{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-16", "file": "debates1945-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "072f3adf8abe0fa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DOMINIONS SERVICES PERSONNEL (DIVORCE COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Alter the law.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys-Evans", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but as I have pointed out this is really a question of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-16", "file": "debates1945-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "072f3adf8abe0fa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGES COUNCILS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Jones", "preceding_text": "arrange-men which ensures that the parties mainly responsible for the industrial matters that came up for discussion were likely to have a preponderent influence. But in the First Schedule I find no indication that the combined representatives of employers and employees, whether on the wages councils or on the central co-ordinating committee, may not be exceeded by the number of appointed members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-16", "file": "debates1945-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "072f3adf8abe0fa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.116.12", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (WAR CRIMINALS, RIGHT OF ASYLUM)", "cue_speaker": "Professor Savory", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Carson.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Savory", "preceding_text": " The right to grant asylum is not in question, and they can give no assurance which would preclude them from exercising that right should justice, charity, or the honour or interest of the nation so require. In other words, there is nothing whatever in that answer to prevent the Government of Eire giving asylum to any war criminals, even to Himmler and Hitler, should they land in Southern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.116.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-16", "file": "debates1945-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "072f3adf8abe0fa1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EIRE (WAR CRIMINALS, RIGHT OF ASYLUM)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Emrys-Evans)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not a considerable time\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs (Mr. Emrys-Evans)", "preceding_text": "ned the bases. I agree with him that the fact that the bases were handed over has been, in the words of the Prime Minister which I think he used, \"a grievous and heavy burden to this country\". That is, of course, the case, and I agree with him and, of course, with the Prime Minister that this should never have taken place, but, after all, that agreement was made a considerable time before the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-16a.129.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.141.9", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that there are substantial German Forces still on Greek territory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.141.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.143.8", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dodging.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "The House will understand that these questions are difficult for us to assess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.143.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.150.4", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is trying to pull me outside the limits of his Question. The fact is that the standard of contribution to \"Air Force News\" is very high", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.150.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Agreed.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, in the hands of the Committee. Is it agreed that we take the Amendments together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.208.7", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": " other time. I have had experience similar to that of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Carmarthen (Mr. Hughes). I do not know if Members on the other side do as we do, but we treat municipal elections almost like Parliamentary elections. We address meetings at street corners, often with not very big audiences. In the last week before November one is generally addressing meetings in a fog.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that the hon. Member for Leigh (Mr. Tinker) has a confidence in the stabilty of the British weather which is not justified by the facts. Good weather for campaigning is as likely in November as at any other time of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.220.0", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "I hope that my right hon. Friend will go on for many years. I have served on parish councils and on urban and borough councils but not on a county council. The belief has been created that you cannot make any change on the aldermanic bench and that once a man is an alderman he is an alderman for the rest of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Complete with wings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "n addresses to be printed on specially thin paper—that is a matter of practicability and arrangement—and I gather that the Prime Minister is rather in favour of photographs of the candidates being put on the election address. He has always said, however, with the reasonableness characteristic of him, that it should not be made compulsory, and I agree with him. Personally, I propose to put mine on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.294.0", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham White", "preceding_text": "yd George) I shall trespass only a very short time indeed on the patience of the Committee. The principle which is embodied in this new Clause is one with which we are all familiar. As was said a few minutes ago, it is one which is the most familiar in this country—the principle of \"one man, one vote.\" It is sometimes embellished, for the purpose of emphasis, by the addition of certain adjectives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She will be\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pethick-Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I think it only courteous to the hon. Lady the Member for Anglesey—I do not think she should yet be called \"Noble Lady\"; it is on the Order Paper but it is incorrect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "le to lose. The Labour Members could either take the concession which the Conservatives gave, of throwing the spouse to the wolves—if you like, dropping the spouse—and maintaining the main business voter, or they would have had the alternative—there is no doubt about it—that there should be no change at all, because the Conservatives, undoubtedly, would not budge. What did these men and women say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-17", "file": "debates1945-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "059f3c43590bc7e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "is concession about the spouse or nothing; and the concession is nearly half the problem, so we will take it.\" Having taken it, they signed the Report, and those who were members of the Conference must stand by, it. I come to my Labour Friends opposite, to whom I would respectfully say this. I quite agree that they are not bound by the signature of my right hon. Friend the Member for East Lewisham", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-17a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.376.17", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "; the maintenance of tolerable conditions of law and order; and the holding of plebiscites or general elections fairly and squarely—then, exit at the earliest practicable moment. We toil through a mighty maze, but I can assure the Committee it is not without plan. The story of events in Greece has been told so fully in the newspapers that I shall not attempt a chronological or descriptive account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.376.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.376.17", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": ", for several years, with arms in considerable quantities in the hope that they would fight against the Germans. They accepted the arms, and they kept them and other arms they procured from the Italians and the Germans in their retreat—captured or bought, or otherwise obtained—and they kept them with a plan to seize the power of the Greek State in Athens once the Germans cleared out and went away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.376.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "We have heard all those lies before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member continues to presume. I am reading the facts and he does not like the facts. I am telling him the truth and he fears the truth. These facts reflect on those whom he has so thoughtlessly championed, and I will give him further warning. There is a great deal more to come, and I think that the Committee has a right to hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the proposition. What we have to do in the Greek situation is to exercise infinite patience with the people who are going through——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the proposition. What we have to do in the Greek situation is to exercise infinite patience with the people who are going through—— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I think that that meets with the approval of both sides of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Cheers .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " are occasions in wartime when it becomes a little difficult—let me say I have never created them myself. If we can do something to inaugurate a Government rather more broadly based upon whom responsibility can be cast, with us rather as onlookers than as people interfering, it would he all to the good. There is, or there can be, a danger of our getting too much mixed up with Greek political life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"; and \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "e other\" and \"the Left or the Right.\" I have never used them in this House and this is the third occasion I have spoken on the Greek situation. True, we may have been suppressing not merely ordinary rebellious elements in Greece but people of bad motives, and so on; that is quite true; but, in fact, we have come very close to siding with what is called the Right as against what is called the Left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "ters, and produce acts of violence which might otherwise not have taken place. But we went there to feed the people—a very necessary act of humanity. If our soldiers were shot at, we should have had a perfect right to defend them, but our soldiers were not shot until we took sides in the Greek quarrel. Our soldiers were not attacked until we intervened in the quarrel between the two Greek parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should be on the other side of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "rties. [ Interruption .] I am sorry that my remarks are causing so much disagreement, but my hon. Friends will have their opportunity, no doubt, to answer me, if they desire to do so. I think it is in accordance with the traditions of this House that even views which some hon. Members do not like are listened to, and an hon. Member is given an opportunity to develop his views without interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " Communists everywhere. I certainly do not suggest he should control the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher). It would be deplorable. Why should the hon. Member for West Fife expect to be controlled? But it is no use blinking the facts. The Minister of Labour made a statement at the Labour Party Conference that one of the reasons for going there was to stop the Russians in the Mediterranean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "y Conference that one of the reasons for going there was to stop the Russians in the Mediterranean. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] All right, I will withdraw. I misunderstood what he said. As the soldiers have to do the fighting, it might just as well be said in this House as well. The situation is that a Regency has been established, and I do not want to say anything which would irritate in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "MBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] All right, I will withdraw. I misunderstood what he said. As the soldiers have to do the fighting, it might just as well be said in this House as well. The situation is that a Regency has been established, and I do not want to say anything which would irritate in any way. [ Laughter .] People are so frightfully squeamish about hearing the truth. I agree that I may not be right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "he enjoys the affection and confidence of all classes of people there, and we ought to congratulate him. I would also like to dwell a little on Palestine. Without saying anything about the trials for the terrible murder of Lord Moyne, may I say that things are just about as electric there over the 1939 White Paper, as they could easily be made electric in the Lebanon? Now, I come to my main theme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " If they are ruined they feel convinced that they may as well fight on. I hope mothers and fathers of those who are killed as a result of this idiotic policy will make their voices heard in no uncertain manner to the Government for not having clarified this position. Now I want to say a word or two to our friends across the Atlantic. I have many friends in America and I have been there many times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The lunatic fringe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "rnment represent anybody or nobody. I have listened to a number of speeches on this Greek issue, as we all have during the past three weeks, and it is fair to say that of the critics of the Government not one belonged to the responsible working-class elements in the Labour Party. What they represented was three little cliques—the professional agitator, the near-Communist and the mere intellectual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.457.4", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "e coming from our own front-line troops in Greece. I shall come back to them in a moment, but, supposing the truth of this general assessment of the situation is doubted, what sort of question can we properly ask ourselves? There is one fact out of this turgid muddle of allegation and counter-allegation to which we have listened which no one has so far disputed. E.L.A.S. has taken 15,000 hostages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.457.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.464.2", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Ebbw Vale called the Prime Minister a paranoiac. That is perhaps out of the true line of agitation. We come now to the Badoglio and Darlan affairs. The Darlan one fizzled out ignominiously because he was killed. The Badoglio one fizzled out even more ignominiously because the Soviet Government accredited an Ambassador to Badoglio without apparently consulting this country first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Irish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "e people all the time. That is beyond the power of a little clique. This country has had a long experience of agitations of this kind. The working masses of this country have long memories, going back 100 or 200 years. They remember clearly enough the spurious little agitations which arose in the time of Fox. I was reading the other day some words of Edmund Burke, that greatest of English orators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are they from Greece?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "ghting in a city like Athens. They say, \"These people are really bandits; they are not wearing the uniform of the Guards, or of any known regiment.\" Let us understand that these are very natural ebullitions of their feelings. But I, too, have letters from troops. Here are three from the Middle East, one from each arm of the Services, which I have received since I spoke on this subject a month ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From what paper is the hon. Member quoting?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "General Scobie. … to use whatever force might be necessary to drive out and extirpate the E.L.A.S. bands.…\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th December, 1944; Vol. 406, c. 946.] According to the United States Ambassador in Italy, it has been stated in America, where apparently they have no Official Secrets Act, that he said a great deal more than that, and used rather violent language about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "I think so, and so do many others. The conference broke down; all that came of it was that the King of Greece promised not to go back to his country until there had been a plebescite, and the Archbishop of Athens became the Regent. What is the point now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-18", "file": "debates1945-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a0757a0a1713f27f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Brabner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Brabner", "preceding_text": " asked that the R.A.F. observer's badge might be worn on Army uniform but the Air Council felt unable to agree since the badge is not current in the Army as a flying badge, whereas the pilot's wings are. There is, in my submission, no ground for wearing the observer's badge unless a case can be made that it is a decoration and not part of a uniform. I hope that hon. Members will accept that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-18a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "borne the brunt of the fighting to free their country, they have risked their lives, and when they come back to the capital they find the middle class, the old men, the bourgeoisie, comfortably installed in most of the jobs. They find as a rule that, while this class has not collaborated, it has acquiesced in the condition of affairs. Then there is deep resentment. There was in France and Belgium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "n our own country, but particularly in the United States. There was for a considerable time a lot of criticism there on economic problems, and I am assured that there is more criticism politically now, than there was economically a few months ago. There are suspicion and misunderstanding. I am told that our prestige is, in many ways, lower in the United States than it has been for many years past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "United States. There was for a considerable time a lot of criticism there on economic problems, and I am assured that there is more criticism politically now, than there was economically a few months ago. There are suspicion and misunderstanding. I am told that our prestige is, in many ways, lower in the United States than it has been for many years past. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Politically, I mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Headlam", "preceding_text": "d out yesterday, was representative of all the political parties as they were known in Greece at the time. We were bound, in order to save the Greek people from themselves, to help that Government; and it seemed to me yesterday that that was the general opinion of the Committee. I wish I were as confident that the Government were as right in the policies they have adopted in Yugoslavia and Poland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Irresponsibly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "al theory and ended by talking about responsible government. It is most unlikely that our troubles in Greece would be as great if that Government were entitled to be called a constitutional Government. It was a Government born in circumstances of which we do not know fully. Perhaps I can make this point. The right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister yesterday rather irresponsibly attacked the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was elected, the King of the Hellenes was self-elected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": "hose who hoped by this means to prevent his returning at all. There are many other people I could think of who, before they return to positions of power in their own countries, have much more right to undergo a plebiscite than the King of the Hellenes. I have not heard any suggestion from the other side, for instance, that Dr. Benes should undergo any plebiscite before returning to Czechoslovakia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is afraid of him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "I accept that; but the right hon. Gentleman was pressed to ex- plain this, not only by myself but by the hon. Member for Maldon (Mr. Driberg).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.559.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "rvative Party. But I do not run away from them like a frightened rabbit when anyone says, \"Communist.\" But, much more important, it is not true that E.A.M. ever was a Communist clique. I am forced to the conclusion that the Prime Minister, in trying to give the impression that it was so, has tried to convey to the people of this country and Members of the Labour Party something he knows is untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Allowed by whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": " Greek Workers. If anything, he is anti-Communist, although the pressure of German occupation at last persuaded him to work for co-operation between his union and quite a large Communist union, and progress had been made in that direction. This man, who really can speak for the Greek workers, has not thanked General Scobie. Will Sir Walter Citrine be allowed to speak to him when he goes to Greece?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "ded and true. The next was the \"X\" organisation, organised by General Bakkos, who was Minister of Defence in the quisling Government. The last organisation which promoted these demonstrations of thanks to General Scobie was the E.E.E. organisation, wrongly described in \"The Times\" of 10th January as the E.E. organisation. One of the three leaders of this organisation was a gentleman called Goulas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "sh people. When the great conferences take place after the war, and we have to consider what is to be done to safeguard the world, I hope the Government will have an open mind about the provision of the necessary bases for British sea and air power in Northern Africa. Although there is much I would like to say, I am afraid I have exceeded my time. It has been said that these Debates are a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did not want it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am not trying to make a debating point. There was a conflict between Greeks and British Forces. Why was it that E.A.M. did not accept the assurances of His Majesty's Government that it was our intention to establish a popular democratic form of government in Greece?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "urchillian rubbish. If parallels are wanted, go back to the Prime Minister's speeches during his interventionist years, about 1920. It was only the other day that a British soldier said to me: I was misled by Churchill in 1920. I went to Archangel. I am not going to go to Greece. I have heard this story before. There is no politician who is more capable of distorting facts than the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I want to bring the Committee back, because the issue is this. If we can persuade the Greek people of the bona fides of the British Government the difficulty will be over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The Political Warfare Executive gave on 1st August, 1944, the following instructions to all services connected with Greek affairs: The Prime Minister has ruled that in principle no credit of any kind is to be given to E.L.A.S. or E.A.M. on the B.B.C.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.572.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "For you, not for us.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "of the misbehaviour and lack of political trustworthiness of the party opposite, 2,000 British soldiers and airmen have become casualties in Greece. In so far as a British soldier has died in Greece in order to try to bring about the establishment of a different order of government, his death is at the door of the party opposite. All that is happening is that the chickens are coming home to roost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.572.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What record?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "rnment. They were inimical to democratic forms of government in Germany. If civil war in Germany in 1920 had cut deeper, if the fires of civil war had cauterised the nest of Fascists in East Prussia, if the sword had bitten deeper, we would not have had this war at all. It was the party opposite who did their very best at that time to slaugher the Spartakists where they could. It is on the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have the record; you have not got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ad cut deeper, if the fires of civil war had cauterised the nest of Fascists in East Prussia, if the sword had bitten deeper, we would not have had this war at all. It was the party opposite who did their very best at that time to slaugher the Spartakists where they could. It is on the record. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What record?\"] I cannot devote myself exclusively to answering hon. Members' questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.573.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.575.4", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I know that Members would like to divert me from my argument, but I am not going to oblige them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.575.7", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " of the Athenian police weapons and powers with which they have arrested many thousands of people who recently supported E.A.M. They are in prison and they are, therefore, hostages, whom the Prime Minister says he will not release until E.A.M. release their hostages. In other words, the British Prime Minister is now holding on to the very thing that he says is abhorrent. He is a man with hostages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.575.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "hose people. The Greek Government are our instrument. We have provided them with arms. I think the honour of the British Government is involved, because the Prime Minister has given us complete assurances that he means an amnesty, and I understood him to say he meant it in our English meaning of the term, and that only those found guilty of crimes against the criminal law are to be kept in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "We have come to the last stage of what has been an interesting, and I hope in the end will prove to have been a not unhelpful, Debate. It has struck me, from the beginning until now, that the quality of the speeches has been as high as in any Debate that I have heard in this House. Perhaps I may be permitted to convey my congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. A. Bevan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in Poland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "gainst the enemy, but an internal struggle. No one can understand the European situation that has emerged, unless they understand these two struggles—the struggle between the peoples and the invaders, and secondly, the struggle between the resisters and the collaborators—for the truth is that in every occupied and overwhelmed country in Europe people took sides, there were people who collaborated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Greek people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "their great past.' That is a tribute to the Greek people; and at that time E.A.M. had control over a very large portion of Greece. In a country which they were virtually controlling, we had ample testimony that there was not a single case of treachery against the British committed to their care. I believe that that tribute ought to be paid to the Greek Resistance Movement, because they deserve it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.590.5", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "derstand that this is welcomed, but in our view no observers can secure full, free, fair play to the satisfaction of the people, unless that Government is representative of all the sections that proved themselves, during those years of occupation, as friends of democracy and opponents of Fascism. Only such a Government can give reasonable satisfaction to the people that the elections will be fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.590.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.590.5", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ve they have it now. The important thing is not what we think, but what they think. I, therefore, again urge the adoption of the policy which the Labour Party Conference passed. I would say to the hon. Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) that the Labour movement does not speak for a clique. The Labour movement speaks for the workers, who, for close on six years, have toiled to make this victory possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.590.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What proof is there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "erence were three Communists, led and dominated by the secretary-general of the Communist Party—those were the men who came to negotiate at this meeting. What I submit—and I have little doubt of it myself, but I cannot prove it—is that in the progress of the fighting, all the elements except the hard Communist core flaked away in disapproval of the policy which the Communist leaders were adopting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The leaflet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "General Scobie's broadcast was made on the afternoon of 1st December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-19", "file": "debates1945-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "afb1a57cb8683e2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.605.2", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VOTE, OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I really cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-19a.605.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-23", "file": "debates1945-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "cff976aa7725620d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-23a.703.0", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "fficulty in setting up the machinery for a new system of voting. I agree with the point that was so well made by the hon. Member for Dunfermline (Mr. Watson) when he said that whatever might be the merits of the sys- tem itself, if we had a situation where some municipalities were adopting it and some were not, even if the system were perfect, we might get a hopeless confusion in everybody's mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-23a.703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Keir", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not believe it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Keir", "preceding_text": "ds helping to win this war in what we believe to be its final stages. Further, whether we like it or not, in war-time we all belong to the State, just as I hope and believe that in peacetime the State will once again belong to us. We know that the War Cabinet have agreed on the urgent necessity of the proposal under discussion. We know that the women themselves overwhelmingly support the proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Evans", "preceding_text": "which we are subjected, and the numbers of V.1's which are launched successfully against the bases of military operations on the Continent are not of a character to bring undue anxiety to parents in this country. Therefore, from the point of view of physical risks, these young girls and women are perhaps safer across the Channel than they are on this side. The moral danger, again, I think is less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reakes", "preceding_text": "w out, idling, want to be back in uniform, doing their duty to the country. That is the atmosphere which was created. It will take a lot of dispelling. The Home Guard would have been of tremendous value at this time, when we are told that the manpower problem is so critical. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will deal with that aspect of the matter. I am now going to make a sensible suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With what success?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "I have known it done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "he House, with all seriousness, that, although ever since the war began I have put no obstacle whatsoever in the way of recruitment for the Armed Forces of the country, this proposal shows a frivolous disregard for the privacy and amenities of domestic life and that we should not acquiesce, without further investigation, in the proposal to send A.T.S., drawn almost entirely from the working class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"America.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " assume that the Ministry of Labour had been consulted at every stage of this process, do hon. Members seriously believe that so important a decision would have been reached without first consulting the Women's Advisory Committee? The fact of the matter is that it was one of those impulsive, romantic and demagogic decisions reached for the purpose of impressing public opinion outside this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member would be sorry to agree with him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "eached without first consulting the Women's Advisory Committee? The fact of the matter is that it was one of those impulsive, romantic and demagogic decisions reached for the purpose of impressing public opinion outside this country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"America.\"] Yes, for the purpose of impressing America. Therefore, I say quite frankly, and I am sorry to have to disagree with my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": " to his Department. Once either men or women become members of His Majesty's Forces, they are no longer under the direction and control of a civilian Minister of the State. They then come under the control of the Service Minister. The hon. Gentleman is, as usual, wrong in his presentation of the case. He only came down this afternoon to make one of his mischievous speeches, and I deeply resent it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A.T.S. (OVERSEAS SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "eflection. If the views he expressed in his speech were, as I believe, in direct proportion to the popularity of those views in the country, I can only say his speech has been most effective. I was unfortunately not here at the beginning of the Debate, but I have yet to learn that it is necessary to sit through a Debate in order to make a speech; it is only necessary to hear the Minister's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.905.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.918.6", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I misunderstood the hon. Gentleman. I thought he was beginning to make a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.918.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If they are forceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I would deprecate, if I may, the absence of the Chancellor. I think he is woefully lacking in education on these points. Although he may read the speeches, that is not the same thing as talking to a man face to face, because if a man has any brain at all—and the Chancellor has—the arguments sink in more deeply then than if he reads them afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You never get it back\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "arks, but before doing so I would like to say that if any ill-disposed person in this House were to suggest that I am in any way a financial expert, I would consider that as the subject for an action for slander. I am far from being in that category, but I have lent money many and many a time, and, as I remarked to my hon. Friend the Member for Dumbarton Burghs (Mr. Kirkwood), in our walk of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-24", "file": "debates1945-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae7bb5fd0043342d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " high cost of land. When they take building land for building purposes, all the amenities and all the civic centres should go with the houses. A fellow in Dundee wanted some land on which to build nine three-storey buildings and because of the cost of land, he could only get one-third of the land he wanted, and, instead of building nine three-storey buildings, he built three nine-storey buildings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-24a.941.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRREGULARITIES IN ADMINISTRATION OF AIR MINISTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.965.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.965.5", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IRREGULARITIES IN ADMINISTRATION OF AIR MINISTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. I want to ask you, Sir, why it is that the hon. Member for Mossley (Mr. A. Hopkinson) and the Noble Lord can get away with all this, when you know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Nicolson", "preceding_text": "know and which only people in this House can know, and there are certain things which the architect has to be protected against. Positively we can suggest certain minor amenities as, for instance, with regard to access and furnishings, which we alone know about. Negatively, the function of such a panel would be much more valuable. I am sure that there will be among some Members a demand for desks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tinker", "preceding_text": " few Members being present. There is no question of overcrowding, no question of a shortage of any facilities. There is the question of the accommodation of the House of Lords. If anyone will go to the House of Lords he will see as cosy a little Chamber as I have seen in my life. There is no difficulty about our situation. We are well-housed, we have a nicely-heated Chamber, accommodation is good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "tee have done quite right in reaching the decision that they have reached. As I pointed out on the Motion for setting up the Committee, I think that, not altogether due to their own fault but because the terms of reference were too narrow, one matter of very great importance has not been dealt with. That is the advantage which every hon. Member ought to enjoy of having some small study of his own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A remarkable achievement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "the view I have always held—that it is the duty of this House, and of Members of this House, not to be afraid to kick against the pricks, however formidable these may be on occasion. Indeed, there have been occasions when I differed even from Prime Ministers, when they have been manifestly in the wrong, on a point affecting the rights of the House, and when they lost their tempers and I kept mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1076.5", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Woolworth's?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "In order to enable Members to appreciate what he means, will the hon. Member illustrate what he is saying by giving an example of the type of modern interior that he favours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-25", "file": "debates1945-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "0ab4a33e5e77601e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, it is a loan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "preceding_text": "le, because I do not think they should be too much a part of our system of government, especially in times of peace, I think each of us, perhaps, is getting into the frame of mind of the ancient Trojans about this matter. It is described in the phrase familiar to the Solicitor-General, who once used it to me: Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. I think this is a small gift by the Government as it were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-25a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1143.6", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (MISSING AIRCRAFT, ITALY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": ", it has not yet been possible to report that fact. A search for the missing aircraft was begun as soon as weather conditions allowed. The House will be told at the earliest opportunity of any further news. The relatives have been informed. I am sure the House would wish me to express our sympathy to them during this anxious time, and our hope that the missing aircraft may yet be found to be safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was more like a war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "ceived so much publicity. But those early adventures of flying in this country were child's play compared with what is envisaged in the idea of aircraft flying all over the world. The second aspect of flying in which I am interested is its relation to the question of world peace. The Conference which has recently taken place at Chicago must be reckoned as one of the peace conferences of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "the taxpayer, then, clearly, the taxpayer ought to control and own the aircraft. There is no justification at all for allowing the ownership and running of aircraft to be in the control of people who are not themselves responsible for the expenditure. Everybody, I gather, wants to form air lines, and wants also to see subsidies. They want subsidies from the Government in the form of mail services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"E.A.M.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "the C.I.A.T.O.—Conference of International Air Traffic Operators, London—and I.A.T.A.—International Air Traffic Association, London—and they are to attempt, through understandings among operators rather than through Governments, to come to certain arrangements reached at the Chicago International Air Conference. I know something about initials in the political field—I.L.P. and many other initials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1164.1", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Sueter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If he could find one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Sueter", "preceding_text": "vesend. But is it necessary to develop these places? They are all in the fog area. In the lower Thames fog is rather bad, as everyone who has flown over Eastchurch, and other towns there, knows. I believe that you could have a shuttle service from the Thames to any of these outside areas. You could have amphibian planes landing in the Chelsea Reach, close to this House. A Member could take a taxi—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1204.3", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Captain P. Macdonald", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And post?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain P. Macdonald", "preceding_text": " After all, we must realise that civil aviation is only one aspect of the whole transportation problem. I envisage in the near future one Ministry dealing with this whole transport problem a Ministry of Transportation, covering shipping, rail, road and air. I would also like to see the Ministry take over communications and by \"communications\" I mean radio, tele-communication, cables, and wireless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perkins", "preceding_text": "President of Pan-American Airways: With the aeroplane of to-day America has the first chance of dominating the future highways of world trade since the days of the clipper ships 100 years ago. That is the attitude of the American flying people at the moment and, as long as they hold those views, it seems to me that there is little or no chance of our being able to do a deal with the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-26", "file": "debates1945-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "6d8f2e27e6c77bd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "r, the Philadelphia Convention, and so on, all of which bring in the question of control of civil aviation, and of prospective military aviation, after the war. But, assuming that the position were entirely hopeless with regard to America, we should still have the Dominions. I do not think anybody would challenge the proposition that we should have a British Imperial Air Service at the very least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-26a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-30", "file": "debates1945-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "b155c6e6b89db664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will appreciate that it is slightly easier to move a small bottle of milk than a ton of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-30", "file": "debates1945-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "b155c6e6b89db664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1287.4", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Albery", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In view of the climatic conditions of to-day, Mr. Speaker, which have prevented so many Members and Ministers from arriving here at the usual time, and in view of the early hour at which Questions have terminated, may I ask whether you would, as an exceptional instance, call a second round?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-30", "file": "debates1945-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "b155c6e6b89db664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS (SUPERANNUATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ld have thought that any teacher was either certificated or uncertificated, but that only shows the complexity of the subject. Apparently there is a class of person who is neither certificated nor uncertificated, and these are the people who are to be brought into the scope of the Bill. I understand that to be a supplementary teacher one has to be a British subject and vaccinated, and that is all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-30", "file": "debates1945-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "b155c6e6b89db664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " officer himself. If he knows the officer in question he is in a better position to assess the value of the report. It is also possible for the officer concerned to go before the Divisional Commander, because the report must also be commented on by the Divisional Commander and, officially, by the Army Commander. Of course, every officer has the right to appeal under Section 42 to the Army Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-30", "file": "debates1945-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "b155c6e6b89db664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " have no doubt they would be perfectly ready to agree, and I think they have already agreed, that it should go back to Czechoslovakia when the time comes. No one would suggest that the Atlantic Charter provision that the population should be consulted by some kind of plebiscite, should apply to circumstances of that kind. Therefore, it cannot apply to the population East of the Curzon Line either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-30", "file": "debates1945-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "b155c6e6b89db664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e already agreed, that it should go back to Czechoslovakia when the time comes. No one would suggest that the Atlantic Charter provision that the population should be consulted by some kind of plebiscite, should apply to circumstances of that kind. Therefore, it cannot apply to the population East of the Curzon Line either. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"] For the obvious reason it should be on that side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-30", "file": "debates1945-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "b155c6e6b89db664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS I", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ast moment to fight in Crete, and eventually came away to this country. I hope that Scotsmen will not object to this; but is it English, is it as we understand the word \"England,\" to sneer at and deride the man who was the head of the nation at that time, and to call him a quisling and a traitor now? What happened in Yugoslavia? Prince Paul had gone to sell his country across the carpet to Hitler.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-30a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-31", "file": "debates1945-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9110ba3d8241686b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ITALY (ARMISTICE TERMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "The difference between Finland, Rumania and Bulgaria, on the one hand, and Italy, on the other, is that in the one case the Allies decided together that publication was desirable, and in the other case they have decided that it is not desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-31", "file": "debates1945-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9110ba3d8241686b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the chairman of E.L.T., the Socialist party, a very respected man, is one of those whom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1432.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-01-31", "file": "debates1945-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9110ba3d8241686b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1432.8", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1432.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-31", "file": "debates1945-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9110ba3d8241686b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "f hostilities. Our industrial capacity will be greater than ever. It can, and should, be still further increased. Anyone who reads the reports of inquiries into the cotton industry, the steel industry, engineering and shipbuilding, must be concerned about the position of these industries. In spite of that concern, let us admit that productive capacity has been enormously increased during this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-31", "file": "debates1945-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9110ba3d8241686b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Gibson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Gibson", "preceding_text": "I definitely hold the view that there should be varying rates of premium according to the danger of the risk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-31", "file": "debates1945-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9110ba3d8241686b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not altogether.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": "as we had in the 1920's. The people we liked then may not be the people we like now, and the people we hated then may not be exactly those we shall hate so particularly now, but they will be there. One has only to think back to the 1920's, to the disruption of trade with the U.S.S.R., to the Arcos raids, and to the diabolical lies that were told from that Front Bench—different personnel of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-01-31", "file": "debates1945-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "9110ba3d8241686b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": ", export, export, and in the absence of any internationally-agreed plan and control there is no reason in the world why they should not. If people ask how things ought to be paid for, I should say that ultimately, once you have exported sufficient surpluses to balance your imports of war materials and anything you cannot produce for yourself, any further surpluses ought to be exported for nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-01-31a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-01", "file": "debates1945-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5030a2f255dc28ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-01a.1635.14", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir A. Lambert Ward", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my hon. and gallant Friend, I beg to give notice that, on going into Committee of Supply on the Army Estimates, he will call attention to the future of the Territorial Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-01a.1635.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-01", "file": "debates1945-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5030a2f255dc28ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-01a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BISCUITS (CHARGES) ORDER, 1944", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mabane", "preceding_text": "fecting prices and profits and matters of that kind. After all, we have to determine maximum prices, and as the hon. Gentleman well knows, we do not determine those maximum prices without first consulting the industries. Surely it has been one of the best features of the administration of the Ministry of Food that it has been able to carry the food trades with it so happily for so much of the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-01a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-02", "file": "debates1945-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "08e1fdab872a4c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING (CYCLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " are hard to keep alight in a gusty wind. But I think that that argument has lost most of its force to-day. There are now cheap and efficient battery sets, and more than one type of dynamo set. The dynamos are constantly improving. We have had five years of compulsory lighting during the war, and the cyclist—and I say this with great assurance—has had no great difficulty in complying with the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-02", "file": "debates1945-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "08e1fdab872a4c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1806.3", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING (CYCLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "There were the statistics about accidents during the war. The Government are so full of secrecy that the statistics have never been published. Will the Parliamentary Secretary give me the reference with regard to the figures of deaths in 1942 to which he referred? He has masses of assistants here to tell him. Surely to come to this House and give the number of deaths of cyclists by night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-02", "file": "debates1945-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "08e1fdab872a4c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1809.0", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING (CYCLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "ransport Lighting (Cycles) Act?\" Then we shall see the running. It is all very well in war-time, when there is a mixed bag, representing every hue of the rainbow, sitting on the Front Bench, and Ministers can treat deputations without a great deal of respect, because if one party will not back them another will, and they will have a majority. It will be different when we get a good party Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-02", "file": "debates1945-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "08e1fdab872a4c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1809.2", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING (CYCLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about motorists?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "t none of his friends intervened. When the Bill reached the Floor of the House, the Amendment was not even tabled. It was defeated by 50 to one upstairs, without a Division, and downstairs was not even raised. There are no new facts. The real basic problem is that the cyclist has not got an eye in the back of his pants, to put it quite bluntly. He does not know whether his rear light is on or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-02", "file": "debates1945-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "08e1fdab872a4c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1811.2", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING (CYCLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Donald Somervell)", "preceding_text": "I am quite willing to do it on that point. In my opinion, there is not the slightest doubt that, if there is an accident and an action is brought against a motorist, and the motorist alleges that the bicycle rear lamp was out, the onus is on him to prove that fact and not on the cyclist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-02", "file": "debates1945-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "08e1fdab872a4c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1815.1", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING (CYCLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": "k about 10,000,000 cyclists and say that 1,770 have been killed by night in the last five years. That is their statement and not mine. I reckon that to be something like one person being killed each night, which is a very high rate. I think that the figures are put rather higher than they need be. Had there been no red rear lights on cycles there would have been a great many more fatal casualties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-02", "file": "debates1945-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "08e1fdab872a4c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1815.1", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRANSPORT LIGHTING (CYCLES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where was your red light?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walkden", "preceding_text": " him careful. Motor drivers are very careful indeed. I know of my own knowledge that the working motor drivers—the taxi drivers, the bus drivers and the lorry drivers—are among the most careful drivers in the country, and it is for them that I plead that this Bill should be carried. It is a most heartbreaking and upsetting thing to be present at an accident. A few months ago I got run over myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-02a.1815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-06", "file": "debates1945-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aae7fd2df78e1343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1950.1", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAGES COUNCILS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "preceding_text": "kly sentimentality from one hon. Member after another. It has been said that this Bill would complete the work of the Trade Boards Acts dealing with sweated trades, but I would remind the House that special conditions existed in regard to those sweated trades of long ago and that we are now dealing with organised industry, which has had a fair deal for a long time past, and, frequently, high wages", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-06", "file": "debates1945-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aae7fd2df78e1343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1975.2", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING PLANNING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "eeds of the citizens, and plan in accordance with the well-established desires of the people, it is not capable of doing its duty. The Amendment tries to give an overriding power to both the local authorities and the licensing justices. It says: \"We will give the majority the right to interfere with the personal habits of the minority.\" I object to Jack Smith, next door, imposing his habits on me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-06", "file": "debates1945-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aae7fd2df78e1343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1986.5", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING PLANNING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\".", "preceding_speaker": "Major Taylor", "preceding_text": "May I just answer that point? I did not want to take up too much time, and I thought that in introducing the Amendment I had made the principle perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1986.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-06", "file": "debates1945-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "aae7fd2df78e1343", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1986.6", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING PLANNING (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Taylor", "preceding_text": "May I just answer that point? I did not want to take up too much time, and I thought that in introducing the Amendment I had made the principle perfectly clear. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\".] Will hon. Members listen now, not having listened before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-06a.1986.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-07", "file": "debates1945-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d95d315ab2ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2054.1", "colnum": "2054", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Only one side.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Law", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything about fair presentation. What I was trying to convey to the House was that it did not really seem to be a very good idea, from the point of view of getting agreement, if delegates came hot from the disputes in the conference room, and gave heated interviews to the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-07", "file": "debates1945-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d95d315ab2ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2129.1", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "; now they have appointed a successor to him. What is the reason why West Indians do not receive these appointments? Are there no West Indians capable of doing these jobs? What about Mr. Norman Manley, a brilliant lawyer in Jamaica—a fine man and a Rhodes scholar, a man of sterling value and integrity, with a great knowledge of political and economic affairs and public experience, and pro-British?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-07", "file": "debates1945-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d95d315ab2ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2131.1", "colnum": "2131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "It is extremely kind of the hon. and gallant Member. He should teach his grandmother to suck eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-07", "file": "debates1945-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "7d95d315ab2ffb23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2135.3", "colnum": "2135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that my lack of lucidity prevented my remarks from penetrating the brain of the hon. and gallant Member. Let me put it this way. In many cases the legislative councils consist of some elected members, but the bulk of the people have not the vote; they are practically voteless.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-07a.2135.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2212.5", "colnum": "2212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and gallant Gentleman make it clear that this Question, when it was put down on the Order Paper, was addressed to him? Does his unsuccessful attempt to \"pass the buck\" to the Home Secretary mean that he is in disagreement with the Home Secretary and, if so, will he refer the matter to the War Cabinet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2212.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2219.2", "colnum": "2219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I should not be willing to give a copy to the Press Association, and I am very doubtful about putting one in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2219.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2232.6", "colnum": "2232", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I do not think so. I am quite sure than when the hon. Member has studied these Bills he will see that they are not very large or very controversial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2264.1", "colnum": "2264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "With great respect to your Ruling, Major Milner, that Commission is here to purchase certain British commodities which will be exported from this country under the provisions of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2268.1", "colnum": "2268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT GUARANTEES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "ter the war and it does not matter very seriously if for three, four or five years we have a considerable adverse balance of trade. I doubt very much whether we shall escape having that under any circumstances. We are not going to export hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of capital goods. We shall not have the capacity to do it. It is the export of capital goods that requires long-term credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2303.0", "colnum": "2303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not now that he has been warned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ecretary to the Treasury, but his presence is a very different thing. I have no doubt that the present Financial Secretary to the Treasury has a lively recollection of the fact that a predecessor of his once lost his office because he accepted an Amendment in the absence of the Chancellor. My right hon. Friend, being a cautious man, is not likely, I think, to repeat that experience this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2304.0", "colnum": "2304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "viewed after four years. May I say that I have not the slightest doubt, if there were a Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer at that time, that he would review it with the local authorities and discuss the problem with them? The suggestion was made, however, that if the Government changed the pledge would not be honoured. I say that if there were a change of Government that pledge would be honoured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2307.2", "colnum": "2307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "I do not want to take up time discussing the merits of this Bill, which the House has accepted in principle, but it has been suggested that if, by any chance, the Labour Party should be the responsible Government when the time for review of this matter comes up they would refuse to review it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2314.1", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOANS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Where are we? I do not understand these people who are in two camps at the same time, at one minute leading the Opposition, and at the next a P.P.S.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-08", "file": "debates1945-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c90440eb48a2bd62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2343.9", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (HIS MAJESTY'S INSPECTORS OF CONSTABULARY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "he first Chief Constable of the County of Lancashire, and although perhaps we would not write some of it now, broadly speaking, it shows how excellent were the principles on which the police were established even at the beginning of that county force, and I think the House may be interested to know what the poster said: (1) Constables are placed in authority to protect, not to oppress, the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-08a.2343.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-13", "file": "debates1945-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ae252c5d0ae089b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or to sell them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "mission provides. Let us look at the question, and see how far the safeguards of the Bill are, in fact, weakened. The cases in which the decision of the Commission is not to be final, will all be cases in which Government policy is involved. They will all be cases in which the Government propose either to use the works for public purposes or to control the use of the works in the public interest.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-13", "file": "debates1945-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ae252c5d0ae089b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.71.5", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It may be hard on the owner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "hat the purpose of the Government in seeking to acquire the land should not be proceeded with if the owner is willing to pay such sums as may be considered reasonable in respect of the works upon the land. That seems to me to be a very important provision, which would provide a background for fruitful negotiation and discussion between the Government Department concerned and the owner of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.71.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-13", "file": "debates1945-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ae252c5d0ae089b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Defence works.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "nd all that sort of thing. I am going to try to persuade the House that the exact opposite is the case. First let us look at Clause 11, which defines what the Commission has to consider. Clause 11 says that the Commission shall have regard to \"all relevant considerations.\" That was intended to include the question of amenities, planning, agriculture and all the rest as well as the primary purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-13", "file": "debates1945-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ae252c5d0ae089b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has been clone many times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "f Agriculture or the Minister of Town and Country Planning. That omission does not in the least mean that there will not be the fullest consultation. There will be the fullest consultation, but there are objections, which I believe have great force, to attempting in any Bill, whether of this kind or any other, to regulate the relations between various responsible. Ministers in the same Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-13", "file": "debates1945-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ae252c5d0ae089b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier-General Clifton Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier-General Clifton Brown", "preceding_text": " me to be quite different from what is in the Bill. I am reminded of the old saying about good intentions leading us to a place where we do not want to go. We have to argue our points on the Bill as it is written. As it is written, there are a great many injustices in it which affect many classes, especially in the country. I suppose that Berkshire is one of the most beautiful counties in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-13", "file": "debates1945-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "ae252c5d0ae089b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "er of Town and Country Planning, and planning itself, were not mentioned in Clause 11 was twofold. We believe there is some constitutional objection to saying that one Minister must consult some other Minister. There was considerable discussion on the point a few years ago. We put \"all relevant considerations\" into Clause II and we certainly—is my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford (Mr. Hogg) here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-13a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-14", "file": "debates1945-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "601a67f6b71923d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": " a formidable and complex Measure, but that is because the problems with which it deals are, themselves, formidable and complex. It has four main objects. The first is, to enable local planning authorities to acquire, by a simplified and expeditious procedure, land both in war-damaged and blighted areas, together with the land needed for the \"overspill\" of population and industry from those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-14", "file": "debates1945-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "601a67f6b71923d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "Thank you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-14", "file": "debates1945-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "601a67f6b71923d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McLean Watson", "preceding_text": " the Measure, by having their schemes approved by the Secretary of State much more speedily than will the principal burgh in my constituency. When Dunfermline Burgh decided to have a town planning scheme, many years ago, they drafted their plan, and sent it to the Department of Health in Edinburgh. How long it was there I do not know, but I think it lay there for some years before it was approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-14", "file": "debates1945-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "601a67f6b71923d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.350.3", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD PRESERVATIVES (REGULATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Mr. Mabane)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Mr. Mabane)", "preceding_text": "seconded. As to the first point made, by the mover, who asked why this Order is construed as being connected with the war and is not ultra vires, powers are given to make Orders necessary for the maintenance of supplies and services. The short answer on that point is that without this Order, the foodstuffs mentioned in the Order would not be available, or would not be available in such quantities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-14a.350.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL WAR EFFORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "In answer to the last point, I shall be glad to be able to give amelioration immediately the war with Germany is over. I cannot answer for the Services, but as far as I am able to inform myself, there is no substantial waste going on at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Womersley", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I am not aware of it. I know that in a certain part of the country there is a lot of agitation going on, and some hon. Members are supporting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.373.