was allowed to exercise, not the right, but the duty of voting. In some cases it was the laborious acquisition and retention of property, which is not a bad test. In the case of my constituents, they have to pass an examination before they are allowed to exercise the vote. For three years they have to subject themselves to the discipline and teaching of a great university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2047.0", "colnum": "2047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 6.—(Exception of university constituencies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "He is then a university graduate and is entitled for all time to take part in university elections. Alongside him may be a lad who has gone into the technical college with a lower entrance certificate, and who is not allowed to sit for his degree examination, though he takes the same course and graduates from the technical college a trained engineer with the diploma of the Royal Technical College.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2055.0", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THIRD SCHEDULE.—(Rules for Distribution of seats.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary has the right to speak for England, for I do not know whether the name \"Morrison\" is really a very English Cockney name. I speak as an Englishman and a Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-12", "file": "debates1944-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "9403697d39712661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2069.1", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ARMY (SERVICE OVERSEAS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Viscount Suirdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Viscount Suirdale", "preceding_text": "Air Force and longer than others of our Allies. The third reason is that there is a feeling of suspicion that it is unnecessary. I think the most astonishing reason of the lot is that which I get in letters saying: \"What we really feel is that there is a complete lack of sympathy in London and in the House of Commons.\" I do not think that is true. I know there is tremendous sympathy in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-12a.2069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-13", "file": "debates1944-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "908851324d75cfe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-13a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIABILITIES (WAR-TIME ADJUSTMENT) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am sure that would not be right. There are two classes of exceptional areas. There is the Isle of Wight and there may be nowhere else quite like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-13a.2157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-17", "file": "debates1944-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "d9e5a9613835ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2181.3", "colnum": "2181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "Not at all, Sir, I am willing to back the efficiency of the War Office against any business establishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-17", "file": "debates1944-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "d9e5a9613835ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2207.3", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. That is not an assurance that any Government can ever give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-17", "file": "debates1944-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "d9e5a9613835ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2278.1", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir Goronwy Owen (Carnarvon)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir Goronwy Owen (Carnarvon)", "preceding_text": "se, I welcome this opportunity of taking part in a Welsh Debate. As my hon. Friend the Member for Anglesey (Miss Lloyd George) said, we have been sending Members to this House for the period of 400 years; we have contributed, during those centuries, many leading figures to the life of this country as a whole, yet we have had to wait until to-day before we have had a Debate of our own in this House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-17", "file": "debates1944-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "d9e5a9613835ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2278.1", "colnum": "2278", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Sir Goronwy Owen (Carnarvon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And docile\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Sir Goronwy Owen (Carnarvon)", "preceding_text": "no outlet for their abilities in Wales, and they migrate to England and other parts of the country. Since the war several factories have been established in the North Wales area. Tribute has been paid to the quality of the labour we have got there. The industrialists tell me that they find our people grand workers and, as my hon. Friend remarked just now, adaptable, intelligent, loyal and willing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-17", "file": "debates1944-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "d9e5a9613835ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2301.1", "colnum": "2301", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "preceding_text": "My colleagues have already dealt with many aspects of the general problem of Wales, such as the location of industry, the mining industry and agriculture. It might be thought that I should add my contribution on the subject of education —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-17", "file": "debates1944-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "d9e5a9613835ee2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2325.1", "colnum": "2325", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " that plan. In the second place, work is proceeding with the improvement of communications within South Wales itself. That, I am sure, is long overdue, particularly East-West and lateral communications. In the third place, it is of very great importance, in my submission, that better communications be developed also between South Wales and the Midlands and Birmingham. Just how that should be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-17a.2325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-18", "file": "debates1944-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "89175c7ccc685069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 2.—(Power to purchase land for redevelopment of areas of extensive war damage, or needed for re-location of population and industries of such areas.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was withdrawn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. This Amendment was moved in Committee and refused by the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-18", "file": "debates1944-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "89175c7ccc685069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2495.1", "colnum": "2495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griiffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griiffiths", "preceding_text": "oys in the country to go into the mines I jumped up and asked if there was to be a Debate in this House. The Minister said he did not know whether the House required a Debate, but Members on this side of the House do know, and have repeatedly told him that the more Bevin boys went into the pits the less coal per head there would be, taking the average for the people working in and about the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-18", "file": "debates1944-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "89175c7ccc685069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2495.1", "colnum": "2495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Griiffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Griiffiths", "preceding_text": "an works for five days a week he is not guaranteed his Porter award of £5 that week. Why? Because he has lost a shift. There are exceptionally few men working in the mines to-day who get the guaranteed wage. Only some men at a day wage get a guaranteed wage. In fact I know there are some men at the present time who have got easy jabs. There are a few easy jobs in the pit, but not at the coal face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-18", "file": "debates1944-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "89175c7ccc685069", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2499.3", "colnum": "2499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY (RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "al opportunity, were the most scathing in their condemnation of the industry. They were horrified by the nature of their employment. They regarded the industry as one of the last in which they would like to obtain a livelihood. It is very regrettable; because if this industry perishes, Britain perishes. I have seen that the coalowners, too, have recognised this, and have appointed Mr. Robert Foot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-18a.2499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2544.2", "colnum": "2544", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. The Government have informed the House several times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2564.3", "colnum": "2564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "Naturally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2577.1", "colnum": "2577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only for public purposes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "It includes any improvements effected up to the time of the notice to treat for public purposes as defined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2601.2", "colnum": "2601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the scaffold.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Baronet where would he draw the line?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2601.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2609.4", "colnum": "2609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "value of these other investments has remained the same, but the real value has steadily declined, and, owing to the conditions of war and the fall in the value of money, these people have lost perhaps another 30 per cent. Nobody can advance a proposition that the possessors of real property, in the sense of land and buildings, are to be guaranteed that their property is never to decrease in value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2611.1", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why a gamble?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " In other words, everybody else is to be paid in depreciated money, but that they should receive appreciated money. Some hon. Members would argue that shopkeepers should be reinstated in positions no less favourable than before. Everyone has sympathy with that, but it is impossible and impracticable. But there is no case for the person who puts money into a gamble and because that gamble does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2612.1", "colnum": "2612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "The point is that the person who invests in property takes the risk that his property will be cleared away at any time in slum clearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2612.3", "colnum": "2612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the hon. Member has not read the Clauses, because the Chancellor said that he would get the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2612.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2616.6", "colnum": "2616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " but here people, who are entitled at this moment and before this Bill is passed, to have a new house built where the old one was if the Croydon Corporation or some other corporation comes along and drives a road through their site, will not get a house equivalent to what they lost; they will get only two-thirds of a house. Can anyone say that is justice? Of course it is the grossest of injustice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2616.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2619.5", "colnum": "2619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "preceding_text": " of the kind. 3.30 p.m. there is another purpose which we may legitimately have in mind, and which I am sure is in our minds, namely, the prevention of speculative profits being made out of war conditions. I am prepared to take the view that after September, 1939, every individual in the country was under notice that if he purchased land he might have it taken from him on the basis of 1939 prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2619.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2622.0", "colnum": "2622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "preceding_text": "g. On that simple elementary ground, this Bill stands condemned. Secondly, the proposals stand condemned by another standard, by the Government's own practice in compulsorily taking property under the Defence Regulations. I think it is true to say that property of all kinds which has been requisitioned during the war has been paid for, in compensation, on the basis of the market value at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2622.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2647.4", "colnum": "2647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "nstruction thereafter being prejudiced. That was early in 1941. The Committee reported with considerable speed in April of that year, 3½ years ago. This is what they said: We think it imperative that it should now be made clear that no inflation of property values which would increase the cost of reconstruction to the public purse would be allowed. Hon. Members opposite appear to be amazed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2649.3", "colnum": "2649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Values.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ions, or anticipated works of reconstruction, the opportunity for financial gain at the public expense. The Uthwatt Committee in 1941 saw exactly what is happening to-day on the Floor of the House-Members getting up asking for more and more money for property interests. They said that the one way to prevent it was to have a Government declaration that it should be the 1939 figure and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2651.5", "colnum": "2651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hu—hes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Co-op.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hu—hes", "preceding_text": "ot been fair to the Committee or to the country. What does \"owner-occupier\" mean? When it appears in print in the papers, what will the ordinary man in the street imagine that \"owner-occupier\" means? The man who lives in a house that he has bought or a shopkeeper who lives in the shop that he runs. What does it mean in point of law? Who is the owner-occupier of Barclays Bank at the street. corner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-19", "file": "debates1944-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "6feeaf52f4e22173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2656.0", "colnum": "2656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister telling the House what the Government's position is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-19a.2656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-20", "file": "debates1944-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3c8ae85a234c906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2684.0", "colnum": "2684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "s ago my hon. Friend the Member for Gorton (Mr. Oldfield) and I were travelling home in the train, and seated opposite us were two American nurses. They offered us chocolate and we got talking. My hon. Friend and I, purposely, did not say a word to indicate our connection with public life. These two girls told us how they admired the British people, especially the English people whom they had met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-20", "file": "debates1944-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3c8ae85a234c906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2694.1", "colnum": "2694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Gurney Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "saying how much I welcome the fact that, at long last, these rates of Service pay have reached a level at which they are not—as they were—a disgrace to this House of Commons. It is some little consolation to me, as one who took part in the revolt against the Government on the subject in March, when the Government arrived at the winning post in a bruised and bleeding condition, by a majority of 23.