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATLANTIC CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "Does it apply to the Baltic Republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER (RECONSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The railways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "ent from 1885 to 1894, at the end of one of the worst periods in history so far as the well-being of our people was concerned. They were created towards the end of the Victorian era, a great era of the expansion of industry, when factories and houses were placed wherever a person decided to put them, without any regard whatsoever to the welfare of the people, their families, or future generations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER (RECONSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "horities have fallen far short of their duties and their obligations. We find that they have had insufficient regard for their powers or their duties, or the advice tendered them by their officers. In fact, they have failed in their trusteeship as guardians of the health and welfare of the people who elected them. I have no doubt that I would find the same conditions in any other part of the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.458.6", "colnum": "458", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER (RECONSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": ". I do not intend to discuss the merits or demerits of what has come to be known as regionalism. It would be a fundamental change, needing a major Bill, and it would meet with the bitter hostility of the local government bodies of this country, both individually and collectively. There can be no possible doubt about that—and the Minister made it quite plain that the introduction of such a Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.458.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.504.3", "colnum": "504", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER (RECONSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If we get to the point of inventing new methods of local government, or departing from the normal, it must be done on Ministerial authority with Parliamentary assent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER (RECONSTRUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was here \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "must take account, and will take account, of the problems of the local authorities. My hon. Friend the Member for Abingdon (Sir R. Glyn) got into a curious sort of state about the regions. He said \"I am most anxious to get rid of the Regional Commissioners.\" Well, they are going all right. When the hon. Member was not here, I paid a tribute to their work, which I am always happy to do in war time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edgar Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edgar Granville", "preceding_text": "d some experience with regard to the causes of air accidents, and there are many practical details on which some of us would like the right hon. Gentleman to give considered answers if not to-night at some other time, and provide more information than he has given us in the past. We would like to know whether the aircraft compasses are tested after each long-distance section of an extended flight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-15", "file": "debates1945-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "184da3eeab192c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "AIR ACCIDENTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So there are\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "If I may say so to the Noble Lord, I think that is an ungenerous observation. I was told that there was a melancholy and mounting toll of accidents in Transport Command—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-15a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-16", "file": "debates1945-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e78ae9163fd1a049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-16a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES (POULTRY AND RABBITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "d conferences, just before Christmas, he knew, and his officials knew, that a black market was an inevitable sequel to that Order and scheme which he promoted, so far as home-produced birds were concerned. I do not really want to censure the Minister of Food, but I want to say that he has been badly advised, and that many of his advisers have set out to deceive him, and have succeeded in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-16a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-16", "file": "debates1945-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "e78ae9163fd1a049", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-16a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES (POULTRY AND RABBITS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is very serious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "We should be inclined to lose our poultry just when the Minister of Agriculture and I are trying to give a little extra feeding stuffs to breeders of stock poultry so that they may once again build up our poultry stocks, and so allow people to have more fresh eggs than they have been able to enjoy during these years of war. This alleged black market is not as big as my hon. Friends would make out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-16a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A change has been made.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "change on the lines I am advocating. They represent about a per cent. of the teachers in the ordinary primary schools, whereas the teachers we are thinking about represent about 80 per cent. Would it not be better to recognise facts and call the groups of schools we are dealing with, or shall be dealing with from 1st April, \"junior secondary schools?\" The Minister may say that that would not help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was last Session.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "the original Clause in the original Education Bill. The Minister was there to be given dictatorial powers practically to decide salaries, but the House decided not to allow the right hon. Gentleman to have what I have called dictatorial and deciding powers, and the Clause was altered in another place. I have to be careful in case I should get out of Order in quoting from a Debate in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "the scales and the Board of Education accept or reject them for the purposes of their grant. The proposed new wording continues the principle that it is for the Burnham Committee to frame the scales and for the Minister to approve or reject them, but it provides that, in so far as he approves them, he may, by Order, make them mandatory. Are we going to interfere and so smash the Burnham Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "hey had been discussing a problem for hours. Frankly, we have thrown this matter over to people who know something about it. Do hon. Members trust or distrust the representatives of the local authorities? Do they accept the view that the local authorities know what they are about? They are by no means Socialist or Labour people. They are responsible people from county council education committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.688.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are sure to.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "ecause of a lack of teachers with higher degrees. I am quite sure they would. I do not believe we can afford to throw this matter back into the turmoil again. After all, there is something to be said, and I will say it quite briefly, on the positive side of these scales. First of all, and I hope hon. Members on the other side of the House who represent the Tory Reform Committee will agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "on of the education system. Is that or is that not a good thing? I say that to break down the artificial distinction between the two sections is a grand thing. I think hon. Members on the other side, who are outside the Tory Reform Committee, will agree with me now when I say that it breaks down the distinction between the rural school teacher and the town school teacher. Is that not a good thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.731.5", "colnum": "731", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "their profession to have 70 per cent. of their workers paid at cut-price rates. We have heard from the Bench opposite unstinted praise of women, and it is a little ironical that to-day there should be this fresh failure to recognise women's work. I cannot help thinking that all this praise we have heard about women's work in war from Ministers in the Government is nothing but humbug and hypocrisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.731.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-20", "file": "debates1945-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "435f9e1ecf8deea3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (AMERICAN MISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were no use even if they could have been put there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "I rather look to the other side as having been of the greatest possible help to us during these difficult times. They have taken immense trouble to ship us great masses of machinery of all types to help us with our production problems, and delivered coal power loaders to us to such an extent that we could not use them in our mines fast enough, so that they had to stop delivering them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-20a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-21", "file": "debates1945-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ba87c840910e7b5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-21a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Lyons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lyons", "preceding_text": "When the Minister spoke just now of using the services of the motor trade, did he mean that the motor trade acquired from the public and then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-21a.780.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTORAL REGISTRATION (BUSINESS PREMISES VOTE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Then why worry?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend understand that all the publicity that is given to the rights of business men to vote in their constituency, and in constituencies where they ought not to vote, will have no appreciable effect on the next General Election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFI CATION ACT (EXPIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Far from it. My hon. Friend is, I think, attaining all, or even more than he desires. The Act is going to disappear. It was a very great convenience in wartime, and I am much obliged to the House for giving me that facility, but with the change in our affairs which we may hope for in the future, such necessity will not occur. We can dispense with this and much other wartime machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.958.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "HANSARD, HOUSE OF COMMONS (BOUND VOLUMES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "While endorsing what the hon. Member for Gorbals (Mr. Buchanan) has said, might I suggest that, in the event of its not being possible to issue free bound volumes, some facilities might be given to hon. Members to bind the daily copies of HANSARD?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Russell Thomas", "preceding_text": "re important reflection on their professional reputation. These cases were largely those due to disappointment at the result attained. Perhaps somebody had suffered from an unpreventible after effect, or an illness had taken a turn which nothing would have averted; sometimes if one traced the motives behind such actions it would be found that they might have been brought from malicious motives or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "application of the principles would not be beneficial. I admit there-are such cases, but I am dealing at the moment with the class of case in which the application of the principle would benefit the workman. It surely cannot be seriously contended that, because the employer would suffer thereby, that is a reason for denying the workman the benefit of a principle which is applied to everybody else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Cesser of exemption, in case of pedal cycles, from obligation to carry rear lamps.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They steal the car.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "tising any particular firm but am speaking as an old cyclist. I would again bring to the notice of the hon. and gallant Member for Brighton the fact that I am not speaking for any club. I believe that the most efficient system is the dynamo set. In the main it works efficiently. It is reliable—provided that nobody steals it when the cycle is parked. Nobody ever stole the rear light of a motor car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Cesser of exemption, in case of pedal cycles, from obligation to carry rear lamps.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Walkden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Walkden", "preceding_text": "t certain trade interests. After the war very few people will be carrying these confounded torches. It had been suggested to me, not by evil-minded persons, but by citizens of good will, and even by magistrates, two of whom wrote to me the other day, that this is going to be a fine thing for the manufacturers of batteries, because it assures them of a market for 50,000,000 batteries after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1052.5", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Cesser of exemption, in case of pedal cycles, from obligation to carry rear lamps.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am afraid I do not follow the point of that interruption. I agree with my hon. Friend that it is necessary to have lights if it can be shown at all that there is a suitable light on the market for the cyclist. You cannot impose an unreasonable obligation on the citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1052.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1064.2", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Cesser of exemption, in case of pedal cycles, from obligation to carry rear lamps.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I should think that after all this Debate the Committee would probably want to come to a decision about this Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1064.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1073.2", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Cesser of exemption, in case of pedal cycles, from obligation to carry rear lamps.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "e war. I desire to say a word to the cyclists and to all other road users as well. The deaths from air bombardment in this country throughout the war, up to the end of 1944, were 58,000. Deaths on the roads were 41,051. The seriously injured from German bombing, V.1 and V.2, numbered 81000—and serious injury is often worse than death. There were 30,000 more seriously injured on the roads—117,000.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1073.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-22", "file": "debates1945-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "3352e694a3ed28ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1077.2", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 1.—(Cesser of exemption, in case of pedal cycles, from obligation to carry rear lamps.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry Fildes", "preceding_text": "Sir Henry Fildes (Dumfries) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-22a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-23", "file": "debates1945-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "534ffce8ffc0ede7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Let us kiss him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-23", "file": "debates1945-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "534ffce8ffc0ede7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torn Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torn Brown", "preceding_text": "given to the industry what it was thought it would; it has fallen far short of what we tried to secure in 1920 and 1926. I would like to see the scheme I am advocating promoted, encouraged and controlled by the Ministry of Fuel and Power, because that Ministry is answerable to this House for its conduct and work. Break down the system of bureaucracy, deal with the matter on broad democratic lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-23", "file": "debates1945-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "534ffce8ffc0ede7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wootton-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wootton-Davies", "preceding_text": "rst-class Minister, one of our best—told me that my suggestions for the saving of coal were all right, but the Government could not put up any case on a shortage of coal. This was three years ago. The wheels of Government grind slowly. That was the attitude of the Government then. Some hon. Members may remember that I was pursuing a lone course and had a lot of cold water thrown on my suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-23", "file": "debates1945-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "534ffce8ffc0ede7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reduce the wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I am trying to give this one example of the problem which is facing the industry, and for which I know of no solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-23", "file": "debates1945-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "534ffce8ffc0ede7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1196.3", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF FUEL AND POWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "m prepared at any time, anywhere, to justify the existence of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, with its limited powers. Whether the administration of the Ministry has been good, bad or indifferent during the last two and three quarter years we have felt that after this war there must be a separate Ministry for Fuel and Power, and that it must not go back again as a Department of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-23a.1196.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1211.2", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Hannon", "preceding_text": "Would it be possible for the right hon. Gentleman in giving his replies to turn a little this way sometimes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1230.6", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HIGH COURT JUDGES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the judges have had a substantial increase of salary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1271.1", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ce of Poland is to be maintained, and this decision is now joined in both by Great Britain and the United States. Here also, the world organisation will in due course assume a measure of responsibility. The Poles will have their future in their own hands, with the single limitation that they must honestly follow, in harmony with their Allies, a policy friendly to Russia. That is surely reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f the Polish Government in London. This will be maintained until such time as His Majesty's Government consider that a new Provisional Government has been properly formed in Poland, in accordance with the agreed provisions; nor does it involve the previous or immediate recognition by His Majesty's Government of the present Provisional Government which is now functioning in Poland. We are awaiting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1285.5", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e. I have hopes that, when the war is over, good arrangements can be made for securing the peace and progress of the Arab world and generally of the Middle East, and that Great Britain and the United States, which is taking an increasing interest in these regions, will be able to play a valuable part in proving that well known maxim of the old Free Trader \"All legitimate interests are in harmony.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1285.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1285.5", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y, the largest and most enthusiastic gathering that, in a very long experience of such demonstrations, I have ever seen. There is no subject in my recollection on which the policy of His Majesty's Government has received more complete vindication than in regard to Greece, nor has there been any on which greater prejudice and misrepresentation have been poured out against them in the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1285.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "h Government, rather than to the Government which has hitherto been recognised by this country and is still recognised. However, it is perfectly clear—and I have expressed this view to what Polish friends I have, during past months—that there must be a provisional Government, national in character, representative of all organised political movements, to prepare for the future of the Polish people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1300.1", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Beveridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Beveridge", "preceding_text": "oduction it is necessary to stop Germany from turning what may be useful goods into destructive munitions in order to be sure that she cannot start a war with any hope of success. That is a technical problem. Personally, I hope that it would be found necessary to interfere only at a very late stage of production indeed. After all, you cannot make aircraft or tanks or bombs in quantities in secret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Beveridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Beveridge", "preceding_text": "ft or tanks or bombs in quantities in secret. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I should be very much surprised if the experts agreed with hon. Members opposite and not with me. I hope that on the advice of a Technical Committee we shall find it possible to keep Germany impotent for war while avoiding anything that may impoverish Germany. I hope also that we will not attempt to partition or dismember Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "From Eastern Poland in the sense I have used it there would be little migration, because there are very few Poles there. The Poles in East Prussia numbered probably 53 per cent. pre-war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": " inhabitants of Poland, in defence of whom the present war was begun. That shows, at least, that these doubts were held and felt in many quarters. Nor was it any secret that His Majesty's Government's Ambassador in Moscow was strongly of the opinion that the Lublin Committee ought to be recognised as the sole legitimate Government of Poland at an early date. I think there was no secret about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain McEwen", "preceding_text": ". Then it is said: \"If that is the line you take, then you would have left the Poles in Poland to what you consider to be a Russianised Lublin Government and done nothing for them.\" On the whole, and taking the admittedly pessimistic view of the future of the Poles under the arrangements which have been reached, which I do, I would answer: \"Yes, I do not think they would have been much worse off.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1337.3", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "cept and pay tribute to the sincerity with which the hon. and gallant Gentleman spoke, yet at the same time, in view of the influential position which he holds on the Conservative Benches, his speech seemed to me to be an ill-omen of the mood and of the sense of responsibility with which that great party is proposing to go to the country and confront the problems of the peace that lie ahead of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1337.3", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "uance of that peace must be the perpetuation of close friendship and the real implementing of our Alliance with the Soviet Union. I challenge any hon. Member to deny that and to say that it would not be disastrous if that Alliance broke down. I was extremely interested and impressed by most of the Prime Minister's speech. I was going to say a few words about Greece, but I do not think I have time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1337.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1342.7", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "The figures are not fictitious at all. I have checked those figures, which come from an extremely reliable inside source—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1342.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-27", "file": "debates1945-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "327f0dc94b885d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1342.7", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "res for the Polish Ministry of Information, but they are even more staggering than those for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1944 the sum was getting on for £1,000,000, and there have been large subsidies for all sorts of publications in this country. \"Free Europe\" got £4,800 from them. Also, an extremely interesting Polish \"information\" activity is the Soviet Research Centre, which increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-27a.1342.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1421.1", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Dreadnought\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "n the highest in the land, may, even in the darkest days, get things done and errors rectified. That can never happen under a dictatorship régime, because everybody is in a conspiracy of silence to shield those in high positions. The Prime Minister—and never let it be thought that I am attempting to curry favour in this matter—is a great man of war. He is a well-found, stout battle-cruiser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": "sia can be persuaded that her interest lies in dealing with her neighbours on fair, just and honourable terms, there is real hope of peace, and lasting peace in Europe, and all the efforts of His Majesty's Government should be devoted—if I may respectfully point that out, as they seem sometimes not to be—firmly, honestly and determinedly, to show to the Russians where their own self-interest lies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Southby", "preceding_text": "A good many other hon. Members want to speak, and I do not want to take up too much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1454.1", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not a small number.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "friends. In the last two months we have had two cases. In the case of Greece one body in the country was seeking, with arms in its hands, to take power. Our Government took action in that matter which, as I believe, safeguarded it and gave Greece the opportunity for a free and democratic existence. On that occasion, the Government were criticised by a small number of Members of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "t was cold-blooded murder of the most appalling kind. But millions of Poles also have been persecuted, and subjected to every kind of cruelty. We know the story of the underground movement, unrivalled by any underground movement in any part of Europe. As far as I know, no Quisling has been found in the whole of that country. But let us be frank with ourselves. Poland owes its liberation to Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1470.4", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "on to make my point that there is nothing genuine in all these protestations about freedom and independence. I will give another instance. I am not a new convert to the demand for independence and freedom for Poland. Thirty-five years ago I was speaking in this country, at great mass demonstrations, in support of the demand for freedom and independence for Poland. Where were the hon. Members then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1485.9", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Russia was also overrun.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ainly non-intervention by the people who have not rendered any service to those con- cerned. What is the situation as regards Poland and her relations with Russia? Let me ask hon. Members opposite this question: Suppose there had been a victorious Germany and Poland had been crushed—indeed, she was crushed for a time—defeated overwhelmingly and overrun, and her people put on the rack and tortured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1485.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1486.3", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-02-28", "file": "debates1945-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "99cb7310b0210a05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are these?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I do not know that my hon. Friend has got the complete document. In fact I do not know what he has got. I must frankly say, if he has got the complete document, he will see that that refers to an earlier Article, and the earlier Article makes it quite plain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-02-28a.1509.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1532.8", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL (REINSTATEMENT AND RESETTLE> MENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I would not like it to be assumed that any employer has ever done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1532.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1538.0", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Locker-Lampson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Locker-Lampson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I attended two academics, for two years at each, and when I came back I remembered nothing—I only remember to-day the names of the Kings of Zululand—and will he allow Mr. H. G. Wells' \"History of the World\" to be in every school?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1568.2", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Friday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I would like to consider that, but I must get the Motion one day next week, and Tuesday and Wednesday are already very full days as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1624.1", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am glad to have that assurance from my right hon. Friend. I can read English as well as most people, but I cannot make sense of what the right hon. Gentleman replied to me to-day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1628.5", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "to do that often enough before, it has never produced anything but extreme disaster. However, this is the first occasion in history I think upon which a gentleman occupying so elevated a situation as that has avowed that preposterous principle—we are to try to arrange Eastern Europe not in the light of the past but in the light of the future, and from the point of view of the people of the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1628.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1629.1", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "r they were to draw myself to the favourable attention of the leaders of the Tory Party. What I want to say is this: It really is not any good their telling us that it would be improper, impolite or impolitic to question the word of Marshal Stalin and M. Molotov. I should not think of questioning their word, but if I did, and wanted to annoy them, which is the last thing in the world I wish to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1629.1", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "this House, however faithful any particular individual may be? The Prime Minister was twitted two or three years ago, I think it was, for what I thought was an unimpeachable utterance of his, when he said that he hoped that when the long day was done the Tory Party would prove to have been the main rock upon which victory had been built. That was a perfectly fair thing for any party leader to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-01", "file": "debates1945-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "015bd90ad7dd68f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMEA CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ated—as a result of the conversations in Moscow, and provided it can be regarded as broadly representative of the Polish people. I received a message a short while ago, to which I understand the hon. Member for South Croydon (Sir H. Williams) referred, of the reported arrest of the wife of the present Polish Prime Minister in London and a certain number of people working with her in the Red Cross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-01a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-02", "file": "debates1945-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ad376aec0210614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1698.3", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "able goods. I agree that unemployment affects it. If we are not skilful in our organisation, and a lot of people are idle, we reduce our production of goods. At any rate, whatever the factors, there is a limit at any given moment. Therefore, these banking institutions which the Chancellor has brought into being, or which, at any rate, have been brought into being, because of something he has done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-02", "file": "debates1945-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ad376aec0210614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1710.3", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I point out in reply to the first part of the hon. Member's intervention that we are asked to entrust these functions to the same persons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-02", "file": "debates1945-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ad376aec0210614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1718.0", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Walk into the parlour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I will do so with pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-02", "file": "debates1945-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "9ad376aec0210614", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1752.1", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE CORPORATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the national interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "I said that the hon. Member argued as if the functions which those concerns were to discharge were those appropriate to a public organisation. What are the public functions which these bodies are to discharge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-02a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1796.6", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "GREAT BRITAIN AND RUSSIA (EXCHANGE OF GREETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Chairman of the Council of Nationalities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1796.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where did the hon. Member get them from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "air trunk-routes owned and operated by the British and Dominion Governments. That is where Australia and New Zealand stand, but it is not what the Government stands for and it is not the policy which has been declared, though secretly, and which will, I suppose, soon be embodied in the White Paper. What is the policy? I have the minutes of the meeting which was held with the independent operators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1885.1", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "ar in mind in the event of the possibility of their changing what has been understood. It says: The United States Department of Justice is opposed to single-company operation of American international air transport.… The Department also opposes the ownership or control of air lines by companies controlling other forms of transport. I have advocated, probably almost ad nauseam to this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1885.1", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "with the Air Transit Agreement—the two freedoms—signed by the U.S.A. at Chicago, but not by Eire. And there is a preamble to it, as if it were excusing this defection on the ground that it is needed for fuel economy in the present stage of aeronautics. I hope that by to-morrow my hon. Friend will be able to take advice, so that he will be able to answer the question—about which I have some doubts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1895.1", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right, too\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "at it was suppressed here and not out there. I do want to say that there is a very grave danger of the men coming home with only one point of view in their minds, as represented in their Service newspapers. To show that I am right in my belief that fair treatment is not being meted out, instructions have since been issued that Members of Parliament are not to address the troops without permission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the estimate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "As far as food is concerned, 13½ tons. As far as money is concerned, we can only estimate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1913.1", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": " positions where they could break the offenders, but did not do so, but, on the contrary, appeared to be very active in protecting the offenders from being broken. I come to the other side of the picture, which is that these persons in official positions who were compromised were in a position to exercise vast powers of patronage in favour of the offenders. It will not take long to deal with this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-06", "file": "debates1945-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "5d9439d5d78f2c26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1950.0", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR TRAINING CORPS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shephard", "cue_text": "Interruption, .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shephard", "preceding_text": "n the civilian committees. I have had this matter brought to my attention many times, and I hope that the Secretary of State will again look into it. My last word is about the lack of appreciation which has been shown up to now of the district inspecting officers, commanding officers, and other officers of the A.T.C. I do not know of a single honour awarded other than to fully-paid staff officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-06a.1950.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2099.1", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to continue to make my points, and, if I am out of Order, I will give way and sit down. Under war-time conditions, the Merchant Navy without doubt comes under the discipline of the Royal Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2099.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2099.2", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to continue to make my points, and, if I am out of Order, I will give way and sit down. Under war-time conditions, the Merchant Navy without doubt comes under the discipline of the Royal Navy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am speaking as one who, many long years ago, belonged to the Merchant Navy, and when I was in port I certainly came under naval discipline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2099.4", "colnum": "2099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kendall", "preceding_text": "My hon. and gallant Friend may be right, but at the time of which I am speaking I was 15 years old and was not deeply concerned with Acts of any description. I knew very well, however, that if I was stationed in Hong Kong or Gibraltar or Copenhagen, the whole of the ship's company came under the jurisdiction of the Royal Navy and the admiral of the port.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2099.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2116.3", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY (POST-WAR RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "I did not mean to be drawn into this Debate at all, but, if my right hon. Friend is now going to line up against me, then, if for no better reason than that I am a Scotsman, I am prepared to take him on too. The proposition is not that we should, or should not, have any capital ships. The proposition is whether we should have capital ships or something other than capital ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2116.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY (POST-WAR RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including the Member of Parliament?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hore-Belisha", "preceding_text": "d by the Ad- miralty in Devonport, for the purpose of enlarging the dockyard. This means that many of the landmarks of my constituency are to be erased—the shopping centre, the Guildhall, the noble column which records the change of the name from the rather commonplace \"Plymouth Dock\" to the better sounding \"Devonport,\" together with some thousands of houses. They are to be swept out of existence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2145.0", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY (POST-WAR RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "y small number of promotions which have been made from the lower deck. There may be many reasons given officially for it, but there is a strong feeling that when men went up for interview before the Selection Boards and the deciding officers, they were treated in practically the same way as the Selection Boards treated the interviewees before the war. Too much is asked for in the nature of graces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2145.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2192.0", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR MINISTRY (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "if the machinery of the Select Committee were invoked. I take it upon myself to say that, so far as we are concerned, we shall oppose that course, but, if the House in great body feels alarmed and feels that grave derelictions of duty have taken place on the part of the Secretary of State for Air, and that I, as Prime Minister, and my colleagues, are all condoning and conniving at some guilty act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2189.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-07", "file": "debates1945-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "1daceca09cc6f09a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2192.2", "colnum": "2192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR MINISTRY (ADMINISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "But that is the proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-07a.2192.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2207.10", "colnum": "2207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Locker-Lampson", "preceding_text": "Might I on this occasion thank my right hon. Friend for his clemency and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2207.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2230.6", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman seriously suggest that on the first day of the change in the hours of sitting he proposes to suspend the Rule?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2230.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2230.8", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am not asking hon. Members opposite but the Leader of the House, who can speak with authority. May I ask him whether he really suggests that the Rule should be suspended, which might mean that we could go on for several hours after half-past nine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2230.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2234.2", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE SERVICES (GRATUITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Walkden", "preceding_text": "s the Prime Minister aware that the negative announcement he has made with regard to the Women's Land Army will cause very deep and bitter disappointment? They have been called an army, they are not recruited through the employment exchanges, they are required to live in hostels, they have been paid on lower terms than Civil Defence workers or the auxiliary services. They have many special merits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2265.1", "colnum": "2265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Jowitt", "preceding_text": "hild is in a home or a hospital, no matter how long it may be there, we continue to pay the parent, because we think it is just in those cases that it is most important that the parental tie should be preserved. Where a child is taken away from the legal custody of the parents and is put into the care of a local authority or an approved school, we do not pay to the parents in respect of the child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2317.6", "colnum": "2317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "earn from the hon. and gallant Member for Brighton (Lieut.-Colonel Marlowe) that while he accepted the principle of paying the 5s. to the father he had no time for women or individuals who talked about the status of women. It is very difficult for any man to understand that imponderable. One has to be a woman who is humiliated week by week when she has to ask her husband for money for necessities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2347.3", "colnum": "2347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are a free country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I admit that the economic argument applies to them, merely because they will insist upon a higher rate of stupidity than the rest of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2362.3", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " House; then with the question of Income Tax which has been raised. Then I was going to deal with a number of shorter points, including the question of the illegitimate child, but I welcome the interruption of my hon. Friend on this because I am very anxious that no point which is of interest to the House should be omitted from the Government reply—if I am not boring the House by going on so long?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-08", "file": "debates1945-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "859e97e6aa3eecca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2366.1", "colnum": "2366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "t to come out automatically, according to the different incomes which the different recipients have. There is nothing to stop these allowances being received by people with vast incomes. Another £13 a year on top of a vast income will practically all go in taxation, whereas people in the £2 or £3 a week income range, will get probably the whole of the allowance. I think that is right in principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-08a.2366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-09", "file": "debates1945-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c7ea1d83ce526270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-09a.2435.1", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "WAR-TIME NURSERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No one wants to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "ears, been a wholehearted supporter of nursery schools on the lines on which they were founded by that very remarkable woman Margaret Macmillan, but these nursery schools take children from the age of two until they are five, and they have people trained to look after little children in both a physical and mental capacity. The moment we changed that school and took in children from nought to five—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-09a.2435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-09", "file": "debates1945-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "c7ea1d83ce526270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-09a.2435.5", "colnum": "2435", "heading": "WAR-TIME NURSERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "—and now we are going to take children from their mothers and homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-09a.2435.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.19.5", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Locker-Lampson", "preceding_text": "Is not the taxi-cab the poor man's car?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.19.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.31.4", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "But not stamps.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "That really has not anything to do with the Question on the Paper. I was indicating that, so far as stationery is concerned, it is supplied from within the Palace of Westminister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "SIR JAMES Griģģ'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Griģģ", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Griģģ", "preceding_text": "—which the Field-Marshal holds to be a very remarkable achievement with far reaching results. The credit for all this he attributes to the War Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "SIR JAMES Griģģ'S STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Secretary of State for the Colonies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Wise", "preceding_text": "The present Secretary of State for the Dominions; I am not quite sure what office he held then. Or is it the Secretary of State for the Colonies—I forget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "ey will realise what they are likely themselves to become, unless they leave that charnel-house of dead hopes, and come out into the fresh, clean air with the true progressive forces. The hon. Member of this House to whom I have referred had come up against the political commissars or delegates, and that was something new. He reported to the then Prime Minister—and this is the authentic Tory voice", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "nt, I am held responsible, and accept responsibility for it, yet if a Tory makes a statement, every other Tory wants to dodge it. The authentic Tory voice was heard when that hon. Member, talking about the position in the Russian Army, reported: \"The political delegate is now looked upon as a universal panacea, but he is not half so effective as were the subaltern's boot and fist in former times.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Griģģ", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Griģģ", "preceding_text": "Would the House like me to read it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And selling them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "k they have rendered gets them nowhere. It is the money which they receive and with which.they can purchase commodities, get decent clothes or bring their children up decently that counts. Lip-service, or a text on a tombstone, does not do any good whatever, or giving them medals. Medals do not keep a man. There are ex-Service men in the streets wearing medals and ribbons begging for a livelihood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "I still assert that my contention is strictly correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "I still assert that my contention is strictly correct. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is true that the hon. and gallant Member suggested that you should have the J.T.C., but who are likely to become members of the J.T.C.? The children who go to the elementary schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "No.\"] It is true that the hon. and gallant Member suggested that you should have the J.T.C., but who are likely to become members of the J.T.C.? The children who go to the elementary schools? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I wish hon. Members would wait until I have finished. Many of the children who go to the elementary schools will not have the opportunity afforded them of going into the training corps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "ted that you should have the J.T.C., but who are likely to become members of the J.T.C.? The children who go to the elementary schools? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] I wish hon. Members would wait until I have finished. Many of the children who go to the elementary schools will not have the opportunity afforded them of going into the training corps. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] For many and varied reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "ve to utilise a definite part of their time for study at home. It may he said that that applies to other children, out there is this difference. In many schools there will be junior training corps already established as part of the school and it would definitely be to the advantage of children of parents who had their children at such schools. It would be giving these children a greater advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has gone already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont", "preceding_text": "as far as the community are concerned they will demand that, if we have an Air Force, a Navy and an Army, there shall be afforded a free and full opportunity for everyone, to any boy, to become an officer, no matter from what branch of society he may come. I want to deal with three or four points as briefly as I can. We do not want to keep the Secretary of State for War too long away from his bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "hout prejudice, and quite regardless of nationality, to be the best invention of the war?\" Without hesitation, both said \"The Bailey bridge.\" I thought that was a generous tribute from them. I also endorse all that has been said about the labour and sweat of those ingenious persons who provided those marvellous things, the \"Mulberry\" Harbours. I do not want immediately to get on to the tank issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "but would have provided a channel of organised communications which could have been built upon and enlarged when we came to invade Europe. We said so at the time. To another point—I know the Secretary of State has little to do with what—perhaps unfortunately for some people—has become a somewhat notorious speech I made in Cairo. I do not wish to refer to that speech except as a matter of principle", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "er.' All our guns will go clean through the side of a Panther. As far as my experience goes none of our anti-tank weapons will penetrate the front of one, unless there is a lucky strike on the driver's visor. That seems to be unanswerable, from an officer with exceptional experience. The Secretary of State also talked about the speed and manoeuvrability of our new tanks. That is an old, old story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.166.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-13", "file": "debates1945-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "561664b50497d23d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "DEMOBILISATION AND RE-EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huģh Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huģh Lawson", "preceding_text": " is now an adopted Common Wealth candidate for a constituency. He had been a member of the committee of the Cairo Forces Parliament. On 26th April he received from the Education Officer-in-Chief M.E.F. a letter referring to the Parliament which stated: I must ask you to refrain from taking any part in its activities. Why this should be I cannot for the life of me see. That brings us to 26th April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-13a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "d depends on an increase in our national wealth. The post-war problems of poverty, insecurity and unemployment will not be solved by the relief of capital expenditure. Under the conditions which obtain in the society in which we live, the greater the productive power and the more efficient the technical equipment may be, the greater the problem that arises in regard to unemployment and insecurity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly clear that if hotels are included as industrial buildings and given the initial allowance of 10 per cent., plus 2 per cent. per annum in order to write them off over 45 years, boarding houses have also to be included. If boarding houses are included, I think shops also have to be included, and when they are included you are probably then driven to including dwelling houses as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "INCOME TAX BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that include furniture and things of that kind?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " as hotels are concerned the case has been put quite strongly, but I would draw the attention of my hon. Friends to this fact: hotels will get the full benefit under Part II of the Bill, dealing with plant and machinery. That is to say, if they instal new machines in their kitchens or their laundries, new lifts, new appliances of all kinds, they will get the full benefit under Part II of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.344.5", "colnum": "344", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (HOLIDAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " \"Oh, it is quite simple,\" he said. \"The inhabitants of Scotland have heard of the Creation and they celebrate it on the 1st of January and call it Hogmanay and they distribute apples drawn from the garden of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Up to now, the news of the Nativity and the Crucifixion has not reached Scotland, and, therefore, they have not got Good Friday as a bank holiday.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.344.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (HOLIDAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Neven-Spence", "preceding_text": " many ways, by night shifts, noises associated with air raids,,aeroplanes overhead, and also by summer-time—especially double summertime—and the evidence is overwhelming from teachers that the children are being adversely affected by this. Theoretically they ought not to be, but, do what you like, they have to get up earlier than they would normally, and they will not go to bed until a later hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (HOLIDAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I am rather suspicious when I look at our opponents on the other side who are so anxious about the welfare of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.4", "colnum": "347", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (HOLIDAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I am rather suspicious when I look at our opponents on the other side who are so anxious about the welfare of the workers. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because it is unprecedented in this House. Mr. Deputy-Speaker, you raw the same array of talent opposing us when we appealed for, and eventually carried, holidays with pay. The Tories always opposed that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (HOLIDAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "There he is up to it again. Though he has not spoken, he rose, but he had not the courage to utter his thoughts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (HOLIDAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "s mood is an earnest mood, is a demonstration by the Tory Party that they have been reformed and converted by Socialist agitators to come along here on to the Floor of the House and put something that they know will get across—if they are in earnest on that, will they then support me in my agitation to see to it that the workers get as much for a 47-hour week as they get to-day for a 60-hour week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.347.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-14", "file": "debates1945-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "f0850b5dda3ea4d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (HOLIDAYS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "There is no need to go into etymology. My opinion is that the right way to honour Good Friday is not to make it a bank holiday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-14a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-15", "file": "debates1945-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "bc8a81795bc1e951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.412.7", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVY ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Astor", "preceding_text": "the Navy Estimates, the First Lord had a great flood of Scottish and Welsh eloquence breaking over his head, but I hope that he will stand up to various suggestions that were made to him, notably the one that he should invite the R.N.V.R. to give up their stripes. We value our distinctive stripes, and we hope that he will pay no attention to the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Davies).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.412.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-15", "file": "debates1945-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "bc8a81795bc1e951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "he British Empire. The fact is that this country could not conceivably sustain a war machine so large as to find a sense of security behind it. Really, we ought now at this time of the day to be getting a little more realism into our discussion of war preparations. We will be able after the war to rest secure not behind the size of the war machine but behind the wisdom of our international policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-15", "file": "debates1945-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "bc8a81795bc1e951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask Field-Marshal Montgomery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " which was taken up in the past. I remember all the nonsense talked outside, which was a pale reflection of what was said in this House, about \"spit and polish.\" It was said that it was wrong to make a citizen soldier into a soldier, that he ought to be treated as a bright blue-eyed boy and patted on the back. The only way to turn a citizen into a member of the Regular Army is by \"spit and polish\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.441.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-15", "file": "debates1945-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "bc8a81795bc1e951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.448.10", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They were a lot of \"base wallahs\" and did not go into the firing line.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Griģģ", "preceding_text": "I think we had better leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.448.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-15", "file": "debates1945-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "bc8a81795bc1e951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "It is contrary to the Egyptian Constitution. You could not do it in Egypt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-15", "file": "debates1945-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "bc8a81795bc1e951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.452.13", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is this it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "ouse, with my hon. Friend the Member for West Islington (Mr. Montague), in advocating what we on this side of the House believe is a proper policy for civil aviation. As a result of that, I have had repeated requests to address meetings outside this House. I make more or less the same speech on every occasion, because it is a very good speech. It puts the case fairly clearly in about half an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.452.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-15", "file": "debates1945-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "bc8a81795bc1e951", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.452.13", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "sh the trend of events was more along the lines of your talk, but I take hope from your final words that what is now being done is not necessarily final, and much may be re- adjusted when the General Election makes it possible to replace men whose methods and ideas are outworn, with those whose outlook is more in keeping with a shrinking and war ravaged world. That is a very clearly put statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-15a.452.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-16", "file": "debates1945-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "d009b804619d1257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-16a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "NEW CLAUSE.—(Duration.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "I only wanted to make that particular point. I do not propose to pursue my opposition to this Bill, or to pursue my desire to pass this new Clause, and therefore I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-16a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-16", "file": "debates1945-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "d009b804619d1257", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-16a.578.5", "colnum": "578", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (CHARGES) (UTILITY FUR GARMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ty principle was adopted, hon. Members were gratified to learn that there was no Purchase Tax to be paid. Now we have the proposition to impose a Purchase Tax of 16⅔ per cent. on utility fur garments. We know that the more expensive articles—I do not know what they are called—skunk, mink, or sable—the furs are all familiar to the hon. Members opposite, to their wives and their lady friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-16a.578.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Grigg", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is talking about psychological considerations perhaps he will address the question to some other Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.676.0", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "This is exceedingly important. Suppose that on some subsequent occasion this House should decide that the internal railway system of this country should be nationalized—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.676.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "preceding_text": "ent to them—of the \"Shipping World\" article, in which he dealt very exhaustively with the facts and figures of air operation to show that it is impossible to run these air lines without subsidies. Of course they need not be called subsidies. They can be called the economic charge per mile, and it can be said that speed is a commodity that should be paid for, by the consumer, or the State, or both.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was a long time ago\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "preceding_text": "When I was at the Air Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "preceding_text": "d goods transported by air mail to the farthest ends of the earth and to various countries in between. The paint is that these subsidies—because this air mail is in this sense a subsidy—have under a specious plea about payment for speed got to guarantee profits to the whole of the private enterprise civil aviation industry in this country. It means that they are completely guaranteed against loss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.706.3", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "preceding_text": "f Members of Parliament. I know we are discussing the White Paper, and that legislation has to be introduced, but the whole thing has been done and worked out by consultation with all these interests without the House of Commons knowing anything about it. That is what I protest against and what this party protests against—the kind of thing that is leading us towards a Fascist State if anything is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has not done.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "preceding_text": "ome to the House of Commons for all the guarantees they want, and all the backing they want, but that we should leave the profits to private enterprise and leave the whole organisation of the in- dustry to the old principles for which the Tory Party stands. That is the position of the hon. Gentleman. Our view is that no private enterprise has a right to come for State support and State guarantees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montaģue", "preceding_text": "But it was not vital to deal with mines; it was good enough to let the miners stagnate. That was controversial, of course. What nonsense to talk like this. We are within a few months of a General Election. We have the pledge of the Prime Minister that no controversial legislation, except for the prosecution of the war, shall be introduced into this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. Simmonds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or subsidies.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Simmonds", "preceding_text": "to this matter. I think the hon. Member also mentioned the desire of the railway companies to have a monopoly. Let me assure him that, when the representatives of the railway companies came on several occasions before the Joint Air Transport Committee, their first emphasis was that they asked for no monopoly, and I see that it is in the White Paper that, in fact, they did not ask for any monopoly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.716.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " explained quite clearly and publicly. The reason was that it was absolutely essential to have someone at this end who was fully acquainted with the whole of the proceedings that had gone on before with the Dominions and others because, naturally, instructions had to pass back and forwards between the two, and our own Director-General of Civil Aviation was the best person to leave here as liaison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.729.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "tion that will run aircraft, and theirs will be a minority share. I know as well as anybody that the railway companies before the war were not able to give the public all the service that they would desire in station amenities, refreshment rooms, and other directions. Why was that impossible? Because this House shied at its task of producing a properly coordinated transport system in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Tate", "preceding_text": "I apologise; but I was only trying to refer to the hon. Member's very aesthetic and high-minded attitude, as shown in his speech praising lack of comfort. Personally, I admit that I think there are very few things which can give one so much pleasure three times a day, from the cradle to the grave, as food can do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-20", "file": "debates1945-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "67c09e2fe3ea148a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL PARKS", "cue_speaker": "Major Procter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is in Yorkshire, not Lancashire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Procter", "preceding_text": " beauty. Then I must ask the Minister what he has done, or proposes to do, to make that part of Lancashire into a recreational centre. Can he tell us to-night whether he is going to make the south part of the lakes, which is in Lancashire—by the way, people do not think that the Lake District is in Lancashire—into a national park? Is he going to make the Trough of Bowland available for the people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-20a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-21", "file": "debates1945-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bff8e28014adc9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.805.6", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is a growing feeling of uneasiness that we are behaving very selfishly?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.805.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-21", "file": "debates1945-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bff8e28014adc9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "siness men judged the needs of their country by locating five-sixths of the new factories in the area of the greatest congestion in the world and in strategic danger. A circular letter was sent out to these business men by the Board of Trade and 69 Associations were asked to supply addresses of their Members. Only 35 were prepared to supply them. 5,829 copies of a letter were sent to business men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-21", "file": "debates1945-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bff8e28014adc9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "es themselves. In short, this Bill is a negative Bill. It does not say that such and such goods shall be produced; it does not even say that such and such goods shall not be produced. What it says is: \"You shan't do that there 'ere!\" You can produce whatever it is you want to produce but if the Board of Trade do not like it: \"You shan't do that there 'ere!\" That is the negative aspect of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-21", "file": "debates1945-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bff8e28014adc9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daģģar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daģģar", "preceding_text": "otalitarianism. We hear those things when it is a question of priority rights, but we never hear talk of it when it is a case of conscripting individuals. While Members on the opposite side of the House have never hesitated to conscript men and women, there has not been a single instance where the principle of the private ownership of property has been interfered with during the whole of this war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-21", "file": "debates1945-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bff8e28014adc9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "r the war. He had two or three plants in a certain town in England, and proposed to put another one down in the same place. The Board of Trade and my Ministry considered that it would be very difficult to find the extra labour in that particular town to man the new plant which he proposed to put there. He was approached, and he said \"As far as I am concerned, anywhere in England will be the same\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-21a.946.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MARINO VICETTI (NEWSPAPER REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Cobb", "preceding_text": "What was the name of the newspaper that published this alarming statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the council at Rosyth and the potential occupants are waiting, not for a Debate but for the houses; and will he see that the houses are provided?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE (UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am the person responsible for nominating this Delegation, and they have a fair representation in this Delegation. The hon. Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Bellenger) said so just now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.999.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE (UNITED KINGDOM DELEGATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So do we.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On the same point of Order. I prefer it that way from the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.999.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "For how long are we sitting that day?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Eden)", "preceding_text": "ed, in order to give an opportunity for a Debate on Supplies to Liberated Countries. Wednesday—Committee stage of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Bill; Second Reading of the Army and Air Force (Annual) Bill, which, as the House will recall, is a formal stage. On Thursday it is proposed to meet at II a.m. and Questions will be taken. Adjournment for the Easter Recess until Tuesday, 10th April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1000.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Greenwood", "preceding_text": " and houses. There is another master builder who recently appeared on the scene in the person of the Minister of Aircraft Production, with aluminium houses, and we must not forget the Minister of Supply, who is an important factor in the situation, nor indeed the Minister of Production, and, I would add, the Minister of Agriculture. There is nobody outside this list except old Uncle Torn Cobleigh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quibell", "preceding_text": " that increase of price. I hope that the Minister is looking into the question of the control of prices of cement, timber and all the rest of it. I believe it is very largely in that direction that we can solve some of the problems. I hope that everybody is not going to think that we are just going to build the council house. If people want a bigger house I cannot see why they should not have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1094.1", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ught to be in a position to canalise in his Department all the prefabricated parts of the material possible, and should be in a position, after arrangements with the Ministry of Labour, to be able to sell to us, or to sell to the private adventurer on housing estates, the maximum of ready-made, prefabricated materials to accelerate house building. If that is what is meant by a Ministry of Housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1094.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1122.5", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "em should be confined absolutely to this Ministry. I am very much afraid that the Government will not appreciate the magnitude of this problem until a serious situation has arisen. A single authority could specialise in mobilising all the country's resources for house building. It could survey the country's needs as regards houses and grant priorities according to the needs in the different areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1122.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-22", "file": "debates1945-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "43e8ad9c584f880b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipson", "preceding_text": "uccess of some of the war Departments has depended on the fact that the right men—like Lord Woolton and the right hon. Member for Central Wandsworth (Mr. Kevin)—were placed in charge. In 194o, when an emergency faced this country in the production of aeroplanes, the Prime Minister selected Lord Beaver-brook as Minister of Aircraft Production. I should like to see him appointed Minister of Housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-22a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-23", "file": "debates1945-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3a9d5c4b628dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "continual friction and irritation. I do not know whether the Minister will tell me that refrigerators are to be forthcoming. I feel that the demand in the country for so many things is so great that many people will say that refrigerators are a luxury. But houses are being built to-day without any accommodation in which to keep food which might easily become decomposed. My final word is about men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-23", "file": "debates1945-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3a9d5c4b628dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"We\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "e more practical idea of what is necessary for the creation of a great housing campaign. I am certain that he has very capable advisers, but in the Ministry of Works there are too many technicians and there is too little practicality. If he will try to bring in the best elements that he can find of practical people into the Ministry to help him, he will soon get the greater advance that we desire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-23", "file": "debates1945-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3a9d5c4b628dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have nothing to show.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ght it was to be the solution of the problem; but where is it? Then we suddenly heard about an aluminium house, but I have not seen it. My right hon. and learned Friend blurted out yesterday that this aluminium house was costing £9000 or more. Is it proposed to build it? Could we have a look at it? The Ministry of Works seems to be shrouded in secrecy and mystery. Surely they have nothing to hide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-23", "file": "debates1945-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3a9d5c4b628dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I know, but has the Minister of Aircraft Production also entered into the housing business? We ought to know where we are. I would like to know under what authority the Ministry of Aircraft Production have taken it upon themselves to build an aluminium house and to exhibit it secretly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-23", "file": "debates1945-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "2d3a9d5c4b628dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I am very willing to ask them. Would hon. Members opposite agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-23a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-27", "file": "debates1945-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b59f738be76692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A week ago?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Maclean", "preceding_text": "Why has the right hon. Gentleman not replied to an express letter on this subject which I sent him a week ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1299.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-27", "file": "debates1945-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b59f738be76692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1306.13", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WOMEN'S LAND ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I could give my hon. Friend an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1306.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-27", "file": "debates1945-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b59f738be76692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1317.3", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might explain that the position of Ministers is somewhat different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-27", "file": "debates1945-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b59f738be76692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1317.11", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "—the position is, I think, rather different", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1317.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-27", "file": "debates1945-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "23b59f738be76692", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "—the position is, I think, rather different [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]. In the first place, Ministers get no allowance for expenses of any sort against the Income Tax on their salaries, and also by taking office Ministers preclude themselves from other methods of supplementing their income, whether by trade, journalism, or any other profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-27a.1317.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-28", "file": "debates1945-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "eef1e9f60da48bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in Bulgaria\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "Whilst thanking my right hon. Friend for that most satisfactory statement may I ask him whether he will have it repeated in Athens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-03-28", "file": "debates1945-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "eef1e9f60da48bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1352.6", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two years.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister give an approximate date when they will get these houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-28", "file": "debates1945-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "eef1e9f60da48bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "preceding_text": "May I have an answer to my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-28", "file": "debates1945-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "eef1e9f60da48bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1377.2", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "EARL LLOYD-GEORGE OF DWYFOR, O.M.", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seized?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill)", "preceding_text": "es that could not come into operation for two years. There was the usual talk about the war being over in a few months, but he did not hesitate to plan on a vast scale for two years ahead. It was my fortune to inherit the output of those factories in 1917—the vast, overflowing output which came from them. Presently Lloyd George seized the main power in the State and the headship of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-28", "file": "debates1945-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "eef1e9f60da48bbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1484.1", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "LIBERATED COUNTRIES (SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Petty-Officer Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sixthly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Petty-Officer Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "the water, for harbour duties. Four thousand responded. They were sifted and only 2,000 were regarded as \"the tops.\" But if an appeal is made for this sort of task, the greater the appeal the greater the response. I am sure we should be able to main my Citizen Fleet without much difficulty, always, of course, under the Admiralty, which must have control. Fourthly, there is the question of repairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-28a.1484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-29", "file": "debates1945-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fec3b7a0ee96468f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-29a.1535.7", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is a feeling that in the contacts he had he gave a certain preference to a group of Members in their approach to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-29a.1535.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-03-29", "file": "debates1945-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "fec3b7a0ee96468f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-29a.1585.5", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Midlands\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "I was waiting for my hon. and gallant Friend to develop his argument, because it seemed to me to boil down to the fact that any point that was not as near London as possible was unsuitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-03-29a.1585.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1645.3", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are doing so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "But has my right hon. Friend considered inviting some of the children from the public schools to assist in this work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1646.10", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State agree that it is the landlords in the Highlands who are responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1646.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "No fuel has been added,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1647.8", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Another of the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1647.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1659.2", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I had not quite finished, if my right hon. Friend will allow me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1738.9", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "TRANSPORT COMMAND (SAFETY OF PASSENGERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What happened?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "ether the pilot understood English well enough or not is, of course, not known. What did happen was that he obviously did not turn to the right. Possibly he could not turn to the right. If anything, he was found slightly on the left of his course. I gather that it is quite likely that he might easily have been forced, by drift or something of that kind, to the left, without any action on his part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1738.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1740.1", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "TRANSPORT COMMAND (SAFETY OF PASSENGERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "country. He is a person who has given me a certain amount of information, and I am certain that the Minister can find out who he is. He is not afraid of his name being mentioned, but I do not think there is any point in dragging in names. He came as a passenger on a plane from Algiers and he landed at Marseilles and came on to this country. He said that the co-pilot was a blonde from South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "TRANSPORT COMMAND (SAFETY OF PASSENGERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"State control.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "preceding_text": "y hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton has placed before the House. It is carrying out a function which ought not to be carried out by an operational machine. It is engaged in an operation which ought to be entirely divorced from the military organisation. The Air Ministry has shown in this case, as it has shown in every case, its desire to hang on to as wide an air jurisdiction as it properly can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-10", "file": "debates1945-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "1f75d308c90c12d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1790.5", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "BATTLE-TRAINING ACCIDENT (SOLDIER'S INJURY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is the depot?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ruary another medical officer visited the home, and again found him out. The officer was informed by Mrs. Rumsby that he was out rabbiting, and the officer said that if he was fit to do that he was fit to travel. The weather was rather cold with a heavy drizzle. The officer said that every effort should be made to get him back to the depot, and he left written orders for him to return immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-10a.1790.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1815.6", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurtle", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of suspecting Ministers of State; it is a question of making a differentiation between Members of Parliament and ordinary citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1815.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1842.7", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The War Works Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I propose, in calling the first Amendment, to suggest that it may be for the convenience of the Committee if all the Amendments relating to the appointment of the Commission be discussed at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1842.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1842.8", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The War Works Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "hods of working of the Treasury Commission we could shoot at the Chancellor of the Exchequer. That, he said, was the advantage of the Treasury Commission; but now we observe that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has put down an Amendment of his own to invite His Majesty to appoint the Commission. My hon. Friends and I do not like that at all. If something goes wrong, we cannot shoot at His Majesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1842.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1852.0", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The War Works Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which hat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "not greatly interested in whether it is done by Order in Council, or under the Great Seal, or however it is done. The important point is whether the Commission are to be independently appointed. It is all very well to say that the Treasury will not do it, but that the First Lord of the Treasury, the Prime Minister, will. Who is to advise the Prime Minister? He will not put a lot of names in a hat,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The War Works Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ld like to refer to the argument of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am not sure that his conclusion may not be right and possibly his Amendment may be the best of the various Amendments suggested, but I think not, on the whole. He told us that there was no doubt at all that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was the person best fitted for the selection of persons of legal knowledge and experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1855.2", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The War Works Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ought preferable to choose the First Lord of the Treasury, nor how, by choosing the First Lord of the Treasury, who is the top boy of that Department, rather than the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is the second boy and runner-up, you make any great difference. With those preliminary remarks, I should like to say a word about my own Amendment. I am not quite sure that this is the best Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1855.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1861.0", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The War Works Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam", "preceding_text": " implies, I think, that the Minister responsible for advising His Majesty should not be the head of any Department concerned. I do not agree, therefore, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his suggestion that it should be anybody connected with the Treasury. I submit that the Amendment suggesting the selection of the Lord Chancellor is the best. The Lord Chancellor is largely outside politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1861.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(The War Works Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I am referring to the third Amendment on the Order Paper in the name of the hon. Member for Oxford. We have dismissed the first Amendment and we have had some discussion on the third Amendment and there has been general approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1869.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "CLAUSE 2.—(Procedure of Commission.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shall be paid.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to my hon. Friend for drawing my attention to the contents of Sub-section (5). But the effect of Sub-section (4) is that the cost of the inquiry, quite apart from the costs of the parties to the inquiry—that is the distinction I want to draw—may be ordered to be paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1922.3", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On the whole policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Certainly. In order to implement the policy of the White Paper, legislation will be required and on that, naturally, there will be a Second Reading discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "RUSSIA (GERMAN LABOUR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell the hon. Member. But if they are not they ought to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-11", "file": "debates1945-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "a423bd58435249ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "RUSSIA (GERMAN LABOUR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e vociferous cheers from the other side of the House. I trust that nothing said in a Debate like this will do anything to mar the good relations existing between ourselves and Russia. I cannot understand the British people in that respect. I may be an odd sort of person, though I am quite willing to be odd in the views that I hold on war. The British people hated the Russians for years upon years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-11a.1945.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1953.2", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the distributive trades have contributed proportionately more to the Fighting Services than other sections of the community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1956.0", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that before a White Paper is published full discussions have already taken place between the people who are interested, and that so far as this question is concerned the British Medical Association, and other medical organisations, had already thrashed out every question of principle with the Ministry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1956.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1981.4", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No, it will not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charleton", "preceding_text": "May I thank the Minister for his reply, which I believe will give general satisfaction in Leeds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1987.3", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ensued. I understand that the B.M.A. has circulated these conclusions to every person holding medical qualifications in this country. Conclusions—tentative conclusions, if you like—have leaked out all over the country, in every hospital. I am submitting it is somewhat unfair that this House should conclude a Debate on the broad assumption that we had in fact agreed in principle to the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.1987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Peake)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Peake)", "preceding_text": "aces should be free from compulsory acquisition where valuable war works have been erected upon them. What it suggests is that the procedure for acquisition in those cases should be different from the ordinary procedure laid down in Part II of the Bill. Several hon. Members have gone a little wider than that, and have suggested that there should be no power of any sort or kind for any open spaces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2019.3", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "on land occupied at present by Government Departments will be restored as common land. The cases where common land may be acquired will be very exceptional. They will be cases where the Government war works are of a substantial and permanent character. If hon. Members will look at Clause II of the Bill they will see an Amendment in the name of my right hon. Friend which makes that perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2019.3", "colnum": "2019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "n Amendment to provide for a different procedure in the case of commons and open spaces. Which are the objects which my hon. Friend wishes to take clean out of the purview of the Bill? Which are the classes of land to which my hon. Friend wishes to give a specially privileged position under the Bill? The two classes of land in which he is specially interested are race courses and civil aerodromes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2022.1", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "roperty is not in danger of compulsory acquisition, as the Bill stands at present, should support a procedure which will make a great deal of land which is not in jeopardy subject to the possibility of compulsory acquisition under the Bill. So far as substitute land is concerned, we have put a Clause on the Order Paper giving the Government Department enabling powers to purchase land by agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2041.0", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Not at all. I am dealing with the question of administration in regard to a decision to purchase. Surely my hon. Friend does not suggest that, because the Government might be in a position to get a favourable decision from the Commission in a particular case, this House would not be entitled to challenge the propriety of the Minister's action if it were thought fit to do so. Of course, they would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2041.3", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "d learned Friend the Member for Ilford (Mr. Hutchinson), I think I am right in saying that when a Minister had been responsible for action which hon. Members were free to challenge in the House, the fact that the Minister could get a decision from the tribunal in his favour would not necessarily be conclusive that he should act in accordance with that decision. Questions could still be put to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2041.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2042.1", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "It is not merely a question of alternative remedies but of overlapping remedies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2078.2", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was the point which we raised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "nd so on, and simply fell into decay. I would like the Chancellor to give his attention to that particular point, to ensure that we do not get ourselves into the position where the Government have acquired the potential value of a particular works and then find that while many of the works may be purchased for other purposes, some may not, and they are left there simply until they become derelict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2078.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2086.1", "colnum": "2086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Under ( a ).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moelwyn Huģhes", "preceding_text": "e purposes for which these lands have been acquired. Therefore, there must be preserved, if the community is to have the value of the land which has been acquired, some right in the community which has acquired the land to determine the use to which it may be put in the future in order that the community may, in some way or other, recover the value of the money which has been invested in the land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2095.1", "colnum": "2095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Wales\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "What my hon. Friend has said rather supports my argument, that a great many of these cases would not, in,fact, be covered or be a technical infringement of a town planning scheme. Everybody desires we should plan as good an England as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2103.5", "colnum": "2103", "heading": "POLICE (ARBITRATION MACHINERY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": " I am a man of peace, and I am making this appeal not because I want to see it but because I know it is coming. In Edinburgh last week the police held a mass meeting. In, London the police have just formulated a new wages scheme. In every area in Britain there is bitter feeling amongst the police, because of the handling of cases against which there is no appeal, and Miss Wilkinson should know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2103.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-04-12", "file": "debates1945-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "e96dde3a9f3db99f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2107.0", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "POLICE (ARBITRATION MACHINERY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not making wisecracks; I am making a downright, forthright attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-04-12a.2107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.10.9", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Will not the Minister make it clear that his remarks do not apply to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.10.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "man opposite. The statement is a very short one. I was asked whether, as the date designed for polling day in the coming General Election would deprive nearly 500,000 electors in Lancashire of a reasonable opportunity of casting their votes, I have any proposal to make to remove or mitigate this injustice. I do not admit the figures as being accurate. It is probably a very remarkable exaggeration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " [HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is my opinion. The hon. Member said 500,000; I should think it was more like half that number, but still that is quite serious. We are examining the point about these holidays, which affect certain boroughs. I am not, at the moment, in a position to make a statement on the subject, but railway facilities may certainly be considered as a means of assisting holiday-makers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Bevin", "preceding_text": "Would it not have been better if the Prime Minister had taken this into account before rushing the Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who walked out? [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "All these difficulties would have been removed to a later period if the representatives of the Labour and Liberal Parties had consented to go on until the job was finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "Who walked out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.10", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Next business.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.11", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.33.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. I assume that I am the Member to whom the Prime Minister referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—but it is certainly not expressed by some of those who are trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Was the decision arrived at because of the lack of ability amongst the Tory Party in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.45.5", "colnum": "45", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "May I ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.45.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.45.6", "colnum": "45", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We could not hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I did not make myself clear", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.45.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "COAL (CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "tatistical Digest, a new part of which was issued yesterday. The purpose of issuing these various reports and White Papers was to provide Parliament and the country with all the essential information on which to base their decisions as to the conditions and future of the coal mining industry. There is probably more talked about this industry with less knowledge than practically any other industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "COAL (CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "That sort of question does not get us anywhere. I am not concerned with whose fault it is. I am concerned with trying to get something done for a most vital industry, and we shall not get anything done by saying, \"Whose fault is it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "COAL (CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Sixty-six million pounds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "at the living conditions of the miners in those days were a disgrace to the British Isles. They introduced the Miners' Welfare in order to help. I am not saying that that was not a good thing, but it was not sufficient. I hope that all the mining community will read the speeches in this House to-day. The coal belongs to us. It is ours. We bought it from the royalty owners for a round £100,000,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "COAL (CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "ouncil for coal which would control the destiny of the industry. I accept that principle, which I think is a right one. I think that such a national council should exist and have full authority from Parliament to do many of the things necessary to make the industry safe, sound and strong; but I want to see on that national council not only those who are running the industry but the miners as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "COAL (CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "Of course, I do not. I said that this was an attempt to meet the need. I realise that there are several pits in the country without pit-head baths and I appreciate the difficulty there. But at mines with excellent bath facilities and some of the finest canteens, only 25 and 30 per cent. of the miners take advantage of the canteen facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "COAL (CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course it is, and whose fault is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": " listened in this House. I was accused, apparently, by a good many of my hon. Friends opposite of being rather doleful. Well, I do not know whether they think that the coal industry presents a particularly happy picture at the present time or not. I was also told that I simply said what everyone has known for the last 25 years. I was told that I said the industry was slowing down. Well, is it not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.162.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-05-29", "file": "debates1945-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "e400e301fa327a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.164.7", "colnum": "164", "heading": "COAL (CHARGES) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) ORDER, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grenfell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and gallant Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-29a.164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-30", "file": "debates1945-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c2e699de425b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-30a.196.6", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RUSSIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dugdale", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the substitution of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aberdare (Mr. George Hall) by the noble Lord the Member for Lanark (Lord Dunglass) as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will give great pleasure to General Franco in view of that gentleman's well-known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-30a.196.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-30", "file": "debates1945-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c2e699de425b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-30a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Llewellin", "preceding_text": "Banana vessels are very useful for bringing in bacon, as well as bananas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-30a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-30", "file": "debates1945-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "c2e699de425b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-30a.286.4", "colnum": "286", "heading": "REQUISITIONED LAND AND WAR WORKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "e trusted him with the powers of restoring land up and down the country, but we have made it our object in the whole of the fight on this Bill to see that the land of Britain is restored, whether it has been damaged or ravaged by the war. This is a great opportunity which I hope Government Departments will use, where land has been damaged by war use. One can think of training grounds, bomb damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-30a.286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-31", "file": "debates1945-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "de5758db14fad86a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I have considered this problem and have had some inquiry made into the range and scope of it; and in quite a number of cases I have found that the unwillingness to have families with children added to the existing tenants is reasonable. The property is very often unsuitable for the additional numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-31", "file": "debates1945-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "de5758db14fad86a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "SYRIA AND LEBANON (BRITISH INTERVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "cus and the sea coast and we are only in touch with His Majesty's Minister by wireless. An armistice was arranged with the French military authorities yesterday afternoon and British and United States civilian colonies were evacuated from Damascus. After that the centre of the city was subjected to the heaviest and most concentrated shell fire yet directed upon it. It was also bombed from the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-31", "file": "debates1945-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "de5758db14fad86a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " and it is equally easy to come along later and object to nearly every detail in the Bill. His name is on the back of the Bill and he will not say now whether he supports the Bill or not. He will not go any further than say that he accepts the two general principles running through the Bill. It is obvious what has happened on this Bill. The vested interests have got going. That is perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-31", "file": "debates1945-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "de5758db14fad86a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "If the present Government go on, there is no danger at all, because they will control the whole proceedings. The only possible cause for altering the whole method is because they cannot be sure of continuing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-31", "file": "debates1945-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "de5758db14fad86a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.447.3", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": "of the country. That is for His Majesty's Ministers.\" It is for the Minister to decide and, when he has decided, the courts will not interfere with that decision. The only ground on which they will interfere—and this has been declared again and again—is if the Order is used in bad faith, and the example which my right hon. and learned Friend gave is a perfectly good and clear example of bad faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-05-31", "file": "debates1945-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "de5758db14fad86a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DISCHARGED SOLDIERS (HOSPITAL TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Petherick", "preceding_text": " is being examined, and if a fair, and, I hope, generous, solution can be arrived at, the House will be informed. I now come to another point, raised by the hon. Member for Ince, about the different practices in the three Service Departments. Obviously I do not answer for any other Service Department, but I am informed that the general practice of the Service Departments is approximately the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-05-31a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-01", "file": "debates1945-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "4e37fed8e5bd1825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.491.8", "colnum": "491", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "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 have received information that General Humblot, commanding the French Forces in Syria, informed the General Officer Commanding the British Ninth Army last night that he had received instructions from Paris not to oppose the order of the Commander-in-Chief, Middle East. I am sure that this information will be warmly welcomed in all parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.491.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-01", "file": "debates1945-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "4e37fed8e5bd1825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF BURMA (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "mitted as crudely as that, I do not know. The Prime Minister once said, \"What we have we hold,\" and that, at least, is an admission that whatever may be the professions in the White Paper, the words which have come from the Minister and those on the Government Benches indicate that one of the chief considerations in these matters is their intention to hold what we have, and defend British capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-01", "file": "debates1945-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "4e37fed8e5bd1825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF BURMA (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hynd", "preceding_text": "se territories, a situation has grown up, over the generations, which it is difficult to resolve, and it will not be resolved if we approach it in the old Imperialistic spirit. I was discussing some of these matters recently with a friend of mine, who had had experience in the Far East. I have not had such experience, and his argument was: \"You should not talk about things you know nothing about.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-01", "file": "debates1945-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "4e37fed8e5bd1825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT OF BURMA (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where will it come from?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend the Secretary of State will soon be able to announce to the House the sort of lines on which he proposes to tackle that point. There is another problem which has been omitted and that is the question of money. I am convinced that this country will have to find a very large sum for the rehabilitation of Burma. We shall find it and we shall do it as part of our Imperial responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-01a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-04", "file": "debates1945-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c42d2f94ed569e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Normal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "en, over and over again, that they should agree to one tax up to 14.9 horse power. Whether it is measured in cubic feet capacity or in some other way, it would produce the same result. The result would be that, in this country, you would still have the home market but you would get a family car. Why do we make a car in this country in which only two people of normal size can ride on the back seat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-04", "file": "debates1945-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c42d2f94ed569e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "preceding_text": "any shape or form, I am sure that that end will not be attained. For 25 years the British motor industry has suffered two handicaps under the horse-power tax. First, it has meant a multiplicity of models. Many of the bigger manufacturers, before the war, turned out seven or eight models, and only two or three days ago, I saw that they proposed to continue in that way. That is absolutely fantastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.582.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-04", "file": "debates1945-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c42d2f94ed569e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Development Areas.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ey ought to take a share in these matters, and at long last, on the eve of the Dissolution of this Parliament, we have a Bill which concedes the principle—a principle advanced by a Government who propose to go to the country and ask for a mandate not to interfere at all, but to leave all these things to the private judgment of selfish persons and concerns with only their own interests to consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-04", "file": "debates1945-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "5c42d2f94ed569e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.609.3", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRST SCHEDULE.—(Development Areas.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ed to fall into the worst possible condition, and that it is only in those areas that the powers which the House is now giving to the Government may be exercised. I know there is a Clause which allowed the Minister to add other areas to the Schedule, but he is not to be allowed to use his own unfettered discretion in the matter. He has to add areas which are like the areas already in the Schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-04a.609.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "The majority of Members here heard the Prime Minister saying last night that we must provide homes for the soldiers when they come back. I am here giving the Government an opportunity of providing those homes£", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "Is it surprising that the output per man-shift is falling when this appalling state of affairs continues?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that his answer makes the position still more ridiculous? It does happen to be a question of teats. I have a letter saying that a woman has given birth to twins, and that she is unable to feed these two children. She has four bottles in the house, with one teat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.664.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What consultations?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "What is the explanation of these consultations that have been taking place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "SYRIA AND LEBANON (SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask the Prime Minister a Question, of which I have given him Private Notice, and in putting that Question, perhaps I may be allowed to express our regret at the illness of the Foreign Secretary and our hope that he may soon be restored to health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.689.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "GENERAL EISENHOWER (VISIT TO LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "er that last August the Supreme Allied Commander, General Eisenhower, as a compliment to the House, invited the Speaker to visit him in Normandy. As he is now coming to the Mansion House to receive the Freedom of the City of London, I thought as a compliment by this House to General Eisenhower—the last compliment that this war-time Parliament can pay him—I, as Speaker, should be present in person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.696.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Well, get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, not reading a newspaper at all. What I am doing is quoting from the Prime Minister's speech last night, and quoting, as I am perfectly entitled to do, from the report of that speech in to-day's issue of \"The Times.\" Of course, if the report is in accurate, the Prime Minister will have an opportunity of correcting it; meanwhile, I am entitled to assume that it is accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.766.5", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": "ese temporary houses, they seem to me to be a waste of public money. It means that houses coming off the assembly line can be assembled more quickly than the Mulberry houses. I do not see, from the Bill, where local authorities are restricted only to such parts of the open spaces as are of easy access to the services required. Temporary dwellings have an unhappy knack of becoming permanent houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.766.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (BOUNDARY COMMISSION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Surrounded by.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I do not quite understand this Amendment. It says: or a non-county borough in an urban or rural district. Is there any non-county borough in the British Isles in an urban district?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (BOUNDARY COMMISSION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "nd historical traditions. I have received communications from two non-county boroughs in my constituency, the borough of Hedon which received its Charter in 1170, and the borough of Beverley, which received its Charter a little later, long before this country was afflicted by the municipal megalomania which has made itself so prominent in the course of these proceedings. I am instructed to resist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF ENGLAND (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY) (MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Learn the procedure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I agree that, in formal terms, the Government have no control but everybody in the House knows they have effective control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-05", "file": "debates1945-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "7ae7a282569fa6b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHURCH OF ENGLAND (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY) (MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Dean Inge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " before the House in respect of any other citizen there would be questions at once: \"What is the definition of 'mental infirmity; is it a certificate of insanity?\" Of course not. What is it? Is it merely eccentricity? If it is eccentricity, as the hon. Member for Maldon (Mr. Driberg) pointed out, some of the most eminent clerymen in the history of this could have been removed from their benefices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-05a.840.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recognise that it requires very careful consideration of the whole defence and strategic position of the future, and he would hardly expect me to make that investigation at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.880.7", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "But is not the Minister aware that this man is travelling 40 miles to sell fish on the doorsteps of men who are in the trade?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.880.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ham?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wayland", "preceding_text": "Does that mean that a farmer cannot give to a Belgian friend, who is starving, a bit of ham or bacon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They were not cogent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. and gallant Member, if he did not listen to me on the wireless last night, would look at the speech I made, in which he will see the very cogent reasons given by the Prime Minister as to how we should be careful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Harris", "preceding_text": "I do not blame the right hon. Gentleman, because it was sound advice. I myself advised many women to go away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "d, we make it work. Until that argument is put forward with a little more force than it was by the right hon. Baronet, I shall not assume there is in any quarter of the House an hon. Member who really believes that it is always improper to have a General Election before Supply Days are completed, which must be by 5th August. If there is to be an election then there has to be a Motion of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.927.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Continue the agony, you mean.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "'s paper. Without going into the merits of either of those speeches, I wonder if, taken together, they gave anybody the impression that a Government with those two right hon. Gentlemen in it would continue in perfect amity until October. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made a proposal to the Socialist Party that they should remain in the Government until the conclusion of the Japanese war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.930.6", "colnum": "930", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Complete nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " time that that particular lie was nailed, and I think it is becoming generally realised that the suggestion that it was anything but the Tory propagandists who fixed the date for the Election is a complete lie. The first and the simplest proof is that the date of the Election, 5th July, was well known to the Lobby correspondents of the Conservative newspapers long before the Blackpool conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.930.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leonard Lyle", "preceding_text": "erpretation on the position as to the time of the General Election. He produced the bogy that it was the Tory Party and the Prime Minister who had forced the Election. He used the word \"lie.\" We are going to have this thing out in the next few weeks, and however people may talk about lies, you cannot make black white. The Prime Minister almost went so far as to beg the Opposition to stop with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "use, but I think I did not deserve it. I had plenty of criticism, but I was bound to have it., Anybody holding that office was bound to have it. I was Home Secretary for the longest period of time in this century, in time of war, and I had Civil Defence added to the office. The hon. Member for Gravesend (Sir I. Albery) was always after me about 18b, as was the hon. Member for Ipswich (Mr. Stokes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A permanent decoy duck.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hat could have been done. We could have carried through this House much legislation that has now to be sacrificed. I congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on retaining his position in His Majesty's Government. Governments come and Governments go but the right hon. Gentleman goes on for ever, and I am delighted to see him there above the battle and clear of all these nasty political affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " to comment, upon the joy with which the Chancellor saw this legislative procedure. I am bound to say it is a procedure which is inevitable in these circumstances. But let the right hon. Gentleman remember this: If the House proposes to object, what does he do? He says, \"The Bill is dead.\" So I am afraid the Chancellor is sunk, whichever way he looks. That is what he has said about a certain Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " As a matter of fact, the Government had nothing to complain about of the treatment they received, either from the people or from the House of Commons; both the House and the people were very good to us. That is why I say that, in my judgment, the Election ought to have come in the Autumn instead of now, and that was the view we expressed. Yet we are being accused of having quitted the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": ". In any case, the essential preparations for the Japanese war are made. I do not say that everything is done by any means, but fortunately we agreed before we left on the big and the fundamental issue. The Prime Minister knew all this. He did not appreciate those points so much, I think, because economic and industrial policy and domestic policy are not so much in his mind, and I do not complain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " who asked, \"Why do you have this dreadful thing again? Parliament has no right to prolong itself; it is an infringement of the Constitution.\" In a way it is, but as our Constitution is unwritten, you can do all sorts of things without getting before the courts. Increasing criticism arose, and I had to be increasingly persuasive as the years went on. In 1944 the Prime Minister was so apprehensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Government to go on?\" just smells of the devices of the Fuehrer. I not only rejected it, but I felt cross that the proposal had been made. It is offensive in British eyes and minds. I will not, for myself, have our political and constitutional institutions degraded to the point where all that is left for the British people to do is to say, \"Ja,\" or \"Nein.\" That is not good enough for this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Brendan Bracken)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Certainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Brendan Bracken)", "preceding_text": "is House, and I must say that the late Home Secretary does not realise how sensible the Prime Minister was of the loss that the Government sustained when my hon. Friend decided for conscience sake, and conscience sake alone, to leave office. The hon. Member for Maldon (Mr. Driberg) came forward and described the forthcoming Election as a rush Election. Three weeks' notice, and yet a rush Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not 'late.' \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "If I were to go into constitutional researches, it would occupy most of the evening. What I am saying is that advocacy of a referendum is not, in fact, a reason for describing somebody as having Fuhrer-like feelings. The late Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From which newspaper?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bracken", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately the ex-Home Secretary did not make it abundantly clear to the Dominions Labour Party when he made that eloquent address last September. The date is 13th September, 1944.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.971.4", "colnum": "971", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "You had to have an election at some time. Now you have forced it on the country. Have you not forced it on the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.971.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You go to Paddington.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "our coat and throw over your principles in order to suit your own purpose. That is precisely what the late Member for Seaham did, and he was defeated by a large majority, a majority that will be increased on this occasion. If my right hon. Friend does not think that possible, let him leave North Paddington and come to Seaham, and I will give him the worst political hiding he has had in his career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-06", "file": "debates1945-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "22147d30732b1aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.983.0", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton Kerr", "preceding_text": "I should like to try to bring reassurance to hon. Members by restating certain facts. In the first place these houses, we must not forget, belong to the Government. They have to be removed at the end of 10 years, because the Measure will expire definitely after 10 years. I am assured most specifically by my advisers that the Minister has ample powers in the Bill to act directly when he wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-06a.983.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Agreement has been reached about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1118.7", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We want to hear the Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I really cannot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1118.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1120.2", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "e allegations which I have heard or read are clearly based on ignorance of the plain facts. My hon. Friend the Member for East Woolwich (Mr. Hicks), the former Parliamentary Secretary, nods his head. I am glad to see him on the bench. I would like to take this opportunity of acknowledging the continuous help and loyal support which he has given for over four years to successive Ministers of Works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "swamped with orders many times greater than it was able to carry out. As a result, prices and building costs soared to prohibitive heights. Building materials account for about three-fifths of the cost of a house. It is therefore of the highest importance to ensure that the prices of material are maintained at a reasonable level. In no circumstances can we allow the nation's needs to be exploited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1132.4", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "e at all. I want to say a few words, if I may, about the dimensions of this problem. In the South of England the problem is due to enemy action. In Scotland it is due to causes which go much further back. In England, before the war began, it was probably true to say—and it was stated by successive Ministers of Health—that the problems of slum clearance and overcrowding had been practically solved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1132.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1140.9", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has had so little Parliamentary experience that he really ought not to intervene at all in this matter, because he is one of the least competent persons I have seen entrusted with high office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1140.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1140.9", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has had so little Parliamentary experience that he really ought not to intervene at all in this matter, because he is one of the least competent persons I have seen entrusted with high office. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] Certainly, and all the House knows it very well. The right hon. Gentleman owes his position at the present time not to any Parliamentary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1140.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ad already discussed this matter with my hon. Friends before I started my speech. It was perfectly clear that a very grave irregularity was about to be committed, and it is the responsibility of those of us on this side of the Committee, in the functions we discharge, to see to it that the financial procedure of the House of Commons is properly preserved. At any rate, it would be really monstrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "The Minister will recollect that I tried several times to interrupt him, and in doing so I wanted to ask two questions, to which I hope he will find replies when he has taken that smirk off his face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What is the Noble Lady?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister? It horrifies me to hear these personal attacks on Ministers who were in the Coalition. I agree with the last two speeches about housing. I realise that the Coalition Government had a difficult time, for the Tory Party had its Right Wing to deal with, which was not easy, and the Labour Party had its Left Wing, which was even worse. There are two wings the country could do without.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": " policy. People do not mind if they have not things like baths such as they will get in their permanent houses so long as they have homes of some sort to live in. There are in Plymouth people who would live in anything; they would live in a tent. These men coming back from the front would welcome a hut if they could get one. I am not worrying about these short-term houses. They are very temporary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Major Markham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Markham", "preceding_text": "It is always a difficult job to follow the Noble Lady, and particularly to-day when one realises that it may have been her last speech in this House. I am sure the Committee would wish me to take this opportunity, if it is in Order, of expressing regret at her forthcoming departure, to say how sad we are at this parting, and to ask her: \"Where can we find such another Nancy?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "When I said \"people of the Left,\" I did not mean people like some of the hon. Member's leaders; I meant certain other people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-07", "file": "debates1945-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "6516d59ba04593c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "able, as between England and Wales and Scotland. For permanent houses the local authorities already possess considerable areas of land. At the moment the housing authorities of Great Britain already own enough land for 276,000 houses, considerably more than enough for the programme which, on all our evidence as to labour resources, the local authorities can possibly carry out during the two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-07a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-08", "file": "debates1945-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "fd960f1e18d703f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-08a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE OF CREDIT, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "There are two ways of getting information. There is the way I get it, by constant contact with troops and their relatives by letter. The other way which is not open to most hon. Members who have not the same Press facilities as I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-08a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-11", "file": "debates1945-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b355d255ab16342a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1336.4", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1945; NAVY, ARMY AND AIR ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscountess Astor", "preceding_text": "Well, the hon. Member ought to be. He is in a class by himself and ought to have a special honour. Is it right to talk that way with Mr. Ede sitting there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-11", "file": "debates1945-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b355d255ab16342a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1343.5", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1945; NAVY, ARMY AND AIR ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lindsay", "preceding_text": "ms of the different parties for education, and I am not sure, looking back over the last 25 years, that any party has such a wonderful record. We had two \"axes\"—the Geddes axe and the May Report. The Geddes axe was referred to by the hon. Member for Caernarvon Boroughs (Mr. Seaborne Davies). We all hope that the Act which has just been passed will be of great benefit to our children in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-11", "file": "debates1945-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b355d255ab16342a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1945; NAVY, ARMY AND AIR ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "\"The Times Supplement\" is a responsible production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-11", "file": "debates1945-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b355d255ab16342a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1389.2", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marlowe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Marlowe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asks me why. The reason I regard it as retrograde is that it is going back to the sort of elections which took place over 1oo years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-11", "file": "debates1945-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b355d255ab16342a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On all sides\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Naylor", "preceding_text": "rd on one side, and I will not press that word in the vocabulary of the right hon. Gentleman, I will agree with him that agreement has been reached, with good will on both sides of the House, but nevertheless there was the fact of what the Prime Minister said. That remains in HANSARD and cannot be disputed and must have some effect upon hon. Members and right hon. Members on this side of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-11", "file": "debates1945-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b355d255ab16342a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "preceding_text": "it is really refreshing to hear from the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Sir W. Jowitt) that he expects that my right hon. Friend will be in charge of this business after the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-11", "file": "debates1945-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "b355d255ab16342a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1945", "cue_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Joseph Nall", "preceding_text": "it is really refreshing to hear from the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Sir W. Jowitt) that he expects that my right hon. Friend will be in charge of this business after the General Election. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] That is the first quite candid expression of opinion we have had from the Opposition side of the House as to what is likely to be the result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-11a.1421.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1462.14", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Anderson", "preceding_text": "Question 48—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1462.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1466.10", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Randolph Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Randolph Churchill", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1466.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I can only say that there will be a full opportunity for debating this matter to-morrow or the next day on the Consolidated Fund Bill, and there could be no stronger protest which hon. Members could make than to vote against that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1466.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1467.2", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I beg hon. Gentlemen not to wear such disagreeable expressions. Does the House really suppose that I would take a line like this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1467.3", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "May I ask whether it would be in Order to discuss the matter? I understand from the Prime Minister that the Government are to take action in this matter by making a new Regulation. I am not sure what this Regulation is and perhaps we could have it explained. Is it an alteration of King's Regulations or what is it, because my difficulty is this that we meet to-morrow", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1467.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.2", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.3", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Percy Harris", "preceding_text": "I—[Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"] I did want to help the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.6", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order,\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.6", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. [Hon. Members: \"Order,\"] I have not said a word on this yet. On a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.7", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. [Hon. Members: \"Order,\"] I have not said a word on this yet. On a point of Order. [Hon. Members: \"Order.\"] This is something different from anything yet. Please, a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.9", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I am asking you to grant me a point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.13", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (REQUISITIONED PROPERTY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir James Griģģ", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1468.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether it is not the case that these Regulations are a matter of Prerogative, and that there is no need for any Parliamentary approval at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1477.6", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s among people wearing uniform, between the floor and the platform. You might have a general on the floor and a private on the platform. It does strike me that that might raise an awkward position. On the other hand, if you say that no one must take any part in these meetings except in plain clothes, how are the many hundreds of thousands of soldiers in this country who have not got plain clothes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1477.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1551.6", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Yes, the White Paper of February, 1944. I will read it again: The Board must also be able to require the young doctor during the early years of his career, to give his whole time to the public service where the needs of the service require this. Those are the words", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1552.5", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I have just said that this document is so comprehensive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "e the way you dress your hair; it is too floppy, and it is not nice.\" The nurse said, \"I cannot help myself; it cannot be altered. Everybody has tried, but that is the way my hair lies.\" The matron said, \"Well, you are not fit to be a nurse and will not be allowed to be a nurse while you wear your hair in that fashion.\" They tried everything they could with that girl's hair—pomades and everything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Is the matron still there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "n to marry her, and the matron said, \"In this institution we give no marriage leave.\" They even wanted to insist on a search of her baggage, because it was alleged that she was supposed to be taking away a uniform for which the hospital had found the material and she had paid for the making-up. Eventually, the airman took his bride away and married her, and she has never been back to the hospital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "hether, in an emergency hospital service, when public money was being provided for such institutions, he could not exercise his right as Minister of Health to see that public money was only given to institutions over which he had some control. He and his Parliamentary Secretary wrote back and said, \"We are very sorry, but we cannot interfere with the administration and the rules in this hospital.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-12", "file": "debates1945-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "70f1b8aa2fbc5592", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Say it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "t about rehabilitation, a subject on which the Minister has not touched, and about difficulties in local authority hospitals in the counties of Devon, Somerset and Hampshire and all through South-West England, where only the chronic sick are being treated because the Minister has not seen fit to give them sufficient grants to build up their services. I could say a lot in an attack on the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-12a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1647.8", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman explain why, to-day, he is answering Questions for the Prime Minister whereas, the other day, the First Lord of the Admiralty, who is sitting be- side him, answered Questions for the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1647.