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-20", "file": "debates1944-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3c8ae85a234c906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2716.1", "colnum": "2716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not even a quorum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "preceding_text": " vote against this Vote of Credit, but we cannot. I do not think it is right to place the Committee in this position of having to take \"Hobson's Choice\" every few months. I congratulate the Chancellor on his courage. Thirty years ago I do not think any one would have visualised a man coming here and asking for £1,250,000,000 for a couple of months' expenditure, to be agreed to by 40 or 50 Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-20", "file": "debates1944-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3c8ae85a234c906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2741.0", "colnum": "2741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He had no lunch.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "een given no other opportunity of raising this matter before a conference which may mean that we are pledged to a policy which none of us has had any real opportunity of discussing. I hope that the hon. Member will not consider me offensive if I, feeling as deeply on this subject as he does, criticise his ideas, which, I accept, he sincerely believes, though it passes my understanding to know why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-20", "file": "debates1944-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3c8ae85a234c906", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2765.1", "colnum": "2765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Balfour", "preceding_text": " the aircraft. We want to see the whole world accept these four freedoms, but we are not prepared to concede those freedoms except as part of an international regulatory system. Those who have the interests of this country and the British Empire at heart—and although it it a little out of fashion in these days to talk about the interests of the British Empire, I think the more we do so the better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-20a.2765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-24", "file": "debates1944-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a02beba5fae7a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-24a.15.7", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "May I take it from my right hon. Friend's answer that there was no need for Hitler to invade this country —he could have bought it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-24a.15.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-24", "file": "debates1944-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a02beba5fae7a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-24a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson)", "preceding_text": "es to soldiers, dependants' allowances, wound pensions and the like. He said, in effect, that the Government have never done anything in these matters unless they were kicked into it. Let me remind him that the last very substantial concessions to long service men and officers and in respect of the arduous conditions of the Far Eastern campaign were made without any preceding agitation whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-24a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-24", "file": "debates1944-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "9a02beba5fae7a03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-24a.103.2", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES (EXTEN-SION) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Law", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And not pay for them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "lbery) and the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams) as to what is intended by the difference between \"may\" and \"shall\" in paragraph ( a ) of Sub-section (3). The reason for the difference is this. The persons entitled to immunity under paragraph ( b ) are entitled to full diplomatic immunity. That is to say they can go into a shop and order shirts and cigars, or anything else they like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-24a.103.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "I would like to draw the attention of the Committee to something that is positively alarming. Here we have one of the ablest Members of the House of Commons coming here with a speech, although he did not understand what was in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What page is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "ces. First, there is the fact that the value of money may have changed, and they point out that when the War Compensation Act was introduced it contained the provision to relate the value payment to the prices current in accordance with the changed economic conditions. They say: That the matter of the change in the value of money has been the subject of legislative treatment in the War Damage Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "its merits and if it can be shown, as I think it can, that property-owning is diffused and that you will be putting a selective tax on a minority of people in order to pay for your planning in any given area and that that would have very serious social effects and be an obstruction to housing they ought to agree to the acceptance of this Amendment. If they do not agree let us have the reasons why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Second class\"", "preceding_speaker": "Vice-Admiral Taylor", "preceding_text": "'s house compulsorily acquired by the State or by some local authority. I think it is a very bad argument to suggest that the owner-investor must accept this risk of being treated differently from the owner-occupier because the Chancellor of the Exchequer suggests it is an ordinary risk. I know quite well that hon. Members of the Socialist Party consider that all landlords are first-class rascals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.218.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. Simmonds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "at this House placed upon the property of the citizen. That, in the last analysis, is the basis of the sterling reputation. Can anybody say that if, at this stage, we deal lightly with this issue of private ownership, we are not treading on very dangerous ground? I think it is true to say that hon. Members opposite have never taken this question of the private ownership of property very seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.238.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"What does it matter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": " rich and poor, the majority of those who have supported the Amendment have done so because of the large number—I believe one hon. Member said there were literally millions—of poor people who, they said, were going to suffer through lack of adequate compensation. Have they any figures at all showing the number of people who are likely to suffer? Is it 10,000 or 100,000? I doubt very much if it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.244.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "investment company and I asked him about this matter. He said he thought that the House of Commons generally were not treating property owners too well. I asked him what he would do about it. He started off by abandoning every argument that the right hon. Gentleman put forward. He said that as a matter of capital replacement the 1939 value was perfectly fair and the only value that could be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Price or value?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "use of Commons generally were not treating property owners too well. I asked him what he would do about it. He started off by abandoning every argument that the right hon. Gentleman put forward. He said that as a matter of capital replacement the 1939 value was perfectly fair and the only value that could be taken. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Price.\"] Well, let me say the only standard that could be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "n embarrassment to his associates, says: The Parliamentary Committee of the Federation has carefully examined the Clauses of the new Bill and, with a view to moulding this important piece of legislation so that its provisions will be equitable and fair to all concerned, has deemed it necessary to urge certain amendments. Then later on is pointed out the particular Amendment we are now considering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ighted to sit here and watch the squalid scramble that we have been witnessing to-day. I cannot do that, because, unfortunately, we may have to foot some of the bill. Hon. Members have been bemoaning the hardships of certain persons who have, in the meantime, acquired property. Have we on this side not been asking ever since 1939 that the Government should pass a law fixing 1939 values and prices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rd in the centre, always pursuing its purposes ruthlessly. In the last few days we have seen this piece of important social legislation held up by persons claiming consideration for certain special categories of property owners. I do not know about hon. Members opposite, but my letter bag is full of letters from members of the Services, who are asking what is to happen to them when they come back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-25", "file": "debates1944-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "cf2a45cee202407c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "he Amendment in the name of the hon. and learned Member for Ilford (Mr. G. Hutchinson), which in my view is so vague as to be useless for any purpose at all. Whether the hon. Member's Amendment or mine is the better of the two, is immaterial. We are both pursuing the same objective. If our method is not right, I hope the Government will seek to devise some way in which this object can be achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-25a.278.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPIRITUALIST MEETING, ALTRINCHAM (USE OF HALL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Brooks", "preceding_text": "Would it not be better if the police attended to the suppression of crime, and left the religious bodies to continue their work of educating the people on higher moral and spiritual standards; and, further, is not religious freedom one of the great principles for which the Allied Nations are fighting— —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A widow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Schuster", "preceding_text": " are we to have any enlightenment upon how those words are to be interpreted? Let me put one illustrative question to my right hon. and learned Friend, and I hope it may not be taken to imply any sympathy with one side or the other. Suppose there are in a town two shops side by side, one belonging to Woolworths and the other to a well known local citizen and representing the whole of his business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or permission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "hat might be. It might be three years after the five years which have to run from the appointed day. Throughout all that interval of time improvements will be paid for under this provision. That, I think, represents what the Chancellor said. The point I want to make is that the only improvements effected during that time which will be paid for are those done under Government licence and direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.458.9", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ce, it will be found to create so many anomalies and inequalities that very substantial alterations will have to be made. But it was ap- parent from a very early stage that the 1939 basis was unalterable and that it was no good fighting for any other basis. That being so, I thought it right yesterday to support the right hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Hore-Belisha) in the Amendment which he moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.458.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "cover the whole ground in one big comprehensive Measure. Probably that would be difficult to carry out. But I say that the Government must not weary in well-doing, having taken this step forward. I happen always to have held the old Radical doctrine that the public value of land created by the activities of the community, in increasing site values, should not be appropriated to any private person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "preceding_text": "I would not have ventured to intervene at this stage had not the Minister spoiled his peroration by what he said before it. Nothing could have been more unfortunate than to have besmirched the discussions that we have had upon this Bill by light-hearted charges of Fascism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (Re-Committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wilmot", "preceding_text": "ntal authority that was not absolutely necessary in the interests of good government, and we are as jealous as anybody of the personal liberties and rights of our citizens. In enumerating the unfavourable influences which come to bear on these things, the Minister might have remembered the landlords who, over and over again in our history, have used land monopoly to hold up this country to ransom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-26", "file": "debates1944-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "6859304b3a8e175c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.480.5", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE (FOOD REGULATIONS, OFFENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman now says there was obstruction. I do not know. I understand that the hon. Gentleman is now suggesting that officers at the station, presumably some of those officers who were in some degree concerned with the events—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-26a.480.