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1657.6", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, Scotland Division\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is one of the greatest employers of the policy of using a point of Order without any relation whatever to the rights of Members in that respect. I have watched him for a long time. He thinks he can always get in by saying that it is a point of Order. I would like to answer my hon. Friend the Member for the Toxteth Division of Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1657.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "GENERAL ELECTION (SERVICE UNIFORMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman who leads the Opposition had the desire to put a Question on the Paper to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will remember that, in the other House, I stood there a lone figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1698.7", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member will be good enough to consider whether some of this evidence ought to go before a public inquiry. I am placing the evidence before the House for consideration, and if the personnel of the present House of Commons is not prepared to accept the evidence, perhaps the personnel we shall have in the new Parliament will be prepared to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1698.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ntleman the Member for Stoke (Mr. Ellis Smith). He has spoken of evidence. I would ask him tomorrow to read his speech carefully, when he will see that anything in the nature of evidence could have been confined within the space of three minutes, and even then it was very incomplete. He quoted from a document called \"Germany's Master Plan.\" He would never have seen it if I had not given it to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend forgive me? We ought to leave romance aside; this is a serious Debate. You will get the facts before the end of this Debate. You will get a lot more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1704.6", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what he said. Did my hon. Friend make no reference at all to the selling of quotas under the 1930 Act? Hon. Members: No. Sir H. Williams: I did not say one word about that. I do not mind being interrupted; in fact I welcome interruption for it is an absolute godsend to be interrupted by most of the people who do the interrupting. What I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1704.6", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n fact I welcome interruption for it is an absolute godsend to be interrupted by most of the people who do the interrupting. What I said—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite have had three goes, it is time I had a go—was this, that the quota system of the 1930 Mines Act was a system of restriction of output. Mr. Shinwell: That is the point. The hon. Gentleman did refer to the selling of quotas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1704.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1704.7", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "at I said—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite have had three goes, it is time I had a go—was this, that the quota system of the 1930 Mines Act was a system of restriction of output. Mr. Shinwell: That is the point. The hon. Gentleman did refer to the selling of quotas. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] All right. He referred to quotas, and what he inferred was that the quotas led to restrictive practices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1704.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1705.2", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " a coal district, therefore I should have thought he would be more familiar with the Act than he appears to be. All I was saying was this. The hon. Member for Stoke said that it is an evil thing to do anything which restricts output. I agreed with him. I then pointed out that by the Act of 1930 a limit was, in fact, put on the output of every pit in this country and it was called the quota scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1705.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1715.3", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "markets. The fiercest competition was taking place in the Baltic market. The hon. Member is also correct in saying that the Polish Government subsidised Silesian coal to such an extent that it was under-selling our coal in the Baltic markets. But he has only told half the story. It was impossible for us to reach any agreement, because we had no one in Great Britain with whom to reach an agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1715.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-13", "file": "debates1945-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "4fc437ca36dbdb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1730.4", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CARTELS AND MONOPOLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nked up—cousins, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law, daughters-in-law and the rest of it. It is a family affair. British industry is in the hands of a Tory clique all linked up with each other, and when some of them get hard up they look around for the daughter of some wealthy person in order to replenish their coffers. It is ah old trick. They are trying to put it across us. Who do they think we are?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-13a.1730.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-14", "file": "debates1945-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fdd206673db56ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "FOREIGN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the suggestion which I made may have caused the trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-14", "file": "debates1945-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fdd206673db56ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1786.0", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "FOREIGN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Bevan", "preceding_text": "e Crown may make statements at the end of Questions of an urgent or emergency character, and it has been laid down by you, Mr. Speaker, that those statements may not be of too controversial a character, unless proper provision is made for them to be debated. In my respectful submission, there is no reason at all why the House should be burdened by the statement now being made by the PrimeMinister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-14", "file": "debates1945-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fdd206673db56ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1789.5", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "FOREIGN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "All that has emerged from the Prime Minister's remarks this afternoon is that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has been invited to accompany the Prime Minister on one of his foreign travels. I understood that it was the purpose of this intervention of the Prime Minister to give the House some information on India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1789.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-06-14", "file": "debates1945-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fdd206673db56ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1789.5", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "FOREIGN SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "All that has emerged from the Prime Minister's remarks this afternoon is that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has been invited to accompany the Prime Minister on one of his foreign travels. I understood that it was the purpose of this intervention of the Prime Minister to give the House some information on India. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] Therefore, may I ask the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1789.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-06-14", "file": "debates1945-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "7fdd206673db56ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1834.4", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "INDIA (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I really think that this House is not doing itself justice by becoming involved in a somewhat unseemly wrangle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-06-14a.1834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In Spain\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": " It may be that the father or son, or a friend sitting in the cottage, is called out, and taken off into the dark and no one knows whether he will ever come back again, or what his fate has been. All they know is that they had better not inquire. There are millions of humble homes in Europe at the moment, in Poland, in Czechoslovakia, in Austria, in Hungary, in Yugoslavia, in Rumania, in Bulgaria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Gestapo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "en to whom we have listened. There is one question which I hope the Prime Minister will be able to answer. What precisely is Mr Laski's authority for all the statements he is making about our foreign policy? How far do his statements involve the agreement or responsibility of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? We know that Mr. Laski is the Chairman of the Labour Party Executive Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ty. I am sorry these simple truisms should excite the hon. Member opposite—whom I watched so often during the course of the last Parliament and whose many agreeable qualities I have often admired—as if they had some sense of novelty for him. We do not propose to join issue immediately about the legislative proposals in the Gracious Speech. We do not know what is meant by the control of investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "er price, and at an earlier moment than is now in view, I, for one, should approach the plan in a sympathetic spirit. It is by results, as the hon. and gallant Gentleman who moved the Motion for the Address said, that the Government will be judged, and it is by results that this policy must be judged The national ownership of the Bank of England does not in my opinion raise any matter of principle", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " all those concerned in the industry to do their utmost to increase production, and to all coal users to use the utmost economy in fuel, light and power. And that again, is a case where it is no good leaving it to the \"other man.\" It is the mass of individual saving that affects the people. The Government's policy of nationalising the coalmining industry will bring great advantages in the long run", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He turned a few times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "tremendous movement forward of mechanical invention. I want to turn for a moment to home affairs. I was glad to hear the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wood-ford reiterate and re-echo so firmly his belief in the freedom of democracy which he used to utter so well when he was a member of my Party, and which somehow or other we suspect was not uttered so strongly when he joined his new friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "cy which he used to utter so well when he was a member of my Party, and which somehow or other we suspect was not uttered so strongly when he joined his new friends. [An Hon. Member: \"He turned a few times.\"] Quite rightly he quoted \"Government of the people, by the people, for the people.\" That has been long the doctrine that we have uttered. We believe sincerely in the freedom of the individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You were not here then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "iends. [An Hon. Member: \"He turned a few times.\"] Quite rightly he quoted \"Government of the people, by the people, for the people.\" That has been long the doctrine that we have uttered. We believe sincerely in the freedom of the individual. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to hear that applause from the Conservative benches. For a whole century we had to persuade them of the value of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Do not worry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "t unfortunately at that time all they desired to do was being frustrated because the Tories maintained power through another place. To-day, fortunately, the power of that other place has been cut down and the road of this Government towards progress is clear. We wish this Government well, but we want them to take that road firmly. We want them to show plenty of backbone, determination and courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "ope that during this Session the Government will be able to make good many of the points of policy that have been adumbrated in that programme. When the Prime Minister was speaking, he indicated that it is the intention of the Government to take up all the time of the House—all the Private Members' time. I have had occasion to protest about other Governments invading the rights of Private Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "y mind the first priority in the business of this country is the subject of providing houses for our people. There is no question that is of greater importance. It was with a certain feeling of hope that I noticed the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in dealing with this question promised that the Government would deal with it in the same way as we dealt with the subject of munitions of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "seemed to indicate that he and others in the Tory Party are going to follow the same line of criticism as they did from 1929 to 1931 of discrediting the Labour Government. My complaint is that during those years the Tory Party in their criticism pursued a policy which lowered the credit of this country as a trading community throughout the world, and almost brought this country into absolute ruin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We are all right down here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "Up the Bank-rate or down the Bank-rate, I ask hon. Members to try for one period in their history to put country before party. The I.L.P. have always put the interests of the working people of the country before any of their own individual interests. I am saying that I hope hon. Members above the Gangway will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": " hedge to hedge. It may well be that many of my old friends among the Surrey dockers will never \"go slow\" again once they are assured that we are going to socialise the Bank of England. It may be that in years to come we shall see the whole face of society better and brighter because of this tremendous event. We cannot tell, but what I am sure of is my Bills and the Bills of other Private Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "ill be made to realise the restrictions of party. And there are too many of them. The most enthusiastic, complimentary and eloquent speech in favour of a Government Bill coming from any one of them will be as gall and wormwood to the Chief Whip, who has to get his business through. Their elaborate and ingenious Amendments, even if called by the Chair, will not always be welcomed by their own side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "m not quarrelling with your Ruling, Mr. Speaker, but you said that they must not appear on the Order Paper. But look at what this House is doing to me after all the things I promised to my constituents, and all the things I have promised to the constituents of other hon. Members. I get a hundred letters a week, not from my own constituents but from poor people who are worried about their divorces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " Churchill) comply in any form whatsoever with the desire of some of us in the Opposition for a little extra time. We sat, permanently, short weeks of three days a week. There is vital legislation which must be put through following a period of war. People expect things to be done. The Government are asking us to agree that Private Members shall give up their rights for a short period of one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member accused hon. Members of obstruction he should not have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sloan", "preceding_text": " coal could be produced more cheaply and in greater quantities under nationalisation, he would favour it. Well, give us the opportunity of proving it. We will be able to prove to the people of the country that we can do this, but it is quite evident that hon. Members who are sitting behind the Prime Minister are going to do their utmost to prevent us from proving this to the people of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "f legislation, that so much need of legislation has accumulated, as if it were something which God had sent them, like rain, although they had prayed for sun or snow. Their business, as the right hon. Gentleman the First Lord of the Treasury reminded them and us earlier to-day, is to govern. It is not necessarily their business wholly to recast the economic and social arrangements of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Yes, if you will give me a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": " the Bills which made possible this Election, how we were told over and over again by hon. Gentlemen and right hon. Gentlemen—some of them at this moment on that Front Bench—that this would be a rushed Election on a bad register and therefore of doubtful authority. I am interested to know why they have now changed their opinion. Perhaps later, in the smoke room, one of them will explain to me why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-16", "file": "debates1945-08-16a.xml", "sha256": "575858d41f20383e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "BUSINESS AND SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M'Kie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M'Kie", "preceding_text": "e of social legislation to bring about a better world.\" That is quite all right; but if they think like that why did the Prime Minister tell us this afternoon we are going to adjourn until 9th October—six whole weeks during which there will not be a meeting of this House? Why? In order, the Prime Minister informed us, that the new Ministers might accustom themselves to the routine of their duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-16a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.192.6", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "rst sense of disappointment it would be that the Gracious Speech has not been framed to meet the facts, the grim facts, of the economic situation with which we are faced, but rather that this grim torso of the present economic situation has been hastily dressed in clothes prepared a long time ago by the theoretical architects of the Labour Party's policy. This is a very great disappointment to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.192.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To sell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " be built. I therefore confidently hope that the right hon. Gentleman who will reply will give us a reassurance on the policy announced by my right hon. Friend in regard to help and subsidy for private enterprise in housing. I trust that this will form a prominent part of the Government's programme. During the last five years before the war four out of five houses were built by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is responsible?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "nities in the countryside—the water supply, which will be developed under the great Water Bill for which my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for North Croydon was responsible, the electricity supplies and other amenities in the countryside. We on this side of die House propose, as we have always done throughout our history, to fight for the countryside. The situation is serious and urgent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.195.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I have indicated that in my view there is agreement in the House that the Government's guidance is necessary in economic affairs to a far greater extent than before the war, but that nationalisation is not the best way to exercise the limited amount of——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.229.4", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": " sure that the Lord Privy Seal who is on the Front Bench will co-ordinate the activities of the various Departments connected with housing in such a way that it will not matter that there are numerous Departments dealing with it, because by that co-ordination we shall get a single drive in housing, about which so many hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have displayed such concern this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And it will continue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "f Works. I believe the late Government went sadly astray over this business of the Ministry of Works. I cannot imagine that the late Minister of Health enjoyed dividing his functions with the Minister of Works. We have lost very precious time and lost it irretrievably. That delay in the latter months of the late Government was due to the fact that housing policy rested in more than one Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I think I have made that quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "o use, for the solution of this most grievous of our domestic problems, every agency that can properly be used. People talk about the houses built by private enterprise. Good gracious, that has always been so. It is largely the cause of the muddle we are in to-day. But whatever local authorities may do—some of them have works departments—building will have to be conducted by the building industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": ". I was asked whether our attitude to private enterprise was the same as that of the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for North Croydon (Mr. Willink). It is not. I find it difficult at this stage to believe that this House would agree for one moment to let loose, by the aid of a subsidy, large-scale private building of houses for sale whilst the most urgent needs of the people remained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "he Housing (Rural Workers) Act, which is expiring, was to be continued. The answer is \"No, Sir.\" This Act has been of service in Scotland; that, I admit. In spite of this urgent need for dealing with existing houses and making them fit for human habitation that Act has been as good as a dead letter in England and Wales. Where has this urge suddenly arisen? Has it arisen since the General Election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "No, I am afraid not. Scotland cannot always continue to have special advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Members: \"Next year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "will be subjected to that close scrutiny which was promised by my right hon. Friend. It will be a very complicated Measure. I think it may prove to be perhaps one of the longest Measures that the House of Commons has ever seen. It will be completed very early, and it is hoped that, complicated though it is, we might have it ready in the hands of hon. Members perhaps when we resume early next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The spurs are still on this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " that when they see this Bill, they will appreciate that it is a Bill of a character and importance and of a complex nature that demands a good deal of care in its drafting. When I sat on the opposite side in the last Parliament I pressed for this Bill on many occasions, realising how difficult it all was, but then I was the spur in those days to a Government which seemed to be a little lethargic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-17", "file": "debates1945-08-17a.xml", "sha256": "957983b2185fbc55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Thank you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "he new Government and their programme. And the second is to draw attention to two points in the King's Speech on which I would be glad to have further information. I welcome the arrival of the present Government in power. Their programme, which can be denned in a couple of phrases as social security plus a limited amount of nationalisation, is a programme which I shall find it possible to support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-17a.261.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-08-20", "file": "debates1945-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "8554a11a79eab57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.275.6", "colnum": "275", "heading": "MESSAGES FROM COSTA RICA AND TURKEY", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "struggle against the aggressors, and we sincerely share the great sorrow of their families. Our admiration is boundless for those who in order to arrive at this end have given brilliant proof of the powers of humanity in different fields of action.' (Signed) ABDUL ALIK RENDA, President of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. I have to inform the House that in reply, I have seat suitable answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.275.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-20", "file": "debates1945-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "8554a11a79eab57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "es to the West of this latter river, even on a pre war basis, amounted to a little over 3,000,000, most of whom were said to be already gone. No mines were working, nothing was happening there, and they had just been driven out. On the other side, as I understand it, there are 4,000,000 Poles in the territory that has been ceded to Russia. Will they return to Poland, or will they remain in Russia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-20", "file": "debates1945-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "8554a11a79eab57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "e the right hon. Gentleman's speech all the more because hon. Members on this side of the House, and perhaps in other quarters too, have been disturbed by statements and utterances which have been made at one time or another during the past two months. It is perhaps rather a risky thing in a maiden speech to refer to such a controversial issue as the utterances of the Chairman of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-20", "file": "debates1945-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "8554a11a79eab57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": "t is supremely important. Therefore, I do not think that they can brush aside these statements as easily as all that. The right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister said the other day that, as a citizen of Great Britain, Professor Laski has the right to express his views. But that is not the question. The question is, Has he the authority to make a statement of the policy of His Majesty's Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-20", "file": "debates1945-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "8554a11a79eab57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean", "preceding_text": " that our foreign policy has to be based on the shifting sands of political sentimentality and not on reality. I have nothing against the French Socialists. I happen to have a number of very good friends among them. They have that same enduring quality of vague idealism which is shared by so many hon. Members opposite. Unfortunately, I do not happen to have any friends amongst American financiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-20", "file": "debates1945-08-20a.xml", "sha256": "8554a11a79eab57a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL ELECTIONS (SERVICE ABROAD) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M'Kie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M'Kie", "preceding_text": "ch, I welcome the Bill, but I rise to enter a caveat. My right hon. Friend had some doubts with regard to extending the provisions of this Bill until 1947. If it is intended to carry the Bill on until then, it raises the question of the local government electoral register. I hope that that register will be a much more complete one than the one on which we fought the recent Parliamentary elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-20a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.452.8", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (FREE POSTAGE FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Why not have free postage for all Members of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.452.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.478.9", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "tiers at competitive prices. Those are my first two points. The last point I want to make before I leave the question of export trade concerns the Department of Overseas Trade. I would like to say that I feel keen pleasure in seeing—in the eye of the mind—the hon. Member for East Cardiff (Mr. Marquand), a new Member of the House, holding the office of Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.478.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.478.9", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " the eye of the mind—the hon. Member for East Cardiff (Mr. Marquand), a new Member of the House, holding the office of Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade. [Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"] But it would also be true to say, and I must say it, that that pleasure is tinged with regret, when I think that he has replaced in this Parliament a public servant of great distinction. Sir James Grigg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.478.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "We either need to borrow more money from America, or else to obtain interest-free loans or, if the United States like to give us the money, so much the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "he war? May I say, in no censorious or sarcastic vein, that if you need assistance from a country—and how we need it—the best way to obtain it is not to affront, on every possible occasion, the opinion of that country by criticising and sneering at things in this field which they hold most dear, namely, the overriding contribution which private enterprise has to make if the world is to be rebuilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.484.3", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "s peaceful and prosperous expanding economy. Free competition and free men are the strength of our free society, and so on, in the same vein. Hon. Members opposite may think that document was a statement by some sinister American financier or capitalist. Remarkably, it is called \"A Charter for Labour Management\" and it is signed by Mr. William Green, President of the American Federation of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I think the object of the hon. Member's intervention is to carry on the argument. I thought at first he was seeking to put me right on a matter of fact. The point I was making was that if you wish to obtain assistance from the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "tates—[Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"] The question is quite irrelevant to the subject on which I was talking. If you wish to obtain assistance from the United States, you must be careful about the critical things which you say about private enterprise. I have no doubt the hon. Member has said many of them in the course of debate, but they will affront American opinion. It is quite possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I was only saying that I do not think these matters should be put in the forefront of our relations with the United States. I am heartily tired of the very name, but Professor Laski has been saying——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.5", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " she becomes a Socialist State or not. France can give us, and we can give her, much help. But how do these doctines apply to our relations with the United States—the very citadel of private enterprise and an example of a high standard of life? What if she were to adopt the Professor's attitude, and say she will only carry out these arrangements with a country of strong individualistic tendencies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ines on which he intends to proceed? We shall, very early, wish to hear the detailed scheme relating to this most important subject. I said that such a system would not be wise or necessary, and so far I have only explained why I do not think it would be dangerous. It is not wise, for the simple reason that the present system, evolved and matured over hundreds of years, worked, I think, perfectly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "blic and international confidence is no doubt a most exhilarating sport, but it frequently ends in disaster to the ice and consequently to the skater. Let us have a little firm ice under our feet before the Government attempt to execute some of their more exuberant evolutions or revolutions. May I conclude by saying, with great respect, that I regard this Government as a very promising Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.529.6", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "There has been reduced output—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.529.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.529.6", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "dispute is necessary in so many cases. I have heard very frequently Members of the Labour Party and, in the previous Parliament, hon. Gentlemen opposite, using with gusto the word \"exploitation.\" In my view there has never been a better example of exploitation than the exploitation of the mining industry by the Labour Party, with apparently no consideration whatsoever for the welfare of the miner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.529.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "The statement of the hon. Gentleman is entirely incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Mismanaged\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "The statement of the hon. Gentleman is entirely incorrect. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] What I am trying to point out—even if the hon. Gentleman were accurate and I do not think he is—is that there has been uncertainty hanging over the mining industry, that for 25 years the industry has been managed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They should be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "en created by hon. Gentlemen opposite, has been resolved by them, and we now know for certain that the mining industry will be nationalised within the next few months. But what about the other industries and undertakings of this country? Here is a short list. What about water, electricity and gas? Are they to be nationalised? What about the railways and iron and steel? Are they to be nationalised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Only the beginning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "e end? If not, why not? I hope these questions will be answered later to-day. What principle of discrimination will there be between one industry and another which shall determine whether it is to be nationalised or not, or is there no principle at all? Is it merely a matter of political expediency? Are the measures of nationalisation outlined in the King's Speech the end of Socialism in our time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "whether it is to be nationalised or not, or is there no principle at all? Is it merely a matter of political expediency? Are the measures of nationalisation outlined in the King's Speech the end of Socialism in our time? [An Hon. Member: \"Only the beginning.\"] We have a right to know. Trade and industry in this country have a right to know. Are there to be further doses of Socialism in due course?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The workers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman had better present a copy to his own Front Bench. It is not for me to answer these questions; I am asking them. I am asking them not only on behalf of my party, but on behalf of many others who will be vitally interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Did that happen before the Election or after?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "ave no authority over these men. These plumbers and electricians are from a local authority pool, and if I start to tell them to get on, they will merely say, 'You have got no right to order us about, as we are not working for you.' I do not care, because I get cost plus, so that it does not matter to me how long the job takes or what it costs.\" There must be something very definitely wrong there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": " building of houses for sale whilst the most urgent needs of the people remained. Before the war 35 per cent. of the householders in this country were owner-occupiers, and I cannot help thinking that there are many hon. and right hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House who would like to see that percentage increased. We do not want the whole of our population to consist of municipal tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"More, I hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "not unreasonably, the question of the release of doctors from the Armed Forces for the purpose of assisting in the undoubtedly serious situation that exists in regard to medical services for the civilian population. I can assure him that the Minister of Health is pursuing this matter with just as much vigour, persuasion and energy as the right hon. and learned Gentleman did in the late Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "hat there are differences of outlook between the two countries—that our institutions work differently, and that the economic thought of the two countries is different—but if the right hon. and gallant Member for Alder-shot suggests that if we do not mind our P's and Q's we shall earn dislike in the United States, then I think his was an unjustifiable observation that had better not have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " is the problem? What is the fundamental economic problem? During the Election speeches were made by the Opposition leaders and others promising all sorts of extensions of the social services at great cost. I am not complaining about that, because we wish the same thing and perhaps a little more so, but it is no good promising bold and dashing experiments in the development of the social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " social services at great cost. I am not complaining about that, because we wish the same thing and perhaps a little more so, but it is no good promising bold and dashing experiments in the development of the social services—[ Laughter ]—unless at the same time we make provision in the economic and industrial life of the nation, whereby these developments in the social services can be carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "xpenditure on the social services—whether the cost fell upon the Exchequer or on compulsory contributions does not much matter from this point of view—whilst at the same time flatly refusing, as they did flatly refuse, to consider public direction in the reorganisation of industry for public needs, I believe that policy would lead to a financial crisis, to another 1931. None of us want that again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-21", "file": "debates1945-08-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e7eb78461816470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KING'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ly refusing, as they did flatly refuse, to consider public direction in the reorganisation of industry for public needs, I believe that policy would lead to a financial crisis, to another 1931. None of us want that again. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman is bursting to have an argument about something. I am sure he will get it, but after all he should not laugh at 1931 because it was he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-21a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-22", "file": "debates1945-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "08240bb653ac5b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.589.5", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cocks", "preceding_text": "In view of the reports of monstrous intimidation going on in Greece at the present time—much worse than those in Bulgaria, about which the Foreign Office are so sensitive—is it not better to get fair and impartial reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-22", "file": "debates1945-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "08240bb653ac5b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And the Scots.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "hat was known as an international language called Esperanto, but what is wanted is not an artificial language, but an existing living language, such as English itself might be, which could be spread through the world and become the common medium of common understanding. To give an example of the binding power of language, I take this Chamber. We have here in this Chamber the English and the Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-22", "file": "debates1945-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "08240bb653ac5b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A Yorkshire man?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "not, however, a restricted number of words that is wanted, but English in all its full beauty, richness and magnificence. We do not want to curtail the language but to give it all our great ideals. If the English language were spread to the far ends of the earth, even the beggars would use it as their language. I can, on the average, teach a person to speak English fluently in two to three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-22", "file": "debates1945-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "08240bb653ac5b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Follick", "preceding_text": "ead to the far ends of the earth, even the beggars would use it as their language. I can, on the average, teach a person to speak English fluently in two to three months. [An Hon. Member: \"A Yorkshire man?\"] Yes, a Yorkshire man. I even went to the extreme—this is my maiden speech, and hon. Members must not interrupt—I even went to the extreme of teaching a deaf and dumb Spaniard to speak English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-22", "file": "debates1945-08-22a.xml", "sha256": "08240bb653ac5b0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGovern", "preceding_text": "Supposing I were to admit that that were true, for argument's sake, it would not destroy in the popular mind the view that the war was being used for personal purposes by certain individuals during the period of the war. I am only trying to say that the Conservative Party should realise that they have suffered from a personal dictatorship during this war and during the General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-22a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-23", "file": "debates1945-08-23a.xml", "sha256": "a379cd57bb685a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the veterinary services of Britain are the most backward in the civilised world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.787.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-08-23", "file": "debates1945-08-23a.xml", "sha256": "a379cd57bb685a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Manning", "preceding_text": "Is this a premeditated device of the Department of my right hon. Friend to freeze the women out of the Land Army both metaphysically and physically?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.788.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-23", "file": "debates1945-08-23a.xml", "sha256": "a379cd57bb685a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "table facts. I hope that the Government will give earnest attention to what I am going to say. They will not get this warning from their own benches, that is unless the ideas of hon. Members opposite have altered as much as have their numbers. My song is as old as the hills. It started with Adam and Eve, or it started, if you will, between two troops of monkeys: Are we to be idealists or realists?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-23", "file": "debates1945-08-23a.xml", "sha256": "a379cd57bb685a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "ot alter, and merely because they change their politics and go in for Left Wing politics it would be a very great mistake to think that they do. The ravages of this war have been very great. The losses have been very sad and hard to bear, but there are many people in this country—I know I am right here—who have not been seriously touched by the war and indeed who have profited from it quite a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-23", "file": "debates1945-08-23a.xml", "sha256": "a379cd57bb685a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Translate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": ", upheaval and unrest, the greatest single contribution which we can make to the cause of world peace is that we should be strong. Let us go forward with the highest moral purpose. Let our ideals be as lofty as possible but let us temper our moral purpose and our ideals with realism. There is an old French saying which goes like this: Oignez vilain, il vous poindra, Poignez vilain, il vous oindra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-23", "file": "debates1945-08-23a.xml", "sha256": "a379cd57bb685a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric L. Gandar Dower", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric L. Gandar Dower", "preceding_text": "ld have held this House for 20 minutes spell-bound—in slumber. That speech, like many others, was never delivered. I feel sure that new Members on both sides of the House have notes of speeches in their pockets, masterpieces which will never see the light of day. What would Mr. Sol Hurok not give for the American rights? I have—I blush to confess it—made several friends among the Government Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-23", "file": "debates1945-08-23a.xml", "sha256": "a379cd57bb685a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNITED NATIONS CHARTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "ted States of America, who share with us this awful secret, with a view to a joint approach to the Soviet Government. Let us say to Russia, \"We are prepared to share this great secret with you, provided you are prepared to settle our outstanding differences amicably, provided you are prepared to join with us in making the Security Council established at San Francisco an effective world authority.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-23a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "22nd February, 1886.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.990.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "not know. For Parliament to allow that state of affairs in legislation to obtain is to abrogate its duty to the country. Another instance was given in which the appropriate official in a Department made a Statutory Order, placed it in a pigeon-hole, and forgot all about it for two years. Although the Order was technically and legally in force, not even the author of the Order itself remembered it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members know it I am not going to weary the House by reading it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And starvation wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "change? Mr. Gladstone has been quoted. There have been other Prime Ministers whose sayings and achievements linger in the memories of some of us. One of the great Prime Ministers of this country was Lord Melbourne. He was Queen Victoria's Prime Minister and he was a successful Prime Minister. There was a great deal of peace and happiness, pleasure and human enjoyment in the days of Queen Victoria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"We are sent here to do things.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "to twelve o'clock and said that he was to have a glass of sherry at twelve and consequently would not retain them very long with the agenda. He said on another occasion: \"Must we really do anything?\" While I do not agree with such an extreme policy of inaction I shall not be surprised if we are converted to a policy of inaction before this Parliament comes to an end. Why this passion to do things?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " speal for any of my colleagues; I do not in the least care what Members outside say, whether they are Tories or Socialists; I do not care for what the Press may say, nor for the bunkum we often get as a substitute for argument; I do not care what statements are made that there is a burning public desire for our report because we have a wonderful new world which the Socialist Party has a share in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1067.4", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "PETROL RATIONING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " in the month of September. I share with them the desire that everybody should have a well-earned holiday. I shall not have one myself, for obvious reasons, but that is by the way and I am not making any complaint. Clearly, if we were to prepare for the holiday season at all, we should have prepared long ago, and not have waited until the end of August. We should have prepared in the month of May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1067.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-08-24", "file": "debates1945-08-24a.xml", "sha256": "633766a7bf4e7fb3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1129.0", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "POLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "Certainly. Again, I do not want to bore the House, but my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead pointed to them. The only party which had a substantial existence before the war and is not now directly represented is the National Democratic Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-08-24a.1129.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.2.9", "colnum": "2", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "To this I have sent a suitable reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.2.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.2.12", "colnum": "2", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have also received a cablegram from the President of the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies conveying congratulations, in the name of the Egyptian people, on the victory over Japan; to which I have also sent a suitable reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.2.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.3.4", "colnum": "3", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "on, to visit Germany. I had the opportunity of seeing the effects on such towns as Cologne and Berlin, as well as on Kiel Harbour, of the bombing by the Royal Air Force. I also had the pleasure of meeting many distinguished officers and other ranks who are still on duty in Germany. I am sure the House will appreciate the courtesy of this invitation to its Speaker and approve my having accepted it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.3.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and gallant Member would allow me to develop my argument I might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Do not get rattled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I sat down because he rose. I endeavoured to be courteous to the hon. and gallant Gentleman, and I do not think he should make that a grievance. By all means let us have good party fights but let us be quite certain that we get into trouble about something that is really essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "preceding_text": "supporters on the other side of the House, and on the benches above the Gangway, where the more senior and leading supporters might be expected to assemble, the largest number I counted was 12. I hope that the country will not hesitate to make a note of the fact that there was such a large attendance of Members to support the Government during the speech on the Second Reading by the Home Secretary", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "preceding_text": "w it can be done because of the huge majority on the other side of the House who love controls. It seems to me this is a very bad beginning for a Socialist Government in their first Bill presented to Parliament. To take some details of the Clauses, such phrases are used throughout, as \"essential to the well-being of the country.\" Who is to decide what is essential to the well-being of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "preceding_text": "ry bad beginning for a Socialist Government in their first Bill presented to Parliament. To take some details of the Clauses, such phrases are used throughout, as \"essential to the well-being of the country.\" Who is to decide what is essential to the well-being of the country? [Hon. Members: \"We are.\"] It is going to be decided in a purely arbitrary way and with the most deliberate political bias—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Guy Lloyd(Renfrew, Eastern)", "preceding_text": " say that because they think something essential to the interests of the country the rest of the country, or at any rate very large numbers in the country would necessarily agree with them. What guarantee have we that this readjustment or control on industry to which we are now asked to agree will really be used for the requirements of the country? Who is to decide the requirements of the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ll the instinct for liberty in this country, simply because liberty becomes a legend which nobody remembers. How has this country, this great little island, with no raw materials, and with only fishing and agriculture, which can be developed, supported 40 to 45 million people through the years? It has been done by the inveterate genius and leadership of the individual, by the genius of our bankers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "Government may be extremely glad that those prices are controlled. Those are wide words and it seems to me that they are wide enough to give the Government power to control wages by Defence Regulation. Are not wages payments for services? So we here have a Socialist Government, not a Tory Government, seeking to obtain power to interfere with the free negotiation between trade unions and employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.162.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who wrote that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Why try to get me into trouble with somebody else? The paragraph continues: Just think back over the depressions of the 20 years between the wars, when there were precious few public controls of any kind and the Big Interests had things all their own way. Never was so much injury done to so many by so few. Freedom is not an abstract thing. To be real it must be won, it must be worked for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.172.6", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "end the Bill by affirmative Resolutions by both Houses of Parliament. If the Bill is as bad as the right hon. Gentleman affirmed —and he painted a gloomy picture, though he used some charming sentences, of a good capitalist flavour but nevertheless of very good phrasing, which we all thoroughly enjoyed, as we usuallydo—I cannot follow why it should be tolerable for two years as against five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.172.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There was a war on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "evant to the argument I am putting to the House and on the whole irrelevant to the argument that the right hon. Gentleman used. If this Bill is thoroughly bad in principle, content and nature, as the right hon. Gentleman and his friends have made out, I want to know why the right hon. Gentleman ever allowed his name to be associated with the Bill when it was introduced by the Coalition Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " be associated with the Bill when it was introduced by the Coalition Government. [Hon. Members: \"There was a war on.\"] It is no good saying, \"There was a war on.\" It is no good saying things that are not very wise and not very rational. When this Bill was brought in, it was contemplated that it might well operate for a substantial period after the end of both the European and the Far Eastern wars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-09", "file": "debates1945-10-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6a993962426b47d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "wrong to mislead the country so utterly on the facts. There has been too much glossing over of unpalatable facts in the past, and this Government refuse to follow the bad example set by other Governments. In our view the public can and must be trusted, and we propose to trust them with the facts as we see them, even if they are sometimes unwelcome facts. Moreover, it is wrong to raise false hopes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-09a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-10", "file": "debates1945-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "e325529b9d53717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-10a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": " of conciliation, but in places in which the general run of legal justice is being dealt with I think the less a person on a tribunal has to do with either side of the industry the better it is for all concerned. I would say of the courts that whatever may be their history, in the course of the last forty years the British workman has had a pretty good deal from the courts, taking it by and large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-10a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-10", "file": "debates1945-10-10a.xml", "sha256": "e325529b9d53717b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-10a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I took his words down carefully; I noted his words very carefully. He said that if any accidents occurred in industry they were either the fault of no one or of the worker or the worker's colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-10a.349.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-11", "file": "debates1945-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbbe3237460a81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOMB DISPOSAL UNITS (RECOGNITION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": " I associate myself with what the right hon. Gentleman has just said and add that I think it is historically correct to say that we did not ask for volunteers for this service? We thought that would be wrong in view of the nature of the service, but that in no way detracts from the gallantry of what that service did, and I think the House will welcome the extra tribute which has been paid to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-11", "file": "debates1945-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbbe3237460a81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.403.2", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE IMMIGRANTS' CAMP (ARMED RAID)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman deny the truth of the reports which have appeared in the Press to the effect that after the murder of this constable—with whose relatives, I am sure, the whole House would like to sympathise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.403.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-11", "file": "debates1945-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbbe3237460a81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.404.6", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE IMMIGRANTS' CAMP (ARMED RAID)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree that all these regrettable incidents arise out of an attempt to enforce a law which the Mandates Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.404.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-11", "file": "debates1945-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbbe3237460a81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "in spite of these concessions, which as I say we applaud for themselves, there is not a complete harmony existing among the ranks of Tuscany. The speeches yesterday of the hon. Members for Houghton-le-Spring (Mr. Blyton), Wallsend (Mr. McKay) and Normanton (Mr. T. Smith) made it clear that there are still elements on the Government benches which are not wholly satisfied with the Bill as it stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-11", "file": "debates1945-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbbe3237460a81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You will be disappointed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "y satisfied with the Bill as it stands. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to have that endorsement of my view. In those circumstances it might be well for those of us on this side of the House, while claiming our share of the credit for the good things of this Bill, to stand aside and watch the controversy which may perhaps develop more keenly during the Committee stage of these proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-11", "file": "debates1945-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbbe3237460a81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is the trouble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "y Seal remarked a short time ago that his party was a cross section of the community. While welcoming that description I think that any reasonably objective political geologist would quickly detect rich layers of trade union officers and lawyers in the ranks of hon. Members opposite. My own view about lawyers is that the great thing in their favour is that there is generally more than one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-11", "file": "debates1945-10-11a.xml", "sha256": "8ecbbe3237460a81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (INDUSTRIAL INJURIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Arthur Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "right, we will amend it to make it work right. During the Committee stage my right hon. Friend and the Parliamentary Secretary will give all the suggestions that have been made to-day, and all the Amendments that go down on the paper, really sympathetic consideration. I hope the House will accept that. I am not very forthcoming at giving pledges; I never like to make promises that I cannot fulfil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-11a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-12", "file": "debates1945-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc751b9287dde3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "ublish it, and are the Government prepared to put into the Library the whole verbatim report of what took place in Chicago? have never seen.—and I have been all through the files, every one of them why Lord Swinton and Doctor Adolf Berle and others turned down the policy I am advocating and which was advocated by Mr. Drakeford and by Mr. Sullivan, representing Australia and New Zealand at Chicago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-12", "file": "debates1945-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc751b9287dde3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": " best out of all those factors which can be brought together to contribute to the building up of a strong and, we hope, effective, British air transport system in the future.\"—[Official Report, 20th March, 1945; Vol. 409, c. 669–70.] That was the reason for accepting this White Paper six months ago. What has happened in the last six months to change the view of the Government on that point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-12", "file": "debates1945-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc751b9287dde3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.641.3", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "national organisation set up for civil aviation. We shall do all we can to promote that ideal. There are difficulties at the moment. It is clear that any international organization at the present time would have to start without the United States and without the Soviet Union. It would have to start without several of our Dominions. It would have to start without the Netherlands and without Sweden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-12", "file": "debates1945-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc751b9287dde3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.644.4", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to the hon. and gallant Gentleman for his forbearance. We have been pressed on behalf of Valley and Llantwit-Major and on behalf of many other aerodromes that they should be recognised as trans-Atlantic aerodromes second only to Heath Row; I am glad that there is at least agreement that Heath Row must be the principal airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.644.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-12", "file": "debates1945-10-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc751b9287dde3c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.644.4", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "n air lines come to this country they should land at Prestwick. If we did that against the wish of the American operators, it would not only conflict with the political principles by which the hon. and gallant Gentleman stands, but would be a source of international friction. I hope he will bear that consideration in mind, and, therefore, perhaps, I can conveniently leave the subject of Prestwick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-12a.644.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKie", "preceding_text": "ucture of the Bill, but to give the Government very far-reaching additional powers to those already in the Bill. We on this side object to control for control's sake. We regard controls as a wartime necessity to be retained in peacetime only for so long as they are absolutely necessary, but not to be retained simply out of pure love of control. Hon. and right hon. Gentleman opposite like controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "It is not my intention to be unkind to Conservative Members and I will say no more than that I watched hon. Members with great interest. The first Member was surprised, the next was amazed, the third was astounded and the fourth had suffered very grave anxiety. Obviously, hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway are in a bad mental state. This is all over a very trifling matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Honourable or honoured?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "that there was set up at the beginning of this Session, after some pressure on the last Government, a Select Committee to examine all these statutory Rules and Orders as and when they are laid before the House? It was obvious that Members have not the time to examine such Regulations and Orders, even if they could understand them, so we have this Select Committee, of which I happen to be a member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.777.2", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "They have an opportunity of considering the Regulations. There can be no doubt about that, and they can refer and bring back to this House anything in those Regulations, or draw the attention of hon. Members of this House to any matter to which they think the attention of the House should be drawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.777.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.785.2", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glanville", "preceding_text": "On apoint of Order, Mr. Deputy-Chairman. Might I ask if the Opposition Whips would exercise greater influence over their flock in preventing them from obstructing the Government side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "e discussions to-day. I thought that the hon. Gentleman who intervened to ask the Whips on this side to suppress further obstruction on our part unconsciously and innocently expressed the real spirit of the party opposite. The more we discuss this Measure and the more we hear about it, the more we see that it has all the hallmarks of coming totalitarianism plus the base effrontery of confiscation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"By the Tories.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "ble and as far as necessary, while giving the Government powers for which they ask, that they shall govern without permitting licence and unlimited powers being granted to the Executive over the person and property of the individual, in just the same way as in the early days of our Constitution the faithful Commons protected the citizens from unlimited and indiscriminate interference by the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.814.6", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "Yes, there were three Tory Members' names, and two Labour on the back of it. If hon. Members want to go into that kind of thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.814.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "stood that that restriction could, at its worst, last for only two years. If this Bill is passed the local authority, the Flaxton Rural District Council, will be prevented from building on that land until 1952. Therefore the whole of the post-war housing plan in that part of the suburbs of York will be delayed by the Government action on this Amendment. I do not want to labour that point any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.824.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.835.4", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ext five years. It has all these great powers. Therefore, how can it reduce its personnel because of the valuable work it is doing? It is just giving the Ministry of Supply a blank cheque, as, of course, the whole Bill is a blank cheque, and the party opposite know darned well it is a blank cheque. This is, of course, just the sort of thing we knew would come, just the sort of thing that Mr. Laski", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "eve it is because it will raise false hopes in the country. He does not think that any more than I do. I know the objection and so does every old Parliamentarian. It is that it does not suit the Government to have to come back to Parliament two years hence on this issue, and every year thereafter. Because of their great majority they say \"Now is the time to get this out of the way for five years.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "building, at home and abroad, the future prosperity of this country. I am quite sure that every hon. Member in the House knows that, if we came back in two years' time, judging by what happened in 1920 and compared with what might happen in 1947, in the light of the experience of the people of this country, we should have to ask for a continuance of most, if not all, of the powers in this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "sion: I look with some fear at this advance of the power of the Executive which we have seen in many other countries, apart from our own. I fear that Ministers will have a free rein for the whole Parliament to do what they like without proper scrutiny. If that which is to be done in this Bill were to be carried out generally over the country, then Parliament would be nothing more than a Reichstag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "iament would be nothing more than a Reichstag. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] What is the use of Debates at all if because the Executive are such nice, pleasant, good-natured looking gentlemen, and so well—mannered, we must not do anything until after the next Election has turned them out to discover whether they are good, bad or indifferent? I have no doubt that our Amendment will be turned down to-night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.861.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.861.0", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Freedom to starve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "mendment will be turned down to-night. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] Those who cheer now are those who will play their part to-night in riveting once again upon the necks of the people of this country wartime restrictions for an indefinite period of time, hoping that in due course—it has happened in other countries in the course of the last 10 or 15 years—men and women will forget what freedom is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.861.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I rise. Major Milner, only to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.864.3", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Such as liberty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "ies, which they represent, directly or indirectly, have been wondering for some time whether the real attack, which will duly come—and will come, no doubt, below the belt—would take place mainly in this House, or outside or both. Well, they have demonstrated, at any rate this evening, that the things they are going to attack in this House for the moment are matters utterly trivial and unimportant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.864.5", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "With regard to natural feelings on this subject, I will leave that to the legal experience of my hon. and learned friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "tion has been tried, and one Member only on that side has ventured to support the case of His Majesty's Gov- eminent. Who is that? A Member who does not belong to the official Party. I congratulate my hon. and learned Friend the Member for North Hammersmith (Mr. Pritt) on his courage—the only man who dares to stand up on that side of the Committee and defend the policy of His Majesty's Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "preceding_text": " some that what ought to happen is that on Second Reading the principle is passed, and then the \"trivial details\" might be settled elsewhere by delegated powers. But what happens here? The principle of this Bill has been carried without a dissentient vote. Only when you get to Committee do you have this very real and important division of opinion. That may be irrelevant or, possibly, out of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.868.2", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Herbert", "preceding_text": "This Act will still be in force. However many blessings right hon. Gentlemen opposite bestow on this country, and I think they may bestow a great many, because I am not a partisan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.868.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-15", "file": "debates1945-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "fa11e4ab8872fccd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(Additional Defence Regulations to which Section One of this Act applies.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "fied in the Second Schedule to this Act, shall, notwithstanding their expiry for all other purposes, continue to apply (so far as applicable) while this Act is in force to any Defence Regulation having effect by virtue of this Act, any order or other instrument made under any such Regulation and any scheme of control contained in or authorised by any such Regulation. Now that makes it quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-15a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-16", "file": "debates1945-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4211cb63e2289613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1013.3", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "he industrial machine under because of the cost of overheads and the rest of it being so great. I wish to emphasise that every single industry of which I have any knowledge, apart from those which I look after, has been desperately short of staff all through the war. Every Government Department that I have ever been into has been overwhelmed with people who have practically nothing whatever to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1013.