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-27", "file": "debates1944-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "f64a2aa8e7822520", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-27a.525.1", "colnum": "525", "heading": "WAR DAMAGED HOUSES, SOUTH-EAST ENGLAND (REPAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Any Government\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Edwards", "preceding_text": "mbed-out families, when we ask for 500 uni-seco houses as an instalment and get cut down to 200? There is not much work involved—not as much as there is with the Portal house. If we continue in this way, I repeat that I am sorry for this Government. As the hon. Member for North Camberwell (Mr. Manning) said in his very fine maiden speech, this Government is going either to rise or fall on housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-27a.525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-31", "file": "debates1944-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5da5300bd26ac808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "e to have a free choice. We do not want to have an umbrella, either that of the Leader of the Labour Party or that of any other party. We want our own leaders. We want a free contest. As far as we are concerned, therefore, we are all for the suggestion of a reasonable period being allowed to elapse after the end of the war with Germany before a General Election. The nation does not like coalitions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-31", "file": "debates1944-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5da5300bd26ac808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROLONGATION OF PARLIAMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will depend on the Labour Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Those of us on this side of the House want to know what the Prime Minister will do in the interregnum. His Majesty's Government will still be in being although the House of Commons will be dissolved. What Government will be in being? Will it be a reconstituted Conservative Government upon which the Prime Minister will be appealing to the country, or a continuation of the Coalition Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-31", "file": "debates1944-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5da5300bd26ac808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (WAR MARRIAGES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "s' residence, let us take a case where the parties live together, and let us assume that residence together starts in the country of the husband's domicile, and all appears to be as happy as a marriage bell. Then it afterwards breaks up. If that happens the marriage will normally break up in that country. In nine cases out of ten, that being their home, the divorce laws of that country will apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-10-31", "file": "debates1944-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "5da5300bd26ac808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has not asked the permission of the House to speak a second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-10-31a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-01", "file": "debates1944-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "62c1e97338d1ba41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-01a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"And the best conditioned ships.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "tain horse-power, and the rest of it, or a 15,000-ton ship. No, we must build a variety of ships, some even of 4,000 and 5,000 tons, for ocean-going purposes, designed for certain trades, but an essential prerequisite of a strong and efficient Mercantile Marine, that can hold its own in the maritime world and do credit to Great Britain, is that we should have the very best ships—the fastest ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-01a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-01", "file": "debates1944-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "62c1e97338d1ba41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-01a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "ling of men since they have lost the power to sack them. So, it has become very awkward for the \"gaffers.\" When this idea first came across, many of the managements told their foremen to stop overtime. They did not tell the workers, the shop stewards or the shop committees. The foreman was delighted to be in a position to tell them, \"No more overtime for you.\" He was getting a bit of his own back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-01a.880.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.949.10", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENT AGENCY (FEES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not an Order in Council?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It may be, but there is a good deal of legislation floating about the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.949.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.979.8", "colnum": "979", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He and she.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "ibute to the various benefits. The benefits are calculated actuarially and the taxpayer is paying one-sixth of the various benefits except with regard to unemployment insurance, where he pays to-day and is to pay in the future one-third. He does not pay towards the death grant, but he bears the entire cost of family allowances, and he bears all the cost of training allowances except some £500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.979.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the hon. Member want revolution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "preceding_text": " was 22 per cent. How the Government come to suggest that 8½ per cent. is to be achieved I fail to understand. In dealing with this point the Government Actuary describes this 8½ per cent. as highly speculative. I have no hesitation in describing it as wild gambling. I estimate that the average for 10 years after the war will be nearer 17 per cent. than the figure given to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1011.5", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. MacAndrew", "preceding_text": "e future, and I am as entitled to have my opinion as anyone else, and I try to argue sensibly. I think it would be fairer to assume an average for the 10 years after the war of nearer 17 per cent. than 8½ per cent. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer or the right hon. Gentleman who spoke would like to bet on this I would be very willing to back my opinion for £10, and if I win and I am paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a rotten thing to say.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ts much more to keep a man in a hospital, a prison, or a lunatic asylum than it does to keep him decently at home. Of course we had a problem in 1931, when we had transitional benefits. We had to keep the people alive. Do not forget that we did starve them for a long while, and that five out of six of the people who went to the recruiting office to defend the hon. and gallant Gentleman's property—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "to keep him decently at home. Of course we had a problem in 1931, when we had transitional benefits. We had to keep the people alive. Do not forget that we did starve them for a long while, and that five out of six of the people who went to the recruiting office to defend the hon. and gallant Gentleman's property—[An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a rotten thing to say.\"] Whose property are they defending?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "The 20,000,000 people in our factories to-day are enjoying a higher standard of living in the midst of scarcity than they ever enjoyed before, whereas before the war people like certain hon. Members deliberately organised scarcity in the midst of abundance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Eccles", "preceding_text": ", of education, of subsidies, either to agriculture or to keep down the price of food, of the health service, of Colonial development, of shipping, and other things of that kind, he cannot make the total less than £500,000,000. That will leave only £500,000,000, for social services and other odd items. I apologise for so much mathematics, but we are now in the region of something like an estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Independents?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Election. We are all more or less in contact with the Armed Forces. We have sons, brothers, relatives and the rest in them. One of the things that troubles me about the Armed Forces is the degree of political cynicism that is being expressed on all hands, not merely about the Conservative Party, which would be natural, but about all parties in the House and about the political structure generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "They do not know how the trade of this country was built up over 200 years under a system of individual private enterprise, and they do not know the rocks ahead. These things are vital to every home. We may soon, I hope and pray, be done with blood and tears, but toil and sweat will still be our portion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And they have Socialist Governments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "security. These proposals will make further demands on the earning capacity of the nation, and further reduce our ability to compete in the export markets. Mention has been made in the Debate of New Zealand and Australia, and their social services. New Zealand and Australia can do many things that we cannot do, for the one simple reason they are self-supporting, which we are not and cannot become.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-02", "file": "debates1944-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "d31922381d1ac125", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "that the number of people who try to impose on these mutual aid funds is too infinitesimal to bother about in any actuarial calculations. I confess that I am hopelessly biased in regard to what my right hon. and learned Friend is going to do with widows under this scheme. Over 20 years ago I moved a Motion in favour of widows' pensions, and I disagree entirely with his attitude in abolishing them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-02a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-03", "file": "debates1944-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "07c0f0569ff8a7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Beveridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Beveridge", "preceding_text": "a means test in old age. I urge that the Government should introduce a scheme by which all contribute for adequate pensions now. That will lower general taxation now and hardly increase it later. Prudence means providence and providence means making a provision for the aged and making that provision now and co-operatively. I have spoken too long and I think I hid better leave out the next section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-03", "file": "debates1944-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "07c0f0569ff8a7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Schuster", "preceding_text": "and others too, will want to speak about it, indeed I feel sure that reverberations of praise and congratulation will continue long after my words have faded away. I should like to be more personal and to welcome my hon. Friend on three special grounds. The first is as a fellow \"new boy,\" because I still count myself as one of the new boys of this House. I welcome him secondly as a fellow Liberal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-03", "file": "debates1944-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "07c0f0569ff8a7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Adam Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Adam Maitland", "preceding_text": "nts are likely to be. I believe there is truth in that suggestion. There are certain obligations which will assert their own right of priority. The first, I am glad to see, is referred to in the very first paragraph of the White Paper. The first priority—and, attempt to hide it as we may, we shall be driven back to it—is that as many people as possible in this country should be gainfully employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-03", "file": "debates1944-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "07c0f0569ff8a7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "rangement proposed by the Government. That arrangement is a deliberate throwing of an apple of discord between husband and wife. The allowances are to be made payable to either husband or wile, but the father will receive it and possession is nine-tenths of the law and the father will get it first. It is the fathers who are likely to misuse the allowance who will refuse to let the mothers draw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-03a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-07", "file": "debates1944-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "533a2704c9a9f917", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-07a.1229.6", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "Whether it is for my hon. Friend to reply or not, does he realise that, unless some Member of His Majesty's Government takes an interest in whether a monopoly will be set up or not, all the practices to which I referred in the last Question will be reintroduced? Is it not time that the Government set up some machinery whereby these things can be brought to the light of day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-07a.1229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-07", "file": "debates1944-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "533a2704c9a9f917", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-07a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HANSARD, BOUND VOLUMES (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "I think that this is the first opportunity that the House has had of offering to the right hon. Gentleman opposite sincere congratulations on his promotion to the post of Financial Secretary to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-07a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-07", "file": "debates1944-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "533a2704c9a9f917", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-07a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HANSARD, BOUND VOLUMES (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because you have to pay for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": " as they were. The position is a little easier now, and what is weighing upon hon. Members' minds is that, by every post, we get volumes of advertisements and printing matter of all kinds, and when there is talk of economy we wonder where it is practised, in view of the fact that we do not get a valuable document such as the bound volumes of HANSARD, because of some reasons which may be technical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-07a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-08", "file": "debates1944-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6d7e7a059e40c334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1338.7", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGES (U.N.R.R.A. EMPLOYEES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Jolly good.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to look at Sections 3 and 4 of that Act, which are still in force, and which say that solicitors and others shall be liable to corporal punishment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1338.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-08", "file": "debates1944-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6d7e7a059e40c334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL INJURY INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Wholly dependent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ill be supplemented if the pensioner is unemployable. That is a new proposal. In both cases allowances will be given for family responsibilities, both in respect of the wife and the children. Where no wife's allowance is payable there will be provision for an equivalent allowance for one adult dependant, as under the general scheme, and that will be a new feature of workmen's compensation benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-08", "file": "debates1944-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6d7e7a059e40c334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1440.3", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL INJURY INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Beveridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Beveridge", "preceding_text": "s because they are dangerous, it is not true that you cannot, by taking care, reduce accidents, and it is not true that the taking of care does not cost money. If you remove from employers all financial incentive to care, and all financial reward for care, you are in the position that you are continually urging them to spend money on being careful when they can get nothing back of what they spend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-08", "file": "debates1944-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6d7e7a059e40c334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1440.3", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL INJURY INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Beveridge", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"By what test?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Beveridge", "preceding_text": "ociations of employers and workpeople in each dangerous industry and that the Minister of Social Security should say to the statutory association of a particular industry, \"Your industry as a whole must pay an extra levy of £500,000 or £1,000,000. You can collect it from employers as you like,\" and I hope they would collect it on a system having regard to the care taken by the individual employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-08", "file": "debates1944-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6d7e7a059e40c334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1440.3", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL INJURY INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Beveridge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Beveridge", "preceding_text": "us industry and that the Minister of Social Security should say to the statutory association of a particular industry, \"Your industry as a whole must pay an extra levy of £500,000 or £1,000,000. You can collect it from employers as you like,\" and I hope they would collect it on a system having regard to the care taken by the individual employer. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"By what test?\"] By their own test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1440.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-08", "file": "debates1944-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "6d7e7a059e40c334", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1488.2", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL INJURY INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "a penny of compensation. These exceptional cases mentioned as special pleading bear no relation to the actual total benefit that would be obtained by working people under the system advocated in the White Paper. It is not a question of physical disability alone. It is the loss of amenities. The woodworker who has lost the forefinger of his right hand is still as good a woodworker as he was before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-08a.1488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-09", "file": "debates1944-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed160801160b5f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-09a.1515.6", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many bedrooms?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "The size is one for which £80 is being paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-09a.1515.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-09", "file": "debates1944-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed160801160b5f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-09a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL INJURY INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I will certainly consider that point. We have to consider the question of co-ordination. I am told that they are satisfied in the Ministry of Labour with the co-ordination of decisions of the courts of referees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-09a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-09", "file": "debates1944-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed160801160b5f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-09a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL INJURY INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. J. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They get rid of their liabilities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. J. Williams", "preceding_text": "h the rate of benefits, and frankly the Government must face up to that. In the last 12 or 13 years when we have been discussing compensation we have never had such an attendance in the House as we have had yesterday and to-day, and I am very pleased to find that. I have never heard such a favourable response from my political opponents on the other side of the House. I suggest it is just the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-09a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-10", "file": "debates1944-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "eec21e18b59c9cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1679.3", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Ministry of Home Security.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "inisters there are now as compared with 1939. The increase is very large. We have recently created, including this Bill, at least five new Ministers. For Town and Country Planning there are two. In the case of Civil Aviation, it is true that the present Minister is in another place, but he is a new Minister and at any future time a Minister for Civil Aviation may be sitting here. That is two more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-10", "file": "debates1944-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "eec21e18b59c9cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY (WAR CRIMINALS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Elliot", "preceding_text": "I challenged the hon. Member before, and I challenge him again. Did he protest then, and would he protest now? That is a fair challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-10", "file": "debates1944-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "eec21e18b59c9cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1760.3", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY (WAR CRIMINALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Certainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "ment in March, 1936, because the Government proposed to re-arm on an adequate scale to carry out our obligations under the League of Nations. I hope they will ponder these things well and look up past copies of HANSARD, and possibly even refer to the files of the newspapers. They will see that every word I have said is literally true. Will hon. Members opposite challenge any assertion I have made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-10", "file": "debates1944-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "eec21e18b59c9cc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GERMANY (WAR CRIMINALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes, it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon. I did not know that the Government wanted to reply, But I do not think that the challenge was accepted with any enthusiasm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-10a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-14", "file": "debates1944-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d7e2bcd9efbb587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1782.11", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "That is not the first time I have been given the lie direct by the hon. Member, and I will investigate that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1782.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-14", "file": "debates1944-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d7e2bcd9efbb587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1783.5", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a correct expression to use if it was used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1783.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-14", "file": "debates1944-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d7e2bcd9efbb587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1786.10", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME GUARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who has not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many members of the Home Guard have made great financial sacrifices in consideration of their duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1786.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-14", "file": "debates1944-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d7e2bcd9efbb587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1796.3", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVATE FIRM (R.A.F. OFFICER'S RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not answered my Question. What are the industrial activities which convinced the Treasury that this man should be released?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1796.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-14", "file": "debates1944-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4d7e2bcd9efbb587", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1899.1", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams) that whenever the so-called \"Henry VIII Clause\" rears its ugly head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-14a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.1946.4", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALCHEREN ISLAND OPERATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "In view of the earlier and painful experience of the casualties which resulted from the assault on Dieppe being made without close aircraft support, is the Minister satisfied that this, operation was well conceived in point of time? Further, is he aware that there is considerable feeling in the country about the size of the casualties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.1946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2004.1", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "MAN-POWER (RELEASE FROM FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Gruffydd", "preceding_text": "ore useful to the country in another capacity are still kept in the Services. I further suggest that there should be a comb-out of men and women, especially teachers, who because they are constitutionally not the kind who can be utilised for more important work in the Army, Navy or Air Force are put on low grade jobs in the Services, jobs which could quite as well be done by Bushmen or Hottentots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2012.1", "colnum": "2012", "heading": "MAN-POWER (RELEASE FROM FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "n that front a large Army of conscripted men, many of whom have been overseas for long periods and who, so we are told, are the only possible people to fight that campaign. Why? Because they are trained in jungle warfare. There will not be time to train men for that sort of warfare and you will, therefore, have to rely largely on the troops who are there at the present moment. They do not know it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2018.1", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "MAN-POWER (RELEASE FROM FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ut, can create grievances so easily. Take, for instance, the men who fought from Alamein to Sicily—several divisions; I forget how many. When they got to Italy they were brought home to be specially trained for D-Day. Are you going to take that period out? Can you treat it as continuous overseas service? If you do, then you create a grievance on the part of the other men who were not brought home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2029.1", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "MAN-POWER (RELEASE FROM FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I think it is a little too early to publish trends at the moment. There are others in the world besides Britain and there are a lot of developments going on which I think had better be conveyed rather than published. If we are developing great industries in the country out of the millions of pounds spent in research we want to get our men back into them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2029.1", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "MAN-POWER (RELEASE FROM FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including officers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " a booklet covering all the points I have made this afternoon, and more. It will include the whole of the White Paper, the rights a man has got under disablement, pensions, resettlement, reinstatement, the scheme of educational training, and so on. The whole thing is to be set out, not in official jargon, but in a simple form, and that booklet is to be given to every man and woman in the Services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "MAN-POWER (RELEASE FROM FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Conant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Conant", "preceding_text": "a time, shall have priority, but that would be meaningless. I do not know about the other Services, but in the Army I should think that the proportion of men who have not served overseas at some time is very small indeed, and it would lead to serious anomalies. The bomb disposal sections, many of whom have served at home during most of the war, doing the most daring and courageous jobs of any one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-15", "file": "debates1944-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c90f14555d5199a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2078.1", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "economy—an important part, but only a part—and that it must be considered in relation to other vital parts of our economy, in particular the export trade. Very well; if that is the answer, I want to point out that the Government have already declared themselves on the problem of the export trade. It is said that we must achieve an increase of 50 per cent. in the volume of our pre-war export trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-15a.2078.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-16", "file": "debates1944-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3200b5e6f2effc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2100.2", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is unfortunate when people, in asking supplementary questions, make personal allegations at Question Time, and I deprecate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-16", "file": "debates1944-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3200b5e6f2effc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2118.2", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhys Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept the statement in the Question that the Germans are better workers than Italians?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-16", "file": "debates1944-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3200b5e6f2effc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2167.6", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ions of this agreement. He, very wisely, takes the view that, so long as my right hon. Friend is properly humble, this matter should not be pressed, because he realises that the effect of disagreeing with the Lords on this Amendment is that the Bill will be destroyed. There are hon. Members of this House—I do not think I am doing them an injustice—who would be very happy to see the Bill destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-16", "file": "debates1944-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3200b5e6f2effc1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2204.3", "colnum": "2204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might have the consent of the House to say a few words on the subject, and to clarify a few points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-16a.2204.