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-16", "file": "debates1945-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4211cb63e2289613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1028.0", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two thousand millions.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "old: firstly, the £4,500,000,000 was a guess; it could not be anything else. When there is a war on you cannot possibly indicate with any degree of certainty how much you are going to spend. That being so, although the right hon. Gentleman made his guess of £4,500,000,000 it does not mean that the present Government have been extremely extravagant because it is now asking for another £200,000,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-16", "file": "debates1945-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4211cb63e2289613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1032.6", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "May we have a further explanation of this? We are being asked to vote an increase of £2,000,000,000 on the annual expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1032.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-16", "file": "debates1945-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4211cb63e2289613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1035.5", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"So it will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": " honest, orthodox and traditional financial policy. There was reason for my anxiety apart from ill-judged remarks by the Lord Privy Seal about pounds, shillings and pence being meaningless symbols. We on this side cannot forget that during the Election all sorts of golden promises were dangled in front of the nation and the electors. For example, we were told that the Means Test will be abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1035.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-16", "file": "debates1945-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4211cb63e2289613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKinlay", "preceding_text": ". These houses, which were to Ministry of Works design were approved by the last Government, in which we had some members of our own Party. In another house, coal fires were installed, entailing breaking down the wall of a separate bedroom and an exterior wall. I know something about prices in the building industry. Half-inch boarding was fitted on an outside wall. Remember, these were new houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-16", "file": "debates1945-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "4211cb63e2289613", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "If there are 10 nurses, that is £200 each—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-16a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "used is, in fact, in the Library of this House. They are contained in Items 4 and 9 of the Volume placed in the Library. The only arguments used came at the second Plenary Session of the Conference and in the meeting of Committee I on 8th November. At the first meeting to which I have referred, the Plenary Session, the Australian and New Zealand delegates put the points of view of their countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1207.2", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Landlords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. S. Hudson", "preceding_text": " and so forth before you can start building any new cottages. In other words, you can get reconditioning going on a substantial scale, while you are getting ready to start your housing scheme. I am very much afraid that the real reason for the action of the Government is a dislike on the part of the Minister of Health and many of his friends for anything that savours of helping private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "all fail because of lack of personal qualities, and not because the instrument itself is deficient. It may easily be that I shall fail; I am not under-estimating the nature of the task I have to perform, but I do hope that Members in all parts of the House will not insist upon following, to the extent of pedantry, this argument about a Ministry of Housing, which merely upsets things at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The same grants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "start at the other end. We propose to start to solve, first, the housing difficulties of the lower income groups. In other words, we propose to lay the main emphasis of our programme upon building houses to let. That means that we shall ask local authorities to be the main instruments for the housing programme. If there are other agencies ready to build houses to let I am prepared to welcome them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "imits under which local authorities can lend money under the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act. There is no desire on our part to prevent people owning their own houses. So long as the ownership of the houses is an extension, and expression of the personality of the owner, it is an excellent thing; but if the ownership of the houses is a denial of somebody else's personality, it is a social affront.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How much later?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "o not want at this stage to re-enact the Housing (Rural Workers) Acts is because we want to know first how the demobilised building workers will dispose themselves over the country before attracting them into a form of building which would give us no additional houses. I am not against the Housing (Rural Workers) Acts. Indeed, later on I hope I will give hon. and right hon. Gentlemen a better Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"But not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ertain number of houses, that statement would rest upon no firm basis of veracity; in fact, it would be as unveracious as the temporary housing programme of hon. Gentlemen opposite. All I can promise is this: I will treat the House with the utmost candour. I will give monthly detailed progress reports starting at the beginning of the new year, so that the House can see what progress is being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What sort of agencies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "cy will have to be found to supplement and reinforce the efforts of the local authority. The Government are going to do that very shortly. It is useless for us to give precise particulars now because we are governed in the immediate few months by the over-all resources of labour, which is consequent upon the fact that there are in the Forces large numbers of people who will shortly be coming home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "preceding_text": ". The men and women of the countryside expect a long-term policy to be pronounced by the Government, but they also expect that my right hon. Friend will grasp every opportunity of using short-term measures and expedients and, in this connection, I must say that I think the Government might do well to reconsider their jettisoning of the principle of reconditioning—tied cottages or no tied cottages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "preceding_text": "no tied cottages. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] I hope I have not finally compromised myself with my hon. Friends on the other side. We should deal, of course, with the tied cottages later on, but we must take the first objective, and house as many of our people as we can, and use every method that suggests itself to us, and not talk too much politics on regard to the housing of the common people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1305.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Who put them there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "odation available for its proper purposes. There are far too many cases still where residential space is being occupied for office purposes, particularly, I regret to say, by Government Departments. I know it is so in London. Only this morning I heard of a case in which the Board of Trade occupy 12 flats in Leicester. The Board of Trade should not occupy 12 flats in Leicester or in any other town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1305.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": " where residential space is being occupied for office purposes, particularly, I regret to say, by Government Departments. I know it is so in London. Only this morning I heard of a case in which the Board of Trade occupy 12 flats in Leicester. The Board of Trade should not occupy 12 flats in Leicester or in any other town. [An Hon. Member: \"Who put them there?\"] In war time, things have to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Buchanan)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How many are there now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Buchanan)", "preceding_text": "nd I entered it wishing to quarrel with none and, indeed, that is my position in this House to-night—showed that one temporary house had been completed in Scotland. Is that a record of achievement? Does the House want me to give programmes and figures for building thousands of houses and then, months afterwards, when I enter this House to be asked why I gave figures which could not be carried out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "I gave way once and the hon. and gallant Gentleman must not encroach on my good nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.5", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "That is true, but they recommended that the Act should come to an end. The main reason was that most of the money expended was never put to its proper use, that is, to make houses decent for occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.5", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One house\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] I hope hon. Members opposite will give me a patient hearing. Now, may I say a word or two about housing progress in Scotland? I was going to say a word about aluminium houses and others but I will pass that over for a later time. For the housing programme in Scotland I am indebted to my predecessor, Thomas Johnston, for some of the work done. We have today in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.5", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": " the only prefabricated house that so far holds the field, was then before the Scottish Office. The maker of that steel house was Lord Weir. It was a good house, and within three weeks, through Lord Weir's efforts, we had the contract signed and in less than one month the Coatbridge factory opened in full production of houses. To-day we are negotiating with another firm of steel house contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SHORTAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "This is a case where you get it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1332.3", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Is not the word \"nurse\" a general term? If it is qualified, surely that is sufficient?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "ses is not due entirely to the existence of what is called this obnoxious Regulation. It has not been in existence long enough. The shortage of nurses is much more material than that. At the present time it is under very urgent consideration. Nevertheless, nurses have represented to me in no uncertain terms that they regard this exception as one which derogates from the status of their profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-17", "file": "debates1945-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "673eef69051abffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1334.6", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "May I ask whether an opportunity can be afforded to authorised organisations to put their case before the Minister arising from recommendations on this matter?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "That would be out of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-17a.1334.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-18", "file": "debates1945-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "3540027c46d2c718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1344.2", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "The difficulty is that the status of British citizens has to be determined not only by this country but by the Dominions. There have been negotiations in the past which have indicated where there was controversy, and we might have difficulty in getting some of the Dominions into line on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-18", "file": "debates1945-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "3540027c46d2c718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INSHORE FISHING INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson Stewart", "preceding_text": "t know what the actual figure is, but I do know that until the question of price is tackled all that we are trying to do to-night will be wasted effort. I ask the Under-Secretary to assure us that robust steps will be taken to cut down these excessive prices. There are rings in the boat building industry, and they have to be broken, and in asking for them to be broken I am not preaching Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-18", "file": "debates1945-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "3540027c46d2c718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Hollis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"1870\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Hollis", "preceding_text": " sent here merely to continue the existing system. Let every Member understand what is the existing system which these Regulations are seeking to continue. What is the original Regulation from which these Regulations derive their comparatively illegitimate consent? These Regulations derive from the original Regulations of 1860. What are those Regulations and why were they passed? The world of 1860", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-18", "file": "debates1945-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "3540027c46d2c718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1481.0", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "But if the hon. Member's Motion is carried, that, in effect, is what it will mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-18", "file": "debates1945-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "3540027c46d2c718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1481.0", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"They are there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cove", "preceding_text": "e Church can now demand is the abolition of the State and complete Church control of the schools. Why on earth the Church should be dissatisfied, I do not know. If these Regulations are annulled, you will let the Church parson come into one school, you will let a Nonconformist minister come into another school, but will you let a Unitarian come into another school? Will you let an atheist come in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1481.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-18", "file": "debates1945-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "3540027c46d2c718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-on-Thames)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-on-Thames)", "preceding_text": "men make the best teachers. All that it is necessary to do is to submit to the House that they have the right to be considered jointly with other people for employment in our national schools. May I make, with great respect, an appeal to the right hon. Lady and to the House. Hon. Members are only too well aware that in these days the darkness of pagan materialism is to be found all over the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-18", "file": "debates1945-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "3540027c46d2c718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "k hon. Members whether they fully realise what that means. The Regulations, once made, must lie on the Table for 40 days. Of course they could be changed if the House turned them down. But if they were annulled the first thing that would happen would be that the primary or secondary schools would be thrown into chaos, because there would be no Regulations under the Act under which they could work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-18a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ng parties, elsewhere, instead of attending to this particular working party, we shall be glad to hear of it. I do not think the Home Secretary will really take exception to our having called attention to this rather curious way of handling the situation, and I should like to assure the hon. Gentleman, the Parliamentary Secretary, that none of the remarks of my right hon. Friend were aimed at him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The hon. and gallant Gentleman did not move it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " him. But we all know that the Parliamentary Secretary's position is not quite the same as that of the Minister, and the Parliamentary Secretary himself would be the first to accept that view. It was for that reason that my right hon. Friend called attention to this point. We have no desire to delay consideration of the Bill because of this, and I therefore beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1560.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1580.4", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Gentleman whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1626.6", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "te of Credit sums were asked for which will preclude us from raising financial points on a Vote of Credit until next March—a practice departing greatly from that which the Coalition Government pursued during the war—here is another attempt to stifle and to limit the powers of Parliamentary discussion. Hon. Members opposite are very fond of saying their little piece about a mandate from the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1626.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1630.0", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think the right hon. Gentleman can understand that. He should understand that I was answering an argument, and the argument", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1630.2", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay(Montrose Burghs)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay(Montrose Burghs)", "preceding_text": "ial Report, of \"We are.\" That is most intolerable arrogance. I would remind hon. Gentlemen that this Bill deals with the immediate actions and activities of individual citizens of this country. Surely it is the function of Government to create the best possible conditions under which individuals can go about their daily business and exer- cise their own judgments as to what is best for themselves?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Ede)", "preceding_text": "on were taken to task by their alleged friends in the Press who complained that they were not fighting hard enough, and from that time onwards we have had these exhibitions of petulance and alleged alarm. I want to express my thanks to my hon. Friends on this side of the House for the discipline they have displayed in the face of the temptations that were held out to them by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1636.0", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "far. These controls are required, as we know, for industry and the life of the people, but I am going to venture even at this late hour to make an appeal, and it is sincerely made. I am convinced, and my hon. Friends are convinced, that powers such as these will be needed for some years to come, but I say frankly that the Government ought to get the nation behind them in carrying out these powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-19", "file": "debates1945-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "4ddc4901b94e58ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1638.2", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You have a good suspicion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I had not talked about any Amendment. The right hon. Gentleman has misunderstood me. I have not the slightest idea what another place will do with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-19a.1638.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1666.6", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAPER SUPPLIES (ALLOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that capitalists have control over all the big newspapers for purposes of propaganda, will the Minister put no obstacle in the way of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1666.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1669.7", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister how he dared to use an official publication for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1669.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1688.5", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "esty's Government on this subject. Even now that these have been markedly improved, I have no hesitation in saying that they fall far below what is both possible and necessary. His Majesty's Ministers have had an enormous windfall in the sudden end of the Japanese war, and of the cessation of fighting and slaughter throughout the world. There are no more enemies to conquer; no more fronts to hold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1688.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the first thing I should say, in speaking for the first time——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "en to stay in the Services. This Government desire to create a scheme whereby the country will have an Armed Service in its protection that will be based upon the desire of men to enter a career and not based upon men who cannot find jobs and are forced into the Army. That will be the line of policy which the Government will follow in endeavouring to get the Forces maintained on a permanent basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "f as to be able to criticise the figures that are given to the Government by their skilled advisers, but we still have the same confidence in those skilled advisers as had the right hon. Gentleman when they were advising him some time back. Therefore, we must take some heed of what they say. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned that the Forces in Germany are hanging about and doing nothing and that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I think it is a year and a half ago that I expressed myself strongly in favour of plans being made to create 500,000 temporary houses, but that was not promising these houses on any given date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1739.2", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Honourable,\" not, \"Right honourable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": ". He gave us some extremely interesting suggestions as to the size of the permanent post-war Forces which this country should have. Now the suggested figures which he gave may be too small, or they may be too big, but I think the House ought to realise one thing about them at any rate—that they have very little relevance indeed to the question of demobilisation over the next few months at any rate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-22", "file": "debates1945-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f02805d30dd286a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (NO. 1) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Mr. Strachey)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the rate of release between the Services?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Air (Mr. Strachey)", "preceding_text": "t hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford did in his speech was to suggest that the \"age and service\" principle, on which the present scheme is firmly based, should be undermined and at what I venture to say—and many Service Members with great experience will bear me out—is its most sensitive point, namely, the point of parity in the rate of release between men at home and in the overseas theatres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-22a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SAVINGS MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "er the country, and to those who have led and organised this movement and inspired it through difficult years. Here I would mention what can only be a few names chosen out of many, among others Lord Kindersley, Lord Alness—who has done so much in Scotland—Lord Mottistone, Harold Mackintosh, Mr. George Gibson, ex-Chairman of the General Council of the Trade Union Congress, and Mr. Harold Parkinson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1879.2", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE STABILISATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I should like to give the Committee a few actual examples of the effect of this policy on particular prices. Bread, now costing 9d. for a 4lb. loaf, would, without subsidy, cost 1s. 1d. Potatoes, now costing 8¼d. for 7lb., would, without subsidy, cost 11d. Eggs, now 2s. dozen", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "places; gas and electric tires; radiators and convectors; oil heaters; coal and coke ranges; gas, electric and oil stoves; boiling rings, grillers and hot plates; independent domestic boilers; geysers, immersion heaters and similar water heaters; wash boilers and coppers, and finally, for summer time, refrigerators. All these articles are now taxed at 33⅓ per cent, of their wholesale value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PURCHASE TAX", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"There is no furniture.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ition Government, when I was President of the Board of Trade and when the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Scottish Universities (J. Anderson) was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and we arranged between us to clear utility furniture from the Purchase Tax altogether. No other furniture may legally be made even now. Therefore, there is no need for me to intervene on furniture in this connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1911.4", "colnum": "1911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ACQUISITION OF LANE (OWNER-OCCUPIER) REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "now whether this Order affects the owner-occupier of a cottage in the country with a small plot of land around it. He may come to me, or to any other hon. Member and say, \"In view of this Order, is it safe for me to continue to plant potatoes?\", and, without a great deal of study, I could not tell him whether to continue to plant potatoes or not. I do not know whether the Order affects him or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1911.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1921.7", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECTED MINEWORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Teeling (Brighton)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Flight-Lieutenant Teeling (Brighton)", "preceding_text": " to pay for themselves, and had four pints of water during the night. Their own sweat and the coal dust did not make those sandwiches particularly edible. Members might say that this is the ordinary life of the miner, so why should these boys not have to do the same? I do not say that they should not, but I say that if you are compelling young men to go into a job which miners go into voluntarily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1921.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1929.1", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECTED MINEWORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Government's order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "hese boys without exception were willing to fight, and if necessary die for their country. Those of us who were serving in the House received a great many letters. Many of these lads had served in the cadet forces, had done pre-military training of some kind or another and were desirous of fighting for their country. Then down came the late Minister of Labour's order directing them into the mines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1933.1", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECTED MINEWORKERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Ness Edwards)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Ness Edwards)", "preceding_text": "ional effort. I am afraid that in concentrating his criticism upon what is obviously a very small minority he has given the impression that the Bevin boys are a liability in the mining industry. There was repeated later from the other side of the House the statement that the Bevin boys must have fair treatment. What is the assumption—that they are having unfair treatment? Is there that assumption?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-23", "file": "debates1945-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "2722a3c68ebb7a3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIRECTED MINEWORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is only a small point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman forgets that there were thousands of boys in the mining industry who wanted to fight and get medals, and we would not let them go. I do not think that the talk about medals gets to the root of the problem at all, and if that were all there was in it I think the Bevin boys would laugh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-23a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.1987.3", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order, I would say that everyone knows that there is a very serious situation in Palestine and much violence has been displayed, but I would ask you, Sir, whether an hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.1987.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.1992.2", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL EMPIRE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the film industry generally depicts the British way of life as the life of a Tory squire, and will he see that the British way of life is better depicted than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2011.5", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CROWN SERVANTS'WIVES (TRAVEL FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the question was drafted for me by the Chair?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2011.5", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CROWN SERVANTS'WIVES (TRAVEL FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the question was drafted for me by the Chair? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Mr. Speaker, I did not mean that you drafted it for me, I mean that I had certain assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2011.7", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CROWN SERVANTS'WIVES (TRAVEL FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " once, Mr. Speaker, that I did not intend any reflection. I hope that nothing was intended or understood to that effect. I really did not intend the smallest reflection upon the learned Clerks from whom I, like most other hon. Members, receive very great assistance; and if I seemed to put any reflection upon them, I can only say that it was totally unintentional, and, indeed, I should like to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2011.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2027.1", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "is side of the Committee would disagree with those two propositions, but what I think we do disagree with is his suggestion that either of these two propositions are characteristic of the capitalist system. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the highest rewards. But the highest incomes in this country are not the result of individual effort, they accrue to the owners of the great landed estates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2027.1", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about Lord Nuffield?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "ree with those two propositions, but what I think we do disagree with is his suggestion that either of these two propositions are characteristic of the capitalist system. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the highest rewards. But the highest incomes in this country are not the result of individual effort, they accrue to the owners of the great landed estates. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] Yes, they do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2028.3", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the Purchase Tax\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "tled, but after a little I realised that the Chancellor is a very subtle man and that the risk is far less real than apparent. He has been able to make what was necessary—a spectacular concession—because he will not have to foot the bill for some considerable time. The effect of the announcement of these concessions is bound to be good, but it will not cost the Chancellor a penny until next April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Stanley Holmes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Stanley Holmes", "preceding_text": "hether it was in the House or outside, but he said that no man should have more than £10,000 a year. He did not have to wait to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in order to arrange that. His predecessor had done it for him by means of Income Tax and Surtax. If a man has the fantastic income to-day of £70,000 a year, he retains £5,000 of it and the Chancellor, in Income Tax and Surtax, takes £65,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2053.3", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All due to control?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ut the greatest change of all has taken place in the last six years during the war. There has been a greater distribution of wealth during that six years, than ever before in the history of this country and the effect is the extraordinary one that, in spite of war, the health of the people of the country was never better than it is now because of the better distribution of the necessities of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John R. Thomas", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about whisky?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John R. Thomas", "preceding_text": "year that I was born the then Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the indirect taxpayer of this country was very moderately burdened, indeed he was very lightly burdened, if he neither smokes nor drinks. But man lives not by bread alone. I am referring to three indirect taxes which I believe primarily affect the working classes of this country, namely, the beer, tobacco and entertainments taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John R. Thomas", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Too low.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John R. Thomas", "preceding_text": "axation as a major problem in this Budget, but the £700,000,000 represents no less than 25 times the amount received from motor taxation. How does this affect the individual? I have worked out the estimated Budget of a married man with two children earning £5 per week. I am proposing to allow him and his family one visit to the pictures per week, one pint of beer per day for both him and his wife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2073.1", "colnum": "2073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Drinking Fund?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "im say it. No one has done more to support the Revenue in time of war than that very excellent person the beer drinker, and also the consumer of tobacco and, in some ways, their conduct has been more patriotic because they have given their money to the Exchequer. They have not indulged in any savings campaign or in seeking any return of interest or in the building up of the necessary Sinking Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2092.1", "colnum": "2092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ast in this Budget the recovery, if it takes place at all, will be very slow, and we also know that if political doctrines are pressed to the extreme the country will be divided into two camps. That means the frustration of many simple hopes and, among the first of them, all hope of financing the reconstruction programme—the bare minimum of the agreed reconstruction programme—on a voluntary basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-24", "file": "debates1945-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "282603e638e10ad2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2118.1", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (PAYMENT OF EXCESS PROFITS TAX REFUNDS)", "cue_speaker": "Wing-Commander Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Robinson", "preceding_text": "Yes, and our Tower played a very useful part in the war. It has been said that we are low-rated boroughs. Probably the right hon. Lady the Minister has not, in her Parliamentary career, represented a low-rated borough, but, if she had, she would know that, low rates often mean high assessments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-24a.2118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-25", "file": "debates1945-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca352110c3ded4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-25a.2234.1", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Davies", "preceding_text": "ber have been mournful and depressing. A great nation like ours, which has come through such great trials, with its great inheritance of technical and engineering skill and steadiness of output, I believe, can pull through irrespective of high finance. We who sit on these benches are not all dreamy and woolly individuals. We do not say that pounds, shillings and pence are mere meaningless symbols.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-25a.2234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-25", "file": "debates1945-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca352110c3ded4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-25a.2237.1", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "l personal incomes after payment of Income Tax and Surtax.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, April 14th, 1942; Vol. 379, cols. 133 and 134.] May I, in my own words, remind the Committee, that the State is you and me, and is not a fairy godmother with a bottomless purse. Mankind is at the crossroads. Civilisation, if we are not careful, is in process of collapse, and civilisation has one foot over the precipice.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-25a.2237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-25", "file": "debates1945-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca352110c3ded4cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-25a.2291.1", "colnum": "2291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF LAW", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not Eccles, Chippenham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": " must continue on the highest possible level and I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will be the first to acknowledge the assistance that he receives from all quarters of the House in that direction. My hon. Friend the Member for Eccles made a most interesting speech on this subject last night when he pointed out that there were two motives, the private motive and the public motive for saving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-25a.2291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-26", "file": "debates1945-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fac104f98807c50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-26a.2371.3", "colnum": "2371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITIONS IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "On the Russians?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-26a.2371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-26", "file": "debates1945-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "fac104f98807c50c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-26a.2422.1", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONDITIONS IN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carson", "preceding_text": " itself that I want to deal with. I put my name to the Motion on the Paper which has been referred to and I agree with it in toto . I would like to make my reasons clear, and here I am speaking entirely for myself and not for this side of the House. Personally I do not care two rows of pins what happens to the German people, men, women or children. I do not care from the sentimental point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-26a.2422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"At least.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "its the practical realities of the present. That is one line of argument; we make the law fit the facts. The second line of argument is even more important. It is that by this Bill we ensure a smooth and efficient growth of our financial and banking system, in order to meet the new needs of the future. This Government have a mandate, an emphaticmandate for a five-year plan of economic development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"What about proxies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "titled to attend. It would be quite easy for a relatively small number of stock holders, having concerted their plans beforehand, to present themselves at one of these meetings and vote out of office the Governor, Deputy-Governor and all the other members of the present Court, and replace them by some prearranged ticket of entirely undesirable persons. That is quite possible under the present law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I believe that the more thoughtful, far-sighted and public spirited leaders in the world of the clearing banks appreciate this and are prepared to play on those terms. There may be a minority—I do not know—here and there, who will not. I notice that since the last Election a number of Tory ex-Ministers have joined the Boards of those banks—quite a number—no doubt as a reward for the last Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " period for the Governor to keep that appointment. Can hon. Members on any side of the House really put their hands on their hearts and say that Mr. Norman was the ideal Governor of the Bank of England? An engaging character, a startling personality, no doubt, a dominating figure in the City; but was he the ideal public servant? One is, of course, in this sphere, in the field of rumour and gossip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "preceding_text": "nt find that he banks with a certain joint stock bank and that he has a large overdraft for the time being. Timber merchants usually have overdrafts, as they buy stocks in big quantities from Russia, Sweden or Canada, and the bank finances them while they are disposing of the stock. The Government can say through the Bank of England to the joint stock bank, \"You must call in that man's overdraft.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"A Hans Andersen fairy tale.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "preceding_text": "desirable. A bank should not have the right for a political reason to be able to call in an overdraft. Such a power, however, is to be taken by the Government under this Clause, and I am giving an illustration of how that can be done. The timber merchant to whom I refer is ruined as a result of his overdraft being called in. He goes bankrupt, and thereby automatically loses his seat in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.135.4", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"And Whit by\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We have seen it demonstrated again and again in our lifetime, and if this striking phenomenon has escaped the notice of the hon. Member for Scarborough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.135.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"Temporarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": " to us for this Bill—not broad financial talks, not the appearance of the hidden hand, but arguments for the actual Measure which this House of Commons is being asked to pass? We upon these benches are in favour of, and believe in, private enterprise and so, of course, do hon. Members opposite. In fact, they are going to leave nine-tenths of the industries of this country under private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "as the right hon. Gentleman was being cheered for reducing it. Both of those Budgets, I remember, were referred to as Budgets for the common man. Indeed, it is a sombre thought for right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Bench opposite that the cheers of their supporters can so soon change into jeers. At any rate, it is a sombre thought for those hon. Gentlemen who do get the cheers of their supporters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"Why argue?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "re are not possible disadvantages which may be put on the other side. The first of those possible disadvantages is the loss of confidence abroad, and that loss of confidence, if it occurs, will not be caused by speeches made by hon. Members on this side of the House because, I say quite frankly, I do not think this Bill—especially with Lord Catto as the new Governor—will make any difference at all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "The House probably does not know yet whether this Bill is going to be taken to a Division or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBERS: \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)", "preceding_text": "nt Gentleman the Member for West Bristol there is nothing in this Bill except eyewash, whereas the right hon. Gentleman the Member for the Scottish Universities—and I took his sentence down—said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his speech failed to lay bare the \"full enormity\" of what was being done under this Measure. Later he said he was not sure whether his party would take it to a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "I do not altogether understand what the hon. Gentleman means, for the simple reason that what he states is now the fact and will continue to be the fact when this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "ank of England are. That information, for the purposes of the Second Reading, is irrelevant. What is clear is that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite appear to-night in a new role. Usually, they call upon the Government to practise economy in the expenditure of public money. To-night they appear to desire—I do not know why—that more money than is necessary, should be given to the stockholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "ing an Amendment in the Bill when we reach the Committee stage in order to clarify the position. This is the first of the Government's Nationalisation Measures. It marks an epoch in the life of the country. It is the first, and, to many people, one of the most crucial measures. We, on this side of the House, believe it is essential to make a start with the central financial machine of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.153.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson (Farnham) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Touche", "preceding_text": "Some weeks ago, I asked the Chancellor to give the assets of the Bank of England, and he then replied that he would give the information on the Second Reading of the Bill. We are told to-night that we may have it on the Committee stage, but I ask the Chancellor to give that information now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-29", "file": "debates1945-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "663c387cbddd515d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "It will suffice for now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-29a.158.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.213.6", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I cannot say that there is. As a matter of fact Class B releases are usually sent in to the appropriate Department on application by the employers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.236.4", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "But, Mr. Speaker, the point of Order on which the Noble Lord's observations were made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.236.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A point of substance\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The same situation arises here. The hon. and learned Member has risen to a point of Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.237.7", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Before you do so, Mr. Speaker, I should like to raise a point of Order. I should like to ask you whether it is not wholly contrary to the practice of the House that when a perfectly proper point is put forward an hon. and learned Member should refer to another hon. Member in the terms of the greatest discourtesy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.237.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.242.5", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ject. I should be very ready to put the question down in a different form, possibly asking for three totals. All we want to know is how many men are being kept here and in the Far East. That is the main fact. One must see where the greatest numbers lie. That is all I am anxious to adduce. I should be very glad to have a talk with my right hon. Friend afterwards, and to put another Question to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "t will not make any approach to the strikers? The workers are out on strike all over the place; they are striking all over the country simultaneously. There is something seriously wrong, and I want to appeal to the Minister of Labour—and he is not the first Labour Minister that I have appealed to—and tell him that if he himself goes and speaks to the strikers in London the strike will be finished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "e country simultaneously. There is something seriously wrong, and I want to appeal to the Minister of Labour—and he is not the first Labour Minister that I have appealed to—and tell him that if he himself goes and speaks to the strikers in London the strike will be finished. [ Interruption .] Why should not Ministers come off their pedestals when it is a question of dealing with the working class?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "he is not the first Labour Minister that I have appealed to—and tell him that if he himself goes and speaks to the strikers in London the strike will be finished. [ Interruption .] Why should not Ministers come off their pedestals when it is a question of dealing with the working class? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] This has been the lot of the workers right down the ages. Why cannot he do this thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "estion of dealing with the working class? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] This has been the lot of the workers right down the ages. Why cannot he do this thing? [ Interruption .] Mr. Speaker, I would like a reply from the Minister. I am sorry to put him up against it, and I know that he is up against it, but I am making my suggestion for the benefit of the whole of the country. All I ask the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.246.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "WORLD WAR VICTORY (THANKS TO SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Tommy Atkins\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "dmiral Beatty, Admiral Jellicoe, Admiral Madden, Admiral Sturdee, Rear Admiral Keyes, Vice Admiral de Robeck and Commodore Tyrwhitt were all thanked by name and rewarded, which is what I may call a more substantial and convincing form of according thanks. In the Army, Lord Haig, Lord French, Lord Allenby, Lord Plumer, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Lord Rawlinson, Sir Julius Byng, Sir Henry Home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "WORLD WAR VICTORY (THANKS TO SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The greater includes the less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "do—there is no set of His Majesty's subjects who would be more gratified than the Army to know that this House had, at any rate, given its thanks to the distinguished commanders who have led them to victory. The fact that it is my duty to make this comment in no way detracts from the sentiments of gratitude to our Forces—airmen, soldiers, sailors—which are expressed in this Motion, which I second—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "WORLD WAR VICTORY (THANKS TO SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You were not the only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "As one who had the honour of serving in the last war, I would like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "es operating under this Act, while on the other hand machinery is provided whereby local water authorities operating under a local Act may also get the benefit of these provisions. The House would not wish me to say much more on this very important Bill. It is a Bill which, after the very high standard of oratory which we have heard previously, does not make for great oratory or great perorations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.276.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.280.2", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I accept what the hon. Gentleman says and I agree with it to a certain extent. He has already given an assurance, but I would like to make certain that the Committee stage will be arranged for such a date as will enable the local authorities to place their views fully before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-30", "file": "debates1945-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "44a6af2c752fa435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "there should be such a village without sewerage of any kind. Hon. Members who sat in the previous Parliament will recollect that I had to raise here on one occasion the case of Lassodie, which had to be given up as a village because of the difficulty of supplying it with water and providing sewerage. One of my constituents there tells me that since my last visit things have gone from bad to worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-30a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — REQUISITIONED DWELLING-HOUSES (RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, they are\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I do not think they are \"hawked about\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.415.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHAMPAGNE (IMPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Is it not anomalous that a Socialist Government should facilitate the import of this costly luxury at a time when shipping is scarce and when, even in this country, thousands are under nourished, and in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.456.5", "colnum": "456", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montague", "preceding_text": "orcar, or have any prospects whatever of doing so and I hope there will be some sense of proportion in this matter because the same kind of silly nonsense, as I think it is, was expressed during Debates on civil aviation, when it was said that soon everybody would own an aeroplane. God help us when everybody owns an aeroplane and everybody owns a motor car. What kind of civilisation shall we have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.456.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "An Hon Member: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "irable, and its inclusion would give pleasure. In the circumstances I and my friends wish to present to the Chancellor the case why the wall paper industry should meet with special consideration from him. I am a director of a wallpaper company, and therefore have an interest in this matter, which I would like the House to appreciate. That also gives me an opportunity of knowing something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.468.2", "colnum": "468", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-on-Thames)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter (Kingston-on-Thames)", "preceding_text": "o much and see so little. An hon. Member has already mentioned distemper paint, which is free of Purchase Tax. Generally speaking, this paint is used in what one might describe as the luxury house, but wallpaper is more often used in the houses of the poor. It would be a trifle strange if in this first Socialist Budget hon. Members were not to support a proposal which was designed to soak the poor", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.468.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.485.2", "colnum": "485", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Surtax is going up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ry to pay Surtax at prewar rates. The burden again was transferred from the trust fund to the beneficiary. There again, as tax gets lower, the trustee has pro tanto more of each pound in the trust fund to pay not only Income Tax but Surtax. After paying the Income Tax he has to find a further amount in order to pay Surtax. Before he had to pay 20.29ths and as tax goes down the fraction will go up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No, he is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "The explanation is that this again is a \"slop-over,\" if I may use the phrase, from the last Budget. This Resolution appeared there and also in the Income Tax Bill and the date was fixed by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is a member of the right hon. and gallant Gentleman's party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Hannon", "preceding_text": "l be employed in the rehabilitation of industry. I would like the Chancellor of the Exchequer to realise that there are a great many firms which, following upon the war, will need fresh capital. Will the Chancellor allow the refund to be employed for capital purposes in the development of business enterprise, when it comes back to a particular firm? When one looks over the whole field of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "e figures which I think are correct. Take the case of a married couple, with one child, earning £500 a year. According to the table, the charge at present is £101 2s. 6d. and the proposed charge next year is £72 15s. Look ing at that in its simplicity, it would appear that that man will be saving £28 7s. 6d. a year in tax. But at the moment that particular man is receiving £31 10s. postwar credit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "of cash to be paid at some future date, that man will be worse off to the extent I have mentioned, and he will be worse off for one reason only—because the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor has not put back the earned income allowance. I shall be very glad if I am proved to be wrong, and so will my hon. and right hon. Friends, but we have no reason to suppose that we are all poor mathematicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.532.4", "colnum": "532", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "ountry that some of the more simple and household remedies should no longer be subject to the Purchase Tax. The two things I have in mind are camphorated oil and cough mixture for children. Perhaps the hon. and gallant Gentleman, the Financial Secretary, will be so good as to say whether these two articles, in common use in every home where there are children, cannot be exempted from Purchase Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.532.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.534.7", "colnum": "534", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "This is the first hybrid Measure to come before this House for many of us, and I was struck by the fact that four Members of the Committee should be nominated by the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.534.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.537.3", "colnum": "537", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "preceding_text": "s not he who is doing so, it is the nation who are doing it. We want to know, therefore, whether a good and fair bargain has been made in the purchase of these Bank of England shares. There are Members on the opposite side of the House who spoke in the Debate on Tuesday, and who said that in their opinion the price was too high. But there are those on this side who think that the price is too low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.537.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "te the Bank. It will not be done under this Government. I am not thinking of it in terms of liquidation, nor are any of us thinking of it in that light. What the hon. Gentleman wished to know was the total value of the assets of the Bank, I think, and the answer to that is that it would not be right for me at this stage, before the Select Committee has considered the matter, to name a figure here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "is whether, supposing the Select Committee send a report to the House asking that this should be altered in some way or other, the right hon. Gentleman is now prepared to say that the Government would ask for the Resolution to be withdrawn and a new one brought in and discussed before the subsequent stages of the Bill. It seems to me that the right hon. Gentleman must say \"Yes,\" because otherwise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am very apologetic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ood the right hon. Gentleman, his argument, or rather his pledge, was that if the Select Committee reports that the sum indicated in the Financial Resolution is inappropriate for any reason, and if it appears that any change in that sum would be outside the Financial Resolution, then His Majesty's Government will see that the Financial Resolution is amended. I think I have got the pledge straight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "amended. I think I have got the pledge straight. [Hon. Members: \"No.\"] If I am incorrect, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will correct me, and noises below the Gangway opposite will not affect the situation at all. I think that was the pledge from the Government. The question I wish to put is whether that pledge does not come a stage too late. If I understand this procedure on Hybrid Bills aright—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "hould say the right hon. Gentleman; I am sorry he is no friend of mine. Of what use is the pledge of the right hon. Gentleman at that stage? How would the Chairman of the Select Committee be able to rule that it was in order for counsel to appear before him to argue a proposition which is not, as far as I can see, debateable, because it is already decided by the Financial Resolution ex hypothesi —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.553.5", "colnum": "553", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "will agree, although it is in cheerful mood, is a matter of great importance. I suppose no one would deny that the threat of bread rationing in this country is a matter which should be treated with some gravity. I want to say nothing which could be described as discourtesy to the right hon. Lady the Minister of Education, who is, if I may be permitted to say so, an esteemed Member of our Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.553.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.553.5", "colnum": "553", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "ade or damage to the interests of the country, the object of the Government is to be very mild and say as little as possible, to say, \"It is deplorable that these people should strike, and that we should have to bring in soldiers, but cry the whole thing down as much as possible in the Press and in the House, because if you do not you will show that a Socialist Government means universal strikes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.553.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-10-31", "file": "debates1945-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "e0bea5c31b3d1c36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "MECHANICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES DUTIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Miss Ellen Wilkinson)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Miss Ellen Wilkinson)", "preceding_text": "e to correct the right hon. Gentleman—is not thecentre of the dock strike; there are, I think, no dockers out on strike in that area. I talked to these young people, among other things, about trade unionism, and about the danger that unofficial strikes might break down effective trade union machinery. I told them that I was speaking not as a Cabinet Minister, but as a former trade union organiser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-10-31a.557.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARMED FORCES (MANPOWER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Gates", "preceding_text": "Arising out of that reply and the reply to Question 47, will the Government take an early opportunity of making a statement as to precisely what is this machinery which reviews the use of manpower in the Services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.616.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden", "preceding_text": "Mr. Evelyn Walkden rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "ts: I think you should be aware that the Bill has been introduced without any prior consultation with the Association of the Municipal Corporations, or, so far as I know, any local authority interests at all. It is obvious that the time chosen, namely, when the first municipal elections since before the war are being held, makes it quite impossible for local authorities to give it their attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member knew it too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. S. Taylor", "preceding_text": "proposed amalgamation is a matter of Government policy. Then we come to this: Schemes made by the Secretary of State under this clause must be laid before both Houses of Parliament, and will be subject to a Negative Resolution. What safeguard is there in that? I submit that there is no safeguard whatever in a negative resolution. If the Government Whips are put on, and we all know what that means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "priate for me to enter into such a discussion now. While I naturally dislike police of any kind whatever I do not oppose this Bill, although there are certain aspects of it which I do not like, and on which I am supported by authorities in my constituency. What I want to guard against is over-centralisation which would result in a supreme \"copper\" standing at that Box and governing the whole show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": ". There may be good reasons why the Bill has been introduced now, but at any rate that is one of the objections. Some of us have the unpleasant feeling that this might lead one day to the situation I have described as happening at that Box. I want an assurance from my right hon. Friend that he will repeat the essentials of the speech made by the Lord President of the Council on 14th October, 1942.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "f local authorities. I hope it is so, but he cannot bind posterity or even his immediate successors by his undertakings. I do not want to make invidious comparisons, but I do recall—and no doubt the House will recall—that the vices of Nero and the irregularities of Commodus had the scope they did because of the machinery built up supposedly for good purposes by Augustus Caesar and Marcus Aurelius.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. O. Davies", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman who introduced it, am unable to solve. The right hon. Gentleman did make some effort to explain why the municipal corporations, who are so intensely interested in this Bill, are so dissatisfied with the lack of approach to them, or the lack of understanding, or even the absence of those conversations which generally take place but which have not taken place in this instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to appear to be curtailing this very interesting Debate. If it had not been time for me to rise, we might have had a lot more speeches on the lines of the hon. Gentleman who has just sat down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Oliver)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is All Saints' Day\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Oliver)", "preceding_text": "m legally, to continue such regulations when the causes which made these regulations necessary no longer apply. For that reason, it is necessary to look into this matter now so that we can formulate the Bill and get it under way. Great play has been made tonight about this Bill being introduced on 1st November. Why should it not be introduced on 1st November? Is there something about 1st November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.727.7", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "That may be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.727.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will not be there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "nary Order would be made. There is a point in the hon. Member's contention which will probably justify consideration being given to the proposal. There is only one other point to which I would like to draw the attention of the House. That is the question of a national police force. I want to say at once that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is opposed to the idea of a national police force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or four or five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "iderable time. What is the evidence with regard to bringing about, or taking steps, or promoting, a national police force? If I read the Bill aright, it provides for amalgamations between counties and county boroughs. There is no direction from the Home Office and no administration from the Home Office. Amalgamations must be between county and county borough or two counties or two county boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.729.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.729.5", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "here would bean inclination to gravitate to the idea of a national police force, ii you maintain an efficient police force in the country. There would be no incentive whatsoever to have a national police force if in the country itself, by virtue of amalgamation, you can maintain a police force in efficiency. It has been said that there is no particular reason advanced for this Bill being promoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.729.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "Mr. Marlowe rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-01", "file": "debates1945-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9eb3a21ea60d02b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "All grievances. Every member of the staff has direct access, through the proper channels, of course, to the Chairman of the Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-01a.741.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-02", "file": "debates1945-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d7ec508f7c30d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-02a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PALESTINE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "ficult part of the world in these difficult times. May I also condole with the right hon. Gentleman and His Majesty's Government on being deprived at this most critical moment of such an outstanding representative, and express the hope and, indeed, the certainty that Mr. Shaw, with his distinguished record and great ability, will cope sufficiently with the situation until a successor can be found?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-02a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-02", "file": "debates1945-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d7ec508f7c30d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-02a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUVENILE DELINQUENCY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin", "preceding_text": "berty, not asked to go to bed at 9 or 10 o'clock. However, I feel we ought to have some more progressive outlook in this matter than has been the case hitherto. I would suggest then that we do all we can to encourage the development of youth organisations. I am the product of a youth organisation, where I indulged in physical culture and in certain exercises both of a mental and a physical nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-02a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-02", "file": "debates1945-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "8f7d7ec508f7c30d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-02a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEMOBILISATION (AGRICULTURAL WORKERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Thomas Williams)", "preceding_text": "hetic, so far as sympathy can extract more men for any purpose when any approach is made to him. I felt, during the course of this Debate, something like the boy who stood on the burning deck and had not even a spoon with which to put out the fire. Indeed, I was almost inspired to make a speech comparable with those that have already been made strengthening the appeal made to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-02a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.903.5", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "Neither the Foreign Office nor His Majesty's Government would seek to be their brothers' keepers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.903.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "But what about this week?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "What I have stated is, I think, perfectly plain, and if that receives the publicity which I hope it will receive, both the public and the staff of the London Passenger Transport Board should know exactly what is the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.914.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, there is one Liberal\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Maldon (Mr. Driberg) must admit that this is a particular and peculiar case, and that the state of affairs in Yugoslavia is, to say the least of it, ticklish. I think the three great principles that should govern the sending of Members of Parliament to countries abroad have not been observed. First of all it is an actual fact that the delegation consists of Members of one party only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Whose fault is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": " the three great principles that should govern the sending of Members of Parliament to countries abroad have not been observed. First of all it is an actual fact that the delegation consists of Members of one party only. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No, there is one Liberal\".] Well one Liberal—it is not a representative party, and impartiality and the representative nature of the party are of vital importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " criticism which can do nothing but mischief in the world, take every opportunity there may be of finding out what is the position, of seeing both sides. You cannot see both sides if you stop only on one side. I have been a Member of this House for ten years. I have had the opportunity of being on both sides of the House, and, no doubt, some hon. Members opposite are enjoying a similar experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " did not refrain from going to Nuremberg, and did not refrain from sitting down with Nazi gangsters in this country and abroad. Nobody complained, and nobody criticised. When half a dozen hon. Members on this side accept an invitation, which hon. Members opposite could have accepted too, I think it is quite wrong to suppose, in advance, that those hon. Members are going to give a prejudiced report", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Delegation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly certain that there is very little divergence of view about this delegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "o say—because they believe it is true—that, in this country, there is no sympathy for King Peter, and that will injure the Royalist cause. There are some people who remember that King Peter, when little more than a boy, brought in his country and helped it to declare war against Germany, when that meant suicide for Yugoslavia. There are some of us not ashamed to remember how King George of Greece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "slavia. There are some of us not ashamed to remember how King George of Greece—[ Interruption ]—I should not have thought that I should have lived to see the day when the man who led his country against two Fascist dictatorships would have his name jeered at by the Government Front Bench. If the King of Greece could hear that laughter from the Front Bench he would have even a greater contempt for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YUGOSLAVIA (MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raikes", "preceding_text": "arliamentary delegation being brought over at the request of a gentleman who is conducting elections, to be used by him, or they would not have been invited, for some sort of propaganda by his controlled Press for his own party. The fact that Yugoslavs got in touch with the hon. Member for Gateshead (Mr. Zilliacus) who has always been an apologist for every Communist-inspired Government in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-05", "file": "debates1945-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "d447ed16c98e4fb5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EX-SERVICEMEN (RETAIL BUSINESS LICENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Millions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "e still in a difficult situation, and until we are out of that situation we are going to defend the men and women who have served us so well. The hon. Member made a number of other references and I want to draw the attention of the House to this. Hon. Members have rightly spoken about men returning from the Armed Forces, but they have failed to mention that thousands of them have not yet returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-05a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1061.9", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether these men, when employed, are paid a full and proper wage, or whether they are being used as slaves, and whether he can tell us when they will be sent home?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1061.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1061.10", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether these men, when employed, are paid a full and proper wage, or whether they are being used as slaves, and whether he can tell us when they will be sent home? [ Interruption .] I know some hon. Members do not care a damn about slaves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1061.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "alies in his instructions, which stand out clearly in this case, consider amending them now? I would also like to ask if he is aware of the fact that this application would not be sponsored by the agricultural committee because of the fact that only one-third of the work of this blacksmith was performed under that Department, and would not be sponsored by the Minister of Works because he does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1073.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1088.5", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister say whether he is aware that several recent broadcasts have had a distinct Left-wing political bias, that this sort of thing has been going on too long, and will he assure the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "oses of the present Bill, because it is considered to be unworkable. I will explain what I mean by that. Supposing it is provided that a statutory instrument shall be laid before the House within 10 days after it is made, there must be some sort of sanction to make sure that that provision will be complied with. Obviously you cannot start sending a Minister to prison if he does not comply with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ll events, that is a remedy I would not venture to urge on the House. It is not the one which has been adopted. It is clear that there must be some sanction; otherwise it is a waste of time to say that a statutory instrument has to be laid before the House in five days. The only sanction suggested is the sanction that if that is not complied with a statutory instrument should cease to have effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1104.6", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "s made an Order and it is an Order which would come into effect under the terms of the powers under which he makes it, it shall be in effect. If he forgets to lay it before the House there will be a report to that effect laid before the House by the Treasury, and the Minister will have to explain why he has not complied with the requirements. That is the way in which it is suggested it would work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1104.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"As soon as may be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Clause 2 requires that they must be sent to the King's Printer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1109.7", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Provisional Rule.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": ", for example, apply to an instrument which has to be laid before the House for a specific period before it comes into operation. It applies to an instrument which has to be laid before the House but not to an instrument which has to be laid for a specific period. Therefore, it applies only to some of them. When one looks at the Provisional Order Procedure one sees that it is defective at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1109.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1120.1", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, yes, we have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "the regulations with regard to delegated legislation. His Majesty's Government are thereby fulfilling a task which has been long and scandalously neglected by a series of Governments supported by hon. Members opposite, and it is very curious therefore to find that, apparently, hon. Members opposite have not decided whether they are going to support this Bill or whether they are going to oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "Now that we know exactly where we stand, I should like to address reasons to the House why I hope that hon. Members will support the Second Reading of this Bill. Primarily the reason for doing so is this: this House has been returned with a mandate from the electorate for a large legislative programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": " them considerably to strengthen their attack. I can only suppose that the ferociousness of hon. Members opposite today is to be attributed to an endeavour to placate the editors of those papers, unless they have been receiving similar criticism from their supporters, or those who are left, in the country generally. I do not understand why on a Bill which, it has been agreed, is non-controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " it as clearly as I can without giving a lot of figures. That Act, however, did nothing of the kind. What it did was to distribute a relief wholly unrelated to the actual risein the cost of living figure, and of a very much smaller amount than would have been the case if we had done the just thing. Secondly, and on this I hope to evoke loud and responsive cheers from my comrades on the other side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member:\" M.P's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "I have come to the conclusion that the time for the means test is rapidly coming to an end, if, indeed, it has not already come to an end. However, I am satisfied of this, that it may be that one can find some section of the community to whom it might, under certain circumstances, be proper to apply a means test. I do not say there is such a section, but it might be possible to find such a section", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When\"?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Therefore, when we do settle this thing, it should be settled, if possible, along just and fair lines which everyone concerned felt were just and fair. All I can say tonight is I hope that the Committee will not agree to this Amendment, but will let us include this Act in the Schedule to the Bill. I can promise the Committee that the Government will look at this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-06", "file": "debates1945-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "696dda88858408eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1188.10", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MENTAL HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lewis", "preceding_text": "tances the attitude of mind of those who are brought into close contact with the patient is of vital importance, in view of the fact that very often this is a precipitating factor in the onset of the disorder. I know that among primitive people insanity is regarded with suspicion and fear, and very often is associated with witchcraft, demons or the devil, resulting in maltreatment of the sufferer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-06a.1188.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1268.5", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "But the runways comprise a very small area of the whole airfield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1268.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1274.8", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. No, Sir. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is convinced that there is no general desire amongst Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1274.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REBUILDING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman note the dissent which the House accorded to the first part of his answer, and that the second part of his answer did not alter the substance of the first part at all? Would he consider, apart from granting an opportunity for discussion, setting up a Committee to examine the plans that have been passed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1278.10", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Black market.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "The average wholesale price of eels has risen, since 1940, from 11d. per pound to 6s. 3d. per pound. That ought to stimulate them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1278.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1286.6", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The first part is correct. As regards the second part, I should have thought there was no need to ask a supplementary question of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1286.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1288.1", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We will consider the matter in the light of experience. I am advised that on one day a week, substantially all Foreign Office Questions have been reached, and many have been reached on another day. I am told that the system of the Foreign Office being No. 1 on one day in the week was a wartime expedient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1290.3", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "ssive war. I myself, as a British subject, cannot feel the slightest anxiety that these great powers should at the present moment be in the hands of the United States. I am sure they will not use them in any aggressive sense, or in the indulgence of territorial or commercial appetites. They, like Great Britain, have no need or desire for territorial gains. To my mind, it is a matter for rejoicing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It is the home of gangsters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "preceding_text": " they know all about it and that nothing else is any good at all, because the knowledge even of the experts is still limited, and it is much too new a thing for anyone to be didactic as to its potentialities—is the ideal weapon of the gangster nation on the make. Now, whatever anybody may say about the United States, the United States is the least gangsterish nation on the make in the world today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Or more secure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Ernest Bevin)", "preceding_text": "Commonwealth, which has done no harm to anybody, but fought this war. One is driven to ask oneself the motive; that is not unreasonable, and I think that we must get down to stopping this demand for transfer of territory, and, within reason, make adjustments here and there. It is of little value. All this chopping and changing of frontiers over hundreds of years has made people very little richer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ral interests of my constituency, the most important job I had to do was to try in my small way to cement good Anglo-American relations. I found in this House groups of men who were here to further the interests of the Jews, or the Arabs, the Czechs or the Poles, and even some of the Germans, but I have not found one group of any kind who were interested in cementing good Anglo-American relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Yes, it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "uld refer to that which states \"We seek no territorial advantage.\" How can that be reconciled with the claim for a string of Atlantic and Pacific bases which previously were, and still are, the property of other nations? Then we come to the restoration of sovereign rights to all nations who have been deprived of them. Does that apply to Latvia, Lithuania, Esthonia and some of the Balkan countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Digby", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Come in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Digby", "preceding_text": "the authoritative pronouncement of the head of a great people I think they are very satisfactory and should be welcomed by the people of this country. In the past we have suffered a great deal because America was not willing to playa larger part in the affairs of the rest of the world. The League of Nations might have been more successful had the United States stayed0in after the inaugural period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "reement that such an Alliance with increasing friendship with Russia was the hope of this country and of Europe for peace and security; but any visitor from another planet coming to this country today, reading certain sections of the Press and listening to speeches in this House might be excused for believing that Soviet Russia was the country with which we had been at war for the past five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " sections of the Press, and hear in many of the speeches. Now, of course, the real man is coming out on the other side: \"We don't need the Soviet Alliance now to safeguard the future for us.\" The atomic bomb will safeguard the future of Britain, as hon. Members on the other side see it. The right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) made a speech this afternoon of the most dangerous character—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "t Alliance now to safeguard the future for us.\" The atomic bomb will safeguard the future of Britain, as hon. Members on the other side see it. The right hon. Member for Woodford (Mr. Churchill) made a speech this afternoon of the most dangerous character—[ Laughter .] Yes, a speech that was a declaration, or the hope of a declaration, of war against the progressive forces of Europe and the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": " .] Yes, a speech that was a declaration, or the hope of a declaration, of war against the progressive forces of Europe and the world. [Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"] Oh, yes. It is \"America, America.\" A Member on the other side said that in this country we have freedom of expression, that in America there is freedom of expression, but he was sorry to say that in Russia there was not the same freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "n. Members: \"Nonsense.\"] Oh, yes. It is \"America, America.\" A Member on the other side said that in this country we have freedom of expression, that in America there is freedom of expression, but he was sorry to say that in Russia there was not the same freedom. [An Hon. Member: \"That is true.\"] In Russia there is a whole series of nations, black and white, and every man has freedom of expression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the newspapers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "in America there is freedom of expression, but he was sorry to say that in Russia there was not the same freedom. [An Hon. Member: \"That is true.\"] In Russia there is a whole series of nations, black and white, and every man has freedom of expression. [ Interruption .] Yes, every one who has visited Russia and has studied Russia agrees that there is democracy in the industries of the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to take my stand with the workers of the Soviet Union. I have always been proud of them as being the first to throw off the landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "FOREIGN POLICY (PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Robbery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "Debate last Friday. Talk about the Pharisee and the publican! \"If only others would be as decent as we are,\" they say. They tell us on the radio that in the Soviet zone a great land reform is being carried on. Are there any East Prussian Junkers left in the Soviet zone? Not one. They are all in the British or American zones. Their estates have all been taken over and divided up among the peasants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1390.5", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "MILITARY DETENTION BARRACK (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why misfortune?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": " events leading up to Private Hanlon's death. I would also suggest that, on any such inquiry, there should be representatives, not only of officers, but also of other ranks. There is no reason whatever why there should not be ex-Service men, or Service men, warrant officers, sergeants and private soldiers—some, indeed, who may have had, through misfortune, to spend some time in detention barracks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1390.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-07", "file": "debates1945-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b78ad7183810c8af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1390.5", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "MILITARY DETENTION BARRACK (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is not the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "n, warrant officers, sergeants and private soldiers—some, indeed, who may have had, through misfortune, to spend some time in detention barracks. [Hon. Members: \"Why misfortune?\"] If hon. Members think that that is a ridiculous suggestion, I would invite them to consider for a moment whether everybody who has been in detention barracks during the late war could be described as a hardened criminal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-07a.1390.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1430.6", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister assure the House that she will use her best endeavours to see that the great work done by the W.E.A., which is a non-political body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1430.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1451.7", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that almost every Member has masses of letters expressing dissatisfaction on this subject?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1451.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1452.4", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Publish them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "The last unemployment figures to be published relate to 16th July when the numbers of insured men and women aged 18 years and over registered as unemployed in Great Britain were 63,474 and 30,851 respectively A count of the unemployed was taken on 15th October, and I will send the figures for that date to the hon. Member when they are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUNK ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"As important as the Forth Bridge?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " possible with the other Government Departments concerned to see whether we can devise a better system which will ensure the provision of good lighting on all our main roads. It is hoped that one of the projects that will be undertaken under this Bill will be the Severn Bridge, which we regard as exceedingly important and very urgent, and we propose to get on with that project as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUNK ROADS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Because it is in England and not in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "gard as exceedingly important and very urgent, and we propose to get on with that project as soon as possible. [An Hon. Member: \"As important as the Forth Bridge?\"] Frankly, I think, the answer is \"Yes.\" In any list of priority for the road system of this country, I would put the Severn Bridge first. I am not deprecating the Forth Road Bridge; it is important. But I put the Severn Bridge as No. 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1545.3", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY OFFICERS (RELEASE SCHEME, MODIFICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Wyatt", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Wyatt", "preceding_text": " was before. It was a byword in Delhi that all the officers' bicycles and tongas left the headquarters at four o'clock every afternoon. I am sure that is still going on. Possibly one reason for this is that in order to retain rank as a Brigadier at a Headquarters you have to have a fixed quota of colonels under you. Otherwise you lose your job. Brigadiers, like other people, are only human beings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY OFFICERS (RELEASE SCHEME, MODIFICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " they are all of them being held back from making their way in civil life, and would it not be right and proper to lay it down that during the period for which they are so held back against their will and for the sake of the public they should be paid at double the rates of pay otherwise appropriate to their rank? That would not only amount to some compensation, inadequate though I think it to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-08", "file": "debates1945-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "f8ab044614467ff0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY OFFICERS (RELEASE SCHEME, MODIFICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Darling", "preceding_text": "ind out the views of the women on this subject, and they are as deeply concerned as are the men, as my right hon. Friend knows. It is very pathetic to hear what they say and to learn what they think. One of my constituents has put a practical suggestion to me which I pass on to the Minister. She is a knowledgable woman of affairs, and voted for the right hon. Gentleman's party during the Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-08a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-09", "file": "debates1945-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "6b255824e8ee2ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-09a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "hen the Act was passed, all schools should be examined to see whether or not they were worthy to be put on the list. I want to know, if we are not worthy, why are we not worthy, and how are these other schools that have been put on the list more worthy than we are at Warwick? If we cannot have some explanation of this, I agree with my hon. Friends below the Gangway that we must press again to know", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-09a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-09", "file": "debates1945-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "6b255824e8ee2ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-09a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ation at Warwick and at many other schools in the country, where for 900 years we have gone on giving this service, and good service was desirable—I do not know whether it is a good or bad thing but amongst the ex-boys of the school were the Poet Laureate and four Governors of West African and other colonies. We have given what is, for a small school, great service to the nation and to the Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-09a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-09", "file": "debates1945-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "6b255824e8ee2ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-09a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Byers", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Some of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Byers", "preceding_text": "ols provide such a good education if they are controlled? I do not believe that at the present time and in the present circumstances they can continue to give the type of education they have been giving, if they are now controlled. One of the reasons why they have a good type of education is what was referred to in the Fleming Report as the non-local character of the school. That is a vital thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-09a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1728.3", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Haden Guest", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister say whether it is not possible to have consultation with the major Allies—the Soviet Union, the United States and others—with regard to this very serious situation in Sourabaya; and as this attack by sea, land and air is a major action taking place in a war, I would like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1728.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1738.2", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keeling", "preceding_text": "Surely there is no objection to stating what the present law is?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1738.4", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "While nobody has any desire to prejudice the right hon. Gentleman's negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1738.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1749.6", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I am horrified at the callousness of the right hon. Gentleman. Surely if he had a spark of humanity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1749.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1753.5", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And amended?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Labour (Mr. Isaacs)", "preceding_text": "repared by the Minister. This Clause also provides that every scheme must be subject to Parliamentary scrutiny. It has the usual provision about 40 days, and a Resolution of the House which could annul those schemes so that every individual scheme will have the advantage—I do not know whether I ought to say the disadvantage—of coming before Parliament and being subject to discussion and criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "which has been drawn to my attention, and which we must put to the Government for the purpose of obtaining a reply. The difficulty that is foreseen by certain employers in regard to this paragraph, is that it might be construed as implying an obligation on those responsible for a scheme to make a payment in respect of the last week which would amount to a form of unemployment benefit paid by them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1780.2", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": " thing that they should be reminded of \"bloody Sunday\" on 13th August, 1911, during the Liverpool dock strike, when a brutal attack was made by the police on a mass demonstration which was being addressed by Tom Mann. Members may be interested in what the \"Manchester Guardian\" said of that assault by the police: A display of violence to horrify all those who saw it. I now come to the days of 1914.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1780.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1780.4", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter(Wood Green)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Beverley Baxter(Wood Green) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1780.5", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Solley", "preceding_text": "If it hurts my hon. Friend opposite to be reminded of what happened during the last war, I will come directly to 1920.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1780.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGISTRATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "today, but if there is that danger, I consider that the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. C. Davies) put the case very thoroughly from the Liberal benches. There is much in these Clauses dealing with blackleg employers and blackleg labour, and that is what I imagine the Government have in mind, but there may not always be such a wise Labour Government in office as there is at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1834.3", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE (SERVICES CALL-UP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "ed, there may be no real development for the export trade or the home trade, because the manufacture of machine tools is vitally important. I have thought it right to raise this matter. We are very concerned with this case. I might be accused of being, to use a phrase which is too much bandied about in this House, constituency-minded. I plead \"guilty\" to that to some extent. That is why I am here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1834.3", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE (SERVICES CALL-UP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"And get shot at.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lang", "preceding_text": "iation. It is very efficient and represents more than 2,000 engineering firms. I expect he has already, in between his important duties, and on his way to France and back, been able to peruse this substantial memorandum of theirs. I am saying nothing unkind about his journey to France. One can always go to the Folies Bergères and read the mass of correspondence that comes to one day by day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-12", "file": "debates1945-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8737776f4faa93ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1845.3", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPORT TRADE (SERVICES CALL-UP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "e side of the House arguing that we should become unprepared especially in the disturbed state of affairs. May I come to my hon. Friend who opened the Debate. After my hon. Friend put his question down to which he received a very unsatisfactory reply from me, as he thought, and gave notice of this Adjournment, I had all the cases and all the correspondence investigated that came to our Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-12a.1845.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1896.8", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We are endeavouring to allocate supplies to Eire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1896.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1897.7", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "In future when the Minister is making these communications to the public will he be more explicit and more honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1897.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1899.0", "colnum": "1899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "For the reason that I have given, it is undesirable. The figures are misleading if given from week to week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1899.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1902.7", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr.Little", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister recongnise that these men were volunteers for the duration of the war and that, the war being over, they should receive special consideration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1902.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1903.6", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not much.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "That is rather another question, but I am glad to be able to assure the hon. Member that we are keenly aware of the problem, and that in various ways we have done what we can to meet the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1904.2", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you got one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is asking me for an expression of opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1904.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1918.6", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Only one can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that one cannot take a Library copy home?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1918.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1933.0", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "PALESTINE (ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "I think that if the right hon. Gentleman would put that question to the Leader of the House on Thursday we might have an opportunity to consider it. We have not considered a Debate, but if representations are made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "PALESTINE (ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I want to ask the Foreign Secretary a question on this very important point. I have no wish to raise controversy on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1936.2", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am very sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1938.3", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED HOUSES (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Aneurin Bevan)", "preceding_text": "ct those who are in need of homes against being charged exorbitant rents for furnished lettings or unfurnished lettings with services. Large numbers of men will be coming home from the Forces very shortly and large numbers of them will be getting married and will want to set up homes, and it would be much more desirable that they should set up homes in houses of their own—very much more desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1968.1", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED HOUSES (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "ugh in fact it is below a reasonable rent. This means that a tenant who may have premises at a very low rental will at once say, \"I will have this registered as the rent, although in fact it is worth considerably more. \"The result of this provision will tend to be to prevent lessors from making generous lettings. I know of instances in my own part of the country where cottages are let at no rents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1994.1", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED HOUSES (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlowe", "preceding_text": "in these circumstances, such for instance, as the right hon. and learned Member for North Croydon suggested, the case of a tenancy during the winter months in December when rents are low in the seaside resorts and weekly rents of, say, 20s., 25s. or 30s. may be fixed by the tribunal. If that be done and the rent then attaches to those premises, when the summer comes round it is the time when both—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.1994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.2003.1", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED HOUSES (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "hance to landlords as is given to local authorities, and, generally speaking, they take at least 21 days. The penalty if I do not reply is to be sent to prison for two months or fined £20. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to look at this matter again because it is very important from my point of view. I stand a chance of being fined £20 or being sent to prison for three months under Clause 8 (2).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.2003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-13", "file": "debates1945-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "9d09de269c55596b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.2016.3", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FURNISHED HOUSES (RENT CONTROL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Mellor", "preceding_text": "son whatsoever, except to gratify a few party politicians upon their side—Measures of no interest whatsoever for the people of this country, and yet, when we ask them to increase the scope of this Bill so as to clear up the state of the law—which gives little satisfaction in any quarter except to a very few protected tenants who are enjoying conditions to which they are really not entitled at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-13a.2016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.2", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE (ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "\"During the past 12 months\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.2", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE (ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "\"During the past 12 months\"—[ Interruption .] It is all right. \"Fifty-nine building schemes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.3", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE (ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "\"During the past 12 months\"—[ Interruption .] It is all right. \"Fifty-nine building schemes\"—[ Interruption .] Well, if hon. Members would only listen they would see that this is the answer to the Question that has been asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.6", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE (ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen", "preceding_text": "On that point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I would submit that the Minister is answering Question 62 in a very general way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2117.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2120.2", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY (OUTPUT TARGET)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Are you making a speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": "I do not think hon. Members or the public will be very concerned about the difference between ·01 and ·1 and ·03 and ·3. What they are worried about is the Minister having said that there was an appreciable increase and by no possible calculation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2216.1", "colnum": "2216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Major Ramsay", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Major Ramsay", "preceding_text": "ave been sent to hon. Members on all sides of the House centre round the feeling that this scheme has been carried on a steamroller. I would like an assurance from the Joint Under-Secretary that, should there be an occasion in the future when a similar scheme arises and it is found to be undesirable, he will see that it is treated in the way in which it should be treated. There is one last remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2221.1", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not waste.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Erroll", "preceding_text": "upplied to the Central Electricity Board. The Highlands therefore get it both ways; in the initial stage when it is uneconomic, and in the later stages when they are able to take more power. I am also surprised, as Scots are always concerned with waste, that they should be prepared to see the present regulated water which comes from the Tummel Bridge station of the Rannoch scheme running to waste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2221.1", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Erroll", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It will not be sufficient.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Erroll", "preceding_text": "Garry—at present, under natural conditions, have an insufficient flow of water at certain times of the year to be reliable for fishing purposes. Under the terms of the Board's scheme the Upper Garry will be allowed to run dry and the Errochty Water will have sufficient compensation water ad- mitted to it to enable it to be thoroughly suitable for fishing purposes at the correct season of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2224.1", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ot, however, meet any of the needs of the Central Electricity Board…Such a scheme would also have to obtain the approval of the Electricity Commissioners, and while, of course, it is impossible to dogmatise on the hypothetical, it appears to us very doubtful, in view of Sir John Kennedy's evidence, whether such approval would meantime be forthcoming. Surely, the position is now quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2224.1", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ary has said that the anticipated profit, at the present price of coal, is £85,000. I do not want the House to be confused between the two figures. The £28,000 is the estimated amount of net profit which it is proposed to allocate and has nothing to do with the total amount of net profit which may arise. What can such a sum do towards the regeneration of the Highlands? What is £28,000 as compared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2234.2", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The rearguard?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "s behind the right hon. and learned Gentleman with whom he, as a Member of their party, so heartily disagreed. Far from our experience of the Tories being that they were, as he put it, the guardians of the future of the Highlands, we have had this experience that they have been the rearguard of reaction and the obstructionist movement against all attempts to rehabilitate the Highlands of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2234.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2245.2", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAllister", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker; is it the intention that the speech by the hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for Scotland, shall conclude this Debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-14", "file": "debates1945-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "aba0700ec218688f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2254.0", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDRO-ELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "that resignation of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-14a.2254.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2327.0", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paton", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he is aware that the information I have collected on the spot is directly contrary to his statement, that local contractors assure me that they have been paying out on accounts for three parts of the time, and they are now objecting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2326.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2344.10", "colnum": "2344", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2344.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2366.6", "colnum": "2366", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Stanley Holmes", "preceding_text": "te something which the Prime Minister said in his speech to Congress a day or two ago: In the world today we must assure the common man a fair deal. All I ask is that the Select Committee and the Government give the Private Member a fair deal. The bus workers are trying to prevent people from standing up. I want Private Members to have the right to stand up in this House. Let every back bench boy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2366.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "PROCEDURE (STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "bited by the Select Committee would be the Mem- ber who gets up and says \"I wish to detain only this House for a few minutes.\" The Speaker should crack down on him right away there and then. Another thing that I am very much interested in is the Guillotine. I would like to see the Guillotine erected right there on the Floor of the House and I would make a job of the hon. Members on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2449.1", "colnum": "2449", "heading": "MONEY COMMITTEES (MODIFICATION OF STANDING ORDER No. 69)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2449.9", "colnum": "2449", "heading": "MONEY COMMITTEES (MODIFICATION OF STANDING ORDER No. 69)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "lt some sympathy with that criticism. If there had been—although there is not—an Amendment down on the Paper to give effect to that criticism, we would have been prepared to receive it sympathetically. As I say, there is, in fact, no such Amendment down on the Paper. We on this side of the House have not, in the Motion which we put down on the Paper, embodied it, and we do not intend to embody it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2449.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2456.5", "colnum": "2456", "heading": "MONEY COMMITTEES (MODIFICATION OF STANDING ORDER No. 69)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2456.7", "colnum": "2456", "heading": "MONEY COMMITTEES (MODIFICATION OF STANDING ORDER No. 69)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This House\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "aid a few moments ago he would give, because I am bound to say that I, at least, find myself in a certain amount of perplexity. I was glad to see the Lord President come back into the House in order that he might remove, as I am sure he will, the perplexity of one who has such a limited experience of administrative responsibility. My perplexity arises oat of this fact. The Motion before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2456.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2459.3", "colnum": "2459", "heading": "MONEY COMMITTEES (MODIFICATION OF STANDING ORDER No. 69)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ernment do not propose to weaken their representation on the Committees to that extent. Something else could be done. I throw this suggestion to the Opposition. I do not advise them to accept it, but since they are in a receptive mood I put this to them. We could alternatively provide that the Law Officers shall be ex officio members of every Standing Committee, with the right to vote ex officio .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-15", "file": "debates1945-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "ab5eda01e461ff29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2462.1", "colnum": "2462", "heading": "MONEY COMMITTEES (MODIFICATION OF STANDING ORDER No. 69)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "rom their present level to that of Parliamentary counsel. The Lord President of the Council, in trying to pour oil on troubled waters, completely ignored what was said by the Solicitor-General and there was no mistake about what he said. He said that he was perfectly prepared to accept the deletion of the words \"but shall not vote.\" That means that the rest of the Motion is completely unnecessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-15a.2462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-16", "file": "debates1945-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "f41e7e16720e3243", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-16a.2547.1", "colnum": "2547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMERICAN FILMS (IMPORTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Monopoly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": " are not broken, most certainly not to lay down what type of picture or play shall be produced, unless they are of such a grossly offensive character as to go against British opinion. I make that demand because it is necessary it should be made. The British film producing industry will never expand if there is any suggestion that it is to do so merely under the direction of the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-16a.2547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SERVICES (NATIONALISATION PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "s outlined above can be presented to Parliament and carried into effect, all necessary development in the industries concerned must proceed. The Government, therefore, propose to see that progressive undertakings will not be prejudiced if they continue to develop in the interim period; and the appropriate Departments will enter into early consultations on the point with the industries concerned. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SERVICES (NATIONALISATION PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " that it is not being treated with the respect and consideration it deserves, perhaps the right hon. Gentleman might have had a word with his hon. Friends during the later part of my statement when they did not seem to be very serious. If there are any details required, questions can be put down to the Ministers concerned, but I say again that this is a statement made in the interests of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SERVICES (NATIONALISATION PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. As the right hon. Gentleman has said that I am inciting industry to sabotage the public interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "lanced. Who said that it ought to be? I rejoice that the Chancellor is departing, so far as the London School of Economics principles he espouses will allow him to depart, from supporting this monstrous principle that the Budget should be balanced. To balance the Budget is a crime against civilisation. If I had my way, the Budget would not be balanced at any time, let alone over a period of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.84.1", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is coming back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": " were first announced, they were, no doubt, very well received. It would have been astounding if it had been otherwise. There has probably never been an occupant of the Chancellor's office in so favourable a position in this respect as the right hon. Gentleman. I would like to call your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the fact that there is no representative of the Treasury on the front Bench opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.84.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU had Socialist Governments then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": "There have been years when the business has not made a profit. That is consistent with the nature of things, if you take the years from 1922, starting in a slump period, and going through another bad time in 1939.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a very good runner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Collins", "preceding_text": " am sorry to see he is not in his place at the moment—in a speech with which I did not agree, and which I thought, in some respects, unfortunate, referred to what would happen if Mr. Gladstone were here. He said Mr. Gladstone would walk out of the Chamber. What would happen I believe, if Mr. Gladstone did walk in, would be that the hon. Gentleman the Member for Bath would run out at the other end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.94.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Richard Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Richard Adams", "preceding_text": " have insisted that financial controls should be imposed right away. As was made perfectly clear during the Election, we on this side of the House are in favour of controls, but not of financial controls. We do not intend to have financial controls clamping down on the work of reconstruction. We are going to see that the houses are built, that the clothes and other necessary articles arc produced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not so much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "tal allowance, I find that a single person, in 1941, paid tax when he earned £120, and now he has to earn £122 before he pays tax, and that is the only case where a person who paid tax in 1940 –41 will not pay it now. I hope I have made myself clear. The exemption limit in 1940 –41 was £204 if a person was married, with no children, and now, if he earns £200, he will have to pay tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman-", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman-", "preceding_text": " the nationalisation of the Bank of England goes through, because the Bank always takes the instructions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—to carry out a market operation which would increase the bank money by, say, £1,000,000, not one hon. Member's income would be any different tomorrow, and even the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself would not be able to afford a second cup of tea more easily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "s here, owed to them by us, and which does not belong to the people of this country. We want to know how these sterling balances are increasing. That is vital information which, I suggest, ought to be at the disposal of the House. I would like to put in a word on the very important question of savings. We on this side of the House have always done everything we can to support the Savings Movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "ests of freedom. While I am on the subject of taxation I must refer to earned income allowances and postwar credits. The matter has already been dealt with by my right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for West Bristol (Colonel Stanley) when he opened the Debate. It has been touched upon by other speakers. I have taken several examples from the group between £400 and £700 a year, just by chance.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "I was asking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the percentage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton)", "preceding_text": "e more cars on the road here as well as those which will be going abroad. The cry now is for export, and let not the motor industry make the mistake that an export of 16 per cent is sufficient. That was the figure before the war and it was certainly not enough, and they must now, as part of their contribution to better export conditions, see to it that they participate according to their capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "e to say now, I have to repeat myself. I did say, when we were discussing, this matter on the Budget Resolutions, that I thought a good deal of the criticism that was raised on this point of earned income allowance was based upon a misunderstanding of the arithmetic of the sum to be performed. Many people have spoken as if the whole of the postwar credit was spendable income in the year in which —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " point of earned income allowance was based upon a misunderstanding of the arithmetic of the sum to be performed. Many people have spoken as if the whole of the postwar credit was spendable income in the year in which —[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, no.\"] If hon. Gentlemen will let me proceed, I will give the answer, which I think is correct, and will give them the figures. Many people have spoken as though—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "It is not a benefit which he enjoyed last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "But my right hon. and gallant Friend could not turn that intimation into any form of expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "t my right hon. and gallant Friend could not turn that intimation into any form of expenditure—[ Interruption ]. But this is the whole point. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman could not transform the benefit contained in that Government guarantee of payment, at a date not yet fixed, into a glass of beer or into any other form of harmless enjoyment, and, therefore, he did not enjoy it last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "standard rate, and I would not have graduated the standard rate, so that only one-third of the weight of it fell on the first £50 of taxable income. I say that I have done better, for the great majority of Income Tax payers in this Budget, than if I had merely restored the 1941 arrangements, including the earned income allowance. I have done better for the majority of the people. Finally, even if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "he weight of it fell on the first £50 of taxable income. I say that I have done better, for the great majority of Income Tax payers in this Budget, than if I had merely restored the 1941 arrangements, including the earned income allowance. I have done better for the majority of the people. Finally, even if—[ Interruption. ]—they are tired of cheering these truths—finally, even if it were all true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " long and somewhat controversial story, I myself think it is only fair that when tax remissions are being given in such a form as a reduction of the standard rate of Income Tax, it means that, if you reduce the standard rate of Income Tax by is., as I propose to do from 1os. to 9s., everybody gets off one-tenth of the tax they would pay if I did not reduce the standard rate. That is what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-19", "file": "debates1945-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "cd55356b47e1257b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as Lord Rothschild?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " with noble names and sometimes not. As a consequence of this there is, in the total Surtax income, a great quantity of completely unearned income, conglomerated in huge lumps around people who have inherited it, or obtained it by luck, or other means. It is really a pretence to. tell this House that it is a discouragement that the income of such people is to be-increased by a few hundreds a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-19a.151.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.203.5", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stoddart-Scott", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the inhabitants of Farsley and Calverley are likely to have to pay at least 50 per cent. more for their electricity, and is he also aware that, when Farsley and Calverley were taken into the borough of Pudsey, an agreement was arrived at by which Pudsey would continue to supply electricity and the Electricity Commissioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.205.11", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that leaders of the Labour Party at various times have subscribed to the White Paper technique as being the best way of bringing before the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.205.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that leaders of the Labour Party at various times have subscribed to the White Paper technique as being the best way of bringing before the public—[ Interruption. ] Will he not consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.205.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.210.5", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "But the right hon. Gentle man has just given us figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.210.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.226.3", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Major Freeman", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that among such people who consider themselves to be professional statisticians there is a certain dissatisfaction, and is he aware that these highly- qualified and irreplaceable people are in a position to provide the data upon which an economic plan could be based, and unless H.M. Government do provide that opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "er that it is not quite good enough. At the same time, I must say that I am prepared to give to the Government my support in the Measure which they have now brought forward. After all, the right hon. Gentleman and hon. Members opposite cannot very well complain. They put up for a number of years with the things to which they are now objecting—I admit, under the excuse that it was a wartime period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Conant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Saving from or for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Conant", "preceding_text": "angry mob within two years, and that a minefield may be a suitable method? What would happen, I do not know whether it is possible or not, if the right hon. Gentleman declared this House to be a protected place and that all who came in must conduct themselves as he directed? Surely the only hope of saving the country from Socialism in our time would be that he might direct us into the wrong lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It must be remembered that in the last 20 years you people have been in power in this country and you have left us a terrible mess to clean up. You have created conditions of life which cannot be remedied in the course of a few days, and therefore we are laying the foundations and making the plans whereby we can create this new kind of world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.285.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " few days, and therefore we are laying the foundations and making the plans whereby we can create this new kind of world. [Hon MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I hope I am not breaking the Rules of the House by talking in this manner. I do not wish to be called to Order by Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but I am saying that we are endeavouring to build up a new world, and if you people across the way think it can be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a reflection on the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am left in a little difficulty about what is in Order and what is not in Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, since I have listened to all the speeches except part of one, and to every word of those speeches, and if one proceeded by induction from experience one might be tempted to suppose that almost anything was in Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tolley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tolley", "preceding_text": "stand and what power and function they can perform in righting those things which have been heavily disarranged during the war. One can go on from that standpoint to certain other aspects. There are safeguards in the Measure which enable us to settle down until the period when, as a result of these Regulations being no longer necessary, we shall have established legislation of a certain character—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.321.5", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about empty houses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "to give, not only house room but food and attendance? I agree that a part of the price which the country will have to pay for having put an incompetent Government in office is a continuation of billeting, because this Government is apparently incapable of getting on with building new houses. That being so, some measure of billeting is essential, or may be, if the voluntary scheme does not succeed,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.321.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.332.5", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does it mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I do not think it can be taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.332.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.332.9", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Donner", "preceding_text": "Squadron-Leader Donner rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.332.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Donner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Donner", "preceding_text": "Squadron-Leader Donner rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the right hon. Gentleman know what that is?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "The next Regulation raised by several hon. Members is Regulation 22.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is it confined only to male nurses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " Member who has taken any part in the administration of mental institutions that a considerable proportion of the male staff of these institutions are non commissioned officers who have served in the Army. There is still a shortage in respect of those men; they have not come back, and, until they do, it is necessary that the people who have taken their places should be retained in this employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "( Seated and covered ): On a point of Order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, what punishment does this House apply to a hog that does not know its own sty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is in the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts", "preceding_text": "t is fear—the fear that if they do announce their plan now and it does not materialise, it will somehow detract from their prestige. I sincerely hope that that will not be the effect. By the answers we have tonight, we shall learn whether or not there is a fear lurking behind the Government on this point. I suggest that they take courage. I am sorry that the Minister of Health is not here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And doing nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "Whether that is bluff or honesty will be proved by what is actually done. It is that test which, applied to this particular plan, is the condemnation of making airy fairy figures without knowing where you are. My answer is that a plan is not writing figures on paper; it is making essential preparations for the production of the things that are necessary to get the houses built.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Sheffield\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": " get the houses built. [An HON. MEMBER: \"And doing nothing.\"] We could make a lot of figures, but they would be of little or no value to anyone. What the people want are not figures, but houses. The hon. Gentleman opposite, who cheer that, will please realise that what we got out of their party were figures and no houses at all. We are now making our preparations for getting an orderly production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in the Army\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": " party were figures and no houses at all. We are now making our preparations for getting an orderly production—[An HON. MEMBER: \"In Sheffield\"]—of the houses required in Sheffield, and in many other of the districts in this country. Houses are needed in my own particular area, perhaps, more than in any other at the present moment. The first necessity for that plan is to have the men to do the job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On paper \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "ed in Sheffield, and in many other of the districts in this country. Houses are needed in my own particular area, perhaps, more than in any other at the present moment. The first necessity for that plan is to have the men to do the job—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in the Army\"]—and the arrangements that are being made for the building up of that necessary body of labour are showing a very steep increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "e needed in my own particular area, perhaps, more than in any other at the present moment. The first necessity for that plan is to have the men to do the job—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in the Army\"]—and the arrangements that are being made for the building up of that necessary body of labour are showing a very steep increase—[An HON. MEMBER: \"On paper \"]—in the curve of actual releases for the purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-20", "file": "debates1945-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "eaf37a2b342c437e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Key", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us about houses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "men to do the job—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in the Army\"]—and the arrangements that are being made for the building up of that necessary body of labour are showing a very steep increase—[An HON. MEMBER: \"On paper \"]—in the curve of actual releases for the purpose. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Figures.\"] So far as Class B releases from the Army are concerned, they had reached, on 1st November, a figure of 20,500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-20a.354.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-21", "file": "debates1945-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "aea621a3b987064c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-21a.437.7", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why should there be no rationing of meat in Eire?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "Offhand, I should say \"Yes, unless I control it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-21a.437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-21", "file": "debates1945-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "aea621a3b987064c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-21a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The policy that has been adopted by this Government has secured the maximum co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-21a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-21", "file": "debates1945-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "aea621a3b987064c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-21a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTIONS AND JURORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Indictable offences? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osbert Peake", "preceding_text": "tions there are, the more penalties there have to be, and it is perfectly clear that it will be very difficult in years to come for citizens to know whether they are within or without the law. In fact, it is not too easy at the present time under the various wartime provisions that have had to be made. One could cite plenty of examples of cases where you are bound to break the law whatever you do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-21a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.584.4", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that the local authorities are responsible for depriving the countryside of houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.584.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "I never knew that the killing of Germans was a prerequisite to passing one's intelligent judgment. I never - realised that slaughtering Germans was an advantage in the mind of the hon. Gentleman, and all I can say is that my valuation of him has gone even lower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "r in history, come into a somewhat hostile country with different degrees of democratic understanding. It is to be appreciated that under such conditions unpleasant things can happen. But I am assured, on all sides, by eminent Poles that today there are scarcely any incidents whatever, and the general tendency of Russia is to allow Poland to have its own Government and own way, with one exception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "alk in that direction. The only salvation of this country is a firm, lasting and neighbourly friendship, with sincerity in our hearts and minds. I believe Russia has got it, but I am not so sure that everyone in this House has the same sincere desire as they have. I say to Members of the Labour Party that our recent phenomenal success was to a large extent due to the great effect that Russia made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ravity of the situation in which we now find ourselves has not been anything like indicated in any of the speeches so far delivered; nor do I believe that the remedies proposed or implied by any of the speakers have been the right remedies. I fully understand that to begin a speech with an utterance of that sort is to expose one's flank to an almost, or quite, mortal accusation of pretentiousness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Spain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is again likely to be, by that name, a Nazi or Fascist country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "to revive respect for law with a capital \"L.\" I think everybody understands that. Here we have had the greatest victory in history, the most complete strategic successes in history have been won by us and our Allies. What happens next? We were told a year ago by the then Prime Minister that when the war with Germany ended, the transition to peace would begin. Has the transition to peace begun yet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": ". Gentlemen opposite—I do not blame them any more than I blame the right hon. Gentleman in front of me, but if the thing goes on much longer they will be blamed—I suggest to them that even now we have not imagined the horrors in Europe, that, for instance, it may be wrong, but it is not unreasonable, to say that every baby less than a year old in Germany east of Berlin is going to die this winter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.647.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.649.2", "colnum": "649", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Is this discussion within the Ruling given by Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the interruption. It reminds me of a distinction I meant to make. The murder, rape and so on is one thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.649.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Wilkes", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to prolong the hon. Gentleman's speech, but I should like to ask why he presents such an ill-balanced picture, drawing no attention at all to precisely the same, or even worse, conditions, prevailing in Portugal or Spain from the standpoint of democracy, and drawing little attention to his own past advocacy and support of Fascism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ayrton Gould", "preceding_text": "ry—although it was more of an implication than a suggestion—that if the scientific knowledge of the atom bomb got to countries other than the three who already had it, it would be because scientists had betrayed their trust and had almost committed treason. I am not a scientist myself, but I am the daughter of two scientists, and I was brought up in a home where nothing but physics were discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "you will want capitalists and landlords in the other countries. If you do not have them here, you will not want them in the other countries. The Labour Government have a mandate from the people to build in this country, and to build in Europe, as a progressive force in Europe. What a job for the Foreign Secretary and the Labour Government! A couple of weeks ago I went to a mental hospital —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What policy? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "le helping the prosperity of other countries. If we have consolidated and made good a clear, helpful policy towards China and the Far East, we shall have done a very great work for them. Incidentally, when the period comes when we do not have to consider exports in quite the same light as at present, we shall have prepared for ourselves a means of raising the standard of living in our own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.703.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ervention is so irrelevant that I cannot think of an answer. To return to my distant path in the Far East, I hope that the Government during this Debate will make certain points clear to us. One is in regard to Hong Kong. I believe, and this is based on talks with a great many of my friends in China, that one of the greatest services we could render China would be to retain our place in Hong Kong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "este, difficulties and lack of common sense at that time, created a certain suspicion which did not destroy the good feeling, but held a cloud over it. We have found, however, that the people still have faith in us and still desire to understand us and associate with us. Some people feel more concerned about collaborating with Fascist Italy than collaborating with a free people like the Yugoslavs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "ence, a country which is coming anew to life, where wonderful events are taking place; where for the first time in history, four races are becoming united in one nation; where four countries are combining on a certain set of economic laws for the Balkan States as a whole; where there is good feeling and good fellowship, with a grim determination that the King Peter regime is never going to return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (APPOINTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Major Sir Frank Soskice)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Major Sir Frank Soskice)", "preceding_text": "ular party in this House. Persons of no known political affiliations, or persons who are known to be independent of any political party, equally are included in his appointments; but where you are trying to ensure that you have not got too many justices from any one section of the community, you will naturally look to see, with regard to any candidate, what his political affiliations, if any, are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-22", "file": "debates1945-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "ef2da94229b12538", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "JUSTICES OF THE PEACE (APPOINTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Major Sir Frank Soskice)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Major Sir Frank Soskice)", "preceding_text": "hat you have not got too many justices from any one section of the community, you will naturally look to see, with regard to any candidate, what his political affiliations, if any, are. [Hon. Members: \"Why?\"] After all, particularly in the case of lower income categories, it is the fact that individuals, to a very large extent, only become known because they have connections with the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-22a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-23", "file": "debates1945-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "361aa37deaa0b7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.759.9", "colnum": "759", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Bevin)", "preceding_text": " atom bomb and the communique which was issued in Washington. I do not think that any good purpose would be served at the moment in calling a special meeting to consider that. All Members of the United Nations have been warned that the General Assembly will meet on 2nd January or 7th January, and that is not very far ahead. I hope that the atom bomb will not be used before 7th January in any case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.759.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-23", "file": "debates1945-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "361aa37deaa0b7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "That is my view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.771.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-23", "file": "debates1945-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "361aa37deaa0b7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "not for me to suggest who prevented me from getting a Government in order that I could get an election. But I candidly confess that I do not think I have had a square deal. I think that there have been influences from this country every time I tried to get an all-party Government in Greece. I am not talking about our people, but influences going from this country to Greece which have prevented me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-23", "file": "debates1945-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "361aa37deaa0b7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ction to monarchy in any country as an institution, but let it be a constitutional monarchy, and not a party monarchy. I said to myself that Greece may desire to return to a constitutional monarchy; that is her business, that she must decide without one word of influence from Great Britain. But how long is it going to take me to get Greece out of what I call a party monarchy into a tranquil state?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-23", "file": "debates1945-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "361aa37deaa0b7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "ed of weakness. It is essential for the fulfilment of our military task to secure and maintain law and order, and naturally General Christison has authority to use his forces for that purpose. I believe I am expressing the views of everyone in this House and in the country when I say that the conduct of all ranks in carrying out their arduous and dangerous task in that area has been beyond praise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.774.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-23", "file": "debates1945-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "361aa37deaa0b7fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.856.2", "colnum": "856", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (CHRISTMAS LEAVE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he has done. I was going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-23a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPE (POPULATION TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the zone into which the people are to be transferred is already hopelessly over crowded and under-housed? Is he also aware that when a similar transfer took place after the last war it was limited to something under 1,000,000 persons, and took nearly three years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": " Minister of Supply? Is design going to be wholly-separated from production? Is the Minister of Works in regard to permanent prefabricated houses, to be a sort of post office between the Minister of Health and the Minister of Supply, and with all these components, to whom is the harassed manufacturer to look? Is he to look to the Ministry of Supply or the Ministry of Works? I find it most obscure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.934.1", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wood.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eccles", "preceding_text": "The Minister of Health has said that light castings is an example. So we have one instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.967.4", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "entleman has got me wrong altogether. I am dealing with the cost of building under this Bill, with the wages that are paid to employees, and with the cost of building in America and the wages paid to employees there. There they pay the workers more and produce buildings cheaper than here, and the reason for that lies entirely in the timing. That is my point—the timing of the materials on the site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.967.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "Then let me give the whole thing. The cost of materials in this country, taking the index figure as 100, is as 100 to 160 compared with America. The cost of materials is higher there than it is here. Therefore, the position is that in America the materials are dearer and the craftsmen are paid more and they produce more buildings. Why? Because they have less Governmental interference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "nt claims. He made no reference to the mandate for the erection of a Ministry of Housing. I sympathise with him, and I understand why he did not, when he happened to reveal a little further on the part which the Ministry of Supply was now going to play. Again the right hon. Gentleman departed from precedent in that he did not wave in his hand this document as if it were an answer to all arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": " Ministry of Housing is implemented by bringing in the Ministry of Supply. On the previous page I saw this: Only the Labour Party is ready to take the necessary steps\" — If the right hon. Gentleman would tell us what they are no doubt we should have greater confidence in his performance, and his supporters would be comforted. Let me read it: A full programme of land planning, and drastic action \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "this: Only the Labour Party is ready to take the necessary steps\" — If the right hon. Gentleman would tell us what they are no doubt we should have greater confidence in his performance, and his supporters would be comforted. Let me read it: A full programme of land planning, and drastic action \"— [ Interruption .] The hon. Gentleman opposite always likes drastic action, whether it is good or bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the price of land?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "ient building industry that will neither burden the community with a crippling financial loan \"— And yet one of the first Measures they pass is a Bill which has no limit upon the extent of the loan which can be placed upon the community, either by way of taxation or by way of increase of rent, because what the Ministry of Works charge must be reflected in the rents of these houses that are to let.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And edification.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": ". [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the price of land?\"]—What the Ministry of Health pay to the Ministry of Works—the difference between the cost of the production of these houses and the amount for which they are sold, under Clause 3, must be found from the taxpayer; and between the two there is no maximum to the load which can be placed upon the community. Indeed, we shall watch with interest to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will you write the foreword?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "he vast expenditure envisaged does in fact produce houses in accordance with the requirements of the community. Now let me turn to another point, which will perhaps not irritate hon. Gentlemen opposite so much. They do not like to be reminded of this pamphlet \"Let us Face the Future.\" I dare say that they will be publishing a new edition for private circulation called \"Let us forget our promises.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1000.3", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "mes. I make this further promise. We shall build a lot more houses—very many more—in the first 15 months after this war than the friends of hon. Members opposite built after the last war. Bulk purchases and organised direct labour are the principles that are guiding us in asking for these powers from the House this evening. As hon. Members have said, obviously we are going to be judged by results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1000.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:''Answer.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The answer is that the Vote of the Ministry of Health can always be put down. That information can always be obtained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The answer is that the Vote of the Ministry of Health can always be put down. That information can always be obtained. [HON. MEMBERS:''Answer.''] We are carrying on a practical business operation and we insist on having the same elasticity as business men claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1001.5", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1001.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " any new system of construction in this country or to be experimental. If we are to be experimental, the local authority cannot carry the burden of the experiment. We cannot start producing experimental prefabricated houses and expect the local authority concerned to buy houses at the actual cost of production in the initial stages. Private enterprise cannot do that. Private enterprise has failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made a very long speech, but he has not got a clear picture in his mind of what happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "The Ministry of Works will be doing this distribution by wholesale. As a general rule, the building contractor will be getting his materials from a retail builders' merchant. The hon. Member is attempting to cloud the whole issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1008.2", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is it shown now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman in rhetoric, but I have at least built something. All I can say is that the time and progress schedule of a building contract is more vital than the doctrinaire attitude of the right hon. Gentleman. What I want to know is whether, if the right hon. Gentleman delivers late—and it may be that the Government will deliver late, who knows?—where is that cost going to be shown?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-26", "file": "debates1945-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "863bdb43b77a4c5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BUILDING MATERIALS AND HOUSING [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "annot understand about the Money Resolution is this. The Government are going to undertake distribution on a big scale. The costs of distribution are the costs of transport from the factory to the central depot and the costs of transport to the site. They are also the costs of maldistribution. If a certain lavatory basin arrives at the site late, the contractor has to pay money because it is late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-26a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1055.10", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEMOBILISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "Provided that the soldier can readily be identified and located, and that he makes up his mind at once to accept the offer of release in Class B, the average time taken in the United Kingdom from receipt of the application by the Ministry of Labour and National Service to the release of the individual, may be taken as about 2½ weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1055.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I am aware that these conditions leave much to be desired, but we have not been a Government for very long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Freeman", "preceding_text": "ecial pleading by the hon. Member for St. Marylebone (Sir W. Wakefield), but surely, the purpose of taxation is to cut down all luxuries. I cannot accept what hon. Gentlemen—I am sorry to say on both sides of the Committee—have said to the effect that the taxicab is no longer a luxury conveyance. It certainly is, I can assure hon. Gentlemen opposite, for the majority of the people in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Freeman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Freeman", "preceding_text": "great deal more for his taxi than people in this country could afford to pay. We might feel rather more sympathetic towards the case of taxi companies and taxi drivers at the moment, if they had lived up to the description given by the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of War Transport of taxicabs as being a form' of public transport during the war. Do we want to increase the taxis on the streets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ust as well to be frank regarding the next few years. The motor industry always want to be told where they stand. That is their catch phrase, and there is sense in it. Where they stand at the moment, in my considered view, is that they have got to go on giving the Exchequer as much revenue in the aggregate as now. If that is generally agreed, it is at any rate one point on which we can go forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1150.0", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private enterprise\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ecision. I do not think we ought to be so defeatist as the right hon. Member for West Bristol seemed to be and to say that if the motor industry has to go on paying in the aggregate as much as now, there is no hope tor motor car exports. I think that is very much a matter of dispute, and I do not think it does justice to the spirit of enterprise which permeates a considerable part of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "ich was put forward this afternoon, was to have, say, a £5 registration fee on all cars, large or small, and in addition to that to have an extra tax on the fuel. If we were to do that it would need an additional 4d., not 3d., on the fuel, and on top of the present 9d. that would make the tax on the fuel IS. Id. That, in addition to the £5 registration fee, would be required to give me my revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "I cannot admit for a moment that they have been subject to an illegal tax. The vehicle was subject to taxation, and has been taxed on the lowest figure possible. It was quite permissible and legal to impose that tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "d of Trade wants me to go on to some semi-governmental organisation which will take up a lot of my time and to which not very much remuneration -is attached; I would like to do that as a service, but it will take up so much of my time, and if I cannot in the time that is left to me make enough to live on and save for my old age; I will take the easier course and cut off some of this heavier work.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have done well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "tion to the people of whom I am speaking. The fact that there are not many of them is not relevant, because it is the business of the State to do the right thing and not to consider numbers. The right hon. Gentleman said there was only 125,000 of them all told. If that is so, there has been a considerable increase during the war, because according to the last prewar figures there were only 89,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1191.2", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "emain the fact that men with drive, foresight and the power of leadership will be penalised. If you deny them the opportunity of making good money and of putting some by for their old age and for their families, you are depriving our country of one of its greatest opportunities for revival. 9.15 p.m. There is another aspect of this matter, and that is the argument that was made by the interrupter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1191.2", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": " that may be. All you have to do is to dip into it and, like the widow's cruse, there is always more there. Hon. Members opposite may find that kind of thing brings them votes at elections, hut it will not enable them to bring our country back to prosperity. Where does the money come from? Money, as a token either of available wealth or accumulated wealth, all comes out of the work of the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1191.2", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "men sitting opposite? Are they exclusively the people who work with their hands? The members of the Labour Party are anxious to establish themselves now as a moderate bour- geois party, appealing to the middle classes, because without the support of middle and lower middle class votes, they can never hope to retain power in this country. Even the Labour Party are adding the word \"brain\" to \"hand.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Erroll", "preceding_text": " it is. We feel it is particularly unfortunate that Surtax alone should be increased at the present time. Nothing has been said, either today or in the earlier stages of the Finance Bill, to suggest that we are now embarking on a period of particular financial stringency. Nevertheless, one class of individual, and one alone, is singled out for an increase in taxation, and that is the Surtax payer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "preceding_text": "ght to consideration equally with those 5,300,000 to whom I have just referred. The final point which I wish to make is this. The other day when the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister was in America he made what I thought was a very brilliant speech during which he referred to that country as the greatest country standing for freedom and democracy on the earth's surface. I think we all agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "preceding_text": " for working hard. He said the people required an incentive, but further on in his speech, when he came to deal with Surtax payers, I anticipated a reduction in the rate. Yet instead of reducing Surtax, he increased it. The right hon. Gentleman thinks that hon. Members behind him require some reasonable incentive, but when he deals with those who have built up the great industries of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "ger, £6,000, £7,000, or £10,000, such as is earned by the Solicitor-General. A previous speaker told the Committee that these men are 1 or 2 per cent. of the population. They are nothing of the sort. They are one or two in 10,000. Those are the men who believe in encouraging our industries—or who should believe in it and who did so in the past and built this country into a great industrial nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.4", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.''", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "leman was not Chancellor of the Exchequer in wartime. If it was right that he should occupy a less important position in wartime perhaps it is wrong that he should be occupying the position that he occupies in peacetime. Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe it is right to have economic equality? I believe there really are some hon. Members opposite who would answer \"Yes\" to that question.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.4", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh''.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": "ffered in this country, even amongst the poorest members of our society. You might get a sort of drab reflection of the appalling, dull and poor uniformity which we should find if we went to a country which was one of our great Allies during the war. I would suggest to the right hon. Gentleman that he would be doing the best, not only for the wealthy of whom we are primarily thinking this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.4", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Ropner", "preceding_text": " genuine and quite sincere submission for the consideration of the Committee that we will best serve the interests of most people in this country if the men who could lead our industry are encouraged to do so and are rewarded according to their ability. That is a perfectly sincere conclusion to submit for consideration in the deliberations of this Committee. I have said nearly all I wanted to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1208.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who suggested that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I am going to answer it. I am saying, if I may repeat what I said in my Budget statement, that it would be a miserable welcome to offer these men to say we are going to re-establish the pre-war inequalities in our society, and that that is not a welcome which this Government and this Parliamentary majority seeks to give them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not make allegations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members will allow me to develop this matter, they will get a perfectly straight answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " will get a perfectly straight answer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not make allegations.\"] I am not going to withdraw any allegation because everything I have said is perfectly true. We in this Parliament are going to advance considerably further towards social and economic equality. I hope we are. But that does not mean we shall arrive at a state of complete, flat, uniform equality. Of course it does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. J. Pitman", "preceding_text": "I think part of this misunderstanding arises out of an apparent contradiction. I believe the Chancellor is right, that there has been during the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1217.6", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "what would happen: Under my proposals, Surtax payers with incomes of £15,000 and upwards—that is where the ceiling is reached in the proposals I have made—are getting as a result of this cruel Budget an addition to their incomes of £352 a year. Many a poor man could live on that without the rest. Three hundred and fifty-two pounds more for every millionaire, £352 as a result of this cruel Budget.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1217.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You certainly know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "f view of personal comparisons between one income and another, but from the point of view of the one thing of importance—the effect of this taxation upon production. Of course I know that this argument, coming from these benches, would immediately be suspected by hon. Members opposite. So I would ask him to consider this—interested though they might say it is, selfish, old-fashioned, obscurantist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about your leader's age?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "MEMBER: \"You certainly know.\"]—because I am going to ask the right hon. Gentleman to forget our argument tonight and to turn to a Debate which took place in this House last May. I ask him to read a speech by that right hon. Gentleman now one of his colleagues, Lord Pethick-Lawrence. Surely hon. Members opposite will cheer the name of such a good Socialist, so youthful, if not in years, in outlook—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "tleman himself did not attempt to meet, and which no Member on the opposite side has dealt with at all. Instead, we have been put off with these cheap jeers and sneers. The right hon. Gentleman made a great point that, as our Amendment says, we had made no distinction between that portion of the Surtax payers to whom he paid tribute as working hard for their money, and those who lived on interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-27", "file": "debates1945-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "531dec76edac421b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1220.0", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What did Lord Pethick-Lawrence say?", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "between earned and unearned income, we had only been following the example of the right hon. Gentleman through the whole of this Budget. We thought such a distinction was distasteful to him, and that he was more likely to pay attention to an Amendment which did not draw an unpalatable distinction. May I refer to the speech—the remarkable speech—by the hon. Member for South Cardiff (Mr. Callaghan)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-27a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1319.10", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Smith", "preceding_text": "These licences are only granted where the Minister of Education recommends them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1319.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "Well, many thousands of voters were not much interested in the Conservative candidate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "We were being challenged with the statement that if a contrast could be made between what I am proposing in the Finance Bill and what the hon. Member for Bath was proposing, namely, no reduction in the standard rate but instead —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e, not even the fishermen, appreciative of the cut in Income Tax from 10s. to 9s. in the £? Of course they are. Are none of them appreciative of the cut in the lower levels of taxable income? Would the business world have preferred me to have left the Excess Profits Tax where it was instead of reducing it to 60 percent.? Would the distinguished industrialists who have contributed to these Debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1390.6", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"When are you going to start?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "No one knows better than the hon. Member for Doncaster (Mr. Walkden) that those who sit on this side of the Committee have certain responsibilities. He would be the last to deny that for one moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1390.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1392.0", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "This is not one of the subjects on which I feel at all sure that I am better informed or more perspicacious than other Members of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "credits having been written off altogether, that the unfortunate taxpayer not having received one single penny in cash at all, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be able to turn round at some future date and say, \"By lowering the rate of your tax and by failing to pay you back your postwar credits, we have had no cash transaction whatever and we can now consider. the whole debt written off.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1409.4", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "1 am much obliged to the Financial Secretary, and I am sure the Committee is as well, including the hon. Member who said he did not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "e local authority, and, secondly, since all mortgages are subject to amortisation, it only denies the Revenue temporarily a windfall which will ultimately fade out. It is in order to establish that position and to avoid the necessity of unfortunate litigation between the local authority and the Inland Revenue which is no good for anybody but lawyers, and not many of us have any sympathy with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1435.0", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Sanderson", "preceding_text": "hich I am making, but what makes me a little nervous is that he said that in any event it would be possible next April to consider the position in the light of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's further experience during the next six months, i.e., between now and his next Budget. I am an optimist, but who is there among us who can be certain that the present Government will be in office next April?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cobb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cobb", "preceding_text": "s Profits Tax cushion there is an atmosphere of inefficiency that goes right through the firm from top to bottom, and the sooner the Excess Profits Tax cushion is removed, the better it will be for enterprise and British industry It has been said that firms cannot complete the change-over in the period in question. It is time British industry learned how to do what its American associates can do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "We cannot allow the statement made by the hon. Member opposite to go unchallenged. The hon. Member said that industry cannot turn over as it has done in America. Well, of course, industry cannot turn over —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "s of failure of hon. Members opposite to release from the Services the men urgently required in industry. Every day, hon. Members on this side have complaints of industrialists not being able to get raw materials, because of restrictions, controls and obstructions. That is why the turn over from war to peace does not go ahead. That is why our export trade is not being developed as it ought to be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1440.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1472.2", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "SENTENCED SOLDIERS (AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You were not.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": "I was there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "SENTENCED SOLDIERS (AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Baird", "cue_text": "Hon, Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": "um sentence was to be three years' hard labour. That young boy, who should have gone to hospital, in my opinion, went to detention camp for three years. Afterwards I had to visit detention camps on numerous occasions. I do not want to try to picture the terrible conditions of these camps. Men, again almost all very young men, were forced to do all their exercises at the double with their packs on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "SENTENCED SOLDIERS (AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Baird", "preceding_text": " boy, who should have gone to hospital, in my opinion, went to detention camp for three years. Afterwards I had to visit detention camps on numerous occasions. I do not want to try to picture the terrible conditions of these camps. Men, again almost all very young men, were forced to do all their exercises at the double with their packs on— [Hon, Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] It may have been necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-28", "file": "debates1945-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "6c89848eb166bc25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "SENTENCED SOLDIERS (AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gomme-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I have listened with a good deal of interest to what the hon. and gallant Member has said. I have learned that a dental officer can sit on a court-martial. I did not' know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-28a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1533.8", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Gammans", "preceding_text": "What conceivable interest can the employers of labour take in the wage structure? What is to prevent them from fixing wages at any figure? Does the Minister not think that in the national interest these wage negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1533.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1543.13", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Wednesday and Thursday—Debate on the Opposition Motion of Censure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1543.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1546.5", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: We cannot hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I lo not know. That is another deviation by my hon. Friend in the direction of nationalism, which I will do my best to help, but I should not have thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1546.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gallacher", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. The hon. Lady was quite correct in saying that the hon. Member for Cambridge University had made a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attewell", "preceding_text": " the field, to see the play. But I was surprised to hear that it is we who have. been subsidising the 5s. seat-holders. If the Entertainments Duty on this side has been increased, it must have come from the volume of money which has been paid by us on the is. 6d. side. There may be a reason for it, because the tax must be paid. As regards rates and taxes, I may say that I am a member of the M.C.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1567.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1576.0", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Wing-Commander Robinson", "preceding_text": "eds and thousands of spectators who tramp to the field, who gather together—instead of being in the factories—in the open air, shouting and cheering, and who go away from that field very much better physically. I think we should help them to achieve something that is a real and valuable change from their work, which helps them to equip themselves for the struggle for life in the week that follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "I certainly would ask my hon. Friends to divide on this new Clause as a protest against the way in which it has been received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1606.2", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nobody asked you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "It has been done by legitimate Parliamentary method but I repeat I cannot congratulate him on any improvement in the Opposition technique.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.2", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Stanley", "preceding_text": "Is this the new Socialist spirit? Are these the people who are going to put everything right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.7", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Will the Solicitor General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.9", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ry substantial part, and the greater part of them. You get them from the other side, and as the other side has the revenue, you have a very substantial defendant out of whom to get costs. I will put the case to the Committee in this way. If you allow costs of this sort on appeal under Excess Profits Tax, are you going to allow costs of an appeal in relation to claims under Schedules A, B, D and E?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.9", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "a very substantial defendant out of whom to get costs. I will put the case to the Committee in this way. If you allow costs of this sort on appeal under Excess Profits Tax, are you going to allow costs of an appeal in relation to claims under Schedules A, B, D and E? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] You cannot, as will appear from the 1918 Act, which has stood so long unchallenged, substitute a new one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1668.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "esent level of taxation, the consumer of moderate means is, in fact, unable to get any whisky at all, because he cannot afford to pay for it. Therefore, this is essentially a class tax. The rich can get whisky because they can afford to buy it, the man of moderate means cannot, and the poor man cannot. Therefore, my Clause should please hon. Members Opposite. I do not want to detain the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1679.1", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "—and only recently supplies of barley have been cut off againfrom the distilling industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1680.0", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Gonne-Duncan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Gonne-Duncan", "preceding_text": "I represent a constituency which is particularly interested in the distilling trade, and I cannot allow this occasion to pass without supporting the appeal of my hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeen (Mr. Boothby). I know that anybody who appeals on behalf of whisky is open to misconstruction. I assure the Committee that I, personally, do not drink whisky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I think this new Clause can be disposed of quite simply and easily. We have had the usual charming and happy speech from the Mover, and I hope that now that he has raised the spirits of this Assembly, he will be content and let his Clause be dropped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1683.0", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "rtheless, he really has not been there long enough to get his mind as confused as it obviously has become. He says that £27,000,000 is estimated to be the loss in taxation involved if this Clause were accepted. I will only make one comment. We have had three or four million Americans in this country for the last three or four years. Every one of them became very much accustomed to Scottish whisky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1683.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alan Herbert", "preceding_text": "fess it. I am not ashamed of it. There I have seen constituents, not only of hon. Members on the opposite benches but of these benches on this side, who have what is called \"the screws,\" rheumatics. When constituents of hon. Members have \"the screws\" it is good for them to drink whisky but it is bad for them to drink beer. I have met dozens of humble men who have said:\" I have got 'the screws.' \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is a bit \"screwy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member was brought up in a funny medical school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(Classes of goods in respect of which Purchase Tax is to cease to be chargeable.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " should be given to relieve constant and growing pain of the many sufferers we have amongst us to-day after six years of war. Even the homely hot water bottle that is intended to give warmth to those cold limbs which are rendered still colder by the recent gas strike—surely that cannot be regarded as a luxury; otherwise every one of us here are probably going to indulge in luxury when we get home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1693.2", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(Classes of goods in respect of which Purchase Tax is to cease to be chargeable.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " to-day after six years of war. Even the homely hot water bottle that is intended to give warmth to those cold limbs which are rendered still colder by the recent gas strike—surely that cannot be regarded as a luxury; otherwise every one of us here are probably going to indulge in luxury when we get home. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] There are tough and hardy ones amongst us, but the delicate Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(Classes of goods in respect of which Purchase Tax is to cease to be chargeable.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If there is any political honesty in right hon. Members and hon. Members opposite they will support this. If there is no political honesty they have betrayed the people they are supposed to represent. As hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have learned by now, the party to which I belong has published a pamphlet \"We Fight for the Poor.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1699.3", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(Classes of goods in respect of which Purchase Tax is to cease to be chargeable.)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "nsibility in this matter. I shall support the appeal which has been made to the Government. If a memorial is set up why is it not possible for the congregation of the church or whoever is responsible to go to the Treasury with a certificate and obtain remission of the tax? I would be very grateful for an answer and I would support the appeal to the Government to treat this matter with seriousness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(Classes of goods in respect of which Purchase Tax is to cease to be chargeable.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "I think it is completely unnecessary and very wrong that heat should be imported into this discussion. Those Members of the Committee who have not shown heat can form their own view of those who have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-11-29", "file": "debates1945-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "27f702d2f2c3a57f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(Classes of goods in respect of which Purchase Tax is to cease to be chargeable.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " of those who have. [Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"] I am not commonly accused of being inaudible. If hon. Members will do me the honour of endeavouring to listen they will hear me. I am not a party to treating this matter with levity nor with carping, needless and discourteous interruption. An appeal has been made by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite which I will consider again and I will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-29a.1707.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-11-30", "file": "debates1945-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "1ca435442c511399", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-30a.1856.1", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "SCIENTIFIC MANPOWER AND RESOURCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "g about thinking about nothing in particular and hoping that something will turn up and that you will find out something,\" and say it too rigidly and dogmatically, you may first of all impair the roaming freedom of the scientific mind, as a result of which we have achieved much advantage—that is, the complete liberty and freedom for intellectual adventure, that takes you somewhere sooner or later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-11-30a.1856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Advances to Minister of Works.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"From your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "I ask the right hon. Gentleman to treat this Amendment seriously. There has been a certain amount of light-heartedness in the Debate so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1935.0", "colnum": "1935", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Advances to Minister of Works.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "id not like my reference to the previous Amendment as a \"wrecking\" one, because I am quite certain that he knew that the effect of that Amendment, if it had been carried, would have been to wreck the Bill. I would not put this Amendment in the same category. The first Amendment was intended to sink the boat out of hand. This Amendment is intended to make a little opening just below the water line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1939.0", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Advances to Minister of Works.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Williams", "preceding_text": "nts advanced in favour of the Amendment, consideration might be given to the matter between now and the Report stage. The right hon. Gentleman rather inferred that he had not any great legal skill to deal with the actual effect and purport of this Amendment. I am in the same position. I am not a lawyer, and at the moment I do not think there is any lawyer of any great eminence or judgment present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1939.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1941.0", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Advances to Minister of Works.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "It would seem to me that this Amendment is a dangerous one for the Government to consider accepting at all. Should the Amendment as now drafted be accepted by the Government any court would find itself in very great difficulty over the words \"factory capacity is estimated.\" Another complication is: Who is to do the estimating?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1946.1", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Advances to Minister of Works.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Before the war?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "trying to keep us from getting on with housing. They are asking whether there is any necessity for all this. Certainly there is a necessity, and has been ever since the last war. We discovered that the weakest link in the capitalist system was the housing problem. Private enterprise demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was impossible for private enterprise to meet the demand for houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1966.1", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Advances to Minister of Works.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "I really do not know why the hon. Member should interrupt me on that point. I was not dealing with the operatives' hourly rates of wages, or anything of that kind. I was quoting to the Committee from figures, which have been given to us from the Government Front Bench, to prove that the major element in the cost of works has been the increased cost of labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "CLAUSE 1.—(Advances to Minister of Works.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "In modern grates the building of bricks and the kind of draught required for economic burning are considered and bricks are used in the design of grates in a modern house. I will not take up the time of the Committee�ž", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2001.0", "colnum": "2001", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "l. 416, c. 908.] I think we are all agreed on that. Later on, the Minister of Health, whom I am very glad to see in his place, said: We are carrying on a practical business operation and we insist on having the same elasticity as business men-claim.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th November, 1945; Vol. 416, c. 1003.] I think all sides of the Committee are agreed that the Government are going into business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Questions?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "s huge majority they can get anything through, but I think we are entitled to know whether the right hon. Gentlemen are efficient or not. That is all we are asking. There are other ways of finding out. I was reminded by an hon. Member that we can find out by Question and answer, but I think that the Questions and answers that have been addressed to the Minister of Works have not been satisfactory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2006.0", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Marples", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Marples", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman said \"Tut, tut.\" All I am seeking to find out is the exact financial position, and the efficiency or the inefficiency of the right hon. Gentlemen in action and not in rhetoric. It is fairly easy to talk about building, but it is a technical problem requiring a technical mind behind it. Those technical minds are sadly lacking at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2013.4", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "So was I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2013.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2014.0", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made some complaint about wasting time. I have not noticed just how many minutes he consumed, but he has not said a single word relevant to this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2014.0", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why waste more time? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made some complaint about wasting time. I have not noticed just how many minutes he consumed, but he has not said a single word relevant to this Amendment. [ Interruption. ] I asked the right hon. Gentleman a very simple question, which he could have dealt with, had he so chosen, in two sentences, or even one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2014.0", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. S. C. Reid", "preceding_text": "ne—and not probably—that would satisfy us. I certainly thought that, when the Minister of Health got up, he was going to deal with that point, but, as usual, he was so carried away with his own eloquence that he forgot all about it. Is he, or is he not, going to answer the point? I warn the right hon. Gentleman that, if he is not going to answer, we shall most certainly go into the Division lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2016.0", "colnum": "2016", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Works is so sensitive that he cannot give a reasoned reply to an Amendment that was certainly intended to be reasonable. I am afraid that he is so conscious of the ill manners of his colleague, who is not now on the bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2020.1", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "easure, why are he and his colleagues, on every occasion so very unwilling to give the House of Commons the fullest possible information about it? I suggest to the Committee that the only reason why the Government make such difficulties in giving full information on this accountancy problem is that they have not confidence that the accounts will show up very well, and they want to gloss them over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2021.0", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Law", "preceding_text": "ill not again take the line that we are impugning his personal honour, because we are not, but the right hon. Gentleman must realise—and hon. Members opposite must realise—that we on these benches, rightly or wrongly, do not believe that the methods of this Bill—direct purchase, and so on—will be any thing like as efficient as they profess to believe them to be. If the right hon. Gentleman�ž—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2022.1", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Eight months? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "hree as I suggest—except one, and that it is that it has never been done before. I do not know whether that is accurate or not. Is that the only argument against the non-production of accounts and transactions which are quite simple in their nature though they may be extensive? Is the Minister of Works saying that his Department will not be able to prepare these accounts in less than eight months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-03", "file": "debates1945-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6420641b38d7fcf0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2027.3", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (DRILLS AND ROUTINES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "It is with some diffidence that I raise this evening, the matter of unnecessary drills and routines in the Army because, in some respects, I am among the least qualified to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-03a.2027.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2107.5", "colnum": "2107", "heading": "INDIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Major Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Could my right hon. Friend make it quite clear—there may be some misunderstanding—that if the ultimate decision of the Indian peoples is that they do not wish India to remain a partner in the British Commonwealth, they may be allowed to make that decision; and also that there will never again be any further mention of Dominion status in connection with India?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2107.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2114.0", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What do you suspect now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "to be efficient, there is nothing for them to fear in the early publication of the accounts. If the right hon. Gentleman had only seen his way to be a little more friendly to the Amendment of my right hon and learned Friend, it might have done something to allay the great disturbance which now exists in the minds of many people who would otherwise not have suspected anything else inside this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2116.1", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": "rgument put forward by the Minister of Works, on two grounds. The first is that he omitted to describe this as a wrecking Amendment, and the second, that he put forward an argument which, if it had come from the benches behind me, would have been met with howls of derision from the benches behind the right hon. Gentleman—the argument that we could not do this because it had never been done before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2117.1", "colnum": "2117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manningham-Buller", "preceding_text": " what the position is, and with the knowledge that within a few months we shall have the report of the Auditor-General to confirm our views, or otherwise or to draw different points to our attention? Why should not we see the figures when the accounts are completed? We may have to wait a full year before we get the accounts of the previous year's operation. Does that happen with a limited company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2124.2", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Galbraith", "preceding_text": "I do not flunk there is any need for all this heat on the part of the hon. and learned Member. All I said was that I understood him to make considerable play—and hon. Members can say whether I was right or wrong—about our examining two sets of accounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2125.0", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(The Building Materials and Housing Fund.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ly wrong, and it would not stand the test of argument or debate. If it is decided that the matter should be carefully controlled from a financial point of view, why not let us have the figures at the earliest possible opportunity? As far as precedent is concerned in such a matter as this, what happens in this House and in this country in the next three years will be without any precedent whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2125.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2144.0", "colnum": "2144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(Payments into Building Materials and Housing Fund by the Minister of Health.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "stence, and no-one could have any information of this kind in the preparatory stages of providing prefabricated houses. None of the costs of experimentation would be in it at all, because you could not charge the whole cost of experimentation to the first delivery of prefabricated houses. Therefore the information given would be value- less and would convey an entirely wrong idea of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2145.1", "colnum": "2145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(Payments into Building Materials and Housing Fund by the Minister of Health.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Hicks", "preceding_text": "earned Gentleman opposite is putting upon the period of the report is one which he would find, in practice to be very imperfect, and one which would not give him very much help. The Ministry of Works are going into business; there is no hon. Member on that side of the Committee who would expect, inside I2 months, to be able to give anything like a report of his activities if he went into business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2149.1", "colnum": "2149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(Payments into Building Materials and Housing Fund by the Minister of Health.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "really has no content. If I may finish the sentence I was engaged on, there is no definition of how we should report to the House. Is a White Paper to be laid before the House? If a White Paper was laid before the House containing the information hon. Members ask for, it would be a White Paper of four lines, saying merely how many houses had been provided and how much had been paid for each house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2150.1", "colnum": "2150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3.—(Payments into Building Materials and Housing Fund by the Minister of Health.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willink", "preceding_text": "turn to his earlier mood and say that he will consider finding some more appropriate form under which to give information to the House on the progress of this very important project than would be afforded by Question and answer. No answer could be sufficiently detailed, and there would have to be a very substantial number of questions to deal with perhaps 30 different types of prefabricated house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2170.0", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLAUSE 7.—(Limitation of rent and purchase price of houses constructed under certain building licences.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not always.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "y wide breach in the provision. I appreciate the intention of the hon. Member. He wishes to protect the innocent person who has been caught, by an unscrupulous or even by an innocent lawyer, particularly if the house has changed hands. It is well known that where houses are sold that the genealogy of the house is carefully examined. If the house has been let, the appropriate rent is ascertainable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-04", "file": "debates1945-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "dba3aaf756774df8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2237.3", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "GOVERNMENT SURPLUS STORES (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "I have a very heavy subject to deal with, and I was —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-04a.2237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2320.1", "colnum": "2320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATOMIC ENERGY (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that high ranking Service officers are discussing that, and feel that a dozen well-placed bombs could put us at great disadvantage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2335.6", "colnum": "2335", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Ten Commandments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " public; fourthly, the control of foreign exchange; fifthly—although I think this is largely a sham—control and allocation of labour; sixthly, the export licensing system; and seventhly, to these are to be added schemes of nationalisation of all the services upon which industry relies. When these powers are examined, they will be found to be almost entirely negative in character: \"Thou shalt not.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2335.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2339.1", "colnum": "2339", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We know it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " will be astonished by the exiguous relief given to the overstrained body of workers on the railways. I turn to another industry. In the heavy engineering industry the labour force is really falling week by week although we hear statements that this industry is to make a great contribution towards the restoration of our export trade. I happen to be associated with Associated Electrical Industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2341.3", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "and well-tried machinery of negotiation between employer and worker will be under-mined and be replaced by the dangerous expedient of men bringing direct pressure to bear upon the Government. In nationalisation and in public ownership I see a threat to the trade union movement, and I may tell hon. Members this, that there are many—and I am only guessing—trade union leaders who are friends of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2341.3", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " Government. In nationalisation and in public ownership I see a threat to the trade union movement, and I may tell hon. Members this, that there are many—and I am only guessing—trade union leaders who are friends of mine—[Hon. Members: \"Name.\"]—who would very much like to subscribe to this sentiment in public if they did not feel that it would be disloyal to the intelligentsia of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2341.3", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: ''Government bonds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "asy to make; it is not an uncommon situation in industry today. Along comes the State and takes over the colliery. It gives them, let us say, £200,000, that is, new money in Government securities, in bonds. Before this happened the partners in the colliery owned the mine, a washery and a coke oven and no cash. Now they do not own the mine, etc.; the Government does, but they have £200,000 in cash.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2354.1", "colnum": "2354", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " that with all possible good will to the new world, I remember that many of those who occupied high positions in the Coalition Government now occupy high positions in this Government and must take their share of responsibility for the failure of the previous Government to make plans for today. I only wish that some of them had left the Coalition Government earlier. The war would not have suffered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2360.1", "colnum": "2360", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "f morbid and reactionary people, and, no doubt, in the right hon. Gentleman's mind, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Health was playing the role of Rasputin. He might, on the other hand, have had in mind the Roman Empire. Later Roman emperors certainly were morbid and reactionary. That fits into the picture perfectly well. I think we might leave these fantasies, these purely imaginary details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2362.1", "colnum": "2362", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " view, the bottleneck of transport is, if I may use the phrase, being stretched to the utmost. I have not heard of any ships or aircraft being idle in this matter. The only alternative which can be put forward is that the principle should be abandoned, and that serving men and women who happen to be in this country should be released out of their turn. Is that what the Opposition are recommending?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2363.1", "colnum": "2363", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh,\" and \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "last quarter—are to be consumed at home, how can they be exported at the same time? It is no good the right hon. Gentleman pretending that this notion of diverting to the export trade is unnecessary and is pure austerity on the part of the Board of Trade. It is vitally necessary, if we are to pay for our food—and incidentally if we are to pay for the cigars which the right hon. Gentleman consumes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2364.1", "colnum": "2364", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "other hand, the Members of the Conservative Party are bound together by something strong as well, namely, by ties of common interest. We believe, for example, that the present capitalist system is inefficient, that it produces insecurity and that it is unjust. Can anyone deny those things? It is perfectly clear that it is inefficient, from the state of some of the major industries in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2365.2", "colnum": "2365", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has asked the question. Is he funking the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": " been used and discredited they can have another shot. Anyone today who is out to sabotage the national interest has of course a comparatively easy task. It is the simplest thing in the world to suggest to people who have passed through six years of war and suffering that there are lots of good things easily available for them, were it not for the wickedness of the Government which withholds them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "sk. It is the simplest thing in the world to suggest to people who have passed through six years of war and suffering that there are lots of good things easily available for them, were it not for the wickedness of the Government which withholds them. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I do not want to stop that cheering, because it adds a great point to my argument. That sort of irresponsible advocacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "ortunity than ever before in our history, or than probably we shall ever have again in our history, of establishing our export trade. I must really leave it to the House to judge as to who should be in the infants' school or the lunatic asylum. But it is just as well, in discussing some of these matters, that we should have some idea of the facts of the situation, and of what is really being done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: ''Give us the facts about housing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "eally leave it to the House to judge as to who should be in the infants' school or the lunatic asylum. But it is just as well, in discussing some of these matters, that we should have some idea of the facts of the situation, and of what is really being done. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Those facts are all published, but no doubt hon. Members opposite have not had an opportunity of studying them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1", "colnum": "2369", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade(Sir Stafford Cripps)", "preceding_text": "necessaries rather than luxuries, and to produce rather than to elaborate the distribution services, as we were doing at a very great rate prior to the war; and it is to this end that we must use some controls, especially as long as the world shortages continue. The idea that more controls are being imposed, or that the intensity of wartime control is persisting, is, of course, a complete fallacy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2375.3", "colnum": "2375", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "nts with other countries to direct a substantial part of our exports to some particular specified Dominion, colony or foreign country. But I presume that that does not quite meet with the Opposition's wishes, since it does, of course, encourage exports—that was its object—and before the home market is fully satisfied. No doubt they would like to see me impose a complete prohibition on all exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2375.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2377.4", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "For, probably, a perfectly good reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2377.5", "colnum": "2377", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "I say that the hon. Member may very likely have done something he should not do. I really have not any idea—this is completely hypothetical—but I hope I may show the facts of the case to him, when I meet him in Edinburgh next week. The total number of forms, therefore, to be filled has fallen off very considerably already, so far as industry is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2377.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2378.0", "colnum": "2378", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I shall take great pleasure in reserving my case until I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2378.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2379.4", "colnum": "2379", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "Now, the right hon. Gentleman does not disclaim it. Surely, the right hon. Gentleman, before I reply to his observations on this remark, will let me know which he does mean—whether he means that these were political nominees, nominated because of their politics, or whether he merely means that they were nominees by the Government, which happens to be a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2382.1", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "sential work done as quickly as possible, we should simply dissipate the whole of our forces of labour over a wide series of projects which would not bring us the maximum value. It is ridiculous, of course, to give the list of Departments, as the right hon. Gentleman did, through which this thing has to meander up and down Whitehall. It is all dealt with in a co-ordinating committee at the centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2382.1", "colnum": "2382", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": " The answer is we do not intend to direct labour as a permanent matter. That has been stated before. Nor, indeed, is it essential for planning, unless, of course, one is going in for the type of planning which the Fascists and the Nazis carried through, and in which we do not believe. Of course, in the transition period it may be necessary to continue certain controls for a certain period of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2385.3", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": "as never expected anything, except the worst possible, in the worst of all possible worlds. He made some scathing remarks about the advisability of the Conservative Party changing its name, and following the lines of the Continental parties. What is the position of the Continental parties? I can tell him what happens to the Continental parties: The Socialist Party gets swept away by the Communist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2385.3", "colnum": "2385", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are going to have one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Macmillan", "preceding_text": " know the political bias or opinions of any of his appointees. I hope that he may take the opportunity of communicating this very high sense of propriety to the Lord Chancellor. But he omitted to tell the House that there is one great attraction that the working party has, and that is, that you get a guarantee not to be nationalised. We have not had a working party yet for the publishing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2388.1", "colnum": "2388", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "ertain aspects of economic activity with the drive and initiative of private enterprise in those realms of initiation and expansion for which it is, by general admission, so admirably suited. This was stated with greater force and clarity by my right hon. Friend in 1943, when he said: There is a broadening field for State ownership and enterprise, especially in relation to monopolies of all kinds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2391.1", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And under-consumption\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " widespread healthy and vigorous private enterprise. If this philosophy is accepted, a philosophy which I have tried—I do not attempt to conceal—to preach for a number of years, it must be possible for the actual economic situation at the moment to be taken into account. All our pre-war problems were concentrated in the paradox of \"Poverty in the midst of plenty.