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-17", "file": "debates1944-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "278208396105d537", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-17a.2328.3", "colnum": "2328", "heading": "BRITISH OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I put a further point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-17a.2328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-29", "file": "debates1944-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "0c92f4f9202fc12c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-29a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "es and ourselves after this war is almost as vital as co-operation is to-day for the prosecution of the war but, if the United States will not play, we shall be forced back on the second best and be compelled to make regional agreements with other nations which will be most regrettable. In conclusion, let me say that this is the last Session of the longest Parliament in the history of our country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-29a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-29", "file": "debates1944-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "0c92f4f9202fc12c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-29a.59.5", "colnum": "59", "heading": "PENICILLIN (MANUFACTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "n but instead of the British Government taking over the control of the manufacture of penicillin they have handed it over practically entirely to the United States, and only five per cent. is manufactured in this country. Penicillin is a necessity. I find that we have an agreement with the United States that the first priorities for it must be the Service men. That has been agreed by both nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-29a.59.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.68.2", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EXPLOSION, R.A.F. DEPOT, BURTON-ON-TRENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.68.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " of ambition matter? Are the occupants of the Front Bench opposite going to say that ambition shall debar a man from office? I think it would be a case of persons in glasshouses throwing stones if they should take that line. I doubt very much whether Count Sforza is really as ambitious as is suggested. He is over 70 years of age now and there cannot be very much left in life for a man of that age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " of his foreign policy is one which must surely commend itself to this House. It is that Italians will co-operate with courage and serenity in the solution of every international problem that concerns them, on one condition only, that there be no discussion of Italian problems as such, but only Italian sides of European problems. That surely is something which ought to commend itself to all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stourton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stourton", "preceding_text": "his problem, and realise that men weary of such tasks. It is not therefore inopportune to suggest to the Government that they might consider the proposal of training our soldiers on German soil, as a means of providing occupation troops in the years to come. Thirdly, I believe that one of the keystones to the future European edifice will be the creation of a new Austria, under a Hapsburg monarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "in? I am astonished that hon. Members who have been educated in colleges and universities are so susceptible to this propaganda clap-trap. Nice smooth things used to be said about the Nazis. I once heard a right hon. Gentleman opposite say what a grand thing it was that Hitler had arisen and he hoped that, if anything untoward happened to the people of these islands, a Hitler would arise here too,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e very basis of Christianity. Then we go to war and say we are fighting for the Christian religion. I for one am not having that hypocrisy, and this is the place to say it. I am glad that this place does exist, and let me tell the hon. and gallant Member for Accrington (Major Procter) that if there was a similar place in Germany and I were a German, I would say there exactly what I am saying here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.170.3", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Vyvyan Adams", "preceding_text": "beyond the Election. I assure hon. Members of the Labour Party that there will be plenty of local opposition up and down the country to the co-operation of the great parties, and plenty of local conditions such as will ensure real contests. At such a juncture in our history, when, for all we know, we may be little beyond half-way through the war against the two aggressor nations, Germany and Japan", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.170.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.177.1", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "preceding_text": "very Member of the Conservative Party. I will give the hon. Member chapter and verse: page 461 of the second volume of the Life of Lord Randolph Churchill, written in the Prime Minister's own hand. As hon. Members may not have read that book I would recommend them to read it. It is one of the outstanding political biographies, especially as a biography that has been written by a son of his father.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXIT PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "I would say, in the first place, that the consideration of requests by Members of Parliament and the policy as to whether the requests should be granted or not, are not matters which are, or in my judgment ought to be, settled by the Home Secretary individually. On the question of, I will not say privileges or rights, because that is putting it a bit too high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXIT PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Ministers and their wives?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "deal to be said for Members of Parliament going to France in present circumstances or in circumstances as they are likely to be in the coming times. The only thing I have to be careful about is that there must be equity between Members of Parliament and other citizens and between Members of Parliament and Members of Parliament. There ought not to be privileges for particular Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXIT PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And their wives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "in circumstances as they are likely to be in the coming times. The only thing I have to be careful about is that there must be equity between Members of Parliament and other citizens and between Members of Parliament and Members of Parliament. There ought not to be privileges for particular Members of Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Ministers and their wives?\"] Ministers are another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXIT PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Yes, so far as I remember, and from coming into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXIT PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am talking about anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXIT PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "y went to the Foreign Office, because their application concerned a visit to a foreign country, and foreign affairs were the interesting angle. I do not complain that they should have done it. Quite a strong case can be made out for doing it. Nevertheless, it had to come to the Home Office in due course for the decision to be operated. This is our difficulty; here is a limited amount of transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.194.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-11-30", "file": "debates1944-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "c188dfb77577fb51", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.196.6", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (EXIT PERMITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ment that, as things are, we have got to run the policy on those lines. Finally, may I say this, that it is the hope of the Government that the transport situation will be improved. As I said at the beginning, there is no wish that Members of Parliament should not go to France. It is a matter of ways and means, and the Home Office has to be equitable and fair, as between individual and individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-11-30a.196.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only just.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "m certainly not going to pledge myself that we shall not ask the House to sit on Mondays, but I do not propose to announce any change now. It may be that at some later stage I shall have to ask, but there are a number of factors that I cannot judge now. I conclude by saying this: I do not very much like talking about the position of Ministers in this House, I realise that Ministers are a minority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.215.3", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lady perfectly well knows that there are——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emmott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for North Lambeth (Mr. G. Strauss) has made a number of statements with which most other Members must profoundly disagree. I do not propose to take him up upon them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " can pretend that we have been making exorbitant demands upon the Executive. Indeed, the astonishing thing is this, that as soon as war is declared and the functions of the Government are enormously enlarged, the Civil Service is triplicated and the executive powers are increased, and that is the exact time chosen to restrict us, limit us, handicap us, and half starve us of all the powers we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "HANSARD volumes, they take away all facilities in the House of Commons, they take away secretarial facilities; in fact, at the moment when we need our facilities, we are reduced to less facilities than we have in normal times. That is the fact, and the country ought to understand it. I do not know what is the experience of other hon. Members, but I am finding my post bag now unbearably burdensome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It seems that the right hon. Gentleman will, but the Home Secretary will not. I hate to see this rift in the Coalition lute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I think it is a scandal. I had intended to speak on another matter, and I apologise to the House for taking up time with this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I hope that when the right hon. Gentleman reads his speech he will realise how this part of it compares with what he said about Belgium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.307.7", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The Socialist parties of Italy, affiliated to the International of Which this person is supposed to be a member——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.307.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.307.9", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I mean this hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.307.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.309.1", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "put their names. It might happen otherwise, and the Conservative Party might be returned. If that happened, I can say that we should—and I give this undertaking on behalf of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and all the rest of my party here—we should do our utmost to put that programme through, and we should feel that we had the right to ask hon. Gentlemen opposite to give us their support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ADVERTISEMENTS, RUSSIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not post-war goods.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that, but the point I am making is that, if orders can be influenced by Russian technicians and industrial managers, they have certainly had a unique opportunity during the war of seeing the actual implements that they require.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-01", "file": "debates1944-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d638ca5bf2626668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH ADVERTISEMENTS, RUSSIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Competitive advertising?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ment will enable British industry to understand the true position. We do not want to see British industrialists wasting their money, and in some cases the taxpayers' money, and making a wasteful call upon what are national resources, namely, our limited supplies of foreign exchange. As regards other countries than Russia, we shall do everything we can to encourage the advertising of British goods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-01a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-05", "file": "debates1944-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "718b497788a5b1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-05a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "GREECE (DISTURBANCES, ATHENS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\" and \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed and tranquility was restored. It is deplorable that an event like this should take place in Athens scarcely a month after the city's liberation and feeding. Greece is faced with the most desperate economic and financial problems apart from the civil war which we are trying to stop. We and our American Allies are doing our utmost to give assistance and our troops are acting to prevent bloodshed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-05a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-05", "file": "debates1944-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "718b497788a5b1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-05a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "GREECE (DISTURBANCES, ATHENS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alexander.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have an Ambassador in Greece with whom we are in hourly consultation. Telegrams arrive with the greatest frequency, the wires not having been cut—so far. The right hon. Member for Stockton is attached to the staff of General Wilson, the Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-05a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-05", "file": "debates1944-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "718b497788a5b1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-05a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Thomas Johnston)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Thomas Johnston)", "preceding_text": " the schools and by teaching our girls how to cook fish. Apart from raising the home consumption, the hon. Gentleman asked what is being done with a view to selling surplus products abroad. While my right hon. Friend the Minister of Food said that S.H.A.E.F. this year had taken the entire surplus, with the exception I think of about 1,500 tons that have gone to the Mediterranean white fish market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-05a.480.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.522.6", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman repeat his answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.522.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.565.9", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "g the workers in their particular task. I am not the first to point to the anomalous position in which the Department of Overseas Trade is placed. It is well known that it is responsible partly to the Foreign Office and partly to the Board of Trade. I can only assume that the absence of the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department may be due to the calls made upon his time by the Foreign Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.565.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exports.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Member a question? I agree that we have to increase our imports by £200,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.599.3", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Subsidy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "lly in a fairly fluid state. We have no data so we cannot say definitely. What I am certain about is that financial fluidity is extremely patchy. Some industries have large reserves, but there are others with little or no reserves. If we are to retool British industry finance will have to be found from somewhere, and I suggest that it will have to be found to a very large extent by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.599.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ards, because every Tory Member of the Government has said so, even the Chancellor of the Exchequer, even the Minister of Production—and there could be no more true, dyed-in-the-wool Tory than he. I am convinced that, in order to promote greater efficiency, we must reorganise the coal industry, reorganise transport, and I think we shall have to reorganise the steel industry, but I will leave that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And as customers\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": " be. The Department is too conservative and puts a premium on trade. My opinion is that the prospects for export trade, if propertly handled by the exporter and the Government, in the immediate future are exceptionally good. Competition with the United States has been referred to, but the fact that Germany is out of the export trade, and likely to be, that Italy is out of it, and Japan and France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hammersley", "preceding_text": "epends. I propose to deal with this one subject alone. Productive efficiency is the resultant of many forces. It is perfectly true that it depends in the main on the scientific application of man-power to machinery, but that is a very great simplification. The root of the problem is the human factor: conditions of work, security of employment, health and tranquillity in the home, adequate housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"In America they had 8,000,000 to 11,000,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "have seen it in the Press, that we have lost nearly all our foreign investments. That must be frightful. Whether it is very serious I do not know, but I remember that during the inter-war years, when we had not lost them, we had in this country an average of 1,700,000 registered unemployed. Therefore, in spite of that great foreign investment we were embarrassed so far as employees were concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ts. They were even able to pay higher wages. That is a situation which cannot be tolerated. Many people think that the war has changed all that, but it has not. It is true that our industrial war effort has been magnificent, that we have done a fine job, but it is not true that America has done a less fine job. She has devoted just as high a proportion of her national effort to the war as we have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "tion which cannot be tolerated. Many people think that the war has changed all that, but it has not. It is true that our industrial war effort has been magnificent, that we have done a fine job, but it is not true that America has done a less fine job. She has devoted just as high a proportion of her national effort to the war as we have. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The figures are practically the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "ly slow-minded as it was before the war? Is it going back to the old restrictive practices of the 1930's? I do not want to enlarge on these restrictive practices at the moment, but we have heard of tyre manufacturers who used to slash tyres so that they could not be retreaded. Are they going back to those practices? Tyre manufacturers are at the present time forming a new ring, the same as before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "gely recognised. In the future, we may have to pay more for our food, but we shall be able to export capital goods to get secondary industries started in this country, and to build up their standard of living, by degrees, to something comparable with our own. I know there is a popular belief that there is something morally wrong with developing industry anywhere where there is a native population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "in having inserted—that in regard to appointments to the higher commercial diplomatic posts there shall be, on the Committee which makes recommendations to the Foreign Secretary, representatives of the Board of Trade and of the Department of Overseas Trade. That is safeguarded, but it is settled that the Commercial Diplomatic Service is part of the Foreign Service and comes on Foreign Office Vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-06", "file": "debates1944-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "bb5ccf0d847adadf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE-OVER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "t. of pre-war. In addition, I would cite the case of rayon, which I regard as one of the most promising and the most enterprising of our industries. Sometimes a comparison is made between the elasticity shown by the rayon industry and, I will not say what commodity, but something which might occur to you if you are thinking of textiles. Exports of rayon have gone up from £5,500,000 to £12,500,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-06a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-07", "file": "debates1944-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "50f73c808519406f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ething like 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 people are to-day living in conditions which are most unsatisfactory. I believe that my right hon. and learned Friend's estimate is again a gross underestimate of the situation. I want to ask the House to bear in mind the following facts. First of all, it is known that about one-third of the existing houses or about 4,000,000 of them are now over 100 years old.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-07", "file": "debates1944-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "50f73c808519406f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": "an get 3s. per thousand for doing nothing they seem to be quite content to rest on their laurels. One of the first steps the Government should take is to see that we begin the manufacture of the raw materials and that the brick yards are in the districts where houses are required. I am in favour of the traditional type of house. What is the difficulty about building it? Is it shortage of material?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-07", "file": "debates1944-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "50f73c808519406f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "partments that demobilisation follows the production of houses, and, I hope of jobs, and does not precede it. Otherwise we shall indeed have the social unrest to which I have referred. It would be far better for the Government to keep our troops on occupation duty in Europe, suitably housed, fed, and cared for, than bring them back to this country before we are ready to put them into decent homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-07", "file": "debates1944-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "50f73c808519406f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "elcome the view that there should be a Minister responsible for that matter to this House, but there is little point in making that change if the Minister and his Parliamentary Secretary, in a Debate of this kind, are absent for nearly three hours. I think this custom of Ministers not attending Debates which affect their Department is one which should be terminated at the earliest possible moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-07a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": " Front. I would like to point out that the E.A.M. is not a Communist Party; as \"The Times\" correspondent pointed out recently, it has a firm Communist core—like the United Nations themselves—but it is certainly a strongly Left-Wing organisation, Republican in sympathy, and in those Republican ideas it holds it is supported by 90 per cent. of the population of Greece—again according to \"The Times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Against Greece.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "ngly Left-Wing organisation, Republican in sympathy, and in those Republican ideas it holds it is supported by 90 per cent. of the population of Greece—again according to \"The Times.\" [ Interruption .] That can be questioned, but my statement that \"The Times\" has said this cannot be questioned. The military wing of this organisation, known as E.L.A.S., has fought well and hard against the Germans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Against Greece.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "d in those Republican ideas it holds it is supported by 90 per cent. of the population of Greece—again according to \"The Times.\" [ Interruption .] That can be questioned, but my statement that \"The Times\" has said this cannot be questioned. The military wing of this organisation, known as E.L.A.S., has fought well and hard against the Germans. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Against Greece.\"] Against the Germans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "first in last year—that the basis of that Government should be widened, and resistance leaders should be included in the Government, that demand at first was refused. I cannot go into all the complications which then ensued. The difficulties, of course, are obvious to anyone. You have Royalists and Republicans; you have dictators and you have democrats, and those classes are not easily reconciled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "d by the Right Wing to suppress the Left, possibly to establish another military dictatorship such as Greece suffered from before the war. Now this demand was refused. I am not clear from the statements whether it was refused by M. Papandreou himself; whether it was refused on the advice of the British Ambassador—Mr. Leeper—who is, many Greek friends of mine say, the evil genius of modern Greece——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.908.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.913.4", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "May I respectfully point out to you, Mr. Speaker, that my hon. Friend behind said nothing of the kind. What he was endeavouring to do was to give a picture of opinion. He made no criticism himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "mpression that the British Government and the British Army were prepared to support M. Papandreou against his former partners in the coalition. Then a most dreadful event occurred. A protest meeting was organised for last Sunday. The Government banned the meeting, but it took place for all that. The crowd was unarmed—my authority is \"The Times\" correspondent—and consisted mainly of girls and boys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.914.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.914.2", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "ed up a certain hill on the North American Continent. They were twice repelled, but the third time they stormed the palisades. They won the battle of Bunker?s Hill but they lost America. In the long scroll of history the battle of Athens may rank in the same category as the battle of Bunker's Hill. We may lose the friendship of the Greek people in order to gain the favour of a Hohenzollern Prince.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.914.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Alan Graham", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Member to withdraw that remark?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.916.4", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Graham", "preceding_text": "What I said was that if there was any disloyalty to the Allied cause it was not on the side of the King of the Hellenes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.916.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to be causing so much distress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Might I be permitted to continue this argument?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.933.3", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I back up those who seek to establish democracy and civilisation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.933.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bolsheviks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to Greece, which forms the mainspring of the Vote of Censure we have to meet to-day. I have taken great responsibilities for our foreign policy towards Greece and also in respect of what has taken place in Athens, and my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I have worked in the closest agreement. On or about 16th August, it became evident that the magnificent advance of the Russian Armies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are getting on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d the Germans to ruin Greece. But now the Greeks helped the Italians to drive the Germans from Italy itself, and this Brigade was received with a great welcome in the streets of Athens. By this time M. Papandreou had gathered no less than six E.A.M. representatives into his Government, and the leader of the Liberal Party, Mr. Sophoulis, a veteran and venerable counsellor of 84 or 85 years of age.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "the West side of Greece than they did to attacking the Germans themselves. For the past two years E.L.A.S. have devoted themselves principally to preparations for seizing power. We may, some of us, have underrated the extremes to which those preparations have been carried or the many privations and cruelties which have been inflicted on the village populations in the areas over which they prevail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I really must be allowed to continue my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"'Constitutional'\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "n subversive methods by which the undoing of States, great and small, has often been accomplished. If I am blamed for this action I will gladly accept my dismissal at the hands of the House; but if I am not so dismissed—make no mistake about it—we shall persist in this policy of clearing Athens and the Athens region of all who are rebels to the authority of the constitutional Government of Greece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quislings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "lamed for this action I will gladly accept my dismissal at the hands of the House; but if I am not so dismissed—make no mistake about it—we shall persist in this policy of clearing Athens and the Athens region of all who are rebels to the authority of the constitutional Government of Greece—[HON. MEMBERS: \"'Constitutional'\"]—of mutineers to the orders of the supreme commander in the Mediterranean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": ", on a smaller scale, Luxembourg, the most successful of all the general strikes in occupied territory against the German labour deportations. The fact that E.A.M. was able to organise a pretty successful general strike against the tremendously strongly armed power of the German occupation surely does not suggest that E.A.M. commands an inconsiderable proportion of the respect of the Greek people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Tito?