\" Over-producton was the nightmare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2391.1", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "fined, is final? If the Government succeed in carrying out all these measures, is it a case of \"Thus far and no further\" or is it the real purpose of Ministers to create a Socialist State, bit by bit? Ministers propose to trust private enterprise over the whole range of production not covered by these schemes. Even if those measures are carried and they entrust to it the whole of the export field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2391.1", "colnum": "2391", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "f common sense practice is producing a general sense of frustration and stagnation. The right hon. Gentleman spoke about the possibility that somebody, in some unforeseen circumstances if a house was built too rapidly by this Government, might gain something by holding a piece of land. Rather than that terrible thing should happen, that somebody might actually make a little money out of some land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2425.3", "colnum": "2425", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "od the Tories Have fooled and laughed and jeered. The Liberals adopted and misrepresented the Tory arguments. I give them credit for being consistent in their arguments. But the Labour Party, over the years, grew and grew, until there it is. The Tories could not beat it by their traditional methods when it was weak, and they will have to produce something better to beat it now when it is so alive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2441.1", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And electricity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": " prices of essential supplies and services.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th August,1945; Vol. 413, c. 56.] That was quite indefinite, but I think it will puzzle anybody to read into that paragraph that it was the intention of the Government to nationalise civil aviation, Cables and Wireless, municipal and company-owned trams, trolley buses and petrol buses, docks and harbours, and possibly iron and steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2441.1", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": "and possibly iron and steel. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And electricity.\"] I challenge the Lord President of the Council, who will reply to the Debate tomorrow, to show how the intention to nationalise all these additional industries which I have mentioned could be read into the Gracious Speech. In contrast to that speech, and I believe the intention of the Lord President was quite honest, was the fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2441.1", "colnum": "2441", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arnold Gridley", "preceding_text": "ctly honest when he said on 19th November that he thought it right to make this statement of the Government's intentions to nationalise certain additional industries because industry would know where it was. But the very fact that that announcement was made has caused the greatest disquiet, because what industry does not know, and what it wants to know, is whether this is but the first instalment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In this country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that this is an experiment that has never been tried. The argument presented to me in the General Election was that it had been a success wherever it has been tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In this country.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "what my Labour opponents in the General Election would have to say on this subject, and all they could say was that the failure of so-called private enterprise to satisfy the requirements of the majority of our citizens called for the application of Socialist principles which have proved so advantageous when applied, but the hon. Member on the other side of the House says they have not been tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is coming\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "onour to represent, was a summary of what they described as \"immediate service for the people.\" What did that include? A vast building programme of houses to be let at reasonable rents and for purchase at low prices. Where is purchase now in the proposals of the Government? To assist the return of directed labour to jobs of their own choice. An improvement in old-age pensioners grants and status —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "ll, with one standard of medical service for rich and poor. Social security, broadly, on the Beveridge proposals, security from want and jobs for all. Lastly, collective security and an enlightened foreign policy for safeguarding the peace of the world. They are points to which we can all subscribe, but there is not one word in this immediate programme about nationalisation as a matter of urgency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"What about their unemployed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Gridley", "preceding_text": "our labour back—indeed, more is being taken away from us. We are met with frustration at every corner in endeavouring to get our industries going. We, who are engaged in industry, cannot promise goods to our oversea customers, and the result is that we are losing a great deal of business, much of which is going to the United States of America, which is much more free of controls than we are here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2446.1", "colnum": "2446", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, we should be getting on with the job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": " months, they could not keep their faces straight while they moved one, because they would discover that the Government were by then delivering the goods, which they have not yet had time to manufacture. What would the Opposition be doing about housing now? Would they be ruthless with landlords? Would they be getting the land more quickly and more cheaply? Would they be dealing with bulk purchase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2449.1", "colnum": "2449", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is deeply committed to nationalisation in various fields, and the honest truth is that hon. Members opposite do not know whether they oppose nationalisation in general or not. We do know that we support it and we believe that it is absolutely necessary to the working of industry today, and that the mass of the people have voted for it at the General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2449.1", "colnum": "2449", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And no unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "alists, so that all the gay, adventurous spirit that leads some of us to the House of Lords, some of us to the Old Bailey, and some of us to honest work, is going to be killed, in what country between the wars, was there endless development, endless effort, endless establishment of new industries? The U.S.S.R. alone, where the private profit motive has been substituted by the public profit motive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2452.0", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I thought my young and amiable Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. C. S. Taylor) would know that I was not a member of the Labour Party, and I cannot very well speak as one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2452.0", "colnum": "2452", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. C. S. Taylor) would know that I was not a member of the Labour Party, and I cannot very well speak as one. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are we?\"] I. think I said \"the Government \"but I claim the right to say \"we.\" I have been a member of the Labour movement for 25 years at least, and I shall go on being a member of it until the party opposite laugh themselves to death.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2452.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2453.4", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are \"us\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "he Lord President of the Council say in 1914?\"I confess I am much more interested in what the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, in apparent anticipation of his speech tomorrow, said at the meeting of the Tory Party two days ago, and what hon. Members have said today. That is much more relevant and if hon. Members cannot find a newer stone to throw at us than what was said in 1914—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-05", "file": "debates1945-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "3507b4547e5b73b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2453.5", "colnum": "2453", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pritt", "preceding_text": "I cannot even ascertain at the moment what the noises opposite mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-05a.2453.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2496.1", "colnum": "2496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Levy", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there is very little reason to suppose that a limb lost by a brigadier, who may be a company director, is of more value to him than a limb lost by a private, who may be a bricklayer? It is much more logical, if there is to be no flat rate, that the discrepancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2503.7", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that any houses are not being built as a consequence of the absence of subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2503.8", "colnum": "2503", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Houses.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that any houses are not being built as a consequence of the absence of subsidy. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members opposite want it both ways. On the one hand, they say it is the lack of labour, and on the other they say it is the lack of cash. Which do they want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2503.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2511.5", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I think the House will appreciate that it is very difficult to frame precise proposals ahead of legislation in this matter. What I have done has been to inform doctors that it is highly improbable that I will permit the sale and purchase of practices in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2511.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2517.0", "colnum": "2517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND GOVERNMENT (CONSULTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Ross", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in the Press today the Vice-Chairman of the Labour Party has held up the Government of Northern Ireland as an example of enlightened government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2526.9", "colnum": "2526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (OFFICIAL RESIDENCES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd", "preceding_text": "In view of this unusual precedent for peacetime, has the right hon. Gentleman worked out, and, if so', will he inform the House, what these perquisites amount to?, Is it not a fact that they would involve a salary of", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2526.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2530.4", "colnum": "2530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "f the Labour Party's election campaign. Socialist speakers up and down the country told the electors that their party would know how to build houses at a rate undreamt of under Conservative administrations. If the Labour Party is returned to power, housing can be dealt with in a fortnight. According to the \"Western Daily Press\" of 23rd June, this was uttered by the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2530.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2551.1", "colnum": "2551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "cue_text": "Interruption. .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee)", "preceding_text": "erous question, and no one knows more of its dangers and difficulties than the right hon. Gentleman opposite. I heard him half a dozen times describe the scenes which took place at the end of the first world war. What he told me then made a deep impression on me. I and my colleagues in the General Election campaign took every opportunity to stress the need for sticking closely to an agreed scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2556.4", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tnight's pay and the key of the street, and endless bitterness arose from the way in which they were dismissed after the last war. We have our record; 1,500,000 will be discharged by the end of the year. I ark the right hon Gentleman, Does he want us to scrap this plan? Does he want us to keep this plan —on nominally but sap it away so that it becomes nugatory by allowing all kinds of exceptions?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2557.0", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "e which we had after the last war. After the last war we had no people East of Suez, but we had great problems too in one sphere. What has come to be a great difficulty in the present situation is that we have a comparatively small number of men far off beyond Suez in the East, and that is holding up an otherwise perfectly normal rate of discharge which would be possible in all the other theatres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2557.0", "colnum": "2557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "o in one sphere. What has come to be a great difficulty in the present situation is that we have a comparatively small number of men far off beyond Suez in the East, and that is holding up an otherwise perfectly normal rate of discharge which would be possible in all the other theatres. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The new question is, how far is it possible to release those from the nearer theatres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2558.1", "colnum": "2558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: ''No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ons production. The hard fact is that the labour force in the munitions industries is going rapidly and steadily down, and the labour force in civilian industries is going rapidly and steadily up. The right hon. Gentleman spoke about factory building. My right hon. Friend the President of the' Board of Trade dealt with all those hampering restrictions invented by the right hon. Gentleman opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2560.1", "colnum": "2560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "basic industries. I have no doubt the right hon. Gentle man knows all about vultures. The vultures never fed on him because he kept alive, fortunately for us all; vultures feed on rotten carrion. Is it his view that our basic industries arc so rotten that they attract the vultures? Is that his view of private enterprise? He talks about growing uncertainty. There is no growing uncertainty whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2560.1", "colnum": "2560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n hon. Member opposite might have realised that when we got a majority we should naturally go in for nationalisation. At the same time, we put it quite clearly in the King's Speech that we intended to nationalise certain industries. Reassurances were given to others by Ministers, and particularly by my right hon. Friend the Lord President of the Council, and really there is no growing uncertainty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2560.1", "colnum": "2560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Which countries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is an example of a static mind. The idea is that private enterprise is the only way in which our economic affairs can be managed. The right hon. Gentleman has grown up with that idea and he cannot get it out of his head. I am quite sure, had he been born in one of those countries where the railways had, from the start, belonged to the State, he would have thought it a perfectly natural thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2565.1", "colnum": "2565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About time you got some.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "s that there was a danger of the Tory Party developing into nothing more than a \"Society of Distressed Gentlefolk.\" I do not think there is the slightest danger of that; but I do see some danger in the propagation of this false legend of Tory stupidity. We read a great deal about the Socialist \"intelligentsia.\" It is about time we started reading some thing about the Conservative \"intelligentsia.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2565.1", "colnum": "2565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You had to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": " it maintained that he was a stupid man; and I cannot think that, in the circumstances of the time, the choice of Disraeli as leader was based upon his appearance. I think rather that it was because he displayed, on occasion, flashes of intense intelligence. Nor have we ever been afraid in this party to find leaders outside our ranks, if they looked intelligent enough and the occasion demanded it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2588.1", "colnum": "2588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are on a sticky wicket!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ";\" All right,\" said the master \"what about it?\" Well, sir, Bill Smith says he won't come out!\" The master said, \"Why does he say he won't come out?\" \"Please, teacher, he says it is his bat!\" That roughly is the position of the Tory Party. They will not come out. They will not come out, because they say it is their bat; and they do not propose to give up if they can possibly avoid it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2588.1", "colnum": "2588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " apprehensions of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen above the Gangway will be fulfilled in full measure— pressed down\", heaped up, and running over. It may be! But it is months and years too early to assume that it will be. A Government, who have been in office for four months only, are not in a position to deliver the goods on any major issue of policy. If this Motion had come two years hence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2588.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2595.2", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ld render the country would be to write that history of the great war which ought to be written, and which he alone could write as it should be written. The longer he uses his great position to bolster up the Tory Party the worse it will become. Already, he has passed from admonishment to menace. And at his present rate of progress it will not be long before he passes from menace to Mosley!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2595.3", "colnum": "2595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"You were not there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The speech he delivered to the party meeting of the Conservative Party in the mouth of a man who more than any other knows the value of words —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2602.1", "colnum": "2602", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about ideas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": " much attention to him self. He will need no public relations officer. Unless he is careful, he might even be given an administrative job. Already the country is noticing the failures on the Government Front Bench, and the right hon. Gentleman the Lord President of the Council might be given a job of speeding up demobilisation, or of providing homes for the people or even clothes for them to wear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2606.7", "colnum": "2606", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheer up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "m for the years to come. Stage by stage it will rob men of the opportunity and prize of great daring, and stage by stage it will extend controls over life and livelihood and flatten the high peaks of endeavour that once illuminated the world, until the whole land becomes a dull level where none but prefabricated mediocrities may lie at ease, and from which all glory and inspiration will have gone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2606.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2607.1", "colnum": "2607", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piratin", "preceding_text": "f industrial and economic activity, in direct opposition to the best interest of the nation, which demands food, work and homes. I claim that the Opposition are not concerned about the first part. Previous speakers had not much to say about it. What they are really concerned about was the second part. I believe that it requires a little examination. We have sat on these benches exactly two months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2611.1", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "point of view of the public the result of this Debate will be judged on the question of which side faces up, in the most realistic manner, to the vital problems that confront us at the present time. It falls to me to summarise the arguments, to marshal the case in favour of this Motion of Censure, and I think the first thing I had better do is to say just what is the charge against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2611.1", "colnum": "2611", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "rged with the affairs of this country at the present time, inevitably, after six years of war. The charge is not that in the Speech from the Throne or in the statement of the right 'hon. Gentleman the Lord President of the Council there were some vague references to nationalisation. This Debate is not a Debate between nationalisation and private enterprise; that issue hardly enters into it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "y, to forget, even for an hour, the views of the President of the Board of Trade about the exports of this country, to forget the wider interpretations of their mandate. Let them think of what the ordinary British family is thinking at the present time—a man, his wife and two children. I want to be absolutely fair to the Government. Let us imagine the family voted Socialist at the General Election", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is where the hon. Gentleman is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "tired because he has been contemplating the difficulties of co-ordinating road and rail transport or dealing with problems of wasteful com petition. A member of the public can travel a very long way today before he finds two people competing to give him a service. The fact is that the ordinary member of the public does not give a fig whether you nationalise railway companies or whether you do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "o look further than the Front Bench opposite. Those Ministers whose ability of mind we can most admire, even if we do not agree with their political opinions, are concentrating on the job of long-term plans for nationalisation. All the great problems of demobilisation and resettlement, and getting the wheels of our industries turning again, are handed over to what I might term the weaker brethren.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3", "colnum": "2613", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "over to what I might term the weaker brethren. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"] By the \"weaker brethren\" I mean those Ministers who are watched by hon. Members behind them of a more ambitious turn of mind. If any right hon. Gentleman opposite is doubtful as to whether he falls into that category, let him look behind him. He will find a number of hon. Gentlemen behind him watching him rather like vultures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2616.0", "colnum": "2616", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneyeroft", "preceding_text": "satisfied, I am bound to say that if anybody thinks the Motion of Censure has done nothing useful, they would do well to study the speech of the Prime Minister. For the first time, in this terrible and tragic situation, the rate of release in this country, which was actually going to decrease after Christmas, has now been altered. If this Motion of Censure achieves nothing else, we have done that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2618.5", "colnum": "2618", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": " five years of governmental labouring to give birth to that mouse. That was five years of war. The right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health is now dealing with the problem in peace and, so far, he has not produced a house, let alone a mouse. The fact is that houses are not built by oratory. It is a pity, because, if they were, the right hon. Gentleman the Minister of Health would do quite well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2618.5", "colnum": "2618", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "That is the judgment of one of the Government's own supporters. What is the target at which they are aiming? The target is a building force by May of 750,000—rather less than that proposed by the Coalition Government. Not much of a blitzkreig is it? I challenge the right hon. Gentleman who is to reply—but he has gone away. He really ought to be able to learn to take it. I challenge the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1", "colnum": "2624", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ries from housewives, and certainly there are queues, but I am told that this story that they are longer and longer every day is untrue. Certainly there are queues. One wishes there were not, but I am told by those who ought to know that it is not true that they are longer and longer. He says that the time taken by Government Departments to answer letters is longer and longer. I do not believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1", "colnum": "2624", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": " he did not leave much of the Opposition on this Motion. In fact, I am suffering a little at the moment from an inferiority complex, because I feel that there is nothing to get hold of. My right hon. and learned Friend the President of the Board of Trade made a most devastating speech yesterday and either he or the Prime Minister answered most of the questions that have been put by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1", "colnum": "2624", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not for you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ve Party Conference. He put it very well in the \"Daily Mail\" on 4th December, the day before yesterday. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Oxford wrote the following: Mr. Churchill's brilliant indictment of the Government last Tuesday left nothing to be desired as destructive criticism. So far, so good, but where do we go from here? Is destructive criticism enough? This is still the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1", "colnum": "2624", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council (Mr. Herbert Morrison)", "preceding_text": "ationalisation, with the full authority of the Prime Minister, it was to please the rebels sitting behind me. Why, Sir, they are being as good as gold. Why should anybody try to incite them? This effort to make mischief between His Majesty's Government and its supporters is a most unpatriotic action. But the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister in his speech made one or two dangerous allusions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2632.1", "colnum": "2632", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Who taught him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ould not be a bit surprised if I have been labelled with that term in past years. He said: I foresee with sorrow, but with fear, that in the next two years we shall come to fundamental quarrels in this country. It seems impossible to escape the fact that events are moving, and will move, towards the issue, the people versus the Socialists. What does it mean? Is it a new edition of acute class war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2637.1", "colnum": "2637", "heading": "GOVERNMENT POLICY (MOTION OF CENSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly sure that, whatever I was talking about, the hon. and gallant Gentleman opposite, who should really go and decarbonise his motor car, would certainly ask, \"What about something else.\" He is the hon. Member for irrelevancy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2649.1", "colnum": "2649", "heading": "INDIA (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Earl Wintcrton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Wintcrton", "preceding_text": "May I point out that this question is one which is regarded with particular jealousy in India", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2678.2", "colnum": "2678", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure that the House is necessarily willing to sit on Christmas Day and the other days —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-06", "file": "debates1945-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "cc3340da6d1b17fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2681.5", "colnum": "2681", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL AGREEMENT.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I get the permission of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-06a.2681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-07", "file": "debates1945-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f2b895411650b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2772.3", "colnum": "2772", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": "the U.S.S.R., the consequences of which might have the most tremendous effect upon the future of the world. Those Britons who love their country and want it to flourish, and to be a great country in every sense of the word, had better bear in mind that only a warm and enduring friendship with Russia on terms of equality, with sincere motives on both sides, can help to bring about that desired end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2772.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-07", "file": "debates1945-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f2b895411650b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2778.0", "colnum": "2778", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the Poles killed?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mack", "preceding_text": " it. There must be anything up to 100 nationalities in the Russian army. Nobody claims that they are all of equal standards, intellectual or otherwise, but let us be fair to these Russian soldiers. For four years they had endured the most terrible war in history. They had seen millions of their women and children destroyed. Thank Heaven we have never experienced that kind of thing in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2775.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-07", "file": "debates1945-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f2b895411650b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2788.2", "colnum": "2788", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. and gallant Member said that their families were all killed.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "I have given the figures —236,000 under Allied command, only 37,300 of whom are willing to go back to their own country, in spite of not having seen their own families, friends and relations for six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-07", "file": "debates1945-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8f2b895411650b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2788.6", "colnum": "2788", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Major Beamish", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Beamish", "preceding_text": "Like many other hon. Members on the opposite side of the House, the hon. Member for Mile End was not listening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-07a.2788.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "I took no part really in the Labour Party Conference except to vote for the Executive, and I spent a great deal of time in a very much more entertaining place, the Casino Restaurant. It is about the only bright spot I found in Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.80.4", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "I would say this further word. These moneys are paid to the trader or company to whom they are due. The trader undertakes, when the money is paid over to him, that he will use it in certain directions—that is for the development or re-equipment of his business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.80.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How do you know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ng scales at Millwall Dock. There, when they discharge from ship to truck, eight dockers have to be employed where only four are necessary. That means there are four extra men being employed for whom no useful employment is available. Let me give an example of when goods are being landed by crane. The Stevedores' Union in the Port of London insist on 12 men being used when 10 men could do the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "I do not think I need deal with that here. I am giving facts, and the right hon. Gentleman who is to reply is capable of looking after himself. I know that some of these things are difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.92.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where is the Conservative Party?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Amendment. I do so rather expeditiously in view of the unfortunate mishap to the Liberal Party a few moments ago, when an Amendment by an hon. Friend had no support. That party turned out in larger numbers when voting for nationalisation on a Motion of Censure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.104.3", "colnum": "104", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "isunderstood. It is not true to say that my hon. and learned Friend for one moment took the employers' case. What, in a nutshell, was his case? He admitted, as we all admit on this side of the House, that the dockers had a very raw deal in the past. I will go so far as to say that the way in which they were treated 40 or 50 years ago was a disgrace to the country and to all parties in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Earl Winterton", "preceding_text": "t the men employed by giving them better wages or shorter hours, being imported into the transit to consumers of goods which have been imported into this country, or into the transit between the British manufacturers of goods, employers and employed, and the people abroad who are to purchase those goods. I am the last person to attempt to give the supporters of the Government a lesson in economics", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.107.4", "colnum": "107", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Isaacs", "preceding_text": "either do the employers. The hon. Member referred also to the industrial conditions that operate in the various ports. According to the way he argued the matter, it sounded as if he thought that these were trade union instructions and decisions, but they are port practices. If, as he said, our ports are inefficient, that is as much a reflection upon the management of the ports—in fact, it is more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.107.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.115.2", "colnum": "115", "heading": "DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": " the result of this? Various schemes can be applied to the different ports of the country and even to different parts of the same port. The result is that what might be a criminal offence in one part of a port might not be a criminal offence in another part, if different schemes were adopted. It is bad enough to bring the dockers within the range of the criminal law for an offence under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.115.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "EX-POLICE CONSTABLE, IPSWICH (DISMISSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": "dicial to discipline or likely to bring discredit on the reputation of the force or on the Police Service. That was the matter on which the issues were considered. This matter was referred to the Watch Committee by the Chief Constable, and when the constable, with the aid of his solicitor, appeared before the Watch Committee, he and his solicitor objected to the Watch Committee hearing the charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-10", "file": "debates1945-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "22e8bdadd21104b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.153.5", "colnum": "153", "heading": "EX-POLICE CONSTABLE, IPSWICH (DISMISSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver", "preceding_text": " the whole matter was heard de novo. Evidence was called, the whole matter was gone into, and it is not correct to say, as the hon. Member said, that no consideration was given to anything other than the disciplinary issue, because evidence was taken on the whole of the facts, and the tribunal came to the conclusion that the man was guilty of the charge that he was in possession of Service petrol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-10a.153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that in the circumstances I do not think this man got off so badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.208.12", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "That is rather a different matter. I should like to see that down on the Paper. I must say that this question is extremely complicated and is not as plain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.208.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.212.4", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "dit for this Parliament. Can the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that never again will any Government in which he participates—I know it was not done by a Government of which the right hon. Gentleman was a member —allow a Parliament to be closed down, and the franchise of a people to be taken away within the British Empire; and that whatever happens, never again will any British Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.212.4", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It was a Tory Government that did it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "ssurance that never again will any Government in which he participates—I know it was not done by a Government of which the right hon. Gentleman was a member —allow a Parliament to be closed down, and the franchise of a people to be taken away within the British Empire; and that whatever happens, never again will any British Parliament— [Interruption.] This matter is more important than procedure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.212.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.213.7", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRISONERS OF WAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Blackburn", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister whether the main reason why this proposal has been turned down in the past was not the low standard of Debate and attendance in previous Parliaments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.213.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.221.2", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "I said \"No, Sir.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What do they do in America? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oliver Stanley", "preceding_text": "Then he has to ask the ideological Brahmins of the party opposite whether, in a planned economy, it is after all right for anybody to blow their own nose, or whether it would not be better that somebody should blow it for them. When the answer comes finally, even if it is favourable, the unfortunate man is already dead of pneumonia—gone by a happy release to a land free of catarrh and of controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.248.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-11", "file": "debates1945-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ec54e07d07f88039", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why should it be?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "That surely is fully admitted but the point is that it is not pro rata to their gross income and their liability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-11a.256.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the amount in weight is 206,000,000 lbs. and, therefore, it will not be very difficult to arrive at the right figure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.417.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.417.7", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "We do not need reminding by anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.417.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "four successive possibilities of variation, successive avenues which arc open to us to enable us to alter the value of our currency. In the first place, we, or any other Member of the Fund, may change the par value of our currency by 10 per cent., merely by notifying the Fund. This means that we should be free to change the sterling dollar rate down to 3.63, with merely a notification to the Fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or up? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": " 10 per cent., merely by notifying the Fund. This means that we should be free to change the sterling dollar rate down to 3.63, with merely a notification to the Fund. [Interruption.] I do not know as much about Portugal as my hon. Friend, but I will look into it. In the meantime, perhaps I may be allowed to go on. We can, as a matter of fact, bring down the sterling dollar rate from 4.03 to 3.63.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only once? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "rate down to 3.63, with merely a notification to the Fund. [Interruption.] I do not know as much about Portugal as my hon. Friend, but I will look into it. In the meantime, perhaps I may be allowed to go on. We can, as a matter of fact, bring down the sterling dollar rate from 4.03 to 3.63. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Or up? \"] Yes, or up. That is not so commonly proposed, but, certainly, it works either way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "tends downwards. Without new dollar resources, we could not much longer afford to purchase any supplies which have to be paid for in dollars. The dollars would not be there. It will take us several years to re-establish the balance of our external trade, and this on the assumption that industry is active, that the Government play their part in stimulating and assisting it and that industry itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.441.1", "colnum": "441", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "re, to see how serious the situation really was. Although we get some tobacco from Rhodesia and a little from Turkey and from Greece—though Greece is not now supplying much, for obvious reasons—it is not possible to fill the gap that would be made in our tobacco supplies by the cutting off of United States leaf. That would have a most serious effect upon the morale of large sections of our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.441.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boothby", "preceding_text": "e blindly entrust our most vital interests to so-called independent experts, that is to say experts free from govern-mental responsibilities; with the result that we take haphazard, resolutions that will be a heavy burden on us to the end of our days. Every word applies to the present situation. I should like to put my alternative, but I am not proposing to occupy the time of the House any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "se with arguments calculated to get his friends on the opposite benches into the Division Lobby against the Government. He said he proposed to divide the House, but I can tell the House that if he does not do so, I shall do my best to divide the House. I want, in my turn, to use arguments calculated to bring my hon. Friends on this side of the House into the Division Lobby against these proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Smith", "preceding_text": "925 and 1926. I invite my hon. and right hon. Friends on this side to ponder this fact, that never during the whole of those bitter struggles did Labour speakers refer to the 1925 Budget or to return to the gold standard. The mine owners were represented as being responsible. It was quite the exception for any Labour speaker to refer to the return to gold as having been the cause of that struggle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.492.5", "colnum": "492", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Cripps", "preceding_text": "one has to recall that the Administration of the United States of America has to get this through Congress just as we have through the House of Commons, and whether they think there is some particular attractiveness in those words or not, I could not say. The words flow directly from Article VII.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.492.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Granville", "preceding_text": "d end with the end of the Japanese war, there would not have been the reaction in public opinion in this country that the United States of America had done this in rather a precipitate manner. The hon. Gentleman who was criticising the Liberal Party is not here, but if he were I would tell him that the Liberal Party intend to support the loan and the Bretton Woods Agreement. We are a united party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Hollis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only once? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron-Leader Hollis", "preceding_text": "dent was in rather a skittish mood. He told hon. Members behind him that they were as good as gold. I wondered an hour later whether he thought that phrase was altogether happy. The question is, How good is gold? As I have said, we are not debating Socialism tonight, tout there is one thing I can fairly state. I remember that the hon. Member for Rugby (Mr. W. J. Brown) once said a very true thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "t, read the Bretton Woods phrase stating that the par value of currencies shall be expressed in terms of gold, and within two minutes he was using that phrase as if it had read \"anchored to gold.\" \"Expressed in terms of gold\" and \"anchored to gold\" are two entirely and fundamentally different things. We may be anchored to gold, but if we are we have got not an anchor chain, but a piece of elastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "I will deal with that later. I want, first of all, to examine the effect of an America surplus which is the out come of American prosperity, and then I will return to an American slump. Let us examine in detail what was the effect of this enormous American surplus in the 20's. Did it damage or harm us?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-12", "file": "debates1945-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "14145e9963037bc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benson", "preceding_text": "atively large field and with a wide range of choice, the capital and other goods of which they stand in need. He takes Dr. Shacht as his exemplar, and proposes to apply to our Empire methods similar to those which Shacht applied to the Balkans. That is how he proposes to hold it together. One more point, and then I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Aldershot (Mr. Lyttelton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-12a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.641.6", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts (Sheffield, Eccle-sall)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Peter Roberts (Sheffield, Eccle-sall)", "preceding_text": "r. Speaker. You gave a Ruling that no Amendment to this Motion would be called. Since then, I and certain oilier hon. Members have listened to the Debate very carefully and have come to a conclusion, which we have put down in an Amendment on the Order Paper. The question which I want to ask you, Sir, is this. I am quite certain that we must assent to this loan, taking with it all the difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.641.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Thomas Moore", "preceding_text": "e the views held by the majority of the people of this country, irrespective of their walk in life. I was going to introduce certain arguments that bear on the remarks I wish to make, but, in deference to your desire, Mr. Speaker, to call as many hon. Members as possible during this afternoon's Debate, I am leaving aside some very pertinent reflections which I had hoped to make on nationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Durbin", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What a weapon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Durbin", "preceding_text": ", to ask ourselves whether it is desirable that we should enter into a war of this kind at this time. But there is, first, a calculation which it would be wise to make, and that is, to ask: Who will win this war? The only card that we hold in our hands, if we embark on a war of this kind, is that we are large consumers; that, is, the weapon which every critic of this Agreement is afraid of losing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Where are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "corners in the Lobbies have all got there for the purpose of saying what a wonderful Agreement it is? They have gote to vote, whatever they think about it, whatever their views. For them it is the Government Lobby or the Party Belsen. Indeed there is only one group of people who will go, according to their spokesman, happy into the Lobby tonight; that is what we used to call the Sinclair Liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.663.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jennie Lee", "preceding_text": "e difference between the present Labour Government and that of 1929–31 is that this Labour Government is infinitely stronger, considerably wiser, and with strength there comes that very great quality, tolerance. However unhappy it may make hon. Gentlemen opposite, honesty compels me to confess that those of us on this side who may be in a mood this evening for a little flutter of rebellion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on \"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for East Aberdeen, our Conservative Marxist on the Opposition Benches, does not always correctly anticipate the end of an argument. I apologise to the House if I am speaking at length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Unless you know the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "ely what the American people are getting out of it. What are we getting out of it? In round terms £1,000,000,000. Suppose that of that amount we spend £500,000,000 on consumer goods. I am not going to stress my hon. Friends on the Front Bench to be exact as to how much of the loan will be spent on consumer goods and how much will be spent on industrial equipment. That would not be a fair question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.670.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. May I say that is a lie?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.685.1", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is quite enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon-Walker", "preceding_text": "oods bank goes a good way towards meeting one of the most difficult and unfortunate aspects of this credit. I think, bad as it is, we have no choice but to accept it. We certainly do not have to praise it. But the Motion before the House does not praise it. Members opposite have spoken of the\" welcomes\" in the Motion before us but if you read it carefully there is only one \"welcome\" in the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ask the Minister of Health.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "preceding_text": "amentary phrase, quite unwittingly, innocently and ignorantly. The hon. Lady the Member for Cannock (Miss Jennie Lee), who, I am sorry to say, has just left the House, rather accused hon. Members sitting on this side of the House of being here to put our party before our country. I want to say most emphatically that, us far as I am concerned, that is untrue. I hope to see the hon. Lady afterwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "preceding_text": " lie only on that side of the House. I think this is a time when we should look at the truth, and not just grin like the Cheshire cat. I want to bring this discussion down to the level of the ordinary man whom we all represent, and whose interests we want to see advanced. Suppose that these documents were sent to every elector in the country. How many would read them right through? Not one in 100.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "preceding_text": "ds—and, therefore, a vote for this Motion, make no mistake about that— is a vote against the continuance of the British Empire. Well, that is just rubbish. Thirdly, and most important, a vote for Bretton Woods, that is, a vote for the Government this time, is a vote for war with Russia. That is typical of the irresponsible nonsense that is always coming from the Left. What I feel about it is this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are not laughing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Osborne", "preceding_text": "ead it should go into the Library and read. I would quote one passage from it—it was about wages but it applies to today's Debate. Referring to the Labour Ministers it said: Their only way out is to explain to the rank and file of their followers what the economic necessities of the country are. They should preach the gospel of hard work and call for that response \"— This is not a laughing matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkin Morris", "preceding_text": "any guarantee by America that she will lower her tariffs. He asks what effect that will have upon our trade. Fifty percent. of our trade before the war was with the Dominions and the Colonies.? In looking at the position of this country and of the Empire, it is well to remember that Canada has already blessed the scheme, South Africa and New Zealand have blessed it, and Australia has an open mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": " I welcome the idea of an international trade arrangement, but I want to be sure that it is the kind of arrangement that will bring about international planned economy so that everybody in the world benefits. When I read this document I am bound to say that I do not think it does that. My complaint is not the complaint of the other side of the House. I have always been against Imperial preference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend asks why. I would have thought that even the simplest processes of ratiocination would enable him to supply the answer to that. We therefore thought it better and wiser to abstain as a body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "he much more bulky shiftings of the human body. This course is thoroughly justifiable in an Opposition whose vote cannot, in any case, decide the issue. There is no reason at all why we should share the responsibility of the Government. The responsibility lies wholly upon them, and they have the power to, discharge it. Whatever we did with our votes in this House, we could not affect the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about 1939? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "d in wishing it to go through. On the other hand, I cannot understand why we—the Opposition, the minority—should be expected to come forward to approve and welcome a proposal which fills every party in the House with great anxiety, and which is only commended to us by the fear of an even darker alternative. It is for the Government and their great majority to bear the burden. I said the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "nths before the war. I said the other day out of doors that the vote at the General Election would turn out to be a disaster to the country. Undoubtedly, the hard terms of this loan arrangement are one aspect and one instalment of that disaster. Whatever may be said to the contrary, our relations with the United States have definitely become more distant and more difficult since the establishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "self from being stultified by a vote of the Legislature on a matter of grave international policy. Therefore, they safeguard themselves by taking every precaution, and in some cases double precaution, in the text of the documents which are made public. It is this feeling which has told against us, and not any harsh sentiment or unworthy desire for material gain on the part of our American friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "by the United States of the cause of freedom will ever stand forth as a monument of human virtue and of future world hope. I am very glad that no one of the slightest responsibility, speaking in this Debate, has used any language likely to reflect upon the noble deeds of the people and Government of America, to make ill-will between our two countries, or mar the splendour of the story of the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.717.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman address himself to the very vital point of the parity with sterling?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "nd machinery. That is the difference, and nobody more than my right hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot laid emphasis, in the Debate on the Gracious Speech, on the fact that we must borrow money from America, at interest or without interest, or else get a gift. Well, we have not got it without interest, and we have not got it as a gift. But we have adopted the third method and borrowed the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.726.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "Do not try to make my speech for me. Wait until I come to that point. I will come to it in a moment. I beg your pardon if I said something wrong. If the hon. Member will wait I will develop my statement. But I have done exactly what the hon. Member for Aldershot suggested. What is he complaining about? Does he say that if he and his friends had been in office they would have got better terms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": " support. I refer to the word ' welcomes ' which seems to import, at any rate in my view, a note of enthusiasm that goes tar beyond anything we really feel.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th December, 1945; Vol. 417, c. 455.] Where does the word \"welcome\" come in the Motion? The Motion welcomes the initiative of the Government of the United States in making proposals for an international trade organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-13", "file": "debates1945-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "752629676aede6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGLO-AMERICAN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "cue_text": "Hon. Member: \"Cables.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevin", "preceding_text": "l not matter very much. It is the exchange, unfettered, with people purchasing these things and not putting barriers up that will ultimately solve the problem. I recognise that this is a difficult decision to take. All I would say is we are nationalising certain industries. They ought to have been nationalised long ago. The industries are incompetent. I speak as one who knows a good deal about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-13a.734.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-14", "file": "debates1945-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "28b5e81f7ee8c0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.808.4", "colnum": "808", "heading": "BRETTON WOODS AGREEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman (Nelson andColne)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It has been called.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman (Nelson andColne)", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order. In view of the Ruling that you have just given, Major Milner, might I ask for your Ruling on whether the Amendment itself is in Order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.808.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-14", "file": "debates1945-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "28b5e81f7ee8c0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "SOLICITORS AND LAW STUDENTS (DEMOBILISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ficers—and if that is the case, the Law Society has a big job of work in front of it to prepare for the reception of all those returning students. In those circumstances I do not think any special claim ought to be made for a larger intake of students direct from civil life. Now I come to the next point. What is the picture from the national point of view? Is there really a shortage of solicitors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-14", "file": "debates1945-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "28b5e81f7ee8c0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "SOLICITORS AND LAW STUDENTS (DEMOBILISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but they are under no greater handicap than members of any other profession. Take for example doctors. Lots of doctors have been doing medical work in the Forces and lots of solicitors have been doing legal and administrative work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-14", "file": "debates1945-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "28b5e81f7ee8c0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "INDUSTRY (NATIONAL PLANNING)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Blackburn", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Blackburn", "preceding_text": "f the picture, not only that as a result of this, capitalist America has ensured that Socialist Britain will compete with capitalist America under an international system which is on the whole favourable to capitalism, but also that enterprise in this country is bound under this Government to be not so enterprising as it would have been if there had been an administration of hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-14", "file": "debates1945-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "28b5e81f7ee8c0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "INDUSTRY (NATIONAL PLANNING)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Blackburn", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"That is always the case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Blackburn", "preceding_text": " factory which at one time employed 10,000 men is now going to employ 2,000. The point I desire to make is that in this factory the shop stewards concerned are very active politically, although they are not of my political persuasion. I am raising this question not because it does me any personal good but because it happens to be in my constituency. The convener is a member of the Communist Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-14", "file": "debates1945-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "28b5e81f7ee8c0b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "INDUSTRY (NATIONAL PLANNING)", "cue_speaker": "Lieutenant William Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "I want to add a few words to say that we on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-14a.879.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Swings.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allighan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that what he is gaining on the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Crookshank", "preceding_text": "This is a vital Clause in the Bill. It deals with compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Blackburn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Blackburn", "preceding_text": "I desire to say only a few words on this subject. It seems to me that the amount of the reserves is largely irrelevant, because the dividend will be fixed and unalterable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.956.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "Is not the hon. Gentleman answering the wrong Amendment? We are talking about the Charter, a term which we want to change into statutory instrument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the last one? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Dower", "preceding_text": "f hon. Members are constantly trying to obtain the Adjournment. The right hon. Gentleman said that it would always be possible to put down a Motion of Censure, but is it seriously suggested that we should put down a Motion of Censure simply because of one direction which we do not happen particularly to like? All the Motions of Censure that I have known in the House have been on very grave issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The chairman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "definable person. In the case of the clearing banks, the position would be different, it is quite true, and two gentlemen came to see me the other day—two much respected gentlemen of long experience—and we shall have to be very careful in framing an Amendment to the Bill so as to make quite sure who was entitled to be consulted on behalf of the clearing banks. I should have to have a look at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND (re-committed) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "anks involved, outside the Big Five, but I will look at it again in an attempt to get a form of words exactly parallel, so far as drafting is concerned, to the provision in Clause 4 (1) relating to the Bank of England regarding consultation, but not necessarily agreement. In spite of the cautionary words spoken by the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne, I think it might help to allay needless alarm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-17", "file": "debates1945-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "3960878cc99637ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FRIENDLY SOCIETIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I have to deal with both, and I say that, if the friendly societies have to go,' the approved societies must go. I have provided for that, and I think it is agreed on all sides of the House that such a system must go.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-17a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1087.13", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We could not hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I have said a word on the second part of the Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1087.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1093.3", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. White", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We cannot hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. White", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that one of the factors is that the three collieries belong to one company? Further —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HANSARD (WEEKLY ISSUE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Red.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hulbert", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Financial Secretary, first, will these weekly editions be circulated free to hon. Members; secondly, what is a \"distinctive\" cover?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1113.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1126.9", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COASTAL AREAS (REHABILITATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Then there is no need to ask it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1126.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDIA (PROCLAMATIONS OF EMERGENCY) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It does not say that at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Davies", "preceding_text": "made in India. Those words cover every kind of Act that can be thought of, relating not only to property but, possibly, to the actual persons themselves. Might I impress upon the Under-Secretary of State, following upon my hon. and learned Friend, that they are taking powers to call again upon people who have been released from prison to go back. It is no good the Under-Secretary shaking his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ct matter of great gravity. I would remind the House that this Regulation 42CA, in connection with which these wide powers of arrest are already given, is a Regulation which carries a maximum punishment of three months' imprisonment, or a fine of £500 and therefore does not seem to be regarded as of great gravity. I do not wish in all the circumstances to detain the House any longer on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (GENERAL REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I would like to express my appreciation and that of my hon. And gallant Friend, in regard to the action taken by the right hon. Gentleman, and to say that the Prayer was not prayed in aid of gambling —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-18", "file": "debates1945-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "f6b7ca7e4119d10c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCATION OF INDUSTRIES (COASTAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "the mighty contribution made by our fellow-countrymen during the war, our standing is now higher than it has ever been. I believe that this good will will reflect itself in thousands, maybe millions, of people visiting this country in order to see the base for the operations in the European War. It is to be expected that thousands of Czechoslovakians, Frenchmen, Norwegians, Dutch, and many others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-18a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1314.9", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it after Questions.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "The answer is rather long, so I hope the House will bear with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1314.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "r on what a banker is. I am not a lawyer nor a banker, but I believe that there are, in existing Statutes, definitions of what a banker is, and we are entitled to ask why a new, completely wide-open door is introduced which allows the Treasury to define a banker for the purpose of this Bill. Why is that power introduced, if a definition of a banker is already in existence in some existing Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "ety, which it characterised in the days when it was proverbial, will remain with it under the plans set forth in this Bill. This Bank, which was the subject of intimate discussion between the hon. and gallant Member for Sudbury and his constituents—may I tell him, and, perhaps, he will then tell his constituents? —is an intricate, delicate and wonderful piece of commercial and financial mechanism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1393.3", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "ique to rebuild our broken economic system. It shall bring also new values and a new morality to rebuild that broken faith of a nation. Public service and private liberty shall be its twin pillars. All shall serve the interests of the nation in their public life. All shall receive from the nation in return a real liberty in private life. These are sentiments which hon. Members opposite will agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1393.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1398.2", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BANK OF ENGLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. J. Brown", "preceding_text": "Mr. W. J. Brown (Rugby) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "SECRET SESSION PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "fore occurred to me that possibly the memories of those who made speeches at the time may not be entirely impecc- able, and that when they are produced, as no doubt they will be produced, either in a small trickle or a flood, people might think that they represent something nearer authenticity than in fact they probably do. As far as I can remember I took part in one or two Secret Sessions myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "SECRET SESSION PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He would have been out of Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "Supposing that a very important Member of the last Government had made a very damaging and traducing attack on the head of another State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-19", "file": "debates1945-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "f04ed24f145eb943", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "SECRET SESSION PROCEEDINGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am speaking from memory and I said nothing about Mr. Lloyd George.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-19a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-20", "file": "debates1945-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d9440be63e21707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FASCIST ACTIVITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Gestapo \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend think it is possible, in the public interest, to introduce a regulation whereby all political meetings should be notified to the police beforehand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-20", "file": "debates1945-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d9440be63e21707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1578.1", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "ARMY OFFICERS (DEFERRED RELEASE)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for India (Mr. Arthur Henderson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for India (Mr. Arthur Henderson)", "preceding_text": "d with very considerable difficulties, largely by reason of the increased commitments which circumstances in the Far East, especially in a country like Java, have compelled him to accept. May I say in this connection, that the suggestion of the correspondent of the hon. and gallant Gentleman that there is no shortage of officers in the Indian Army is not, I am afraid, in accordance with the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1945-12-20", "file": "debates1945-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d9440be63e21707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1594.2", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "O.C.T.U.'s (COMMANDING OFFICERS' VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "ls commandant, who certainly were very much retired, as the hon. and gallant Gentleman said, going to these cadet schools, so that they could pick out the individuals they wanted for their own particular regiments. May I say that there is a good deal to be said for the old county regimental tradition, but the fact remains that in future, it is not going to be possible to recruit on a county basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1594.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1945-12-20", "file": "debates1945-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "1d9440be63e21707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1618.2", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (CONTROL OF EMPLOYMENT) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "People are held under an Essential Work Order, and they will continue to be held. Make no mistake about that. What my hon. Friend and those shouting with him are asking us to do, is to put the Civil Service in a class by themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1945-12-20a.1618.1"}