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "ll discover when they go to the poll, if they meet a courageous Labour Party. The people have gone right away from the old position of 1939 to the position of the present day. There is Prince Umberto, with whom the Prime Minister dined in Rome. He is an honourable man in the eyes of the Prime Minister. It is only the Socialists and the Radicals of those countries with whom he refuses to associate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "and women who have not collaborated, who are not of one party alone, and who command universal respect. I do not think that my friends of the Socialist Party would differ from me when I say that to suggest that such a Government is predominantly Right or Left is, using the word in its Parliamentary sense, wholly impertinent. What business have Tories to say that such a Government is too much Left?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.974.3", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "g to the Communist Party— might at any time suffer a change of heart and go back to bloody revolution. Those are the words of the Home Secretary last Sunday. Hon. Gentlemen on this side can hardly complain if the petite bourgeoisie on the Continent are slightly suspicious of the Communist Party. After all, this has a great deal to do with my hon. Friends, because their own leader used those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.974.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the hon. Member speaking as a conscientious objector?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "The Noble Lord has excelled himself this afternoon in virulent, and, I would really say, un-Parliamentary abuse. We on this side are only too delighted and too ready to accept his challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister of Greece.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "That the Prime Minister is a Socialist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "nister of Greece, I would say that the whole shift of politics in Greece, so far as I can see, is Right of ours, and I believe a Socialist here is something very considerably to the Right there. Let us take the case of the old and venerable leader of the Liberal Party in Greece about whom we have heard. I would suggest that he is very considerably to the Right of his opposite number in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.981.2", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Freedom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "ng security, in getting houses, in getting a good solid existence, or words to that effect. I am sure they do want to get houses—certainly they do—I am sure they want to get security, but are we going to say that our people to-day are so very far behind the men who welcomed Garibaldi and Kosciousco in the days gone by, that they take no interest at all in any movement for freedom on the Continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.981.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Poland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ire of everyone that this tragedy should end. Like many others, I was rather shocked this morning and during the early afternoon by the attitude of the House and the cheers and counter-cheers that were going on, and my mind went back to the entirely different attitude of the House on 2nd September, 1939. Hon. Members seem to forget the purpose and the high idea that we had when we entered the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "cracy was perfect, and I hope that he will adways bear that in mind. Where I feel he made a mistake was when he was speaking of the Government that had been brought in by the Allied nations. It was not a Government of the people or chosen by the people. It was a Government which had been brought in by the Allied Armies, and the other people were told to obey. That is not constitutional Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "en and children might well be slaughtered. Therefore, we must find some way out of this difficulty. I am not defending E.A.M. It may well be there are turbulent elements inside it. My right hon. Friend would not be in that, of course, although according to the hon. Member for West Leicester, he is typical of one of the sections in E.A.M. There may be most unruly elements within the ranks of E.A.M.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including the Greek Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "r that. Would it not be possible to get the complete disarming of all bands? The British Government have assumed authority, and we could not take it away from them, even if we wished to do so—and I think it would be wrong to do so. The British Government, in my view, ought to take every step to secure the disarming of every armed element in Greece, to whatever section of Greek opinion they belong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-08", "file": "debates1944-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "384ca5360319266d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIBERATED EUROPE (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " I may have the hon. Gentlemen's attention—that we may yet get out of these troubles. The next item is this: A general commanding 4,000 guerrillas in the Eleusis area\"— 20 miles from Athens—actually some guerrillas which I happened to see myself—E.A.M. Forces— refused to bring in his men to fight in Athens to attempt to decide the issue there. There is, I think, a measure of encouragement in that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-08a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-12", "file": "debates1944-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2d71490b04032f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "n until recently, whereas this excuse of the shortage of labour has been given to us for years. I do not know for how long men will be required to make good war damage. Further, damage is not yet ended, but that excuse has been offered to us long before there were V.1's or V.2's, or any other destructive weapon of that nature. There is abundant supply of labour, and there has been for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-12", "file": "debates1944-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2d71490b04032f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no Amendment before the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ralph Glyn", "preceding_text": "The House has heard from all sides requests for improved housing conditions in rural areas, but this Amendment asks the attention of the Government to the Housing (Rural Workers) Act which is confined to reconditioning and assisting the repair of existing houses. It is primarily for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-12", "file": "debates1944-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2d71490b04032f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RURAL HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "established in 52 out of 62 administrative counties in England and Wales. No committees are needed in two counties—London and Middlesex—because there are no rural districts. Out of the eight remaining counties, five are now arranging their Committees, and it only remains for three to get on with the job, one county in England and two in Wales. They have not yet formed their joint county committees", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-12", "file": "debates1944-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2d71490b04032f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS (HOUSE OF COMMONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": " and which he can produce on any public platform. If any reasonable Member of the House looks through the menu for to-day he must see that there is variety, and with regard to costs, the hon. Member for Nuneaton could not get most of those things for the same price at his own favourite restaurant in the West End. He would not only have to pay 5s. for the meal but 7s. 6d. besides for house charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-12", "file": "debates1944-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c2d71490b04032f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1185.3", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS (HOUSE OF COMMONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Muff", "preceding_text": "Whatever hon. Members may say to the contrary, I, as a member of the Kitchen Committee, even if I am sacked straight away, am not going to take all these criticisms lying down without making some kind of reply, because I know, having served on it now for a few years, that we have done a jolly good best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-12a.1185.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-14", "file": "debates1944-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "b2b2b8817cb260d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-14a.1341.4", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "How long do the Government intend to go on with this policy of murdering——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-14a.1341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-14", "file": "debates1944-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "b2b2b8817cb260d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-14a.1424.6", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY BILL [Lords] (Suspended Bill). [By Order].", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford Greene", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What do they want the water for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford Greene", "preceding_text": "possible that, at a later date, Worcester will have to supply the areas South of the city with water. If that is so, 10,000,000 gallons a day will be needed instead of the 4,000,000 at the present time. But the L.M.S. want to decrease the 4,000,000 which Worcester is getting at the present time. They want to take 25 per cent. of the clean water which will put Worcester in a most perilous position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-14a.1424.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Each\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I agree that it would be desirable to have an agreement, but if people will not agree to give up anything there cannot be agreements. If two parties want to get agreement each must give up something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mander", "preceding_text": " Germany, because I fancy that, as the Russians approach, they will make rapid strides towards the interior of their country. There are voices, one knows, in this country—I do not say necessarily in this House—which are giving to the Poles what, to my mind, is very bad advice. There are military persons as well as political persons who are saying to them \"Play for time, delay as much as possible.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1521.4", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Queen's University, Belfast, has given the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1521.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1523.2", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Comrades or colleagues?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "h Peasant Party have issued a strong public statement—I claim no esoteric knowledge in this matter—in support of the Government now headed by Mr. Arciszewski, which can therefore claim to be fully representative of opinion in Poland as it existed before the war and so far as it can be ascertained now. Here I would like to address something to my Socialist comrades—I mean, colleagues—in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I would like to ask the hon. Member what experience he has had in dealing with the Communists in view of the fact that I, a Communist, was in the Labour Movement almost before he was born, and have done more than most members of it to build up the Labour Movement on which he is trading now for personal ambition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are mere scraps of paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin", "preceding_text": "tance and importance. I have always hoped and humbly worked, as far as it was within my power, for the agreement with Russia and for the Treaty. I believe the Poles must face realities and will be obliged, in the nature of things, to understand that the Treaty of Riga and the non-aggression Pact of 1934 and all the other historical and political matters on which she has based so much of her case——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "ssia, and liable to be submerged and completely obliterated from the comity of nations, I think that that can only be described as a completely distorted picture. The Poland that we know is not the Poland of Chopin, of Paderewski or even of John Sobietski. Rather is it the Poland of peasants, mostly impoverished, and of a landed feudal aristocracy which has ruled tyrannously for hundreds of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "n Sobietski. Rather is it the Poland of peasants, mostly impoverished, and of a landed feudal aristocracy which has ruled tyrannously for hundreds of years. [ Interruption .] I am not speaking of the Government that is here at present, but of the Government which had power and control over the Poles in Poland, and which helped to reduce that peasantry to the parlous condition in which it remained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-15", "file": "debates1944-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "19c69ee68cfa7b8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": " landed feudal aristocracy which has ruled tyrannously for hundreds of years. [ Interruption .] I am not speaking of the Government that is here at present, but of the Government which had power and control over the Poles in Poland, and which helped to reduce that peasantry to the parlous condition in which it remained. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Which Government?\"] We have the assurance of Marshal Stalin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-15a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1622.3", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMS SURRENDER, BELGIUM (BRITISH MILITARY ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Every one can believes what he likes about a thing like that. I do not know why they should have been travelling by this inconvenient route to take exceptional action to deliver over arms which their party, and parties associated with them, were objecting to giving up at all. It seems very odd but, as I say, I understood that there had been for several days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1623.8", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMS SURRENDER, BELGIUM (BRITISH MILITARY ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman seriously suggest to the House that two lorry-loads of persons, who turned back at once when requested to do so by the Belgian police, can fairly be represented to this House in a serious speech as an attempted military coup d' état by partisan forces in Belgium, requiring the use of the British Army? Will he desist from deceiving the House in this irresponsible manner?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1623.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1624.4", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMS SURRENDER, BELGIUM (BRITISH MILITARY ACTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister still persisting in his allegation about it being an organised putsch ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Liberal Nationals have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "In answer to that interjection, I would say that Common Wealth leas never yet lost a deposit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1688.3", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is harvest time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": "acrosanct? \"The Home Secretary ought to be able to defend it or alter it. November is probably the worst month in the year for everybody. There are foggy and cold nights, and it is difficult for politicians to get to see everybody they would like to see because it imposes such a physical strain upon them. Why not alter the date to 1st September when we are just getting away from the summer period?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1712.3", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY COMMISSION (SURPLUS STOCKS, SALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the bankers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Seventy-five shillings per 1,000, £7 10s. for 2,000, and the association sends a bill for £17 10s.—a profit of over 140 per cent. for trees they have never seen; which they have never handled, for an order which they have never solicited. At an expense of, I suppose, two or three 2½d. stamps, they pull in £10", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1712.3", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FORESTRY COMMISSION (SURPLUS STOCKS, SALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A nice arrangement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ag, or take the cream off the milk. I was interested to find out how it had been arranged and I obtained a list of the representatives of the horticultural association or firm, who met the Forestry Commission. Lo and behold, I found that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman sits on one side of the table, representing this House, and his general manager sits on the other side representing his firm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-19", "file": "debates1944-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9fa1c60f28832fd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (ACCOUNTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "rator, indeed, so good an administrator that, finally, the Royal Corps, which I think was then entering into the Royal Air Force, appointed Critchley to run the whole of the Air Force cadet training scheme at that time. I am proving nothing, but I maintain that when a public servant has his character impugned by such a statement as has been made to-day, I am entitled to do something on his behalf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-19a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1792.4", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "ARMED FORCES, FAR EAST (WELFARE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for India says that he has his own welfare officer in the War Office and that the War Office have their welfare——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1792.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1858.5", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Poland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "mazing rapidity under the pressure of war. Old conflicts have been intensified. That is clearly the case in Greece. If, on each occasion when a nation is liberated or partially liberated, we are to be driven into the position of a sort of Gestapo, to keep underground forces whom it has been our glory to admire in the days when they were overrun and were resisting at very great peril to themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1858.5", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": "m not quite as afraid of E.A.M. as is the Prime Minister. As was pointed out a week last Friday, the Prime Minister tends to divide people into sheep and goats. I have never known quite which are the worse, the sheep or the goats. My right hon. Friend did try to convey the impression in the House that we were helping to support a righteous cause and that everybody who was in E.A.M. was a gangster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1866.1", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "this country, and we have to face it. I am sure there is a feeling, which may not be justified by the facts—a suspicion, at any rate—that the Government are playing the game of power politics, endeavouring to establish a sphere of influence. The Minister of Labour gave colour to that feeling in a speech which he made, by pointing out that the Mediterranean was of special interest to this country——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1870.3", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Roland Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Roland Robinson", "preceding_text": "s made that the British Government and the British Army were denying freedom and liberty to the people of Greece. One of my friends turned to me and said, \"I wonder what is happening to the people at home when they talk like that?\" The view was freely expressed, \"What a good thing it would be if some hon. and right hon. Gentlemen could get out of this House to see some of the practical realities.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1874.1", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nd the warmth of their welcome. I was told by an officer the other day that the diaries of all our men—not only officers but privates as well—were full of engagements with the Greeks all over the place, so pleased were they to see us. But the scene has changed. It has changed fundamentally in the course of the last two or three weeks. Where we landed as liberators, we look like staying as tyrants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1874.1", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blow up the Parthenon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": " pouring in, during the last fortnight, heavy reinforcements that ought to have been used against the Germans, but we are pouring them into Greece. General Scobie has declared by leaflet that unless E.A.M. guns cease firing by nine o'clock to-morrow morning, every weapon that we have at our disposal—and he itemises them: bombers, rockets, guns, tanks, mines—will be loosed upon Athens and environs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I was saying what I have said with a great sense of responsibility. I have confirmed it this afternoon", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "lity. I have confirmed it this afternoon [ Laughter .] I would like hon. Members on that side of the House to realise this, that it is for them to disprove what we say. Unfortunately for them, as was shown yesterday in the Prime Minister's speech, our statements are usually correct but unfortunately they do not catch up with the lies from the other side until a fortnight or three weeks afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Loud Tory laughter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "il a fortnight or three weeks afterwards. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] That happened yesterday over Belgium. The Prime Minister came down a little over a week ago and painted a picture about Brussels which was a complete distortion of the reality. I interrupted the right hon. Gentleman, and what was his reply? That my statement could not have been a more concise statement of the opposite of the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reuters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hat General Scobie has issued an ultimatum, and that ultimatum is that the whole strength of the Allied Forces will be loosed upon Athens and the environs unless the enemy ceases to fire by nine o'clock to-morrow morning. Now, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, when he comes to reply, can confirm it or otherwise. That is my information, and my information comes from international sources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "r this question: Will he give an assurance to this House that the British Government favour the establishment of a Regency in Athens at the present time? Further, will he give an assurance that King George of Greece is not to be allowed facilities to intrigue with the Greek Ministers from the Clarendon Hotel in London? Will King George be cut off from communication with Greece at the present time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s with the Metaxas dictatorship in Greece before the war broke out. Is it, therefore, reasonable to ask the Greek people to believe in our intentions at the present time? I suggest that the British Government, in addition to making themselves the custodian for the restoration of the Greek democracy, ought to ask the American Government to associate themselves in that guarantee to the Greek people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "g for their own forms of government, those friends of mine, and friends of Members on all sides of the House, will have a very painful choice to make, either to disobey orders or to carry on a war that they did not enlist to fight. Ought Englishmen to be put into that position at present? Furthermore, the hon. Member did not tell us how much the Greek people resent Ghurkas being used against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1881.2", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not what you said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "What is proved right is that we used Ghurka troops in Greece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1881.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1887.1", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Wise", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Wise", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Member might do if he were a Greek—I wish he were—is entirely his own business. I feel that his orations on the steps of the Acropolis, even without a pebble in his mouth, would be as distinguished as those of Demosthenes. A negotiation with people who have taken up arms against us before they have laid down those arms would not redound to British honour, nor would redound——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1896.1", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": ".L.A.S. which is the military instrument of E.A.M. were planning a descent on Athens as a military and political operation and the seizure of power by armed force. E.L.A.S. is a mixed body and it would be unfair to stigmatise them all as being entirely self-seeking in their aims and actions.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th Dec., 1944; Vol. 406, c. 942.] The right hon. Gentleman said they were a mixed body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1901.3", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Could not U.N.R.R.A. have done it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "r lorries to carry the food, there would have been no food for them, there would have been for certain mass starvation all over Greece, and I am sure, and rightly, hon. Members would have come to the British Government and asked, \"What are you doing about this? Are not these people your Allies? Why have you not made an effort to go and help them?\" And we should, I think, have been blamed for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1901.3", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "e. The hon. Gentleman asked \"Why not leave it to U.N.R.R.A.?\" But we have prepared this and I only give these details to show the House that our purpose had been planned, and carefully prepared at some considerable effort to ourselves, and that the chief of U.N.R.R.A. agriculture arrived at that time and consultations were initiated with him. I could go on, though I do not want to weary the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1904.0", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "What does the declaration mean? I am sorry, but the right hon. Gentleman has occupied over 20 minutes on what was not said in this Debate at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1904.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1906.0", "colnum": "1906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "How does the right hon. Gentleman suppose he is going to do it? In any case the message has been abbreviated. He proposed to use these on Athens and around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1905.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "by His Majesty's Ambassador in Athens. He put it forward, and when my right hon. Friend the Member for Stockton-on-Tees (Mr. Macmillan) reached there, he confirmed the judgment of the Ambassador. What is the position of the King? As I understand it it is this. He feels that before he can make a decision on a matter of this kind he must get recommendations from the leaders of the parties in Greece.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1908.7", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREECE (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is most unfair. In this matter the King has behaved with complete constitutional propriety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1908.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1944-12-20", "file": "debates1944-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "441ee0891d53f630", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PLAYS (CENSORSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker : I am afraid that matter is not in Order, and I must rule the hon. and gallant Gentleman out of Order. The hon. Gentleman on the Treasury Bench has spoken more than once, but, if the House gives him permission——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-20a.1918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-21", "file": "debates1944-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c14de5e2025c2266", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.1939.2", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "A very full opportunity was given for a Debate on these matters yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.1939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-21", "file": "debates1944-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c14de5e2025c2266", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2043.0", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "PASSENGER TRANSPORT VEHICLES (CONSTRUCTION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "House. I turn now to the second subject which has been raised, namely, the Regulations concerning new road vehicles. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Swindon (Sir W. Wakefield) made it very plain that a grievance is felt in some quarters—if in none other, then certainly by himself—about the way in which this matter has been dealt with by my Noble Friend and the Ministry which he controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-21", "file": "debates1944-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c14de5e2025c2266", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2092.3", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. T. Johnston)", "preceding_text": "ve difficulties, appreciate the efforts we have been making in very difficult circumstances to prepare the way, when conditions are a little more favourable, for a great attack upon the horrible housing conditions in our country. Several hon. Members have said there ought to be no politics in this. I am happy to say that the Communist Party take that view too. They have sent me a letter of thanks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-21", "file": "debates1944-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c14de5e2025c2266", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2097.5", "colnum": "2097", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I was trying to explain that we must have sites serviced. We are endeavouring to have sites serviced, by the middle of the summer of 1945, to cover 20,000 houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2097.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1944-12-21", "file": "debates1944-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "c14de5e2025c2266", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2098.2", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "That is obviously a different type of labour altogether. The next point I must deal with is the effort we are making to speed up the necessary administrative arrangements. My hon. Friend the Member for Greenock (Mr. McNeil) made, as I thought, some rather unnecessarily offensive remarks about our intentions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1944-12-21a.2098.2"}